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  Will you be lonely in the old folks home?

  by Quirky1 in

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  will you?.

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  Hey, if I live that long and get stuck in that situation, I'll make the best of it. Old gals need loving too, and there will be so many of them!! And with the Alzheimer's patients, you can use the same pick up lines over and over. Same jokes too!

  On the more serious side...My approach to life is strongly shaped by Taoist philosophy. I find it eminently practical. Basic to it is accepting your circumstances, not getting attached to things, and finding ways to enjoy what is at that moment without regretting or longing for what isn't. I've come to see that nostalgia, regret and sentimentality are very, very limiting.

  I'm no longer young. I accept that. I love being the age that I am at whatever moment I'm alive. Most people have beliefs, very few have an actual philosophy of life by which they live and act. Understanding and applying the wisdom of taoist sages actually draws people to you. It is hard for me to imagine that anyone who lived in that manner would ever be lonely. I don't know why they spoiled taoistic thought by turning it into a religion. It's perfect for us atheists and free thinkers, as there is no god there at all. Even the Buddah told his followers to question every teacher, teaching and anything called a sacred text! If you meet the Buddah on the road, kill him!

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  Out of the ordinary events that happend at your hall.

  by LouBelle in

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  i have a couple of stories from way back when.

  i'll share 2 here:.

  1. we had finished celebrating the memorial - we had the second shift so it was from 7-8pm.

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  When I conducted the Memorial, I always brought the wine and bread home and ate and drank them. There was no need not to - the Memorial uses them as symbols. It's not as if the wine or bread becomes something else.

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  Kirt Cameron witnesses to JWs....on TV!

  by A-Team in

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  it re-airs again monday at 7pm et/4pm pt on tbn.. .

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  O'Reilly bragging that he got the best of Richard Dawkins in a discussion of evolution by using that brand dead reasoning!! Come on. Dawkins' turds are smarter than O'Reilly. I've never had much respect for O'Reilly, he seems like such a pompous ass and such a bully on his show. Now I just think he's an idiot asshole.

  And Kirk Cameron is cut from the same mold. Watch his shows and how he bullies poor folks on the street, and such lame argumentation.

  The reasoning of both these guys is just pathetic, and yet they think so highly of themselves. They should both be made to shut up for a year and just get some education. They appeal to the lowest element of humanity - ignorance and abuse of power.

  There are much better arguments against the reasoning and science these two chowderheads are afraid of. Those arguments fail as well.

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  Comic book geeks

  by JimmyPage in

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  when i was a kid me and my friends collected comic books.

  not only that, but we wrote and drew our own as well.

  all of us emulated the artwork of john byrne.

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  Graphic ovels are cool, but graphic Novels are even better!

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  Comic book geeks

  by JimmyPage in

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  when i was a kid me and my friends collected comic books.

  not only that, but we wrote and drew our own as well.

  all of us emulated the artwork of john byrne.

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  Stephen Bissette, one of the other artists on Swamp Thing, is a friend of mine, as is Rick Veitch, another very well known graphic novelist. Rick and I went to high school together.

  The second college for comic artists was established a few years ago in White River Jct, VT.

  Frank Miller is also from Vermont, and grew up about 20 miles from Stephen!

  I think the graphic ovel and comics are an incredible art form. Anyone interested should google some of these names.

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  Why evolution is true

  by Caedes in

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  coynes chapter on the engine of evolution begins with a splendidly macabre example.

  giant japanese hornets raid the nests of honeybees to feed their larvae.

  a single hornet scout discovers a beehive and marks it for doom with a sort of chemical black spot.. "alerted by the mark, the scouts nestmates descend on the spot, a group of twenty or thirty hornets arrayed against a colony of up to 30,000 honeybees.

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  One of my absolute favorite websites is Edge, www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge274.html, and it is by far one of the most intellectually stimulating sites I've found, second only to JWD/N of course.

  Jerry Coyne contributes a lot to the site, and the discussions there of science and politics are fantastic. We need more scientists speaking up like Coyne does.

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  Did You See Joaquin Phoenix On Letterman???

  by minimus in

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  go to you tube and it'll come right up if you haven't seen it.

  for 10 long minutes letterman tries to interview phoenix but cannot get anything out of him!

  this is either a gag or phoenix is just like his other brother river who died from drugs.. what a contrast between that interview and craig fergerson and robin williams on last week.

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  Are you a Craig Ferguson fan, Min? He lives in the town where my paper's office is, Chester, VT, and my assistant editor just photographed his wedding! One of her pics was in People magazine last month.

  Some of his rants are fantastic, like his one on his alcoholism and the one on voting.

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  Are most Jehovah's Witnesses zealous,fence sitters,or going thru the motions?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  there are close to 7 million baptised jehovah's witnesses in the world.

  most start off real zealous in meeting attendance and preaching work.

  some remain zealous but most cool off sooner or later.

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  Being a Witness is like being a member of a tribe or a club. We are programmed by our DNA and a million years of evolution to move in groups of about six to eight active adults and 25 or so people total. That's how humans lived up until about 10,000 years ago and the advent of agriculture and religion.

  So, we have a social need to belong to a group, and being a JW fills that need. Others get it through family, or by joining a club, or by fervently following a sports team.

  I don't know that it's based all that much on zeal for the beliefs. Probably not for the vast majority. If fills our need for social contact and friendship. I would say that's the true of most of my family that are still in. They are not especially zealous, by any stretch, and I would say they privately question a lot of the teachings.

  But, they've got lots of friends and things to do.

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  Is it true

  by is there help out there in

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  i have noticed that the jw girls and woman tend to have larger rear end than the norm.

  does any one know why..

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  You're an idiot, but there is help out there for you.

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  Happy 200th, Charles Darwin!

  by Seeker4 in

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  i know that darwin wasn't alone in discovering evolution and natual selection, but i think he was a remarkable man, and i'm glad he's being so fondly remembered.. i also love all the attention evolution is getting in the media, what with darwin's 200th and the origin of species' 150th this year.. thank you mr. darwin, and all the other scientists who have contributed to this wonderful explanation of our world!.

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  Oops, that's natural selection. Can't figure how to edit it at the moment.

  Also, just saw that I wasn't the first to to do a Darwin b'day thread today!

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