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  Credit Card Details Stolen From TK Maxx UK and US

  by Sad emo in

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  2. current

  thought this news was worth flagging up here - especially as it appears to be slow hitting the uk mainstream news!.

  http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2046153,00.html.

  computer hackers targeting the cut-price fashion retailer tk maxx have stolen information from 45.7m credit and debit cards on both sides of the atlantic, in one of the biggest electronic heists of its kind.

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  Was C.T. Russell all that bad?

  by Sad emo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  disclaimer: this is a question purely about russell's bible teaching, not about his personal life, whether he was a freemason or whatever else.. ok, russell set himself up as a bible teacher, a lot of his theology was borrowed from groups such as the adventists and certain pyramidologists of his time, and i agree that a lot of his conclusions were plain crazy.

  my question is this - was the movement he started simply another misguided christian denomination with genuine motives as opposed to what happened after rutherford took over and added all the dogmas?

  does russell bear any of the blame for what the wbts has become?.

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  Co-dependent Behaviour

  by Sad emo in

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  2. friends

  i've been looking for info on co-dependent behaviour and what i've read so far really confuses me!

  i found loads of websites with lists of 'how to recognise co-dependeny' but many of the behaviours listed appeared to be relatively normal things - such as worrying about other people or feeling like you're giving all the time but nobody does anything for you etc.. so i was wondering, when does what might be perceived as a normal reaction to life's ups and downs cross the line and become co-dependent behaviour?

  the only line i can think of is when the behaviour becomes obsessive or excessive.. my black and white thinking is possibly coming in here but if people don't exhibit at least some degree of co-dependent behaviour, won't that make them totally selfish?.

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  Cancel Your Credit Cards Before You Die!

  by Sad emo in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i hope this reads ok when i post it!

  i couldn't change the formatting.

  family member: "i'm calling to tell you, she died in january.

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  One of those scary moments!!

  by Sad emo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we're having summer in the uk this week so earlier this afternoon i put my two guinea pigs out in their run to 'mow the lawn' while i went indoors and had something to eat.. i went back out later to check that they still had some shade from the sun, stepped out of the door just in time to hear a loud splash.

  i dashed to the pond to see if it was one of my cats who had fallen in.

  but it was one of the guinea pigs who'd managed to escape!!!.

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  Trying to find cross v. stake topics

  by Sad emo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  can anybody please help me out with some links on the cross versus torture stake debate either on jwd or external sites?

  i know there was a thread on here not so long ago but i can't find it.. also, if any of you long time posters can recommend any outstanding ones from the deepest recesses of jwd which you might have kept as favourites, i would be most grateful.

  i have to go offline for a while now so many thanks in advance for your help.. emo

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  Drug Trials Gone Horribly Wrong...

  by Sad emo in

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  2. current

  i just thought these poor guys deserve our thoughts.

  i hope they recover.

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4808836.stm

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  Was it like this when you left the witnesses?

  by Sad emo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i finally left the rc church after a long fade and joined another denomination, i got overwhelming feelings of guilt/doubt about what i had done.

  i guess it wasn't helped by my sister's reaction to what i had done either - that just hurt even more.. now, 10 years on, i don't get the doubt and guilt as often, but when i do, the feelings seem even worse than they did when i first left almost to the point that i'd consider going back just to make them go away (but then i'd probably feel guilty about going back .

  also, i seem to think that more 'bad' stuff has happened to me since leaving and when bad things are happening, i can't get away from the idea that god might be punishing me because i left the 'true' church and am therefore a really evil, sinful person who is only fit for hell and deserves everything i get.

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  Feeling really sad and worried

  by Sad emo in

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  2. friends

  i feel really sad and worried today.

  yesterday, the police announced that those evil people things who carried out the london bombings came from my own county of west yorkshire.

  on my way to work today, i walked through the market hall where there are both muslim and non-muslim stall holders.

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  Intro/Is it ok for me to be here?

  by Sad emo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is it ok for me to be part of your 'gang'?

  you see i'm not a jw and never have been and a bit of of me feels like i'm gatecrashing.. i was raised in a strong roman catholic family - i was expected to believe everything the church taught without question and i did.

  when i left school, i found myself working with an evangelical christian who, because she questioned my beliefs slowly made me look into them for myself - i truly hated her at the time for doing that and admit that i made her life a misery in revenge - but eventually i began to see that some of the stuff she was saying was right, we became very good friends and my real journey out of the rc church began.. i was too scared to leave straight away because of the doctrines i'd grown up with - no salvation outside the church and you can only really communicate with god through the priest (big issue here was how do i get my sins forgiven cos if i don't i'm gonna go to hell) - it was another 10 years before i finally plucked up the courage to leave and this was because of two things that happened:.

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