Sad emo

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  Is anyone staying with the stock market?

  by Bubblie in

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  just wondering should i take my money out and buy gold?

  is that just crazy?.

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  Sad emo

  There are too many factors involved to give a straight yes or no answer!

  Ignore the fact that there is an economic downturn and just consider the same points you would at any other time - such as would you be trading at a significant loss and if so, would reinvesting recover any trading loss you make? If gold is at a top price now, is the only way back down? How relatively 'safe' are the shares you hold (eg scarred for life's comment)? Are you invested for the long-term etc.

  Stock market trading is a gamble, some you win, some you lose. Hopefully you win more than you lose!
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  Is anyone familiar with the Quran, Hadith and Sharia?

  by heyfea in

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  should these hate speech against jews, christians and all other non-muslims found in them be outlawed in the u.s.?.

  heyfea.

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  Sad emo

  Hi heyfea. There are two main problems with how the Qur'an and hadith have been interpreted by radical islamists.

  1 Unbelievers are not to be confused with 'the People of the Book' (ie Jews, Christians and other Muslims) - they are two completely seperate groups. In fact, Muslims are commanded to protect the latter group, not persecute or kill them.

  2 In a similar way as you yourself have done within this topic, odd verses are taken out of their original context, both literary and historical and turned into 'eternal commands'

  Also, on the question of hadith, some of them are of disputed authenticity - even by mainstream Islamic scholars.
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  no come to work

  by mouthy in

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  chinese sick leave : "i no come work today!

  " hung chow calls into work and says, "hey, i no come work today, i really sick .

  got headache, stomach ache and legs hurt, i no come work.

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  Sad emo

  Granny Grace's life progress chart:

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  Cool joke Grace, I'll try that one at work next week

  er umm - telling the joke, that is LOL

  *emo steps slowly away from the shovel*
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  If life is like a bowl of cherries,

  by John Doe in

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  who's baking the pie?.

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  Sad emo

  Every one has a heart of stone...
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  Ironclaw needs our support.....

  by alamb in

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  his mother passed last month and he is hurting.

  i told him our little family here would support him through this.

  he will be following this thread.

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  Sad emo

  My thoughts are with you Claw.

  Even though she's gone from your sight, she's never very far away.
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  Question about Prodigal Son parable

  by tsar_robles in

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  well, after much thought put into it i decided to send a letter requesting reinstatement.

  i met with the jc and tried to reason with them on the prodigal son parable... how the father in this parable did not put his son through a waiting or probationary period, etc but rather embraced him on the spot... their answer was that the 'walk' to his father's home represents meeting attendance... in other words, the 'works' that befit repentance... any ideas???.

  i reminded them that in the last 3 years i've attempted to attend the meetings and yet the anxiety that developed brought me tangible unknown illnesses and symptoms that were unbearable and thus had to stop attending... i was told that i had to find a way to make meetings though; that i'd not die because of that.... i was asked how long did i attend meetings in my last attempt and i said about 4 months... "well, that's about 48 meetings... so say you went to 30 meetings..." i said: "no, i hardly missed any meetings and when i did i made sure the p.0.

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  Sad emo

  Well, they've hardly watched out for your return day after day and then come running down the road to greet you with joy as soon as they saw you have they?!

  The prodigal son repented and then returned home as he was - broken and with absolutely nothing to offer his father except to be treated as a servant rather than a son - a request which the father refused point-blank - and this is what would put the absolute disclaimer to the JC giving you all that bull about 'works befitting of repentance' - the son's request to be a servant was even refused. The fact that he had come home was enough - no further proof of repentance was required.

  Isn't God's UNDESERVED KINDNESS amazing?!

  The elders sound more like the other prodigal son in that story - the one who didn't leave home physically, but whose heart was a long way away living in the filth of wrong attitudes.
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  I Asked Help of an Old JW Friend, He Refused to Reply - My E-mail to Him

  by Seeker4 in

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  a few weeks ago i sent an e-mail to an old friend.

  he and i served for many years together as elders in the same congregation.

  he is still a jw, but he stepped down as an elder many years ago, went back to college (he began studying when he was in college and quit college to pioneer!

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  Perhaps he assumed your ex would speak with you so he didn't feel the need to reply.

  Also, just out of interest - have you kept in contact with him between leaving the WT and now, or did you just email him out of the blue because you needed some advice? Was your grandson's situation all you wrote about or did you ask how he was doing, suggest a meeting to catch up on old times etc?

  Guess I'm saying similar to Gregor - this might not be a simple case of shunning.
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  YOUR DAILY JOURNAL

  by compound complex in

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  dear friends,.

  much of what we do on a daily basis is routine and of no particular, earth-shaking importance.

  however, after reviewing letters of family going back to wwii, it is fascinating to read what dad was doing on board the aircraft carrier in the pacific on any old day, what mom was cooking on her ever-steaming range, how i was dealing with the roller coaster of emotion at bethel [mom saved all my letters], how nana wrote that she would not study with the witnesses [per my request] but 'here are some mittens i knitted for you when you canvass new york with your magazines.

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  Sad emo

  I took the day off work today, even though I really ought to have gone (overtime, not my normal hours). I figured that 5 days of crap was enough to put up with for this week at least!

  So instead, I went into town, did some shopping, treated myself to lunch at a nice cafe - roast lamb with all the trimmings, yummy!

  Later in the afternoon I met my friend who I haven't seen for a while and we had coffee and cake. I feel rather tubby at the moment LOL!

  AND - I've adopted another elderly kitty. She looks like a Furby!! She has a really long coat so all you can see is a ball of black fluff with a face attatched! She eats and sleeps and loves being cuddled and pampered - good job since she'll need grooming twice a day! She is staying in her foster home until next weekend though. I hope Yorkie likes her - I think he will
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  Do you have a "lab rat" friend in your life?

  by Gregor in

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  allow me to explain.. of course you are a normal person with warts and flaws.

  but you have a person (s) in your life, through work, church, or some other limited environment with whom you have complete control of their "diet" of information when it comes to you.

  to put it another way, they only know you from what you 'feed' them.

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  Sad emo

  I'm currently being eaten alive by someone else's lab rat

  Oh the irony - we work in...

  a lab!!
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  Healthy Breasts: Searching for Lumps

  by LouBelle in

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  i dread going for a breast check up - having my boob flattend is painful and if i don't have to go i won't.. saying that tho i do do the persoanl check.

  lying down and feeling the breast - though i'm not sure if i'm doing it right and if what i'm feeling is normal or not.

  how do i tell the difference between a lump, a muscle or just fat - because the other night i got a bit of a scare.

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  Sad emo

  And men - you can get breast cancer too, so don't forget to check your man-boobs!