The furry fellow is from Brumajum. Maybe he's an escapee from Dudley Zoo??
Hey, Brum - Do you know Dave Hill?
Fe2O3Girl
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HELLO? HELLO? "ALL" SIGN IN???????
by waiting insimon did away with the sex forum - so i must take the tradional route and post under "make new friends.
" how mundane!.
fyi ---- for all of us, please take the time to write a sentence or two about yourselves, and encourage new ones to do the same.
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It's a Small World After All
by Prisca inhow many of you came to this board, only to find others you knew when you were witnesses?.
perhaps you didn't know the other person had left.
or you knew they'd left, but had lost touch, only to be reunited here?
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Fe2O3Girl
Sirona and I were in the same congregation. We did not realise who the other one was until we got acquainted through this board. I did not know she had escaped.
Little Toe and I know a few people in common from the Midlands. I lived there until I was 10.
Thats about it. I wasn't a pioneer celebrity socialite so I didn't know many people outside my own congregation, and sadly it seems there haven't been that many escapees from there.
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Your Online Persona
by Xena ini saw a thread recently that asked if you were different from your online persona, most people answered to varying degrees "no".
that made me wonder though how do you view yourself and how do other people view you?
what kind of a person do you feel you project?
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Fe2O3Girl
Online, I am a background figure that no-one notices. In real life, people who meet me, remember me.
Online, I am detached and analytical. In real life, I express my feelings and opinions.
I guess I will never be a celebrity here because I don't have any horror stories (which is fine, you know). I don't rack up huge numbers of posts. I don't do flame wars.
Ultimately, I don't feel safe to be myself here. I'd rather show my @rs3 in the middle of the Trafford Centre than reveal something deep, personal or intimate here. And that is about the most revealing thing I have ever posted.
Maybe it's an eye contact thing..............
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How *Welfare* Changed America......
by teenyuck infound this article in the latest us news and world report.
the issue is dealing with american milestones.
some of the articles include 100 documents that define our nation to the one i am going to post.
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Fe2O3Girl
Nearly every American citizen receives some form of aid these days, regardless of need.
Is that true? What form does this aid take?
I was thinking about myself (here in the UK), I have been paying my National Insurance contributions for 14 years. I have had a job continuously since I left school (state education), so I am fortunate never to have had to claim unemployment benefit (or is it Jobseekers Allowance these days?). So I was thinking that I have not had anything back out of the system in that time.
Depends on what you count as aid, welfare or benefit. I have been provided with healthcare all my life, and free contraception for the last 13 years, as well as an education to the age of 17. These days I could pay for those things myself, but at 18, on £3120 a year it might not have been so easy. Being ill or getting pregnant would not have helped much.
I used to get tax relief on mortgage payments, but that stopped years ago.
My personal viewpoint is that I am proud to be a British subject, and a member of our society. I am glad to be part of a society that cares for the weak and disadvantaged. That has to be paid for. Our politicians tell me that it is possible to care for the weak, improve health services, have more teachers, more policemen, and put more people in prison, and cut taxes. I am only a humble voter, so I don't understand how that works, but if they say they'll do it, I'm sure it must be true.
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Story Time
by joannadandy inhey--i could really use some input from parents and kids at heart.. i am volunteering to do a story time this saturday.
i am supposed to read whatever i want to the kids for an hour.
i left a message that i would take requests for stories, but so far no one has made any suggestions.. i am just wondering what some of you would suggest i read.
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Fe2O3Girl
I really like The Wind in the Willows, and Swallows and Amazons. The last children's book I read was The Last Polar Bears by Harry Horse, and I thought it was brilliant.
I have not read the other Harry Horse books which also feature the adventures of Grandfather and Roo the dog.
The Last Cowboys - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0141300280/qid=1063721338/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/102-8154149-6041702?v=glance&s=books#product-details
The Last Castaways - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0141314613/qid=1063721519/sr=12-11/102-8154149-6041702?v=glance&s=books
The Last Gold Diggers - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140376763/qid=1063721519/sr=12-14/102-8154149-6041702?v=glance&s=books
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Rlealy Amzanig
by talley inaoccdrnig to a rscheearch sdtuy at cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
the rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit any porbelm.
tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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Fe2O3Girl
That may also be due to what is called the redundancy of the English language. Most words are different enough from each other that the correct word is recognised even if not all the letters are shown or in the right order.
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No Respect
by StinkyPantz ini have a friend who refuses to tell me how old he is.
he claims that people often judge you or pigeon-hole you when they find out how old you are.
i have tried to argue against this point, but i have recently realized how true this is.
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Fe2O3Girl
Hmmm. Well I referred to you as a baby compared to me in a recent off board communication. However that was only in the subject area of age, not maturity, experience or intelligence. To be honest I was shocked that you are 24, because you are so articulate, and although I don't always agree with your viewpoint, you posts are well reasoned. I never noticed that your age is shown in your profile.
I am sorry if my comment came over as condescending or dismissive - it wasn't intended to be. It was just a throwaway comment.
No-one can know how old I am because I can't update my profile. BAH!
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Worldly inlaws are better?
by Nosferatu inthis is kinda influenced by a post by proudassmonkey.
ever since leaving the jws, i've noticed that my girlfriends' parents have treated me better than my natural parents do.
anyone else have this happen?
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Fe2O3Girl
My in-laws aren't "WORLDLY"; they're NORMAL.
I get on well with them. I am in the very lucky position of having parents who don't shun me. They think the world of my husband and get on well with his parents too.
So, I can't say my in-laws treat us better than my parents; we are treated equally well by both sides.
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Some Arguments Just Can't be Won. . .
by StinkyPantz in.and yet i still find myself engulfed in them.
starting a thread about abortion, homosexuality, religion, capital punishment, euthanasia, evolution, race relations, war, politics, ect.
are ultimately pointless.
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Fe2O3Girl
I very rarely participate in the controversial subject areas, although I usually read through them. The gladitorial style of debate here just isn't my style. I am interested in other peoples opinions, and I don't feel the need to mock and berate other people to justify my opinions. Besides which, Abbadon always seems to have the same opinion as me, and he expresses himself so well I can leave him to it.
Mind you Stinkypantz and I once had a civil and calm discussion on the death penalty on this board. So some of us can debate without ripping each other new ones.
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i think that 2 x jw getting together must make a good match
by nelly1 in.
because they both have probrably been thru similar experiences..and can share whatever spirituality is left..i know id prolly prefer an xjw guy to someone in the world :).
any thoughts?
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Fe2O3Girl
My husband has a completely different religious background to mine. His family are non churchgoing, nominal C-of-E. He has no religious feelings at all.
We are very happy. He does try to understand what it was like to be a JW. I don't think it would benefit me if he had the same screwy background as me. That said, I do not define myself as an XJW, by which I mean that 9 years on, there's a hell of a lot more to being me than not being a JW anymore. Early influences and how I reconcile them to my continued experience and growth will of course always form a part of me.
His family don't understand at all, and maybe that's a good thing. They are a background of solid normality. I would not have relished marrying into a whole load more JW family background.
IMO, successful relationships are down to the way the two individuals behave and treat each other. And this individual is not defined exclusively by being XJW, female, English, British, Apostate, liberal, agnostic, Christian or any other label you might want to stick on me. Real people are not that easily pigeon holed.