Aikon, your decision may be right for you, but for you to impugn anyone else for failing to play the martyr is offensive to me.
Phantom Stranger
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THE SHAME IS ON "YOU" DANSK!!!
by Aikon inhi dansk.
i have read your commet on the subject "shame on you".. what you have seem to forgot is your family????
yes if you was not like a "bull in a china shop" you would have stopped and looked at the situation to ensure your daughter were not left behind in the w/t.. but what did you do?
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You Britons need to lay off the sauce, says Reuters
by Phantom Stranger inlondon (reuters) - britain launched a campaign on monday against excessive alcohol in a bid to tackle its binge-drinking culture, which some say has turned many town centers into virtual no-go areas at night.
ministers say alcohol misuse costs around 20 billion pounds a year in associated crime, health and social problems and employee absenteeism.
last year, a government report found that britons were the worst binge drinkers in europe, with excessive drinking accounting for 40 percent of all drinking occasions by men and 22 percent by women.
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Phantom Stranger
Hey now...that's how they drink in Texas. In Oregon we walk around with a shoulder harness with a pony keg or Terminator Stout in it, and the tap routed around to our mouths.
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Are you a complete person?
by JH inpeople living alone, usually have to do everything in the house, like cooking, washing, and all kinds of odd jobs here and there.
usually men have their specialties like plumming and electricity, and women are better in cooking and sewing.
but living alone, you have to do all of the above.
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Phantom Stranger
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Robert Heinlein
OK, I woudn't attempt to plan an invasion or conn a ship - but I can do the rest of 'em.
I do almost all the cooking in our house...most of the laundry (I'm a better ironer, too). I am good with carpentry, electrical, and OK with plumbing (I know which way stuff rolls...) I can do the books...I can set up a network, replace a head gasket, frame a house, and teach a class.
None of which proves anything, of course...
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Jehovah's (Insert description here) Witnesses.
by Englishman in.
i'll start:.
jehovah's didactic witnesses.. englishman.
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Phantom Stranger
No...I'll really have to go with "Christian".
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If You Were Never A JW What Type of Life Would You Think You'd Have Now?
by minimus in.
would you have gone to college, gotten a great job, become a businessman, politician, priest,........what??
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Phantom Stranger
I'm very certain that I wouldn't exist.
That's like asking, what would your life be like if you had been raised by wolves?
I believe strongly in the concept of the self being fluid, ever-changing, and impermanent - and the sum of all one's thoughts and experiences. The idea of a fixed, rigid self is an illusion of consciousness, the Buddhists believe, and I am increasingly open to that rejection of duality.
If my mother had not become a JW, I would not have come into being... someone else would have my name and body. I would not exist.
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Jehovah's (Insert description here) Witnesses.
by Englishman in.
i'll start:.
jehovah's didactic witnesses.. englishman.
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Phantom Stranger
"Christian"?
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I did it!!!! I applied for college!
by MoeJoJoJo in...and was accepted for classes starting this summer.
finally at the age of 33, i finally have my situation worked out so i can attend the local university...my kids are all in school now, won't have the guilty feelings resulting from pursuing a worldly career over pioneering now that i'm no longer a jw, etc.
my major will be clinical lab technology-its a two-year degree.
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Phantom Stranger
Hell, applying is one thing - you were accepted! Your headline softpedals your acheivement... :)
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I did it!!!! I applied for college!
by MoeJoJoJo in...and was accepted for classes starting this summer.
finally at the age of 33, i finally have my situation worked out so i can attend the local university...my kids are all in school now, won't have the guilty feelings resulting from pursuing a worldly career over pioneering now that i'm no longer a jw, etc.
my major will be clinical lab technology-its a two-year degree.
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Phantom Stranger
Rock on, sistah. As a fellow x-JW of the 80's, keep up the good work.
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Bush Admin stacking the deck
by Phantom Stranger inbush replaces advisers on cloning, medical issues
1 hour, 14 minutes ago
by maggie fox, health and science correspondent
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Scientists: Stem cells may help cure baldness
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Research showing that bald mice can grow hair after being implanted with a type of stem cell could lead to a cure for baldness, a group of scientists says.
The project marks the first time that "blank slate" stem cells were able to induce hair growth, said Dr. George Cotsarelis, a University of Pennsylvania dermatologist and co-author of the study.
The study was released this week on the Web site of the journal Nature Technology in advance of its April publication date.
"We've shown for the first time these cells have the ability to generate hair when taken from one animal and put into another," Cotsarelis said in a telephone interview. "You can envision a process of isolating existing stem cells and re-implanting them in the areas where guys are bald."
The study confirms what scientists suspected for years: hair follicles contain "blank slate" stem cells that give most humans a full head of hair for life.
Although they are called stem cells, they differ from embryonic stem cells, the research on which has sparked a political debate because embryos are destroyed in the process. Embryonic stem cells are created in the first days after conception and give rise to the human body and its more than 200 different types of cells.
Biologists who study hair because of its regenerative qualities said the new study is an important breakthrough. But they cautioned that a baldness cure is still some years away.
"Like with any stem cells, the amount of information needed to get us from a stem to a fully developed organ is a lot," said Stanford University biologist Anthony Oro. "It will require a lot of things to go right and we are still along way off."
Two drugs now on the market, known commercially as Rogaine and Propecia, were first designed to treat hypertension and enlarged prostates but later were discovered to have hair growth as a side effect. Each drug has about $100 million in sales annually.
It's estimated that more than $1 billion is spent each year in the United States combatting baldness, mostly through hair transplants.
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God or Goddess, does the supreme have a gender?
by Sirius Dogma insome people say the supreme being is male, some say it is female.. some call it goddess, some call it god.. of course this all pre-supposes one exists in the first place, but that aside, what do you think?
does god have a gender, what is that gender and what do you call it god or goddess?.
for me, i don't think god has a gender, if one exists.
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Phantom Stranger
Silly, Diana and all the Supremes are female.