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  At a loss...HELP

  by esw1966 in

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  i have left jw for 2 years now.

  i have been divorced now for 2 years.

  i have 3 children; 14, 12, 9 - all girls.

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  Ethan,

  I went through the exact same thing. I was divorced when my daughter was 3. I remember one time driving over an hour to pick her up for the weekend (she was 8) and she started crying; she wanted to go home. I turned around and took her home; no bad feelings. We had a long distant relationship also for several years. It was me against the influence of her her mother, grandmother and about 20 cousins, aunt's and uncles. I decided I would not put pressure on her. I would lead by example. It didn't work. She came so close to leaving at age 18, but she told her mother she was moving in with me and she got the guilt trip with the "God's gonna kill you" speach. She called me crying, telling me she didn't want to die. At 19 I received a letter saying she was about to wed and I was not invited. She has not spoken to me for over two years.

  I don't know what to say. I don't think forcing them to do anything will help. Everything you do, seen as negative by them, will be explained to them as the devil's influence on their apostate father, whom Jehovah can't wait to get his teeth into.

  Keep the lines of communication open and going often. Go see them if you can afford it. By the time they hit their later teens, they may see things differently and question more. With you so far away your ex is driving the boat.

  By the way... I have just moved to WA. SE side.

  Best,

  Bryan
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  MIT Scientist: 'Alarm over climate change is based on ignorance...

  by Bryan in

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  the earth will always be changing.. what ever happened to the acid-rain, sky is falling, bs?.

  learning to live with global warming.

  by richard s. lindzennewsweek international"the current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman's forecast for next week.".

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  Six, you should know there is no black and white issues concerning our planet. We do have warming and all the legeslation in the world will not stop it.

  We poor chemicals into our rivers and hurt the planet; we do hurt the earth. What we see and hear is media driven and the media loves train wrecks. Everyone has a politcal agenda. Instead of jumping on a bandwagon, why not set back and take in all the facts.

  We can clean up our act, go greener, which I believe in, but it will not stop our planet from going through what she has been going though for millions of years.

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  "The seismic jolt that unleashed the deadly Solomons tsunami this week lifted an entire island meters out of the sea, destroying some of the world's most pristine coral reefs."http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news/archives/international/200749/106664.htm

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  Our planet did this in a matter of seconds. We did not cause it. We could not have stopped it.

  This is what I'm saying. I'm not a conservative. I'm a regestered Independent. Take polotics out of it and the image becomes clearer.

  Bryan
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  I won a trip to this place 04/11-4/15.

  by free2beme in

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  my spouse and i are flying here on a trip i won.

  it is all expenses paid, food, flight, massage, golf game, and transportation.

  i was number one in my company again this year, so they gave it too me.

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  Is this Camel back mountain area of PA?

  Marriott is always a great place to stay.

  I ski'd on Camelback once, but don't really know anything about they area otherwise.

  Bryan
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  MIT Scientist: 'Alarm over climate change is based on ignorance...

  by Bryan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the earth will always be changing.. what ever happened to the acid-rain, sky is falling, bs?.

  learning to live with global warming.

  by richard s. lindzennewsweek international"the current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman's forecast for next week.".

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  I'm really glad the polution of China and India don't affect us.

  According to hundreds of scientists, the EPA hasn't had to do too much work... Thanks God!

  "Perhaps the best example of the contributions of scientists to a large, complex issue is the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Project (NAPAP). This project entailed hundreds of scientists working in small groups over a period of 10 years at a cost of $550 million."

  "Ignoring the findings of the $550 million, 10-year NAPAP study is among the most egregious and costly errors ever made by Congress and EPA."

  "The NAPAP findings were submitted to Congress in 1990. Because the study's findings minimized the impact of acid rain caused by humans, Congress and the media completely ignored them."

  Sounds a bit like today. If you don't agree the earths warming is caused by human... and can be stopped by humans, then you are not credible.

  http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=20522

  Bryan
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  Isn't the light supposed to be getting brighter?

  by sir82 in

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  ask any jw about the flip-flops in doctrine, and within a few moments, you'll be hearing about proverbs 4:18, the one about the "path getting brighter".

  i.e., "our understanding has increased, so we had to make an adjustment.".

  i was just thinking about the last major changes in jw doctrine over the past dozen years or so...does this sound like light getting "brighter"?.

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  Actually, the light is not getting brighter, but cheeper. The Tower has switch from an incondecent light to flouresent. This saves money!

  Bryan
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  I have some really good news!!!

  by LeftBehind in

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  this june it will be offically 1 year since i fired the jw's as my religion.

  since i have left 2 other relatives have left.

  so all together 4 in the last 2 years.

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  MIT Scientist: 'Alarm over climate change is based on ignorance...

  by Bryan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the earth will always be changing.. what ever happened to the acid-rain, sky is falling, bs?.

  learning to live with global warming.

  by richard s. lindzennewsweek international"the current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman's forecast for next week.".

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  Thanks A-C.

  There is some info here as well.

  http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/water/az1052/harvest.html

  http://www.builditsolar.com/index.htm

  I do know a solar heater will work well here.

  Bryan
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  MIT Scientist: 'Alarm over climate change is based on ignorance...

  by Bryan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the earth will always be changing.. what ever happened to the acid-rain, sky is falling, bs?.

  learning to live with global warming.

  by richard s. lindzennewsweek international"the current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman's forecast for next week.".

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  What happened is that in spite of people like yourself working hard to infect everyone with your we-can't-hurt-the-planet-no-matter-what-we-do abject silliness,the grown-ups in charge took action and the problem has been substantially mitigated and is on it's way to being solved.

  Sixofnine,

  Do you think you can debate without trying make others look lower than you?

  And please tell me... what did the "grown-ups" do for us to stop this acid-rain. And please provide links to scientific documentation. Unless of course you're just throwing words hoping some will stick.

  And yes, we can and do hurt the earth. But, I believe that even if we went to zero emissions tomorrow, the planet would not stop warming.

  Just let her breath.., would you.

  Bryan
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  MIT Scientist: 'Alarm over climate change is based on ignorance...

  by Bryan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the earth will always be changing.. what ever happened to the acid-rain, sky is falling, bs?.

  learning to live with global warming.

  by richard s. lindzennewsweek international"the current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman's forecast for next week.".

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  ...I still believe we should try our best to cut on pollution. I think we sould use what we know now to become self sufficient, not only for the environment but just to be free of the "Man". I feel too dependent on the system.

  I agree A-C. I think the whole debate is a great igniter for green enegies and life. I would love to be off the system and If I could afford the $15,000 solar power system, I would do it. For now I do what I can; saving rainwater, flouresent bulbs, etc.

  I hate drivng into Los Angeles, Houston or recently, Denver, and seeing the thick, hazy, polution millions of people are breathing to thier bodies.

  Bryan
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  MIT Scientist: 'Alarm over climate change is based on ignorance...

  by Bryan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the earth will always be changing.. what ever happened to the acid-rain, sky is falling, bs?.

  learning to live with global warming.

  by richard s. lindzennewsweek international"the current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman's forecast for next week.".

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  The earth will always be changing.

  What ever happened to the acid-rain, sky is falling, BS?

  Learning To Live With Global Warming

  By Richard S. Lindzen Newsweek International

  "The current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman's forecast for next week."

  "There is no evidence, for instance, that extreme weather events are increasing in any systematic way, according to scientists at the U.S. National Hurricane Center, the World Meteorological Organization and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."

  "At present, the greenhouse forcing is already about three-quarters of what one would get from a doubling of CO2. But average temperatures rose only about 0.6 degrees since the beginning of the industrial era, and the change hasn't been uniform—warming has largely occurred during the periods from 1919 to 1940 and from 1976 to 1998, with cooling in between. Researchers have been unable to explain this discrepancy."

  Full Disclosure:Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research has always been funded exclusively by the U.S. government. He receives no funding from any energy companies.

  Could it be that some scientists are pushing global warming to bring in fresh new government grants? Just a thought.

  Bryan