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  how many of you have armed themselves?

  by buffalosrfree in

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  i recently bought a high powered rifle and am presently buying a pistol for back-up.

  i have a cross bow, a compound bow, and several swords and knives, in fact i have been collecting knives for some time and have learned how to use them in defending myself and in taking the initiative in learning to defend myself.

  i am quite versed in using both the croww bow and the compound bow, it seems the goverment doesn't want to defend us and just wants to unarm us.

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  Obviously theres no easy answer to the whole gun issue in the states

  Who says there needs to be an answer?

  I own about six firearms, mostly because they are fun. However, god bless the soul who decides to break into my house.
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  Are YOU Ready For The Rapture?

  by sixsixsixtynine in

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  the rapt-o-meter has crept up to 158. you've been warned.

  http://www.raptureready.com/rap2.html

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  warlock - it's a joke I received in an email some time ago...
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  Are YOU Ready For The Rapture?

  by sixsixsixtynine in

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  the rapt-o-meter has crept up to 158. you've been warned.

  http://www.raptureready.com/rap2.html

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  ARKANSAS CITY (AP) —

  A Little Rock woman was killed yesterday after leaping through her moving car's sun roof during an incident best described as "a mistaken rapture" by dozens of eye witnesses. Thirteen other people were injured after a twenty-car pile up resulted from people trying to avoid hitting the woman who was apparently convinced that the rapture was occurring when she saw twelve people floating up into the air, and then passed a man on the side of the road who she claimed was Jesus.

  "She started screaming "He's back, He's back" and climbed right out of the sunroof and jumped off the roof of the car," said Everett Williams, husband of 28-year-old Georgann Williams who was pronounced dead at the scene. "I was slowing down but she wouldn't wait till I stopped," Williams said.

  She thought the rapture was happening and was convinced that Jesus was gonna lift her up into the sky," he went on to say. "This is the strangest thing I've seen since I've been on the force," said Paul Madison, first officer on the scene. Madison questioned the man who looked like Jesus and discovered that he was dressed up as Jesus and was on his way to a toga costume party when the tarp covering the bed of his pickup truck came loose and released twelve blow up sex dolls filled with helium which floated up into the air.

  Ernie Jenkins, 32, of Fort Smith, who's been told by several of his friends that he looks like Jesus, pulled over and lifted his arms into the air in frustration, and said , "Come back here," just as the Williams' car passed him, and Mrs. Williams was sure that it was Jesus lifting people up into the sky as they passed by him, according to her husband, who says his wife loved Jesus more than anything else.

  When asked for comments about the twelve sex dolls, Jenkins replied "This is all just too weird for me. I never expected anything like this to happen."
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  Has anybody successfully quit using caffeine altogether?

  by DanTheMan in

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  my anxiety and stress levels are really bad lately.

  i think i'd be doing myself a favor to quit caffeine, as it has become a real catch-22 for me, where i need it to stay awake, but it causes me to lose sleep, so i need more of it to stay awake, etc.. i've learned through experience that i'm very sensitive to any sort of chemical substance that affects neurotransmitter flow, and, given my general propensity towards depression/anxiety/paranoia/add, i think that at least one thing i could do to give me a calmer, more stable neurotransmitter mix would be to eliminate caffeine.

  i've tried to reduce before, and i've found that i just start making excuses to have a little more, a little more, until i'm right back where i started.. so, i'm just wondering if anybody else has had a similar experience where they felt the need to not just reduce but eliminate caffeine altogether, and if so, how did it go, did it help, how long has it been, etc.

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  Last year I decided to quit drinking everything but water for a month. It was pretty tough because I drink a lot of coffee. The first week was rough... headaches and just a general feeling of not feeling right. But after that, it was no problem. The hardest part was giving up beer. But, I lasted a month and returned to my old ways, though I drink decaf coffee now.
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  Came out to my parents

  by jstalin in

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  just wanted to write about my experience in coming out to my parents in the last two weeks.

  it's a long story, but my sister and i are both gay, but we haven't come out to our parents until now.

  my sister and i have been debating with each other the best way to come out to them because we've known that it would be a serious blow to them.

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  Thanks everyone for the supportive comments. I was at my parents this weekend because my brother and two nehphews are in town and life was completely normal. Things are going well.

  Crumpet - I'm on this board because I have a friend who is a JW. I was just curious about his religion when I came across this board and I've found some of the coolest people on the Internet here, so I stick around.

  Scully - My parents do love me still, it's just been such a shock to them. Things will return to normal - it's just that their universe has shifted and they'll need to adjust.

  The funny thing is that in talking with my parents, they say they always sorta suspected about me, which doesn't really surprise me. My mom is pretty perceptive and I knew she probably already knew, deep down inside.
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  Came out to my parents

  by jstalin in

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  just wanted to write about my experience in coming out to my parents in the last two weeks.

  it's a long story, but my sister and i are both gay, but we haven't come out to our parents until now.

  my sister and i have been debating with each other the best way to come out to them because we've known that it would be a serious blow to them.

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  Just wanted to write about my experience in coming out to my parents in the last two weeks.

  It's a long story, but my sister and I are both gay, but we haven't come out to our parents until now. My sister and I have been debating with each other the best way to come out to them because we've known that it would be a serious blow to them. Our parents are catholic and pretty conservative people. The bottom line is that my sister's girlfriend has been getting a little impatient with my sister's secrecy, so my sister called my mom two weeks ago and came out to her on the phone (my sister lives several states away). Well, this was a surprise to me because I thought things would be better planned than that, and I don't think that doing so over the phone was the best way to do it.

  Anyhow, I came up in the conversation and my mom asked my sister if I'm gay too. My sister said that she would have to talk to me about it, which my mom took immediately as "yes."

  Well, this caused a bit of a stir, since I was out of town on business. My mom called me and invited me to dinner. I agreed.

  I had dinner with my parents and afterwords they sat me down in the living room and said "we need to talk." I said yes we do, and they said my sister had come out to them and they wondered about me. I told them that I am gay too and that I'm happier than I've ever been because I've finally come to terms with myself and have found a great boyfriend that I adore and we have such a great time together.

  Well, my parents were very upset, and my dad even said "what the f--k did we do wrong?" They were both crying. I felt so bad for them, because two of their three kids are gay. Their biggest wish is to have grandkids in the area, and that's kinda crushed. My mom started going off on how it's unnatural to be gay and gay sex is disgusting, etc. I stopped her and said that I understand how most people are repulsed by it, but they're entitled to their opinion. They continued to cry and bring up things like aids, and my mom was so disgusted to hear that I've been to gay bars. I had to explain to her that her view is very distorted by both the media and the conservative world she lives in and that gay bars are very much like regular bars. She asked me about my boyfriend, but didn't want too much detail.

  Well, after about an hour of arguing, explaining, and just talking, they told me that they've made an appointment to talk to a priest about this. I told them that I'd be willing to go with them to help them through this. They are fully aware that I'm an atheist, and I told them that they shouldn't expect any conversion or anything, that I would be going to talk it through with them.

  Well, this past sunday morning I went with my parents to talk to the priest and it went surprisingly well. I have a lot of respect for the catholic chuch and that priest increased that respect. He didn't once tell me that I was wrong or that I need to stop what I'm doing. The entire jist of what he told my parents was that they will need to deal with this and that keeping it a secret wouldn't help anyone. He stressed the importance of family and acceptance and he flat out said that my parents will need to expect to have a non-traditional family. I was a little shocked. He acknowledged that the church does not support gay marriage, but the church says that marriage fulfills two functions - procreation and companionship. He said that gay relationships are about companionship and not just sex and that even though the church doesn't condone it, homosexual relationships are legitimately about love. The four of us spoke for about an hour and the priest pledged to get my parents the names of some parent support groups in the area. I left feeling pretty good about the meeting and I think it helped my parents as well. It'll take some time for them to start to accept what my sister and I are, but I think we're on the right track.

  Well, just wanted to get that off my chest.
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  Fidel castro temporarily gives up power!

  by Forscher in

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  fidel castro just temporarily gave up his power to his brother, raul castro.

  he is going to have abdominal surgery and gave up his power to his brother for the duration of his illness.

  i am sure there will be more to follow on the newswires.

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  Party at my place when Fidel croaks.
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  Film: Grizzly Man

  by MegaDude in

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  what a whacked out character timothy treadwell was.. this documentary and story, told mostly through treadwell's own video, is about a man who wanted to be a friend of grizzly bears and perhaps maybe be a grizzly bear.

  he took off for alaska where for long stretches of time he would "commune" with these huge killer bears and film them.

  he seemed to think he had nothing to fear because he was operating at a higher level of spirituality and that the bears sensed it.

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  Apparently this guy wasn't aware that Jehovah uses she-bears to tear apart children (and presumably adults too).
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  What did you first go search for when you had your first computer?

  by JH in

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  ok, you went on google and searched for...................

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  I started on my first computer when I was about 11 years old. That must have been around 1990-1991. It was before the wide availabilty of the internet, but we had local servers that you could dial up to called BBS's (Bulletin Board Systems), which were sorta like the internet, but a lot less inter-connected. Of course, probably some of the first things I looked up were games and porn.

  First computer was a Tandy Color Computer 3.

  
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  A question about the ladies

  by cyberdyne systems 101 in

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  ok firstly i have nothing against ladies, especially any of the lovely ones here - some of whom i recently had the pleasure of meeting in the flesh at englishmans bbq, and i must say what a great group of girls we have here!.

  anyway back to my question, a number of times i have noticed that some women seem to go quiet on you rather than tell you what they feel.

  almost like pushing you away because they can't speak about whatever it is.

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  I think it's a communication thing. I am very communicative about my feelings with someone I'm dating, and I sometimes have to prod the other person for their views. I think it's important to talk through issues early before they become big problems. There's no point in stewing about something when you can just out and out talk about it.