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  Nicotine gum?

  by Scully in

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  i just had a thought about nicotine gum.. let me preface this by saying that i have never smoked.

  and i don't intend to start.

  however i am intrigued with the "medicinal" effects of chewing nicotine gum: it's a stimulant, it decreases appetite, it is reputed to temporarily give you a bit of a jump start like caffeine does.. i'm surprised that there is no rule on this in the wt, because someone can buy the gum without a prescription, but because you aren't "smoking" the nicotine into your system, how would anyone know the difference in appearance between seeing someone using regular chewing gum or the same person chewing nicotine gum, unless you saw the packaging?.

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  RunningMan

  Keep yourself and your hands busy in those moments when you would normally reach for a cigarette.

  The society recommends finding some other long, cylindrical item with which to habitually occupy your hands? Hmmm.
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  Lion Mutilates 42 Midgets in Cambodian Ring-Fight

  by daystar in

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  oh... my... god.... .

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  RunningMan

  Well now, this is a timely article. I was just debating this very subject with my son - how many midget fighters would it take to defeat a lion?

  Now that we know the answer to be 42 (coincidentally, 42 is also the answer to life, the universe, and everything), we must now turn our attention to the truly great question - how many midgets would it take to beat an alligator?
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  Canadian Federal Government Class Action (Retired armed forces)

  by MsMcDucket in

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  i don't know if this is old news are not.

  if so, never mind!canadian federal governmenta class action lawsuit has been filed against the canadian federal government on behalf of retired armed forces members who were exposed to chemical and biological warfare experiments during their time on canadian forces bases.

  the nationwide class action lawsuit was filed at the federal court in ottawa and names the attorney general of canada and the minister of national defence as defendants.

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  RunningMan

  Notice the lawyer's name - T.M.? I live in the same city where he practices. He is well known as a parasite scum bag, who has been disbarred a few times.

  He's tried to stir up several class action suits that haven't gone any where. Lately, he has been famous for scooping up around $40 million in legal fees over the Indian Residential School suit, meaning that his firm made a few hundred times more money from the case than the victims.

  Say, he might be just the guy to champion a class action suit against the society.
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  Was the Atomic Bombing of Japan Really Necessarry?

  by frankiespeakin in

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  2. friends

  link and clip:.

  http://www.doug-long.com/hiroshim.htm.

  hiroshima:was it necessary?part 1 of 2. by doug long.

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  RunningMan

  I just want to throw in my two cents here, beginning with pointing out that I am not American.

  First of all, the US did not start the war.

  Secondly, is it more virtuous to kill people with conventional weapons? The bombing of Dresden was pretty nasty, too.

  Is it justified to kill 200,000 people in order to bring to an end a slaughter of 40 million? Looking back on it, we condemn the action. But, if I were on a troop boat heading west out of Vancouver when the bomb dropped (like my Dad was), I might think considerably different then I do today.

  By the way, my Dad's boat turned around after three days at sea, and he spent the rest of his term driving a jeep in Ontario.
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  DID ANYONE ELSE GET PASSED OVER W/THE KN TRACT?

  by juni in

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  2. friends

  i live in a small, rural town pop.

  2000. my daughter and i did not get any visit or tract.. i thought this was supposed to be a final warning - a life saving work.. not complaining, but just curious if you didn't get one.. juni .

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  RunningMan

  I got one. Do you, by any chance, have lamb's blood spattered on your door?
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  Would you trust this guy to build an Ark?

  by moshe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i found this picture of otzi the iceman , whose mummy was found in the alps in 1991. he died about 5300 years ago.

  that would make him a close contemporary of noah.

  using only flint and copper tools , do you think this ancient man and his family could have built the biblical ark?

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  RunningMan

  I've never understood the reasoning behing believing that God held the ark together with holy spirit, or intervened to make any of the rest of the story possible. If God was going to intervene, why wouldn't he just make the bad guys wake up dead? If you have to perform a hundred miracles to make something happen, why not just perform one miracle and get it over with?
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  False religion's reaction to FALSE RELIGION tract = )

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  come on, like they care.

  my nephew and i talked on the phone this past weekend.

  he told me that the new tract on false religion was going to cause big trouble.

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  RunningMan

  I got my tract last week, and I have to say that the imagery and wording on the cover are enough to make any "thinking person" relegate it straight to the recycle bin. They come accross as out of date cranks - even more than they did in the past. Their art work has not progressed since the 1950s.

  Their fear inspiring message will be completely ignored.
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  Would you trust this guy to build an Ark?

  by moshe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i found this picture of otzi the iceman , whose mummy was found in the alps in 1991. he died about 5300 years ago.

  that would make him a close contemporary of noah.

  using only flint and copper tools , do you think this ancient man and his family could have built the biblical ark?

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  RunningMan

  Well, there were certainly boats back then. But, the technology to build a wooden boat to the dimensions specified in the bible doesn't even exist today. In fact, we now have the technology to know that a wooden boat of that size would never hold together.

  Otzi does have one big advantage over Noah - Otzi actually existed.
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  Heartwarming experience from China

  by What-A-Coincidence in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  !gag alert!!!.

  subject: fwd: heartwarming experience from china.

  an experience given by a brother in a congregation up north.

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  RunningMan

  Hell, I've done that to JWs three times this week. Of course, it doesn't make nearly as much sense in Canada.... but they seem to like it.
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  Gumby needs our prayers

  by oldflame in

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  2. friends

  about 5 months ago gumby had a knee operation, it never healed and the doctors here suck in a big way.

  so yesterday he and his wife went south to get a second opinion and maybe get this knee surgery healed up.

  so if you got it in you please pray for his speedy recovery and healing.

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  RunningMan

  Gumby:

  You might want to suggest to your doctor that he is performing the wrong type of surgery. Many women have found that their back problems could be rectified by breast reductions. In your case, nutsack reduction surgery could be the answer.