Village Idiot
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Any here who didn't rebel as a teenager and were a goody two shoes instead?
by purrpurr inwhen i was a teenager in the borg i was a dyed in the wool, goody two shoes, squeaky clean,"spiritual " sister.
alot of my peers around me were rebelling and going off the rails but not me.
i was constantly praised for this and even felt a little smug about it ha!.
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I got myself into the religion at 14 - my parents and relatives never were in the religion - and I was the nerdy type. I stayed in there throughout my teens and got df'd for apostasy - the honorable way out - when I was 20. Goody two shoes and virgin all the way throughout my stay. -
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Perry, Perry, where art thou Perry? You abandoned your thread. Nothing much to say? -
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Jehalapeno:
VI: No true Scotsman?
That does apply to conservative Christians.
From my point of view I see them as somebody who keeps saying that he likes the rainbow when in fact he only likes one color and hates the others.
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Finkelstein:
...Christian based web sites...
Just a gentle correction. There is no such thing as "Christian" any more than there's such a thing as "American". There are different types of Christians and it is an injustice to lump liberal Christians with conservative Christians. Perry is a Fundamentalist/Conservative Christian whom have large differences with Liberal Christians.
Conservative Christians despise liberal Christians and refer to them as "not the right kind of Christian". They consider themselves to be the only kind of true Christian (Sound familiar?). Calling conservatives "Christians" without the modifier plays into their self-righteous game.
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Jehalapeno:
For the Publix model to work, they must make a profit. It's still capitalism.
It isn't all black and white. There are shades of gray and even different colors.
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One more ASS embly under my belt
by hoser inthank the almighty god jehovah for smart phones.
helps get me through the day.
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hoser:
The only oddity was that they didnt read the accounts report
Bore us anyway.
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Kingdom Hall Attenders: Consider Stopping the Use of Loaded Language
by OnTheWayOut init's been a long time since i attended, but i understand that many of you still go to the kingdom hall for your various reasons.. a huge thing that helped me in my mentally breaking from their beliefs was to stop using their terms that put you, virtually automatically, into their thought mode.. using terms like "the truth," jw's feel special about themselves and this helps them separate themselves from "the world.
" by incorporating loaded language, jw's learn not to think, but merely to memorize words and phrases instead of analyzing a situation.. the reasons someone misses meetings is because they are "spiritually weak.
" they might be involved in "worldly thinking.".
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Prologos: Instead of "God" say " the creator", or "Our father"
I think "our father" would be more appropriate. "the creator" sounds a bit distant.
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One more ASS embly under my belt
by hoser inthank the almighty god jehovah for smart phones.
helps get me through the day.
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Some more information on Publix, the worker owned business I mentioned above and since Perrry is a shameless cut and paster I've taken the liberty of doing so myself.
Investors Should Watch This Trend-Setting Grocery Chain
Unless you live in the Southeast, you may be unfamiliar with Publix Supermarkets. Yet some of the innovations we take for granted when shopping for groceries -- such as "electric eye" sliding doors and parking lots with angled spaces -- were developed by this grocery chain.
The 85-year-old firm, based in Lakeland, Florida, is also notable for its profits. At a nearly 8 percent operating margin and 5.7 percent profit margin, Publix is more profitable than Walmart (WMT), Kroger (KR) and even tiny natural grocer Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM). The company's annual profit margin also exceeds that of Whole Foods Market (WFM) by roughly 1.5 percentage points, even though, at $27 billion in annual revenue, it's nearly twice Whole Foods' size.
Publix is a quiet force in American retail. It's No. 104 on the Fortune 500 list, it falls between Dow Jones Industrial components McDonald's (MCD) (No. 106) and 3M Corp (MMM) (No. 101). Unfortunately, however, you and I can't buy Publix stock on the open markets. The company is employee-owned through its Employee Stock Ownership Plan. According to the National Center for Employee Ownership, Publix is by far the country's largest majority employee-owned company.And this article from aboutmoney:
In 2013 Publix delighted its customers better than publicly-traded customer service superstars like Amazon.com (AMZN), Costco (COST) Starbucks (SBUX), and Staples (SPLS) according to the Temkin 2013 Best Retail Customer Experience rankings. Publix is also more of a grocery customer favorite than the largest U.S. supermarket chain, Kroger (KR), and the world's largest discount department store chain, Wal-Mart (WMT). Much like the pharmacy rankings, Publix isn't just beating out Kroger and Wal-Mart in the minds of grocery customers by a little. Publix is a favorite grocery store destination by a lot.
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The basic socialist cycle goes something like this:
1. Convince the populace that the government can solve their problems of inequality with cradle to grave govt. programs
Once again, workers capitalism. Direct ownership of businesses and increased standard of living by paying themselves out of the company's profits.
2. Get the population dependent on govt. programs
If they pay for it with their taxpayers money then it's their programs.
3. Take away their guns
I'm pro-gun all the way to semiautomatics with gazillion round magazines.
4. Increase taxes
And get their value back when ill or unemployed.
5. Blame the scapegoat for the inability to deliver on promises
Where are the scapegoats in Western Europe? And you do find economic scapegoats by conservatives here in the United States. They're called Mexicans.
6. Have the national police round up the protesters
Western Europe again. Is it happening there?
We're responding to you Perry but you're not reciprocating.