Nolita

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  How do you feel about "Ultimate fighting?"

  by free2beme in

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  because i turned a lot of attention to martial arts, after leaving the witnesses, i got a lot of connections with people in the martial arts and fighting world.

  i have sense stopped training, after many years and black belts.

  what do you think of this fighting, do you like it?

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  CBS Sportsline has an online article called "Debunking Ultimate Fighting Myths." It's an interesting read for those who may be concerned about injuries and brutality of MMA-related sports.

  It should be noted: MMA fighters are impressively skilled and, in the professional organizations such as PRIDE and UFC, the referees will not let a guy simply get the crap kicked out of him. These are not no-holds barred, bare-knuckle grudge matches. If someone ceases to intelligently defend themselves, the fight is stopped. Interestingly, the level of respect and sportsmanship shown amongst the fighters is practically unparalleled in any other competitive sport I've seen. (I will say, there are some tough-talking jerks, but for the most part...)

  This is definitely a sport that needs to be regulated, but as far as I am concerned, it is no worse than football, boxing, basketball, wrestling or any other push-your-body-as-far-as-it-can-go endeavor.

  Of course, if you don't care for it, that's entirely your right, but don't interfere with my right to admire the abilities of such skilled and dedicated athletes.
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  Flordia Residents .. What is happening now?

  by xjwms in

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  where are you in flordia?.

  are you boarding up.

  or are you packing up?

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  Basically it's just cloudy now and nearly everyone gets two free days off work...however I will go batty if the power goes out again because 14 days last year was more than enough for one lifetime, I do believe.
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  WalMart is Evil

  by joelbear in

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  please don't shop there.

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  F.T. is only the beginning. It is a good starting place, but it isn't the curative to the growers that many pundits claim it to be.

  I don't believe in cure-alls, and I'll readily admit I am no socio-economic genius...heck I don't even know what that means...but I suppose the very idea of Fair Trade and what these organizations are hoping to accomplish make any effort of supporting them feel like a real contribution to the society of man- something I've neglected to see as important until recently.

  I'd be interested in an "insider's" point of view...I am young and have much to learn.
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  WalMart is Evil

  by joelbear in

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  please don't shop there.

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  emo of the 'grows her own veg and tries to buy Fair Trade' class

  Hurray for Fair Trade!
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  WalMart is Evil

  by joelbear in

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  please don't shop there.

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  I just don't understand why there must be 20 wal-mart stores within 25 miles of my house! Isn't that a bit excessive?
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  WalMart is Evil

  by joelbear in

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  please don't shop there.

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  While we loose low paying jobs to workers in China and India we are replacing those jobs with higher paying jobs

  But where is the responsibility in that? "We'll go to another country and give our low-paying smut jobs to people who don't know any better...!" Isn't that really just another form of discrimination?

  For arguments sake, I suppose it's no different than the situation in certain states that offer no protection to its workers, so that immigrants come in thinking they've got it made making minimum wage at two or three different jobs, while people who know better can't find one decent paying job that will cover all their financial needs!

  One thing's for certain...in America, if you want to make a liveable salary these days you must get an education...and that is probably not going to change any time soon. In the meantime, Americans should rethink their "Buy quantity, not quality" and "More is more!" mentality. I think Wal-Mart does a lot to keep those thoughts a-circulating. But, where else are you going to shop? Everything else is going out of business!
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  Only a little flock of 144,000 go to heaven and rule with Christ???????????

  by melba in

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  i am not here to insult anybody by all means but if only 144,000 people make it into heaven then what about the 2.2 billion children in the world ?

  now don't get me wrong i belive in god to the fullest.

  i am a christian just curious about your religon ?

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  Nolita

  Hi Melba,

  Jehovah's Witnesses believe that 144,000 - a number taken from Revelation 7:4, and a few other Revelation references, are going to go to heaven to rule as kings & priests alongside Jesus, the King of God's Kingdom. They believe that all other "true" christians will live through "armageddon," or God's war to cleanse the earth of all wickedness, and will then live on earth under the Kingdom ruled by Jesus and the 144,000. These, they say, are the "great crowd" mentioned in Revelation 7:9. Essentially, if you are not one of Jehovah's Witnesses, you will not live through Armageddon. Yes that includes the vast majority of the 2.2 billion children on earth, since their parents' decision to not become Jehovah's Witnesses seal their fate as being among the wicked.

  That's it in a nutshell...hope it answers your question. And welcome! You're new like me!
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  In a few sentances, why did you leave the truth?........

  by jambon1 in

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  if you had to write down just a few sentances about why you left the truth, what would you say?.......

  jambon;.

  wholeheartedly embraced it for a few years after love bombing etc then saw widespread hypocrisy.

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  I could no longer force myself to defend things I knew were wrong.

  Living forever seems utterly pointless anyway, even if it could happen.

  I want to experience being alive now...a "balanced" (ha!) life is just so beige...

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  How exactly are magazines supposed to save the world anyway?
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  I BELIEVE THIS IS AN OUT AND OUT LIE

  by Gill in

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  ok. i've just read this in the march 2006 - i reckon its an out and out lie and i challenge anyone to find a school where this is happening.. this is in the young people ask section:.

  'how can i say no to sex at school?'.

  "every day, kids are talking about sex.

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  Homeschool High isn't exempt from such behavior either. I have heard reports of orgies and other such risque behavior occurring between those "sheltered and innocent" ones of the home school class, you know the very ones who should be shocked at the mere mention of the word "sex."

  I must admit that public schools can be scary places, at least in my area. At the middle school my sister attended, a girl was raped right in the classroom while class was in session. Another report was from an elementary school, a 10 year old boy sexually assaulted a 7 year old girl in the bathroom. Of course, reports of sexual crimes in school are much more disturbing to me than reports of consensual sexual activity.

  There will always be teenagers who choose to act on what their raging hormones tell them to do and those who choose to deal with it and wait. (The ones in my area exercise great self control and wait until they get home from school, then use the public laundry rooms in the apartment community.)

  Anyhow, if a youngster is really concerned about their inability to stand up to the peer pressure to violate something they are fully convinced is unquestionably right, I suppose they could always ask mom and dad to buy them a chastity belt.
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  How many here were homeschooled?

  by Highlander in

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  i'm quite new here, so i apologize if this topic has been covered.. the reason i ask this,, i was raised in the midwest.

  a majority(more than 50%) of the children at the local congregation were homeschooled.. the end result was that these homeschooled kids had social problems, found it difficult making and keeping friends and were completely out of touch with the world.. as these kids became adults, rarely did they stay on as witnesses and usually went to the other extreme,, you know the old saying,, sex drugs and rock n' roll..

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  Someone mentioned earlier that in the U.S., the state mandates whether home education is permitted or not. I don't know if things have changed, but in Florida all one had to do was send a letter into the School Board Superintendent for the state, who then sent back an acknowledgment letter and what I believe was a copy of a few basic statutes that applied to the situation. The only other requirement was that the student had to visit a certifed teacher for an evaluation each year until the student reached the age of 16. Nothing else was required. Then again, the Florida school system leaves much to be desired, or so I am told.

  Interestingly, 16 is the age at which a person can make the decision to drop out of school...so I can't help but wonder, does the state of Florida consider children being schooled at home past the age of 16 as high school drop outs?