What the .....Hell are you doing here then?
Posts by ianao
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7What the ......Hell?
by JennyNuk inhello, this is technically my first post, i have been a fly on the wall for some time now.
i would like to explain my delima but first i have to fill in some gaps.
sorry to bore you with details but a brief history seems needed.
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Working on a Logical Problem
by dunsscot indear good people of j-w.com,.
i am sitting in my office working on a problem and i need your help.
do you think that these sentences are true?.
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ianao
Dunscott:
You seriously need to get a life. I mean, really. I thought I was pretty bad myself, but you're the first person I've ever seen that can be so smart and stupid at the same time, and yet express both points of view fluidly. I don't know whether to take you for an artist or an idiot.
-ianao
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HARM CAUSED BY PEDOPHILES!
by Amazing insome have asked the about the effects of being sexually abused as a child, and how this may compare to those abused victims who manage (or seemingly manage) to lead normal productive lives as adults, or what real effects are there on victims of childhood sexual abuse.
in the following, i will briefly address some of the common questions.
following this i am providing a more detailed discussion which cites source references:.
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ianao
Hey Fred, I thought you had many sisters to deal with in the hall and didn't have to worry about screwing posts! What gives?
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Life on Mars, Again!
by metatron inover at yahoo news , it quotes a nasa scientist as.
saying that they misplaced data from the viking.
lander on mars twenty five ago.
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ianao
Here's another goody...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20010507/bacteria.html
Scientists Claim to Revive Alien Bacteria
By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News
May 10 — Italian researchers claim to have found conclusive evidence that life on Earth arrived from outer space.
Bruno D'Argenio, a geologist working for the Italian National Research Council, and Giuseppe Geraci, professor of molecular biology at Naples University, identified and brought back to life extraterrestrial microorganisms lodged inside 4.5 billion-year-old meteorites kept at Naples' mineralogical museum.
"When in contact with a physiological solution, they became visible and began to move," D'Argenio said while presenting the finding at the Italian Space Agency yesterday.The bacteria, called "cryms" (for crystal microbes) by the researchers, remained dormant for billions of years and survived extreme ambient conditions — a clear indication, according to the researchers, that "life can exist everywhere in the solar system, though in a quiescent state."
Once brought back to life, the cryms were cloned by the researchers and their DNA analyzed.
"Their genetic code is unlike any known on Earth," said Giovanni F. Bignami, scientific director of the Italian Space Agency.
In studying the bacteria, the team found that they tend to gather in clusters. The bugs are also killed easily with antibiotics.
Disputing critics who suggested that the meteorites were contaminated with terrestrial microorganisms, Bignami added that the bacteria came back to life after the samples were sterilized at 950 degrees Celsius and doused in alcohol.
The discovery, if borne out, would strengthened the "panspermia" theory, first suggested by chemist Svante Aarhenius in 1900. According to this theory, outer space seeded Earth with primitive life forms about 4 billion years ago. The theory was recently supported by Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick, as well as noted scientists Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe.
"Life would have formed as an initial seed in the protoplanetary nebula from which all the planets originated. This microorganism can be found ... in planetary bodies and in the meteors fallen to Earth," said Bignami.
The Italian researchers have also identified microorganisms identical to the "cryms" found in the Naples meteorites in 50 samples of billion-year-old terrestrial rocks from five continents.
"I'm skeptical, very skeptical," biologist Martino Rizzotti of Padua University told the daily newspaper La Stampa. "Those bacteria seem to be too similar to the terrestrial ones. I can't avoid thinking about possible contaminations."
Margherita Hack, director of the Inter-University Regional Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology in Trieste, is more positive. "It is very likely that life is spread in universe. This is an interesting result, but it requires more study to be completely accepted," she said.
Today the researchers present their findings at the Accademia dei Lincei (Academy of the Lynxes) in Rome, a prestigious scholarly organization that counts Galileo Galilei among its members.
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Life on Mars, Again!
by metatron inover at yahoo news , it quotes a nasa scientist as.
saying that they misplaced data from the viking.
lander on mars twenty five ago.
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ianao
I just wish the "scientists" would have come clean twenty five years ago instead of telling everyone the testing process was faulty AFTER it returned POSITIVE results in the '70s.
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Reagan Picture
by slipnslidemaster inno, peter, unfortunately -- it's a shot of debra messing from "will & grace.
" i'm not skinny (much more curvaceous than she) but i have the hair (and i'm a natural redhead, thankyouveddymuch).. maybe someday if you all ask nicely, i'll post a real pic... .
reagan posted this in one of the threads, so i figured that if we all ask very nicely then she would post a picture for us to see.
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ianao
The illusion does it for me...
Oh sorry.
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Kingdom of the Cults
by troubled ini came across the above book while i was browsing in a bookstore.
since i was on my lunch hour, i could not read it fully, but did quickly look over the information.
it spent a great deal of time discussing matters pertaining to russell.
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ianao
troubled:
Good luck. If you ever do find any genuine facts you probably won't know it as anyone who sees those facts will just say it's a biased opinion.
I wish you good luck, and you tell me it wasn't NICE?
But now that I re-read my post, I see that the wording COULD have been a bit nicer. I can understand that by the implication that you would not comprehend an actual fact from opinion I have insulted you. For this, I apologize.
Regan is correct on my line of thinking in posting to you previously. I did not mean to offend.
My only "help" was to portray that fact-finding may do you little good, as your "facts" are another's biased opinion.
-ianao (sorry class)
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Kingdom of the Cults
by troubled ini came across the above book while i was browsing in a bookstore.
since i was on my lunch hour, i could not read it fully, but did quickly look over the information.
it spent a great deal of time discussing matters pertaining to russell.
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ianao
troubled:
Good luck. If you ever do find any genuine facts you probably won't know it as anyone who sees those facts will just say it's a biased opinion.
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Disfellowship?????????????????????
by tattoogrl333 intoday's study topic included disfellowship.
i'm a little confused i was told that the only way you can be disfellowshipped was if you did something you knew went agains jehovah and would not repent for it.
but the only person you can repent to is jehovah......... then i was told that the elders can however "keep the flock pure" b/c if jehovah is not happy with the congregation he can take his holy spirit away.
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ianao
tattoo:
Please ignore GodRules.
I am not sure if he is sincere when answering your question. He is giving the point of view of those that are one of the Jehovah's Witnesses, so what do you think the answer is going to be?
Of course he is going to say that disfellowshipping is fair, what else is he going to say? That in itself shows he is brainwashed. The sister explained it to you as she was taught, but the reality is that if the person shows repentance, then he/she may still be disfellowshipped even if he/she shows repentance abundantly. If you truly want to know what a person thinks of the disfellowshipping process, speak with someone that has been disfellowshipped in the past yet did not seek reinstatement. They will give you the correct point of view because they are not brainwashed by the WTBTS, but merely folks "disciplined" by men with the audacity to arbit for God.
P.S. Regarding your question about when the elders step in if you are a threat to the congregation: Biblically, one of the responsibility of shepheards are to keep the congregation clean, so if someone is making a practice of gross sin and is showing repentence then the elders may disfellowship that person anyway as an example to the rest of the congregation, despite their repentant attitude. Some witnesses here will tell you that this is totally fair because they deserve to be punnished, but think about this: obviously those witnesses don't give a damn about the sinner's repentance or the fact that their friend may be in dire straights. They just want to be able to look down on someone to feed their own egos.
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Mormons phoned for the last time - I hope
by philo ini had a follow up phone call from the mormons today wanting to arrange for house visit no.
2. the first visit had been a game where i asked questions and they wriggled about a bit so as not to address them -- it brought back dub memories, i'm telling you.. it went like this.... who will survive the world's judgement day?
only mormons and exceptional individuals.. how about me?
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ianao
Wow!
It's utterly amazing to see what a rank & file witness and Susan has in common.