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  Any amateur astronomers to explain these UFOs

  by Zep in

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  from southern australia i was looking at the sky after getting home at 11.00pm.

  i look up and theres one of those falling stars moving through the sky.

  yeah, ok, nothin unusual.

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  Ok, just now. From southern Australia I was looking at the sky after getting home at 11.00pm. I look up and theres one of those falling stars moving through the sky. Yeah, OK, nothin unusual. But then I notice theres 2 more. The 3 star thingy's form a triangle, are a bit bigger than the consellation of taurus ,and they are moving at uniform speed to the north. Weird.

  Heres another one. I was going to ring the university or something at the time...but just couldn't be bothered. But anyway, in about the first week of May of this year at about 7:00pm I'm looking up at the sky near the Southern Cross and I notice this bright star, as bright as jupiter approx. It doesn't seem to be moving at all, it then quickly fades to a dim star and then moves directly south and dissappears?

  Any idea what these things are? Just comets or what? Super Nova? Spaceships ha ha!
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  Can I get some help up in heya

  by bboyneko in

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  i recieved the following emails, anyone wanna help write a response?

  i always write responses i just wanna see some other ways you guys respond to these typical jw inquries.. i have three questions for you!

  1- it seems to me by your comments that you are destroying the jw name why?

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  3-With everything that is going on in the world can you deny the fact that this is the great tribulation. Satans wicked system is comming to an end. Armaggedon is almost at hand?

  Two things come to my mind that will serve as a sign that Armageddon is at hand, or has begun. They are:

  1. The UN will ditch the harlot of false religion and leave her desolate.

  Yeah right...Can anyone HONESTLY see this happening in the near future, let alone EVER. The more I think about it, the more it seems utter ridiculous that UN would even bother!!!! Like the US is going to suddenly give all it's talk of God etc...Like all the Moslems are suddenly going to give up Islam. The UN is impotent in this respect! It just wont happen!

  2. The gospel will be preached to all the nations.

  This is nowhere near being accomplished. So therefore we are nowhere near the End.

  Dumb prophecy bullshit!
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  Can you answer this?(scientific question)

  by sleepy in

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  here is and interesting question which touches on some points raised in other posts.. can things really move?.

  if you haven't thought about it before it may seem like a stupid question, but i'll try to explain.. one of the principles of quantum physics is that things do not get infinatly smaller.there is a granuality to objects so at some point things don't get any smaller.. the same holds with energy if you take energy out of a system you can not go on forever .eventually you hit absolute zero were every thing is still.. in the other direction , the speed of light is an absolute limit.. so what happens if you make smaller and smaller movements eventually you would stop.but what is the next smallest movement between being stopped and moving?.

  if we put some figures on it it may make it easier.. if to be stoped is 0 and the next possible amonut of movment is 1 you could not move say 1/2 as that is smaller than 1 and if you could keep dividing forever like this you would never reach absolute standstill.. so like the particals in the universe movment has to be granular as well.made up of definate jumps though very tiny.. if this is the case then there is a problem how does one object , if we imagine the smallest to be a quark jump from one place to another is it technicaly the same object or a new one ?.

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  ...maybe I have missunderstood.

  You wouldn't be the first Sleepy.

  Quantum Physics is a headache!
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  Aussie Ex-Dubs - Will You Be Voting Today?

  by Stephanus in

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  i realise some still retain a bit of a superstitious fear in certain areas where watchtower dogma has been drummed into you such as birthdays and christmas.

  how do you feel about voting today?

  especially in light of the fact that here in oz voting is compulsory and that doing so would demonstrate "subjection to the superior authorities" (rom.

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  Any predictions on results?

  The result will be one boring evening of TV!

  Roy and HG are lightening things up a bit though!
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  Christian terrorists on the loose?

  by Zep in

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  2. friends

  this is just a snippet of what i found over at salon.com.

  i'm not a subscriber, so cant put up the whole article.

  are anthrax letters ok for abortion-rights groups?.

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  Just another one:

  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

  Nov. 9, 2001 |

  NEW YORK (AP) -- Scores of family planning clinics in at least 12 states have received letters containing anthrax threats, according to officials of feminist and abortion-rights organizations.

  Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, said more than 200 clinics and advocacy organizations received letters Thursday delivered in Federal Express envelopes. Envelopes that were opened contained white powder and letters signed by "the Army of God."

  It was the second such wave of threats; more than 250 abortion clinics received similar letters last month. Thus far, none of the powder sent to the clinics has tested positive for anthrax.

  Among the messages in the latest batch of letters, according to Smeal's group, were: "You've ignored our earlier warnings. You've been exposed to the real thing. High-quality."

  Targeted groups included the Feminist Majority Foundation, the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, Catholics for a Free Choice, Advocates for Youth, and the American Association of University Women.

  Those who sent the letters somehow obtained the account numbers of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the National Abortion Federation to pay for the mailings, according to officials of both organizations. They said packages have been tracked to at least three drop-off locations in Virginia and Philadelphia.

  Most of the letters were received in states along the East Coast. Some also were reported in Detroit.

  The targeted organizations called on Attorney General John Ashcroft and the FBI to "outline publicly their intentions to investigate and prosecute these acts."

  For two decades, a clandestine anti-abortion group calling itself the Army of God has carried out attacks on abortion providers and clinics,including bombings and sniper attacks.

  In Connecticut, where at least 12 clinics received the letters, officials promised thorough testing of the powder.

  "These were intended to be a threat to scare people and we want to make sure this is not what they say it is," said Brian Emanuelson, an emergency response coordinator with the state Department of Environmental Protection.
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  Christian terrorists on the loose?

  by Zep in

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  this is just a snippet of what i found over at salon.com.

  i'm not a subscriber, so cant put up the whole article.

  are anthrax letters ok for abortion-rights groups?.

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  This is just a snippet of what I found over at Salon.com

  I'm not a subscriber, so cant put up the whole article.

  Are anthrax letters OK for abortion-rights groups?
  Activists concerned about a second wave of threats fear the attorney general's antiabortion beliefs are the reason he won't meet with them.

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  By Anthony York

  Nov. 10, 2001 |

  After the latest round of anthrax scares hit abortion clinics and women's rights groups Thursday, leaders of several abortion rights organizations reiterated their call to meet with Attorney General John Ashcroft.

  Abortion rights leaders, who have been subjected to anthrax threats for years, complain that their concerns about those threats have been ignored since Ashcroft, a staunch abortion opponent, became attorney general. After the deadly anthrax attacks of last month, their fears -- and anger at Ashcroft for not meeting with them -- have increased. Abortion rights groups believe Ashcroft should meet with them not just to ensure their safety and send out a strong message that the government will not tolerate such threats, but because the information they have gathered on domestic terrorists could be useful in the national anthrax investigation.

  Ashcroft's office had no plans to meet with the groups.
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  Great qoutes from JuDgE for A day RuThErFoRd

  by Scorpion in

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  "the size of the nose, as also the size of the eyes, is not without significance.

  the small-nosed man cannot have a judicial mind, whatever his other excellencies may be.

  and a man whose nose upturns can no more be expected to administer justice than a pug dog can be expected to act as a shepherd.".

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  Rutherford is a comic genius
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  Aussie Ex-Dubs - Will You Be Voting Today?

  by Stephanus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i realise some still retain a bit of a superstitious fear in certain areas where watchtower dogma has been drummed into you such as birthdays and christmas.

  how do you feel about voting today?

  especially in light of the fact that here in oz voting is compulsory and that doing so would demonstrate "subjection to the superior authorities" (rom.

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  We need the 'monster raving looney party' down here to lighten things up.
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  16 reasons to doubt the divinity of the bible

  by bboyneko in

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  2. bible

  1)the old testament must have been written nearly two thousand years before the invention of printing.

  there were but few copies, and these were in the keeping of those whose interest might have prompted interpolations, and whose ignorance might have led to mistakes.. 2) the written hebrew was composed entirely of consonants, without any points or marks standing for vowels, so that anything like accuracy was impossible, anyone can test this for himself by writing an english sentence, leaving out the vowels.

  it will take far more inspiration to read than to write a book with consonants alone.. 3) the books composing the old testament were not divided into chapters or verses, and no system of punctuation was known.

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  Accuracy

  To be sure, those who do not wish to believe that the Bible is the Word of God can find a million "reasons" for that disbelief.

  Thats because there is a million reasons for disbelief.

  I'll tell you. The reason why I disbelief the bible aint because I wanted to. It's because rationality forced me to.
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  What happens when you die????

  by kevin221 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  question to throw out to anyone who cares to answer.. what do jw's believe happens when they die.

  jon always told me that when life was over, that was it, no heaven no hell just nothingness.. is that what jw's really believe?

  he didn't like to talk about it with me because he thought it would upset me.. thanks for any input,.

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  You go to Norway