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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: RE: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| [quote]So who is stupid; the atheist who blindly follows science, or the questioning theist? [/quote]
Indeed, it is the act of following anything blindly that is stupid, and the act of questioning ... |
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29-11-2007, 08:38 AM |
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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: RE: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| Oh, and it's by no means established that Albert Einstein was a theist - see Richard Dawkins' [i]God Delusion[/i] for a long and rather tedious discussion of the subject, replete with numerous quotes ... |
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29-11-2007, 01:09 AM |
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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: RE: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| Not sure about quarks, but I do believe in dark matter.
(I find clumps of it mysteriously appearing in my navel every day.) |
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29-11-2007, 01:05 AM |
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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: RE: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| I think it's interesting how much time we spend pondering whether or not there is a god, and if so, which religion is 'right'.
For me, there's a much more interesting question: [i]Why[/i] do we bel... |
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29-11-2007, 12:53 AM |
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Thread: Moving to FH
Post: RE: Moving to FH
| A few such pubs to try, in rough order of suitability and closeness:
1. The Dolphin http://www.thedolphinsydenham.com / http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/11/11802/Dolphin/Sydenham. Of the pubs a... |
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28-11-2007, 10:52 PM |
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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: RE: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| Sorry...I should have said "if the Old Testament/Torah had never existed...". Of course it was around for a good few years before that upstart Jesus came along.
By the way, on a bus the other day I... |
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28-11-2007, 08:41 AM |
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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: RE: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| Okay, I appreciate (a little more now, I'm happy to admit, having read many people's kind words about Jehova's Witnesses whom they have known) that they really do believe that they are doing good.
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27-11-2007, 11:31 PM |
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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: RE: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| "Have dogma, my son, have dogma."
...seems different somehow, when you put it that way. |
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27-11-2007, 12:03 AM |
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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: RE: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| Ahem, yes that's what I meant. Thanks, RussB.
There's also a profound difference between getting into a debate with someone who is genuinely prepared to listen and, critically, if by learning somet... |
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26-11-2007, 09:27 PM |
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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: RE: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| Baggy, there is a world of difference between criticising someone for their beliefs or actions (i.e. things that they choose of their own free will), and criticising them for what they were born with ... |
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26-11-2007, 08:40 PM |
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Thread: Foreign players in the Premier League
Post: RE: Foreign players in the Premier League
| England out of the Cup. I told you so.
A bit of time playing overseas would toughen future England players up a bit and enable them to play formations other than 4-4-2 and tactics other than givin... |
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22-11-2007, 11:58 PM |
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Thread: Sign of the times
Post: RE: Sign of the times
| Strangely, the one at the bottom of the hill (less graffiti but ugly holes where the wood has rotted away) stands next to a more modern sign already.
It annoys me that for the lack of some inexpen... |
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22-11-2007, 11:28 PM |
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Thread: Ken may bid for control of Southern
Post: Ken may bid for control of Southern
| Article in yesterday's Times:
"London mayor plans to take public control of rail services"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2903879.ece
Hmm...well I must say he seems to be... |
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21-11-2007, 08:41 AM |
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Thread: Fifty grand for us to spend on improvements
Post: RE: Fifty grand for us to spend on improvements
| I'd guess anything requiring lots of ongoing maintenance is probably out of the picture.
Also, I have a feeling that the railway bridge belongs to one of the railway companies, so the council coul... |
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19-11-2007, 09:37 PM |
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Thread: Sign of the times
Post: Sign of the times
| Forest Estate sign (on London Road roughly opposite the Tesco garage):
[img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/189/444105628_e660346965.jpg?v=0[/img]
(Thanks to Robwinton for the photo via Flickr.)
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19-11-2007, 09:10 PM |
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Thread: ?40k reward for info on local sex attacker/burglar
Post: RE: ?40k reward for info on local sex attacker/bur...
| Sorry, what I meant was that someone out there somewhere might have some further evidence to come forward with, so it wouldn't hurt to mention the ?40k reward. |
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19-11-2007, 08:32 AM |
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Thread: ?40k reward for info on local sex attacker/burglar
Post: RE: ?40k reward for info on local sex attacker/bur...
| On a slighly more positive note, police have also recently arrested members of a gang apparently responsible for a series of thefts, robberies and violent attacks that included at least one member fro... |
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17-11-2007, 10:04 AM |
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Thread: ?40k reward for info on local sex attacker/burglar
Post: ?40k reward for info on local sex attacker/burglar
| A BBC report yesterday says that police believe a recent burglary in South Norwood may be linked to a sex attacker who they've been trying to track down for 16 years, whose attack locations have appar... |
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17-11-2007, 09:55 AM |
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Thread: Birds Of Prey
Post: RE: Bird Of Prey in SE23 (Forest Hill)
| On the tellybox the other day, they were saying that there's an increasing number of Peregrine Falcons moving into London. Apparently their fave food is pidgeons. |
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16-11-2007, 09:11 PM |
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Thread: Foreign players in the Premier League
Post: RE: Foreign players in the Premier League
| How is having world class foreign players playing in this country harming our kids? |
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16-11-2007, 08:18 AM |
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Thread: Foreign players in the Premier League
Post: RE: Foreign players in the Premier League
| You mean the players' kids? |
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15-11-2007, 10:06 PM |
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Thread: Phishing
Post: RE: Phishing
| There's also a phenomenon known as 'pharming' - a cracker's attack aiming to redirect a website's traffic to another, bogus website.
Following this scheme of using 'ph' to mean bogus things, I'd li... |
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15-11-2007, 09:42 PM |
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Thread: Foreign players in the Premier League
Post: Foreign players in the Premier League
| Every time I stray onto the football pages of a paper I read about another hack, manager, player or pundit blaming the England team's flacid performances on the number of foreign players in the Premie... |
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15-11-2007, 08:59 PM |
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Thread: Number Theory
Post: RE: Number theory
| 7. Books are better for hiding behind when you have embarrasingly miscounted your reasons.
11th December? |
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14-11-2007, 09:11 PM |
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Thread: Number Theory
Post: RE: Number theory
| 7 reasons why books are better than iPods:
1. You can't learn much from an iPod (except from a very narrow range of podcasts), but there's almost no topic that you can't get a book about. If you re... |
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13-11-2007, 10:43 PM |
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Thread: Number Theory
Post: RE: Number theory
| I once spent most of a 185 bus journey to central London watching traffic in the oncoming lane, trying to work out whether bus lanes or car lanes carried more people.
I think I estimated something ... |
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12-11-2007, 11:43 PM |
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Thread: Number Theory
Post: RE: Number theory
| In response to the question by Roz on the 'Who is in HOP' thread, I believe there's a pretty simple reason why buses have a tendency to all come in bunches rather than remain evenly spaced.
Say the... |
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10-11-2007, 01:52 PM |
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Thread: My favourite place of worship in SE23
Post: RE: My favourite place of worship in SE23
| Non-believer of what, what is it that you want to worship, Baggy, if you don't mind my asking? And didn't you used to have an "occasional thread" about such places? |
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10-11-2007, 08:46 AM |
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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: RE: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| I tried "I don't speak Japanese" when I was visited by Japanese Jehova's Witnesses in Japan and they came back with copies of Watchtower in English.
I don't fancy inviting them in. What could be mo... |
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09-11-2007, 09:21 PM |
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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| Jehova's Witnesses keep knocking on our door.
Although I think they're not just idiots, they actually dangerous idiots because they pro-actively go out to corrupt vulnerable people, filling their h... |
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09-11-2007, 01:00 AM |
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Thread: Perry Vale Ward meeting 29/10/07
Post: RE: Perry Vale Ward meeting 29/10/07
| Not decided yet, so still time for you to give your opinion, I should think - see the thread 'Fifty grand for us to spend on improvements':
http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=78 |
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09-11-2007, 12:29 AM |
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Thread: How to Measure Water Pressure?
Post: RE: water pressure
| The cold water tank in our place is no longer in use. I guess you don't need one if you've got a combi. |
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08-11-2007, 11:23 PM |
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Thread: How to Measure Water Pressure?
Post: RE: water pressure
| I'm not a plumber but from what I remember of the physics I learnt in school...
The velocity of a liquid ('fluid' includes gases as well as liquids) has nothing to do with pressure (at least not in... |
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08-11-2007, 10:11 PM |
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Thread: Number Theory
Post: RE: Number theory
| This post got moved across from the "Linda Barker and other celeb types in the area" thread in the "se23" section, by the way, for those of thinking I've got completely loopy. |
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06-11-2007, 08:14 PM |
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Thread: Number Theory
Post: Number Theory
| Not exactly 'six degrees of separation', but on a mathematically similar note, have you ever passed on an email petition of the type that goes something like...
[quote]>Dear all,
>The Brazilian c... |
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05-11-2007, 09:12 PM |
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Thread: Your views called for on crime and anti-social behaviour on London buses
Post: RE: Your views called for on crime and anti-social...
| Seven million bus journeys per day, huh? So if they put the price of a day ticket up by just 10p, that'd be ?700,000/day (?255.5 million a year) to pay for policing the buses. Am I missing something o... |
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03-11-2007, 09:03 PM |
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Thread: Economic migration
Post: RE: Economic migration
| If all the Polish plumbers did go home tomorrow, what would happen? Plumbers' wages temporarily would rise until either plumbers started immigrating from somewhere else, or it became worthwhile for Br... |
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01-11-2007, 12:01 AM |
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Thread: Economic migration
Post: Economic migration
| [Moved from thread 'Why do buses terminate early' -admin]
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[quote]The sad thing is that whilst economic migrants fulfil a need in the UK and do a great job, it doesn't do much for the local UK... |
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31-10-2007, 08:33 AM |
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Thread: All things Spanish
Post: RE: The Honor Oak
| We don't have any bulls.
Squirrel fighting, perhaps? |
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29-10-2007, 09:57 PM |
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Thread: Fifty grand for us to spend on improvements
Post: RE: Fifty grand for us to spend on improvements
| As I understand it, Southern or Network Rail or one of the other companies involved in running the trains owns the station, so the only way that something would get done is if they decided that they w... |
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27-10-2007, 10:21 PM |
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Thread: Buses
Post: RE: Why do buses terminate early, and why don't bu...
| If you ask the driver, I think they have to print you a voucher for completing your journey.
I got one the other day after a bus I was on stopped, apparently due to a problem with the suspension. ... |
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27-10-2007, 08:50 PM |
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Thread: Buses
Post: Why do buses terminate early, and why don't bus dr...
| Today I was on a 176 from Waterloo which unexpectedly terminated at Dulwich Library.
The driver chose to communicate this message by turning the lights on and off a few times.
Having recently l... |
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26-10-2007, 10:45 PM |
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Thread: FHF - Forest Hill Food - MAKE IT!
Post: RE: FHF - Forest Hill Food - MAKE IT!
| Not exactly a recipe, but here's my favourite Forest Hill dinner party menu:
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[font=Verdana]Aperitif:
Cheesewax souffl? with a confit of elk breath.
Main course:
Briskets of smoked oa... |
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25-10-2007, 10:35 PM |
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Thread: Refuse Collection
Post: RE: Why is refuse collection not privatised?
| Competitive tendering is certainly a good thing, but not quite the same thing. |
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25-10-2007, 10:22 PM |
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Thread: Fifty grand for us to spend on improvements
Post: RE: Fifty grand for us to spend on improvements
| I wish I could take more credit, but all I did was post that message, actually.
I wouldn't be keen on re-opening the toilets as they tend to attract drug users, homeless people, etc and there are t... |
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24-10-2007, 07:51 AM |
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Thread: Your views called for on crime and anti-social behaviour on London buses
Post: RE: Your views called for on crime and anti-social...
| While I deplore the actions of the drivers who shut those doors on you both, I reckon drivers do a pretty good job on the whole.
It seems to me that they have to tolerate a huge amount of rudeness... |
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23-10-2007, 10:09 PM |
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Thread: Refuse Collection
Post: RE: Why is refuse collection not privatised?
| I don't understand your logic about it being a loss-maker, Roz. Imagine if taxis were run by local authorities, and you could get a taxi anywhere for, say, ?2, with the rest of the cost being subsidis... |
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23-10-2007, 09:13 PM |
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Thread: Your views called for on crime and anti-social behaviour on London buses
Post: RE: Your views called for on crime and anti-social...
| Well firstly, congratulations!
Secondly, I agree that CCTV is not very useful except for deterring the most serious crimes, but who'd want to be a bus conductor in charge of tackling anti-social be... |
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22-10-2007, 11:39 PM |
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Thread: Refuse Collection
Post: Refuse Collection
| When we moved recently, it took over a year and several dozen requests to our council and councillors to get our refuse collected with any regularity.
The monumentally incompetent service and incr... |
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22-10-2007, 11:27 PM |
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Thread: Police at Blockbuster
Post: RE: Police at Blockbuster
| King Kong vs Godzilla. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056142/trailers-screenplay-E22397-10-2) |
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