Posts by GinnyTosken

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Internet potatoes

by slipnslidemaster in

kind of funny that all us internet potatoes won't post in here with any frequency.. slipnslidemaster:"the average person thinks he isn't.".

- father larry lorenzoni

GinnyTosken

Ooooh! The pool is even more fun! Here are your instructions:

Your trunks have fallen off, and you need the loo (desperately). Paddle after them avoiding objects and embarrassment.

Jump in, everybody!

Ginny

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Internet potatoes

by slipnslidemaster in

kind of funny that all us internet potatoes won't post in here with any frequency.. slipnslidemaster:"the average person thinks he isn't.".

- father larry lorenzoni

GinnyTosken

closer2fine,

You should come and do aerobics with me in this online gym. The instructor, Leroy, is pretty cute and has a dashing accent!

If anyone tries it, you are the character with a pink circle around you. You click the area you'd like to try. After your character walks to that area, a pop-up window will appear with instructions. To work out with Leroy, you try to mimic his moves by pressing letters on your keyboard. "Stretch and clench . . . "

Ginny

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Internet potatoes

by slipnslidemaster in

kind of funny that all us internet potatoes won't post in here with any frequency.. slipnslidemaster:"the average person thinks he isn't.".

- father larry lorenzoni

GinnyTosken

I think Slip is referring to the "Exercise, Medicine, and Physical Ailments" forum.

Try: http://www.innocentgym.co.uk

Ginny

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Things I Would Like To See Before I Die.....

by hillary_step in

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jan haugland and you know in a two man bob-sleigh team.. prisca and kent deeply in love.. alanf in a clerical collar.. stephanus breast-feeding fred hall.. farkel emptying his swear box.. joelbear in a turkish prison.

the oldhippie a happy hippy.. josephus having afternoon tea and crumpets with ian paisley.. englishman with hepatitis.. theo jaracz in a see-through pink negligee with matching slippers.. uuhh...skip the last one..... .

lets see - who have i missed....... hs

GinnyTosken

Joelbear,

I imagine there would be a lot of "needy," hairy men in a Turkish prison.

Ginny

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You have to check this out! Special Watchtowers!!

by kpax in

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you have to check this out!

special watchtowers!!

<a href=" http://www.angelfire.com/dc/watchtower0.

GinnyTosken

LOL! "How to Wipe Your Ass"--I wonder if that will be a study article?

Ginny

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Evolution and the Good conquering the Bad.

by D wiltshire in

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one of the more popular teachings of evolution is the good in the long run conquers the bad.. what i mean is this:.

there are both good and bad mutations and as life evolved to more and more complex forms the the process of selecting the good mutations and supresion of bad, by what ever means had to take place to make for instance:.

the eye from just a light sensitive spot.. the human brain.. legs from fins and back fins again.. an apposable thumb.. the heart.. moral coscience.. walking upright.. i often wounder how evolution could make these things:.

GinnyTosken

D wiltshire,

Evolution and history are also affected by contingency. Michael Shermer has a chapter about this in How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science.

Shermer says:

So powerful are the effects of contingency that a small change in the early stages of a sequence can produce large effects in the later stages. Edward Lorenz calls this the butterfly effect and by now the metaphor is well known: A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, producing a storm in Texas. The uncertainty of our past and unpredictability of our future created by contingency is what makes this such a challenging idea to historians and scientists, whose models and laws call for a search for unifying generalities, not capricious happenstances.

He also cites the example of the QWERTY keyboard, which has "conquered" not because it is the best or fastest, but because it became familiar and widely used early in the history of typing.

As for altruism, I find the idea of group selection as it is presented in Howard Bloom's Global Brain intriguing. Is our drive for survival as individuals or for survival as a human race?

Ginny

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Terry Pratchett's "Small Gods"

by Seeker4 in

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i have been reading terry pratchett's "small gods" and finding myself either laughing outloud or reading protions outloud to anyone within earshot.

what a great, funny, truthful indictment of religion and the messes it gets us all into.

go out and buy a copy, you won't regret it.. i keep thinking i should post some passages on this board.

GinnyTosken

Thanks for the recommendation, Seeker4!

I see that Scott Adams of Dilbert fame has a nonDilbert book out now called God's Debris. The sample chapter offered online sounds interesting, as does the table of contents:

http://icommerce.digitalowl.com/preview/0_1986/default.html

Has anyone read it?

Ginny

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Submission to authority

by joelbear in

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one of the core beliefs that i hold is that the only hope for humanity is the willingness to submit to some guiding force.. witnesses would point to jehovah as being that guiding force.. as of now, i would point to love for others being that guiding force.

one of the main differences i have with the witnesses is that they see god as a person with a personality and a planned agenda.

i see god as a mindset that we either choose to be part of or not based on our willingness to submit to this idea of loving others.. are you willing to submit to any authority, whether an actual identity or an ideology?

GinnyTosken

My belief is close to yours, Joelbear. I believe that love and compassion, for ourselves and for others, should be the guiding force in one's life.

Love isn't always nice or likeable, as any parent knows.

Love isn't about pansies and daffodils. Love is hard core. It doesn't float around and make your life all pretty, it puts you to the test. --Beth Orton

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. --Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Ginny

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Any thoughts on this quote from the Bible?

by siegswife in

in luke 13:20,21 it says: "and again he said: 'with what shall i compare the kingdom of god?

it is like leaven, which a woman took and his in three large measures of flour until the whole mass was fermented.".

i've been thinking about this.

GinnyTosken

Pomegranate,

Hmm. A non-believer in the Bible showing believers in the Bible what to believe about the Bible.

Not at all. My intent was simply to offer a reference I had at hand, one I thought might be of interest to you in deciding for yourself how the passages should be interpreted.

Just as you are under no obligation to accept the opinions of posters in this thread, neither are you under any obligation to accept the commentary from The Five Gospels.

BTW, I think that Jesus meant that while his teachings were viewed as a corrupting and evil influence by the established Jewish order, his simple laws were light compared to the Mosaic law code and would eventually permeate Jewish culture.

Ginny, shaking the dust from her feet

[Edited to add "BTW . . ."]

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Any thoughts on this quote from the Bible?

by siegswife in

in luke 13:20,21 it says: "and again he said: 'with what shall i compare the kingdom of god?

it is like leaven, which a woman took and his in three large measures of flour until the whole mass was fermented.".

i've been thinking about this.

GinnyTosken

Pomegranate,

I am not a Bible believer, so I frankly don't care what it means. I thought the commentary might be helpful to y'all in trying to determine what Jesus may have meant by it.

Ginny