One of my ex-jw friends became obsessed with the paranormal. I always thought Penn and Teller summed it up best though - Bullshit!
- Lime
PS: I've been touched by ghosts myself. Then I suddenly remembered.. I left the fan on that night. Duh!
HintOfLime
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This is what I have been doing
by oldflame inhttp://www.myspace.com/shastaparanormal.
yes i gone and did it i am now a full time ghost hunter.
i started my own service but while looking for haunted places another ghost investigating service wrote me and asked if i would like to join their group.
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Did You/ Do You Believe Marriages Are Supposed To Be Forever?
by minimus inthe majority of people i know who are married either have cheated at least once or have mentioned regret to ever having married.
as witnesses, we were taught that marriage should be lifelong unless adultery occured and even if it did, many times, eccouragement was given to forgive.. now, i see many couples go thru the motions but almost hate their status.. so, are marriages meant to be "forever" or what?.
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HintOfLime
"Love is suspicious, love is needy, love is selfish, love is greedy." - Bender Bending Rodriguez
When you stop thinking in ideals, and really examine the core phycological drives, motivations, and constructs behind any relationship.. (with the exception of the instinctual mother/child bond), you can usually find a selfish motivation on both end.
To play marriage up as some sort of ideal is a crock. Marriage is a form of legal ownership. It's security. It's not having to work for the attention of the potential mate each day. It may work for some people, but not for most.
There is no single lifestyle or relationship that works for everyone. One size never fits all.
- Lime
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FOOT ANALYSIS PROVES HOMO FLORENSIS WAS SEPARATE SPECIES
by badboy inso the latest nature news says.
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HintOfLime
Those fools! Don't they know every time they find one of these 'transitional' fossils in an "evolutionary gap", all they do is create 2 new "evolutinary gaps"?
1 -> ??? -> 9
..becomes...
1 -> ??? -> 5 -> ??? -> 9
At this rate, they'll never prove evolution!
- Lime
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The People Up There vs. The People Down Here
by Confession indo you ever detect a difference in the way people make evaluations of an organization, as compared to an individual?
how about a difference between the way people judge one who holds an office of some sort, compared to one who doesn't?.
it seems to me that many people have a different set of standards for, say, "the people up there" as opposed to "the people down here.".
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HintOfLime
You make some good points, Confession.
I guess the difference is perception - when the 'higher ups' get something wrong, the amount of damage done can be a few orders of magnitude more than when the individual gets it wrong. But the individual is still wrong.
- Lime
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The People Up There vs. The People Down Here
by Confession indo you ever detect a difference in the way people make evaluations of an organization, as compared to an individual?
how about a difference between the way people judge one who holds an office of some sort, compared to one who doesn't?.
it seems to me that many people have a different set of standards for, say, "the people up there" as opposed to "the people down here.".
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HintOfLime
Do we tend to excuse "the people down here," but angrily condemn "the people up there"?
I can excuse 'the people down here' for trying to live their lives as best they can and sometimes getting it wrong.
The 'people up there', on the other hand, put themselves up there. They want to have authority over those below, and with great power comes great responsibility. In the WT case, the Governing Body has positioned themselves as God's voice on earth, and are eager to tell everyone how they should live.
They want the authority - and when they get it wrong and create a system that starts hurting people - they should be held responsible for it.
- Lime
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WOMEN !
by iknowall558 inhow many women felt a twinge of this whilst a witness ?.
finishing school for cate w..
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HintOfLime
I can only assume that a sexist God is one that doesn't know a dang thing about "peak efficiency". Some of the most successful businesses in the world are run by some very intelligent women. Sex has nothing to do with leadership ability.
Oh.. right... equality of the sexes is a modern moral concept, championed by Satan's world... kinda like how France established the concept of a 'minimum age of consent', and then California democracy later embraced and extended the idea.
Unfortunately, God's morals don't change... they remain barbaric forever.
- Lime
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$6,600 Expenses For a One-Day Assembly At a Fully-Paid-Up Hall? WTF!
by Room 215 inthe wife just got back from a one-day special circuit meeting (or whatever they call it) at the regional assembly hall.
it's got a capacity of about 1,200, fully paid for, staffed by volunteers and in use for less than eight hours.
then the guy making the announcement tells the crowd that the one-day expenses for the gig was about $6,600 (?!!!)...
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HintOfLime
I've heard of the CO and DO and all the rest, but the COW. Now that't funny.
- startingover
The fun continues... Service Overseer Wife... Pioneer Ministerial Servant (I was a PMS myself)...
- Lime
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"Nothing in biology makes sense, except for in the light of evolution."
Viruses exist, because they can exist. The fact that virus DNA is often quite similar to the DNA of the creature it infects suggests that viruses may have started as little more than fragments of DNA that became seperated from it's original cell (say the cell was destroyed, and the DNA shattered a bit). Because the DNA fragments still container markers that allow it to align with the DNA in a whole cell, the rules of molecular biology apply, and the fragment could interact with the DNA in a complete cell.
The vast majority of fragments would either be inert (some viruses are so close to the original DNA they do nothing more than self replicate, without affecting the host), do nothing (missing gene markers so the fragment can't align properly with a complete strand), or most likely never come in contact with compatable DNA. On the other hand, the fragments that could interfere with the DNA in a complete cell and cause that cell to replicate that fragment would do so. To assume the virus has some sort of purpose or motive is folly. The virus is just a molecule, doing what molecules do. Because the laws of physics provided the DNA fragments with the potential to reproduce - and because the fragments do contain genes that can change from one generation to the next - natural selection came in to play - and the strains that exist today are the ones that are good at infecting and reproducing.
Viruses could very well be an unavoidable by-product of the way our celluar biology works. (To claim it's "Mother Nature's" defense against aliens is rediculous. Most viruses can only infect a specific species. Furthermore, to assume that other lifeforms would be both carbon based AND employ the same molecular chemistry for individual genes and gene markers is quite a long shot.)
- Lime
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How the jw's evolved (Gross content)
by Tired of the Hypocrisy ini can barely type this.
i was answering questions at yahoo!
answers when i noticed that a former elder i met from socal had made a very funny but gross little story outlining how the jw's got their start.
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HintOfLime
I think there are plenty of facts and real life experiences to discuss without resorting to this sort of drival.
I think this sort of 'story' does more harm than good for those that have serious concerns about the way witnesses operate. This is little more than easily falsifiable slander, and if a witness read it, could very likely turn them off to reading further 'apostate' information that does have valid points to make.
To the yahoo poster, I would say by all means be angry, but don't let anger turn you into a bigger liar than the people that hurt you.
- Lime
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rant for the day
by John Doe ini'm completely fed up of hearing people call bush an idiot.
disagreeing with the man's ideology is one thing.
disagreeing with his policies is one thing.
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HintOfLime
Huh. Interesting.
I always thought he was a bit of an idiot, myself.
- Lime