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  Tell Us About Your Culture!

  by MrMoe in

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  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/15/52295/750641/post.ashx#750641

  sparked something!

  many americans are... well... mutts.

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  Shakita

  I am polish, german, and dutch.

  My grandmother on my mothers side came over from Poland with her kids through Ellis Island before the war broke out in her country. She was in the United States from her early twenties through the time she died at age 85. In all that time she never learned how to read and write in English. She could manage a few words here and there, but never compete sentences. As a child she would ask us (me, my brother and sister) if we would like a cookie, and she would give us a cracker! Then, she would ask us if we wanted some soda....always in broken English...and she would give us juice. When you are a kid, this is very traumatic! A cookie is in no way equal to a cracker, and the same goes for soda and juice. My grandmother was a very strong woman, putting up with an abusive alcoholic for a husband. Back in Poland she used to wash the families clothes on a rock in the river and were from a poor family. She left Poland as war was breaking out, hiding from the soldiers and traveling in the dark of night to a ship to bring her to America. I wish that she could have written down her whole life story, it would have been cherished by all her decendents if she had.

  My grandmother on my fathers side was a great woman too. She was in the Pillsbury Bake-off years ago and was runner up. She met Art Linkletter and Ronald Reagan. I have a picture of her with President Reagan (then just an actor). I will post it up later since I have to go to work now.

  This was a great topic Mr. Moe!

  Mrs. Shakita
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  Threat Level AGAIN raised in US

  by Shakita in

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  the terrorist threat level is now back to orange (high) again.. what do we do this time?

  last time we were told to go out and buy duct tape and disaster supplies.

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/a15503-2003may20.html?nav=hptop_tb.

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  The terrorist threat level is now back to orange (HIGH) again.

  What do we do this time? Last time we were told to go out and buy duct tape and disaster supplies.

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15503-2003May20.html?nav=hptop_tb

  Is this another cry wolf episode?

  I am beginning to wonder if all this chatter is for real. They say they hear it, but don't tell you what they hear. It is really starting to piss me off. And, I don't piss off easily.

  Mrs. Shakita
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  If you could spend a whole day with anyone .......

  by azaria in

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  dead (resurrected ) or alive who would you choose?.

  mood barometer: a little melancholy, but basically .

  every once in a while i think of who i would like to meet.

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  I was going to say God, but I am not to sure he exists anymore.

  Then, I was going to say Jesus.... but if God doesn't really exist, then meeting Jesus would be a waste of a good wish.

  If I could spend the day with anyone, it would have to be my parents who died a couple of years ago. I would like to hear their voices again, to touch their faces, to ask them if there is an afterlife and are they happy there.

  Mrs. Shakita
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  Here is the article and photo of Bigred from Sunday paper

  by Mulan in

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  here is the photo that ran in the paper yesterday.

  dave is in front, and our eldest son, randy is behind him.

  this is the article, online: http://classifieds.nwsource.com/jobs/jobmarket/.

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  Nice picture, Mulan. Having put up some sheet rock with my husband, we know how difficult a job it really is! The professionals make it look easy, but getting that joint compound on just right so that there are no bumps and air pockets....well, let's just say that we did our best! Congratulations to the guys!

  Mrs. Shakita
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  APOLOGY

  by rebel in

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  i was way overboard last night.

  i was hurt and wanted to take it out on someone.

  basically, i am a nobody.

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  Rebel:

  I could tell from your previous post that you were having some problems. I hope some others here can help you, problems like this are so hard to handle. I just wanted you to know that I will be thinking of you and hope that you can work things out with your husband. Maybe some professional marriage counseling would help? It might help your husband to get some outside(of the JWs) counseling on how to lovingly treat a marriage partner. The JW's headship crap is downright abusive to me. Gives the man an excuse to treat his wife as a lower form of life.

  Take care.

  Mrs. Shakita
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  Islam's Hour of Judgement

  by metatron in

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  countries, governments, and social systems all can encounter a special time of judgement - a unique moment in history.

  when they must face reality and survive - or wither away as another of humanity's dead ends.. the muslim world has entered such a time.

  they must progress or face a destruction of their own making.. i'm shocked at how few people actually appreciate the danger that 9-11 exposed.

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  Some World Christian Statistics

  Some World Religious Statistics (From Time, January 29,2001, p. 12)

  # There are 1.45 billion baptized Catholics around the world. 49% of them live in North and South America

  # There were 164 new bishops nominated by the Pope last year, bringing the world total to 4,439

  # The number of Catholic priests now number 404,626, 418 more than the previous year. There are also 814,779 women religious and 57,813 men religious who are not priests

  # The number of professed Christians around the world is now 1.9 billion. Christianity has a majority of the population in two-thirds of the world's 238 countries

  # There are now 33,820 Christian denominations or similar distinct organizations. Churches independent of the main branches of Christianity have 386 adherents

  # Muslims number 1.2 billion, 19.6% of the total. In 1900 Muslims numbered 200 million, or 12.3% of the total

  # There are 811 million Hindus in the world. There are 360 million Buddhists, 23 million Sikhs and 14 million Jews

  # 768 million are 'non-religious', up from 3 million in 1900.

  Sources: The Vatican Yearbook 2000 (1,2,3); The World Christian Encyclopedia (4-8).

  As you can see from the statistics above, Muslims are going nowhere soon. This is no David Koresh, there will be no Waco day of judgement, the Muslim religion is here to stay. I hope that the fanatical Muslims will eventually be caught and dealt with so that they can not spread their hate the other peace-loving majority of Muslims. The up and coming generation of young Muslims need to be taught to live in the world, not to try to KILL off those who disagree with their faith. Is this possible? Who knows. But, this is the key to the world's survival.

  The Muslims have long standing religious customs that I do not agree with, but with the increase of domestic relations between the countries, my hope is that the up and coming new generation of Muslims will not be taught to HATE the western world, we really depend on this new generation to bury the seeds of hate that the previous generation has instilled in their hearts. If this is not done, I fear for our children because there will be more 9/11's, or worse, in their future.

  Mrs. Shakita
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  Brother (elder) Sister (pioneer) hid my leaving should they be punished

  by run dont walk in

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  i left the borg after a 5 year struggle at home.

  the best way for me to leave was to move across the country from east to west, (still wasn't far enough), i was unemployed at the time and had no real opportunities, so my girlfriend at the time (not a jo-ho)(who my family never met) and i headed out west.

  now, i returned home about 3 years later when my dad past away, and at the funeral, people were coming up to me asking me how the west was and how was my new congregation, can you believe this.

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  So the question is ....... Being an elder in the congregation, and not lying but also not telling the truth, would this affect anything.

  Where I come from "not telling the truth" IS lying.......

  They sound embarrassed by you, and since you live so far away they thought that the lie was safe. Guess they were wrong. I know plenty of witnesses who have lied in the past.....even though they claim that they might live at a higher standard than the other 6 billion people on this planet....it is just a fantasy....Good for you for telling the "truth".

  Mrs. Shakita
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  Defending friends online

  by kenpodragon in

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  over the time i have been coming to message board, i have seen something happen time and time again and even been part of it myself.

  it is called, defending friends online.

  in so doing, i can honesty say that every time i did it, i felt i was right and had the correct motives to do so.

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  "People can only form an opinion with the information they are given."

  Yes, so true.

  You gave the example of 10 percent....I think it varies according to how much personal information each person is willing to divulge. In my own case, I would say that I am even at the 5 percent level. I hold my personal information very close to me, afraid that my loved ones could be hurt, and that is the last thing I would want to do.

  Emotions are surely running high here lately, must be spring fever.

  Mrs. Shakita
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  Some of my Portfolio in Photography I promised to post

  by SheilaM in

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  Yes, I understand about pixels. But, he was saying something about reaching a point where you will not be able to tell the difference between ....let's say 15 pixels and 20, when looking at it with the naked eye. That is what he was saying....maybe he didn't know what he was talking about? Oh well, I have a digital magazine that advertises some new digital cameras with above 6 megapixels......I would love to see what the difference in picture quality is.....they are some pricey cameras!

  Someone else mentioned Ansel Adams...I love landscape photography...he has a way with lighting in pictures that gives such depth....I love them.

  Mrs. Shakita
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  Some of my Portfolio in Photography I promised to post

  by SheilaM in

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  Nice pictures, Shiela. Your grandbaby is a doll.

  I love taking pictures, too. I have 35mm's, a Minolta Maxxum 5 SLR, and a Fuji Finepix A303 Digital. I have yet to figure out all the bells and whistles on my minolta.....I would really love to get a wide angle lens to take pictures of the beach and ocean here in New Jersey. You can get some really great shots of the Jersey shore with that lens, I think! Probably I should take a class in order to understand it all. I absolutely love my digital camera. There is nothing like taking a picture and seeing the results right away, and if you don't like it, deleting it! My camera has 3.2 megapixels, and it takes great pictures. Comparing my SLR to my digital.....I think the digital takes clearer pictures, and the color is fantastic.

  I was talking to the Canon representative in the Best Buy store when I was purchasing my photo printer. He was saying that it won't be long before they come out with a 20 megapixel digital camera, probably a year or two! He also said though that the quality with all those pixels won't improve the picture much more than it is already.......so I don't really understand the reason for all those added pixels? Well, I look forward to seeing more of your pictures.....

  Mrs. Shakita