so i am going on a blind first date this weekend?
i havent done any dating really - well ever.
i just end up with people for years and years by accidents of fate i guess.. what should i and shouldnt i do on a first date?
Crumpet, just be very, very careful. You sound like you're keeping control of things, just be sure you are never in a setting where you could be stranded or incapable of extracting yourself from the situation. The Gavin deBecker book is a good one - and not just for first dates!
And somewhere in the midst of all this - have fun!
do not discuss your stamp collection...philately will get you nowhere....
LOL!
i saw boston legal this past tuesday and denny crane said he was impressed by the "articulate" man who didn't "sound" black.
this caused an uproar!!!
in a re-run on curb your enthusiasm, larry david makes a comment that's insulting to a black person and has to immediately apologize for being politically incorrect.. your opinion on this question, please..
jaguarbass: My comment is when one says the articulate man who doesnt sound black, that is a back handed comment that person is picking up one black person and putting down the rest
I agree. If a race label is used to mean "you are/are not inarticulate", that is inappropriate.
I also recognize that generalizations are often based on some kernel of truth.
This is all different, however, from "voice recognition". There is a certain timbre found in the voices of many black people that I often heard growing-up. I can sometimes recognize this quality in a voice - whether the speaker is articulate or not - and correctly identify the speaker as african-american. This is not, however, fool-proof. I myself am missing this particular tonal quality in my voice and, of course, can be wrong in my guesses. I also find that I'm losing this ability as I am exposed to a broader range of vocal tones; others might use such an exposure to hone their recognition.
There is no way to say someone "acts white" and for it to be a compliment as long as one is refering to race.
I am african-american. I and my immediate family are light-skinned. This was added into the mix when my school-aged peers told me I was "acting white." I did not "talk black" and (my greatest offense) did well in school and loved learning. For this, I was accused of "acting white". I also had "good hair" (not quite as "nappy" as many people's chemically untreated hair), which meant to my peers that I wasn't really black and must be ignorant of my heritage (and any unshady goings-on in my family). Even when I went to college, the "accusation" wouldn't die. I called my mother at work one day and her co-worker picked-up. My mother later told me that when the woman handed her the phone, she asked my mother if I went to a white college. Apparently, my black parents were incapable of teaching me proper grammar and enunciation, so I must be going to a white college.
The phrase is often used by peers to marginalize minority students who are doing well academically and who do not want to get involved in the less responsible activities engaged in by many youths. It is meant to discourage such behavior and, in my case, was used to attempt to re/assimilate individuals into whatever has currently been termed "black culture" and the "proper/popular" attitude for the race at the moment.
A special was done on television about this phenomenon a few years ago. A number of minority students described the pain and discouragement they dealt with from peers who "accused" them of being "white". One student had a grandmother who didn't want him 'up in her house talkin' all white.' He had to resort to slang and mispronunciations to be acceptable to her when he went to visit.
my brother called me yesterday from california and told me his dear wife had finally passed away at 9:40 pst.
she fought long and hard and didnt go easily into the night.
if god wanted her home she wasnt going to go without a fight!
Condolences and hugs, Loves and skeptic.
i cry everytime i read this and i thought you might enjoy .
reading it.
if you already have it just delete it.. love you!.
I don't have any scars on my arms. Funny, I don't have any scars on my legs either.
Ditto. And definitely not from either of my parents.
Nice how they use the old JW guilt trick to get email forwarded - who needs 7 years of bad luck when you could be labeled "selfish" for not forwarding junk email!
comments you will not hear at the 04-29-07 wt study (march 15, 2007, pages 21-25)(angels).
review comments will be in red.
wt material from today's wt will be in black.
According to the WTS, angels
- are mortal but do not grow old and get sick
- are genderless but when materializing, materialize as human males
Sure is handy, ignoring everyone else's religious traditions. If they didn't, they might have discovered that prophets from other traditions saw Gabriel appear as a female.
a few weeks ago i started a thread explaining that i wanted to read the entire bible for the first time.
i had been reading the kjv and i read revelation, john i, ii, ii and then i read john, matthew, mark, luke using the kjv in that order at someone's suggestion here.
i further took the suggestion of the poster and purchased an niv bible.
Posting this link because it not only presents challenges to the content of the Bible, but also provides space and links to apologetics addressing those challenges:
i realize with all the human hurt going on here that this may seem insignificant...... but right now its not for me.
i purchased a large dog nail cutter today and was able to clip 38 nails (two large dogs) with no problem.. suddenly the last two nails i clipped started spurting blood as if i had cut their throats.. not a whimper from the dog, but i feel terrible for causing pain, and the trust he has given me.
i dipped the paw into something to disinfect, wrapped it tightly with gauze, and fed him a pill to lower his blood pressure and make him nap.. he still looks at me with adoring eyes........ i feel so bad......anyone else experience this?.
res*, I'm so sorry. If he didn't make any noise, it likely didn't hurt much (mine yelp if I even get too close to the quick), but I know how awful it is to see them bleeding. Next time you're in the petstore, look for styptic powder, gel or swabs. Those clot the bleeding. I hate clipping my pups' nails. I know some people use a nail grinder (like a sanding wheel on a Dremel) to sand down the nail, especially on dark colored nails. It's been said that the wheel moves so fast that, if it cuts the quick, it automatically cauterizes it. Drs Foster and Smith, online, has those types of tools. ****** Kudos for taking such good care of your furbaby!
a succinct description of how 'love-bombing' and indoctrination work:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/jesus_love_bombs_you/
A succinct description of how 'love-bombing' and indoctrination work: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/jesus_love_bombs_you/
here we go folks.
a newly opened forum for knocking is now open on pbs's website.
let's not let the jw's overrun this with crap.
I'm ashamed to say it, but they got to me. I posted a response: http://discussions.pbs.org/viewtopic.pbs?p=550547#550547 --- Fat lot of good it'll do...
