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  What are your turn offs in a guy or girl?

  by Iamallcool in

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  one of them is nose rings/piercings.

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  Lamalcool,

  Cool OP. I suggest doing another one and calling it: "What are you knock-out factors in a guy or a girl?" That will separate the men and women from the boys and girls!!! LOL
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  How many here (believers) believe in the Hell fire doctrine and why??

  by jam in

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  it's obvious the bible is very clear on a actual hell of fire.

  "cursed into the eternal fire with the devil and his angels", rev.20:15.

  "lake of fire", rev.21:8 "fire and brimstone".

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  Cofty, yes, another brick in the wall. Cofty, man, are we wasting our time? It seems that the brain dead zombie theists keep multiplying on us. Wherever we look there are more of them. Rational arguments seem to 'kill' some of them but they just keep coming. What do we do, Cofty!?
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  China To Be Number 1 This Year ! OMG!

  by metatron in

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  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d79ffff8-cfb7-11e3-9b2b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz30n0eglxv.

  i nearly dropped my coffee on the floor!

  this ain't some goofy conspiracy site.. let the scots vote themselves independence and finish off "anglo-america".. .

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  Met,

  A few months ago one of the posters, I think it was FullTimeStudent but don’t hold me to that, posted several OP on the Chinese economic miracle. A lot of us, myself included, posted rational comments in response. I didn’t understand FTS’ reasons but then a few weeks ago they posted that they were leaving for a long-planned trip to China. That made all of the other posts make sense.

  You, on the other hand Met, have already shown your cards about why you post to these topics; for some reason you seem to have a deep and abiding hatred for the U.S./British/Israel economic and military position in the world. When you think you have found a nugget suggesting the imminent demise of any of these entities, your posts drip with glee and spite.

  Your hatred belongs to you; only you understand it. However, it colors your perspective and leads you to obsess and compulse it to this site, typically in a non-veiled rant. You are trying your best to hide your loathing in this post, but we already know how you feel.

  Your posts haven’t a rip to do with China or its economy. I’m assuming you aren’t Chinese and it is clear you aren’t an economist and haven’t had any training in it. If a colony of little blue Martians was able to thrive on this planet and you found one, just one, article suggesting the little blue guys (even if they clealry had derision for people who chose self important screen names to hide the fact that they had otherwise never accomplished anything) were about to supplant your hated U.S/British/Israeli triad, you would first orgasm all over yourself and then head immediately to the keyboard and this site.

  My last word to you on this OP and any future ones like it: Serious economists, both in this country, around the globe AND in China, both academics and government employed alike,have major concerns about a number of potential landmines ahead for the Chinese.

  As for India? The problems with India are legend, including social, religious, political and corruption. They are at best several generations away from addressing these problems to the point where any serious economist would suggest they can maintain a thriving world class economy. If at all. Many of these same problems exist in China. They may solve them all; I’m hoping they do.

  But riding an economic wave and developing a sustainable long term thriving economy which can adjust to changing world conditions is not an easy task. Right now the best ones have established a very good balance of socialism and Darwinian capitalism, and they are almost all located in N. Europe and the Scandinavian countries. And even these countries are re-visiting some of the social programs. These countries have been on the ‘happiest countries’ list for years. There is a reason for this. The U.S. is right behind them but has allowed the disparity between the haves and have nots to rise to troubling levels. Unless this is addressed, the U.S. will continue its slide. I'm not "Solomonesque" enough to know hot to 'fix' the problem, but few believe it doesn't need fixing. In the meantime I suggest getting a good text on Economics, including macro, micro and global economic theory and practical application. And google Adam Smith.
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  China To Be Number 1 This Year ! OMG!

  by metatron in

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  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d79ffff8-cfb7-11e3-9b2b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz30n0eglxv.

  i nearly dropped my coffee on the floor!

  this ain't some goofy conspiracy site.. let the scots vote themselves independence and finish off "anglo-america".. .

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  Met,

  I LIVE these topics. Every day. No one in their right mind would ignore or minimize the Asian economic tsunami led by China. That is not the point I made this time or the last few when you have posted tepid comments. Anything they do will make a huge wave - there are 1.4 - 1.6 billiion Chinese and nearly a billion Indians. But the very real problems associated with these two nations and their economies and cultures alone would make any rational, sane person avoid making grandiose projections. Do your homework. Then we can discuss.
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  China To Be Number 1 This Year ! OMG!

  by metatron in

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  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d79ffff8-cfb7-11e3-9b2b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz30n0eglxv.

  i nearly dropped my coffee on the floor!

  this ain't some goofy conspiracy site.. let the scots vote themselves independence and finish off "anglo-america".. .

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  Dear freaking god Oceans, are you really trying to tie the current economic system in with Revelation? And I suppose you have special knowledge that is much better than the GB's or the other fundy preachers who spew Revelation meaning nonsense. WTF??? Is this a joke or did you mean this nonsense? Everyone else's failed predictions and prophecies about the 7 kings aside, YOU have special knowledge about what it all means? Geesh. I really need to leave this site. I can't freaking believe you just posted this crap.
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  What do you do when your job makes you wanna puke your face off?

  by Julia Orwell in

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  i'm talking like makes you physically sick and emotionally frazzled just thinking about it.

  i'm talking like you hate it to the point you'd rather go without than work at it just for the money.

  you'd live on cheap korean packet noodles for the next year instead of exchanging your labor for this job's money.. well, this is how i feel about teaching and tutoring.

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  Julia,

  Is it teaching that you hate or teaching kids that you hate or teaching kids but without the support you feel you need to do a good job that you hate or a combination of all? I've been an adjunct prof at 2 local colleges in the past, but I could not teach high school, grade school, etc. because I do not want to deal with the issues you describe. I don't teach now because my job requires a lot of travel, but love it and miss it.
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  An important difference between atheists and true believers

  by Hortensia in

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  true believers, whether christian, muslim or whatever, want to convert you, they want you to believe what they do, and they're willing to go to extremes to make it happen.

  atheists don't really care what you believe, and don't go out of their way to convert someone.. http://ow.ly/vn1jz an example of what believers in power do to suppress any difference in thought.

  http://ow.ly/vraeo an example of why believers want to suppress different ideas (because they can't win in a fair fight, that's why).

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  BOTR,

  Ive only been on this site for about 11 months or so. I realized within a few months that it wasn't really for me, as 90% of the OPs are theist and very JW specific, both of which nauseate me. Ive been out of the Borg 20 years and spent it living life; to be dragged back into Borgland is something I have no desire to do. Having said that, the only rational, factual discussions I typically read on this board are driven by the atheists amongst us.

  The theist posts can be touchly lovely group huggy, since it's essentially everyone's opinion (which is why the preachers with 'special knowledge' on this site disgust me). When the topic changes to science, technical issues or simply about non-theist topics, the 'bar' for posting becomes much, much higher. Anyone bringing their 'feelings' or 'beliefs' or what they 'think' or the one dimensional 'knowledge' (all of which are absolutely freaking wonderful in theist conversations) to serious discussions will be nuked by those of us trained to expect facts and the support of those facts to a debate.

  That essentially is the root cause analysis of the 'strife' on this site. People who pine for a purple dinosaur group hug for every OP - or who expect their irrational, reactionary, intellectually shallow or non-existent opinions to be respected on non-theist posts - are delusional. They continually get upset by the 'tone' when, if one very closely analyzes the root cause, is not so much the tone as they will never, ever, ever (credit to Taylor Swift) win any of these arguments. That, IMHO and based on a rational 11 month observation of the 'problem', is the real root cause.
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  China To Be Number 1 This Year ! OMG!

  by metatron in

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  2. friends

  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d79ffff8-cfb7-11e3-9b2b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz30n0eglxv.

  i nearly dropped my coffee on the floor!

  this ain't some goofy conspiracy site.. let the scots vote themselves independence and finish off "anglo-america".. .

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  Kalk,

  Met has an obession with the imminent military and economic demise of the U.S./British/Israel triad, as seen by previous posts. I've ignored this one until now. At least he is trying to find 'better' sources for his shallow rants. The only thing I would say to Met is to google a 360 degree perspective of the topic. Start by researching "the potential problems associated with the Chinese economy." There are very good sources (The Economist, etc.) which, while not discounting what 1.4 billion people can do when martialed in one direction, suggest major roadblocks ahead. Having studied and taught economics at the college level, I've posted some of this before on Met's threads (I don't think he listens).

  His compulsion to head to the keyboard upon finding yet another one sided, shallow, non-intellectual 'source' for economic or military projections is the real problem. The dual power is a Dub construct; it means nothing in the real world (although the Brits, U.S. and Israelis share a lot of military technological advances, keeping them WAY ahead of everyone else).
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  If God is real?

  by suavojr in

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  if after you die you find yourself in front a god ready to judge you.

  what will you say in your defense for not believing?

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  Tiwtch,

  Able, Cold Steel and Perry are on this site to stroke their own egos and narcissism. They provide nothing but stale mantras, and have no desire to help anyone. Like the Reverence before them, they post to fill their pathetic lives. If we ignore them they will go away. I have two prime directives that I try not to violate: 1. I won't try to have rational, intelligent conversations with irrational, reactive, lazy minded individuals; and 2. I won't discuss theism or the bible with anyone, especially not high school grads with 'special knowledge.' That's exactly what I left so many years ago.
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  What are your turn offs in a guy or girl?

  by Iamallcool in

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  one of them is nose rings/piercings.

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  If we got into bits and pieces all of the women on this site would hate me. So let's not.