Layla33

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  Let's Limit Young People , or Crazies from Killing Each Other in Schools

  by flipper in

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  Layla33

  Sure you disagree for various reasons. All a bunch of feel good nonsense reasons.

  There are no SERIOUS psychiatrist who would back you up on that though. Not one correlative study that would support you...

  That won't stop you from shouting it though will it? Cause you FEEL it, cause you THINK it so it MUST be true... Please spare us...

  Actually there are studies that back up the correlation of watching violence and immitating violence in real life. I won't debate you because instead of disagreeing with me or just debating your opinion, you become nasty and sanctimonious and downright rude. NOW, I understand some of the complaints from people about having a discussion and people getting rude and out of line.

  I will remind myself to ignore your nastiness from now on. You are out of line. You don't know me.
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  Let's Limit Young People , or Crazies from Killing Each Other in Schools

  by flipper in

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  Layla33

  Violent video games? Please tipper gore get over yourselves that's ignorant. These people are not fascinated by video games they are enthralled by death fame and body count that it. maybe you should stop getting your mental evaluations and psychiatric advice from the fox news channel?

  Sorry, I disagree with you for various reasons.
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  Let's Limit Young People , or Crazies from Killing Each Other in Schools

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  Layla33

  The US of A is responsible for this culture of violence. Everywhere you look it is implied and supported that to deal with issues is to kill. You dont like someone, go to their country and bomb them, innocent or not. These video games are downright ridiculous, you shot someone and it is just like the real thing. These kids and young adults dealing with issues by killing people in mass is not surprising to me, because they learn it from exactly how this country is run.
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  When Making Decisions - Do You View Taking Risks as Positive or Negative?

  by flipper in

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  you know we all took a risk in leaving the jehovah's witness organization .

  and for many of us this risk has proved to be a positive force in our lives .

  it has opened up a new possibility of an uncharted, yet exciting future for us to pursue , whether it be going back to college and getting an education , or if we are religious , some here have found a more appropriate religion for themselves.

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  Layla33

  I love taking risks because a lot of times things that my mind perceives as risks or things that could change my life for the better. I am always thinking that if I want my life to be different, than I have to do things different, that's it.

  I can only discuss my own thinking and whatever I get involved in something, whatever situation, I look at the best and worst case scenario and then I ask myself if I can handle the worst case scenario. If I dont think I can handle the worst case scenario, I dont do it. Period.

  However, I have done things that most people wouldnt even consider, but to me, that has made my life that much better. I challenged life and myself, and I am all the better for it.
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  Wow! TV is stupid!

  by LtCmd.Lore in

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  i sat down to watch some tv today... our tv only pick up 3 channels.. and stuff worth watching is few and far between.

  it's amazing how much mindless drivel is being broadcasted.. .

  deal or no deal: where an overactive lunatic runs around the stage hyperventilating, while simultaniously showing off his/her amazing random-number-generator skills by choosing completely arbitrary numbers and winning money for it.

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  Layla33

  I watch either Discovery Channel, the Food Network, TruTV (cause I love forensics) or Law & Order (regular or SVU). That's it. Nothing else.
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  Authorities warn about choking game

  by Hope4Others in

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  authorities warn against risky 'choking game' after u.s. study reports 82 deaths.

  helen branswell, medical reporter, the canadian press.

  14/02/2008 8:50:00 pm .

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  Layla33

  Wow. I have heard of this vaguely, but would never want to try it. The whole thing seems dangerous. Are kids bored these days?
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  Interview with governing body? For real?!

  by JebusKryst in

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  http://www.kneelb4me.com/2008/1/31/jehovahs-witnesses--the-people-who-wake-you-up-on-a-saturday-morning.

  this is a joke right?.

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  Layla33

  It reads to me like a "mock interview". All of it is truth from everything I know, but there is no way that the GB would ever agree to such an interview.
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  Evil friends & relatives......

  by lavendar in

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  when you were a jw......did you really & truly believe all your non-jw relatives, friends & acquaintances were evil and under satan's influence.....as you were taught by the wts?

  did you buy that ridicules teaching....or did you deep down realize it was bunk?.

  lavendar.

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  Layla33

  I tried from the time I was young, but it just didn't make much sense. I saw too many people in the "organization" who were liars, hypocrities and every other attribute that the WTS swore was not apart of their organization. At the same time, I met people who were decent, kind people who just didnt follow the Jehovah's Witness religion, so I couldn't understand why a God of love would be hung up on a title only and therefore I stopped being hung up on one.
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  Pledge of Allegiance

  by Princess Daisy Boo in

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  south africa is considering bringing in a "pledge" that kids in school will repeat each day.

  we never had such a thing as kids growing up, but when the national anthem was sung, we always had to stay seated and not participate.

  i remember always hearing about flag saluting in other countries.

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  Layla33

  I have never said the plege of allegiance or sang the national anthem in my life. I don't agree on the WTS stand on it, but I really don't see the big need to do it. It's all about tradition and loyalty to me, which seems nice enough, but at the same time I look at us waring with killing innocent people over loyalty to one country versus another. I love being a citizen of the US, but at the same time I feel like a citizen of the world. I don't knock anyone that pleges allegience or sings the national anthem, but in the grand scheme of things, to me, it isn't that big a deal.
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  If you had a Time Machine would you stop yourself being a Witness???

  by Witness 007 in

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  what if you wen't back in time and stopped your mother from opening the door to the witnesses...and your family never came into the truth!!

  what if you risked changing everything else in your life...not having kid's or the same marriage partner...would it be worth it.

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  Layla33

  I think for me, I had no choice. I was born into this belief system, it was as part of me, as my family being from the South. To me, the JW religion was a part of the culture of who we were, just like having family dinner on Sunday or having buscuits, sausage, grits and eggs for Sunday breakfast. So for me to say would I have stopped myself from being a Witness, yes, I would have loved my parents and grandparents to be hippies and free spirits of some sort, but it is what it is...