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  850 passenger jet...

  by Special K in

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  'superjumbo' jet could carry 850 passengers .

  by dipesh gadher / the sunday times in nine days' time one of the most eagerly anticipated aircraft ever built will be unveiled.

  to mark its arrival british prime minister tony blair will join jacques chirac, the french president, and the leaders of germany and spain at a huge aircraft hangar in toulouse, southwest france.

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  The Holocaust - do we need to know?

  by eyeslice in

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  this week in uk, there starts a new 6 week series to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/programme.shtml?day=tuesday&service_id=4224&filename=20050111/20050111_2100_4224_37699_50.

  personally, i do not like cinema films about the holocaust and, therefore, have never watched things like shindler's list or the pianist.

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  The Great Tribulation............When??

  by ScoobySnax in

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  apologies if this has been asked before, but.... when i was growing up into the fabulously handsome critter i am nowadays, i always remember talk of the great tribulation that would not only befall mankind but overtake this system of things in the near future.

  in fact one of my earliest memories was standing in a queue that seemed to go on for miles (i was only 7) outside with my mum and aunt/cousins at a cinema to see starwars, so i reckon it must have been 1977 and listening to them talk of it.

  anyway i digress, what and when exactly is the "great tribulation" according to jw beliefs.

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  It's cases like this that make me support the death penalty...

  by Elsewhere in

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  http://www.cnn.com/2004/law/12/20/missouri.fetus/index.html woman accused of stealing baby appears in court

  lisa montgomery charged with kidnapping resulting in death

  kansas city, kansas (cnn) -- lisa montgomery, accused of strangling a 23-year-old missouri woman and cutting the fetus out of her womb, sat motionless monday as a judge read the charge against her in u.s. district court.

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  "Brainwashing" does not exist

  by logansrun in

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  the term "brainwashing" is sometimes thrown around this forum and i thought i'd briefly comment on it.

  the idea that a group or person can actually make you think, act and feel in a certain way is highly dubious.

  i'm not saying it's impossible, but i highly doubt that any ex-jws have ever experienced "brainwashing.

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  Is Islam a religion of Peace?

  by Perry in

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  http://answering-islam.org.uk/quran/themes/jihad_passages.html

  the above link shows 164 verses in the koran that instructs the faithful to kill infidels.

  in light of this, how can some still spout the mantra that this is a religion of peace and that it's only the "radical fringe" that are causing problems?

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  buy nothing day!

  by Realist in

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  for 24 hours, millions of people around the world did not participate -- in the doomsday economy, the marketing mind-games, and the frantic consumer-binge that's become our culture.

  we paused.

  we made a small choice not to shop.

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  Do you like cats?

  by ozziepost in

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  on tonight's news:.

  dead pets threaten beijing's 'green' olympics.

  5:35 pm december 16 .

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  2004 Service Report - Analysis and trends for 2005

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  by now, most of you will have seen the scanned images of the watchtower's service report for 2004. i do not have the feb 1st magazines, so i cannot speculate further on the reason for not issuing the report in the january 1st 2005 wt.

  looking at the figures, there are some trends that should be considered very disturbing to the wt leadership.

  although baptisms increased marginally by 3,571, the difference between the average number of publishers and the number of baptisms is eye-popping indeed.

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  Why didn't we help these women?

  by Tatiana in

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  in the eastern democratic republic of the congo, women are enduring unspeakable acts of violence while the world remains largely unaware.

  "they cut me with knives and machetes.

  then they asked my sons to hold my legs and hands apart and started raping me--all eight of them.

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