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  Do You Think That Animals Truly Understand Human Language?

  by minimus in

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  they say horses communicate with their ears.

  mr. ed talked, though.

  pet owners, do you think that your cat or dog or goldfish really understands you?.

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  I totally understand where the grief comes from, I still grieve every day for my wonderful old dog,

  if I went out for a walk with her and my partner, and they went off a different direction, or I had to go, NO WAY would she go anywhere without me.

  she would just sit and wait.

  I am still not sure if it was for the best or not that i had to be the one to decide her fate. she was my dog, and i loved her so much.

  I must admit writing that has mived me to tears.

  it's a funny thing about humans. what other species cries for years after loss?
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  Israel's Defense

  by Paris in

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  this is interesting.

  lots of posts praising and defending palestinians .

  i have yet to see one post from anyone defending israel.

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  Mikado

  the Israelis may not be terrorists, but at this present moment they are behaving as such.

  What else do you call the murder of innocent children?

  just so tragic.

  and before you label me as anti SemiticSemitic i have enough Jewish ancestry for my grand children to have been in the ovens.
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  DO YOU BELIEVE ARMAGEDDON WILL EVER COME?

  by Mary in

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  sometimes i look at the world and i think "man, how much longer can it go on?

  " sometimes i think perhaps armageddon will come in my life-time.

  the one scripture i always think of is the one in revelation where it says that jehovah "will bring to ruin, those ruining the earth.

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  Mikado

  or even escaped... silly iPad.
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  DO YOU BELIEVE ARMAGEDDON WILL EVER COME?

  by Mary in

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  sometimes i look at the world and i think "man, how much longer can it go on?

  " sometimes i think perhaps armageddon will come in my life-time.

  the one scripture i always think of is the one in revelation where it says that jehovah "will bring to ruin, those ruining the earth.

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  when I first escaperd I can recall wondering what If they were right and armageddon does happen?

  i just knew that even if it did come there was something so intrinscly wrong with JWs I couldn't do it, not for one second more.If the big A came so be it, I would live being true to myself.
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  Do You Think That Animals Truly Understand Human Language?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  they say horses communicate with their ears.

  mr. ed talked, though.

  pet owners, do you think that your cat or dog or goldfish really understands you?.

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  Mikado

  many years ago I had the best dog in the world, she was a cross bred medium sized dog. we identified about One hundred different commands she totally understood,she was the easiest dog to train, you only had to show her something once. One day when she was being very naughty and hassling my hens, I had to tell her off twice and give her ONE smack. She NEVER let anyone else including me hassle those hens for 13 years after.

  She also was a rescue dog, some years after getting her I managed to find her original owner, who said she was the naughtiest dog in the world, totally uncontrollable.

  Now what does that say?

  i also had a rescue cat, put down a few months ago, who totally loved people!!taking him to the vets was a delight, he loved the vets.

  He certainly behaved as if he understood people.

  i now have some very nice dogs and cats.

  what do these cats understand? I suspect very little.

  the dogs? they act as if they understand lots, but I suspect it's an evolutionary quirk...

  LOVED the raccoon story, very moving.
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  Israel's Defense

  by Paris in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  this is interesting.

  lots of posts praising and defending palestinians .

  i have yet to see one post from anyone defending israel.

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  the problem with the Middle East is entirely religious.

  its stomach churning to many of us to listen to someone claiming yet again some special privilege and rights .

  Can you not see that is the cause of all this grief? BOTH sides claim special privileges. BOTH sides are wrong.
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  I had a Tarot card reading

  by LisaRose in

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  so, i am in washinton state visiting my son and his family and we went to a concert that had a fortune tellers booth, actually a gypsy wagon.

  i decided to do something no jw would ever do, have a tarot card reading.

  i wasn't really expecting anything, as i don't believe they are connected with the satan, but i don't believe they can actually read your future either.

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  I travel a lot in the developing world and have had my palms read three times.they didn't even get remotely close, which makes me wonder just how big an effect the cultural divide had in effective cold reading.

  they didn't even come close in any respect, and I was rather disappointed.
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  MH 17

  by zeb in

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  today is a day of national mourning for those murdered on flight mh 17.. there is a page you might look at to get another perspective on this.. anderweltonline.com.

  this guy is a german pilot of large experience.

  from what he says it was not a missile.. peace..

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  I dont particularly trust the Ukrainians in this, but I trust the Russians even less.
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  MH 17

  by zeb in

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  today is a day of national mourning for those murdered on flight mh 17.. there is a page you might look at to get another perspective on this.. anderweltonline.com.

  this guy is a german pilot of large experience.

  from what he says it was not a missile.. peace..

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  What do you mean, if Russia tries to end the fighting by force? they are the ones supporting the insurgents.
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  Would You Convert to Islam to Avoid getting Your Head Chopped Off? Atheist to Polytheist, what say you?

  by BucketShopBill in

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  would you convert to islam if they were holding your head on a ax block, ready to swing the ax or sword to cut your head off?

  we know there are people who died for their political and spiritual values, would you convert to islam to avoid death?

  for atheists, can you justify conversion to preserve life since there is no life after death?

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  of course not, we learnt to survive....