Layla33

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

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  Layla33

  Second. I was wondering where all the parents are in these cases? In our family I do watch over the kids from time to time and observe quietly. If I had noticed odd behaviour, I would attempt to correct it. That is what parents are supposed to do.

  Another good point, family and parents working themselves to death or just not giving taking their responsibility to their children as a serious thought, certainly has something to do with it.

  I think something else that needs to be addressed is how we deal with mental illness in this country. Since the disabilities act, it is not easy to treat someone against their will, force someone to take their medicine - which I agree with to an extent, but overall the health care industry in this country fails people with mental illness all the time. People do not receive the proper help they need and thus the self-medicate, easily find outlets of irrationality and this is part of the problem, as well.
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  Imagine a KH with a bar....

  by lfcviking in

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  it would be great wouldn't it?

  if there was a room at the back of the hall that had a bar with a selection a fine handpulled ales & spirits.

  the lights were lowered slightly, and some background tunes (not kingdom melodies) were playing, and there were some nice cosy chairs to lounge in.. after the meeting you could and have a few pints and have a laugh about how boring crap someones talk was.

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  Layla33

  I love it. Just the idea gave me the laugh of the day. I also imagined a disco ball falling down when the "melodies" came on for effect. :-)
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  New 2008 Rules for A$$emblies?

  by WTWizard in

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  we know that the a$$emblies have become more programmed every year.

  they did away with food service.

  they cut off the great outdoors.

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  What in the world? So you have to pack your lunch now and only at approved hotels? That's ridiculous. I swear this is indoctrination is too much. They want people to be robots and not people. I swear this herding has gone way too far.
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  Your favorite Sunday breakfast

  by Layla33 in

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  since i am about to partake (*smile*) in my favorite sunday breakfast, i thought it would be fun for everyone to describe their favorite breakfast here.. sunday breakfast was always a big deal for my family and growing up, it was the one day and time that we actually sat together had breakfast and talked about our week and sat for a good hour or so just catching up with each other.. for over 20 years, this breakfast consisted of bacon, sausage (kielbasa or italian), biscuits, eggs (cheese or plain), and grits.

  to this day, i still feel it's a special nice time.. do share, i thought it would be fun to see other people's traditions on sunday breakfast....

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  It's funny but those Sunday breakfasts are so bad for you overall, too much fat, butter, etc, but they tasted oh so good. Funny is that none of my family that ate this breakfast were overweight or anything, but we weren't allowed to eat fast food during the week - it was a rare treat if we did. Still these days things are substituted a bit because of the high fat content.
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  Your favorite Sunday breakfast

  by Layla33 in

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  since i am about to partake (*smile*) in my favorite sunday breakfast, i thought it would be fun for everyone to describe their favorite breakfast here.. sunday breakfast was always a big deal for my family and growing up, it was the one day and time that we actually sat together had breakfast and talked about our week and sat for a good hour or so just catching up with each other.. for over 20 years, this breakfast consisted of bacon, sausage (kielbasa or italian), biscuits, eggs (cheese or plain), and grits.

  to this day, i still feel it's a special nice time.. do share, i thought it would be fun to see other people's traditions on sunday breakfast....

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  Layla33

  Since I am about to partake (*smile*) in my favorite Sunday breakfast, I thought it would be fun for everyone to describe their favorite breakfast here.

  Sunday breakfast was always a big deal for my family and growing up, it was the one day and time that we actually sat together had breakfast and talked about our week and sat for a good hour or so just catching up with each other.

  For over 20 years, this breakfast consisted of bacon, sausage (Kielbasa or Italian), biscuits, eggs (cheese or plain), and grits. To this day, I still feel it's a special nice time.

  Do share, I thought it would be fun to see other people's traditions on Sunday breakfast...
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  OLD PHOTOGRAPHS FROM JW DAYS

  by Dansk in

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  i left the organisation 5 years ago and this morning came across some old photographs from my jw days.

  most photographs were taken in the kh, such as marriages, and at assemblies and many are of people once considered close friends - but now i find it hard to look at them.

  i asked claire, my wife, if she would like to look at them and she said she couldn't bear to, so they went in the bin.

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  Layla33

  Sure, I kept my pictures of my old JW days. My parents and grandparents have more of them than I do. I was born into this "religion", it was a part of my life. Picnics, parties, conventions, "gatherings" - but it doesn't bother me at all. I look at them as a part of my life that was then, and I look at my life as now.
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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

  I dont think anyone said it is just movies and video games that are causing people to be violent in this country. NO ONE SAID IT. We are just talking about the symptoms of living in a violent society. A society that regularly uses the idea of violence to deal with issues and problems. You don't like someone, attack them, beat the crap out of them. You have a problem with their opinion, oh we must insult them to the nth degree try to draw blood figuaratively. Road rage, even internet rage are forms of how we handle our disagreements in this society. Heck, people have been stalked and killed from online just because someone had a difference of opinion with someone online. A freakin difference of opinion. Rage, anger and violence go way past just young people, although they tend to be the most impressionable.

  We sensationalize it here and that's one of the many reasons (notice the word "many") reasons that we are one of the most violent countries in the world. I have friends from other countries who have more access to guns and bullets than we do, yet they are responsible with their use.
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  Let's Limit Young People , or Crazies from Killing Each Other in Schools

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  Dinah,

  I am not saying the US started it, but lets not start with the Africans are violent people because Europeans are just as violent and lets not even discuss colonization and millions of people dying by the need for Europe trying to conquest the rest of the world. Want to talk about Eastern Europe and the Holocaust and Bosnia and places in Russia? I saw a survey that showed that Russia has one of the most violent places in the world. I agree, violence is a human thing and no country or people has the cornerstone on it, but we do have a type of culture of violence that glorifies violence and can contribute to the idea of murder and violence as a mean to settling disputes.
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  Let's Limit Young People , or Crazies from Killing Each Other in Schools

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  Layla33

  Maybe we should look at it this way then, no violent videogames are not solely responsible for provoking violent behavior in people, but possibly

  perhaps seeing them as an additional stimulus to an already persistent problem.

  I've personally have played many of the most violent games myself and I can verify they can be very involving emotionally.

  Thank you for being an intelligent adult and understanding the point I and others were making. :-)
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  Let's Limit Young People , or Crazies from Killing Each Other in Schools

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  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.