JWoods

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  Who Would You Like To See As President Of The USA In The Next Election?

  by minimus in

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  will it be obama or someone else?.

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  JWoods

  The only viable alternative I see now is also a democrat...and I would rather see Obama than her.

  A competitive candidate from either the independents (unlikely, but possible) or the republicans has not yet emerged.
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  Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas

  by snowbird in

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  guilty of sexually harassing anita hill?.

  i say no.. what say you?.

  this came up on the arlen specter thread, but i feel it needs a thread of its own.. thanks.. syl.

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  JWoods

  And conservative, Minimus. This drives the left completely nuts.
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  Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas

  by snowbird in

  1. social
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  guilty of sexually harassing anita hill?.

  i say no.. what say you?.

  this came up on the arlen specter thread, but i feel it needs a thread of its own.. thanks.. syl.

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  JWoods

  Woods and LWT, haven't you accused others of bringing in pointless comparison???

  I am not sure that I have, but anyway these comparisons are not exactly pointless. You seem to be saying that Clarence Thomas should have been rejected as a Supreme Court Justice, based only on an unsubstantiated personal accusation by a political opponent. Ted Kennedy was a senior U.S. senator for most of his adult life, in spite of the fact that he killed a girl in very questionable circumstances and then lied about it. Bill Clinton was the president of the United States, and continued on as president after he first lied about an affair with a young staff member (this is technically sexual harrassment), and then admitted it when it was proven by physical evidence. The comparison is that liberals wanted Kennedy and Clinton to face no harm over much more serious transgressions, but would have disqualified Clarence Thomas over hearsay of nothing more than some distasteful remarks which may or may not have been true.
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  The earth survive forever?

  by sayitsnotso in

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  i can understand many argue that scientifically it is impossible for the earth to remain forever (sun dies).

  what is wrong with the argument that god could refuel the sun?.

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  How do we really know that there isn't already something different about the sun than all the other stars in the solar system? I'd be interested if this can be disproven.

  Spectrographic analysis indicates what type a star is, and how far in the hydrogen (or other cycle) it is. Many very similar stars to the sun have been discovered. The fuel cycle of the sun is mainly from the nuclear fusion of hydrogen, a common process with other stars of this magnitude. There is nothing unique about it from a cosmological point of view. I think you mistyped "solar system", (instead of galaxy), the sun is of course the only star in the solar system.

  How do we know that angles don't have the assignment to prevent the star from dying. I know this is out in left field but according to the bible we will never fully understand the creation of Jehovah.

  Well, this is back to the old "God can do anything he wants" fallback when Watchtower doctrine contradicts the scientific facts. Some fundamentalists have told me they think the dinosaurs did not really exist, but that either Satan or God (depending on the source) put the fossils here on earth to fool the unbelievers. A JW circuit overseer once told me that dinosaurs were put here to provide petroleum and were killed off in the flood...he really thought that petroleum came from squished dinosaurs because Sinclair Oil has a brontosaurus on their logo. It might be worth remembering that the JWs for many years did actually teach that the bible creative days were 7,000 years old. This was a critical part of the false 1975 end of the world prophecy, as Freddy Franz thought that 1975 was the end of the 6,000 years since Adam, and that the last 1,000 years would be the thousand year reign of christ. When it didn't work, they pretty much let up on the unscientific 7,000 year days.
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  Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas

  by snowbird in

  1. social
  2. current

  guilty of sexually harassing anita hill?.

  i say no.. what say you?.

  this came up on the arlen specter thread, but i feel it needs a thread of its own.. thanks.. syl.

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  JWoods

  She also got a better follow-on job than Monica Lewinski...
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  Is this for real?

  by AK - Jeff in

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  or photoshop?

  did the wts actually print this shit?.

  i think i will puke!.

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  JWoods

  I have to say it again - when I first saw the picture in the original post, I would have bet any amount of money that this was a brilliant satirical photo-shop making fun of what mindless nerds the JWs really are.

  Now I saw the 2-year old thread somebody pulled back up with this very stuff...

  UNBELIEVABLE. Somewhere between the Heaven's Gate website and that Donald Sutherland movie about the seed-pod people.
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  Is this for real?

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. watchtower
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  or photoshop?

  did the wts actually print this shit?.

  i think i will puke!.

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  OK, I guess you made me believe it - but wow.

  That is just about the spookiest JW thing I have ever seen.

  I am amazed time and again how much more controlling and restrictive they have become since I was a JW 30 years ago.
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  Is this for real?

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. watchtower
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  or photoshop?

  did the wts actually print this shit?.

  i think i will puke!.

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  JWoods

  OK, please - can we let go of this joke now?

  SURELY this cannot be real...

  Please?
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  Which gender is most likely to leave the JW's?

  by highdose in

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  men or women?

  which do you think is most likely to wake up and leave?.

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  JWoods

  Men.

  They're the least likely to take any foolishness off anyone.

  I would have said Women - simply because there seem to be so many more JW women than men.
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  The earth survive forever?

  by sayitsnotso in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i can understand many argue that scientifically it is impossible for the earth to remain forever (sun dies).

  what is wrong with the argument that god could refuel the sun?.

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  JWoods

  Maybe the term "refuel" isn't the best one to use. Couldn't Jehovah do whatever is needed to prevent the sun from dying? Since he wrote the laws of physics couldn't he circumvent them? Couldn't the creator of the sun prevent it from dying?

  Makes you wonder why he didn't just do that in the first place, huh? I mean - if keeping it going forever was really always the intent, and he has the power to do it, why not just make it that way in the beginning?

  Lots of hand-waving explanations needed for the JW world-view of Armageddon killing off everyone but them, and then living on a paradise earth forever in violation of proven laws of physics.