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Way Of The Mister Short (WOTMS): A Reassuring Fable
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Chris B Oct 11, 2022. 2 Replies 2 Likes
Brian Keith Dalton, a.k.a. "Mr. Deity," has been taking William Lane Craig to task lately for his lazy and generally not-horribly-thoughtful take on why belief in Yahweh is so essential to him and how wonderful it must all be to have the supposed…Continue
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The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It (Robert Reich)
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Doug Hanlon Sep 24, 2022. 16 Replies 6 Likes
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Started by Sydni Moser. Last reply by Mrs.B Sep 6, 2022. 4 Replies 1 Like
Had a long hard day?Need to just unwind and 'shoot the breeze'with a few good buddies?Pull up a stool, grab yourself a brewski ora cup of hot fresh brewed java andlets chit-chat about anythingthat's on your mind.Pass the peanuts please. Continue
A riddle: What is IT?
Started by Adriana. Last reply by Tom Sarbeck Sep 3, 2022. 49 Replies 2 Likes
Astronomers do IT all night. Chemists do IT by bonding. Newton did IT with force. Eighteenth century physicists did IT with rigid bodies. Maxwell did IT with magnetism. Volta did IT with a jolt. Watt did IT with power. Joule did IT with…Continue
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How do mothers (usually) bring up boys to respect women as equals? Or not do so?
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Who can get through a day of the 2016 presidential campaign and not think of this?Here's part of how my mom did it in the late 1930s and the 1940s. I didn't know what she had in mind when she raised us as if there was no such thing as boys' work or…Continue
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Thanksgiving Day Plans
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Comment was by Adriana on September 13, 2011 at 10:30am
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Sydni that is hilarious, hahahaha
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Comment was by Sydni Moser on September 13, 2011 at 10:29am
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Comment was by A Former Member on September 10, 2011 at 2:21pm
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Heh! : )
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Comment was by Walrus Topsy on September 5, 2011 at 6:00pm
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No Probs Dallas, now that I have had some time to play with it - seems I have solved my issue to - disabling the firefox pre-fetch setting works. So if you have more problems try removing the prefetch - instructions http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox%20cannot%20load%20websi...
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Thanks Walrus. The problem rectified itself. Must have been a Yahoo problem.
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Dallas Gaytheist - I can get into my yahoo e-mail - it's my 'my yahoo' page that is screwing me up - have you updated to the new e-mail setup? My wife had that problem and once she updated could get in again.
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I looked around, because trees grow from the tip so the explanation does not ring true. And I found this. It was probably a practical joke, though a very old one, from at least the 50s, it's been around for decades and it is locally famous, around Seattle.
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