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?
Nolita
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Nolita
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 ini 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 inif 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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Nolita
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 inok. 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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Nolita
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.
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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Nolita
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?
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How many here were homeschooled?
by Highlander in.
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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Nolita
Homeshooling is the best way to produce a blithering idiot.
Aye, but not the only way! I've met blithering idiots a-plenty who have not been home-taught. I am merely a blundering idiot...so I have freedom of speech in this regard.
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What about the animals?
by one bad apple inokay adam and eve lost their perfection because of adam's sin, his eternal life.
so why do animals die?
i am such an animal lover.
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Nolita
I remember being taught that the animals died so as to demonstrate what death was to perfect humans. In other words..." You see this! This is what going to happen to you if you don't do exactly as I say!" Otherwise, how would the threat of death mean anything to people who were supposedly meant to live forever and had never seen anything die? I suppose for the "New System" it would serve as a reminder that, even though you're perfect, you're not totally off the hook because never dying definitely does not mean you are immortal, so if you step out of line you can still be made to disappear! Now doesn't that all make perfect sense! (*Please add a hefty amount of sarcastic tone as you read that last sentence*)
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How many here were homeschooled?
by Highlander in.
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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Nolita
This is a pathetic admission, but just after I graduated I actually used to have a little daydream about enrolling in high school, just to experience it...however, I'm fairly certain that it's really something you can only do when you're the right age for it. College, yeah I'm all for 80 year olds going back to get their degress, but high school seems more like a rite of passage than it does an education.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a complete embarassment to myself in public, but I just don't know how to form a friendship, I'm too afraid someone won't like me. I guess I have no real way of knowing if home school is the main contributor to my friend-making ineptitude or not. No one can...especially when you're being raised in an environment that, for the greater part, is an aberration. Who knows which aspect is the nail in the social coffin!
and not going to the prom (which is a JW thing, too, isn't it??) stunted his social development
Super_Becka, I guess you haven't heard that prom is just another word for fornication! Hopefully you can help your boyfriend make some sense out of the way he was raised at some point in time.
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How many here were homeschooled?
by Highlander in.
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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Nolita
I've been reading for a while and, though a little shy, I would like to post my thoughts. I've never done this before, so I do apologize if it is too long. This subject sort of strikes a sour note with me.
I chose to be homeschooled after I finished the 8th grade. (Why on earth parents allow 13 year olds to make important, life-altering decisions is beyond me...but then again I was allowed to devote all my youth and future to a religion at 14, so I suppose homeschooling was not such really a big issue/decision after all.) I chose homeschool because I was afraid I would become an unforgivable sinner if I continued to be around the terrible and destructive influence of the well-adjusted, self-accepting "worldly" kids I usually chose as friends in school.
I had friends who were also homeschooled and several neighboring congregations had entire families that had homeschooled their children from kindergarten through high school. Many never graduated, or, if they did, it was from some correspondance course through which they managed to complete an entire 4-year high school education in 6 months. (Sally Struthers face suddenly pops into my mind...I think she did a tv commercial stint for this satisfying academic experience.) I went the more traditional route and took a college prep course that actually took me four years to complete. Because I could choose my own courses, however, I neglected any accelarated math or science courses, instead focussing on literature studies and writing. Of course, in my area, the community college and even the vocational schools did not want to accept my diploma, instead insisting I get a GED - but I was too proud to do that, so I figured additional schooling just wasn't all that important since I planned on never needing a real income because I had theocratic goals and Jehovah would take care of everything else.
On the whole, the course I took was not really deficient from an educational standpoint, but homeschooling for me was devoid of any social enrichment. I was a good little girl and began pioneering when I was 16 and spent the vast majority of my days in field service with married women over the age of 35. I should add that these married women were constantly shocked by just about any choice someone outside of the "group" had made. (Heaven help you if you were part of the "group" but weren't present for service one day. You then became an honorary outsider and had your choices critiqued as well.) I suppose their behaviour is not all that far removed from that of your average high school clique, or at least what I perceive them to be from my research compiled primarily from 80's teen flicks and "Mean Girls"...don't know if my sources are very accurate though. Perhaps because I was a great deal younger, their influence was more profound. I became an old curmudgeon before I hit 18, and it was all downhill from there.
I must point out that I do have one "friend" (she doesn't really talk to me anymore, for obvious reasons) who, though she never graduated from Homechool High, seems to be doing fine on an interpersonal level. She seems to have no trouble "relating" to others. Another "friend" of mine, actually went to public school ffor the very first time to complete her final two years of high school. Of course, at that point, she and her family had left the "truth " and I, as result, lost contact with her. I did hear that she went away to college. She was reasonably well-adjusted for a lifelong homeschooler /witness, but then her family was one of those what did "shocking" things from time to time (aka- normal).
The result of homeschooling for me is a continued disconnectedness (Is that a word? May be if I went to public school, I would know!) from my peers. Our formative years have been spent so differently, our experiences so far removed, I usually have trouble finding a common ground to build on. They were forming lifelong friendships, learning to deal with confrontation, learning from their mistakes and experiences, and dating. I was trying so hard to be better than them via my fault-finding ways because I thought this would lead me to happiness and fulfilmment. Or no, rather, I thought that would make my parents happy, and if my parents were happy, surely God would be too. Anyhow, I'm just glad to be older and wiser now...I'm finally learning how to function as an individual, and how to see others as individuals with the right to make their own choices. It's really amazing!