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  Teens who pledge virginity have difficulty keeping it up

  by zagor in

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  virginity pledges, in which young people vow to abstain from sex until marriage, have little staying power among those who take them.

  more than half the adolescents who make such signed, public promises give up on their pledges within a year, according to a harvard study.

  the findings have raised the ire of concerned women for america, a conservative organisation that endorses adolescent sexual abstinence.

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  Abaddon

  If they have "difficulty keeping it up", then losing their virginity isn't going to be very likely, is it?
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  Dan Brown DID NOT write "The Da Vinci Code"! [ VICTORY FOR CHRISTIANS !!! ]

  by danbrownfraud in

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  (i) they are to ask god, through jesus christ, for the truth on these matters.

  amen".

  amen".

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  Abaddon

  Oh, yeah...

  The witches you will be shown, help liars in the physical world by promoting their work via "Book Clubs"

  ... there was I thinking it was the Illuminati, and it was Reader's Digest all along...
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  Dan Brown DID NOT write "The Da Vinci Code"! [ VICTORY FOR CHRISTIANS !!! ]

  by danbrownfraud in

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  (i) they are to ask god, through jesus christ, for the truth on these matters.

  amen".

  amen".

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  Abaddon

  Doo-doo-doo-doo Doo-doo-doo-doo Doodily-oooop!

  God is so clever he sends people with troubling literacy skills and all the signs of monomania to save our ickle souls. Yeah... whatever you say...

  Thanks god... now please save us from followers like this... or at least those who don't think CAPS is a substitue for an argument...
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  I found this and am in total agreement. Feel free to answer the Questions.

  by jw in

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  regardless of how you feel about jehovah's organization--the true religion, one thing for sure, you will not escape the almighty jehovah's judgement right along with satan the devil and his destructive organization.

  how will you save yourself and those who follow you...?

  it's ashame that your energies could not be put to a more positive use.

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  Abaddon

  God almighty, what I wouldn't give for a troll with brains and half an argument.

  You just don't get them like they were in the old days, I remember back in the '90's a troll was often a troll, not a twit with a keyboard; have fun - I'm no one to talk about not wasting time on iresovable discussions, if ya like it, do it...

  But this guy is too dull for words...
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  If the Bible is in such a mess is the Quoran God's final version?

  by Spectrum in

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  at least this is what the muslims claim.

  until i had come on this forum i didn't have a clue as to what complex and convoluted problems biblical text offers upon scholarly examination.

  i never took the muslim claim seriously i was quite derisory about the whole thing but now i have to give it more thought.

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  Abaddon

  No... although Carmel's answer is a very good one... I believe the problem is the question is putting the cart before the horse.

  If the Bible (believed in by billions to one extent or another - including Muslims, as the largest part of the Bible (Pentateuch, Prophets, Psalms, Gospels) are accepted as inspired by them (although interpreted from their view-point) is not an accurate guide to god's requirements (which in light of its provable inaccuracies is a reasonable stance), is any such claim (of a book being an accurate guide to god's requirements) reasonable?

  Can any 'holy book' differentiate itself from the rest by having no provable historical errors or mythic elements?

  If no such book can differentiate itself, is it reasonable to assume god would invest a single book with such a responsibility when it can't distinguish itself from the rest and therefore give people certainty about their choices? The idea that any god worthy of regard would have us engage in a quiz game and punish us for making the wrong choice is rather silly and one I'll pass over...

  ... for me, 'holy books' are maps that made sense of the world from the viewpoint of the various authors. Whether this has ANYTHING to do with god at all an entirely different question. God was an easy solution to insoluble problems.

  The problem now is most traditional ideation's of god now create more questions than they answered to those who originally recorded their ideas.

  Maybe it is a case of 'many paths one destination' with many such books having 'insights' into 'god'. Or maybe 'god' is just a stage of a society building stable communities that can be replaced with secular values achieving the same ends as regards stable and functional communities? For me it is a question of letting the bocks go and thinking of god as it might be, rather than as <insert historical group> thought of it.

  That of course includes the possibility there is nothing like any traditional form of god, or any god at all.
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  I Saw David Blaine Today

  by DevonMcBride in

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  david blaine is that creepy illusionist who is in a tank until his show tomorrow night.

  today we were in nyc and drove by the lincoln center where his tank is out in front.

  we quickly drove by but he was very visible and waving to the people standing around..

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  Abaddon

  Depends what you mean by fake, LOL

  Like someone who COULD telekinetically move 80kgs would make money with a TV show... so he is a fake telekinetic

  However, someone who is a good enough illusionist to make viewers think he is levitating is not a fake illusionist.

  Five minutes of Googling and you'll find explanations of most of his street magic; old routines with new life breathed into them, with Occam's Razor (it's a set-up) being the better explanation than 'magic'. The car in the window trick is a set-up and card-sharp/slight-of-hand routine, the 'fly back to life' routine requires a pre-chilled fly (which will appear dead) and an eye on a clock (they warm-up and fly off within ten minutes).

  The levitation trick is all about sight lines...
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  Confession me reply to your message RE Richie

  by Beep,Beep in

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  i do not agree with your reading of "policy".

  i base this on personal experience on a couple of fronts.

  1. i have yet to come across a single verifiable of a cover up.

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  uncle bruce

  It's not that well Known but in Australia taking food isn't legally considered theft if your life or the life of someone else is endangered. Thus one can kill a sheep and cook it as long as one leaves the remains somewhere where the owner can see it. One can remove crops from a field and it isn't stealing if it's to genuine ly prevent starvation ... aren't we enlightened

  I didn't know that, very interesting - do you know if it is a result of some of the original colonists being deported from Englandd for merely stealing to sustain themselves or their family? Kind of a historically removed sympathy?
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  Why do the British dubs have such an animosity to Harry Potter?!

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  if i have ever mentioned that i've seen the movies or read the books to a witness in gb, i get the kind of reaction that used to be reserved for smurfs here in america.. i am not naive enough to not understand any discomfort with a school for witches, but this stuff is about as threatening as casper the friendly ghost.

  i find the books charming, if a little long winded and formulaic.

  the movies, especially the later two, tighten up the plots and jettison a lot of excess baggage.

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  Tea4Two

  Do you mean only YOU get to preach at people? And is 'I'm only tthe messenger' a spiritual version of 'we were only following orders'?

  And how come people who wear mixed threads, or who practise unfair labour pracitses, or who like kid sauted in goat milk will use a religious text written by a goat-herd tom condemn 'witchcraft' when there is a/ no proof such a things exists and b/ when they also violate similar prohibitions they have decided are 'okay' to violate?
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  Why does "god" permit evil, wickedness and tragic misfortune??

  by Shining One in

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  i don't know of anyone who can answer this question totally but i do like this man's response!

  i've posted the link to this before.

  rex .

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  sunnygirl

  I believe some of the us have complicated things and made it more difficult than it really is, but, it too has made us all grow.

  Eh? How does a baby getting its brains smashed out by an abusive parent complicate things and make it more difficult than it 'really' is?

  greendawn

  God does not permit evil as such it is rather mankind that bring it upon themselves by failng to develop a culture of the spirit by accepting the gospel.

  Oh, so it's our fault, LOL. I suppose my daughter bought talipes upon herself? And 'The Gospel' is no more provable as anb inspired document that The Book of Mormon, The Quran, The Bhaghadvita, or The Cat In The Hat.

  The evolutionists by propagating the idea that man is an animal that came forth from animals encourage that regressive instinctual attitude that sidetracks mankind away from its true destiny which is a spiritual one.

  Deal with the evidence FOR Evolution and the LACK of evidence for Creation. You can carry on beliving in it, of course, just as children carry on believing in fairies even when they know they can't exist because fairies are such a cool idea.

  Auld Soul

  Yes, exactly. And of course they aren't his own comments; argumentum ad CTRL V is a modus operandi of the literalist.
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  Why does "god" permit evil, wickedness and tragic misfortune??

  by Shining One in

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  i don't know of anyone who can answer this question totally but i do like this man's response!

  i've posted the link to this before.

  rex .

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  Abaddon

  Rex, could you use a pooper-scooper when you do that? In know in loo-loo-laa-laa land you thought that was insightful, and should have us stroking our beards and saying 'how wise'. But here in the real world it is a load of yeah? And? So? What?!

  It all rests on your rather nasty interpretation of the Bible which you insist is god's guide for man, despite the reason you have no more proof of this than Bu'Khati the Shaman and his farting frong have of them being the voice of god.

  Take some tablets, and spend some of the internet time the nice ladies and men in the white coats give you surfing to Senior Christian Dating Sites.