Posts by Pig

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...New Study on Vegetarian`s...Not as Healthy as Some may Think...

by OUTLAW in

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sydney (afp) - people who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, australian researchers said thursday.. a joint australian-vietnamese study of links between the bones and diet of more than 2,700 people found that vegetarians had bones five percent less dense than meat-eaters, said lead researcher tuan nguyen.. the issue was most pronounced in vegans, who excluded all animal products from their diet and whose bones were six percent weaker, nguyen said.. there was "practically no difference" between the bones of meat-eaters and ovolactovegetarians, who excluded meat and seafood but ate eggs and dairy products, he said.. "the results suggest that vegetarian diets, particularly vegan diets, are associated with lower bone mineral density," nguyen wrote in the study, which was published thursday in the american journal of clinical nutrition.

"but the magnitude of the association is clinically insignificant," he added.. nguyen, who is from sydney's garvan institute for medical research and collaborated on the project with the pham ngoc thach university of medicine in ho chi minh city, said the question of whether the lower density bones translated to increased fracture risk was yet to be answered.. "given the rising number of vegetarians, roughly five percent (of people) in western countries, and the widespread incidence of osteoporosis, the issue is worth resolving," he said.. .

article taken from yahoo news ...........................outlaw.

Pig

what the article failed to mention was that fat asses have higher bone density as a result of carrying the extra weight around.

Also there is no link between less dense bones and osteoporsis but there is a link to meat and milk.

Vegetarians as a whole are more healthy and i'm yet to see a study that shows vegetarians to have more bone fractures or breaks.

this article is just a desperate attempt to critisize the vegetarian diet. It's so weak yet they thought it good enough to publish. Hardly newsworthy

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JW email making the rounds: He doesn't serve Jehovah

by truthseeker in

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this is making the rounds.

he doesn't serve jehovah.

i'd like to tell you a story, about true love at last.

Pig

5 mins and rhymer.com :) .............

When marrying a witness, dont be led astray

one eighth of them pedos, one eighth of them gay

and being a woman, you'll soon reaslise

the man is the head, and you just cook pies

and his future appearance, will turn out quite grim

cause when elders are fat, gluttony is no longer a sin

meetings and study and variouse krud

and if you are dying, you cant have no blood

So when marrying a witness, please be advised

that men are twice as stupid, when they follow a lie

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Whale Wars? Piracy or not?

by Brocephus in

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ok, i am hooked and the new season starts tonight.

plus the show looks great on my new hdtv.

here is my question:.

Pig

who cares what it would be technically called.

Technically Rosa Parks was a dirty criminal with no regard for the law. What she did was wrong. She thought she was above the law.

The law isnt meant to be moral, it's just what best serves capitalisim.

All these people go round saying,, ohhhhh THE LAW™ .... ohhh breaking THE LAW™ as if the law is the be all and end all.

So if a big business was legaly poisoning the river which was causing birth defects in the community , and all legal possibilities have been attempted to stop them , people who worship the law would say it's immoral to stop the poisoning by any other method other than the law.

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My experience at the District Convention today - Appreciate your comments

by BonaFide in

i know i am the one to constantly harp on this board how the organization has lost its "swagger" and the baptism and attendance is going down, and people are waking up.. not so fast.. the audience cried, i mean a lot of people cried when they played some of the songs from the new songbook.

some had bethel singers who sounded pretty good singing them.

so many after the program were saying how touched they were.. then the new release of the book showing how the book of acts prefigures the organization today.

Pig

what?? new songbook.

Can anyone link me to more info please?

I never heard about it

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2009 Global Peace Index: atheist nations are more peaceful

by behemot in

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interesting .... http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31030&itemid=1.

behemot.

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Pig

like the article implied, if you live in a good country you dont need make believe

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Why elders are so CERTAIN of they OWN OPINIONS

by BonaFide in

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elders are told they are appointed by holy spirit.

that means the supreme god of the universe used his force to appoint them over the flock.. that is a major big deal.. so when they get in that back room, and the body of elders meets, or they are on a judicial committee or shepherding or whatever, they think they are speaking for jehovah god himself.. do we realize what that means?

that means that when they feel something, or they are emotional about something, or they get mad at someone in that room, they feel that is holy spirit directing them.. they don't realize they are on their own.

Pig

my dad is an elder

I asked how they make decisions, like if whether they think someone is truly repentant or not.

He said they discuss it then pray for Holy Spirit in their decision.

And I joked "so what, do you make the decision then tell god that unless he hits the table with lightning, they will see it as a sign that they made the right decision?

He said, "No, god directs our thinking through the bible and his holy spirit so he can direct us to certain scriptures and paragraphs and make sure our decision is fair"

He also said that if one of the elders was an apostate it might interfere with the Holy Spirit.

Yeah sure, gods scare to talk because there's a nasty guy there, so he just let them all be deceived rather than do anything.

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How could any of us here ever actually believe it again????

by oompa in

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i have two df'd friends...one gay....and they are both going back to meetings to be reinstated.

one has a serious drinking problem and he feels the jw life with friends and family again will help him with the drinking (i would drink even more!

)....he has some doubts, but believes a lot of it.. the gay friend you would think is full of holy spirit!....i thought from prior discussions she thought it was all bs....but nope, he has just always felt he was an evil sinner and wants a better relationship with god and to be with family....proven it to their self that it is full of lies?

Pig

comfort

do you think tom hanks in castaway, after talking to a volly ball for so long, investing all his time and emotions into it, and it talking back to him... do you think that later, when he was introduced back into civilisation, that he would miss the company of the volly ball? Would he feel as though a part of him was missing? Do you think he would secretly like to catch up and share his new life changes with it?

I think the answer is yes. You cant just erase such a big part of your life.

WWWWWIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLSSSSSSSOOOONNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!

oh i mean

JJJJJEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHOOOOVVVVVVVVVAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

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Atheists - Please answer this

by Nellie in

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i guess i lean more towards an agnostic point of view; though if asked, i will still identify myself as a christian.

why, i'm not really sure if i'm honest with myself.

it all boils down to how i feel about the earth and all of the inhabitants thereon.

Pig

the answer is natural selection.

yes things are complex. If you think complexity cant exist without a designer then how can god, who is infinately complex, exist?

Did he always exist? Well thats a weak way out. It doesnt solve anything. It's no better than saying aliens put us here and other aliens made those aliens and so on all the way back, infinitly. Or the earth sits on a turtles back. But what does the turtle sit on? Well it's turtles, all the way down.

If there is a god he has a terrible way of getting things done. Why would he use evolution when he could just make everything properly the fist time. And if you dont belive evolution it's because you have not properly looked at the evidence. No sain person could reject the huge amount of evidence.

It's like rejecting gravity or any other scientific theory which has had to pass through the same scientific process to be accepted.

It all comes down to , evidence for god = nothing , evidence for evolution = ever expaning volumes of infomation

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Latest JW-influenced lyrics by Prince

by JimmyPage in

song words by artist / band : prince.

song title : 4ever.

available on album : - lotusflow3r.

Pig

All those drugs have caught up with prince.

but he hasnt changed. He's still a horney midgit

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Why JW's Are So Damn Irritating

by Pig in

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Pig

It's that every time they're outsmarted by someone they say, "oh well, he'll be in for a surprise in Armageddon".....

Yeah that’s how it goes doesnt it, if you don’t believe the crazy man building an ark who claims he spoke to god you'll die. Ha you're dead but we was smart. In other words, "I have absolutely no logical rebuttal for your POV but I’ll still win by imagining a scenario" Yeah well have fun spending infinity eating apples and studying animal species in paradise. Or better yet, meeting Allah in heaven.

It's that no amount of evidence can change their mind, 1, because they don’t view the evidence and 2, because if they do view it they say it was miraculously planted by Satan.

Ok so god gave us evidence by saying the earth is circle (which it isn’t) and that pork is dangerous to eat (which it isn’t) while Satan gives us all the good evidence such as fossil records, number 2 chromosome, ERV's and vestigial limbs. And if you're good you take the side with the imaginary man with the worst evidence.

It's that they think they're meek....

"If you would only be meek and humble like me than you would have the truth" How can you be meek and claim to be 100% correct. "The truth?" Who the hell calls what they believe the truth? Scientist most certainly dont. I've never heard a scientist refer to their profession as truth. You would have to be completely full of yourself. Far from meek.

That everything proves them right..

There's been an increase in crime, cant you see how satan rules this system. There's been a decrease in crime, cant you see how satan is trying to fool us that his world is good. That man was become weak in the truth then lost his job, see what happens when you turn your back on god. That man has become weak in the truth then went on to become a millionaire, see how Satan misleads people.

It's that they put other churches down....

They just love to see other churches get in scandals and cover ups but if it happens to them they cry fowl. What could possible be more childish? Laughing with everyone at the kid at school who wets the bed but when you wet the bed it's different, it's just that you drank allot of water before bed

I admit I was stupid to believe so long, but when you're brought up to believe that the bible is fact and any proof otherwise is satanic; you're stuck in a circle. It's so hard to escape; you're thought process's have been trained to think one way. But for the people who came into the truth using their "logic" what the hell is wrong with you. It's preposterous. Do they actually believe it? C'mon some of those guys surly know in their heart of hearts something is wrong.

So to hell with the WTS. You're not fooling me anymore. I have respect for myself now and you can’t take that away. I have a brain and you don’t own it.

and no i havent done my bible reading tonight. Hang me