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<t>I can hardly add to what Ted stated, with brilliant succinctness. my anguish over faith has been lifelong. i have troubled over the concept of god more than i wish i had. some of my sophomoric ramblings on the matter can be found in my 'journal' entry here on FG. ...

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<t>spot;506062 wrote: You did your level best to pollute it, I'll give you that. it's always good to expose abuse of power within the ne'er-do-well's lair. i'm off to bed, it's 1:33am here. have a pleasant evening, er, day. i think i'll put you back in the box...

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<t>spot;506030 wrote: I'll make you a fair offer, Paul. I'll discuss the difference between conscripts and volunteers in the armed forces, or any variation of proposal you prefer, in a limited-post Westcliffe Debate with you. You can choose whether to have just the two of us or to include seconds, a...

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<t>spot;506004 wrote: We can't use similar standards, then? "yeah, there's your proof. gotta be the most controversial thread on FG" didn't seem particularly robust on examination. As for your "following constructed sentence" I remember a time when you wouldn't have sunk so lo...

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<t>Galbally;505301 wrote: Yes, sorry i should have souced the graph, its not good practice, I will do when I have more time, and I will get you some more information, not to change your mind, but to show you the reasons why I take the contrary argument to you. I think to be fair that most people are...

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<t>spot;505769 wrote: What a surprise. I'm inured. Edit add: Having, on reflection, read what you wrote - by no means an invariable state of affairs - I note the difference in the thread you selected compared to those I highlighted. It has 23,101 posts. The guests there, I sug...

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<r>spot;505255 wrote: I also made a single post in <URL url="http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21249"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/showt ... hp?t=21249">http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21249</LINK_TEXT></URL> which said "Would it ...

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<t>if i may continue a bit further, i want to make clear: i'm a strong proponent of alternative energy. fossil fuels are, to the best of our knowledge, finite. while there's coal enough to satisfy US energy needs for about three hundred years, aside from the CO2 emissions, there's just the plain old...

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also, could you source that graph, please? it shows anomaly, but doesn't provide the date that is the base.

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<t>yes, my dates were a little off. but what's a few tens of thousands of years amongst friends? there are numerous issues associated with the ice ages and interglacial cycles within them. 'recent' ice ages have been on an approx 100,000 year cycle (peak to peak of the intergl...

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<t>spot;504756 wrote: I never incendiarize living cats. so puppies it is, then. You watch too much television. how did you know the penguin was going to blow up? They shudder whenever our paths c...

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spot;504737 wrote: Is there nothing on the television tonight?

are there no stray kittens around for you to set on fire?

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<t>spot;504705 wrote: That wasn't at you, buttercup, that was showing Paul a flowing non-controversial thread to compare to the "Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 8 (2 members and 8 guests)" he picked up on earlier today in one of topical interest to non-members. how do yo...

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<t>Galbally;504631 wrote: No anastrophe, the evidence is conclusive that rising CO2 emissions are causing an accelerating shift in global climatic patterns. regrettably, no, that is not a concluded fact. from about 1945 to about 1980, global temperatures actually trended *downward*, even while...

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<r>buttercup;504637 wrote: Anyone care to take a bet on which page the origional question gets answered? <E>:D</E> well - the original question was rhetorical, as 'guest' can't really reply. as to how many of 'guest' are actual human beings, it's a fairly tedious task to go through ...

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<t>Bryn Mawr;504620 wrote: Maybe you could stop trying to get the last word in? There's two of you playing this silly game so why "he's got to give up"? Grow up and try to behave like an adult you've actually added nothing of any substan...

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<t>spot;504599 wrote: I didn't even bother to read it. I'm not chasing you anywhere or looking for a fight. Go and bore Novelty again, he'll talk to you indefinitely. translation: "facts, reality, and truth are irrelevant to me. all that matters is that my golden words may grace ano...

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Bryn Mawr;504576 wrote: Booring!

Do we have to go through this every time someone opens an innocent thread?

no, we certainly don't. spot could merely refrain from trampling his leaden foot all over the garden.

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<t>spot;504588 wrote: You think vbulletin counts OS buffers rather than querying the database for the guest count? I don't think it goes anywhere near them. vbulletin runs just as happily on Microsoft platforms as it does on Linux boxes, why would it look at explicitly Linux parameters? <...

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<t>Galbally;504512 wrote: I'm sorry but you are utterly wrong. The British meterological office, the US antarctic survey, the royal society, MIT, Caltech, NASA, ESA, the EU Science Directorate, the Ecoles Nationale, the Chinese Science ministry are not irresponsible scientific bodies, in fact they a...

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spot;504541 wrote: I write optimized web crawlers for a living, Paul. Go away and bother someone else.

translation: "i can't counter anything paul wrote, so i'll deflect and dismiss, rather than having the spine to admit i was talking out of my ass".

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<t>spot;504542 wrote: "right now" is partly central to the question. It actually covers a considerable period of time. The other point is that a single crawler can count multiple times in that guest total since it can appear to the site as more than a single IP address as it traverses the hyperlinks...

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buttercup;504524 wrote: How about a few of you signing up today?

the majority are web crawlers, simply indexing new posts here for the search engines.

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<t>spot;504491 wrote: I'm grateful for your observation. I note that the guest count might register one or two when a thread's in a burst of activity you determined that figure based upon what factual details? perhaps it was inadvertent when claimed "might register one or two" - a momentary la...

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<t>i'd like to clear a misconception being promulgated. more often than not, 'guests' are web crawlers. the more active the thread, the more crawlers will descend on it. the connections tend to be brief, as they're just grabbing the new info then moving on to the next thread or site. when there's a ...

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<t>Novelty;501274 wrote: It seems we are at opposite ends of the scale, anastrophe, you who lives in the Persona, and I who lives in the Self, pardon my french, but just wtf is that supposed to mean? when did this become freshmen psychology class? i thought we were talkin...

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<r>cherandbuster;500526 wrote: Yikes, I hope not <E>:)</E> I've been on tramadol and Lexapro for years now. it can, but it depends on the SSRI, and the amounts. i take citalopram ('celexa') and that combined with tramadol can induce serotonin synd...

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<t>Novelty;500953 wrote: You give me a reason why, the obvious reason is because that's the time they decided to demolish it, maybe the explosive didn't work properly.. please tell me what you think.. um. again, why not cover it up better if it was ...

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<t>Novelty;500925 wrote: anastrophe, the material I've posted is there for ppl to see, rightly or wrongly i dont agree with the official story, you may disagree with me with insults, but i dont think you have anything to say apart from straw men with turkey sandwiches, so tell me <b...

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<t>Novelty;500834 wrote: It's you who believes the conspiracy um, well okay then. that's the best response you can come up with to the questions i raised? give me a plausible reason that they'd wait nine hours before demo'ing wtc7 if th...

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<t>koan;500830 wrote: A screen capture from the OP film at the moment when they say "This is a pancake collapse" so what? that's not even related to my inquiry. not even remotely. footage of a skyscraper collapsing from other than a controlled demo. as i said ...

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<t>Novelty;500732 wrote: Larry silverstein admitting demolishing WTC7, the term pull it, is a term used for demolishing... this is where the conspiracy stuff makes me go cross-eyed. wtc7 is a completely different issue from the twin towers. these things are constantly mishmashed tog...

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<t>Novelty;500690 wrote: Sorry for missing your intent.. The NIST Report doesn't explain WHY or HOW the buildings totally collapsed, despite the lack of a single historical precedent for a steel-framed skyscraper totally collapsing for any reason other than controlled demolition... <...

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<t>quoting myself: so, tell me. how many buildings have you ever seen collapse that were known to *not* be controlled demolitions? can you cite some video or film footage of a colossally large skyscraper having come down in other than a controlled demolition? if not, then how are we to ma...

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<t>Novelty;500627 wrote: more of the same. completely contradictory speculations presented that somehow we are to synthesize a non-contradictory conclusion from. no critical thinking applied. false/manufactured premises. the quite laughable 'squibs' theory regarding the overp...

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<t>i'm watching 9/11 mysteries AGAIN. so far, thirty minutes in, no footage of non-demo collapsing buildings. there's *still photos* of *already collapsed* non-demo buildings. that doesn't come close to what i was talking about. this video is so full of bad and contradictory "...

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<t> not sure what point you're making with the first video. which conspiracy angle are we supposed to gather from it? second video. here's a question for you, novelty. how convinced are you of global warming as being caused by man, and being...

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<t>Novelty;500424 wrote: Are you SERIOUS! :wah: the real conspiracy is the official story, that video is pathetic claptrap produced for the brain dead, i prefer to listen to the experts not this abhorrence... fine. did you bother to read the NIST faq? or did y...

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a significant concern with tramadol is if it's taken with SSRI's - selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. the combination can cause serotonin syndrome, which is extremely serious and can cause death.

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<r>Hugh Janus;500128 wrote: Ominous voice-over? Have you been watching the same film I did? The voice-over I remember seemed to belong to some tart that wished she had got the part in the latest porn movie....:wah: Oh btw. The link doesn't work.... :p <b...

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<r>seen it. slick editing, ominous voice-overs, a well-mixed music track, and paranoia rather than skepticism, are no substitutes for the boring and dry facts of the case. oh, they're a substitute for the gullible and credulous, to be sure. and those who like to be entertained...

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<t>on December 17th, just a bit more than a month after Gracie's passing, we decided we needed a new kitty in our lives. Gracie's memory remains firm, and i still ache from missing her. But we wanted to give one of our feline friends a home, so we went to our local animal shelter and walked the aisl...

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He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

-E.M. Cioran

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caesar777;494023 wrote: I think it is. India and Pakistan are keen to keep their western allies, and I doubt that North Korea would take on the whole world, with or without nukes.

north korea might not want to, but kim jong mentally-il might pull the trigger anyway.

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<t>caesar777;494016 wrote: Then we should impose sanctions on them, or if necessary topple their governments, as we did in the case of Iraq when we thought they had "weapons of mass destruction". I am sure that is what will happen to Iran and were it not allied with China, North Korea too...

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<t>caesar777;493960 wrote: Then if USA had none you would not want to begin building them? i'm not sure why you persist with questions that aren't meaningful in reality. but i'll indulge, sure. if the US had never had nuclear weapons, I'd not want us to build them. fair enough? ...

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<t>caesar777;493916 wrote: You are right, the intent is what ULTIMATELY matters. Every body is capable of chocking another to death, but only a few of us wish to. If a man has the desire to kill another he will be more likely to if he has a knife, rather than using his bare hands. <b...

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<t>caesar777;493763 wrote: If you can feel good that your country has reduced the amount of times that it can destroy all the world's inhabitants I'm happy for you. I suspect that the true reasons for this disarmament are financial, after all, what is the point in being able to kill everyone more th...

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geez, i just took a closer look - that can't even be his own hand/arm.

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DesignerGal;493379 wrote: I cant stop it!

why is the hand/arm so pasty-white compared to the face though?

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