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  see, this explains everything - why men "never listen" to women :)

  by zagor in

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  http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1431915.htm

  men do have trouble hearing women: research

  men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse - women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other men's.

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  AllAlongTheWatchtower

  Gee... *looks around*...you'd think some women would respond to this post, but I don't see any...only guys.
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  Man forgets wife at gas station

  by Elsewhere in

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  that's right... he "forgot" her.

  http://www.cnn.com/2005/world/europe/08/08/italy.leftbehind.reut/index.htmlman forgets wife at gas station.

  monday, august 8, 2005; posted: 10:36 a.m. edt (14:36 gmt) .

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  AllAlongTheWatchtower

  "...or not going on, as the case may be! " LOL @ Sunspot

  Ever heard of the acronym POOGO (pronounced pooh-go as a word)?

  P ut

  O ut

  O r

  G et

  O ut

  I heard it on an episode of "Married With Children", Kelly had to walk home one night.
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  Suppose your Dub wife needed a blood transfusion? [just suppose]

  by BluesBrother in

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  a hypothetical question... it is easy to make decisions for oneself, or for children who come under your jurisdiction, but suppose that your consent were to be requested for emergency treatment involving blood, to a person that is a diehard witness?.

  i am talking of a person that has spent her entire life in the borg and believes that blood transfusions are a sure pathway to contract aids or something else nasty.

  if she were conscious i am not convinced that she would accept even the treatments with blood fractions, that they do allow.

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  Unless by the time this hypothetical situation comes up, my wife has a blood card and 2 elders + 3 large beefy ministerial servant bodyguards, she's getting the blood if she's out cold. Should she be awake I assume she will tell them 'no blood' herself. As we share the same blood type, if need by I can roll up my sleeve right then and there and tell them to have at it to save her life. As somebody else said, this would likely tick her off, but I can deal with an angry wife much better than I can being a widower.

  One of the worst scenarios I can picture is my wife becoming pregnant and during delivery needing blood. In that case, no matter what, I would attempt, even if it meant lawyers or whatever, to make sure she got it to save the child. As my wife is anemic, this is a very plausible scenario. If my wife were so far gone into dubhood as to refuse blood to save a baby though...I'm not sure what would happen afterward as far as our marriage.
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  Did you ever witness someone being escorted out of the KH?

  by JH in

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  did it ever happen in your congregation that a person was asked to leave?.

  i remember about 10 years ago, an elder was giving the sunday talk, and a woman that i never saw before was seated in the front.

  she was all alone, and right in the middle of the brothers talk, she raised her hand and started asking questions to the brother about what he just said.

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  Hmmm...what exactly IS the legal position here? If the WTS actually owns the KHs, as debated on some other threads I have read, then its private property I imagine, and they can do pretty much whatever they want. But for some reason I keep thinking that any religous group has an expectation of walk-in visitors, from a legal standpoint, like open door policy. Probably an all around bad idea, but I have entertained some fanciful notions of walking into the KH and disrupting everything in some dramatic way, then dragging my wife out the door while yelling something about my right as head of household to stall any aggressive types...hehe.
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  The Skeptic's Worst Nightmare (S)

  by Shining One in

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  check some of this out and you may see why there are two sides to the issues that are portrayed as so one sided here.

  you will immediately smell the b.s.

  emanating from the skeptic's book of bible stories!

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  Assuming that the unexplained is not explainable: why wasn't it?

  Forgetting that the Bible is a human book with human characteristics: meaning it has mistakes? Meaning that it isn't ALWAYS right? If it isn't ALWAYS right, WHEN isn't it right? Who is qualified to say which is which?

  Assuming that divergent accounts are false ones: So, there are two (or more) tellings of the same basic incident, which are different. They are both (or all) right? Even if when they contradict each other?

  Assuming that round numbers are false: So, the bible rounds off? Do you realize the can of worms you open for yourself by saying not all numbers in the bible are exact? Which ones are rounded? Maybe people should be going to church in ten day cycles, after all, the bible says the 7th day, but thats such an inconvenient number...let's round it off!

  Forgetting that only the original text, not every copy of scripture, is without error: Wow! An admission that the bible contains errors! If the bible is supposed to have been set down by divine inspiration...couldn't an all-powerful god have simply divinely inspired all the copyists through the ages too? Or are the errors simply to test us mere dumb mortals, who can't possibly understand anyway (#3)?

  Forgetting that latter revelation supersedes previous revelation: OHHHH! You mean "new light". By the by...when that latter revelation renders the previous one to be incorrect...that makes the incorrect one FALSE, by definition, right? Doesn't the bible say false prophets go to hell? If god inspired the bible, then god must be a false prophet...no wonder he hasn't done any miracles lately, he f_cked up, and is in his own hell!
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  CAR INSURANCE IS THE BIGGEST RIP OFF IN THE WORLD!!!

  by Mary in

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  i just really need to vent here.........i'm just so f**king tired of never having any extra money!!

  all's i do is work to pay god damn bills......i just checked the balance on my chequing acct.

  and i've got just under $900.00 to last me three weeks.

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  Katiekitten: Its just another way for the car rental company to make a killing. MOST times you won't need it, but in that one chance that something happens and you don't have it, you're screwed cause you're liable for the damages. SOME credit cards cover damages on rentals, but YOU HAVE TO SPECIFICALLY CHECK with them to make sure they do. Also your own personal auto insurance will SOMETIMES cover you on rentals, but you have to be sure of that BEFORE making the rental.

  Regarding that 7% you aren't sure of where it came from; its probably either 1) sales tax (not sure what you're used to in the UK, but in the US sales tax varies from state to state, usually is about 5%) or 2) airport tax. If you rented your car directly from an agency at the airport after you landed, it was probably the latter. I'm not sure how it works, but I once I rented a car from an airport myself, but not because I was traveling far, it was a rental from a place local to me. I chose them because the had an advertised special cheaper than anywhere else, but when I went to pay, it came out to the expected amount + 11%! When I got angry and questioned this, I was told that all airport car rental agencies in my state tack on an extra 11% due to some law or other that I didn't really understand (the girl at the counter didn't seem to understand it much, either, just knew she had to charge it). I was quite miffed, as the deal ended up being more expensive than the second cheapest deal I had found and passed up for the "cheaper one", once all the math was done.
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  CAR INSURANCE IS THE BIGGEST RIP OFF IN THE WORLD!!!

  by Mary in

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  i just really need to vent here.........i'm just so f**king tired of never having any extra money!!

  all's i do is work to pay god damn bills......i just checked the balance on my chequing acct.

  and i've got just under $900.00 to last me three weeks.

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  AllAlongTheWatchtower

  Hey, it could be worse, you could be me, lol. My car is a 95 Chevy, bought and paid for, so no payments to worry about. That's the good part about owning an old car. Oh, and my insurance is about 50 bucks (US currency) a month. Of course, the bad part about owning an old car is that they aren't as reliable as newer cars. I'm still paying on my card from the last repair I had done, which was $900. I have that balance down to $400 now. I need another repair now though, and can't afford to have it fixed at the moment, so I have to carry jugs of water everywhere I go, and at every stop refill the radiator so the car doesn't overheat. This limits me quite a bit, as I can only go about 10 miles before needing more water, so I am learning fast where all the gas stations are that have it free. Luckily my job is only about 10 miles away, so I can make it to work without a refill.
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  To all the other atheists/agnostics out there

  by robhic in

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  after you got from behind the barrier that was keeping you from thinking logically and had removed the blinders that prevented you from processing information using common sense rather than the 2000+ year old superstitions of some nomadic goat-herders, did you start to find that religious-centric or god-related statements made you shake your head in incredulity?.

  case in point: just yesterday as i watched the 5:00 news, a story came on about a young man who had moved from here to california.

  while in california he died but the family was so poor they could not afford to have the body shipped back to new orleans.

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  Yes, I agree with what you're saying, Robhic. I too hate when people use that copout phrase 'god works in mysterious ways'...it is such blanket idiocy, and is used both when something good happens and when something bad happens-to assure people that some unknown good outcome must be there after all, we petty mortals just don't know what it is. BLAH!

  I feel so strongly about this issue, that unless something happens to put me in extreme pain like hitting my thumb with a hammer, I won't even say "goddammit" because it seems to me like such an empty thing to say. After all, nobody would say nonexistant-deity-dammit. I also refuse to say "god bless you" when someone sneezes. (If you've ever seen the episode of Seinfeld about this, you know that can cause problems of itself...such a simple thing) That's been a bone of contention for my wife and I in the past, because she didn't like that I wouldn't say it when she sneezed, and also I didn't like when she DID say it when I sneezed...now all a moot point of course, since she is studying with JWs and they don't believe in saying it.
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  Do you stimulate your "G" spot?

  by Etude in

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  im sure that this has been talked about before on this forum, but i have no way of searching.

  just in case, id like to bring up the issue from my perspective.

  the discovery of the g spot (so called god spot) in the brain is indeed a curious thing.

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  AllAlongTheWatchtower

  Hmph! Next thing you know, Falwell, Swaggart, Robertson, and others of their ilk will be offering them for donations on tv.

  On a more sinister note, I can't help but get a mental image of some wheedle-voice type with an accent saying "Oh, you'll pray...Ve haf vays of making you pray".
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  What's the most DANGEROUS thing you ever did?

  by JH in

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  anybody ever bungee jump or do anything quite dangerous?.

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  Once when I was a kid, I found a box of .22 bullets down in the basement...not sure where they came from, my father used to hunt but with a bow, and before I was born to boot. Anyway, since there was no gun in the house, and because young boys will be young boys (stupid, and love things that go bang or boom), I took one of the rounds and put it on a rock and began hitting it with a hammer to see if I could get it to go off. I guess the box was all duds, or that round anyway, it never did go off, luckily for me.