A movie I would like to recommend to all....Its not full of blood and gore,or even any action, but it is full of emotion and a "trigger" for the brain. I almost hate to write anything about it so I dont give anything away...In a few words..imagine if a caveman(cromagnam man) survived 14,000 yrs.No one would know about his existence. He just happened to be born with the ability Not to die. ...Imagine the time he would have to learn.....Now imagine taking the time to watch this movie ...Fantastic See it.10/10
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Possibly best "Sc.Fiction" movie I've ever seen..."Man From Earth" 10/10
by Frank.L ina movie i would like to recommend to all....its not full of blood and gore,or even any action, but it is full of emotion and a "trigger" for the brain.
i almost hate to write anything about it so i dont give anything away...in a few words..imagine if a caveman(cromagnam man) survived 14,000 yrs.no one would know about his existence.
he just happened to be born with the ability not to die.
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Jehovah's Witnesses are not a cult and here's why I think so
by B_Deserter inwhen most people think of "cult" they think of the people's temple, the branch davidians, or heaven's gate.
many also want to put jehovah's witnesses, mormons, and scientologists into this group.
i don't agree with that because there is one main difference between true cults and high-control groups like jws:.
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Jim Penton said it best, IMO, when he described the JWs as the early Puritans who did everything they could to live a clean life and abide by Christianity but then they turned on their own, even killing them when they disagreed with them......cult like to be sure!
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Toddler born with 8 legs seen as reincarnation of a GOD
by Frank.L inwww.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23419627-details/toddler+with+eight+limbs+branded+'reincarnation+of+hindu+god'+to+undergo+life-saving+operation/article.do.
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poor thing...jesus h christ!
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CNN "wasting" yet another hour on UFO subject tonight on Larry King
by Frank.L incredible witnesses from the military are being interviewed by king tonight at 9 pm.
not long ago a group of astronauts were interviewed on his show and now this.....it begs the question..is full disclosure closing in on private government files....?
do you care?
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Hummm..what about national security? If trigger happy aliens wana blow us up...then its a matter of runing for ur life...LOL...THeyre here! Serously some very high up in the military make extraordinary claims. ...Makes you think.
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CNN "wasting" yet another hour on UFO subject tonight on Larry King
by Frank.L incredible witnesses from the military are being interviewed by king tonight at 9 pm.
not long ago a group of astronauts were interviewed on his show and now this.....it begs the question..is full disclosure closing in on private government files....?
do you care?
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Credible witnesses from the military are being interviewed by King tonight at 9 pm. Not long ago a group of astronauts were interviewed on his show and now this.....It begs the question..Is full disclosure closing in on private government files....? Do you care?
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Revelation Climax, page 52, Kindly Respond
by compound complex indear readers of revelation,.
i have been reminded that a simple question is more effective than an elaborate presentation.
i have become very careful about what i say and how much i say to most people.
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But even more than that is that the artist is probably just a guitar player, and this is clearly mimicking the left hand on a guitar neck. His/her ode to rock and roll guitaring...that's all. Man, I saw that right off. It's so clear.
Totally agree. Its that guys mark or fingerprint/signature..of his "work".....and it STILL shows one hand doesnt know what the other hand is doing in the WT...
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Revelation Climax, page 52, Kindly Respond
by compound complex indear readers of revelation,.
i have been reminded that a simple question is more effective than an elaborate presentation.
i have become very careful about what i say and how much i say to most people.
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Well they have strategies to preach in countries where theyre banned, they have strategies to deal with apostates, and Im betting they have a strategy to deal with this issue..... Only with this issue it's clearly out of their hands-so-the next best thing to do is to Rely on Jeh "cuz its his work and his magazines" so I could see someone on the GB sitting there in the meeting saying..."Brothers who knows if this is Jeh's doing?"....lets leave it in His hands...."...You know the game.....
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Revelation Climax, page 52, Kindly Respond
by compound complex indear readers of revelation,.
i have been reminded that a simple question is more effective than an elaborate presentation.
i have become very careful about what i say and how much i say to most people.
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Geesh!..lol..Whatsa matter with u guys...the Governing Body allows- from time to time- questionable pics in the literature to weed out anyone with apostate leanings. Its part of doing business. With large numbers of publishers this is just another way to keep the house clean. Do you really believe that no one on the GB knows this stuff is in there? Someone is in charge of this ....i think whether it has been brought into the literature by their own means or not isnt important to them. Jehovah is "guiding the work" so, they see the larger picture....who gets stumbled out of the org is "not of their sort" so bye bye to all apostates.....The "cost" of being a JW is in overlooking all the crap and continuing on with ur duty to preach. Thats the only way to serve Jeh. Blindly obedient. .........Ok ..who knows what the GB has said in private about ALL those pics but there are so many of them that it seems too convenient for them not to use it as a "tool"....I think in GB meetings THEY say "well let Jeh take care of it" and then ignore it and at the same time "use it" ...my thoughs anyways.....
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What foods do you find offensive?
by bigwilly inapparently some food items offend persons on this site.
so, out of curiousity, what foods offend you?
what about them offends you?
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CURRIE, Saffron..and ..the smell of shrimp, send me running
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Carl Sagan - "The Demon-Haunted World : &q...
by nicolaou incarl sagan.
the demon-haunted world : science as a candle in the dark .
"i worry that, especially as the millennium edges near, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.
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I read the book a few yrs ago.....it was the first time I read that 'More ppl had been killed in the name of God than in the name of Satan'...it was quite an astonishing an intresting read...but I think you paint a harsh picture of Sagans UFO views. It wasnt a total balony write-off for him. In 1966 his views were quite different.....He kept an open mind about the subject(an interview i heard on Coast to Coast radio) and dismissed obvious hoaxes....but toyed with interstellar travel......From Wikipedia:
Sagan had some interest in UFO reports from at least 1964, when he had several conversations on the subject with Jacques Vallee.[21] Though quite skeptical of any extraordinary answer to the UFO question, Sagan thought that science should study the phenomenon, at least because there was widespread public interest in UFO reports.
Stuart Appelle notes that Sagan "wrote frequently on what he perceived as the logical and empirical fallacies regarding UFOs and the abduction experience. Sagan rejected an extraterrestrial explanation for the phenomenon but felt there were both empirical and pedagogical benefits for examining UFO reports and that the subject was, therefore, a legitimate topic of study."[22]
In 1966, Sagan was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book. The committee concluded that the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book had been lacking as a scientific study, and recommended a university-based project to give the UFO phenomenon closer scientific scrutiny. The Condon Committee (1966-1968), led by physicist Edward Condon, and their still-controversial final report, formally concluded that there was nothing anomalous about UFO reports.
Ron Westrum writes that "The high point of Sagan's treatment of the UFO question was the AAAS's symposium in 1969. A wide range of educated opinions on the subject were offered by participants, including not only proponents as James McDonald and J. Allen Hynek but also skeptics like astronomers William Hartmann and Donald Menzel. The roster of speakers was balanced, and it is to Sagan's credit that this event was presented in spite of pressure from Edward Condon".[21] With physicist Thornton Page, Sagan edited the lectures and discussions given at the symposium; these were published in 1972 as UFO's: A Scientific Debate. Jerome Clark writes that Sagan's perspective on UFO's irked Condon: "... though a skeptic, [Sagan] was too soft on UFOs for Condon's taste. In 1971, he considered blackballing Sagan from the prestigious Cosmos Club".[23]
Some of Sagan's many books examine UFOs (as did one episode of Cosmos) and he recognized a religious undercurrent to the phenomenon. However, Westrum writes that "Sagan spent very little time researching UFOs ... he thought that little evidence existed to show that the UFO phenomenon represented alien spacecraft and that the motivation for interpreting UFO observations as spacecraft was emotional".[21]
It is sometimes noted that Sagan's generally skeptical attitude to UFOs conflicted sharply with his views in a 1966 book he wrote with Russian astronomer and astrophysicist I.S. Shklovskii, Intelligent Life in the Universe. Here Sagan instead argued that technologically advanced alien civilizations were common and he considered it very probable that Earth had been visited many times in the past. Yet only a few years later in UFO's: A Scientific Debate, Sagan was now highly skeptical of interstellar visitation. As to the physical possibility of interstellar travel, Sagan brought up the proposed Bussard ramjet as an interstellar vehicle. While not terribly practical, Sagan thought such proposed propulsion systems were nevertheless important because they demonstrated that there were conceivable ways of accomplishing interstellar travel "without bumping into fundamental physical constraints. And this suggests that it is premature to say that interstellar space flight is out of the question." But to this Sagan added, "I believe the numbers work out in such a way that UFO's as interstellar vehicles is extremely unlikely, but I think it is an equally bad mistake to say that interstellar space flight is impossible."
Sagan again revealed his views on interstellar travel in his 1980 Cosmos series. He rejected the idea that UFOs are visiting Earth, maintaining that the chances any alien spacecraft would visit the Earth are vanishingly small. However, in another episode he said the stars would "beckon" to humanity, and described the Bussard ramjet as one way humans might achieve interstellar travel. In one of his last written works, Sagan again claimed that there was no evidence that aliens have actually visited the Earth, either in the past or present (Sagan, 1996: 81-96, 99-104).