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  Where is my light saber!!!!!!!??????????

  by Jesika in

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  wooooooooooo hoooooooooooo i finally became a jedi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  now where is blondie with my light saber?????

  lol .

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  Aztec

  Congrats Jesika! You are a really sweet person and I love ya lots!

  ~Aztec
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  Peace March around the World

  by JH in

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  i watched the news on tv, and i saw reports of thousands of people all around the world asking for peace instead of war.

  do you think that these peace rallies will really make a difference?.

  do you think that these peace rallies will influence the president of the united states?

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  Aztec

  Here we go again....

  *sigh*

  Agrees with back2dafront

  ~Aztec
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  UN FINDS WMD...OK saddam lovers, what now?

  by dolphman in

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  ok lets hear your pathetic excuses.

  c'mon now don't be shy.

  let's hear what you have to say.

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  We're being fed propaganda plain and simple. The US only goes after dictators like Saddam when we can benefit. Our government allows plenty of evil to continue in the world without raising a finger as long as they play nice with us. Look at the human rights violations going on in Saudi Arabia and China. As for the children of Iraq, who put them in that situation? Saddam for sure but also the US with it's neverending sanctions. Something else I found on the internet that I really enjoyed:

  Understanding Oil By Serj Tankian 9/13/2001 The brutal attacks/bombings this week in New York, and Washington D.C., along with threats of attacks there and elsewhere in the country have changed our times forever. While the mass media concentrates on the details of the destruction, and the blanketed words of politicians, I will attempt to understand and explain the events from the fence. BOMBING AND BEING BOMBED ARE THE SAME THINGS ON DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE FENCE. Terror is not a spontaneous human action without credence. People just dont hijack planes and commit harikari (suicide) without any weight of thought to the action. No one in the media seems to ask WHY DID THESE PEOPLE DO THIS HORRIFIC ACT OF VIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION? To be able to understand the answer to this, we must first look at our U.S. Mideast Policy. During most of the 20th century, U.S. businesses have worked on attaining oil rights and concessions from countries in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. After WWI, secret back door deals by our State Dept. yielded oil rights from then defeated Turkey to fields in what is now Iraq and Saudi Arabia, in return for looking the other way at a crime against humanity, the Genocide of the Armenians by the Turks. Oil profits have been the motivating factors behind many attempts at counterinsurgency of democratic regimes by the CIA and the U.S in the Middle East (such as Iran in the 1950s, where the Shah replaced the Prime Minister who refused to give up oil rights to the U.S., and since the people couldnt deal with the Shah, an extremist government headed by the Ayatollah Khomeini ultimately prevailed). During the Iran-Iraq war, America supplied both sides with weapons and advice. These are not the actions of a rich superpower wanting peace. Lets not forget that Saddam Hussein, before being Americas vision of the Anti-Christ, was a close ally of the U.S., and the CIA. So what was the firm belief system of consecutive American administrations that caused all this to occur ? PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST WILL LEAD TO HIGHER OIL AND GASOLINE PRICES. Lets not also forget the power of the Arms industry, disguised as defense, that still sells billions of dollars of weapons to the area. Therefore it has not been in the short-term economic interest of the U.S. to foster Peace in the Middle East. Using the above reasoning, the U.S. has encouraged extremist governments, toppled democracies, as in the case of Iran to replace it with a monarchy, rigged elections, and many more unspeakable political crimes for U.S. businesses abroad. Lets not also forget the Red Scare. During the war between the then Soviet Union and Afghanistan, the U.S. armed and supported the Taliban, a fundamentalist Muslim organization, and allowed them to export opium and heroin out of their country to pay for those weapons. Therefore the Taliban rose to power and control with the help of the U.S.A. Today, the bombing of Iraq still continues, no longer covered by the media, the economic embargo still remains, killing millions of children, and recently, while the world and the U.N. General Assembly have cried out to bring in peacekeeping forces into Israel and Palestine, to end the escalated war and recent assassinations, the U.S. has vetoed the rest of the Security Council and has halted the possibility of peace, there, in the most volatile place in the world. People in Serbia, Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, and Afghanistan to name a few have seen bombs fall, not always at military targets and kill innocent civilians, as the scene in New York city yesterday. The wars waged by our government in our names has landed smack in the middle of our living room. The half hour of destruction closed down all world financial markets, struck the central headquarters of our military, and had our leaders running into bunkers, and our citizens into fear and frenzy. What scares me more than what has occurred is what our reactions to the occurrences may cause. President Bush belongs to a long generation of Republican Presidents who love war economies. The media has only concentrated on the bombings, if you will, and what type of retaliations are looming for the perpetrators. What everyone fails to realize is that the bombings are a reaction to existing injustices around the world, generally unseen to most Americans. To react to a reaction would be to further sponsor the reaction. In other words, my belief is that the terror will multiply if concrete steps are not taken to sponsor peace in the middle east, NOW. This does not mean that we should not find the guilty party(s), Bin Laden, or whoever they may be, and not try them. Put simply, as long as a major injustice remains, violence precipitates to the surface of life. Native American folklore, the Bible, Nostradamus, and many other major religious beliefs point to this era with the visuals of yesterdays disasters, and conditions of ecological disasters we experience daily in our lives today. War, rumors of war, famine, long burning fires, etc., are at our doorstep. We can prevail over this possible vision with the power of the human spirit, understanding, compassion, and peace. ITS TIME TO PUT OUR NEEDS FOR SECURITY AND SURVIVAL, ACHIEVED ONLY THROUGH PEACE, ABOVE AND BEYOND PROFITS, ESPECIALLY IN THESE TIMES. SOLUTION: The U.S. should stop sidestepping the U.N. Security Council, and allow U.N. Peacekeeping troops and missions to the Middle East. Stop the violence first. Stop the bombing and patrol of Iraq. With todays gains in the use of alternative fuels, develop them to full usage with autos and other utilities, to make the country less dependant on an already depleting natural reserve, oil. By initiating peace, we would have already shaken the foundations of support for Bin Laden, and/or all those that sponsor activities like those we saw yesterday, and break the stronghold of extremists on the world of Islam. On the other hand, if we carry out bombings on Afghanistan or elsewhere to appease public demand, and very likely kill innocent civilians along the way, wed be creating many more martyrs going to their deaths in retaliation against the retaliation. As shown from yesterdays events, you cannot stop a person whos ready to die.

  This was posted on the internet only two days after Sept. 11th but it is still relevant.

  ~Aztec
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  WARNING.....demon attached to object?

  by JNS2 in

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  after all the years of having it drilled in my head that demons could attach themselves to an object i now wonder: is that just more jw bull****?

  am i still reacting to the years of brainwashing or is there really a concern about what one brings into their home?.

  anybody have any thoughts on this????

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  Demons are a myth. People in ancient times needed something to explain natural and frightening phenomena.

  ~Aztec
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  UN FINDS WMD...OK saddam lovers, what now?

  by dolphman in

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  ok lets hear your pathetic excuses.

  c'mon now don't be shy.

  let's hear what you have to say.

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  Danny please just look into the facts. The American population is being LIED too about the reason for war. No question Saddam should be removed from office but do we really need a war to do it? Also do we really have to authority to replace another countries leader? Why are you supporting Bush? Do you think he gives a rat's ass about you? Unless you are a major contributor to him and his party or one of his families cronies the answer is no. That said, he is no differant than most politicians. I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I sincerely encourage everyone to look into other parties as I think it may be the only way to save our government.

  Peace

  ~Aztec

  Edited to add:

  Good points back2dafront!

  Edited by - Aztec on 18 January 2003 13:12:26
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  Strange Beautiful Music...

  by DanTheMan in

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  ...is the title of joe satriani's latest release.

  if you were once a satch fan but haven't listened in a while, you don't know what you are missing.

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  Aztec

  Yeah TH, he did at least have good taste in music. I saw "Woodstock", "Monterey Pop" and "Tommy" when I was in elementary school. How many kids can say that?

  ~Aztec
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  Strange Beautiful Music...

  by DanTheMan in

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  ...is the title of joe satriani's latest release.

  if you were once a satch fan but haven't listened in a while, you don't know what you are missing.

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  Thanks Dan I'll have to get that for my dad. He's a huge Satriani fan. He used to drive me to insanity by playing "Surfing with the Alien" over and over and over....He's a frustrated guitarist at heart.

  ~Aztec
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  What song sums up your JW experience?

  by sleepy in

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  its got to be rage against the machine, "killing in the name of" .

  just had the bassline to this song rumbling through my head, havent heard it for ages though .

  you need to know the chorus.

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  "Spiders"The piercing radiant moon,
  The storming of poor June,
  All the life running through her hair,
  Approaching guiding light,
  Our shallow years in fright,
  Dreams are made winding through my head,
  Through my head,
  Before you know,
  Awake,
  Your lives are open wide,
  The V-chip gives them sight,
  All the life running through her hair,
  The spiders all in tune,
  The evening of the moon,
  Dreams are made winding through my head,
  Through my head,
  Before you know,
  Awake
  Through my head,
  Before you know,
  Before you know I will be waiting all awake,
  Dreams are made winding through her hair,
  Dreams are made winding through her hair.

  This song is by System of a Down and it makes me shiver when I listen to it.

  ~Aztec
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  If You Won A Million Dollars, What Would You Do?

  by minimus in

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  .....a 2 part question.......1--- if you were still a witness and you played the lottery and won and 2--------if you won, right now.

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  Aztec

  Well, after taxes there might be enough left for a six pack of beer.

  ~Aztec
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  UN FINDS WMD...OK saddam lovers, what now?

  by dolphman in

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  ok lets hear your pathetic excuses.

  c'mon now don't be shy.

  let's hear what you have to say.

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  Aztec

  Just found this interesting:

  * 31% of U.S. oil comes from Arab OPEC countries.
  * 86% of oil imported to the U.S. from the middle east comes from Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
  * In July of 2002 Chevron imported 5,061,000 barrels from Iraq.
  * Chevron imports nearly five times more oil to the U.S. from Iraq than any other oil company.
  * Chevron is the only major U.S. oil company that imports more oil from Iraq than from Saudi Arabia. sources for the above facts: Department of Energy publications located here or here * There are current Bush Administration plans to further reduce our dependency on Saudi Arabian oil, and to replace the Saudi supply with Iraqi oil. source: Jane's Foreign Report * BP (British Petroleum) is the only oil company other than Chevron that imports more oil to the U.S. from Iraq than from any other middle eastern nation. source: Boycott Middle-East Oil, verified with Department of Energy stats * Britain is the only other country who's government is strongly backing the U.S. invasion of Iraq. source: The Observer * George Bush Sr. is a former director of Halliburton. He is now one of the directors of The Carlyle Group, one of the U.S.'s largest defense contractors. source: The Consortium and Here In Reality * Dick Cheney, was Halliburtons chairman and chief executive. Halliburton is the worlds largest oil field services company. source: WhiteHouse.org * Halliburton has signed contracts and provides services to Chevron. source: The Consortium * The Bush Administrations' National Security Advisor, Condoleeza Rice, was a former director of Chevron and held a quarter of a million shares of Chevron stock. She even had a tanker named after her until before being appointed by President Bush. sources: Multinational Monitor and Democratic Underground

  These facts show there is a serious conflict of interest with the relationships between the Bush family, the Bush Administration, Chevron, and Halliburton. The facts show the Bush family and friends stand to profit greatly from war and the controlled flow of Iraqi oil. Why should these conflicts of interest be allowed to progress to the point of war? The invasion of Iraq will certainly kill many people who have no interest, and who's families will not profit from the success or failure of Chevron, BP, Halliburton, or the Carlyle Group.

  ~Aztec