You know, when you wrote about long lines, I had visions of the Iraqis in miles long lines waiting for....soup? crackers? toasters? NO! Gasoline! I feel bad for them, but you can't help but shake your head when the residents of one of the most oil rich countries in the world have to wait and wait and wait to fill up their tank! I mean, what else? They have to camp out to aquire a bag of sand in the desert?
But yeah, Wal-Mart. Lines, inconvenience.
I admit, I like Wal-Mart, and I shop there often. The thing I don't do is shop for their "wares" that are made in China. I shop in their grocery section, pretttty much all made in the U.S.A. and substantially cheaper. I also will get shampoo, face lotion, candy, whatever.
I don't like the idea of Wal-Mart whatsoever, and I always think of that Frontline or Wideangle documentary of the young Chinese woman sewing away at those jeans. You look at the rows and rows of largely poorly designed and hastily produced textiles, in ONE store, and it blows your mind. I have a sewing machine, I once tried to sew pants and I never finished it's so dang tricky. The girls were getting paid $1 per pair of pants, if that. It's really epidemic though, and certainly not exclusive to Wal-Mart at this point, though they certainly take advantage of the countries where the government only looks at its people as commodities.
Wal-Mart has so many drawbacks in so many ways. It's difficult for even a middle class family to make it work sometimes, and the fact that they can save money is one of the few good things about the WM.
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I hate Walmart!
by Elsewhere ini rarely ever set foot in the place and will go out of my way to avoid shopping there.
tonight i made the mistake of giving walmart the benefit of the doubt and walked in the door.. they didn't have the main item i was looking for, but they did have one other small item.
i headed to the front to check out only to find they had only a few check-outs open and all of the lines were far too long.
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For Christians: Grace vs. Forgiveness
by AuldSoul ini have been trying to sort this out scripturally, and would like to get input from christians on how these two concepts differ and/or overlap.
please be liberal with scriptures to support statements.
i think there may be others who are trying to figure this out for themselves, too.
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AuldSoul, I've never seen you so hot under the collar!
Terry, really, you do preach enough on your own threads that it really is just redundant to do so anytime anyone brings up beliefs that conflict with your own. Not that I don't think your opinion matters or that you don't have a right to say whatever. It seems like you've got all your gear on, your watch, your bayonet, and your subscription to Skeptics magazine and your out pounding along with a megaphone shouting everything you believe at every opportunity.
I mean, sometimes you can give it a rest right? I mean, you are part of the MAJORITY here, most people AGREE with your conclusions, so if it's a thread addressing a topic that only a very small MINORITY believe on this board, to you really have to barge in and start bellowing like a drunk Irishman? -
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For Christians: Grace vs. Forgiveness
by AuldSoul ini have been trying to sort this out scripturally, and would like to get input from christians on how these two concepts differ and/or overlap.
please be liberal with scriptures to support statements.
i think there may be others who are trying to figure this out for themselves, too.
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Terry you are madly evangelical aren't you? :)
Auld Soul, just referring to the topic, I didn't know that grace and forgiveness were in a fist fight, or at odds. :)
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Do you like where you live?
by R.F. ini live in the southern united states.
i'm not too fond of the state i'm in but i'm within close driving distance of some very cool places.
the people in the south are awesome, very hospitable.
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Do I like where I live? You might as well ask me do I like eating potatos raw, or falling down an escalator, or using a porta-potty on a 105 degree day. That would mean no. I live in the rural area of a city that is ridiculous. I hate the weather, it gets hella hot in the summer and hella cold and snowy in the Winter. Ugh. Around where I live is a ton of hicks, trailer parks (sorry nothing against living in a trailer) the kind where they put their old floral loveseat on the deck that's crumbling. I guess they like to sit outside and peer into their neighbors window.
Worst of all is the enormous Mormon population. Sure, the pop machines stay relatively stocked, but it's so sickening to go past the Church (which is RIGHT by the School) on Sundays and see three sessions of indoctrination absolutely packed to the gills. You see the women with their seven children, the girls all with long hair and hand-me-down frocks and the boys in their starchy collars no matter the weather. -
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any tea drinkers
by BlackSwan of Memphis inout there?.
i am currently sipping on a green tea.
but am partial to celestial seasonings tension tamer or ginger.. what's yours?.
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I love the green tea, and the white tea. I like all kinds, the peachy and pear flavored ones are good. I usually just drink it Eastern Style(no milk or sugar), as with coffee.
You know, Ross and T.J. Maxx of all places have these teas you don't see anywhere else. Plus, I got a hundred bags for $5! Not bad not bad. -
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Does anyone here know how to find a good hair dresser?
by restrangled ini am going nuts!
as many of you may remember i had a really bad hair cut and highlighting session that has kept me in misery for at least 60 days.
i now have 2 inches of dishwater blond hair at the top, highly bleached blond in the middle, and that orangey gold at the base.
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I don't have any ideas really on how to find one..except personal referrals and the like. I hope you got your money back if it sucked that bad!
I might make you feel a bit envious though, if you lived around me (and if you're in Florida, you live on the other side of the Country) I would have you get in touch with the woman who does mine. She just does it at her house, pretty much every single time it's been perfect highlights. I have really long hair, like mid back and I'm tall, and her "rate" is $25, no kidding. No matter what she does, even if she were to cut it, still $25. I always pay her more because I know what a discount I'm getting anyways. My Mom's hairdresser rocks too. I guess we're really lucky!
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What you are listening to/What you listened to recently?
by KW13 ini am playing mr blue sky - electric light orchestra - love this song and matches the mood i am in right now.. you?.
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RIGHT now, I'm listening to No Doubt "trapped in a box" wah wah wah wah wah wah.
Earlier I was listening to Portishead, which reminded me of one of the reasons I started to smoke like an idiot, was that my older brother told me that that's why Beth Gibbons had such a cool voice. GRRRRRRR. Oh, why did I listen? I don't think decreasing your lung capacity by half is good on the old vocality. NOW I know better. Let that be a warning to you all, you won't all of a sudden be able to sing like Beth Gibbons if you pick up a tobacco habit. You'll just have extra phlegm and pay more tax. -
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Why Platonic Relationships Are Doomed To Heartbreak- Your View
by nvrgnbk inlol!.
sorry, coco.
couldn't resist.
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Sure, I don't have anything BUT platonic relationships with my boys. You know, a boyfriend seems like such a headache to me right now. I get along with guys somewhat better than girls though, they're sometimes more easygoing (no jealousy, girls can really get their feathers in a frier). I've never understood why some people think that you can't be friends with the opposite sex and nothing more. To me its very natural.
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JW view on the resurrection/existence of a "soul"
by chuckyy init seems to me that one thing jws have got wrong is their view on christs resurrection, resurrection of humans,and the whole soul/spirit debate.
consider 1st the resurrection of christ:.
1. jesus said he would raise up the temple of his body...not spirit, after 3 days.
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They have to twist and manipulate to make things conform with their teachings.
I've always believed that man had a "spirit." I think it's something that one senses, something that is innate knowledge so to speak. Of course what you innately sense can be dulled and polluted by what you absorb, you can in a sense switch off something that was as clear to you as the taste of milk or the feel of cotton, or the smell of baked bread; before you trained your brain to suppress that sense due to it's conflict with your studied and trained "taking in of knowledge."
Just like a person can intuitively sense that something was "wrong" with that Ted who on paper looked like a normal, white, working male. If you "knew" Ted on paper, you may force yourself to allay your "sense," brush it off as paranoia, or just your imagination. Only when he's captured as a serial killer does the recollection of that "sense" become validated or vindicated. Maybe we ought to trust our senses and not push them away so quickly? -
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How could I have been so naive and gullible!?
by Mincan ini find out that the "sweetest" girl in the congregation is one of the biggest sluts in town!
she was into me, and here i thought she was sincere in the truth and i never made a move, because i was honourable.. i was so lock, stock, and barrel in this cult, so sincere, it makes me sick.
i didn't realise how two-faced and fake everyone in it was until i left and now all the people out are hanging out with the people in!.
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I was so lock, stock, and barrel in this cult, so sincere, it makes me sick. I didn't realise how two-faced and fake everyone in it was until I left and now all the people out are hanging out with the people in!
Naive? Weren't you born into it? Of course you were naive, you were a child. It makes everyone sick I reckon who finds out what a worthless and ridiculous cult the WT is. There's nothing wrong with being a sincere person, you can still be a sincere person, it is hard to look back and realize how that sincerity was directed at something that was less than worthwhile and a fraud. You've found out about it at a very young age thankfully, you did the best at the time with what you knew, and now that you know different, you're doing different.
I recommended a book on here called "Son of the Revolution" by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro. I think it would be a good book for you to read. I think it may alleviate some of maybe the feeling of your being a fool rather than being fooled.
I think you really are going through a bit of trauma and a greiving process right now. It's gotta be like a death in the family...maybe there's someone who can walk you through the overwhelming feelings you're probably having right now.
How are you feeling today?