Posts by DazedAndConfused

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EUTHANASIA

by Mary in

jw
friends

how do you feel about euthanasia for people that are terminally ill and have no hope of recovery?

should it be made legal for them to be allowed to die a peaceful death by a simple injection as opposed to dying a painful and agonizing death?

i ask, because a co-worker of mine is dying of cancer and he's in alot of pain.

DazedAndConfused

My personal feeling is that if anyone is terminally ill...they are going to die anyway. If you are going to die anyway, why not die with dignity and a choice on how and when?

It is interesting to note that when I brought this same subject up with my parents (both JW's and my dad being a servant) my mom said she would feel it was wrong and my dad said he would be for euthanasia.

I am all for it. If we have this much compassion for a pet and will put it out of its misery...why isn't it ok for us to have our own choice on the matter?

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What words does your animal understand?

by JH in

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friends

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i speak to my cat in french.

she understands a few words, really.. after repeating the words and the actions at the same time, they get to understand certain words.. does your pet understand a couple of words?

DazedAndConfused

I forgot to mention something that shows the Pekingese has a heart of gold. A few years ago I was babysitting a baby boy (Trevor). When it came time for him to start crawling my Pekingese was there to help. She got in his face and barked nicely. This excited Trevor, so he would scoot closer to Zo'o (Pekingese). As he would approach her, she would then back up and gently bark. In each step she was teaching him how to crawl. The only sad thing about this was Trevors mom never had the chance to see him crawl for the first time because she had to work.

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What words does your animal understand?

by JH in

jw
friends

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i speak to my cat in french.

she understands a few words, really.. after repeating the words and the actions at the same time, they get to understand certain words.. does your pet understand a couple of words?

DazedAndConfused

I have 2 dogs. 1 Pekingese and 1 Miniature Pinscher.

The Mini Pin is dumber than a rock. I tell her all the time it's a good thing she is cute! LOL. I am digressing. Her name is Skeelo. From our limited experience with the Greek language we chose Skeelo, thinking it means "Dog". It could for all I know. haha. Anyway, for her she knows very few words compared to the Pekingese. She knows various ways of calling her: Skee, Skeeber or her rightful name of Skeelo. She knows the words for eat. She knows the words for going to bed, which is "go night night" She also responds to a snap of the finger, she then goes to her bed. Oh, I forgot, she also knows "go lay down"...she doesn't like that command.

My Pekingese is my heart. She is so sweet and way too smart for a dog. Her name is Zo'o. Again taken from the Greek meaning animal. Up until I got Zo'o I bought into the idea that animals do not reason. This dog reasons out everything. You can see on her face when she is figuring out the best way to do something. She is amazing and she has a heart of gold. She understands everything the Mini Pin knows and so much more. All I have to do is ask "where is it?" and she is running around like a crazy fool looking for a toy of hers so we can "play". I realized early on that this dog was smarter than me. Sad to say. I noticed how many things she picked up on and reacted to, so I was talking to my husband about something and I knew that there were "trigger" words involved. I thought a moment and thought that spelling the words would not trigger her. You guessed it, she understood and reacted in the same manner as if I had spoken the words outright.

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What Homepage do you have ?

by mattnoel in

jw
friends

ok so you know when you click to open internet explorer and up pops the homepage of your service or whatever you wish to have there.

i am on ntlworld at the moment but ntl are not very good so just use their cable modem, i decided to use tiscali which was really good but now all of a sudden they have started having pop up adds which is really irritating so i am now shopping for another one.

any suggestions ?

DazedAndConfused

I use Yahoo.com. This loads very fast and although there are ads on the page I don't get pop-ups. From that page you can set up your own page with whatever content you like. I have TV listings, headlines, message boards,...etc. Recently it even offered a calculator! I have used Yahoo for 6 years now and wouldn't change unless they do. haha. My husband uses Netscape. I believe that is also one where you can set up your own content.

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Anyone know the laws or someone who is ex-jw friendly lawyer?

by pr_capone in

jw
friends

i have a quick question.

it is my belief that it is illegal to record a conversation without the other party knowing.

is it illegal to have someone else on the line listening without that information being disclosed to you before the conversation takes place?.

DazedAndConfused

This is the information I found on the web:

http://www.rcfp.org/taping/

"Kan. Stat. Ann. § 21-4001 (1998): Unlawful eavesdropping consists of secretly listening to, recording, or amplifying private conversations or using any device to intercept a telephone or wire communication "without the consent of the person in possession or control of the facilities for such wire communication." Violations are misdemeanors. A criminal breach of privacy, punishable as a misdemeanor as well, occurs when any means of private communication is intercepted without the consent of the sender or receiver. Divulging the existence or contents of any type of private communication, whether carried out by telephone or even letter, is also a misdemeanor if the person knows the message was intercepted illegally. Kan. Stat. Ann. § 21-4002 (1998). The state's highest court has interpreted the eavesdropping and privacy statutes to sanction one-party consent for taping of conversations and in interpreting both statutes stated: "In other words, any party to a private conversation may waive the right to privacy and the non-consenting party has no Fourth Amendment or statutory right to challenge the waiver." Kansas v. Roudybush, 686 P.2d 100 (Kan. 1984)."

Hope this helps.

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Get-together on Saturday night and study the Watchtower!

by MoeJoJoJo in

jw
friends

do you remember those?

did anyone actually enjoy doing that?

some friends would say "hey, we're having a get together" and i would say sure we'll be there, then they'd say "oh, be sure and bring your watchtower!

DazedAndConfused

Wow! The memories that this thread brings up. I totally forgot about my own experience until now. I remember 4 families that would get together on Wednesday nights to study the 'Witchpower'. Every Wednesday night we would alternate the homes we would study in. We were all from different congregations so the drive to anothers house could be 40 minutes or so away.

Anyway, at some point we were told that this was not right....that we should "cease and desist". Huh?

How is it wrong to get together to study?

The machinations of this cult never ceases to amaze me.

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Iraq's Tortured Children

by ThiChi in

iraq's tortured children .

some witnesses had direct experience of child torture .

by john sweeney .

DazedAndConfused

According to this site: http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1973/kissinger-bio.html Henry Kissinger "became" a U.S. citizen.

Quote: "Dr. Kissinger was born in Fuerth, Germany, on May 27, 1923, came to the United States in 1938, and was naturalised a United States citizen on June 19, 1943."

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Silentlambs site new look

by Nordic in

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the silentlambs site have changes the look.. i think the changes is a great step foreward.. www.silentlambs.org.

nordic

DazedAndConfused

No matter what it took to make it look better...I am very glad!

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I went to the Assembly....

by teenyuck in

jw
friends

i was at home and a man came to the door...i knew immediately he was a jw brother, however, he was quite handsome (no offense) and very well built.

he looked like a cross between brad pitt/tom cruise/evan marriott.... he wore a very nice dark gray suit that formed perfectly to his sculpted muscles...he had a very nice book bag.

black, brushed silver hardware.

DazedAndConfused

It is very interesting that you state that everything (almost) was perfect about this brother who came to your door. The one thing that made him not "perfect" in his facade was him encouraging you to lie to your husband about his purpose in being in your home.

You mention that everything about this brother was "perfect" in every way, from his physique to his book bag. You also mention how you, on a sexual level, were "taken" by him. You mentioned that you even brought in your mother to go with you.

It sounds to me like this is an all-encompassing thing. What I see here is your subconscious telling you that things are not always as they appear. By your dreaming this on a sexual level could be attributed to hormones, but I feel that it is more than that. I feel that by dreaming this on a sexual level made it very personal to you. Possibly even a life-altering thing for you. After all, what is more personal than letting go in a sexual manner?

I feel that by you dreaming that you brought your mother means that you had some trepidations and needed a level head with you to help you sort out your feelings.

There is a saying "Wolves in sheep's clothing". I think your dream was telling you exactly that!

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What to do with my WT library?

by Maverick in

jw
friends

after i came back for down under this jan. i gathered up all my j-dud literature except my indexes, bound volumes, insight and aid books.

these i wanted to use for references.

i took the rest out to the dumpster behind my office and filled the thing!

DazedAndConfused

I would be very interested in getting books or bound volumes from anyone who wants to get rid of theirs. I have the bound volumes from 1964 to 1990. Actually it is from these dates for the watchtower, kind of intermittent for the awakes. Nothing before or after. I am very willing to pay for the postage to send them. If interested in sending them contact me at [email protected].

I am very interested in getting these as my youngest daughter has just informed me that she is now going to go back to the hall to look at this with an "adult" eye, rather than looking at it from a "child's" aspect. I am very worried that this is what she will choose to do regardless of my warning her to look at the "origins" of the religion just as the wbts tells its followers to do when it comes to anything and everything they know is wrong according to their doctrines.