15. Beer doesn't give you a life-long hangover.
sonnyboy
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10 Reasons Why Beer is Better than Jesus
by Tashawaa in10. no one will kill you for not drinking beer.. .
9. beer doesn't tell you how to have sex.. .
8. beer has never caused a major war.. .
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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories - Ch. 1 - In the Beginning
by RunningMan inhere is the long awaited first chapter.
as always, a complete formatted copy can be obtained if you drop me your email address.
in the beginning.
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10 Reasons Why Beer is Better than Jesus
by Tashawaa in10. no one will kill you for not drinking beer.. .
9. beer doesn't tell you how to have sex.. .
8. beer has never caused a major war.. .
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Your Most Boring Job...
by misspeaches inever worked in a job that literally bored you too tears.. my job prior to this used to do just that.
somehow i got relegated to the 'reports team'.
note that the team consisted of one person - myself.
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sonnyboy
It would have to be my very first job: pumping gas and stocking shelves at a convenience store.
Six hours a day after school felt like 12. It was painfully boring.
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What do you feel when you see groups of Jehovah's Witnesses on the street?
by nicolaou inregret, anger frustration?
how about sadness, sorrow, sympathy, understanding, even yearning!.
it can be quite confusing at times.
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sonnyboy
I don't see any on the street, but if I did I'd probably think of how closed-minded and brainwashed they are. I feel sorry for them...going around spewing their fear-of-death-filled rhetoric while everyone else is enjoying life. Isn't that what the religion boils down to? A fear of death? They use it to prey on others with a central message: "You can live forever in paradise on Earth." They're no different than the ancient Egyptians who were so afraid of death that they'd wrap themselves in bandages and be buried with all of their possessions so they could enjoy an afterlife. It's sad.
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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories - Ch. 1 - In the Beginning
by RunningMan inhere is the long awaited first chapter.
as always, a complete formatted copy can be obtained if you drop me your email address.
in the beginning.
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sonnyboy
So, if God made a division between day and night on day one and on day four, that crushes the notion that he's perfect. Apparently he f*cked up the first time and had to do it over.
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Bi-Sexual
by misguided ini guess my new-found freedom of personal expression is working its way down to my kids.. i came home from a crazy day at work, ate my dinner, was loading the dishwasher, when my 13-year-old son says, .
"mom, i have something to tell you - i'm bisexual...i've been that way for a year now.
i still can't help but have my old jw brain at work, thinking this is not okay - kind of like, i'm an apostate with a bisexual son...what will my family say?!
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sonnyboy
we can't pick and choose our desires.
Funny, that's what pedophiles say too...Very true...pedophiles most likely can't control their desires, but are you comparing the act of pedophilia to that of consensual, homosexual sex?
There is no comparison. Pedophiles harm others, and harmful desires should not be acted upon. I often have the desire to break out a crow bar and beat the hell out of the little old lady who just cut me off and won't go over 45 mph. I also have the desire to have sex without a condom, do the drugs I did as a teenager, drink until I pass out, and eat delicious, fattening food every day of the week.
That doesn't mean I should do it.
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Bi-Sexual
by misguided ini guess my new-found freedom of personal expression is working its way down to my kids.. i came home from a crazy day at work, ate my dinner, was loading the dishwasher, when my 13-year-old son says, .
"mom, i have something to tell you - i'm bisexual...i've been that way for a year now.
i still can't help but have my old jw brain at work, thinking this is not okay - kind of like, i'm an apostate with a bisexual son...what will my family say?!
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sonnyboy
Call me old fashioned but how could a kid that age even know?
Didn't you know that you were attracted to girls (or whomever) at the age of 13?
Misguided: The worst thing you can do is dismiss his feelings as false due to age. I'd recommend being supportive no matter how his sexual orientation develops. If you back him into a corner, he'll simply become withdrawn and depressed. Many GLBT teens commit suicide or other abusive behaviors because their families can't accept them for whom they are.
One of my best friends is a drug counselor who works primarily with youths (she has a degree in child psychology). She said that many of the kids she counsels began taking drugs because they were gay and their parents either told them they were wrong, or the kids believed that their families would shun them because of it.
One 17 year old kid she sees is currently in the psychiatric ward of a local hospital. After his fundamentalist family discovered his sexuality (he was outed by a former partner who he'd been seing for three years), they reprimanded him thoroughly and told him how sinful he was for thinking of men in that manner. As time went by he began cutting himself, drinking excessively, and taking hard-core narcotics. He ultimately ended up taking a bottle of Tylenol, yet he called 9/11 himself. Talk about your cries for help.
If I were you, I'd simply tell my son that I love him unconditionally. Don't be judgmental in any way, because we can't pick and choose our desires.
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Just Because You "Feel" Something Is True Doesn't Make It So
by minimus init's interesting how some people "feel" and "know" whatever their gut tells them.
some are making the outcry that michael jackson is clearly a child molester.
whether he was acquitted or not makes no difference to them.
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sonnyboy
So many people, usually women I have known , {admitedly dubs] claim to have an "instinct" for knowing people and judging them accordingly. I have known them be spectacularly wrong but that does not stop them.
I couldn't agree more. Women's intuition is a bunch of BS.
Women constantly claim to know their kids. "I know my son wouldn't do anything like that". 99.9% of the time, they're wrong. I do it all, Mom!
This goes for more than children. I hate to say it, but many women claim to know "abusive" men and get duped into entering domestically violent relationships. Shouldn't this intuition tell them that their boyfriends have the potential to be violently dangerous? Then their 'intuition' tells them that their significant other will change, yet the abuse never stops.
Just an example; I know that every situation is different. Claiming to ever know another person is ignorant, regardless of who's making the claim.
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Do you have one favorite place on earth?
by AK - Jeff ini mean a specific location that you would go to time and again to just sit and look and enjoy?
or a favorite vacation destination?.
i love the cascade mountains as example.
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sonnyboy
Harper's Ferry, WV.My goals are Thailand, Turkey, Machu Picchu, and southern Texas to get some peyote. Correction: The Sierra Nevadas mountains are my favorite place, with HF coming in at a close second. I've only been there once, but it was magical.