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  Have you tried a gluten-free diet?

  by compound complex in

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  Originally, I went gluten free for about 2 weeks and felt much better. For the past 2 months, I have been running "Gluten reduced"... I still feel better, which I credit to the radical reduction of carbs. Im losing wheat weight at a nice slow clip without changing my lifestyle.

  There is something to be said for radical carb reduction diets. Its funny, I used to crave baked goods to the point I would eat an entire row of oreos before I knew what hit me. Now I don't even care to eat one. In fact some of the baked goods I used to eat now overload my pallate and I can barely eat any of it.
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  Facebook and employment interviews

  by DaCheech in

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  listening to this in the news got me infuriated!.

  there is a growing trend that employment interviewers are asking for facebook profile with login password.. they are looking into everything you post.. there is no law in the books to prevent this!.

  even though i'm self employed, i think this goes beyond what's required of hirees!.

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  Interesting progression here:

  • Lie detector tests - I was subject to this back in the 80's
  • Drug tests - I have been tested since the early 90's
  • Credit Checks - I have been subjected to this since 2002
  • Social Impact Assessments (AKA, the Facebook/ Blogger / online media scan) - I have been asked this several times and refused each time.

  I understand why companies want to ask these questions, I don't believe that any of these are appropriate to subject employees to. I think that if someone applies for a "high risk" job handling money or something else of value, there should be an independent "certification/bonding" process in place to assist in vetting prospective employees. Your employer (even the tight lipped HR department) should have Absolutely no rights to any personal information about you except for possibly you bank routing number for direct deposit of you paycheck.

  DF...
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  Now that Rick is gone......

  by outsmartthesystem in

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  do you think there is any chance we can get 20571pnt428571......8675309....r2d2....10-4 over and out to quit bombarding the message boards with ridiculous apocolpytic fortune telling?

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  hmmm... hollow victory, im afraid...
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  Lions eating straw....is this possible?

  by highdose in

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  i recall a jw telling me that.... "they" meaning scientists, had done study's on lions in zoo's and discovered that if they gave lions straw and grass to eat that the lions became very passive and no longer showed predator behavior??

  now they never explained who "they" were, or were these "study's" had been done or why based on these study's lions are not now fed grass etc

  has anyone else heard this for real?

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  I have had several conversations with my father on this subject. The JW logic (if that is what you can call it) is supported by so many misconceptions and flawed ideas that I becomes impossible to reason with him. Once I pick away enough if the points to possibly expose the fatal flaw in his reasoning, he interrupts me and says "We just don't know, we have to wait on Jehovah..."

  I read these threads with some interest hoping for a better knife with which to cut away they foundation of flawed thinking, but it seems to me that the JW are hopelessly held as captives of their own mental prison.

  cheers
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  Copyright math - LOL

  by baltar447 in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzadcj8o1-0.

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  LOL... love it!
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  Weird Pic in Awake - Jesus Looks Very Pleased About Something.

  by cofty in

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  a new member of the jws forum has posted this scan of a picture in the french edition the april 2011 awake.. i have never believed the subversive wt artist stories but this one is funny.. .

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  I showed my wife the picture.... her starement to me was "I know what this thread is about, but im not sure what fold im supposed to be offended by."

  gotta know when to hold em' gotta know when to fold em' ....

  cheers
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  Are Synapses an Example of Irreducible Complexity?

  by cantleave in

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  this is a excellent video about the development complex neuro-circuits.

  well worth watch all the way through.

  i remember that along with the eye, synapses were often quoted as an example of irreducible complexity by jw's and other creationists, from 4:38 on this video there is a great explanation of why this is not so.

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  I beleive the statistic for brain useage is 10%.

  I saw a show a while back that said that only parts of our brain were active at one time (albiet a lot more than 10%), if all of our brain was active at once, it would be like an epileptic seizure.
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  The lying upper class??

  by darthfader in

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  interesting article:.

  http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/shame-on-the-rich.html?ref=hp.

  the team's findings suggest that privilege promotes dishonesty.

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  Looks like this story keeps on giving and giving...

  http://news.yahoo.com/rich-people-unethical-224915381--abc-news.html

  At last, an explanation for Wall Street's disgrace, Bernard Madoff 's Ponzi scheme and other high-society crimes and misdemeanors: A new study published in the Proceedings of that National Academy of Sciences found that wealthier people were more apt to behave unethically than those who had less money.
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  The lying upper class??

  by darthfader in

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  interesting article:.

  http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/shame-on-the-rich.html?ref=hp.

  the team's findings suggest that privilege promotes dishonesty.

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  Wow... I was hoping to get some interesting insights on this article... I guess everyone agrees with it completely :)

  Cheers
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  The lying upper class??

  by darthfader in

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  interesting article:.

  http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/shame-on-the-rich.html?ref=hp.

  the team's findings suggest that privilege promotes dishonesty.

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  Interesting Article:

  http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/shame-on-the-rich.html?ref=hp

  The team's findings suggest that privilege promotes dishonesty. For example, upper-class subjects were more likely to cheat. After five apparently random rolls of a computerized die for a chance to win an online gift certificate, three times as many upper-class players reported totals higher than 12—even though, unbeknownst to them, the game was rigged so that 12 was the highest possible score.