why did charlie have to die?
why couldn't he have swam out of that window?
he was such a good character.
On Jack's Father - He tried to use a perscription from his Dad, though obviously fake, and then there was the mention of getting his father downstairs at the hospital. - Is he really alive (thanks to the island?), or is Jack losing his mind?
On the funeral - I dont know if Ben or Locke would leave the island willingly. After killing whats her name, Locke split pretty quick. I'm betting he wont be showing up for the rescue. Michael maybe?
i sure tried to act spiritual in the beginning of my jw life.
i could go through the motions of being a good jw, but i just never could get turned on with being spiritual.i gave great talks and when i was an elder i could fill in for a no-show and never miss a beat.
however, my wife at the time always complained that we didn't do the family study or study the wt lesson ahead of time.
I think thats about as good a way to say it as any. I just did what I did because I thought it was the right thing to do, I believed in god, but didnt really feel moved by the whole experience like some do.
I pioneered for a while, was regular in coming to the meetings and commenting, but felt obligation rather than motivation really.
so today was a bit of a lazy monday.
first i slept in an extra hour.
then i took my 7 year old son to school, a task usually performed by my wife.
Actually, that was my favorite kind of service. I realized that I was never going to have much success in the d2d stuff, because I really didnt care enough to try that hard. I'd put in the time sure, but I realized that anyone who was taking the mags was just trying to get us to go away anyway.
The street work was nice as it just gave you the chance to get to know people in your car group as your cruised around for a few hours. I knew that we werent going to have much success, but if I had to go out and hock magazines, that's the way I preferred to do it.
If you didnt have someone along that wanted to talk about the troof the whole time, it gave you a chance to see if maybe there was something you liked about the people in your hall. I made quite a few friends that way, though they're all lost at this point.
ah, those were the good ol' days.
you could underline with a pen and the paper wouldn't rip.
you would pinch the paper between your fingers and feel like you're holding a piece of paper instead of a tissue.
So I havent touched one of their crappy mags since 05, I take it they changed the paper just a bit?
i knew of 1 person that should've been reported to the authorities for fooling around with his sisters when he was an older teen and they were much younger.
it was hushed up by the elders, as this was considered a very prominent family.
the allegations were made probably 20 years ago, well before i was ever in that hall.
Off the top of my head I can think of 4. Fortuntately 3 of those served time in prison, one multiple times.
The crazy thing is, I wasn't really in the "know" as far as dubs went. I wasn't really part of the jw in-crowd that would be aware of all the little scandals and gossip and yet I'm aware of 4 pedophiles. One continues to serve as an elder as far as I'm aware and nothing was ever announced to anyone.
I know of a couple of elders who dared to drink beer while guarding a hall construction project.
Does that count?
i've been listening to this from the congress for some time now, and it's back in the news today.
the idea is to build a literal fence along the us border, hundreds of miles long and costing millions of dollars, in order to keep out illegal aliens.. damn you canadian outlaws!
oops!
im not racist either, im just sensible
Hate to tell you this bro, but you dont sound very sensible... but maybe Im wrong.
Right now we are trying to put a square peg into a round hole and pretend that there's nothing wrong with that. People can carry on about race and whatever else they want, but the reality of the situation is that this isn't good for our already weak economy and wont get any better. Our politicians are ignoring the will of the people and this is a hot issue here.
If you dont live here, I don't expect you to understand, but don't assume that someone is a biggot just because they dont like being walked all over.
i've been listening to this from the congress for some time now, and it's back in the news today.
the idea is to build a literal fence along the us border, hundreds of miles long and costing millions of dollars, in order to keep out illegal aliens.. damn you canadian outlaws!
oops!
hate to tell you this bro, you sound pretty racist to me... but maybe im wrong and i do understand your viewpoint here... but the problem here is that your comments are SWEEPING generalisations... i mean not every mexican, not even most mexican, not even a substancial part of mexicans are coming and stealing cars... its one in a thousand, if not smaller odds... and the other issue here is that, most of the car stolen are probably by your own people...
Let me clarify.. Im not saying that everyone that comes up from mexico steals cars... What I am saying is that we have on of the hightest rates (we were #1 in 2001) of auto theft in the country and a number of those vehicles end up in mexico.
I'm trying to locate stats for that right now, but see the first paragraph in this article
http://phoenix.about.com/od/cartheft/a/autotheft.htm
next thing is, its not the mexicans fault that the ER is full, its your governments... mine are full here too, and i do not blame immigrants, i blame the lack of funding from the government....
The thing is, we dont have that sort of health care system here, its not run by the goverment. The system is not intended to run in the fashion that its being used in and this is causing problems.
and take it from someone who is QUADRILINGUAL, learning another language may cost more in your tax dollars, but your childs intelligence levels will sky rocket just because he/she learned another language....
I never claimed that learning a second language was a bad thing.. As a matter of fact I am completely in favor of it.. The part that you are missing is that our educational system as it sits right now is geared to have english as the primary language.
i've been listening to this from the congress for some time now, and it's back in the news today.
the idea is to build a literal fence along the us border, hundreds of miles long and costing millions of dollars, in order to keep out illegal aliens.. damn you canadian outlaws!
oops!
Republicans want to keep out Coloreds, whether they are Mexican, Honduran, Gautemalans, etc.... They don't mind other whites, though, like say, ehh, from Canada.
Well that doesnt quite capture it. Living in a border state I can tell you that this is a real problem, though I doubt a huge fuckin fence is going to do anything to help the situation.
Here are a few issues that I personally have to deal with because of our lack of border control
My state has a insane car theft rate. A good portion of those cars find their way down to Mexico and because of this, I get to pay one the highest auto insurance rates in the country.
These same harmless illegals dont bother to get insurance on whatever they do drive which does nothing to solve the problem mentioned above.
If you need to go to the ER, you had better be prepared to wait for 8 hours or so as the illegals use this as their primary care doctor.
Schools are being forced to conduct classes in spanish and english to accomodate the children of the illegals, increasing the cost to the tax payer.... and then dont get me started on taxes...
I'm not a racist, I'm simply anti-burden.
1. whenever we did the kingdom hall cleaning and would wear casual clothes, we weren't allowed to wear any shirt/sweatshirt/top w/ a logo on it!!!
(and not obvious stuff like "camel cigs" or "budweiser"), but stuff like "reebok" "quiksilver" etc etc etc.
(omg) (hey, on the way out, you reminded me of this in another post!!).
# ?: The idea that demons are hiding everywhere... In yard sale purchases, in cartoons, in music, in politics, etc, etc..
# ?+1: The idea that anything written by a former member was in fact false and very, very tricky and twisted. One look at it was all that it would take to pull you away from jeboober and his truthitude. The only course of action that was approved in the event that you were confronted by something written by satan himself, was to plug our ears and run the other direction while reciting the days text LOUDLY to drown out any demons that might try to bore into your brain.
