oh, that's heartbreaking but beautiful.
LuckyNun
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Are Liberal Arts Degree worth it?
by truthseeker inan excellent article, which also refutes the idea that people only go to college to get rich and make money.. http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/elearning/?article=liberalartsare liberal arts degrees worth anything?by jim pollock.
for everyone who says that a liberal arts degree doesn't prepare you for anything, you'll find someone else who claims that it prepares you for everything.
well, both, to some extent.the one thing that's pretty much certain is that right out of the gate, a liberal arts grad will tend to pull a smaller starting salary than his or her friends who majored in business or a technical field.
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LuckyNun
Degrees aren't always about career and money.
Agreed. Although, in a college town, a Liberal Arts degree will only get you so far. Most Liberal Arts majors I know work as baristas. When EVERYONE has a college degree, it becomes almost as worthless as a high school diploma. What's the next step up? Around here, the only thing a Master's gets you is a MANAGEMENT position at the coffeeshop, so you can lord it over all the baristas with Bachelor's Degrees.
I do admit, when you get insulted by a college educated barista, the insults are better.
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Oh, the ironing!
by LuckyNun inin my beautiful city, there arose an xtreme christian clothing store.
it lasted all of a month (or two?
) before packing it in and moving away in the middle of the night.
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head shop=place to obtain "tobacco smoking accessories" a.k.a. bongs, rolling papers
*wink, wink, nudge, nudge*
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Oh, the ironing!
by LuckyNun inin my beautiful city, there arose an xtreme christian clothing store.
it lasted all of a month (or two?
) before packing it in and moving away in the middle of the night.
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In my beautiful city, there arose an XTREME Christian clothing store. It lasted all of A MONTH (or TWO?) before packing it in and moving away in the middle of the night.
Guess who bought the storefront?
That's right...my friend Stacy (Big Daddy Cadillac). The tattoo artist. Of course, it IS Lawrence, so within a week, he had to put up a sign.
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Pre wedding talk
by loosie inok the comment undercover made on another thread brought this to mind.
what is a pre-wedding "counsel talk"?.
i eloped so i never had one.. can anyone here tell me what is said in this "talk"?
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not myself, but I can imagine it's rather horrifying. I suspect there are diagrams and a Powerpoint presentation for the more thick-skulled couples.
how could elders do premarital counseling? half the elders I knew growing up didn't sleep in the same bedroom as their wives!
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The baby survives an abortion. Now what?
by MegaDude infrom the article: fifty babies a year are alive after abortion.
they can be born breathing and crying at 19 weeks gestation, he said.
i am not anti-abortion, but as far as i am concerned this is sub-standard medicine.
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I'm not posting the picture, because it's too graphic for this board. however, this story illustrates what happened when abortion was illegal. the stigma pushed many women to wait too long because they were so scared.
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The name of the woman pictured below is Gerri Twerdy Santoro. She was just 28 years old. She was a sister, a daughter, and she was the mother of two daughters when she died a very painful and frightening death.
This New York coroner's picture first appeared in MS Magazine in April 1973. When Gerri's picture appeared in MS, no one knew her name or all the circumstances that surrounded her death from an illegal abortion. While it was assumed that she died at the hands of a back alley butcher, the family later confirmed that she died the way most women died before Roe vs. Wade legalized abortion in this country in 1973; she died from a self-induced abortion attempt.
Gerri was estranged from her abusive husband when she met Clyde Dixon and became pregnant by him. Terrified that once her abusive husband returned to town and learned it was Dixon's baby she was carrying, he would kill her. She was determined and desperate to end her unintended pregnancy. That desperation and determination made her akin to thousands upon thousands of women in those days that were desperate and determined enough to terminate their unintended pregnancies in spite of the fact that abortion was illegal. Illegality affected the safety of abortion but it never affected the number of abortions that were performed.
Gerri was 6 ½ months pregnant in June 1964. Gerri's boyfriend obtained a medical book and borrowed some surgical equipment. They went to a motel where Dixon tried to perform the abortion. When the attempt failed, when it all went terribly wrong, Dixon fled the scene, leaving her there to die, alone, in this cold impersonal hotel room. She was bleeding profusely and tried with towels to stop it but she couldn't. How frightened she must have been, knowing she was going to die. She was found like this, on her stomach with her knees under her, her face not visible, bloody, nude, alone and dead.
Two lives were needlessly and sadly lost here. This horrible sad picture of death makes clear that illegal abortion not only harms and kills women, it has never ever saved one baby. -
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How does one get marked?
by On the Fence inok, i've been involved with jw's for 15 years or so, but i've not been deep enough into any "clicks" to know how someone gets "marked".
will someone explain?
i'm sure i must have been marked more than once for stupid reasons - only going to 2-3 of the 5 weekly meetings (hey, some of us do have to do laundry every now and then), not commenting enough (they wouldn't want to hear my comments now), not going out in service enough, etc.
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well, as recently as 1990, being being raped within the city limits will get a girl 'marked'. if Jehovah doesn't send angels to rush down and save her, she must have deserved it. and the elders tell all her friends parents to not let them hang around her. oh, and there's a special needs talk going over the story of Dinah and how she brought shame to her whole family by being seduced. because being seduced has EVERYTHING to do with being raped in a tunnel.
being marked is one of those funny things, where they don't tell you, but they tell everyone else. there's 'special needs' talk, and then everyone feels free to 'warn' (gossip to) all the brothers and sisters they know.
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Something I want to tell you apostates
by LeftBehind ini want you to know that you have destroyed a family because of your lies about jehovah and his organization.
a family member went apostate and has turned his back on jehovah.
he told us he is never coming back and i know he went and visited internet sites.
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nobody held a gun to his/her head and forced them out. it's just a natural consequence of having one's eyes opened.
it's not like we go door-to-door trying to recruit apostates, or something. if anything, JW's are WAY more militant about "taking [people] out" of something.
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The baby survives an abortion. Now what?
by MegaDude infrom the article: fifty babies a year are alive after abortion.
they can be born breathing and crying at 19 weeks gestation, he said.
i am not anti-abortion, but as far as i am concerned this is sub-standard medicine.
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I'm sure that some of the Nazi concentration camp officers probably felt the same way, however that didn't make what they did right either.
I'm sorry to hear you feel that way. Be assured, as I said in my last post, the majority of people who perform abortions are caring people who do not obtain joy from it. I do not feel it is appropriate to use abortion as a form of birth control. However, there are times when an abortion must be done. Programs like Planned Parenthood ensure that those necessary abortions will be as safe and humane as possible, given the circumstances.
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The baby survives an abortion. Now what?
by MegaDude infrom the article: fifty babies a year are alive after abortion.
they can be born breathing and crying at 19 weeks gestation, he said.
i am not anti-abortion, but as far as i am concerned this is sub-standard medicine.
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hmmm...I'm not pulling anything up online about an 18-week-old fetus surviving an abortion and growing up to adulthood. do you have names and dates? otherwise, it sounds like an urban legend made up to portray people who perform abortions as heartless-evil-Nazi-death-mongers.