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  Just for Es....

  by wanderlustguy in

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  es needs a thread...i've noticed she's been in the dumps and seems to think no one really notices.

  well, time for that crap to stop.. you need to know you make a difference, just by putting in your two cents on any given subject here you make me crack a little grin, and i know i''m not the only one.

  to say no one really notices is to berate the contribution you make as well as so many others.

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  Great post, WLG.

  *flowers for Es
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  Back to Iraq

  by troucul in

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  as i sit here getting sloshed on vodka sours one more time, i just wanted to say i enjoyed my time here on the board the last two weeks.

  i won't be able to visit here as much as i'd like, but i'll do my damn best to try.

  prior to r and r, i spent about seven months in iraq, and am not sure how much longer i have to go in this tour.

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  Take care, Troucul
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  Serena the loyal JW

  by joelbear in

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  http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d0/swbooty.jpg/180px-swbooty.jpg

  all dressed up for door to door work..

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  Is that the baptismal pool?
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  What Is The Worst Movie You Have Ever Seen?

  by horrible life in

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  sonnyboy hated napoleon dynamite .

  elsewhere hated deuce bigalow; european gigolo .

  my all time worst movie was arnold i saw it in about 1974. had roddy mcdowell.

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  Condor Man

  Battlefield Earth

  You Got Served

  From Justin to Kelly
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  Were You a Little Prude JW?

  by minimus in

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  were you a prude as a jw?

  are you still one?

  prudes, (especially jws) are so judgmental.

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  I used to turn off the radio in my car when it would play "Afternoon Delight"

  This comment is pure gold. ( i was just singing this song in the car the other day, LoL)
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  I told the brothers......

  by defd in

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  at the meeting sunday that i visit this site.

  and man we had a long heated discussion.

  after about three hrs of going back and forth i just left and man, do i have some great news!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  I knew it! LoL.... you so klazy!
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  I Haven't Forgotten...

  by lowly one in

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  ...anyway i got into it with my mom and most of the family being present and sided with her that their was no way i could remember that i had seen a particular snake when i was about 2 years old.

  so fortunitly, i was able to recall a certain incident where i was at the end of our driveway about 75 yards from the house this being in a rual setting with alot of trees and, a car pulls up, i am on the passenger side and that door opens and a man says he is the postman and told me to get in because he was going to take me to the store to get some candy.

  sounded good to me, i remember i wanted to get in but couldn't try then heard the sound of my mom's voice very sternly saying my name and to come here...--end of story--

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  I haven't forgotten either. I've sometimes wondered (not) why some people have tried so hard to convince me otherwise.
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  The Fanatics Who Founded America.

  by Englishman in

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  take a peek at an excerpt from this book that is in the course of being written by simon worrall.

  the fanatics who founded america.

  fundamentalist zealots dreaming of a new world order, sexual repression, scary old blokes with beards.

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  In their fundamentalist theocracy pubs would be closed, maypole dancing and gambling would be banned, men and women would be forced to dress in a sober and godly way and, above all, the Bible would become the foundation of civil society.

  You know what they say -- the more things change...
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  last days?

  by blessedcheesemaker in

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  The Last Days in the 14 th Century

  All through recorded history there have been people who have pointed to the calamities, horrors and disasters in the world, and preached that this signified an imminent end of the world. This is not even unique to Christianity, which started off with strong millennial expectations in the 1st century, and for the most part retains the same expectations almost 2000 years later.

  Many Christians through the centuries, always convinced that their time was that of the end, has always pointed to the ones who doubted the messages of doom and gloom, and applied to them the worlds in 2. Peter about "scoffers." Of course, the "scoffers" have always been correct, and the doomsayers were always wrong.

  Assuming we accept the troubled interpretation of the so-called synoptic apocalypse that has Jesus stating that wars, diseases, famine, crime and earthquakes would be a sign of his future second coming, let us put a loyal Christian at the end of the 14th century.

  He has witnessed and experienced the events of this century, and looked for the "signs" of Jesus coming. What would he find?

  Wars

  The descendents of Genghis Khans Mongol hordes killed c. 35 000 000 of Chinese peasantry from 1311 to 1340. Mongol hordes had annihilated whole civilizations from the Pacific to the Adriatic Sea in the previous century; the wars that followed in China when these rulers were fought off were no less destructive.

  Do not believe for a second that this is even remotely all. In 1337 the longest war in recorded history, the Hundred Years War between England and France, started. The whole of Europe was also, through the first half of this century, divided into countless regional conflicts and feuds.

  Asia was not through with genocidal war, alas.

  Along, in 1370, came a Turkic conqueror known as Timur Lenk (or Tamerlane). He was a Tatar, a Muslim of Mongol descent. Timur Lenk wasnt second to even Genghis Khan in cruelty and ambitions for world dominance; his hordes slaughtered entire cities and left nations completely devastated. Timur Lenk typically built towers on the site of devastated cities with the skulls of the slaughtered population.

  Even great cities like Bagdad and Damascus were plundered and their populations annihilated. In India, it is estimated that one million people were killed in a few weeks alone. The century ended at the closing of this savage destruction; Timur Lenk died in 1405 during a campaign against China.

  Pestilence

  The Black Death (probably bubonic and pneumonic plague) killed at least 75 000 000 people in Eurasia alone from 1347 to 1351. This is the worst pestilence ever in sheer numbers, but neither its mortality nor its global nature was unique.

  Around 1/3rd of Europe?s population perished; that is 25 000 000 people. In 1400, the population in England was perhaps half of what it had been 100 years earlier. In recorded history, the Black Death stands as a unique watershed, cutting off all continuity and paving the way for a whole new division of power and a changed order of things.

  Along with the famines that ravished the world in this century came countless other outbreaks of pestilence and disease. Dysentery and anthrax, and many other diseases, caused untold suffering. Also, leprosy reached its highest scope in Europe ever in this century.

  Earthquakes

  Contemporary chronicles of the 14th century reports a large number of highly destructive earthquakes. Accompanied by the other calamities in this time wars, famine, pestilence these were highly devastating.

  A horrible Earthquake in 1348 for which no reliable fatality estimates exists, devastated greater parts of Europe. In Hungary, 36 towns or castles were destroyed, and some people even believe that the Black Death that followed was caused by all the corpses lying around after this disaster.

  Likewise, in 1356 the Swiss city Basel was totally demolished by an earthquake.

  In China, the period from 1337 to 1345 were marked by a large number of destructive earthquakes.

  Milnes catalogue of historical earthquakes lists 143 destructive earthquakes for the 14th century. Considering the errant recording, its safe to say that this is a very low figure.

  Crime

  Following great disasters are always those who prey on the victims. Criminologist who have studied crime during the ages will note that sharp increases in crime has often followed disasters, like plagues and wars.

  The 14th century was one in which crime was on a steep increase. Historian George Lucas reports of a "great increase in crime." At the same time, piracy at the great seas was on the increase.

  Violent crime was so prevalent that it may have contributed to the population decline at the end of this century. The general fear, materialism and cynicism caused by the Black Plague was no doubt a great contribution to dissolution of public moral and law and order.

  Famine

  The 14th century marks the start of some serious climatic changes that caused widespread disturbances in seasons and crops. The result was widespread storms, rain, flood, droughts and of course serious crop failures. The worst, but by far the only one, was the universal famine 1315-1317, which caused conditions almost too cruel to mention.

  It is reported through contemporary chroniclers that parents ate their children, that people dug up bodies from churchyards for food, and that it even was common for people to kill others for food. In Europe north of the Alps and the Pyrenees 10% of the population perished according to some estimates.

  Right before the Black Death another serious famine devastated nations; it is estimated it may have affected 1/5th of mankind.

  Conclusion

  Any Christian at the end of the 14th century, having the same confused and a-historical understanding of "end-time signs" as contemporary doomsayers like Hal Lindsay or the Jehovah?s Witnesses, could not fail to be convinced that the end of the world was imminent in 1400. The calamities he had experienced, if he had survived through the greater part of this century (a rare occurrence indeed), simply had to be a fulfillment of Jesus' prophecy.

  And yet, here we are, 600 years later, and we can listen to doomsayers who are ignorant about the events of the past spreading propaganda that would have us believe that our century is particularly bad.

  Nobody with any regard for facts can seriously argue that the 20th century even comes close to being "worse" than the 14th century. On the contrary, the population boom has occurred precisely because the causes of an early death that plagued that century have been brought under control. These calamities still exist and cause suffering, but their fatality and scope is only a fraction compared to earlier ages.

  Remember: In 1300 there may have been around 450 million people in the world. One hundred years later there were considerably less. In 1900, there were around 1 600 million people. We left the 20th century with almost four times as many people as entered it; over 6 000 million. That is a unique testimony to a century of prosperity beyond what our ancestors could imagine.

  - Jan

  It's something that JT posted a while back. I found it really helpful. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/62956/963510/post.ashx#963510
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  UK Train Shooting - Murder by Police

  by Simon in

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  it is clear now even with the details released so far that not only did the police murder an innocent civilian in cold blood for no reason but they also deliberately and cynically lied in an attempt to cover up the incident, possibly hoping they could get away with what they had done.. they now admit to firing 11 shots or more, not the 3 (?

  ) originally claimed.

  all other details they originally put out also seem to be completely at odds with the truth - he was not wearing a heavy coat but a denim jacket, he did not jump the barrier, he did not run but saunterd and picked up a paper, he was not challenged by police.

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