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  I am So Angry

  by GoddessRachel in

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  i hate everything.

  i am so angry at my mother, at my father, my sister, my brother.

  nobody understands me.

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  I often think about doing myself in too GR, so I know how you feel. I'm not sure if I'll make it or not myself. But I hope you do.
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  George Bush working on Autobiography

  by Simon in

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  apparently the current president has started work on his autobiography which he hopes to have ready for release when he leaves office.. he's run into a few issues though ... apparently his coloring-in went over the lines in quite a few places and he had trouble cutting out the popup shapes with the plastic safety scissors he was allowed to use..

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  Subtitle: I fooled you twice.
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  Do black Americans claim Obama as one of their own?

  by digderidoo in

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  i was watching an interview with a black american recently about barrack obama.

  interestlingly he said that black americans find it hard to claim him as one of their own.

  he said that black people would much prefer to have someone who is from the stereotypical upbringing of a black american to be the presidential candidate.

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  Oh, so you don't think there are just as many black writers that completely write something different or that there aren't white writers that denounce how biased and judgemental many whites can be when making assessments of blacks? I mean where does it end? That's my point.

  Where did I ever say that there aren't black writers who may not feel the same as the one I referred to? That's why I said I'll let the reader decide for themselves.

  I find that if it is to be an "us" versus "them" mentality, then you will never ever have peace. No one wants to be sermonized on who they are just because of their color of skin. You wouldn't like it if someone sat there and wrote a bunch of heaping observations about White Americans and used one supposed "authority" as their expert opinion. It's silly.

  I don't think that my observations were heaping or preachy. And again, I never claimed to be an expert on this subject, why do you keep saying that I did?
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  Do black Americans claim Obama as one of their own?

  by digderidoo in

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  i was watching an interview with a black american recently about barrack obama.

  interestlingly he said that black americans find it hard to claim him as one of their own.

  he said that black people would much prefer to have someone who is from the stereotypical upbringing of a black american to be the presidential candidate.

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  How does this enforcement go? [...] And please don't use the media as your barometer.

  I'll let the white and black readers of this thread decide for themselves if the experience of the black writer that I spoke of previously jives with their own personal experiences with and observations of black folks, and if they don't agree (as you obviously don't), that's fine!

  My question to you is can you admit that many WHITE PEOPLE including yourself have deep prejudices

  Of course!

  and that maybe your entire stance is marred because of it?

  My "entire stance"? What do you mean?
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  Do black Americans claim Obama as one of their own?

  by digderidoo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was watching an interview with a black american recently about barrack obama.

  interestlingly he said that black americans find it hard to claim him as one of their own.

  he said that black people would much prefer to have someone who is from the stereotypical upbringing of a black american to be the presidential candidate.

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  As long as you realize that there is no group that doesn't have their own prejudices, the only issue I have with your comments is that you are NOT a black or African-American and yet there are you trying to suggest that somehow they are more or worse than white people with racism.

  Of course I realize that every person regardless of their racial makeup has prejudices of varying degrees, and in no way was I trying to suggest that blacks are worse in this regard.

  Sure, it's okay to have comments or observations about racial or ethnic groups other than then you own, but please don't try to suggest you are an expert on it.

  I never did! Christ!
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  Do black Americans claim Obama as one of their own?

  by digderidoo in

  1. jw
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  i was watching an interview with a black american recently about barrack obama.

  interestlingly he said that black americans find it hard to claim him as one of their own.

  he said that black people would much prefer to have someone who is from the stereotypical upbringing of a black american to be the presidential candidate.

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  I, for one who was teased and ignored by blacks all throughout my school career and even tease about the way I talk (hint: it doesn't sound like ebonics) way after being out of school, am tried of this so-called issue. He's black and that's all there is to it.

  This statement aligns well with my own observations of black culture (I'm speaking in general terms and basing my observations on having been raised in an average midwestern city with a sizable black population) and that is, black people seem to enforce cultural homogeneity among themselves more strongly than whites do. There was a piece in Time Magazine a few years ago that was written by a black man, and among other things he commented on the fact that when he tells his black friends that he likes Led Zeppelin, it's like coming out of the closet or something because they react so incredulously to it. Speaks volumes.
  
  I think that most urban blacks react similarly to Obama because of his being so erudite and for being from a decidedly non-typical African-American background. I'm sure some would think those comments are racist or way off the mark but I don't think it's racism to point out that many blacks have deep prejudices of their own.
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  Have you been introduced?

  by IP_SEC in

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  to terrence mckenna?

  i believe him one of the greatest philosophers of the late 20th.. .

  the apocalypse is not something which is coming.

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  it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

  "luxury"?? Horror is more like it.
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  Why On Earth Did YOU Ever Become a JW???

  by minimus in

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  my excuse: born in it and stayed in way too long.. your reason??

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  There were so many things about JW's that I found attractive: being among the chosen; the seeming wholesomeness and moral purity of the dubs; the possibility of never having to die; the evolution-vs.-creation issue (I was bright but uneducated and naive and the Creation book had me *totally* convinced); the fact that joining JW's was an act of wholesale rebellion against my Catholic upbringing; political neutrality; women in subjection, I could go on.
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  Singer Songwriters who should be household names....

  by hillary_step in

  1. social
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  over the decades musicians rise and fall like a spring wind.

  some stay where they should never be, some never are where they should be; such is the roulette of time.

  this thread is dedicated to singer songwriters who influence the rest of the best, but are seldom known - 'gamblers in the neon, clinging to guitars...' .

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  I think if you went through the archives of every music station that has ever existed in Columbus Ohio I don't think you'd find where they have played a single song by a single artist mentioned on this thread by Avishai, Six, or HS.
  
  So where do y'all hear about these people??
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  Who thinks other religions can lead to salvation? Survey says...

  by TJ - iAmCleared2Land in

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  "among believers who are catholic, nearly 80 percent surveyed believe other religions can lead to a right relationship with god.

  more than 70 percent of orthodox christians agreed with the statement.. only among mormon and jehovah's witness believers did fewer than half of people surveyed agree that other religions can lead to eternal life.

  thirty-nine percent of mormons surveyed agreed with that statement, and 16 percent of jehovah's witnesses agreed.

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  DANIEL SHUTT, a rising senior at Elon University, is a pastoral intern at Elon Community Church. The church is part of the United Church of Christ, and the university is affiliated with the same denomination.
  
  Both on campus and at the church, he has been involved in efforts to bring together people of different faiths - for example, Christians, Jews and Muslims - for conversations meant to increase respect for and understanding of faiths other than their own.
  
  Shutt said he was "pleasantly surprised" by the survey results. "I think it signifies a certain level of humility."
  
  Shutt describes himself as a progressive, evangelical Christian who doesn't necessarily believe Christ is the only path to God.
  
  He mentioned Christ's statement in Chapter 10 of the Gospel of John, "I have other sheep that are not of this fold," as indicating the possibility that God will bring some people to eternal life through other faiths. Others would say the reference was not to a different means of salvation but simply a statement that many kinds of people will come to faith in Christ.

  He needs to study the Bible Watchtower regarding the "other sheep" mentioned in John. Oh, how terribly people stray when they try to interpret the Bible without the aid of publications from the Flatulent and Deceitful Knave. Poor souls!