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  Re: Only using one sheet of toilet paper at assemblies

  by Luo bou to in

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  i have been living in china for several years now and my only fear was that one day, i would need to use one of their squat toilets.

  i cant squat that close to the ground but the chinese can with their feet flat on the ground and without raising their heels .

  so the day finally came when for several weeks i was forced to use one.

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  Dessert anyone?

  

  Actually served in a squat toilet

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  "Religion...is the Opium of the People" - What did Marx Mean?

  by cofty in

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  when read in context karl marx was not directly attacking religion when he wrote those famous words.. .

  religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress.

  religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation.

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  Beksbks: "Can't disagree with old Karl................."

  Pinko, Commie!!!

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  The fair and balanced reporting of Fox News

  by keyser soze in

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  check out this clip from the bill o'reilly show.

  supposedly it's of protesters at the capitol in wisconsin, designed to show how volatile they are becoming.

  notice the palm trees in the background.

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  Freeman:

  "That withstanding, I see a lot of the folks who lean a little left to have a tendency to be overly critical of fox. It is the only conservative leaning news stations we here in the states, so I guess it is a target. But so many see the boogie man in every story they run. I have heard many wishing, hoping, and even praying for its demise. It bothers me to think some people feel that way."

  Get real freeman. Fox is psychopathic in nature in the full blooded clinical sense of the word. If conservatives want to be represented by a hate mongering, violence inspiring, pathologically lying network then they should not cry when they get their teeth kicked in retribution.

  Psychopaths need to suffer their demise. As individuals they wreak havoc on peoples lives. But when they band together in the form of a McCarthyistic propaganda network, they are capable of fomenting violence and ultimately civil war.

  What is truly bothersome, Freeman, is that you cannot see them for what they are.

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  "Religion...is the Opium of the People" - What did Marx Mean?

  by cofty in

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  when read in context karl marx was not directly attacking religion when he wrote those famous words.. .

  religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress.

  religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation.

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  PSacramento:

  "You guys keep saying that it drives people to disregard THIS world in the favout of the "next world" and for soem, yes that is the case, but you guys also KNOW that is NOT the case for the majority."

  I was referrig to the bulk of Christianity in the late 19th century when Karl Marx made that famous religion = opium comparison.

  Nowadays, society has not only become more secularized, but Christian religions in general have become more "liberal". Nonetheless, the "pie in the sky when you die" mentality defines Fundamentalist Christians. While they may have some charity towards their own members (And in extreme exceptions, which I've personally witnessed, towards others.) they have, co-influenced by their political conservatism, a total disregard for the poor.

  Those who are poor and Fundamentalist Christians are simply self loathing hypocrites who grovel in the ideology of those who despise them as they cash in their welfare checks.

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  The Gentile Times Reconsidered

  by Spade in

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  disproving the date 1914 as a significant year in bible prophecy is of great importance to some (e.g.

  carl o. jonsson).

  along with the meticulous details of bible and secular chronology, broadening one's horizons when assessing exactly what this date represents when compared against the 6000 years of human history likewise has merit.

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  Spade

  

  Leolaia

  

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  The Gentile Times Reconsidered

  by Spade in

  1. watchtower
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  disproving the date 1914 as a significant year in bible prophecy is of great importance to some (e.g.

  carl o. jonsson).

  along with the meticulous details of bible and secular chronology, broadening one's horizons when assessing exactly what this date represents when compared against the 6000 years of human history likewise has merit.

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  Leolaia: "Never mistake one's rhetorical stance with one's actual emotional state."

  Anything you say Mrs. Spock.

  

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  TEOTWAWKI - Who's saying what?

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  the title stands for "the end of the world as we know it.

  " (all links were "unlinked" so you don't wind up in some goofy viral places.).

  it's clear that there are all kinds of people with all kinds of theories.

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  Just a friendly suggestion, OnTheWayOut. When you highlight, the font should be in bold in order to stand out against the highlighting better. The color red is awful for highlighting, even in bold.

  It's best to stick with the lightest color like the pale blue that you used.You have the option of pale green instead of red.

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  The Gentile Times Reconsidered

  by Spade in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  disproving the date 1914 as a significant year in bible prophecy is of great importance to some (e.g.

  carl o. jonsson).

  along with the meticulous details of bible and secular chronology, broadening one's horizons when assessing exactly what this date represents when compared against the 6000 years of human history likewise has merit.

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  Spade:

  "Some critics have suggested that Jehovah's Witnesses have concocted an unorthodox and dishonest explanation in asserting that the seventy years of desolation ended in 537 B.C.E. Is this claim substantiated?"

  First off, Spade, you have the burden of proof and you've done a poor job of it. Second, the arguments made in rebuttal throughout the 13 pages of this thread you started, have done just that. All you keep doing is cut and paste and going in circles.

  I also previously asked you the following question:

  "Never mind the fact that everything predicted for 1914, by the Studies in the Scriptures, was stood on its head. Since you say it fulfills Bible prophecy, then tell us what significance does this prophecy have for the next 100 years? 200 years?"

  "And please don't tell me that this system of things" will not last that long, because nothing in the re-conditioned Watchtower prophecy (It's eternally elastic "generation".) gives a time frame from 1914 to Armageddon. Therefore, any statement you make about the end being near will be your own understanding and not the Bible's"

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  The Gentile Times Reconsidered

  by Spade in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  disproving the date 1914 as a significant year in bible prophecy is of great importance to some (e.g.

  carl o. jonsson).

  along with the meticulous details of bible and secular chronology, broadening one's horizons when assessing exactly what this date represents when compared against the 6000 years of human history likewise has merit.

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  Spade:

  I think there's enough evidence based on calender dates and fulfillment to substantiate 1914 as a legitimate prophecy.

  Never mind the fact that everything predicted for 1914, by the Studies in the Scriptures, was stood on its head. Since you say it fulfills Bible prophecy, then tell us what significance does this prophecy have for the next 100 years? 200 years?

  And please don't tell me that this system of things" will not last that long, because nothing in your re-conditioned prophecy (It's eternally elastic "generation".) gives a time frame from 1914 to Armageddon. Therefore, any statement you make about the end being near will be your own understanding and not the Bible's; chronologically tortured as you've made it.

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  "Religion...is the Opium of the People" - What did Marx Mean?

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  when read in context karl marx was not directly attacking religion when he wrote those famous words.. .

  religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress.

  religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation.

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  Beks, PM.

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