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  Your favorite JW'isms...."Brother leave it in Jehovah's hands" Post yours.

  by UnConfused in

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  bring back the memories.

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  Bring back the memories
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  Shouldn't have answered the phone just now

  by Soldier77 in

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  i just answered the phone and it didn't phase me that caller id did not tell me who was calling.

  well, it was an elder.... he wanted to know the usual interogation crap, where i've been, have i gone to the dc yet, when am i going, i will love it, etc, typical bullshit.

  then he says, "i noticed you haven't turned in any time for last month, do you have any to report?

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  "So my brother, not even a peep in all the hours Jehovah gave you this month to talk about the Kingdom? Let's go out together next month."
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  Favorite MOVIE SCENE - any genre - your pick!

  by AWAKE&WATCHING in

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  i realized i was hi-jacking another thread so i thought i would start my own topic.. one of my favorite movie scenes is the "to tip or not to tip" scene in reservoir dogs.

  i don't care for all the blood in tarantino movies but he is, without a doubt, a genius.. .

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  The long opening scene of "Inglorious Bastards". Absolutely brilliant and horrific.
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  Are JWs more likely to stay from Fear of Armageddon or Fear of being Disfellowshipped?

  by jwfacts in

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  i have been reading some interesting information on terror management theory at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/terror_management_theory.

  this explains how the terror of death leads to a belief in an afterlife and also affects how we live.

  there is an "irresolvable paradox" created from the desire to preserve life and the realization of that impossibility because life is finite.

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  As I think back, I think the fear of D'Fing could have been greater as it was more immediate and total shame AND WOULD END IN DEATH AT THE BIG A on top of it all.
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  Do you think this USDA Director's comments were racist?

  by UnConfused in

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  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100720/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_usda_racism_resignation.

  washington a black employee who resigned from the agriculture department over comments at a georgia naacp meeting said tuesday the white house forced her out of her job over a manufactured racial controversy.. shirley sherrod, who until tuesday was usda's director of rural development in georgia, said she was on the road monday when usda deputy undersecretary cheryl cook called her and told her the white house wanted her to resign.

  "they called me twice," sherrod told the associated press in an interview.

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  I don't think I can agree on Kennedy as he lived his life essentially the same after. He voted in the Senate in a way that supported woman's rights, but his personal life was one that used and objectified women.

  That said......

  Byrd is someone I'll have to read more about and ponder.

  The "right" is being intellectually dishonest and the White House should have used the very examples some have used here (Byrd) and points made here and shown this website to be nothing more than another Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton type instrument.
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  Do you think this USDA Director's comments were racist?

  by UnConfused in

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  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100720/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_usda_racism_resignation.

  washington a black employee who resigned from the agriculture department over comments at a georgia naacp meeting said tuesday the white house forced her out of her job over a manufactured racial controversy.. shirley sherrod, who until tuesday was usda's director of rural development in georgia, said she was on the road monday when usda deputy undersecretary cheryl cook called her and told her the white house wanted her to resign.

  "they called me twice," sherrod told the associated press in an interview.

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  Is that true about Sen Byrd that he was in the KKK? OMFG! That would be off the charts f'ed up. (not unlike Ted Kennedy killing a woman and getting in the Senate)
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  Do you think this USDA Director's comments were racist?

  by UnConfused in

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  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100720/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_usda_racism_resignation.

  washington a black employee who resigned from the agriculture department over comments at a georgia naacp meeting said tuesday the white house forced her out of her job over a manufactured racial controversy.. shirley sherrod, who until tuesday was usda's director of rural development in georgia, said she was on the road monday when usda deputy undersecretary cheryl cook called her and told her the white house wanted her to resign.

  "they called me twice," sherrod told the associated press in an interview.

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  Oh thanks. Didn't realize. I don't think she's a racist and should not have been fired. Unlike Jesse Jackson who is not only a racist, in my opinion, but profits from it - which he stokes.
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  Do you think this USDA Director's comments were racist?

  by UnConfused in

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  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100720/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_usda_racism_resignation.

  washington a black employee who resigned from the agriculture department over comments at a georgia naacp meeting said tuesday the white house forced her out of her job over a manufactured racial controversy.. shirley sherrod, who until tuesday was usda's director of rural development in georgia, said she was on the road monday when usda deputy undersecretary cheryl cook called her and told her the white house wanted her to resign.

  "they called me twice," sherrod told the associated press in an interview.

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  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100720/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_usda_racism_resignation

  WASHINGTON – A black employee who resigned from the Agriculture Department over comments at a Georgia NAACP meeting said Tuesday the White House forced her out of her job over a manufactured racial controversy.

  Shirley Sherrod, who until Tuesday was USDA's director of rural development in Georgia, said she was on the road Monday when USDA deputy undersecretary Cheryl Cook called her and told her the White House wanted her to resign. "They called me twice," Sherrod told The Associated Press in an interview. "The last time they asked me to pull over the side of the road and submit my resignation on my Blackberry, and that's what I did."

  A USDA spokesman would not comment on whether the White House was involved, but Secretary Tom Vilsack issued a statement saying the agency has no tolerance for discrimination.

  The NAACP, meanwhile, appeared to be reconsidering its response to Sherrod. The civil rights group initially condemned the employee's comments, but officials said Tuesday that it is conducting a more thorough review.

  The controversy began Monday when the conservative website biggovernment.com posted a two-minute, 38-second video clip of Sherrod's remarks to a local NAACP banquet.

  In the video, Sherrod talks about the first time a white farmer came to her for help when she worked for a nonprofit rural farm aid group in 1986. She said he came in acting "superior" to her and that she debated how much help to give him.

  "I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland and here I was faced with helping a white person save their land," she said.

  Initially, she said, "I didn't give him the full force of what I could do" and only gave him enough help to keep his case progressing.

  But, she said, his situation ultimately "opened my eyes" that helping farmers wasn't so much about race but was "about the poor versus those who have."

  The video ends before her speech concludes. Sherrod said Tuesday the clip appears to intentionally misconstrue the message of the story, which is that the case taught her that whites are struggling just like blacks. She says she ultimately became close friends with the farmer and helped him for two years to save his farm.

  "My point in telling that story is that working with him helped me to see that it wasn't just a black and white issue," she told The AP. "That's why I take the time to tell that story is to tell people we need to get beyond it and work together."

  Sherrod, who became USDA's director of rural development in Georgia last year, said the administration showed a lack of backbone in its reaction.

  Biggovernment.com, which gained fame after releasing video of workers for the community organizing group ACORN counseling actors posing as a pimp and prostitute, offered the video as evidence that the NAACP condones racism.

  The national NAACP, which recently accused the Tea Party of condoning racist elements, immediately responded by condemning Sherrod's comments and supporting USDA's handling of the matter.

  "According to her remarks, she mistreated a white farmer in need of assistance because of his race," NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous said in a statement Monday night. "We are appalled by her actions, just as we are with abuses of power against farmers of color and female farmers."

  After years of civil rights lawsuits against the agency, Vilsack said USDA has "been working hard through the past 18 months to reverse the checkered civil rights history at the department and take the issue of fairness and equality very seriously."
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  Rev Jesse Jackson's comments - racist or not?

  by UnConfused in

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  http://www.essence.com/news/hot_topics_4/jesse_jackson_lebron_comments.php.

  reverend jesse jackson isn't taking cleveland cavalier's owner dan gilbert's comments about lebron james lightly.

  gilbert recently made headlines for writing a scathing open letter to james after the star basketball player signed with the miami heat last week.

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  http://www.essence.com/news/hot_topics_4/jesse_jackson_lebron_comments.php

  Reverend Jesse Jackson isn't taking Cleveland Cavalier's owner Dan Gilbert's comments about LeBron James lightly. Gilbert recently made headlines for writing a scathing open letter to James after the star basketball player signed with the Miami Heat last week.
  
  In his letter Gilbert called James "disloyal" and added that Cleveland fans didn't "deserve this kind of cowardly behavior." Jackson says Gilbert spoke like "an owner of LeBron and not the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers."
  
  "He sees LeBron as a runaway slave," the reverend told the Associated Press. "LeBron is not a child, nor is he bound to play on Gilbert's plantation and be demeaned. He has been a model citizen and has inspired the children of Akron. Cleveland, the state of Ohio and the United States."
  
  Jackson's comments made him a trending topic on Twitter last night. Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith chimed in, tweeting: "I do not think it was right for Jesse Jackson to bring up race. However, I do believe his sentiments are shared by a lot of folks in the African-American community."
  
  Read more: http://www.essence.com/news/hot_topics_4/jesse_jackson_lebron_comments.php#ixzz0uGAYpXFI
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  Video of my pup riding on the motorcycle

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvdxek6pwri.

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  When are you getting your bike back on the road Aude?