A good trick that I learned from a friend of mine is to start getting up 5 minutes earlier than your regular time beginning 2 weeks before the change. If you do that you barely even notice it.
Alpaca
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I want my hour back
by Bubblie indoes anyone else hate when we lose this hour in the spring?
i feel like a truck ran over me for a few days.. kit.
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Has anyone lost a friend or known of someone who committed suicide over BORG-induced guilt?
by Alpaca ini am not going to use any names for this because i don't want to cause potential hurt to anyone.. there was a very nice family in my congregation when i was a teenager.
step-dad, mom, and her 4 kids.
the dad became an elder, had a great business, the mom spent lots of time with the kids.
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Alpaca
CRR,
You are here and that's what matters. Without knowing the nature of the after effects, I hope for you that it is possible for them to fade with time.
All the best, man.
Alex
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Has anyone lost a friend or known of someone who committed suicide over BORG-induced guilt?
by Alpaca ini am not going to use any names for this because i don't want to cause potential hurt to anyone.. there was a very nice family in my congregation when i was a teenager.
step-dad, mom, and her 4 kids.
the dad became an elder, had a great business, the mom spent lots of time with the kids.
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Alpaca
Thanks to all for the responses.
The stories are all so heart wrenching.
I wonder if any mental health studies have been done that compare the incidence of suicide within the BORG to the general population?
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by purplesofa ini was raised catholic.. the immaculate conception of christ defied all logic to me, even as a child.
it seems to me, christianity has borrowed something from the pagans.. .
i am reading god against the gods by johnathan kirsh~the history of the war between monotheism and polytheism.
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Alpaca
Purps,
Another interesting book that really helped me was Karen Armstrong's "A History of God."
She is a fascinating author and she has been interviewed a number of times on NPR so my guess is that the interviews are archived on the site.
You might like to check it out.
All the best,
Alex
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Alpaca
vacation pioneer
believe me it was no vacation and there was nothing pioneering about it.
they eventually renamed it auxilliary pioneering
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Has anyone lost a friend or known of someone who committed suicide over BORG-induced guilt?
by Alpaca ini am not going to use any names for this because i don't want to cause potential hurt to anyone.. there was a very nice family in my congregation when i was a teenager.
step-dad, mom, and her 4 kids.
the dad became an elder, had a great business, the mom spent lots of time with the kids.
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Alpaca
Thank you Scully for your personal experience and the links.
Good to hear your life is going well now that your out of the BORG.
Thank you Cawhun...very, very sad.
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Has anyone lost a friend or known of someone who committed suicide over BORG-induced guilt?
by Alpaca ini am not going to use any names for this because i don't want to cause potential hurt to anyone.. there was a very nice family in my congregation when i was a teenager.
step-dad, mom, and her 4 kids.
the dad became an elder, had a great business, the mom spent lots of time with the kids.
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Alpaca
Wow!!!
Jeff,
I am so sorry for your loss.
The torture that gays and lesbians must go through being raised in the BORG is one of the many things in pile of evidence that convinced me that the BORG is evil and without compassion.
Thanks for sharing a painful experience.
Alex
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Has anyone lost a friend or known of someone who committed suicide over BORG-induced guilt?
by Alpaca ini am not going to use any names for this because i don't want to cause potential hurt to anyone.. there was a very nice family in my congregation when i was a teenager.
step-dad, mom, and her 4 kids.
the dad became an elder, had a great business, the mom spent lots of time with the kids.
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Alpaca
I am not going to use any names for this because I don't want to cause potential hurt to anyone.
There was a very nice family in my congregation when I was a teenager. Step-dad, Mom, and her 4 kids. The dad became an elder, had a great business, the mom spent lots of time with the kids. The oldest was a boy with cerebral palsey and he was just the kindest, most helpful kid you can imagine. The two youngest were girls--also very nice, kind and lots of laughs.
The second oldest was also a boy about a year younger than I was. We got to be really good friends and did lots of Dub stuff together like volunteering at the conventions for food service and "security." (What a laugh, huh?) Anyway, he eventually married a girl from our congregation and they moved out west somewhere and had a daughter. We did not keep in touch, but both sets of their parents were still in the area so they occasionally informed me of how things were going with the couple.
The marriage got rocky, he got into drugs and motorcycles, they separated and got back together a bunch of times and then finally got divorced. While all of this was going on he would also make attempts to go back to living life as a Dub (of course at the urging of his mother), do it for months or maybe a year or two. There were many reasons I think he made attempts to return to being a Dub, not the least of which was that he loved his older brother and knew that someday he would have the responsibility of caring for him. This was how the whole decade of his 20s went.
He finally snapped and committed suicide. I don't know for sure, but I think he was one of those people that just couldn't sever the BORG's control over himself, and I think he thought he could never be good enough and would end up dying up at Armageddon anyway. Of course, the drugs probably didn't help, but I also firmly believe that was his way of drowning the cognitive dissonance--just the way all of the heavy closet drinkers in the BORG do.
My friend's suicide broke my heart and in my mind I could never release the BORG from their responsibility in this.
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We dodged the cosmic bullet
by kurtbethel inhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/04/asteroid-2009-dd45s-passi_n_171722.html.
okay, so it was not aimed at us and we did not literally have to dodge or deflect it.
but one day, a big one will be aimed our way (tons of small rocks and dust hit the earth each day) and then what will we do?.
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Alpaca
From the Huffington report:
Of the known space rocks, the next time an object will get closer to Earth will be in 2029 when an 885-foot asteroid called 99942 Apophis comes within 20,000 miles, said Donald Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
The important qualification does not address the fact there are many NEOs (Near Earth Objects) that are not known or identified. It is these rogue objects that pose the most worrisome threat. Every year that goes by sees improvements and advancements in mapping the sky to find these objects but I think most astronomers will acknowledge that the time and attention devoted to it is woefully inadequate.
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Alpaca
How about the theatrics at the conventions being called:
Dramas!!!