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  I got another tattoo...........

  by Gadget in

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  i got another tattoo yesterday!

  wahoo!

  they're addictive...... .

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  darkuncle29

  Very Grrrrr! (Tattoo's are just sooo sexy, on men or women.)

  I finially thought up what I'd like to get, but don't really know if I can pull it off.
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  Peace as a state, or permanent trait/structure

  by Markfromcali in

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  okay, here's one for those of you interested in consciousness and such, or maybe those who happen to find it interesting at the moment.

  if not of course you are free to click away and return to your regularly scheduled programming.

  i was reading some ken wilber and was thinking of the point about different stages of development, that different consciousness can be a temporary state, an experience or basically a stable structure of consciousness.

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  darkuncle29

  I don't think its an absolute. If a person has the tendancy to try and choose to be peaceful, how far they are willing to take that is what matters.

  This happened to me last night in traffic:

  I was driving on 522 in Washington state here, going from 405 to Seattle. I though I'd take a shortcut during the worst of the traffic (oops!). So I was lost. I was mostly calm, as it was not the end of the world, and I could just pull over and check my map book. for some reason traffic is really backed up on the arterial. When I finially get to the stoplight, I am behind a white SUV. When the light turned green, the driver just sat there. I was a bit surprised at that. People were passing and honking and just being rude. The light cycles. Same thing happens, but now, the hazard lights are on. I decided to wait till the light turned red and get out of my vehicle and see what the problem was.

  I knocked on this lady's window and she is like almost in tears. She has been sitting in traffic in this dead vehicle for 25 minutes. She called 911 and a tow truck. NOBODY OFFERED TO HELP HER. Just to move traffic along. Instead people were just going about their way, and getting mad and upset. I told her I'd push her through the inersection with my vehicle during the next light cycle. She asked about the other drivers and I told her that at this point they are mad, and nothing will change that.

  So I push her through this light and into a parking lot, which was hard for her because she had no power steering control. She waits for her husband, and I go on my way.

  Although by the time this was all done I felt adrenaline flowing, during this scene I was calm and collected. I was not all bent out of shape because I was behind a stalled vehicle. I was slightly irritated with the individuals who were shouting obscenities without being aware of what was really going on.

  I think it comes down to being a choice.
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  Hair Loss

  by drwtsn32 in

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  gasp!

  i think my hair might be starting to thin.

  it's getting a bit easier to see my scalp when i look into the mirror.

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  Nioxin is good stuff, I need to get some more too. I also know what you mean about the risk of shaving your head. Some guys have a nice shaped head--think Patrick Stewart, Captain Picard--but I know that I do not. I shaved my head for an EEG a few years ago and was shocked and disturbed that I had a head shaped like Kreighton the android from the British show Red Dwarf. OMG! Luckily for me my maternal male relatives all have hair, and live a long time. Even if you do go bald, we'll still love you man.

  Edited for spelling, and to add that as I get older, my beard colour has changed to a rusty hue, with white patches in it. So I'm a 'Calico' yeti.
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  Does the Bible scare anyone else here sometimes?

  by missy04 in

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  maybe i'm just messed up, but i get really freaked out sometimes.

  i can't understand the bible,.....in some places it seems like it's saying all you have to do is one or two things, then it seems like it's saying you have to do different things to be saved.... so many different people and religions have so many different takes on the bible.

  i don't know which to beleive, and it scares me that if i beleived the wrong thing that i could go to hell, or just go to sleep forever as the witnesses say.

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  The bible itself does not scare me, anymore than a Scandinavian legend of Giants.

  What scares me is the people who take the bible and formulate beliefs for themselves and then try and reflect/inflict those beliefs upon the rest of us. Their actions prove that they don't believe them either, but others still get harmed in the process. So, is it just an excuse to be vicious and crude? I think it is.
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  What Made Things Finally "Click" With You To Know This Was Not The Truth?

  by minimus in

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  for me it was the realization that there was no "faithful & discreet slave", that all the prophecies "proving" that jehovah's witnesses are the only religion approved by god is bogus and the realization that this is a "cult" and there is no real normal sense of love and affection in the "truth".

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  Outoftheorg

  THEN I NOTICED THAT VERY FEW OF THE MEN IN PLACES OF AUTHORITY, BEHAVED AS ONE WOULD EXPECT FROM SPRITUALLY LED MEN.

  MOST WERE HAUGHTY, ARROGANT, AND IGNORANT.

  I noticed this when I was a teen, but still couldn't shake my head clear. Being aware of this concept though made me cautious. It also led me to try and actually be a better person.

  This did eventually lead to my breaking the Habitual lifestyle of the JW system. A few years later my best friend had a four hour conversation with me and I was free. Since then I have been continuing to remove BORG programming, and replace beliefs with more "organic" flexible comcepts.
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  Creation or Evolution?

  by JH in

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  i guess i'll always believe in god and his creation no matter what.. how about you, which side do you lean on...creation or evolution?

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  Why limit yourself by only choosing one or the other? By choosing both, but not in their absolute senses, the possibilities are much more interesting.

  Is genetic engenearing evolution or creation? Is it both?
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  Dad Blames Church for death of teen; also case referred

  by Dogpatch in

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  a half-dozen protesters picketed in front of court of queen?s bench on tuesday to support a calgary man who has sued the watch tower bible and tract society of canada and others for being responsible for his daughter?s death.

  inside the court, a hearing by the society, edmonton?s cross cancer institute, two doctors and several jehovah?s witnesses to have lawrence hughes?

  $1-million statement of claim quashed was eventually adjourned.

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  OK, to try and answer the question I think you're asking:

  OK, what am I missing here?? This girl had leukemia, she was given blood transfusions and she died anyway...........I'm not sure I understand what the father is suing the Borg for........

  Hughes said he now has his daughter?s medical records to prove his case. ?I believe the Watch Tower Society was afraid because Bethany?s health was improving and she may be forced to be given blood transfusions, so that?s why they hid her away for the last two months,? said the father. ?It makes me sick to think Bethany could be alive today if they had given her proper medical treatment.?

  there, does that help? I wondered the same thing and read it twice carefully to pick out the answer. This could actually be interesting in how it might work. It could be argued not on the grounds of religious issues, "No Blood Blah Blah", but instead on removing her from medical treatment. I hope works.
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  What Are You All Reading?!

  by Doubtfully Yours in

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  so, what's everybody reading these days?.

  i used to read so passionately, but i've lost the hobby due to everyday life stress and distractions.

  i want to get back into reading again.

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  darkuncle29

  I'm reading Massage for Dummies.
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  How Spiritual Are You? -- A 20-question true/false test from TIME magazine

  by Gopher in

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  the new time magazine has a story called "the god gene", which suggests that the need for god is built into our genes, and may have possibly evolved.

  wouldn't that be ironic?

  anyhow, here's the quiz.

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  I don't think I'm that spiritual. I am absentminded sometimes, but to me that is just because what is going on around me just isn't important enought to matter, I'm focused elsewhere. I didn't really like or relate to these questions, too pigeon holed. I'm also not conected to people, more to nature. I do not believe that being "out of it" makes one spiritual, as I tend to think that being more aware is what makes one spiritual.
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  You know you're an apostate when... Or, My first Jack-o'-lantern!

  by seattleniceguy in

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  that's right, that's right, i carved my first jack-o'-lantern!

  it was much more easier than i thought it would be, and much more fun, too!

  i don't think i did too shabby for my first try, but i definitely picked up some valuable insights by observing my roommate and her awesome cat-o'-lantern.

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  Did you make pumkin seeds? They are so easy to do. I used to buy pumkins even as a JW and make the seeds, and then give the pumkin to a friends' donkey to eat.

  I just made pumkin pie sunday night from a real pumkin, and made seeds too, but there were only a few as it was a small one. I have a large Jack-O'-Lantern type pumkin at my friends' place on Green Lake, I want to make seeds in a day or so. They have a nicer kitchen to work in than I do.

  If you want to make seeds, just email or call me, you don't need a recipe.