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  Former JW now Atheist...

  by zeroday in

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  any others out there?

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  I was an atheist *while* I was a dub.
  
  I remember shortly after going to Beth-hell and being appointed an elder, thinking how fake it all was. The closer I got to the inner workings of the Borg the more I realised it was ALL LIES.
  
  It was an easy step to atheism. I never really believed in god anyway, just went thru the motions.
  
  
  
  
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  Wylie dub joke

  by Mackin in

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  http://www.ucomics.com/nonsequitur/2003/11/16/.

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  http://www.ucomics.com/nonsequitur/2003/11/16/

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  Is this for real

  by Shanna in

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  well ive been studying with the jehovah witness for about 3 yrs now and im really thinking about making myself a publisher and i want to know is this website real and why are people talking about hiding their names what are they hiding it for shouldnt you be happy that youre studying with the jw and the jehovah called on you.

  and what's up with all the swearing havent you thought about keeping up good lanquage in case someone visits this site and see that and whats up with the half naked pictures of women whats really going on

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  NAKED WOMEN, WHERE????
  
  Bugger!! Gonna have to spend more time reading these posts I can see. :-)
  
  
  
  
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  Who are the A/As on the board?

  by starfish422 in

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  not alcoholics anonymous, mind you.

  :) atheists/agnostics.

  i know there are some of us here; who's with me?

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  Linus Torvalds is God.
  
  
  
  
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  Ouija Board - Does It Really Work?

  by Black Man in

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  so..........have you ever played with one?

  and if you have, what happened?

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  Mackin

  A few more skeptic links for your perusal:
  
  http://www.skepticnews.com/topics.shtml
  
  http://www.skeptic.com/
  
  http://www.quackwatch.org/
  
  
  
  
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  Ouija Board - Does It Really Work?

  by Black Man in

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  so..........have you ever played with one?

  and if you have, what happened?

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  http://www.skepdic.com/ouija.html
  
  Follow the links about the "ideomotor effect"
  
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  Did you ever get a virus on your computer?

  by JH in

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  with all the viruses going around, did you ever get one, or do you fear that you will get one?

  good thing that i have norton antivirus, because i would have had a few.

  just wondering with those with windows xp, do you keep your xp firewall activated?

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  You shouldn't have to worry about outbound traffic unless you have spyware installed.
  
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  You mean like MSN Messenger or MS Media Player 9. Oh, sorry that's right, they're not spyware 'cos they only send information to Microsoft. :-)
  
  Remeber too, that newbies often install spyware without realising it.
  
  
  
  
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  Did you ever get a virus on your computer?

  by JH in

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  with all the viruses going around, did you ever get one, or do you fear that you will get one?

  good thing that i have norton antivirus, because i would have had a few.

  just wondering with those with windows xp, do you keep your xp firewall activated?

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  Talk about a false sense of security! You still need to worry about security exploits with Linux. I run "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" on my Debian Linux boxes quite regularly to keep them up to date.
  
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  And so do I keep my Linux systems up-to-date. But I don't "worry" about viruses because Linux is inherently less vunerable that a MS system.
  
  And, like Trauma Hound I sit behind a "true" hardware firewall.
  
  
  
  
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  Did you ever get a virus on your computer?

  by JH in

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  with all the viruses going around, did you ever get one, or do you fear that you will get one?

  good thing that i have norton antivirus, because i would have had a few.

  just wondering with those with windows xp, do you keep your xp firewall activated?

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  Mackin

  Just don't fall into the trap of totally relying on XP's built-in firewall to stop viruses. It is not a true firewall in that it does not stop unauthorised out-bound traffic. A virus on your system could still send data out and XP's firewall would not stop it.
  
  You should also have a good antivirus program installed and running at keep it's signature files up-to-date. A third-party firewall like ZoneAlarm and others will do a better job as they can block both in and out bound traffic.
  
  The best solution by far howerver is ... Install Linux and never fear a virus again.
  
  
  
  
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  Sleeping with the lights on tonight !

  by Angharad in

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  .....we just watched a scary film - the ring anyone else seen it?.

  its about a video tape that you watch and then seven days later you die!

  (this wont spoil it if you've not seen it because thats what it says on the box!).

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  I thought "The Ring" rocked. I've ordered the DVD from Amazon.
  
  AND it starred Naomi Watts, hubba hubba.