I've never owned a laptop myself, but my fiance swears by Apple products. You can pick up a nice refurbished macbook at the apple store online for $899 U.S., free shipping.
Alpheta
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Laptop Advice
by Mysterious ini was hoping to get some feedback from those of you that have laptops.
i know what i need primarily in terms of system specs so i am more interested in feedback regarding brands.
if you have a laptop i would be interested to know the brand, whether you bought it new or used, how long the warranty was, if you had any issues with it during or after the warranty (and whether these resulted in you having to take it in or send it away for repairs), if you would buy it again, if you recommend the brand on the whole.. i am currently leaning towards toshiba having met a few people that had bad experiences with dell.
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my cat died today... i need consoling...
by theinfamousone inthis is the guy that sat on my razor blades the one time i was thinking of cutting myself... this is the guy that everytime my dad beat me, would come to my room and lay with me... this is the guy that one time jumped into the bathtub with me while i was crying after a brutal beating, the cat hated water... this is a cat that was more family to me than my own father and mother combined... this was my best friend... .
today i had to do the hardest thing i ever did, i had to choose to have him put down... and as he fought the vet, and tried to bite her, i put my hand on his head, and he stopped struggling... and as they put the last needle into his leg, he purred until he died... the vet says she has never seen that before... this was my best friend and i had to kill him... fuck, im a baby, but i miss him soooo much.
the infamous one.
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Alpheta
Man, doesn't make any difference if it's a cat, a dog, or a gerbil. It's just damn hard to make that decision to have a beloved pet/companion/friend put down - there's a reason it's called "having your pet put to sleep" you know - because it makes it a little easier, so they think, for us confronted with such a decision to think yeah, that's right, we're just having Jocques/Tasha put to sleep, this isn't about death. Oh, how we love to fool ourselves, but we know what's really going on. Shit yeah, it's hard, but you did the right thing. As hard as it was to take my first Jocques and then a few years later Tasha, into the vet to have the deed done, I know it was the right thing. I think every pet owner knows when that time comes - some just don't want to face it. You were very brave to do so, and you saved your loved one undue pain and suffering. They can't talk to us like humans can, and we still are not sure how much pain they suffer, how much agony they endure, before they just can't get up out of their beds anymore. I sometimes wonder if I waited too long, and I feel guilty about that - about causing my beloved companions more pain and suffering because I was too selfish and cowardly to let them go.
I've come to the conclusion that we are more HUMANE to our pets than we are in our treatment of ourselves.
You did the right thing. Don't second guess yourself and don't be "guilted" into feeling other than that you DID do the right thing. You had the guts to do what is right.
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my cat died today... i need consoling...
by theinfamousone inthis is the guy that sat on my razor blades the one time i was thinking of cutting myself... this is the guy that everytime my dad beat me, would come to my room and lay with me... this is the guy that one time jumped into the bathtub with me while i was crying after a brutal beating, the cat hated water... this is a cat that was more family to me than my own father and mother combined... this was my best friend... .
today i had to do the hardest thing i ever did, i had to choose to have him put down... and as he fought the vet, and tried to bite her, i put my hand on his head, and he stopped struggling... and as they put the last needle into his leg, he purred until he died... the vet says she has never seen that before... this was my best friend and i had to kill him... fuck, im a baby, but i miss him soooo much.
the infamous one.
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Alpheta
Man, doesn't make any difference if it's a cat, a dog, or a gerbil. It's just damn hard to make that decision to have a beloved pet/companion/friend put down - there's a reason it's called "having your pet put to sleep" you know - because it makes it a little easier, so they think, for us confronted with such a decision to think yeah, that's right, we're just having Jocques/Tasha put to sleep, this isn't about death. Oh, how we love to fool ourselves, but we know what's really going on. Shit yeah, it's hard, but you did the right thing. As hard as it was to take my first Jocques and then a few years later Tasha, into the vet to have the deed done, I know it was the right thing. I think every pet owner knows when that time comes - some just don't want to face it. You were very brave to do so, and you saved your loved one undue pain and suffering. They can't talk to us like humans can, and we still are not sure how much pain they suffer, how much agony they endure, before they just can't get up out of their beds anymore. I sometimes wonder if I waited too long, and I feel guilty about that - about causing my beloved companions more pain and suffering because I was too selfish and cowardly to let them go.
I've come to the conclusion that we are more HUMANE to our pets than we are in our treatment of ourselves.
You did the right thing. Don't second guess yourself and don't be "guilted" into feeling other than that you DID do the right thing. You had the guts to do what is right.
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I feel quite sick after reading this
by Sam87 inmyspace is to thank for this great little peice.... .
warning - do not read any futher if you have a weak stomach.......... .
a christian wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to the kingdom hall every sunday.
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Alpheta
If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today.
Well, duh! If he was so stoopid that he could not even figure out how to get food for himself without "my wife" serving it, he deserved to die! His death would probably improve the gene pool too...
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Would you want to know?
by lola28 inlets say there is chance you have an illness and you can take a few blood tests that will tell you if you do in fact have this illness, would you want to know ?
keep in mind that there is no treatment and nothing you can do to "make it better", what would you do?
would you like to know or would you rather not find out ?.
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Alpheta
No question, yes, I would want to know/
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Thanksgiving ? Have you left the mind control?
by AK - Jeff inwe always did the 'family thing' on t-day, excusing our dinner in that manner.
many witnesses i knew did the same.. now, i proudly do it as thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings and not one ounce of guilt.. this year i do it with a 7 foot fully lit xmas tree in the lr.
no guilt there either.. any still struggling with leftover jw holiday guilt syndrome?.
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Alpheta
No.
Stuffed myself full of turkey and all the trimmings today, including my sister's too-gooey stuffing, lol! Everything else was so tasty and delicious - I'm still stuffed and I got home over 4 hours ago, and even if the food had been bad, the company was excellent - my family are very good companions with a great sense of humor, we laugh and laugh and chat up the day and night. Three generations of us were present today: my mother (dad is deceased), her grown children, and several of her grown grandchildren. At Christmas four generations will be present (some of my mother's great-grandchildren will be present). My fiance will be flying in from Montreal for a week over Christmas and all will be good with the world. I hadn't let out the news of his visit until today and we've been invited for Christmas dinner to five different homes, so he won't have to cook after all (he wanted to make a turkey, he has experience cooking turkey, which I do NOT, lol!)
I'm buying those "animated deer" this year - will have an entire herd in my front yard - and a couple out in the backyard too.
I remember when I was still "in" - there was a "story" given on a Tuesday night service meeting about a family who HAD LEFT THE TRUTH - and about three years later some witnesses were driving past the house of the former, now fallen JWs and lo and behold, they had christmas decorations plastered all overed their house! Well, that's me, I'm on the three year plan!!!!!
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"Its Just so Damn Good to be Out."
by scout575 in"i still have trouble with depression, sometimes.
lately its been bad.
but boy, i haven't felt the the kind of endless, abysmal blackness that i used to feel when i was a depressed christian.
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Alpheta
It IS good to be out. But the kind of depression that writer was talking about isn't dependent upon what religion one may be - or not be. It's a disease caused by a chemical inbalance in the brain, and it cannot be controlled by sheer willpower to "feel better". It won't get better by itself, no amount of "wishing it away" will work - that is VERY much a JW approach, heh? So if one has a condition of persistent depression, not just the "I'm blue today and screw the world" kind of feeling that all of us have upon occasion, then one should get one's butt to the nearest clinical psychologist or a psychiatrist and get treatment.
So many depressed JWs - but once you're out, take care of yourself and get the treatment you need to make yourself whole again. If you don't, you're letting the JWs win, because their JW mindset is continuing to control you. Take the "worldly" attitude, that there's a cure for everything. In the case of depression, there most likely IS.
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Is marriage an outdated institution
by free2beme in60% of all marriages fail.
there is no perfect formula that works for everyone, to keep a marriage together and strong.
with these in mind, you have to wonder sometimes, if marriage is even worth it.
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Alpheta
Marriage is an important legal concept, because it provides certain financial and material benefits and protections under the law. Just think about Barney Frank's surviving "partner" - he could not be legally married to him - and he got screwed out of Frank's pension as a result, because he is not, technically, a "surviving spouse". Social Security law, tax law, tax breaks, all give benefits to married couples, particularly if they have children.
In my case, it is only through marriage that I can provide a level of health care benefits (through employer-provide group health insurance) and via Social Security survivor's benefits to my significant other, who is a Canadian citizen. Yes, I can leave him all the rest of my assets and estate via a Will or in trust, but there are some benefits that can only be provided via marriage. And hell, we've been together now seven years and counting, and we're not running away from each other screaming and pulling out hair out.
For the legal and benefit reasons, and to ultimately make that personal "legal" commitment, it's something we want to do. That "legal" commitment has a meaning above and beyond the dollars and tax laws that apply; it's an intangible that, in our case, means certain things. These things will vary by couple. It could just be as simple as the fact that at 55, we're both old-fashioned. Personally, I don't think the institution of marriage will ever be outdated - just because of those "intangibles".
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Help He has been reinstated and Iam lost!
by smily inhe has been reinstated and only just told me because he felt i could not understand!
he says he is living 2 lives, 1 with me and his non witness friends and 1 with his jw's.
he says he loves me but i dont understand?
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Alpheta
Smily, more than anything else you need to educate yourself about what it means to be a witness, and what it means when someone is disfellowshipped, disassociated, and what it means to be reinstated. Just dive in and start reading at this site, you will get a REAL education, believe me.
You love this man and it sounds like you want to try and keep the relationship. I do not know if that is possible, although there have been people who post here who have been successful in leaving the JWs whiule maintaining a relationship with a JW spouse. In addition to reading here and finding out about how the JWs work, you need to do serious reading on mind control and cults, because that is what you are up against. Your BF is under mind control of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, a book-selling multi-billion dollar cult. Does love conquer all? Sometimes, sadly, it does not. So, be prepared. Whatever you decide to do, you'll have to be stronger than you ever thought it possible that you could be, and do constant gut checks. Good luck.
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Okay, here's my story.
by sundawn77 inhey all.. first of all i want to say that i am really impressed by the warm atmosphere that this board provides.
i remember when i was little and we learned about non-witnesses, and they were portrayed as children-eating, blood-drinking criminals.
okay, i exaggerate, but the connotations were there!.
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Alpheta
"I am financially independent, have bailed them out financially, skipped grades, won a scholarship, have 2 degrees with honors, and I volunteer all over the community. And they still tell me they are disappointed in me. So I cry in the shower because I can't win..."
Hi Sundawn,
My life was changed unbelievably for the better years ago when I read Dr. Dwayne Dwyer's "Your Erroneous Zones" (I'm pretty sure that is his name, but it's been a long time since I read the book). Your local library may have it, if not I'm sure you can find it in a second hand book store or online just about anywhere. It's about the tricks people use to emotionally blackmail others in order to control them, or make them miserable if they "refuse" to be manipulated - and how to avoid falling into those traps. Please read it, it will help, I guarantee! This has nothing to do with being or not being a JW, per se, but we know that JWs are honed experts as using the "conditional love" crap.
Edited to add: Oops - I just read Jaguarbass' post - guess I have the author's name wrong - Wayne Dyer, not Dwyane Dwyer, lol! But the name of the book is right "Your Erroneous Zones" - it will really help, honestly.
Alpheta