LisaRose

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  Toddler accidentally shoots woman dead in Idaho Walmart

  by nicolaou in

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  a woman has been shot dead by a 2-year-old in a wal-mart store in idaho.. .

  the 29-year-old was shopping with four children in the store in hayden, when the two-year-old reached into her handbag and fired the weapon, shooting her dead.. initial reports suggested the woman was the boy's mother, but the police have said that this is as yet unclear how they are related.. source; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/toddler-accidentally-shoots-woman-in-idaho-walmart-9950847.html.

  i've nothing to add to my past comments on americas psychotic relationship with guns.

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  LisaRose

  I don't get why anyone would need to carry a gun around, especially if they had a toddler. You are more likely to be shot by someone you know than by a stranger, and this is one of the reasons why. 
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  urban legends

  by chirac in

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  dear brothers ans sisters.

  i just received this mail in french..(thank you google to have translates it)..this mail is from a still inside brother who encourage to come back.

  do you think its a fact or an other urban legend.

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  Someone I know told me a funny story about Edie Murphy, she claimed it happened to "a friend of a friend". I expressed my disbelief, but she swore it was true. The problem was I had heard the exact same story years before, only then it was about Richard Pryor. 

  I have made a hobby of researching modern urban legends. What they have in common is that they confirm a bias or belief and they seem like they could/should be true. I have found that people want to believe these things, in fact they get offended when you tell them the truth.  It's no surprise that Jehovah's Witnesses are no better than any other group, or even worse, when it comes to MULs, the whole belief system is a MUL. 
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  They came, they saw, they left...

  by NVR2L8 in

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  2. family

  during the holiday period one if my wife's brothers had planned a vacation in our area.

  they drove about 6 hours to a condo they leased for a week to celebrate their wedding anniversary with their married son and daughter.

  they called my wife to let her know they were coming to visit us since they were 2 hours away.

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  LisaRose

  JWs have been conditioned to think of family as expendable. You don't even have to be disfellowshipped for them to start treating you as excess baggage, as you have seen. Talk about "having no natural affection". 

  
  

  
  
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  Any luck kicking the bottle?

  by Ignoranceisbliss in

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  as i continue my sllllooooooowwwwwww fade one of the things that i want to do is better myself as a person.

  one of my biggest pitfalls has always been drinking.

  i don't think i am an alcoholic but at the same time i've never been a very good drinker.

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  I find meditation to be helpful, I highly recommend it for anyone trying to drink less. Excess alcohol is usually a way to deal with difficult feelings, unfortunately it's a vicious cycle as knowing you don't have control over your drinking can make you feel bad about yourself, thus you need to drink. 

  I try to pace myself, and try to drink no more than two drinks at any one time. Drink water before to be sure you are hydrated and are not drinking out of thirst. Don't drink on an empty stomach. Try to set goals and reward yourself in other ways. Exercise will help you lose weight and also relieve stress. 

  
  

  
  
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  Please post new forum feedback or questions here

  by Simon in

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  well, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.

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  LisaRose

  It would be nice if you had the choice of going to the last page of a thread, instead of only going to the first page, making it a two step process if you have already read the older pages. 
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  urban legends

  by chirac in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  dear brothers ans sisters.

  i just received this mail in french..(thank you google to have translates it)..this mail is from a still inside brother who encourage to come back.

  do you think its a fact or an other urban legend.

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  LisaRose

  The secret service is responsible for security for the president, not the FBI. You would think if they were going to tell a whopper like that they should at least attempt to make it remotely believable. 
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  New Site Problems

  by The Searcher in

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  hi simon - i'd sent you an email regarding this problem;.

  i cannot see the captcha facility to enable me to prove i'm a humanzee and log-on.

  so i could not gain access to my account and participate - despite trying numerous suggestions provided on the internet.. i tried one last thing - i downloaded mozilla firefox (never tried it before) and it by-passes the captcha function and gives me access now.. i look forward to getting acquainted with the new-look web site.. thanks simon..

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  Greener reminds me of the man who is being helped by the first IT professional, he is complaining about the new technology, a book, which he finds  much harder to use  than the scrolls he is used to. 
  
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  What if.....the impossible happened?

  by sparrowdown in

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  what if the almighty gb announced that all shunning will cease, and next minute all the people who have shunned you start calling and texting saying "hi, we're baaaack, we can talk to you now!".

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  what would do you do, and how do you react?.

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  LisaRose

  I could see them possibly  changing  the rules so that it would be harder to get disfellowshipped and also loosening the restrictions on talking to disfellowshipped family, but they will never give up the practice completely as they couldn't admit they were wrong on such a major point. 
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  Where is Everyone????

  by truthlover in

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  missing a lot of the oldies and goodies -- is this site so new, no one has signed on yet?

  i am confused... but then, i will have to wait and see what happens.. somehow - change is not the best option but we adjust..have most of the users gone to other locations?.

  tl.

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  LisaRose

  I have been away for Christmas with limited access to the internet, but I have been able to sign in and have read a few topics, I am still adjusting to the new format.
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  If Your JW Parent Died Would YOU Go To The Kingdom Hall For The Talk?

  by minimus in

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  i would like your thoughts, please..

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  I went to my mother's funeral, so yes. I also have two siblings still in, if I am around when they pass, I will go to those as well, which is likely as they are ten and fourteen years older than me. Family is family, they would talk to me if they weren't brainwashed, so I am not going to carry a grudge about it, and they did both talk to me at my brothers service.

  There are five of us left and It's sad because I will probably only see them ever again at the next funeral. Stupid cult.