Posts by vivalavida

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Now that's a sink hole! (Guatemala City)

by Think About It in

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sink hole in guatemala city caused by the tropical storm.

i seen a view from the top and you couldn't see the bottom.

vivalavida

Well, if it is a second hole of those dimensions in three years, in the same city... erm, I would start getting worried. Is the city turning into swiss cheese?

vlv

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Take a look at www.freeminds.org about Ray Franz's life

by asilentone in

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Do You Use Floride?

by sammielee24 in

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i'm a believe in non-floridation because i believe that the introduction of toxins into our bodies does nothing but harm us in the long run.

fluoride has shown up in the blood of newborn babies and given that it affects the neurological systems, and given the fact that parents are warned not to mix formula with tap water in some areas or allow children under the age of 6 to use fluoridated toothpaste, you have to wonder who is making all the money on the product.

i watched a report on this just the other day where a dentist was saying that cavities are down in the popuation but what she didn't point out was all the casualities showing up now with tooth enaml wore off, tooth discolouration, bone loss and some cancer links.

vivalavida

Hi, I haven't read the whole thread. I will, but in the meantime, wanted to write a bit about my experience.

I grew up in a little town in the north coast of Honduras, Central America, with about 10000 inhabitants at the time. There was a river coming down from the mountain and they had a little dam and from there the water was distributed to all the town. The water was not processed at all, but the river made honor to its name which was Cristales, which means crystals, so clean was it and its water.

I grew up drinking this water and all my friends did as well. None of us had any caries until we moved to a bigger city. There was such a lack of tooth decay in town that there was no dentist available in town. He wasn't needed, lol.

My first case of caries appeared when I was about 25 or so, after like 5 or 7 years in the big city after I moved. Of course, our diet was also purely natural, lots of fish, coconut oil, rice, green bananas, plantains, sweet potatoes and so forth. Lots of fruits like mangoes, grapefruit and "Byrsonima crassifolia" which we call Nances. We didn't have money for sweets which I think helped a lot. The ONLY people who had tooth decay were the ones who were sick as kids and were given lots of medicine, which for kids normally came in the form of some syrup.

Up to this day, I get all the time the: "Wow, you have perfect teeth" and so do my friends from back then. So I do believe that one can have good teeth in the absence of fluoride, provided the diet is adequate. I do believe that the absence of fluoride and the abundance of sweets that are readily available could be a bad combination for the teeth. But on the other hand, the absence of fluoride combined with a good diet and the absence of sweets works perfectly ok as well.

That's just my opinion based on my very limited empirical data. One town in the middle of nowhere in Honduras.

Vivalavida

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Comparison of the 2010 "generations" with previous WT declarations

by Doug Mason in

i prepared a pdf that lists previous statements about the wts's "generations".. please let me know if there are any additional examples.. the file is at:.

http://www.jwstudies.com/2010_change_to_generations.pdf .

doug.

vivalavida

Thanks, saved it too.

vivalavida

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Now that's a sink hole! (Guatemala City)

by Think About It in

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sink hole in guatemala city caused by the tropical storm.

i seen a view from the top and you couldn't see the bottom.

vivalavida

This is a story that is already, at least, three years old. The hole opened in 2007

Take a look at more pictures here or here.

Still it is impressing.

Vivalavida

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Ray Franz has had a stroke

by coffee_black in

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just setting the record straight.

there is another thread that notes a claim on wiki that said that ray has died.. he had a stroke yesterday, and is in the hospital.

he is still alive.

vivalavida

Giving myself permission to read CoC was what finally made it for me. I really appreciate the fact that he stood for what he believed and did what his conscience told him was the right thing. For that I am very thankful and hope and pray for the best for him, whatever that might be.

Vivalavida

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GB closing down and selling Central American Branches to be serviced out of Mexican Branch

by cattails in

the gb is closing down and selling all central american branches.

the congregations are to be serviced out of the mexican branch.. they end the letter by saying that aren't the congregations in the.

central american territory to be expecting great rejoicing since they'll.

vivalavida

Well, the 6 branches of Central America would be: Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. I don't know if they count Belize. They did have a branch there. I lived in Honduras for over 20 years and help build the branch in the 80s.

Let's see!

Vivalavida

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At last! Somebody more screwed up than any Jehovah's Witness: David Icke

by Terry in

david ickefrom wikipedia, the free encyclopedia(redirected from david icke) .

interested in contributing to wikipedia?

jump to: navigation, searchdavid vaughan icke, pronounced /a?k/ to rhyme with "like," (born april 29, 1952) is a british writer and public speaker who has devoted himself since 1990 to researching "who and what is really controlling the world.

vivalavida

in 1917?????

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Watchtower Library changed - is 2007 the last unchanged version?

by vivalavida in

in this video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frcleoxkyu0 ) there is a very easy to follow explanation of how to prove with the watchtower library that their asertion that jerusalem was destroyed in 607 bce does not compute.. i tried to check it with a recent version of the cd, namely 2009, and the numbers are all changed so that it doesn't work now.

does anybody know if 2007 was the last unchanged version in this respect?.

and btw, what do you reckon of this blatant change again?.

vivalavida

Hi guys, I think I had made a mistake. When I posted the information I compared the 'official watchtower' dates for Nebuchadnezzar given in the Insight book under his name (624-582bce) instead of just concentrating in the number of years he and the other kings reigned and that threw me off.

Having gone back through the whole procedure again, I've got the numbers right this time.

Thanks for the comments and clarification.

Titus, what's then the implication of the statement that Neriglissar apparently reigned more than 4 years? It could theoretically have been 20 more and then match the society's chronology.

Thanks once again,

Vivalavida

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Watchtower 1 June 2010 page 11

by XPeterX in

it show a man holding a cd and it says that you have to buy the original one because it's immoral to use copied programmes,movies,games etc.tell me one jw who is not immoral when it come's to this because i don't know anyone..

vivalavida

My response was to this

Tell me ONE jw who is not immoral when it come's to this because I don't know anyone.

that's why i started with: JWs that use Open Source and so on... Meaning, not all JWs and, for that matter, not all computer users are inmoral in that aspect. There is a big community of opensource users that don't copy copyrighted software because they have and use alternatives.

Cheers

Vivalavida