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33No wonder Simon joined us !!!!
by kid-A incanada takes no.
1 spot in global image polllast updated: tuesday, march 6, 2007 | 6:56 am et the associated press canada came out best in a globe-spanning survey of attitudes toward 12 major nations, in a poll released tuesday.
israel, iran and the united states were the countries with the most negative image.. the survey for the british broadcasting corp.'s world service asked more than 28,000 people to rate 12 countries britain, canada, china, france, india, iran, israel, japan, north korea, russia, the united states and venezuela as having a positive or negative influence on the world.. israel was viewed negatively by 56 per cent of respondents and positively by 17 per cent; for iran, the figures were 54 per cent and 18 per cent.
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No wonder Simon joined us !!!!
by kid-A incanada takes no.
1 spot in global image polllast updated: tuesday, march 6, 2007 | 6:56 am et the associated press canada came out best in a globe-spanning survey of attitudes toward 12 major nations, in a poll released tuesday.
israel, iran and the united states were the countries with the most negative image.. the survey for the british broadcasting corp.'s world service asked more than 28,000 people to rate 12 countries britain, canada, china, france, india, iran, israel, japan, north korea, russia, the united states and venezuela as having a positive or negative influence on the world.. israel was viewed negatively by 56 per cent of respondents and positively by 17 per cent; for iran, the figures were 54 per cent and 18 per cent.
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kid-A
Canada takes No. 1 spot in global image poll
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 | 6:56 AM ET
The Associated Press
Canada came out best in a globe-spanning survey of attitudes toward 12 major nations, in a poll released Tuesday. Israel, Iran and the United States were the countries with the most negative image.
The survey for the British Broadcasting Corp.'s World Service asked more than 28,000 people to rate 12 countries — Britain, Canada, China, France, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, North Korea, Russia, the United States and Venezuela — as having a positive or negative influence on the world.
Israel was viewed negatively by 56 per cent of respondents and positively by 17 per cent; for Iran, the figures were 54 per cent and 18 per cent. The U.S. had the third-highest negative ranking, with 51 per cent citing it as a bad influence and 30 per cent as a good one. Next was North Korea, which was viewed negatively by 48 per cent and positively by 19 per cent.
Canada had the most positive rating in the survey, with 54 per cent viewing it positively and 14 per cent negatively. It was followed by Japan and France.
Respondents were also asked their views of the 27-member European Union; 53 per cent saw it as positive and 19 per cent as negative.
Britain, China and India were viewed more positively than negatively, while Russia had more negative than positive responses. Opinion on Venezuela was evenly split.
"It appears that people around the world tend to look negatively on countries whose profile is marked by the pursuit of military power," said Steven Kull, director of the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes, which conducted the research along with pollster GlobeScan.
"Countries that relate to the world primarily through soft power, like France and Japan and the EU in general, tend to be viewed positively," he added.
Pollsters questioned about 1,000 people in 27 different countries, including the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China, India, Brazil, Mexico and Australia; as well as four predominantly Muslim countries: Egypt, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia; and two countries with large Muslim populations: Lebanon and Nigeria.
The respondents were interviewed in person and over the phone from November to mid-January. The margin of error ranges from 3.1 per cent to 4.9 per cent, depending on the country.
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BASIC thinking....a TEST of how rational we are.
by Terry indarkness and light.. something and nothing.. heat and cold.. happiness and sadness.. love and hate.. which of the above are actually existing things and which are conceptual constructs?.
hint: this is a trick question.
but, go ahead and answer anyway.
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kid-A
uh huh. the burns exist and the fire occurs? i dunno. no one said that because you were a scientist that you had to use your brain ALL of the time.
Fire occurs because it exists. Pretty simple really. Shall I will ascribe your petty little insult to a bad bag of weed? LOL.....or were you not stoned when you wrote this?
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My mom was Kidnapped By the FBI Today She told Me F@#$ OFF!!
by Sparkplug inso friday my brother and i found a nursing home for my mom to stay at.
it was a very hard thing to do.
he had me go hunting.
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kid-A
Dont go back for at least a couple weeks. Sounds like you need to take a couple days off, somewhere away from this context and just decompress before you reach a breaking point.
I cant imagine anything worse or more stressful than having to deal with a person with dementia, completely out of touch with reality. It must be even worse given that you had a bad relationship to begin with. It may be time to slowly start cutting the strings, as the person you once knew and perhaps may have had some reconciliation with, is probably long gone.
Good luck, Sparky.
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BASIC thinking....a TEST of how rational we are.
by Terry indarkness and light.. something and nothing.. heat and cold.. happiness and sadness.. love and hate.. which of the above are actually existing things and which are conceptual constructs?.
hint: this is a trick question.
but, go ahead and answer anyway.
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kid-A
"e.g. fire does not exist, it occurs"
Uh-huh. Stick your hand in a bonfire for a few minutes and tell us if your third-degree burns actually "exist" or have simply "occurred"....LOL....
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Does Knowing the Truth Make you a Happier person?
by gumby inmany of us who were once jehovah's witnesses had a measure of happiness in our lives.
for me, i had a hope in the future, i had answers as to why we are all here, i believed in a loving god who looked after me and cared about me, i had answers to all of lifes big questions.. when i found out the truth about the witnesses, i was lost in a great big world and now had no answers other than the fact that what i once believed was "the truth" in actuality wasn't the truth.i now had to start all over in my search for truth.
for me, it wasn't long before i found what i thought was the truth since i always believed in the bible.
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"I haven't a clue as to whether there is a god who loves me and the rest of mankind and whether there is a plan for all of us, i'm terrified at the thought that there might not be anyone out there in the heavens who made me and the rest of us, and I haven't a clue as to where to start in finding out the truth about life and I highly doubt i'll ever know before I die."
Gumb-meister:
These kinds of thoughts are integral to any existential crisis. Most of us who at one time believed in a god (or were forced to believe in a god) went through the same stages.
I would just ask, why must you look externally for some "plan", I mean, what plan do you need? Looking around the natural world one is amazed at the natural state of chaos and disintegration. This is simply the natural, biological world that we evolved in. It is what it is, and we cannot separate ourselves from it. We DO have the choice of embracing it and using the ephemeral nature of human existence as a starting point for living our time-limited lives to the fullest extent possible, accomplishing as much as we can. In short truly "self-actualizing" our lives. What more is there, and why should there be anything more?
The only place to find "truth" is within yourself, since psychological "truth" can at best only be defined on a subjective basis.
Finally, why would the thought of a empty-sky be so terrifying? Your admission of this emotion answers your own question: you want to find some external entity to believe in to alleviate FEAR. One need only imagine the primordial evolutionary state of humanity and its emerging sentience to realize that the evolution of the concept of god or the supernatural was a natural reaction to a world that, at the time, humanity simply could not understand. My only advice is to focus on losing your fear.....once you have done this, everything else falls into place.....
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How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?
by minimus ini used to be here a real lot.
now i make about 15 posts , if that,.
per day and read a few other threads that interest me.
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kid-A
Dear Diary,
Thank you Lord! The call came through - nothing worse than some spin-outs en route and having to do some digging at destination. In the process, I have learned that my cell phone works - absolutely - in the house. Loud and clear. No need to get a dedicated line or rely totally on voice mail and the slight inconvenience of message retrieval. But I hate hearing the phone ring. Quit your whining! You talkin' to me? You're the only one in the room!
Geezuz I was wondering how this thread got to 20 pages! Dude, please dont take this the wrong way and nothing personal, but this self-referential blathering to yourself about the excruciatingly boring minutiae of your daily activities is just deadly. I mean, I dont think I have ever read anything this boring and mundane in my life.
This is an ex-JW "discussion" board, not a "personal blog space". Its relatively simple to set up your own blog if you feel that you have an audience interested in hearing about how you dont like hearing the phone ring. Do you really think anybody cares that your cell phone works in your house? I mean, krikies almighty, enough is enough! Cant believe the mods havent locked this down due to bandwidth waste! LOL....
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NEW LIGHT ! Wedding Rings!!!!!!!!!
by bigmouth indoes this sound right to you????!!!!!
to all congregations; .
xxxxxxxxxx .
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kid-A
LOL....
But if they really were going to do this, that is exactly how the letter would sound!
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DF'd for Son's Bday??
by brunnhilde inwe're having my seven-year-olds first birthday party at the local chuck e. cheese (yeah, i know but it's what he wanted).
i don't especially care, but if a dub sees us and reports us (as you know they would), can be we be df'd?
like i said, i don't particularly care, and wouldn't be sorry either.
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kid-A
"Here's another idea, if you so worried about getting disfellowshipped stop celebrating birthdays!"
Here's yet another idea for AGAPA! Why dont you listen to your CrapTower overlords and stop participating in apostate discussion forums?
How ironic you decide to post on this thread given that as soon as your elders identify you here, YOU will be disfellowshipped!! LMAO.....
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Favourite quotes from films.....
by fifi40 ini love this quote and often find myself using it on the kids and my dog.
it is from cats and dogs and james earl jones doing the voice over.
"not for you young puppy, for you the war is over".
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kid-A
"I'd hate to take a bite out of you, Sidney. You're a cookie filled with arsenic..."
-JJ Honsecker to Sidney Falco in "The Sweet Smell of Success"
