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  Adult Coloring Books

  by littlerockguy in

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  anybody take up coloring?

  i got lost ocean by johanna basford and i got another coloring book mandalas and more.

  i just use crayola colored pencils and some gel pens and thin tipped markers.

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  LisaRose

  I got one for my daughter along with some nice color pencils, she's really into it. I haven't tried it myself, but I am thinking about it.
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  A change of pace...I'm leaving

  by cappytan in

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  i'm leaving.... leaving this video here since issues have been far too polarizing lately!.

  lighten up, take a deep breath, and have a laugh.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp4nmojcfd4.

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  This is Lizzie watching the super bowl. She also likes the weather report for some reason. When there is music she will sit behind the TV with her head on the speaker to listen. It took us a while to figure out why she was always sitting back there.
  
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  A change of pace...I'm leaving

  by cappytan in

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  i'm leaving.... leaving this video here since issues have been far too polarizing lately!.

  lighten up, take a deep breath, and have a laugh.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp4nmojcfd4.

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  Thank you, that was sweet and funny. I am a total cat lady. This is Lizzie, she is sitting on my shoulder right now.

  Did you know calico and tortise shell cats are almost always female? The color gene in on the x chromosone, so since females have two x chromosomes they can be two colors. One color is randomly turned off in each cell. The white is not actually a color, but a gene that removes the color. Lizzie, a tortiseshell, has one white spotting gene, calico cats have two white spotting genes. Cats with two white spotting genes have larger patches of color. A cat with no white spotting gene is a regular tortiseshell. Lizzie also has the dilute gene, which dilutes the color along the hair shaft, which is why her colors are faded. She has what they call a split face. This girl is quite the character. For one thing she likes to steal things.
  

  
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  Does this make you feel good? Coz it makes me feel bad.....

  by ScottyRex in

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  i just watched this clip on youtube....i can't begin to say how it made me feel.

  , i'm not sure who i am more annoyed about.

  the bloke doing the commentry, the punk shouting at a serious and should be respectful religious event, or some of the youtube comments that follow.. and i find this so disrespectful.

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  It is possible that one person in that hall already had doubts about 1914. Hearing someone else (even if not in the "proper" way) express doubts about that may help such a perso

  I doubt that. When someone is this rude and childish nobody takes them seriously, they just think the Watchtower is right when they say apostates are evil and mentally diseased. Jehovah's Witnesses have a right to worship in peace as does every religion. These people could be arrested for trespassing. I fail to see how that is going to wake anyone up.

  When I was still a JW I once saw a woman standing in the median of the street, dressed all in black, including a hood covering her face. She was jumping up and down and waving a sign that said something about what Jehovah's Witnesses had done to her. I know now that the elders are capable of great cruelty and she had probably been pushed over the edge, but at the time I just thought she was a loon. It wouldn't have caused me to question anything, quite the contrary. Men trying to disrupt the memorial would not have caused me to question either, most JWs will just think Satan is trying to make things difficult for them, if anything it reaffirms their faith.

  There is a place for activism, if you think it will do any good, but the kingdom hall is not that place. In my experience people will leave when their own experiences or reasoning cause them to start to question things. Until then there is very little anyone can do to wake them up.
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  Can't Understand Why This Is Allowed

  by mariet in

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  i moved to roseburg, oregon.

  the jehovah's witnesses are allowed to set up a display and man it right outside of the local library, and they are there every day and hour the library is open.

  i am [redacted], the director of the douglas county library system and wanted to respond to your website email of december 11, 2015. i have consulted with the county attorneys office about your concern about jehovahs witnesses use of the front porch of the library building in roseburg, and my understanding of the law is as follows.. .

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  Why shouldn't they be allowed the same free speech rights as everyone else?

  Anyway, it's not like they ever actually convert anyone anymore, or even collect much money. This has got to be one of the most unfruitful activities they could possibly engage in. I say let them waste their time standing around and get on with your own life.
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  Does this make you feel good? Coz it makes me feel bad.....

  by ScottyRex in

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  i just watched this clip on youtube....i can't begin to say how it made me feel.

  , i'm not sure who i am more annoyed about.

  the bloke doing the commentry, the punk shouting at a serious and should be respectful religious event, or some of the youtube comments that follow.. and i find this so disrespectful.

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  There are things that work and things that don't. Being rude and going to where people are assembled for worship and interrupting that in a childish way doesn't work. I hate this religion as much as anyone, but going to a kingdom hall and causing a stink is stupid.

  If the JWs come to my door or approach me in public I will challenge them on their false beliefs, inform them of the lies the Watchtower tells and ask them if they know that their religion protects child molesters. I might demonstrate against the Watchtower in a public place, sign a petition or write a congressman.

  Other than that they have a right to practice their religion just like anyone else.
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  "For sale: baby shoes, never worn"

  by Simon in

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  if you've never come across the above title before, it's considered to be the shortest novel possible.

  a story, possibly a moving one, in just 6 words attributed to earnest hemingway.. it started a genre called "flash fiction" which is a memoir in six-words.. what would yours be?.

  indoctrinated child found freedom, love, family.

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  Too soon old, too late smart
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  About my avatar

  by slimboyfat in

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  questions from readers .

  say, who is that in your avatar slimboyfat?

  from brother i. m. curious, usa.. that's archibald belaney aka grey owl.

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  Interesting story SBF, I always wondered about your avatar.

  It seems like every family ( I am in the US) has their story about a connection to Native Americans. We just love to think we're connected to the Native culture I guess. Sounds more interesting than 'My ancestors were penniless squatters for two centuries.'

  Yeah, my family also. I was always told that my paternal grandmother had some American Indian ancestry. A relative did a geneology, it turns out that it's not true. They did discover that my paternal grandfather was illegitimate. Well, actually that was known, but the story was that my great grandmother's first husband died in the civil war. His commanding officer had promised to look after her in the event of his death, so he did, eventually having two children with her. He never officially acknowledged his children, although my grandfather did eventually take his last name.
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  Brave New W0rld of Education - The Regressive Left

  by cofty in

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  i found this to be a thought-provoking film on the trend in higher education.. oubliette drew my attention to a brilliant article recently called "the coddling of the american mind".

  please have a look at the film, click the link and check out the links in the article.

  i would love to hear your thoughts.. ...

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  I didn't care for it. Yes, of course there are people that go too far in promoting a liberal agenda, just as there are people that go to far in promoting a right wing agenda. To point out the excesses of the fringe is easy to do, but at the same time these obvious examples of absurd ideologies are not usually representative of either side. It's great for comedy, not so great for trying to bridge differences.

  When you hold up examples of people that got carried away by a concept you take the easy way out to put down those whose ideas differ from you and do nothing to advance political discourse. Most people are neither to the far right or to the far left, but somewhere to the left or right of middle. I would rather see the discussion start there, then work on finding common ground. Then people might learn something instead of getting defensive and shutting down.
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  New TV gadget

  by Dagney in

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  so today i did it.

  i cut my dish network programming to basic....$20 a month ty very much.

  instead i have $60 streaming device that gives me everything i need.

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  LisaRose

  I am ready to dump my comcast cable and internet. I just spent all day trying to get Netflix on my kindle, which I have had done for years, it suddenly stopped working a few days ago. I talked to eight different people with no resolution. For as much as we pay, you should get decent customer service. I kept getting cut off without resolving the problem. Customer service is a joke. Unfortunately their internet service is hard to beat.

  When we lived in Colorado I had Dish. I got them to cut it down to ten dollars a month for basic network shows. I just kept saying I didn't need tv at all, just turn it off, they didn't want to have to take the equipment back, so they offered me a deal. If you are willing to pay hardball, it's amazing what you can negotiate. Then when I moved they tried to tell me I had to take the box with me, as there was supposedly a two day wait after they cut off service before you can mail the box back. Right. So I said, fine, cut the service off today, I'll mail the box Tuesday. Then they admitted there actually was no two day wait. They were just gambling that you couldn't live without tv for two days so you would keep their old equipment and keep their service. I said there was no way I would use them again after lying to my face like that.

  I've heard you can get decent signal here with an antenna, and it's hi def which I don't even have on comcast as they charge extra. I may try that out and see if it works.