Wild_Thing

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  Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

  by Valis in

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  i really liked this movie and my 5 & 7 year olds didn't get bored with it at all.. .

  sincerely, .

  district overbeer

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  Yes ... I took my JW neices (5 and 16) to see it last week. They loved it too! When "Lemony Snicket" released the first book in his series, critics said the books were awful and were too dark for kids to want to read. Turns out ... the only series that has sold more books to date is Harry Potter!

  Funny story while we were out at the movie, my 16 year old neice was asking if I had seen a certain movie, but kept referring to it as "you know" because she didn't want to say the title in front of my younger neice. I could not think what movie she could possibly be referring to. I was trying to think of every rated R movie that has come out recently. Finally, I said ... "Just spell it, for heaven's sake!" Finally she said, "Have you seen h-a-r-r-y-p-o-t-t-e-r?" LOL! Poor kid! I told her that her mom and I used to watch Bewitched when we were kids and I cannot understand why Harry Potter is any worse.

  Then, she told me her dirty little secret! She checked out a Harry Potter book from the library and has been reading it!
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  How does the society explain 5 more partakers at the Memorial?

  by lv4fer in

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  i think it's kind of funny.

  how do they explain more people this year than lasts?

  i thought the number was suppose to get lower as they died off?

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  95stormfront,

  I disagree that they do not pay any attention to the numbers. When I was still in ... we ALWAYS looked at the numbers because the smaller the number, the closer it was to armageddon! One year we were very excited when it appeared that 8 people had died! Sick, isn't it.

  I agree that a "good JW" would never question it. If they did, they would rationalize it to death.
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  How does the society explain 5 more partakers at the Memorial?

  by lv4fer in

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  i think it's kind of funny.

  how do they explain more people this year than lasts?

  i thought the number was suppose to get lower as they died off?

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  I think Jehovah was audited.
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  Is it necessary...

  by homme perdu in

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  to post your name at the end of every comment

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  You guys are silly!!!!

  Engelbert Humperdinck
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  Did you exhibit some wierd behaviour ...

  by Brummie in

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  ...when exiting the watchtower?

  i thought i was going absolutely mad.

  told lies and invented other stories and scenerios to hide the fact that i was coping with coming out of a cult.

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  Is feeling suicidal weird or normal? I think considering the circumstances, it was not that weird.

  I also use to sit in my car in the parking lot and cry before I went into work in the mornings. I had nightmares too, but it is was the unexplained sobbing fits that came out of nowhere that drove me nuts. I would go to the store to but milk, the cashier would wish me a nice day, and I would go out the store ... waaaahaaahaaa!!!!! Glad I got over that!
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  Homeschooling?

  by mkr32208 in

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  this is a pet peeve of mine!

  how in the heck can the school board justify turning the education of anyone over to some jacka$$ that dropped out of school to pioneer and makes their living cleaning toilets!

  how can any parent that truely loves their kid not take a good long look at themselves and say "i am not the best teacher for this child.

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  My personal experience tells me that parents who are NOT jdubs that homeschool their kids do it for academic reasons...those children tend to excell. But jdub parents who pull their kids out of school because of association...those kids tend to be slow socially and intelectually. Does this make sense? So I guess it depends on the reasons behind homeschooling. If parents are motivated enough to take on the responsibility and smart enough, it can work very well...if they just want their kids to be super controlled and sheltered, its a huge disadvantage.

  Again, I think that is a generalization and perhaps an unfair one. My parents put my sister and I into homeschooling to get us away from "bad association" and they pretty much left us to fend for our own learning.
  

  I definitely excelled more than her academically, but even though my sister did not finish, she is a very intelligent person. She is well read and can carry on an very intelligent conversation about a variety of subects.

  With that being said, here is the disclaimer: My sister is still a JW, so I guess she can't be *that* intelligent! Also, while she can carry on a conversation about a lot of different subjects, she tends to turn into a different person ... a stupid person ... when it comes to religion and the witnesses. Sometimes, I just want to shake her!

  Karen (a.k.a. Wild_Thing)
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  Homeschooling?

  by mkr32208 in

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  this is a pet peeve of mine!

  how in the heck can the school board justify turning the education of anyone over to some jacka$$ that dropped out of school to pioneer and makes their living cleaning toilets!

  how can any parent that truely loves their kid not take a good long look at themselves and say "i am not the best teacher for this child.

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  My sister and I were homeschooled. We both had totally different outcomes.

  My sister didn't finish. She married some good witness boy when she was 17 and eventually got her GED.

  My outcome is the other extreme. I finished as fast as I could. I graduated with a high school diploma from a reputable "home school" course when I was 16. I immediately started going to college, with the intent of getting some kind of vocational training to get a job. (It was '93 ... when the society officially gave the okay to pursue higher education.) Instead, I just kept going and going and now I have my masters degree and am working on a specialist degree.

  I don't think it is fair to say that homeschooling is necessarily a failure or success. My sister and I were raised in the same house and homeschooled in the same manner, with two completely different outcomes. My sister and I were not really taught by my mother (or anyone else). It was up to us to study and do the work, etc. Luckily, we were pretty self-disciplined and motivated. I happened to be a little more motivated than my sister. In a homeschooling situation like that, an unmotivated, undisciplined, or learning disabled kid is doomed from the beginning.

  By the way, I am not a fan of home schooling now. I do not think it is a good idea because of the anti-social factor. It *is* very isolating, unless the parents make a determined effort to involve the kids in other things. There are many days that I wish I had not been homeschooled for that reason, but on the other hand I am not sure I would have started going to college if I had graduated in the traditional sense.

  Karen (a.k.a. Wild_Thing)
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  Eddie Izzard is a God!

  by Wild_Thing in

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  i can't be the only eddie izzard fan out there!

  some of his bits: .

  "here we go: don't do bad things, only do good things.

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  Wild_Thing

  I love his James Mason impersonation... and his history lessons are a hoot!

  He is unique in that he seems to be very intelligent, and yet still very funny!

  I also like his impersonation of Sean Connery as Noah.
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  Eddie Izzard is a God!

  by Wild_Thing in

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  i can't be the only eddie izzard fan out there!

  some of his bits: .

  "here we go: don't do bad things, only do good things.

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  Wild_Thing

  have to be a local one ...
  

  Haven't heard from him before....

  No ... not at all!! Run ... don't walk ... to your local video store and check out Dress to Kill. He is freakin' hilarious!

  Edited to add ... he is a British comedian, but very popular in the U.S. He may be more popular here in the U.S. than in Britain ... would be interested to know.
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  Eddie Izzard is a God!

  by Wild_Thing in

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  i can't be the only eddie izzard fan out there!

  some of his bits: .

  "here we go: don't do bad things, only do good things.

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  Wild_Thing

  I happen to be a rabid Eddie Izzard fan, but I only have one DVD of his - a stand up special where he talks about conquering places by the use of flags. I must have played it 100 times and still laugh my ass off each time. Thanks to the friend who introduced me to this guy (?). Where can I find more?

  Yes ... that was Dressed to Kill. Here is a transcript, though it is not as funny as seeing him perform it ...http://www.auntiemomo.com/cakeordeath/d2ktranscription.html#history

  He has several other DVDs (5 or 6). They have them all at amazon pretty cheap. I am going to check eBay too, though.