TallTexan, you're story gave me instant chills too. Funny about that, isn't it? It's a different physical reaction from when you watch a scary movie and know it's all a story. It's very interesting. Aren't you glad it was the stairwell and not your bedroom, which you have to go back to every night? But I bet it would have happened wherever you were, so the stairwell itself is probably nothing to worry about.
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Chilling experience
by TallTexan ino.k....most people that know me know me to be a rational and logical person not prone to hype or the sensational.
nor am i infatuated with the supernatural as many jw's/ex-jw's are/were.
with that said, let me relate what happened to me at work last night.. on saturday night, we had four bad burns come in.
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Why am i sitting here crying
by kls inwhy after all this time does it hurt so bad ,, why ?
why can't he say happy birthday to me why can' t he say anything.i want to hear it from him so bad.
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kls
Happy Birthday one day late. I know it doesn't mean as much the second day but I didn't see your post yesterday. Anyway, next year might be better, never give up hope.
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Happy (ecstatic) news, Walking on Air...
by CeriseRose ini've been a bit lax in posting, life got really busy over the last while.
i've had my own business that's been gaining contracts, but not quickly enough for mortgage payments and cat food.
hehe so i took a 5 month temp job to supplement.
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BIG CONGRATULATIONS
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If wars were outlawed.......................
by WildHorses in.
do you think the world would be a better place or not and please explain why.
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myauntfanny
I've often read of WWII veterans who said the war was the best, most exciting time of their lives, that nothing ever seemed as real or important afterwards. And one veteran told me that himself. So some people like war, maybe they were born to be soldiers. I can accept that, different strokes for different folks, after all. What I can't accept is the way it always involves women and children getting raped and killed, and men who don't like war being forced to fight. I just wish they could find a way to confine war to those who enjoy it.
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I thought I'd share a bit of the book I'm reading...
by Surreptitious in"i'll be honest about it.
it is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics.
doubt is useful for a while.
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I wonder how he defines "philosphy of life". I'm not sure that the author and I would agree on the definition, but I think doubt could be a philosophy of life. I think it's mine. I have so often been so certain and subsequently found myself to so wrong that I'm really wary now. And I see other people walking around so sure of what everyone should do and how everyone should live, and all it seems to do is make them and everyone around them miserable. I have to agree with him though about immobility. Doubt immobilises me a lot. But I'm not sure that's intrinsically a bad thing. People rush into things and then when it turns out to be a mistake they have to justify and lie and evade to cover their asses, it all gets worse and worse, sometimes on a grand scale. People being a bit more immobile might solve a lot of problems and avoid a lot of others.
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It's depressing. I just try to remember that he didn't really have a mandate, only slightly less than half the voters voted for him. And of all those who had their vote stolen or didn't bother, a lot wouldn't have voted for him. I haven't lost all hope yet.
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Sickening abuse case in the UK
by Simon ini'm sure anyone in the uk will have heard about the poor little 8 year old girl who was subjected to appalling abuse and killed.. i just feel so angry right now...how could so many police, doctors, social workers let her down and fail to act when the signs were so clear and pointed out to them?.
what are they there for, for goodness sake?.
they should all be sacked for incompetence and failing to do what they get well paid for.
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Whenever I see reports like this though, I am reminded of the Rochester episode. Two doctors reported signs of sexual abuse in a whole slew of children they were seeing (there are certain physical signs that can indicate, if not prove, sexual abuse). The community was furious, and the whole country was so stunned and appalled that they simply refused to believe it, and the tabloids didn't help the situation any. Many of the children were already on the at-risk register, but nonetheless the two doctors were crucified, their careers destroyed. One lost her license to practice medicine. The other had to move, though I believe he still practices. When this sort of thing happens and helpers aren't actually supported, it puts all the other helpers and observers in a pretty awkward position. It's easy to get angy with individual failures, but I feel the whole system has to answer for it.
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Would You Outlaw Jehovah's Witnesses If You Had The Power?
by minimus inas much as i believe that the witnesses are a "cult", i don't think i'd choose to legally ban them.
what about you?
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I'm against banning them, because as everyone has pointed out, it would make them much too happy. But I do wish there was some way to protect JW children, having been one myself. I really can't see a way, though. Free flow of information is a great idea, but you can't force that on people generally, much less JWs. I mean, when could you ever tell them ANYTHING? Their psychological defences are perfect. So if you stick the kids in some sort of special anti-cult training, it would just be a different way of martyring the group, but they wouldn't take it in. And you could ban disfellowshipping, but you can't make people talk to people if they don't want to. It would just join the enormous list of tacit rules that everybody follows without admitting it. I think it would be better to corrupt them somehow. I know that sounds cynical but their leadership is basically cynical, so I feel okay about it. Offer them some irresistible financial benefit for loosening up, on the condition that it is openly implemented.
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Gathering Outbursts!
by Funchback inwhen i was a dub, i can think of three occasions where someone protested/objected to the goings-on at a gathering.
people really made themselves look look like jackholes.
gathering 1): me, my brother and my friend went to a 'talent show' gathering (sounds like a great thread topic, eh?).
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Well, this wasn't exactly an outburst but I still remember it (with embarrassment), god, 35 years later. We were at a picnic and I wasn't more than 9 or 10. Somebody brought sausage to barbecue and I got all wide-eyed and scared and said "There's no blood in that sausage is there?". Like a righteous little cop. And the "sister" who had brought it said in this really snippy tone "no, of course not, we're not savages, you know", thus dismissing all blood-sausage eaters as inferior beings (well, duh, I guess we knew that).
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Lance Armstong Spat Upon by Germans. French Government Powerless
by L_A_Big_Dawg inlance armstrong spit on by german spectators.. where is the french authorities crowd control?.
should all euros be tainted by americans for the actions of a few?
if so, then why, since most euros think all americans are bullies, based on the actions of the president.. any comments?.
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The French have been called cowards as well as disloyal by people that did not like their stand and the decisions by their President. Sound familiar? So the very thing that bothers you about being tainted as a "bully" because of President Bush is the very thing that you have done to the French people based on decisions by President Chirac. That's called Karma dude.
Yup, and we did the same to Turkey too. And those wimpy Spaniards who didn't like being bombed. And now the Phillipines. All refusing or withdrawing because the majority of their people didn't actually want to be there. SOUNDS just like democracy, only it can't be, because...wait, I can't think of a good reason.