Reading about this a bit more, it seems that Spanish fly was supposed to be something more like an aphrodisiac than a sedative. I feel like the joke makes a lot more sense with that definition because I couldn't understand Cosby joking about knocking out girls and getting lots of laughs. Plus, he was always supposed to be a family-friendly comedian AFAIK. Nowadays this would be considered politically incorrect but I can see it passing muster a few decades ago.
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Bill Cosby - too much smoke for no fire?
by Simon init seems like the list of people who are accusing him of rape and sexual assault is growing every day.
i'm skeptical of single accusations but the number of people and the similar stories seem overwhelming now.. it's not a conviction but to the court of public opinion ... guilty?.
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So its the Elders School this Weekend.......
by Slidin Fast inwhat is the focus for this one.
is it "well lads ring the legal department but if anything goes wrong, you are on your own.
the cs deals with all that".
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(is it normal to have comfy chairs like you'd find in a living room for the reader to sit on?)
Of course, what do you guys use? Most halls want the stage to look nice, so some of them even deck out a corner of the stage with a small table and lamp so the reader's chair looks like part of a living room.
NPGs (non practicing gays - I'd never heard the term before) were condemned - have to be transformed not just wear a mask.
Wow. They really just don't get it, do they? They think sexuality can be rewired through willpower. This is as absurd as teaching that black people can become white (oops, sorry, old Society writers). This is potentially really damaging to gay brothers because it's telling them that it's not enough to bottle up their feelings, but that they have to stop even having those feelings. This is one of the best ways to cause someone to become suicidal.
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Bill Cosby - too much smoke for no fire?
by Simon init seems like the list of people who are accusing him of rape and sexual assault is growing every day.
i'm skeptical of single accusations but the number of people and the similar stories seem overwhelming now.. it's not a conviction but to the court of public opinion ... guilty?.
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I'm rather shocked by that joke Terry posted. Is Cosby joking about using a rape drug? I didn't think he did material like that. I can't help but feel it's telling that he would joke about something like that. Certainly the juxtaposition of the current situation with that joke, that album cover and that album name is incredibly unfortunate.
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again how do i get content from my laptop to tv?
Your laptop's video output. I used HDMI, personally.
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Creationist Should Dismiss Genesis Quickly
by Coded Logic inchris tann,.
in your earlier post you seemed to be under the impression that genesis and science were somehow compatible .
however, the truth is the two are not reconcilable at all.
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If you want to say your god is utterly unfalsifiable that is fine by me, I thought that anyway.
He's not "my" god, but I think we're otherwise in agreement.
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How did you feel when you got baptised? Seriously....
by stuckinarut2 inso recently, several over-righteous ones in the cong were discussing "how amazing it felt when they got baptised".
statements like "how awesome did it feel as you got raised back out of the water?!".
or the classic "i felt so close to jehovah as i came out of the pool"!.
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Wet. I was really hoping to feel something, as I got baptized in order to receive more holy spirit to help me fight temptation, but instead I felt nothing.
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A picture of a WT dream
by Sour Grapes inpeople stay jehovah's witnesses for several reasons.
the foremost is because they are taught that they could cheat death and not have to die or even better yet not have to get old.
the second is they can see their dead relatives again , who have a direct pass to paradise, and that we must obey to get there to see them in the resurrection.
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God will bless the panda's ailing libido and they will recover from the verge of extinction, with a vengeance. There will be pandas everywhere. You won't be able to pick fruit without tripping over fluffy baby pandas.
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A picture of a WT dream
by Sour Grapes inpeople stay jehovah's witnesses for several reasons.
the foremost is because they are taught that they could cheat death and not have to die or even better yet not have to get old.
the second is they can see their dead relatives again , who have a direct pass to paradise, and that we must obey to get there to see them in the resurrection.
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Could these illustrations be any busier? The best painting is the one that has a sunny day in the foreground with all kinds of paradise stuff going on, but the sky is a bright outer space panorama. It's all kinds of impossible mashed together in one picture, unless they're living under a dome on an asteroid.
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Jehovah's Witness or Witness' or Witnesses or ...
by Bloody Hotdogs! inprobably a dumb question, but what is the proper way to write "...in jehovah's witness literature.
"...in jehovah's witness' literature.".
"...in the literature of jehovah's witnesses.".
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Grammar*
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Creationist Should Dismiss Genesis Quickly
by Coded Logic inchris tann,.
in your earlier post you seemed to be under the impression that genesis and science were somehow compatible .
however, the truth is the two are not reconcilable at all.
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To some degree, you are probably right. Here's a key difference in our perspective, however: you're suggesting that only a small portion of this god would be used for the universe. I'm suggesting that it could be half of the god, or even the whole god. We can't theorize what a god would be made of. It could be that he has no "body" and is all "mind". In that case the god could have essentially turned himself into the universe.
On a certain level this is a meaningless suggestion, because there's probably nothing we can do with this information. I'm just pointing out that there are assumptions behind your complexity argument. Additionally, even if "creator+universe" were two times more complex than just "universe", that is far from ruling out the possibility. It might simply make the odds 2:1 against a creator, which aren't long odds at all.
I'm sorry if you feel this is all unfalsifiable, but that's not really my problem. I'm simply commenting on probability, not feasibility for scientific experiments.