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Payments / Re: Hobbies
« on: June 09, 2010, 06:02:20 am »Message ID: 189962
my favorite hobby is metal casting.  It is great fun to see metal turn fluid and then pour it into a mold.
If you would like to look up my latest project, search these words:
metalshop projects the rabbitry-plaque

I don't think I am allowed to post the link.

Dave D
ipayitforward

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Off-Topic / Re: Cheating in relationships.
« on: February 10, 2010, 06:42:37 am »Message ID: 138553
And yet your screen name is Playgurl??

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Support / Re: people always think everything is scam!
« on: January 24, 2010, 05:41:05 am »Message ID: 132787
I agree that most things online are scams.  The people who start the matrix, or business collect all the money.  Just think about it...the money has to come from somewhere!  I like sites like fusion cash because I can do the offers and know that I make the money.  I am almost ready to take my second check here.

Dave D
ipayitforward

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Off-Topic / Re: magicJack
« on: January 20, 2010, 10:15:01 am »Message ID: 131609
Last year they were talking about being able to port your existing number within the year.  So I am hoping it will happen soon.  Magic Jack has an affiliate program too if anyone is interested in that, let me know.

Dave D

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Off-Topic / Re: Do You Tell Your Kids There is a Santa Clause?
« on: December 08, 2009, 06:38:33 am »Message ID: 117148


Hello friends,

We never told our kids Santa was real...we said that he was like Barney...it did cause a few problems with the neighbors when they were young.  The neighbors parents came to us and asked us not to let our kids tell theirs that Santa wasn't real!

Dave D

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Off-Topic / Re: Please explain Noah's Ark to me ...
« on: December 06, 2009, 05:27:54 am »Message ID: 116446


Interestingly enough, many of the writings in the Bible (including the gospels) do not make the same claims.  They contradict each other on what would seem to be very important details.
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OK, now you are the one who is giving generalities... could you give us examples of contradictions?

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Off-Topic / Do You Tell Your Kids There is a Santa Clause?
« on: December 06, 2009, 05:22:32 am »Message ID: 116445

Just wondering if you tell your kids there is a Santa?

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Off-Topic / Re: Christmas tree: real or fake
« on: December 06, 2009, 05:17:21 am »Message ID: 116443
We get a real one...planning to get it today.

Dave D

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Off-Topic / Re: What are your hobbies?
« on: December 02, 2009, 06:55:44 am »Message ID: 115034
My favorite hobby is metal casting.  If you want to see some of my projects, do an internet search for "metalshop homestead"  I guess I could just put the link, But I do advertise there a bit!  Try to find my Swedish horse casting...It is one of my best.

Dave D

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Off-Topic / Re: Is anyone else having problems posting?
« on: November 23, 2009, 05:53:03 am »Message ID: 112169
I am wondering if admin was cleaning up inflammatory threads...


Dave D

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Off-Topic / Re: Internet
« on: November 22, 2009, 06:59:39 am »Message ID: 111911
I would probably be sleeping more!

Dave D

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Off-Topic / Re: Please explain Noah's Ark to me ...
« on: November 21, 2009, 07:35:38 am »Message ID: 111662

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What Kuhn brings up is something that should be brought up, but that doesn't mean it holds up under scrutiny or holds any validity.  Could you give some examples of scientific studies being skewed because someone lacked the belief in a god(s)?  Why would someone skew results because of a lack of belief?  What are they achieving by doing this?

Maybe you wouldn't consider Darwin to be a true scientist...but his work would be an example to me...he considered other races inferior!

What other races?  Races outside of Caucasians?

What is the basis for calling Darwin a racist?  Could you show me something that proves this, or are you just making baseless claims that add nothing to the discussion?

The fact of the matter is this:  Darwin was very concerned and worried about the idea of eugenics and about the potential misunderstandings that could arise from his proposals (survival of the fittest for example).  He did not promote eugenics; in fact, he was very much opposed to the idea of using his discoveries to "perfect" the human race.

He was even offered the chance to co-release a report on eugenics with Francis Galton (the father of the idea of eugenics) this scene unfolded:

"When Galton suggested that publishing research could encourage intermarriage within a "caste" of "those who are naturally gifted", Darwin foresaw practical difficulties, and thought it "the sole feasible, yet I fear utopian, plan of procedure in improving the human race", preferring to simply publicise the importance of inheritance and leave decisions to individuals."


It is quite obvious he was not a proponent of eugenics or a proponent of exterminating other races to achieve human racial perfection.  His entire theory of evolution revolves around NATURAL selection, not artificial selection or genetic engineering.

But please, do feel free to post some accurate information backing up your claim that he was a racist and supported artificially perfecting the human race.  I'm very interested to hear it.

OK, I did some research..(accepted your challenge) http://darwin-online.org.uk/contents.html  and found that darwin was in fact an abolitionist...He was less racist than the society he was in which still had slavery...the English people of that day considered cultures who didn't sit and drink tea as savages.  Here is an interesting quote from Travels in Brazil (quote)Two very different feelings are excited in the observer when he beholds the children of Africa placed amidst the more exalted relations of European civilisation; on the one hand he remarks with joy the traces of humanity which gradually develop in the negro by his intercourse with the whites* while on the other hand he cannot but grieve that means so cruel, so contrary to the rights of mankind as the slave trade, were required to afford to that unhappy race, degraded even in their own native country, the first school of moral, education. These feelings affected us still more deeply when we were obliged to go to the slave-market to look for, and purchase, a young negro for ourselves.(end quote)

     

      I did find though that other scientists took his ideas and perverted them to promote their racist agendas...(yes, even Hitler) One person I read said that many of the early evolutionists were outspoken racists.  Maybe Darwin has been lumped in with them?

On another perhaps unrelated note...I think it is sad that people who claimed to be Christians have used God and the Bible to rationalize and support their atrocities  throughout history.  It seems to me that Christians should be less racist than anyone else because they believe we all came from a common ancestor. 

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Off-Topic / Re: Please explain Noah's Ark to me ...
« on: November 20, 2009, 05:12:53 am »Message ID: 111259


[/quote]What Kuhn brings up is something that should be brought up, but that doesn't mean it holds up under scrutiny or holds any validity.  Could you give some examples of scientific studies being skewed because someone lacked the belief in a god(s)?  Why would someone skew results because of a lack of belief?  What are they achieving by doing this?
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Maybe you wouldn't consider Darwin to be a true scientist...but his work would be an example to me...he considered other races inferior!

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Off-Topic / Re: BRAND NEW BABY GRANDAUGHTER
« on: November 19, 2009, 07:38:06 am »Message ID: 110914
congratulations!  My granddaughter is 10 months old now.

Dave D

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Off-Topic / Re: What do you spend your FC money on? O=
« on: November 18, 2009, 06:57:34 am »Message ID: 110523
I also am putting my earnings into other online earning programs so I can make interest on it and make more!  I consider FC money "free money" since all I did to earn is is spend some time online!

Dave D

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