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  What song do you listen to........

  by whyamihere in

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  ...when your heart is broken????.

  i can't make you love me: by bonnie raitt.

  turn down the lights, turn down the bed.

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  ooooo, I love "Sleep to Dream" and "I Can't Make You Love Me." Great songs.
  
  Okay, for super sappy, there's Michael McDonald's "I Can Let Go Now." But the one that gets me crying every time is "The Scientist" by Coldplay.
  
  I have a playlist in my itunes called "Melancholy Mix", just for sad days. Helps me move through things more easily. Another song I really love is Billy Bragg's "St. Swithin's Day":
  
  Thinking back now,
  I suppose you were just stating your views
  What was it all for
  For the weather or the battle of agincourt
  And the times that we all hoped would last
  Like a train they have gone by so fast
  And though we stood together
  At the edge of the platform
  We were not moved by them
  
  With my own hands
  When I make love to your memory
  It's not the same
  I miss the thunder
  I miss the rain
  And the fact that you don't understand
  Casts a shadow over this land
  But the sun still shines from behind it.
  
  Thanks all the same
  But i just can't bring myself to answer your letters
  It's not your fault
  But your honesty touches me like a fire
  The polaroids that hold us together
  Will surely fade away
  Like the love that we spoke of forever
  On st swithin's day
  
  
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  Finally got my apartment!!! YAY

  by FreedomFrog in

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  after being turned down for 6, i finally got an apt.

  that my kids and i are very happy in.

  i didn't have internet connection for a week and my grades in college dropped a bit but they said not to worry too much because my grades has been very good and that it won't matter too much.

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  Congrats Froggie! That's awesome. Happy to hear that things are coming together for you and the kids.
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  Testing out my new Digital Camera...

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  played hookey from work for a little while yesterday, went to a local park to take photos.. it's a nikon coolpix l3, and so far, i'm pleasantly surprised!

  the price wasn't bad, and the pictures don't disappoint.. i hope you all enjoy..... .

  http://photos.yahoo.com/[email protected].

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  Beautiful photos. I love the one of the bee inside the flower. Nice park as well. Where is it?
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  Name the Books That Impacted You The Most.

  by XJW4EVR in

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  anything by raymond franz is a given.. 1984. siddartha.

  lord of the flies.

  grapes of wrath.

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  "tallpenguin, I am curious how this book (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) impacted you. If you wouldn't mind."
  As a kid I didn't read much fiction. I was too much in the real world with its real world problems. But I did read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. And I loved it. It was fantastical but still I could relate to the main character and his dreams. Gave me hope that, in the end, maybe the good, quiet kids do get noticed and rewarded.
  It has been my favourite book since then and I read it once a year to remind myself of being a child, and not to take life too seriously. I have since read most of Roald Dahl's other stuff and am actually just re-reading The BFG right now. I like Dahl's crazy sense of humour. It was my dream as a kid to meet him. Alas he died in 1990 and I didn't get to, but I can imagine that he would've been pretty cool.
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  Name the Books That Impacted You The Most.

  by XJW4EVR in

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  anything by raymond franz is a given.. 1984. siddartha.

  lord of the flies.

  grapes of wrath.

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  Wow...you've started a thread on books. I could go on for days. Okay, here goes...
  You Can Heal Your Life Louise Hay
  Tomorrow's God Neale Donald Walsch
  Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All In Your Head Carla Hannaford
  Brain Gym Paul E. Dennison
  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Road Dahl
  The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
  Veronika Decides to Die Paulo Coelho
  The Chrysalids John Wyndham
  Everything written by Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten)
  The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo
  The Red Tree Shaun Tan
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  I'm Sorry Jgnat!!!

  by RichieRich in

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  ok, so i got some new ink yesterday.

  whoa whoa whoa now.

  i'm not jumping in to this thing head first, this had been planned since day one.

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  "geez, there goes lunch tommorrow."
  Hey Richie, just take the crisp fiver and enjoy a beer on me next time you're out. Just be sure to raise the glass to me and send me lots of good Richie freedom energy. Deal?
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  I'm Sorry Jgnat!!!

  by RichieRich in

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  ok, so i got some new ink yesterday.

  whoa whoa whoa now.

  i'm not jumping in to this thing head first, this had been planned since day one.

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  "No-one wounds (touches) me with impunity"
  The date marks when you became free from the org. Am I right?
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  Happiness is... now you fill in the blank

  by jayhawk1 in

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  happiness is playing hungry hungry hippos for over an hour with your daughter and loving every minute of it..

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  Happiness is...
  Fresh baked chocolate chip cookies.
  Watching children play.
  Helping people find the book they're looking for. (I work in a large bookstore.)
  
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  The resurrection of dead pets

  by greendawn in

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  would it be nice if pets also got resurrected to live with their owners once more?

  we can try teaching them all the biblical truths but of course they will not understand anything.

  however their faithful christian owners may want to see them again.

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  I know a brother who is convinced his pet dog will be resurrected in the "new system". He backs this up by saying, "The scriptures say that jehovah will satisfy the desire of every living thing; well I don't want to live forever without my dog so he'll have to resurrect him." I sometimes wonder if it's the only thing that keeps him going. He loved that dog.
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  Illnesses in The Congregations

  by Country Girl in

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  did any of you ever notice that what seemed a larger percentage of people in the congregation seem to have serious illnesses than the same slice of people in the world with the same demographics?

  it seems that our congregation had a large percentage of people with mental illnesses, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, etc.

  these diseases (although some md's classify them as psychosomatic) have been known to be aggravated or even induced by stress.

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  Just did some research on CFS and personality type. Found the following:
  "The role of personality in the development and perpetuation of chronic fatigue syndrome.
  White C, Schweitzer R.
  Department of Psychology and Counselling, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
  OBJECTIVES: Qualitative evidence suggests that personality may have special relevance to the predisposition, precipitation and perpetuation of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). This study compares three dimensions of personality - perfectionism, self-esteem, and emotional control in the personality profiles of CFS patients (N=44) and a control group (N=44) without a history of CFS, matched for age and gender.
  METHODS: Participants were assessed on the MPS [Frost RO, Marten P, Lahart C, Rosenblate R. The dimensions of perfectionism. Cognit Ther Res 1990;14:449-468.]; the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale [Rosenberg M. Society and the Adolescent Self-image. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Press, 1965.]; the Courtauld Emotional Scale [Watson M, Greer S. Development of a questionnaire measure of emotional control. J Psychosom Res 1983;27:299-305.] and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale [Crowne DP, Marlowe D. A new scale of social desirability independent of psychopathology. J Consult Psychol 1960;24:349-354.].
  RESULTS: Analyses revealed that the CFS group reported higher levels than the control group on the Total Perfectionism score and Doubts about Actions and the Concern over Mistakes subscales. Furthermore, the CFS group also reported lower self-esteem than the control group. No difference between the two groups was found on the dimensions of emotional control and social desirability response bias.
  CONCLUSION: A developmental model of CFS, which considers the predisposing, precipitating, and perpetuating factors that may account for the course of the disorder irrespective of etiology, is proposed. In the context of the results, recommendations for practice and future research are discussed."
  
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11033370&dopt=Abstract