there are thousands of cichlids species in both lake victoria and malawi, believed to have arrived from the former..
I don’t agree with Gregor.
If we have a global flood, the halinity in the water with is measured in mg/L or ppm will be affected. That means that many species (algae, bacteria, fish, mammals, etc) with survive in salt or fresh water will be affected. Because the salinity of the water will chance, that’s for the salt water creatures. And there will be salt (at least some) for the fresh water ones.
Take care,
Ismael
i was planning on wearing my hairy chest and medallion.
can i have some more do's and dont's please?
Hope this help.
Do
1. Be on time - The last thing you want to do is make a bad impression on your date. If you are late they will think that you don`t care and worse still might not hang around for you to turn up.
2. Make your partner feel comfortable - We all feel like a bag of nerves on our first date with someone; so by making them feel comfortable you will also be able to relax and enjoy yourself.
3. Be an interesting date - The worse thing you can do is turn up for a date with someone then sit there all night and talk or worse still talking and not making sense or having nothing good to talk about.
4. Laugh at their jokes - Even if you have heard the joke 100 times or more (or it just isn`t funny at all) laughing a long with them will make them feel you are interested in them.
5. Keep the conversation alive - That dreaded silence when no one knows what to say can seem to last for a life time and will make both of you think the other is boring. Jot down a few questions you would like to ask. Practicing for the date can make all the difference and once you have started the rest will just follow. Here are a few conversation starters you could use.
6. Take an interest in them - Listen to them when they are talking. Be interested in what they have to say and show how interested you are by asking them questions about what they like to do etc..
7. Take them somewhere unique - First dates don`t just have to be about going to the cinema or to a restaurant for a nice meal. You will make a longer, lasting impression if you are imaginative with your date.
8. Be confident - Confidence says a lot about a person. Being more confident will help you get through that first date with ease.
9. Be yourself - You won`t fool anyone by pretending to be someone you are not. Also if you are wanting to continue seeing them, the real you will come out eventually and they may no longer be interested.
10. Most importantly - STAY SAFE. Check out our guide to dating safely
Don't
1. Be late - First impressions count and if you are late this will make them think of you as lazy, having lack of responsibilities, etc..
2. Talk about yourself all night - There is nothing worse then a person that loves to talk about themselves all the time. How vain can you get?
3. Talk about past relationships all night - May be that`s how you lost the last one. Nobody wants to hear you drone on about your ex and what they did or didn`t do. Concentrate on this one and see if you can get to the second date.
4. Eat with your mouth open - Just the thought of it makes my stomach turn so save your date the horrible experience.
5. Ask too many personal questions - This is your first date and they won`t want to reveal to much about themselves just yet. If you like each other and want to continue with the relationship then there will be plenty of time to ask questions.
6. Try to be something you are not - You will only attract the way that you act and if that is not the real you, when the real you does come out the other person will not be interested. Find someone that will want you for you not for what you are pretending to be.
7. Forget to thank them for the date - Not only is this good manners but this is where you will get your chance to end it if you are not interested or for you to ask them out on another date if you would like to see them again.
8. Propose marriage or kids - Unless you don`t want to see them again.
9. Pursue sex after your partner has said no.
10. Don`t get drunk - You don`t want to spend half the night in the toilet vomiting and your date won`t think much of you. You can also put yourself at risk of unwanted advances and will not be in the right frame of mind or body to do anything about it.
Take care,
Ismael
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the first link below takes you to a long list of prophecies that were issued in the mid-1990's, that have all come to pass exactly as predicted.
it also provides you with a link to yahoo's official archives which prove they were issued in writing, in the 1990's.
as you will see: every detail, to include our wars with iraq, the actors involved, and how it will end, was prophesied in writing, in the 1990's.
Welcome:
Remember that the big A is around the corner, very, very close, it so close we can smell it, it tomorrow at 6:00 am eastern time.
The world is pretty much the same it was a couple of centuries ago. People have access now to more information faster, and in some cases in real time. Probably, we are getting scare of all the things that are happening, but if you take a brief look to our history you are going to find out that everything still the same:
1. The Black Death, or the Black Plague, was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.
The pandemic is thought to have begun in Central Asia or India and spread to Europe during the 1340s. The total number of deaths worldwide is estimated at 75 million people. The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of Europe's population. Bubonic plague is thought to have returned to Europe every generation with varying virulence and mortalities until the 1700s.
2. Famine is a widespread shortage of food that may apply to any faunal species, which phenomenon is usually accompanied by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.
During the 20th century, an estimated 70 million people died from famines across the world, of whom an estimated 30 million died during the famine of 1958–61 in China, just China.
Some examples:
• 1702-1704 famine in Deccan, India, killed 2 million people
• 1708-1711 famine in East Prussia killed 250,000 people or 41% of its population
• 1770-1771 famine in Czech lands killed hundreds of thousands people
• 1784-1785 famine in Tunisia killed up to one-fifth of all Tunisiansd
• Four famines - in 1810, 1811, 1846, and 1849 - in China claimed nearly 45 million lives2]
• 1811-1812 famine devastated Madrid, taking nearly 20,000 lives
• 1815 eruption Tambora, Indonesia. Tens of thousands died of subsequent famine
• 1830 famine killed almost half the population of Cape Verde
• 1845-1849 Great Irish Famine killed more than 1 million people
• 1850-1873 as a result of Taiping Rebellion, drought, and famine, the population of China drop by over 60 million people]
• 1866 Orissa famine of 1866 in India; one million perished
• 1866-1868 Famine in Finland. About 15% of the entire population died
• 1869 Rajputana famine of 1869 in India; one million and a half perished
• 1870-1871 famine in Persia is believed to have caused the death of 2 million persons.
• 1914-1918 Mount Lebanon famine during World War I which killed about a third of the population
• 1914-1918 famine in Belgium
• 1916-1917 famine caused by the British blockade of Germany in WWI; up to 750,000 Germans starved to death
• 1917-1919 famine in Persia. As much as 1/4 of the population living in the north of Iran died in the famine
• 1917-1921 a series of famines in Turkestan at the time of the Bolshevik revolution killed about a sixth of the population
• 1921 famine in Russia killed 5 million[52]
• 1921-1922 famine in Volga German colonies in Russia. One-third of the entire population perished[53]
• 1928-1929 famine in northern China. The drought resulted in 3 million deaths
• 1932-1933 Soviet famine in Ukraine (Holodomor), some parts of Russia[54] and North Caucasus area.[55] As many as 10 million people may have died[56]
• 1932-1933 famine in Kazakhstan killed 1.2-1.5 million[57]
• 1936 famine in China, with an estimated 5 million fatalities[58]
• 1941-44 Leningrad famine caused by a 900-day blockade by Nazi and Finnish troops. About one million Leningrad residents starved, froze, or were bombed to death in the winter of 1941-42, when supply routes to the city were cut off and temperatures dropped to -40 degrees.
• 1941-1942 famine in Greece caused by Nazi occupation.[59] An estimated 300,000 people perished
• 1942-1943 famine killed one million in China
• 1944 famine in the Netherlands during World War II, more than 20,000 deaths
• 1946-1947 famine in Soviet Union killed 1-1.5 million[60]
• 1958 Famine in Tigray, Ethiopia, claimed 100,000 lives
• 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward / The Great Chinese Famine (China). The official statistic is 20 million deaths, as given by Hu Yaobang
• 1998-2004 Second Congo War. 3.8 million people died, mostly from starvation and disease
War, the list is incomplete:
• 60,000,000–72,000,000 - World War II (1939–1945)
• 30,000,000–60,000,000 - Mongol Conquests (13th century)
• 25,000,000 - Manchu conquest of Ming China (1616–1662)
• 20,000,000–70,000,000 - World War I (1914–1918)
• 20,000,000 - Taiping Rebellion (China, 1851–1864)
• 20,000,000 - Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
• 10,000,000 - Warring States Era (China, 475 BC–221 BC)
• 7,000,000 - 20,000,000 Conquests of Timur the Lame
• 5,000,000–9,000,000 - Russian Civil War and Foreign Intervention (1917–1921)
• 5,000,000 - Conquests of Menelik II of Ethiopia (1882- 1898)
• 3,800,000 - 5,400,000 - Second Congo War (1998–2007)
• 3,500,000–6,000,000 - Napoleonic Wars (1804–1815)
• 3,000,000–11,500,000 - Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)
• 3,000,000–7,000,000 - Yellow Turban Rebellion (China, 184–205)
• 2,500,000–3,500,000 - Korean War (1950–1953) (see Cold War)
• 2,300,000–3,800,000 - Vietnam War (entire war 1945–1975)
o 300,000–1,300,000 - First Indochina War (1945–1954)
o 100,000–300,000 - Vietnamese Civil War (1954–1960)
o 1,750,000–2,100,000 - American phase (1960–1973)
o 170,000 - Final phase (1973–1975)
o 175,000–1,150,000 - Secret War (1962–1975)
• 2,000,000–4,000,000[60] - French Wars of Religion (1562–1598)
• 2,000,000 - Shaka's conquests (1816-1828)
• 2,000,000 - Mahmud of Ghazni's invasions of India (1000-1027)
• 300,000–3,000,000[63] - Bangladesh Liberation War (1971)
• 1,500,000–2,000,000 - Afghan Civil War (1979 -)
o 1,000,000–1,500,000 Soviet intervention (1979–1989)
• 1,300,000–6,100,000 - Chinese Civil War (1928–1949)
o 300,000–3,100,000 before 1937
o 1,000,000–3,000,000 after World War II
• 1,000,000–2,000,000 - Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)
• 1,000,000 - Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)
• 1,000,000 - Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598)
• 1,000,000 - Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005)
• 550,000 - Somali Civil War (1988 - )
• 200,000 - Algerian Civil War (1991 - )
• 0 - Pig War (1859)
I used to believe, as a good American that we were the mighty superpower of the world, that probably was truth in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s but today they make us think that we are the center of the world, but we work for a Chinese company. In other words the rest of the world does not care that much about us anymore.
Takce care,
Ismael
sorry i posted another one it was a mistake, i clicked enter by accident...... anyways, the dubs are getting closer and closer to shunning everyone not jsut those who have been disfellowshipped or left the religion.
today i got a phone call from my grandmother that one of her best friends can no longer talk to her anymore.
my grandmother always didnt like the fact that my family were jw's but she was always respectful to everyone and kept her views to herself.
what a total mindfluck!.....this was not supposed to happen.....and i only (completely) woke up two years ago....so accepting my own mortality has not been easy.......i currently make good enough money....but damm....now i have to think about retirement?!?!?
?....and ya....just cause i have a touch of asthma ocassionally...i wont be able to get health insurance in a few years cause i am self-employed??
?....this just fluckkin sucks.................oompa.
Hey oompa, how’s everything going?
Yes man, you better start preparing for retirement, we are getting old, we are going to eat sh!t, and we are going to die!
No point asking when it is
No point asking who's to go
No point asking what's the game
No point asking who's to blame
'Cos if you're gonna die, if you're gonna die…
If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.
Take care,
Ismael
since it is raining/snowing/cold outside i was cleaning out my cd case and ran across the wt cd from 1999. .
i was looking at different subjects, and came across this article and thought wtf !
they are the ones who have directed members to look at certain dates, time periods etc.
"These guys are dirty, no good, rotten bastards, aren't they?"
YES, THEY ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Take care,
Ismael
or do to convince you that you loved them to bits?.
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mtsgrad.
"but the eyes speak the loudest.... they connect with your inner soul !" ~~Cal
i was talking to a dub the other day about how the genesis account cannot be true, becuase archeologists have found hundreds - maybe thousands - of human remains and artifacts that predate 4000 b.c.. their response?
"they're all lies made up to get research grants.".
you can't make this stuff up, folks..
These are some of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. It’s pretty cool because you can proof every one of them.
Personally, Satan the Devil it’s a pretty intelligent individual. I have no idea how he finds out time to do all the bad things that happens in the world. Its looks like he is pretty busy making this things up.
1. The Planets Move (2000 B.C. – 500 B.C.)
A thousand years of observations reveal that there are stars that move in the sky and follow patterns, showing that the Earth is part of a solar system of planets separate from the fixed stars.
2. The Earth Moves (1543)
Nicolaus Copernicus places the sun, not the Earth, at the center of the solar system.
3. Planetary Orbits Are Elliptical (1605 – 1609)
Johannes Kepler devises mathematical laws that successfully and accurately predict the motions of the planets in elliptical orbits.
4. Jupiter Has Moons (1609 – 1612)
Galileo Galilei discovers that Jupiter has moons like the Earth, proving that Copernicus, not Ptolemy, is right. Copernicus believes that Earth is not unique, but instead resembles the other planets, all of which orbit the sun.
5. Halley's Comet Has a Predictable Orbit (1705 – 1758)
Edmund Halley proves that comets orbit the sun like the planets and successfully predicts the return of Halley's Comet. He determines that comets seen in 1531 and 1607 are the same object following a 76-year orbit. Halley's prediction is proven in 1758 when the comet returns. Unfortunately, Halley had died in 1742, missing the momentous event.
6. The Milky Way Is a Gigantic Disk of Stars (1780 – 1834)
Telescope-maker William Herschel and his sister Carolyn map the entire sky and prove that our solar system resides in a gigantic disk of stars that bulges in the center called the Milky Way. Herschel's technique involves taking a sample count of stars in the field of view of his telescope. His final count shows more than 90,000 stars in 2,400 sample areas. Later studies confirm that our galaxy is disk-shaped, but find that the sun is not near the center and that the system is considerably larger than Herschel's estimation.
7. General Relativity (1915 – 1919)
Albert Einstein unveils his theory of general relativity in which he proposes that mass warps both time and space, therefore large masses can bend light. The theory is proven in 1919 by astronomers using a solar eclipse as a test.
8. Microorganisms (1674)
Microscope lens grinder Anton Van Leeuwenhoek accidentally discovers microorganisms in a drop of water. Using his own microscopes, he observes sperm, bacteria and red blood cells. His observations lay the foundation for the sciences of bacteriology and microbiology.
9. The Krebs Cycle (1937)
Hans Krebs identifies the many steps the cell takes to convert sugars, fats and proteins into energy. Also known as the citric acid cycle, it is a series of chemical reactions using oxygen as part of cellular respiration. The cycle contributes to the breakdown of carbohydrates, fats and proteins into carbon dioxide and water.
10. Atomic Theory (1808)
John Dalton provides a way of linking invisible atoms to measurable quantities like the volume of a gas or mass of a mineral. His atomic theory states that elements consist of tiny particles called atoms. Thus, a pure element consists of identical atoms, all with the same mass, and compounds consist of atoms of different elements combined together.
11. Chemical Structure (1850s)
Friedrich Kekule figures out the chemical structure of benzene, bringing the study of molecular structure to the forefront of chemistry. He writes that after years of studying the nature of carbon-carbon bonds, he came up with the ring shape of the benzene molecule after dreaming of a snake seizing its own tail. The unusual structure solves the problem of how carbon atoms can bond with up to four other atoms at the same time.
12. Electricity Transforms Chemicals (1807 – 1810)
Humphry Davy finds that electricity transforms chemicals. He uses an electric pile (an early battery) to separate salts by a process now known as electrolysis. With many batteries he is able to separate elemental potassium and sodium in calcium, strontium, barium and magnesium.
13. Earth's Core (1906)
Seismologist Richard Oldham determines that earthquake waves move through the central part of the Earth much slower than through the mantle around it. He surmises that the Earth has a core composed of liquid.
14. Continental Drift (1911)
Alfred Wegener proposes that all the continents in the world once formed a single, giant landmass that was eventually split apart in a process called "continental drift." Wegener's evidence consists of the "fit" of South America with Africa, fossil distribution and geological similarities.
15. Seafloor Spreading (1950s – 1960s)
Adding his own data on changes in seafloor depth and geology to discoveries of his peers, Harry Hess proposes that Wegener's theory of continental drift is a result of seafloor spreading. He hypothesizes that molten magma from beneath the Earth's crust is oozing up between the plates in the Great Global Rift (now referred to as the Mid-Ocean Ridge). As the hot magma cools, it expands and pushes the plates out from the rift, causing the Atlantic Ocean to get wider over time.
16. Plate Tectonics (1960s)
The work of many scientists reveals that the Earth's surface is broken into several interconnected plates of rock. Earth's outermost layer, the lithosphere, is broken into at least seven large, rigid pieces. These plates are moving in different directions and at different speeds (about 1 to 4 inches per year) and are crashing together, pulling apart and sideswiping each other. All the action at plate boundaries produces phenomena such as mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes.
17. Troposphere and Stratosphere (1890s)
With the aid of scientific instruments placed on unmanned balloons, Leon Teisserenc de Bort discovers that the atmosphere consists of layers. Bort notices that air temperature decreases steadily up to about seven miles, but remains constant at higher altitudes. After more than 200 balloon experiments, he suggests that the atmosphere is divided into two layers called the "troposphere" and the "stratosphere."
18. K-T Asteroid Theory of Dinosaur Extinction (1980)
Walter Alvarez postulates that high levels of iridium found in rock core samples around the world provide evidence that an asteroid impact caused the extinction of dinosaurs. Iridium, a common mineral found in asteroids, was discovered in the clay layer at what is known as the K-T boundary. This layer, at 65 million years, lies between the rocks of the Cretaceous and the Tertiary periods and coincides with the mass extinction of dinosaurs.
19. Potential for Life Created (1953)
Graduate student Stanley Miller, combining the ideas of other scientists, reproduces the early atmosphere of Earth by creating a chamber containing only hydrogen, water, methane and ammonia. He boils the water and exposes the elements to an electric discharge like lightning, simulating Earth's early processes. After a week, Miller finds organic compounds have formed, including some amino acids, the "building blocks of life."
20. New Life-forms Discovered Around Hydrothermal Vents (1977)
Bob Ballard and the crew of the submersible Alvin find amazing new life-forms living completely independent of the sun's energy around deep-sea, hydrothermal vents. These undersea geysers form along volcanic mid-ocean ridges, where cold seawater penetrates deep into cracks in the Earth's crust. Heated water rises back out and the scalding vent water mixes with cold ocean-bottom seawater, creating a rising plume of warm, black fluid filled with mineral particles. The chemicals support a thriving ecosystem on the ocean floor.
21. The Burgess Shale (1909)
Charles Walcott exposes a mother lode of Cambrian fossils high in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, providing a glimpse of what life was like on Earth more than 500 million years ago. He collects more than 65,000 specimens and classifies each, discovering that the fossils are ancestors of living animals.
22. Rules of Heredity (1850s)
Austrian monk and botanist Gregor Mendel discovers how genetic information is passed down through generations. In experiments performed on pea plants, he notices that characteristics of a plant's offspring, such as height, exhibit recessive and dominant behavior. Mendel's findings are ridiculed during his lifetime and he dies never knowing that he would come to be known as the "father of genetics."
23. Genes Are Located on Chromosomes (1910 – 1920s)
Thomas Hunt Morgan discovers that genes are located on chromosomes. Working on fruit flies, he concludes that certain traits are linked to gender and that those traits are probably carried on one of the sex chromosomes (X or Y). He hypothesizes that other genes are also carried on specific chromosomes. Using chromosome recombination, he and his students map the locations of genes on chromosomes. Morgan and his students write the seminal book The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity.
24. Universal Gravitation (1666)
Isaac Newton comes to the conclusion that all objects in the universe, from apples to planets, exert gravitational attraction on each other.
25. Laws of Motion (1687)
Isaac Newton changes our understanding of the universe by formulating three laws to describe the movement of objects. 1) An object in motion remains in motion unless an external force is applied to it. 2) The relationship between an object's mass (m), its acceleration (a) and the applied force (F) is F = ma. 3) For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
26. The Second Law of Thermodynamics (1824 – 1850)
Scientists working to improve the efficiency of steam engines develop an understanding of the conversion of heat into work. They learn that the flow of heat from higher to lower temperatures is what drives a steam engine, likening the process to the flow of water that turns a mill wheel. Their work leads to three principles: heat flows spontaneously from a hot to a cold body; heat cannot be completely converted into other forms of energy; and systems become more disorganized over time.
27. Electromagnetism (1807 – 1873)
Pioneering experiments uncover the relationship between electricity and magnetism and lead to a set of equations that express the basic laws governing them. One of those experiments unexpectedly yields results in a classroom. In 1820, Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted is speaking to students about the possibility that electricity and magnetism are related. During the lecture, an experiment demonstrates the veracity of his theory in front of the whole class.
28. Special Relativity (1905)
Albert Einstein overthrows basic assumptions about time and space by describing how clocks tick slower and distances appear to stretch as objects approach the speed of light.
29. E = mc^2 (1905)
Or energy is equal to mass times the speed of light squared. Albert Einstein's famous formula proves that mass and energy are different manifestations of the same thing, and that a very small amount of mass can be converted into a very large amount of energy. One profound implication of his discovery is that no object with mass can ever go faster than the speed of light.
30. The Quantum Leap (1900 – 1935)
To describe the behavior of subatomic particles, a new set of natural laws is developed by Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrodinger. A quantum leap is defined as the change of an electron within an atom from one energy state to another. This change happens all at once, not gradually.
Take care,
Ismael
i was inspired by some of the topics i read here over the weekend and i posted my own opinion at my blog.
i was drawing comparison's on the 1969 push to pioneer and go to beth-hell and what my pioneering mother-in-law was relating to me and my wife's uncle.
i hope you will share your views on the blog.. happy thanksgiving to all!.
Nice blog.
Take care,
Ismael
Sorry, but I really believe that they are fanatics.
Take care,
Ismael
