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  divining rods work

  by zerubberballz in

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  it's a funny ol' world.

  a month ago i was mucking about with some thick fencing wire and i suddenly got the idea to bend a couple of pieces into a set of divining rods like i've seen old nutters doing on tv.

  so i cut two sections of wire about 2' long and bent the ends 4" at 90 degrees to form old fashioned diving rods (twitching sticks are made of yew or hickory or something .. don't know what, if anything aboriginies used).

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  Mommie Dark

  I remember watching a PBS science program that featured a professor and his whole class trying the metal rods method of divining. He was trying to prove the whole notion was hogwash and ended up believing there was something to it after all. He figures it has something to do with magnetism or some other energy; at any rate the whole class had consistent results. They had some teaching assistant bury metal at various locations and neither the prof nor the students knew where on campus they were. Then they divvied up the grounds among them and spread out with rods. The results were good enough to get the guy a grant to do further research.

  Can't remember if this was Nova or Scientific American; anyway the upshot was, the metal-finding aspect of divining seems to be way more consistent than waterwitching. The water diviners on the program had more mixed results.

  My grandfather was a water witch, he used a hazel branch and family rumor mill had it that he was pretty reliable in his day. I've never had a whack at it but would certainly give it a try before dismissing it out of hand.
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  Finally a good test: are you EVIL??

  by JanH in

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  here's the chance to finally find out what we suspected all along:.

  are you evil?

  find out at http://www.emode.com/emode/tests/evil.jsp.

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  Mommie Dark

  Dr. Evil to Scott:
  "You're not evil enough. You're quasi-evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil."

  Plotting to steal Jan's mojo,
  Mommie "Lesser Evil" Dark
  'Fat Bastard class'
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  Roger Zelazny on Guilt

  by COMF in

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  i'm visiting my son and his wife for a week while on vacation.

  for the past few evenings, after we retire to our various sleeping quarters, i've been reading an old copy of analog magazine which i found on his extensive bookshelf (their library fills two walls from floor to ceiling).

  analog is, or was, anyway (this issue is dated november 1975) a science fiction/science fact magazine and served mainly to provide genre afficionados the latest offerings from both sci-fi luminaries and young up-and-comers.

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  Mommie Dark

  Oh WOW COMF Zelazny is one of my minor heroes of SF. If you want to be totally blown away, find a copy of his novella 'A Rose For Ecclesiastes". It's jampacked with memorable bits, and the subject is iconoclasm.

  Finding the propinquity of you quoting Roger Z just too gorgeous,
  MD

  PS my copy of "Rose" is in The Arbor House Treasury of Modern SF if you want to try interlibrary loan
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  Biblical beating kills girl

  by Kent in

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  the parents accused of beating their 12-year-old daughter to death have told police they were meting out the biblical punishment of "40 lashes minus one, three times," detectives said monday.

  constance slack, a registered nurse at a children's hospital, gagged her daughter, laree, while she was strapped down to a futon, police said.

  her father, larry slack, then repeatedly hit the child with an inch-thick section of rubberized electrical cable filled with strands of wire, police said.

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  Mommie Dark

  I hope JR Brown's tongue rots right out of his smeggin head for telling such a HUGE heinous LIE about JWs and corporal punishment!

  How does that asshole sleep at night defending and lying for this rotten cult?
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  The JW religion or the person, whose fault is it?

  by larc in

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  i just read the tragic story of the man in chicago who beat his daughter to death.

  i have read stories here and on silentlambs about sexual abuse.. my question is: how much fault can be placed on the religion and how much on the perversions of a particular individual?

  i frankly don't know the answer to this question.

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  Mommie Dark

  People are ultimately responsible for their actions. However, rigidly authoritarian religions (and other organizations) tend to attract the sort of people who abuse power. Powermongering attracts powermongers. 'Pecking order' is basic animal nature. Ever seen a flock of chickens in action? Wolfpack? Ape family? Ever seen animal herds in drought or other times of stress? When unnatural stresses are applied, animals will sometimes tear each other, including their offspring, to bits. Ultimately, who suffers worst? The littluns.

  Watchtower=perversely unnatural stress. Hippo hierarchy in bad times. It's no wonder that some unstable types revert to the basest dog-eat-dog behavior when there is no appropriate outlet for the stress. Pressure exerted from the top down, combined with the constant reinforcement of guilt and feelings of inadequacy, can make a nutjob become a dangerous nutjob. Who is the prime victim of that nutjob? The lowliest and most defenseless available hippo downstream.
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  Just my luck.....

  by LDH in

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  well guys and gals, i had to get a (routine) pelvic culture a week ago.. they test for beta strep bacteria when you're 37 weeks.. i tested positive, no big deal.. they put me on ampicillin and told me i have to have an iv antibiotic at the hospital.. guess what the ampicillin gave me?.

  yup.. lisa.

  disgusted class

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  Lisa I feel for you hon! This happened to me with my second child, and he was born with thrush as a result. The sweet old family doc went with the oldtime remedy, gentian violet, and as a result the poor little squareheaded tyke had a purple mouth and Mommie soon had bright purple nipples too!

  Acidophilus helps keep you from getting the yeasty things but I don't know if eating it will help now.. couldn't hurt tho while taking the antibiotic to eat yogurt or drink acidophilus milk anyway. Good calcium for the bebe anyhow...
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  Let's have some honest answers

  by chappy in

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  ok all you ex's, be honest.

  do you ever have that little voice pop in your head and say "what if - just what if they're right?".

  it happens to me on occasion and i've been totally out for years.

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  Mommie Dark

  Accurate information dispels the little niggling voices of doubt. Once you know the facts, there is no question that the WT way is a one-way dead-end street to Nowheresvillle.
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  J.W's gonna see Harry P ?

  by wheelwithinwheel in

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  harry potter is getting great reviews.

  looks pretty satanic!

  how many witnesses are gonna go see the movie?

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  Mommie Dark

  The Harry Potter books are very much childrens' books. Harry is the equivalent of a 4th grader in the first book. The books have all the hallmarks of classic children's fiction: orphan hero, mistreated and forced to live in a cupboard, turns out to be Someone Special. Magic replaces the mundane.

  There are loving descriptions of food (as Lewis Carroll observed, children love to read about feasting), there are wonderful classes and horrible boring classes at Hogwart's, there are villains and heroes, and occasionally one is mistaken for the other.

  Americans tend to want kids' books to be candycoated niceyface pablum these days. The very best books, though, serve up equal amounts of terror and wonder, and Rowling's books deliver that beautifully.
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  Help finding a movie

  by one in

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  rarely i watch movies but last saturday while at the supermarket watched two minutes of a movie.. related to ai, virtual reality etc.

  a guy was seated on sophisticated chair and received somekind of electric shock, or "soft program" uploaded on his head.. after that everything he experienced was not real.

  there was more, but do any of you know what movie is that?.

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  Mommie Dark

  Total Recall was based on a story called 'We Can Remember It For You Wholesale' by the incomparable Philip K. Dick. I recommend you pass up the inferior Hollywood pablum and go right for the real deal in print. It's MUCH more interesting than the film.
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  Positive Name For ExJWs...?

  by ISP in

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  i don't like the word apostate.......because it simply is not the case in so many cases.

  i think the term 'truthseeker' would be better and quite annoying to jws who think they are!.

  come on you truthseekers!.

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  Mommie Dark

  I embrace whatever pejorative name anyone chooses to slap on me. "Apostate'? Kewl, I AM the most disgusting, debauched, filthy apostate that person can conjure in their fevered brain. Glad to be of service!

  Labels divide, and compartmentalize, and dehumanize. If I demystify the labeling process by laughing at it, and embracing whatever label scares the other most, I strip them of the power to control, and, a nice side bonus, terrify the labeller in the process.

  Call me apostate! I LOVE it! It means I am doing my job, and someone is running scared.