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  I never have done right by you...

  by Sparkplug in

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  in talking to my mom the other day (who is doing so well btw) she turned to me and said straight and as sane as can be, "i have never done right by you, don't do as i have done to you to you kids.

  " she got teary eyed and i changed the subject fast because i did not know how to take it nor could i talk with the big lump in my throat.

  i have known this my whole life, and i don't even speak it as plain as she has spoken it, but hearing out of her mouth as she sits in her wheelchair and knowing she means it from her heart and from pure love, well it messed me up a bit.

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  The last time I saw my father he actually apologised for the abuse me and my brother received from him as we were growing up. It's the nearest to genuine remorse I have ever seen from him, but he of course went on to ruin the moment with pathetic JW posturing and a comment along the lines that I will die soon anyway.

  It was amusing in a perverse way, it was the first and only occasion that my wife has met her father in law and it wcould well be the last time. It was also the first time in 10 years that I had spent any time with my father, just a few weeks before we emigrated.

  Even when they do make a tenuous admission of guilt, it is always in a two faced way or they manage to get a parting shot in there somewhere. Fortunately I have moved on from the anger and was able to walk away without punching him although I was so damn tempted.
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  Gun control logic

  by Gregor in

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  the v tech shooter bought his guns legally.

  gun control laws don't stop this kind of determined killer anywhere in the world.

  the defenseless victims couldn't carry a gun legally on campus if they had one.

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  really? the freedom to what? the freedom to have to worry about being blown away by some fool who has easy access to guns.

  Well done, I envy your "freedom"
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  Why can't I just get over it and move on?

  by Crumpet in

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  months have passed now since mr c and i officially separated.

  so why can't i get over it?

  why am i still jealous?

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  I know it sounds a bit "right on" and preachy but you need to be comfortable with being on your own before you can get your head together and be completely OK about getting on with the rest of your life. I came out of engagement no 1 (there have been 3) after 4 years and it took me a while to work out who I was outside of the relationship; I was only 18 when I met her and that was just after leaving home and being disfellowshipped, so I had grown up alot in those 4 years and a large part of my personality was invested in that chapter of my life.

  I ended up going through a few short term relationships over the following couple of years before I stepped back and took a while to concentrate on enjoying being single and all the stuff I could do as a single person that I couldn't do when I was part of a couple (staying in bed all day, going out with my friends when I felt like it and generally being myself). Getting over it happens slowly and part of that is remembering that you operated just fine before you met that person, and will do again for a long time after they have left your life.
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  One night stands

  by Crumpet in

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  how do you stand on one night stands?

  and why?

  i was really against them and said i never would again.

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  I think when you are young and getting to know yourself and your likes and dislike, you need to experience as much as possible with as much of a combination of people as you feel comfortable. When I got out of the JWs I had a few years where I was a little "busy" but that was all part of getting my head together and having some fun, I enjoyed myself and came out the other side without any kids or STDs.

  Now I am in my mid 30s and am extremely glad that I am happily married and in a completely different phase of my life. Going out as a single person and trying to meet people, even for a one nighter can be very hard work.
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  Gun control logic

  by Gregor in

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  the v tech shooter bought his guns legally.

  gun control laws don't stop this kind of determined killer anywhere in the world.

  the defenseless victims couldn't carry a gun legally on campus if they had one.

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  of course I am trying to incite, I am trying to incite real debate beyond the blinkered desire to combat anger and violence with more anger and violence.

  As a nation you have by far the worst violent crime stats of any developed first world nation and I think that the reason for this is societal. We have just as many whack jobs and nuts in Europe/Australia as you do but people's first reaction is not generally to resort to violence. In America it seems to be the default response, look at how many people here have advocated arming more people in response to a tragedy caused by someone having guns who should never have been armed in the first place.
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  Gun control logic

  by Gregor in

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  the v tech shooter bought his guns legally.

  gun control laws don't stop this kind of determined killer anywhere in the world.

  the defenseless victims couldn't carry a gun legally on campus if they had one.

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  so what is it about American "society" that breeds people who are prepared to kill a man for his Rolex? Sure it happens elsewhere, including Europe, but nowhere near on the same scale as in the US.

  Maybe as a society you are all too angry to be allowed to own guns at all. Finland has lax gun laws and does not have the gun problems the US has, what is the difference?
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  Look What The Cat Caught!!!

  by SWALKER in

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  my cat had this on the sidewalk playing with it!

  he bit the tip of his tail off but my son and i were able to rescue him and turned him loose at our pond.

  he seemed fine.... swalker.

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  SWALKER - that's what the buggers looked like, one was a juvenile which are more aggressive than the adults. We have seen tiger snakes before and they generally just carry on about their business so long as you make lots of noise and do not try and catch them.

  There are loads of them in and around Perth, especially in wet areas arouns lakes and rivers; apparently they quite like eating frogs.

  There have been a number of fatal bitings in Perth as more land is cleared for housing developments, moving the wildlife out of their natural habitats and into closer proximity with humans. I'll have to get a harness and lead for our cats, they normally bring us birds and mice but I reckon they would give a snake a good run for it's money
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  Gun control logic

  by Gregor in

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  the v tech shooter bought his guns legally.

  gun control laws don't stop this kind of determined killer anywhere in the world.

  the defenseless victims couldn't carry a gun legally on campus if they had one.

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  you are wrong, your logic is bullshit.

  if he was unable to buy guns legally with a simple 10 minute background check then 33 people would still be alive today. What is more important, your "right" to bear arms or the rights of 32 kids not to be killed by some nutjob?
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  VA Tech Incident - Stupid Things People Say

  by Seeker4 in

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  watching all the pundits on tv after the killings at va tech yesterday, there were a handful of things that kept getting repeated that are just stupid.

  usually they also require an impossible level of hindsight (which a good number of the pundits have, it seems).

  i've just got to rant about this for a few minutes.

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  Even if the school campus would allow just the Professors to have a loaded weapon in a secure place, where an insane student could not have access to it, then at least the Professors could help protect their students. The Professors that were killed were only able to sheild their students with their own bodies!! If the Professors had a handgun, how many students do you think would have been killed? The number certainly would not have been as large as it was, one of them would have been able to take that idiot out!

  This is the sort of backward thinking the gun lobbyists want you to believe so they can sell you more fear and more guns. Where could it be kept so that a 'sane' student could get it and a crazy one couldn't? it's impractical and quite frankly bullshit. All you would do is make another gun available for some heart broken college student to blow his love rival away or some idiot to kill someone for the slightest annoyance.

  You need to look above the parapet and address the problems within your society, rather than allowing Fox news to sell you down the road of more fear and more antisocial behaviour.
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  Crazy American haters

  by Tatiana in

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  one might as well also take notice of what the rest of the world thinks about this.

  crazy american haters.

  u.s. gun laws draw heat after massacre .

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  Satans little helper

  crazy in what way?

  crazy enough to link easy access to guns with one of the world's highest per capita rates of gun crime??