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  Friday Fun Post

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  post something just for fun on friday:.

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uky82loh9n0&feature=related.

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  betterdaze

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_-1NElYK1o&feature=related
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  I love my hair

  by mrsjones5 in

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  i saw a story about the following video on the news last night and thought it was cute.

  i then showed the video to my daughter and she smiled.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enpfde5rgmw.

  here's the tv story: http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/sesame-street-teaches-self-esteem-22512445#video=22520085.

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  betterdaze

  I Sesame Street for this very reason! It encourages little ones take pride in themselves and accept others' differences, no matter what they see and experience out in the Big World.
  
  I wept when Mr. Rogers passed away. Between him and Sesame Street — and how we were raised in the Borg — we knew that children, somewhere, were truly loved and appreciated as individuals. Every child was unique, even worthy. Not all were stuck in some adult-made, repressive regime, and we could only hope… our parents and adults at the Hall would accept (celebrate?) us someday like the adults did on stinkin' children's public television!

  Glad to have been the first generation to experience it. Thrilled to see it's still going strong. Thanks, Mrs. J.

  ~Sue
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  Jehovah's Witness jailed for grooming and abusing boy

  by betterdaze in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  19 october 2010last updated at 09:16 et.

  jehovah's witness jailed for grooming and abusing boy.

  gold was put on the sex offenders' register for the rest of his life.

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  betterdaze

  19 October 2010 Last updated at 09:16 ET

  Jehovah's Witness jailed for grooming and abusing boy

  Gold was put on the sex offenders' register for the rest of his life

  A Jehovah's Witness who groomed and sexually abused a boy has been jailed for six years and eight months.

  Thomas Gold, 45, of Alloa, Clackmannanshire, was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh.

  He previously admitted committing indecency at a house in Tullibody between November 1996, when the boy was seven years old, and November in 2003.

  Unemployed Gold took the boy canvassing for the Jehovah's Witnesses and to the Kingdom Hall.

  When he became a teenager, the victim told elders at his church about the abuse.

  Advocate depute Alison Di Rollo said the church leaders told Gold his behaviour was wrong and warned that if it continued he would be "disfellowshipped", or expelled, because the church disapproved of homosexual behaviour.

  They also tried to persuade Gold to go to the police.

  'Systematically groomed'

  The judge, Lord Bannatyne, said it was clear Gold's criminal conduct had "a considerable impact" on the victim.

  He said that a background report on Gold had described him as having "systematically groomed" the youngster in order to sexually abuse him.

  Defence solicitor advocate Brian Gilfedder said: "As far as the offence is concerned it is very difficult for me to stand here and say anything that could be described as mitigation.

  "The accused is well aware and has been well aware that this was wrong. It is accepted by him that a sentence of imprisonment is inevitable."

  Gold was placed on the sex offenders' register for the rest of his life and given a supervision for 40 months after his prison sentence.
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  Ex-Moonie Diane Benscoter: How Cults Think (Video)

  by leavingwt in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "diane benscoter talks about how she joined the moonies -- and stayed for five long years.

  she shares an insider's perspective on cults and extremist movements, and proposes a new way to think about today's most troubling conflicts.".

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl0uxdscjdo.

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  betterdaze

  http://www.freedomofmind.com/stevehassan/presskit/releases/05-03.htm

  Steven Alan Hassan, internationally renowned cult expert, licensed mental health counselor and founder of The Freedom of the Mind Resource Center warns us that The Kabbalah Learning Centre is really a destructive cult in disguise. Hassan, who is Jewish and belongs to a Temple that teaches Kabbalah warns us that the actions of the Kabbalah Learning Centre have little in common with traditional or even responsible Jewish renewal Kabbalah teachers.
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  The Silent Evolution

  by betterdaze in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kvaquxcsvk&feature=player_embedded.

  musa museo subacuatico de arte.

  in 2009 the first steps of a monumental underwater museum called musa (museo subacuatico de arte) were formed in the waters surrounding cancun, isla mujeres and punta nizuc.

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  betterdaze

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kvaQuXcsVk&feature=player_embedded

  MUSA Museo Subacuático de Arte
  
  In 2009 the first steps of a monumental underwater museum called MUSA (Museo Subacuático de Arte) were formed in the waters surrounding Cancun, Isla Mujeres and Punta Nizuc. The project founded by Jaime Gonzalez Cano of The National Marine Park, Roberto Diaz of The Cancun Nautical Association and Jason deCaires Taylor, will consist of over 400 permanent life-size sculptures, becoming one of the largest and most ambitious underwater artificial attractions in the world.
  
  The Museum aiming to demonstrate the interaction between art and environmental science forms a complex reef structure for marine life to colonise and inhabit. Each of the sculptures is made from specialized materials used to promote coral life, with the total installations occupying an area of over 420sq metres of barren sea bed and weighing over 180 tons. The Cancun Marine Park is one of the most visited stretches of water in the world with over 750,000 visitors each year, placing immense pressure on its resources. The location of the sculptures will promote the recovery of the natural reefs, relieving pressure on them by drawing visitors away.
  
  To date the underwater museum comprises of 4 installations; La Jardinera de la Esperanza, Coleccionista de los Sueños, Hombre en Llamas and The Silent Evolution all by Jason deCaires Taylor. The Silent Evolution. His most ambitious work to date, is a collection of over 400 life-size figurative works forming a timeline of the changes both visually and socially in humans over the past centuries.
  
  The third stage of the museum commencing in 2011 will involve commissioning local and international artists to contribute further sculptural installations and host special underwater cultural events celebrating the Arts and Science.
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  Anywhere to download "In Search of Christian Freedom"

  by bottleofwater in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i seriously don't have the money to buy the ebook..

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  betterdaze

  Thanks for explaining that, Broken Promises. I'm not familiar with "BOW" until now, just trying to help if I can. Mr. B would be thrilled to see JW stuff like this gone from our home for good.
  
  Me, too! Such a beautiful feeling of FREEDOM not to need it anymore. But then that's the result of reading Mr. Franz's books.
  
  ~Sue
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  Anywhere to download "In Search of Christian Freedom"

  by bottleofwater in

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  i seriously don't have the money to buy the ebook..

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  bottleofwater, I have a copy of ISOCF that I purchased from Commentary Press a few years ago. It's a thick paperback and the spine split through my use and the two others I loaned it out to, but AFAIK the pages are still intact. Well-used but still very useful.
  
  I'd be glad to mail it to you (if you'll only reimburse the postage, please) but I'm not sure where I stashed it and I'm quite a book hoarder. Give me a few days to locate it and it's yours. PM me if you obtain one LEGALLY in the meantime.
  
  ~Sue
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  Watchtower Educational Center Amended Site Plan DEIS PDF

  by Mythbuster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.pattersonny.org/planningboard/watchtower/part1.pdf.

  http://www.pattersonny.org/planningboard/watchtower/part2.pdf.

  http://www.pattersonny.org/planningboard/watchtower/part3.pdf.

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  betterdaze

  Thanks so much for posting this, Mythbuster.
  
  (Lest we forget: Warwick and Ramapo properties are in the works, too.)
  
  ~Sue
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  ...Stuff that Actually Works...

  by OUTLAW in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do ever see something on tv buy it and it`s crap?...

  this isn`t a thread about that..lol!

  !..this is a thead about stuff that actually works... i was in the fitness industry for years..i saw gimmicks come and go..i tried everything... it was at my finger tips,so why not?...

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  From the Dept of You Can't Make this $%^& up

  by JeffT in

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  http://www.seattlepi.com/local/428432_anger14.html.

  charge: woman stabbed classmate in anger management session.

  by levi pulkkinen.

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  betterdaze

  It appears the women were there under court order to begin with:
  
  Clarification: Anger Management Stabbing story
  The Associated Press
  SEATTLE —
  In the headline of an Oct. 14, story The Associated Press reported a woman was stabbed at a Bellevue College anger management class. College spokesman Bob Adams says the classroom was rented by a court services agency.