An end to the lunacy.
Mincan
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When you were an active JW, what did you pray for?
by JH inno matter if god granted what you asked or not, what did you pray for ?
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Guys: When does a woman become "needy" ?
by serendipity inas i browse guys profiles on online dating sites, i occasionally run across references to "needy women" eg.
"needy women stay away".
at what point does a chick become needy?
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Mincan
I'm not sayin' you're wrong, cognac, but I've had the opposite experience, they're almost always the ones I have to tell "wait". And not a long time either. I feel like a piece of meat, they just want me for my bod, lol!]
Perhaps they are passionate...about you? Sounds like a typical emotional person to me.
You find out which is true love when the other person sticks around to "get some".
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Guys: When does a woman become "needy" ?
by serendipity inas i browse guys profiles on online dating sites, i occasionally run across references to "needy women" eg.
"needy women stay away".
at what point does a chick become needy?
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Mincan
When all of someone's self worth is hinged on their relationship with someone else, when they "need" that person to feel whole then there is a problem.
Isn't that one of the criterian for a definition of love?: To feel "complete" when with the other person.?
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Around the last WW1 French veteran still living
by aligot ripounsous inone of the last two french ww1 veterans died recently.
some have wondered on this board whether there had ever been a french army, or one composed of other than white flag holders.
yes there was a french army.
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Mincan
I'm afraid, there's no such thing as an interesting war.
I'm afraid, those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Probably will either way though...
Also nice that you are so presumptuous as to say what I may or may not find interesting.
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..Vending Machines and JW Assemblies..
by OUTLAW in.."out of order"..no vending machine is complete at a jw assembly,without an "out of order" sign on it.....of course it`s not true..the machine works fine..it`s just one of the many lies jw`s are willing to accept from the wbt$.....although..this lie is extremely large and visible,it`s a frigg`n vending machine!..lol!
!.............does the management that rents the facilities to the wbt$,know the wbt$ is disabling them?....does the owners of the vending machines know the wbt$ is disabling them,and interfering with their right to do business in that facility?......could the wbt$ be sued for loss of vending machine business?.......wouldn`t it be fun to let the vending machine owners know their machines are being disabled,at jehovah`s witness assemblies?......it would mean more bad publicity for the wbt$ for lying and court cases they couldn`t win...................outlaw
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Mincan
The last one I went to I used one. Got many strange looks and stars. Perhaps it will be a new tradition, to walk around stuffing my face with vending machine chocolate and candy.
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A thank you to my friends
by Bumble Bee ini have some very good, close friends that i've made here.
we trust one another, laughed together, cried together, supported one another through good and bad times.
i just wanted to say how much i love and appreciate you all!.
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Mincan
There has never been as far as I know of, a concrete medical diagnosis for ADD or ADHD even though drugs are commonly prescribed for the illness however, they are working on a 'real' diagnostic set of tools that will evaluate true ADD. The illness was first labelled as a result of psychiatric groups getting together and making that decision. Some of the drugs given to children for this behaviour have never been intended for children and the long term affects are still not all known. Everyone has a different answer as to why it is now so prevalent and the answers range from vitamin deficiency, poor or no parental control, bad behaviour, allergies, premature births etc.
Dexedrine and Ritalin are among the most well known pharmocological agents. Amphetamines have been around since the 1880s and have been studied for just as long. The FDA approved Ritalin and Dexedrine for ADHD in the 1950s and have been proven effective for decades on people that benefit from them.
Less blood flow to the brain. Less glucose metabolism in the brain. 70% more DAT transporters in the striatum. Lower levels of dopamine throughout the brain (using chemical markers and SPECT scan). Overactive RAS and thalamus. Structural differences in prefrontal cortex. Polymorphism of the DRD4 resulting in the 7 repeat allele. Audio and visual processing diagnostic tests. It took me several months and trips to many specialists (developmental pediatrician, psychiatrist, specialist doctors, etc) for me to be diagnosed when I was a wee one.
There's been more data on the brain differences in the past 4 years than all the rest combined. Since we've mapped the human genome and actually can identify which genes are specific to which behaviour traits, they are beginning to understand exactly which genes and brain differences account for ADHD. I encourage you to simply look up DRD4 in google and read the government webpage that published all the findings of recent research into that receptor, they are now convinced this gene is directly responsible up to 30% for the symptomology of ADHD.
Also, I just had to mention that these medications are highly variable to people. A common side effect of amphetamines and other stimulants like methylphenidate (Ritalin) is increased socialisation, and that's a positive thing. Dexedrine has improved my socialisation ability which allows me to come out of my shell more often. It makes me if anything less violent. I'm more violent when my mind is racing and I'm in a state of agitated depression unmedicated.
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Mincan
Those medicines made them feel worse--they were not abusing their drugs. Ritalin is another drug that causes these problems.
Depends on the person. I eventually found this time around that Ritalin did depress me after awhile, I later learned why - it was stimulating my Peripheral Nervous System (as opposed to my Central Nervous System) which over time depletes your endocrine system if you are one that already has an overactive limbic system. However, other people with ADHD respond very well to it. When I switched to Dexedrine, I found the same results some get from Ritalin but not Dexedrine. Everyone is unique. Dexedrine is only a CNS, not PNS stimulant.
Why are such drugs necessary in the first place? Because the school boards wish to dumb down the people. In doing so, they need to stifle children's drive to learn. To do that, they diagnose a disease that, in essence, is the normal drive for them to learn and integrate. Then they prescribe a drug to treat that disease. That drug also sets up these children to become more violent than they otherwise would have been. In some cases, the parents were forced by the state to give these children these drugs.
No, it's not to dumb people down. It is to make sure that they have an equal chance to succeed in the public school system without there needing to be sent to special learning environments...which could be better for them perhaps but where is the capital? My mother wasn't "forced" per se to put me on Ritalin, but I would have had to be home schooled (which may have been better).
I suggest doing away with that "ADD" and "ADHD". Children need to be active. The ones that are actually more active than normal, in a proper school environment, can and will actually do better than those who are naturally more docile. With their drive to learn satisfied (and, with the most active children, this can be much more than most classes are set up to handle), they are not as likely to get into trouble, and will not need those drugs. No drugs, no violence. And that will solve something like 90% of these incidents.
Your ignorance shines through here, and you must not have had a close relationship with anyone that truly has the symptomology. Children with ADHD are not just simply hyperactive kids, because obviously then I would agree with you. The development of impulse control and the lack of ability to concentrate on what you want your mind to rather than it going where it wants to every few seconds tends to impeed progress in classically structured learning environments. Many with ADHD also have Auditory Processing Disorders (I among them) whereby they don't catch all the words in a sentence when being spoken to, and have to fill in the gaps and process the information, if your mind is wondering (not of your own choice) this is made even harder. To tell if someone was misdaignosed (or grew out of it, which 40% sometimes do), you will see the hyperactivity disappear. What you will see if the diagnoses is correct is the hyperactivity in adolescence transforms into an inner restlessness, a compulsion for stimulation (which may include stimming if autism is present), and constant fidgetting or inability to wait in line. These are the people that appear driven by a motor, and feel more comfortable if their body is in motion somehow. (Of course ADHD Predominately Inattentive (formerly ADD, term not in use anymore) lack the hyperactivity/impulsivity factor of the symptomology.)
People are only ever taught about the three main "bad" aspects of this label, but fail to realise the difference in brain structure and chemistry (not chemical imbalance, chemical dysfunction, big difference) lead to a complex interconnected realm of "symptoms" but many are very positive.
The idea that ADHD is a lack of discipline is pretty funny. If you were to hold a gun to someone's head with ADHD and told them if they moved their head at all or become distracted you will blow their head off, you'll probably be doing it within 20 seconds. They will forget that instruction within a few seconds and their mind will start racing with other thoughts. You'd probably have to remind them every 10 seconds or so about that instruction or they'd be dead. Telling someone with an inability to focus their thoughts for a long period of time (effort is but one factor in concentration, learn some neuroscience...) to "try harder" is like telling someone who is nearsighted to "squint harder", it is a disability in the truest sense of the word, and is recognised as such by governments.
When I took Dexedrine for the first time, it was like that nearsighted person putting on those glasses. It does not make me dumb, this is ridiculous. In fact, the only reason I had the patience to type this entire response to your post was because I'm medicated right now. I don't know, does it sound like I'm dumb?
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OLD PHOTOGRAPHS FROM JW DAYS
by Dansk ini left the organisation 5 years ago and this morning came across some old photographs from my jw days.
most photographs were taken in the kh, such as marriages, and at assemblies and many are of people once considered close friends - but now i find it hard to look at them.
i asked claire, my wife, if she would like to look at them and she said she couldn't bear to, so they went in the bin.
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Mincan
I'm the one with the black tie. This was just before one of the days of the 1994 District Convention if I recall correctly. (1993 if I'm not)
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~Beloved landmarks from your hometown~
by FlyingHighNow inwhen i was almost seven, we moved from the gulf coast town of mobile, alabama to morgan city, louisiana.
on brashear avenue, which was also highway 90, the gulf coast hwy, going towards the now old atchafalaya bridge, there was a shrimp boat in the middle of the road called the spirit of morgan city.
at christmas time they decorated it with a santa on the front and his reindeer out front, as if it were santa's mode of transportation through cajun country, rather than his regular sleigh.
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Mincan
Mincan you could just find yourself with a visitor one day.
I should like that very much.
