I remember watching it, the tension of the landing, the thrill of the first step off the ladder, the "will it fire" anxiety before they lifted off for the return trip.
RIP Neil Armstrong, soft-spoken explorer and inspiring hero!
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Breaking News: Neil Armstrong Died Today
by NewChapter inhe was 82, and died from complications of heart surgery he had 3 weeks ago.
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I Believe Catholicism And Its Trappings Are Silly, Strange & Weird!!!
by minimus inmy italian friend loves going to the "feasts" that occur in italy, boston or nyc.
these feasts feature a "saint" with dollar bills pinned around her and they parade the saint in a long procession and chant "viva (whomever)".
they are quite serious about this and are proud to talk about the past generations of observers who appreciated the events.
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Weren't Facists/Nazis and Communits enemies? Didn't the Catholics lend support toe the National Socialists?
History shows that to be a false comparison. Hitler treated both the Kremlin and the Vatican with the same duplicity he used against everyone else (except, perhaps, Mussolini and Tojo). Saying that the Soviets were blameless while the Vatican was culpable is shameless double-talk.
Stalin assisted Hitler with the invasion of Poland. Germany took over the western part, the Soviets took the east. Stalin and Hitler remained military allies until Hitler unleashed Operation Barbarossa, his largest attack of the war, against his former supporter. Though no doubt suspicious of each other, Germany and the USSR were not enemies until the German invasion.
The Reichskonkordat Pius XI agreed to with Germany in 1933 was one of twenty-one such agreements promoting religious liberty. It was soon clear that Hitler had no intention of honoring it. Pius XI effectively rescinded the concordat in 1937 by issuing Mit Brenneger Sorge:
... We shall continue without failing, to stand before the rulers of your people as the defender of violated rights, and in obedience to Our Conscience and Our pastoral mission, whether We be successful or not, to oppose the policy which seeks, by open or secret means, to strangle rights guaranteed by a treaty ...
... Whoever exalts race, or the people, or the State, or a particular form of State, or the depositories of power, or any other fundamental value of the human community - however necessary and honorable be their function in worldly things - whoever raises these notions above their standard value and divinizes them to an idolatrous level, distorts and perverts an order of the world planned and created by God; he is far from the true faith in God and from the concept of life which that faith upholds ...
Then in September 1938 Pius XI said:
No, no, I say to you it is impossible for a Christian to take part in anti-Semitism. It is inadmissible. Through Christ and in Christ we are the spiritual progeny of Abraham. Spiritually, we [Christians] are all Semites.
This was said by a religious leader, who commanded no army and no navy. About two weeks later, the leader of a world-wide empire defended by a strong army, navy and air corps agreed to give Hitler the Sudetenland, territory belonging to a country with no role in negotiating that concession.
So, who really played the dupe for herr Shiklgruber?
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Who's The Toughest TV Judge?
by minimus injudge judy's pretty tough.
do you ever watch these shows?
i like them!.
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When the right late night movie comes on, Judge Roy Bean!
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Say It Ain't So, Lance!
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It reminds me of a JC. Armstrong said he wasn't going to play their rigged game any longer, so the USADA declares him guilty without proof or due process and declares him "disfellowshiped". Another group of power-mad petty tyrants abuses the process until they get their own way!
(edited for spelling...where's my Livestrong wrist band?)
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In more ways than one! Date a non-witness, and you will indeed be the target of a "marking" talk.
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You Were All A Bunch Of Loser Witnesses!
by minimus ini want to get responses just like the troll got proving me wrong..
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WAS NOT!
("loser UBM" would be another matter...)
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"we were just talking...shes not free to remarry...we werent flirting or doing anything wrong"
by WuzLovesDubs inthats what my soon to be exhusband just said to me.
i finally after 25 years of dealing with him and the jws and a litany of other shit, told him two weeks ago i want out.
he wrote me a letter this week and made a list of allllll the things he hates: about my beliefs, the fact that i left jehovah, broke my vows to god, my hobbies, celebrations, what i watch on tv, my parenting, keeping the kids out of the jws, not having any friends....and then said well i dont hate "you".
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...a recovering alcoholic and had stopped drinking after he beat me and choked me in 06 and I had to get a restraining order...
he brought in a water glass 3/4 full of wine and proceeded to down that in front of me...
Im looking for a good divorce lawyer as we speak...
Be sure to give the lawyer all the facts about that incident in '06. You should seek another restraining order along with the divorce filing. If he's drinking again, there is a good chance he will lose control again. Protect yourself, take no chances!
all bets of being NICE about it are off the table.
Not being nice--understood. But be cool and businesslike, not vindictive. Don't give him a chance to paint you as being uncooperative or spiteful in front of a judge. Let him be the irrational party.
I'm sorry to hear it's come to this, Wuz, but I think you're right--it's time to end the madness.
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"we were just talking...shes not free to remarry...we werent flirting or doing anything wrong"
by WuzLovesDubs inthats what my soon to be exhusband just said to me.
i finally after 25 years of dealing with him and the jws and a litany of other shit, told him two weeks ago i want out.
he wrote me a letter this week and made a list of allllll the things he hates: about my beliefs, the fact that i left jehovah, broke my vows to god, my hobbies, celebrations, what i watch on tv, my parenting, keeping the kids out of the jws, not having any friends....and then said well i dont hate "you".
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Are you looking he said? I said um no...we arent even divorced yet. He said well....I dont plan on staying single long but then that will be up to what you do.
It is just twisted, even downright sick, that he expects you to sink to his level just so he can marry Sister Homewrecker in the Kingdom Hall. If he wants to play the Watchtower game, he's the one who must live by the Watchtower rules. Don't let him (and the GB) manipulate you.
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Who has killed more Jehovah's Witnesses....Hitler...or the Governing Body of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society?
by Balaamsass inanother thread on this site is discussing the number of jehovah's witnesses killed in nazi germany ( 2000-2500), and a couple of threads have discussed the high incidence of suicide among jehovah's witnesses.
(many victims of rape, child molesting, or cruel judicial actims).
it occured to me with over seven million jws, it is likely the governing body probably has greater blood guilt than even adolf hitler.. what do you think?
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Here's a simlpe estimate. The no-blood policy has been in place since 1945, for 67 years now. Using the higher number for deaths in the concentration camps (2500), it would take (on average) less than 40 deaths per year to match that figure. So I suspect that the blood policy has indeed killed more JWs than the Hitler did, because they've been at it for so much longer.
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Scientific Careers and Race
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GLTirebiter
to imagine that Nature has given us all the same potential, and that a single act of will can suddently cause all limitations to vanish.
I agree that an "act of will" cannot make limitations and differences vanish. But that misses a point that is equally important: that the act of neglect, of not challenging ourselves to find what our limitations are really are, changes imaginary limitations into self-perpetuating, unchallenged constraints. Differences in aptitudes are real, inherent limitations; differences in attitudes are man-made burdens.