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Anthony Robbins quote that helped me break free from the bonds of the Org

by What-A-Coincidence in

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"all personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

change?

the most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain .

MegaDude

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we

change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain

to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief

cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can

only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure

to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief."

Although not a fan of Anthony Robbins I believe this is a great way to motivate yourself to make some better "beliefs" for yourself.

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A Very Convenient Liar - Al Gore

by MegaDude in

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to counteract the hysteria which i personally believe is more al gore lying.

inconvenient truths indeed by dr. robert c. balling jr. .

al gore's "an inconvenient truth" opens around the country this week.

MegaDude

Despite some people saying it's a good thing if Al Gore hypes the man-made global warming theory, calling it "truth" is another one of his exaggerations. It isn't truth at all. Theory, yes.

Pistoff, thanks for the reference. The source I posted is one of many but it is prudent to follow where the research money is coming from. I admit that anyone receiving money from a corporation for research would be influenced to present views favorable in that corporation's interest. Of course, the same thing goes for politicans trying to rehabilitate their images.

Michael Crichton in one of his speeches both sides of the global warming argument should heed:

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

We need an organization that will be ruthless about acquiring verifiable results, that will fund identical research projects to more than one group, and that will make everybody in this field get honest fast.

And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better. That's not a good future for the human race. That's our past. So it's time to abandon the religion of environmentalism, and return to the science of environmentalism, and base our public policy decisions firmly on that.

http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/

"Environmentalism as Religion"

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A Very Convenient Liar - Al Gore

by MegaDude in

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to counteract the hysteria which i personally believe is more al gore lying.

inconvenient truths indeed by dr. robert c. balling jr. .

al gore's "an inconvenient truth" opens around the country this week.

MegaDude

What bothers me is the deep, deep hypocricy in using it to paint Al Gore as dishonest

No, I don't think that's true. What bothers you is any criticism of the Democratic Party. Oh well...

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A Very Convenient Liar - Al Gore

by MegaDude in

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to counteract the hysteria which i personally believe is more al gore lying.

inconvenient truths indeed by dr. robert c. balling jr. .

al gore's "an inconvenient truth" opens around the country this week.

MegaDude

Chris,

Maybe I should have said that I don't trust Al Gore any further than I can throw George Bush?

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A Very Convenient Liar - Al Gore

by MegaDude in

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to counteract the hysteria which i personally believe is more al gore lying.

inconvenient truths indeed by dr. robert c. balling jr. .

al gore's "an inconvenient truth" opens around the country this week.

MegaDude

What Al Gore said was:

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

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A Very Convenient Liar - Al Gore

by MegaDude in

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to counteract the hysteria which i personally believe is more al gore lying.

inconvenient truths indeed by dr. robert c. balling jr. .

al gore's "an inconvenient truth" opens around the country this week.

MegaDude

Hi Chris, I believe we're in a warming trend. The earth has had cycles of extreme weather before that had nothing to do with man's impact on the planet. I don't believe anything Al Gore says is free of some personal agenda.

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A Very Convenient Liar - Al Gore

by MegaDude in

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to counteract the hysteria which i personally believe is more al gore lying.

inconvenient truths indeed by dr. robert c. balling jr. .

al gore's "an inconvenient truth" opens around the country this week.

MegaDude

Indeed, Gregor. I don't think you should trust the "Father of the Internet" any further than you can throw him. The man is desperate to salvage his reputation at any cost.

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A Very Convenient Liar - Al Gore

by MegaDude in

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to counteract the hysteria which i personally believe is more al gore lying.

inconvenient truths indeed by dr. robert c. balling jr. .

al gore's "an inconvenient truth" opens around the country this week.

MegaDude

To counteract the hysteria which I personally believe is more Al Gore lying.

Inconvenient Truths Indeed by Dr. Robert C. Balling Jr.

Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" opens around the country this week. In the film Gore pulls together evidence from every corner of the globe to convince us that climate change is happening fast, we are to blame, and if we don't act immediately, our Earth will be all but ruined. However, as you sit through the film, consider the following inconvenient truths:

(1) Near the beginning of the film, Gore pays respects to his Harvard mentor and inspiration, Dr. Roger Revelle. Gore praises Revelle for his discovery that atmospheric CO2 levels were rising and could potentially contribute to higher temperatures at a global scale. There is no mention of Revelle's article published in the early 1990s concluding that the science is "too uncertain to justify drastic action." (S.F. Singer, C. Starr, and R. Revelle, "What to do about Greenhouse Warming: Look Before You Leap. Cosmos 1 (1993) 28-33.)

(2) Gore discusses glacial and snowpack retreats atop Kenya's Mt. Kilimanjaro, implying that human induced global warming is to blame. But Gore fails to mention that the snows of Kilimanjaro have been retreating for more than 100 years, largely due to declining atmospheric moisture, not global warming. Gore does not acknowledge the two major articles on the subject published in 2004 in the International Journal of Climatology and the Journal of Geophysical Research showing that modern glacier retreat on Kilimanjaro was initiated by a reduction in precipitation at the end of the nineteenth century and not by local or global warming.

(3) Many of Gore's conclusions are based on the "Hockey Stick" that shows near constant global temperatures for 1,000 years with a sharp increase in temperature from 1900 onward. The record Gore chooses in the film completely wipes out the Medieval Warm Period of 1,000 years ago and Little Ice Age that started 500 years ago and ended just over 100 years ago. There is evidence from throughout the world that these climate episodes existed, but on Gore's Hockey Stick, they become nothing more than insignificant fluctuations (Gore even jokes at one point about the Medieval Warm period).

(4) You will certainly not be surprised to see Katrina, other hurricanes, tornadoes, flash floods, and many types of severe weather events linked by Gore to global warming. However, if one took the time to read the downloadable "Summary for Policymakers" in the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), one would learn that "No systematic changes in the frequency of tornadoes, thunder days, or hail events are evident in the limited areas analysed" and that "Changes globally in tropical and extra-tropical storm intensity and frequency are dominated by inter-decadal and multi-decadal variations, with no significant trends evident over the 20th century."

(5) Gore claims that sea level rise could drown the Pacific islands, Florida, major cities the world over, and the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. No mention is made of the fact that sea level has been rising at a rate of 1.8 mm per year for the past 8,000 years; the IPCC notes that "No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected."

(6) Near the end of the film, we learn of ways the United States could reduce emissions of greenhouse gases back to the levels of 1970. OK. Assume the United States accomplishes this lofty goal, would we see any impact on climate? The well-known answer is no. China, India and many other countries are significantly increasing their emission levels, and global concentrations of CO2 may double this century no matter what we decide to do in the United States. Even if the Kyoto Protocol could be fully implemented to honor the opening of this movie, the globe would be spared no more than a few hundredths of a degree of warming.

Throughout the film Gore displays his passion for the global warming issue, and it is obvious that he has dedicated a substantial amount of time to learning about climate change and the greenhouse effect. This leads to an obvious question. The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in December of 1997 giving the Clinton-Gore administration more than three years to present the Protocol to the United States Senate for ratification. Given Gore's position in the senate and his knowledge and passion for global warming, one must wonder why then Vice President Gore did not seize on what appears to have been an opportunity of a lifetime?

"An Inconvenient Truth" is billed as the scariest movie you'll ever see. It may well be, but that's in part because it is not the most accurate depiction of the state of global warming science. The enormous uncertainties surrounding the global warming issue are conveniently missing in "An Inconvenient Truth."

Dr. Robert C. Balling Jr. is a professor in the climatology program at Arizona State University, specializing in climate change and the greenhouse effect.

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Joel Osteen

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click here: joel osteen ministries: welcome to joel osteen ministries!

i am suggesting this site to all here.

you don't need to belong to his religion to benefit from his speeches.

MegaDude

He might be known as the Positive Preacher but you positively don't want to be on the same flight as him and his family.

Pastor's wife's altercation leads to two-hour delay for Vail flight

The wife of the pastor from a church billed as the nation’s largest was “asked to leave a plane after she failed to comply with a flight attendant's instructions,” writes the Austin American-Statesman. Victoria Osteen, wife of Pastor Joel Osteen of Houston’s Lakewood Church, is said to have had a spat with a flight attendant that delayed a Continental flight from Houston to Vail, Colo., for about two hours. "She was just abusive," says passenger Sheila Steele, who was sitting behind Victoria Osteen, according to the Houston Chronicle. "She was just like one of those divas."

A church spokesman told the paper that the Osteens left the flight “voluntarily” to take another flight to Vail, but FBI Special Agent Luz Garcia told the Chronicle that the family was asked to leave the plane after an "altercation." Countered a church spokesman: "In semantics, they might have been asked to be removed. Really, it was more of a mutual thing." The FBI’s Garcia added that Mrs. Osteen "failed to comply" with the flight attendant’s instructions, which can be a federal offense. The dispute apparently centered on a spilled beverage that was not cleaned to Mrs. Osteen’s satisfaction.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/sky/2005/12/the_wife_of_the.html

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Is The Society Truly "Destructive"?

by logansrun in

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is it really proper to say that the witness organization is a destructive religion (or cult) or that they promote self-destructive behavior in its members?

most on this forum would say yes, emphatically so.

i think the situation is actually more complex, however.

MegaDude

One example of how destructive the Watchtower is is is the content of your post.

I believe your thinking is a real mess. Your separating of categories is so ludicrous and explanations so weak as to make me question your mental health.

But I applaud you for thinking outside the box and having the balls to post how you really feel.