Posts by Amber Rose

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Of Pedophelia and False Positives

by inkling in

ok, something has been bugging me recently, so please forgive meas i play devil's advocate for a moment.

child abuse of any type is horrific, and when it is sexual innature it can cause unimaginably cruel and life-long damage.i think we can all agree on that.

however, in the past irreparable damage to people's lives havealso been caused by accusations of child abuse that turnedout to be baseless... families are torn apart, trust is shredded, reputations ruined, all because a child misunderstood something, or fabricated a story to get attention, or was pressured by paranoid and possibly abused adults into remembering things that never happened.

Amber Rose

Thanks for bringing up this topic. I personally know two separate, unrelated people who this has happened to. In one case the charges were dropped because the kid was proven to be a liar with a history of making false accusations. In the other case, the accused took a plea bargin, went to jail on work release and has to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. Why would he do that if he is innocent? Two judges weaseled thier way out of hearing the case and the third one threatened him. His laywer that he could not afford offered no help either. Plus he was a middle-aged, fat, bald guy that lived in a trailer park - isn't everyone who fits that discription a child-molester. The plea bargin he took was alot better than 25 years in prison as a baby raper. That, Outlaw, is what people are afraid of.

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Southern Test.

by hillbilly in

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how i know i have entered the south... if i order "sweet tea" and the wait-staff does not point at the sugar and sweet-n-low on the table.. that's a high 90% indication i am in the "south".. florida may not always be the south... the paradox that comes from being as far east as it is south.

even ocala and winter haven are overun with michigan and new yorkers now days.. oklahoma is ok... some parts or southern... others , western buy so far i dont find many "yankees" around here.. parts of michigan may be in the south... during ww2 much of the south went up and stayed.

in some places you find grits easier than german sausage.

Amber Rose

Hey, I'm from PA and I know what sweet tea is. McDonalds started serving it last summer. With all those nationwide (and international) chain restaurants, nothing is region specific. But if McDonalds started serving pierogies...that would be something.

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Pledge of Allegiance

by Princess Daisy Boo in

south africa is considering bringing in a "pledge" that kids in school will repeat each day.

we never had such a thing as kids growing up, but when the national anthem was sung, we always had to stay seated and not participate.

i remember always hearing about flag saluting in other countries.

Amber Rose

I think that the pledge of allegiance is really funny, actually. Just the way that people recite it anyway. Think about it. We were taught the Pledge at age 5. How many 5 year olds know what the words "pledge", "allegiance", "republic" , "indivisible", and "liberty" mean. Not many, and the kindergarten teacher doesn't tell you either. Usually by the 4th grade most kids realise that the correct word is not "invisible". But all the way up to 12th grade most kids still start off by saying "I pledge OF allegiance to the flag..." Therefore, the pledge of allegiance means absoultely nothing to most US school students.

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Awake= "Playstation Games like playing with Radioactive waste!!"

by Witness 007 in

awake 2008 jan.p.19 "choosing to play violent and immoral games is like choosing to play with radioactive waste.

the damaging effects may not be immediatley obvious, but they are inevitable.

exposure in high doses of radiation can destroy the lining of the stomach and allow bacteria from the intestines to invade the bloodstream, resulting in sickness.

Amber Rose

Exposure in high doses of radiation can destroy the lining of the stomach and allow bacteria from the intestines to invade the bloodstream, resulting in sickness. Simularly, exposure to sex and violence can damage your moral senses."

Wow! This is just terrible writing. Weak analogy, needs clarification. How is the damage caused by sex and violence similar to the damage caused by radiation. I give this article an F. Do they even have editors?

They are just making an alarming statement to throw the reader off. Radiation = BAD, videogames = BAD, what did the rest of the article say? I can't remember, just that videogames are as dangerous as radioactive waste. It is just so obvious that is what they are doing. But I would think to be more effective, they would need to be more subtle.

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Has anyone read the book 'The Shining'?

by lfcviking in

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i'm not much of a reader really, but i'm halfway through reading this book at the moment and i am really enjoying it.

stephen king has such a wild imagination, he really is a truly talented man.. i loved the film aswell, i think jack nicholson's acting in this film is sublime.

jack's acting combined with king's imagination, and stanley kubrick's directing combine to form a true masterpiece.. any other fans of this book/film?.

Amber Rose

I've never read the book and probablly never will. I have heard that Stephen King hated Stanley Kubric's film and felt that he ruined the story. I loved Kubrick's version. So I probablly would think that Stephen King's book would ruin the story. (Even though he wrote the original story.) I thought it was the most beautiful movie I had ever seen. Everything about the movie was perfect, the camera work, the airial shots of the hotel, the colors of the hotel, the actors, the story, the musical score - perfect. And just scary enough. I am surprised that anyone would call it "cartoonish"! If anything I would think King's version would be cartoonish; shrub animals come to life, hotel exploding. But I also like cartoons.

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Did You Experience Shunning By " Cliques" in Witness Congregations ?

by flipper in

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the american heritage dictionary defines the word clique as , " a small , exclusive group of friends or associates .

" further in the synonym section under the word " circle ", it says about the word , " clique " a clique is an exclusive group, usually social and often participating in activities from which outsiders are barred .

" it quotes john lloyd , a writer - " the narrow, often self- perpetuating cliques which control our lives, living standards and leisures.

Amber Rose

When I got married everybody was really excited because I stayed at my home congregation and brought in a new young brother, he was even a MS! People wanted to be our friends. Until, about a month later an older young brother started showing up at our hall. He was an elder in his last congregation - in Bethel! He was marrying a pioneer sister from a hall across town and wanted to serve at a hall that needed help. The only problem was, he needed a job (and he was a total dumbass). So the lazy elders at our hall (there were 13 of them, 90 pubs.) wanted a young elder to do all the work, so they begged my husband (who was 20 at the time) to give this guy a job so he could stay at our hall. Reluctantly, Drew agreed. This brother worked for us for 6 weeks, and screwed up so much stuff, it was unbelievable. We fired him. We tried to keep our mouths shut about the situation as much as possible. Apparently, he and his wife did not. Several of "the friends" no longer saw us when we walked into the hall. It hurt, but it helped get me out.

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Thoughts on Rush Limbaugh

by dawg in

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while watching the network's coverage on the election, i kept noticing how the announcers kept talking about what impact the rush limbaugh show might have on the republican vote... they felt his show might sway the votes away from mccain... .

now, all you conservatives out there, isn't it one of the biggest embarassments you can ever have, to know that rush limbaugh can have an effect on how your party votes?

if i knew that people thinking like rush limbaugh were voting for my candidate, that would automatically make me vote the other way.. i mean honestly, how can you not be embarrased that your party holds a man such as rush limbaugh in high esteem?

Amber Rose

In Fahrenheit 451 everywhere a person goes, he is constantly bombarded with chattering voices that is meant to keep a person from concentrating on his own thoughts. That is what I think is the role of Rush Limbaugh and others.

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How to be invisible, Hire a JW to clean your house.

by ElectricJello in

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i think i threw up a little in my mouth when i got this email.. this is being emailed around the jws right now.

sure you can trust them with your money but what about your children???.

this book has been published to tell folks how to protect themselves from identity theft, among other things.

Amber Rose

Aparently this this book is referenced in a talk outline. I heard a really strange man give a talk at my former KH and he mentioned this book. It was weird.

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