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  social retard

  by MerryMagdalene in

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  i finally figured out why i'm so socially retarded...it just hit me.. here i was sitting and wondering why i have such a hard time meeting new people, making friends, thinking of relevent things to say, and so on.

  it really is painful and scary for me.

  i was told who i could talk to, who i couldn't talk to, what i could say, what i couldn't say.

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  And IMPROV is HARD.

  You're right! I always draw blanks when I really need to talk. But what can we do? As hard as improv is, learning how to improv is even harder.
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  Have you experienced a Tornado?

  by jeanniebeanz in

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  today, a small tornado touched down in south san francisco and people went nutz.

  it was very localized and basically blew out a few windows, but looking at the local news you'd think that the sky was falling.

  since some of you live in 'tornado alley', can you please enlighten us californians as to what you consider to be a 'real' tornado?

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  Not really, but this kind of counts: Once saw a funnel start to form a long ways out, probably over the ocean, but it got sucked back up after a while.
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  Ten killed in US school shooting

  by Simon in

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  another tradgedy ... .

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4370617.stm.

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  Funny thing is, Simon is dying to move to Canada and I can't think of another country that more closely resembles the U.S.

  Have you ever been to Canada?
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  Out of context Watchtower quotes -- join in, have fun!

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  the watchtower is constantly pulling quotes out of context and distorting the original author's meaning.

  why not give them a taste of their own poison?

  here's a few to get you started: .

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  "...Matthew...did not use God's name, especially when quoting from parts of the "Old Testament" that contained the name."

  http://watchtower.org/library/na/index.htm?article=article_06.htm

  "...use... the rosary[!]"

  http://watchtower.org/library/w/1996/7/15/teach_us_to_pray.htm
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  And my incoming infant is...

  by czarofmischief in

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  the next american idol!.

  no, just kidding.

  it's a girl!

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  Congratulations to you and to your Czarina!
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  26 reasons why Smart Men have Dogs and not Wives

  by gumby in

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  26 reasons why smart men have dogs and not wives: .

  1. the later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you.

  2. dogs will forgive you for playing with other dogs.

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  LMAO

  Dogs don't let magazine articles guide their lives

  So true!
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  spanish congregations vs english

  by Pwned in

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  (i dont mean the countries - grammar nazis, please dont flame).

  i dont know how many of you attended a spanish speaking hall like i did but in my experience and from reading people's posts i think that there are some pretty big differences.

  1. spanish congs are more liberal .

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  Well, I've noticed that foreign-language congregations seem to like singing "kingdum melodies," especially in public. For someone to do this, I think they'd have to be pretty conservative.
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  Guess where The living Church of God met

  by kls in

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  at my grandkids school this past saturday.

  it made front page news in their local paper in oconomowoc and i can tell you that my daughter and other parents are not real happy about it.

  this is a school that is for preschool up to fifth grade.

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  Why after all that has happened would the school allow this to take place there is beyond me.

  They probably rented it from the school as, as far as I know, most school desperately need all the money they can get.
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  If the WTBTS knew then what it knows now...

  by Pwned in

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  2. beliefs

  would the internet have been banned ouright from the beginning?

  it seems like they have been trying to reign in control of jw's use of the internet for the last few years but pandora's box has already been opened.

  if they had just banned it from the beginning many dubs would have been afraid that if they went on the ineternet they would immediately be possesed by demons.

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  I don't think they would, they're not the Amish. Besides, Bethel had been quite reliant on computers before the internet came around; they can't be an enemy of technology.
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  Shots fired during UK rap concert

  by Xena in

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  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4370601.stm pair jailed after fatal shop raid

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/4371059.stm

  calls for tougher laws on knives

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  Makes me glad I live in Canada. Nothing like that happens here. You know we just spent over $1 billion on a federal gun registry program! Our gun control laws are great, except for the smuggling in from the US.

  If you believe that, I have a brdige to sell you...