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  I don't find this stuff amusing anymore

  by sparrowdown in

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  i would just like to get this off my chest.. during the public talk last sunday the speaker (bro holden m'groin) said in public talk: .

  " if you ask any 16yr old girl what she wants out of life, she would probably say a home, a family etc etc" (because obviously this is still 1955).. anyway that got my attention i thought " hmm....where is he going with this?"..

  bro holden m'groin goes on .

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  Hortensia

  I hear you! I think I'd rather stab myself in the eyes than listen to one of those talks again.
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  This might actually be worth $9.99

  by Hortensia in

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  god is disappointed in you.

  great title, eh?

  has anyone read it?.

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  Hortensia

  God is Disappointed in You

  Great title, eh? Has anyone read it?
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  I made my daughters cry last night.....

  by Ugottabefresh in

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  ...when i told them i didn't believe anymore.

  they cried like i'd never seen before.

  my oldest, 10, pleaded with me that she'd do anything to get me to keep going to meetings ("i'll get a's on my report card!").

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  Hortensia

  I know your kids feel badly now, but as everyone said in time they will be glad you took this step. They'll see you living your life and being happy and feeling secure, unafraid. It will be beneficial for them in the long run. I know it's hurting you, too, at the moment, because you don't like to see your kids worry about you. If you're unafraid, they'll see that.
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  Ancient shrimp discovered with a modern cardiovascular system? Sweeet

  by Jon Preston in

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  ancient shrimp-like animals had 'modern' hearts and blood vesselsthis image shows a schematic reconstruction of the animal, outlining the cardiovascular system in red, the brain and central nervous system in blue and the gut in green.an international team of researchers from the university of arizona, china and the united kingdom has discovered the earliest known cardiovascular system, and the first to clearly show a sophisticated system complete with heart and blood vessels, in fossilized remains of an extinct marine creature that lived over half a billion years ago.

  the finding sheds new light on the evolution of body organization in the animal kingdom and shows that even the earliest creatures had internal organizational systems that strongly resemble those found in their modern descendants.. "this is the first preserved vascular system that we know of," said nicholas strausfeld, a regents' professor of neuroscience at the university of arizona's department of neuroscience, who helped analyze the find.. being one of the world's foremost experts in arthropod morphology and neuroanatomy, strausfeld is no stranger to finding meaningful and unexpected answers to long-standing mysteries in the remains of creatures that went extinct so long ago scientists still argue over where to place them in the evolutionary tree.. the 3-inch-long fossil was entombed in fine dustlike particles -- now preserved as fine-grain mudstone -- during the cambrian period 520 million years ago in what today is the yunnan province in china.

  found by co-author peiyun cong near kunming, it belongs to the speciesfuxianhuia protensa, an extinct lineage of arthropods combining advanced internal anatomy with a primitive body plan.. "fuxianhuia is relatively abundant, but only extremely few specimens provide evidence of even a small part of an organ system, not even to speak of an entire organ system," said strausfeld, who directs the ua center for insect science.

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  Hortensia

  marked to read later

  Thanks for sharing!
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  what is the best line to say to a JW handing you an invite to the memorial

  by nonjwspouse in

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  i have some ideas, but want more to choose from..

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  Hortensia

  "No, thanks." If they persist, "piss off."
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  First indisputable link between aluminum and alzheimer's

  by EndofMysteries in

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  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140212093300.htm.

  elevated brain aluminium, early onset alzheimer's disease in an individual occupationally exposed to aluminiumdate:february 12, 2014 source:keele university summary:research has shown for the first time that an individual who was exposed to aluminum at work and died of alzheimers disease had high levels of aluminum in the brain.

  while aluminum is a known neurotoxin and occupational exposure to aluminum has been implicated in neurological disease, including alzheimers disease, this finding is believed to be the first record of a direct link between alzheimers disease and elevated brain aluminum following occupational exposure to the metal.

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  Hortensia

  "The observation that air-borne aluminum dust was most likely responsible for the elevated levels of aluminum in the brain must then heavily implicate the nose and possibly the lungs as the main routes of entry of aluminum into the body and the brain.

  "Overall, these results suggest very strongly that occupational exposure to aluminum contributed significantly to the untimely death of this individual with Alzheimer's disease."

  You cannot extend this report to mean that any contact with aluminum can cause Alzheimer's disease. You have to read these things carefully. This man was exposed to air-borne aluminum dust daily for eight years. That is NOT the same as aluminum in cookware, deoderants, canned goods and all the other items that were listed.

  Aluminum dust probably entered this man's nose/lungs and progressed to the brain. However, this is one case only, and there isn't enough proof of anything to draw any sort of conclusion.
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  Another death in the family

  by Decided in

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  my brother's wife just died.

  it seems someone in my family is dying every month lately.

  i guess when you get my age everyone you are friends with will be gone soon, including myself.. ken p..

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  Hortensia

  I'm sorry to hear that. I'm at the age of burying my friends, too. And one of these days, they'll have to bury me.
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  the circuit assembly

  by thedog1 in

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  i am off to the circuit assembly tomorrow.

  not really looking forward to it as it is the first one i will go to after finding out many things on this forum.

  since the last assembly i have read coc, in search of christian freedom, and some of the gentile times reconsidered.

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  Hortensia

  Oh, you poor thing. Well, keep yourself from getting bored. I think you should develop a headache and have to stand in the back, walk around a lot, chat with the parking lot guys now and then to keep the headache from getting worse.

  Or take notes. How many JWisms do you hear? What outright lies do you hear? What manipulative statements do you hear? What's the most outrageous thing anyone says? What's the stupidest thing you hear?
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  A medical question.

  by quellycatface in

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  i have been having pain in my left hip for around 4 years.

  got worse this winter.

  hurts at night, after walking and periods of inactivity.

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  Hortensia

  I have trochanteric bursitis -- it has been going on for about two years now, although the dr. said it would go away in a few months. Wakes me up at night and I turn over to the other side. I have it in both sides. I'm not sure how, but it showed in the x-ray. That pain is more on the outside of the hip. If you feel it deeper inside, it could be sciatica, arthritis, or a very tight piriformis muscle.
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  When a JW relative came to visit . . . .

  by skeeter1 in

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  for those of you who are shunned, it is in disguise a blessing.

  becuase when you are not shunned, jws come to visit.

  it is the most tiresome hosting you will ever endure.. for the first 2 1/2 days, it was straight talk about "jehovah", the "organization", the "bible", then, "how bad these times are", "can't wait to see someone dead in the new world" .

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  "Oh, I don't care about those things, and that isn't what I was complainign about"

  Man, I wish you had recorded that so you could play it back to the uber JW one of these days. Tell your kid Hortensia thinks he/she is COOL! How smart to see through the bullshit so early in life.