oh so why is it we keep paying the loan back to the 'society' on a building we no longer own
Because they borrowed the money to buy/build the asset then gave it away? Lol
GromitSK
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List of UK Travelling Overseers in 2013
by soiledumpling inhi pepeep am attempting to get a current list of uk travelling overseers.
left 4 years ago and have heard rumours of many new ones.
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Fukushima nuclear reactor cores have melted into the ground!
by moshe ina newly released scientific study (done some time ago) on a similar tva ge mk1 reactor has determined the uncovered reactor core would have melted through the steel reactor vessel and over 20ft of concrete containment floor in 15 hours-the 500+ degree air temperatures would have melted and blown out all the conduit and pipe seals going into the containment building allowing a free escape of radiation to the atmosphere.
they are still trying to keep the spent fuel pools covered in water and prevent the used fuel rods from catching on fire- that is a separate disaster.. .
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GromitSK
NP :)
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Fukushima nuclear reactor cores have melted into the ground!
by moshe ina newly released scientific study (done some time ago) on a similar tva ge mk1 reactor has determined the uncovered reactor core would have melted through the steel reactor vessel and over 20ft of concrete containment floor in 15 hours-the 500+ degree air temperatures would have melted and blown out all the conduit and pipe seals going into the containment building allowing a free escape of radiation to the atmosphere.
they are still trying to keep the spent fuel pools covered in water and prevent the used fuel rods from catching on fire- that is a separate disaster.. .
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GromitSK
Do you mean a build up of neutrons or did you actually mean neucleotides swamping the reaction? I thought nucleotides were related to DNA. Apologies if I got that wrong.
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Stop Putting Apostate Stickers On My Literature! They "Cost Lots of Money!"
by AuntConnie in"true story" the circuit overseer came to our kingdom hall and read us the riot act (local needs style) "magazines of this quality are not free, they cost money and we are not generating enough donations to defray the cost of the magazines(or running the top of the line printing presses) i get my ass out of bed to place literature in the laundray cleaning, coin opperated shops and some asshole puts his apostate stickers on our magazines.
do you know how hard it is to get up at 6:00 am and how expensive those magazines are costing the organization to print?
please stop defiling our literature, i dont post hateful stickers on your website so please leave my magazines alone.
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GromitSK
I don't remember tithing when I was in. Did it change?
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JWs in the UK: 27 years of yearbook stats and stagnation
by 88JM inokay, so i went on a bit of a statistics binge after looking at poland.
i thought i would have a look at my home country's yearbook stats here in the uk (britain).. so here they are for your consideration.
had to go into the loft for some of the older yearbooks, and found some other older publications too.. nothing too remarkable as such here, as far as i can see, apart from:.
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GromitSK
I wonder what the figures for growth would look like if you subtracted a corresponding proportion according to population growth?
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Yahweh was a Cannanite god Ashtoreth his wife...before the Jews!! Unreal!
by Witness 007 inthis i did not know till recently.
buts a whole new meaning to "let us make man in our image.." no wonder all the kings of israel turned to other gods..
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GromitSK
No u in Latin?
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Yahweh was a Cannanite god Ashtoreth his wife...before the Jews!! Unreal!
by Witness 007 inthis i did not know till recently.
buts a whole new meaning to "let us make man in our image.." no wonder all the kings of israel turned to other gods..
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GromitSK
Wasn't Stavros, Kojak's dumb assistant?
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An interesting article on scientific explanations of near-death / out-of-body experiences
by cedars ini've been doing quite a bit of research into books recently, and i've noticed that the book "proof of heaven" is selling very strongly at the moment.
it's currently no.1 in the new york times bestseller list for nonfiction paperbacks.. the book is by a qualified neurosurgeon who converted to religious faith after going into a coma and having what he later described as an experience of heaven, which he elaborates on in great detail in the book.
he argues that the experience must have been supernatural, because his cerebral cortex was "offline" for the duration of his vision.. .
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GromitSK
Hi prologos
You could look at the same book I recommended to Dave as a summary, or Chris Carter's 'Science and the Near Death Experience'. I am not saying read and be convinced, merely that there is a lot of interesting information in it, and quite a bit of debate about it online. It isn't 'woo woo' nor does it contain appeals to emotion (neither does the Fontana book I referred to for that matter). There are a few books on related topics.
If you have decided there is definitely no consciousness without brain, fair enough, I don't view it as my job to convince you or anyone else otherwise. I have not reached a final conclusion myself. If you would like to discuss the book having read it then I'd be interested to hear your views on what either author says. If you want to debate the subject generally I am not sufficiently well-equipped to do it justice or mount a full defence of it.
As a final observation, I would be wary of reading too much into my personal experiences of unconsciousness. I understand we dream every time we sleep and I remember maybe one or two a year, that's a hit rate of 2/365 :)
I won't be back to this thread regularly so if you'd like more info please feel free to send me a private message (or anyone else for that matter).
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Would You Think Twice About Talking Negatively Toward Islam, The Koran or The Prophet?
by minimus inwould you fear that there might be "consequences"??
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GromitSK
I suspect it's also about how we talk about others' beliefs. I have noticed online that sometimes people talk to others in a manner that would potentially result in a punch if their discussion was being carried out face to face.
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An interesting article on scientific explanations of near-death / out-of-body experiences
by cedars ini've been doing quite a bit of research into books recently, and i've noticed that the book "proof of heaven" is selling very strongly at the moment.
it's currently no.1 in the new york times bestseller list for nonfiction paperbacks.. the book is by a qualified neurosurgeon who converted to religious faith after going into a coma and having what he later described as an experience of heaven, which he elaborates on in great detail in the book.
he argues that the experience must have been supernatural, because his cerebral cortex was "offline" for the duration of his vision.. .
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GromitSK
Dave I have suggested a place to look before you say there is no evidence, if you don't want to that's fine. I don't think I have any 'burden' at all other than to tell you that. I certainly don't have an obligation to précis a book for you. It's not my evidence, I was trying to be helpful. You don't even have to buy it, you could borrow it from a library. I would have be interested to discuss it when you'd looked at it as I am still forming my own views on the subject. My view at the moment is that there is a great deal of evidence to support survival, but I haven't seen anything that conclusively proves or disproves it for me.
I wasn't saying the author discounted his own evidence, I was saying he didn't state a firm conclusion, that could well be because he'd rather leave it to the reader to make their own mind up. I don't think Fontana was a champion of survival after death, simply fascinated by it although in his book about what happens after death he does go a bit further but as he says himself in it, it is conjecture and depends on what one makes of the evidence for survival in toto.
i think that's all I have to say on the subject really.