I remember way back when the Sega GameGear came out (a way ahead of it's time portable gaming system that competed with the Nintendo Gameboy, but in full colour and gorgeous graphics) a friend of mine bought one and I would borrow it every chance I got until one day he threw it out. The reason? He said that he was told "Sega" meant masturbation in spanish.
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Did anyone else run into this JW urban legend?
by marmot ini remember way back when the sega gamegear came out (a way ahead of it's time portable gaming system that competed with the nintendo gameboy, but in full colour and gorgeous graphics) a friend of mine bought one and i would borrow it every chance i got until one day he threw it out.
the reason?
he said that he was told "sega" meant masturbation in spanish..
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Dated Fulfillments of Bible Prophecy (the faithful slave)
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4 and in answer jesus said to them: look out that nobody misleads you; 5 for many will come on the basis of my name, saying, i am the christ, and will mislead many.
[it is more than apparent that many were misled even by the w.t.s.
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marmot
Good old JCanon is back to his usual nuttiness.
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have you ever wittnessed the fall of an "alpha family"?
by highdose inyou know the family i mean in the congo, its always a 2.4 family,the father is always always an elder, the wife is always has an air of supremness who looks down her nose at all the other sisters, the kids always appear to be textbook straight of a watchtower illistration " how to be a perfect jw".
they spend their time practiculay glued to the platform, showing everyone how they are not measuring up to their perfect example.
and all round just making everyone feel unworthy.
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Yep, mine.
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Jehovah's Witnesses discover mutilated corpses on return visit - CNN
by marmot inpack of dogs kills elderly couple.
by jim kavanagh.
cnnstartclickprintexcludeendclickprintexcludestartclickprintexcludeendclickprintexcludelexington, georgia (cnn) -- a pack of dogs brought down and killed an animal-loving couple last weekend in rural northeastern georgia, and a similar tragedy could occur anywhere dogs roam freely, authorities say.. startclickprintexcludetwo dogs from the pack that killed two people await euthanasia tuesday at a shelter in northeast georgia.. 1 of 3. endclickprintexcludesheriff's deputies, code enforcement officers and other officials spent most of monday and tuesday rounding up 11 adult dogs and five puppies, oglethorpe county sheriff's capt.
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Pack of dogs kills elderly couple By Jim Kavanagh
CNNLEXINGTON, Georgia (CNN) -- A pack of dogs brought down and killed an animal-loving couple last weekend in rural northeastern Georgia, and a similar tragedy could occur anywhere dogs roam freely, authorities say.
Two dogs from the pack that killed two people await euthanasia Tuesday at a shelter in northeast Georgia.
1 of 3 Sheriff's deputies, code enforcement officers and other officials spent most of Monday and Tuesday rounding up 11 adult dogs and five puppies, Oglethorpe County Sheriff's Capt. Shalon Huff said. One more was trapped Wednesday morning, leaving one still to be captured, she said.
"We're just lucky this hasn't happened before," said Susan Fornash, director of the Madison Oglethorpe Animal Shelter in Danielsville, where the captured dogs were held before being euthanized Tuesday under orders from a local judge.
"We've had people bring in a dog because it killed a goat or chased their horses or something like that. And to me, that was just the forerunner of something like this."
Investigators say they believe that University of Georgia librarian Sherry Schweder, 65, went for her usual morning walk Saturday down Howard Thaxton Road, the narrow dirt lane that runs alongside the couple's property.
The dogs were familiar in the area, investigators say, having been left behind when the person who had been caring for some of them moved out of a home at the end of the lane.
Authorities theorize that halfway down the lane, about a quarter-mile from her home, Sherry Schweder was confronted by the dogs, which knocked her down and killed her.
Her husband, retired UGA language professor Lothar Schweder, became concerned when she didn't return and went out in their Honda CRX to look for her. When he found her lying in the lane and got out to shoo away the dogs, they attacked and killed him too, investigators believe.
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Although no blood was seen on the dogs, other evidence and autopsy results convince authorities that the pack killed the Schweders, said Jim Fullington, special agent in charge of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's office in nearby Athens.
Watch what investigators learned »Black bears occasionally pass through the area, but none have been reported recently, said Sgt. Doyte Chaffin, a wildlife officer with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Investigators found no prints other than those of dogs and humans, Fullington added.
Humans can appear threatening to dogs that run in packs, said Bonnie Beaver, a professor in the department of small animal clinical sciences at Texas A&M University and an expert in pack behavior.
"From their perspective, a person is an alien, if you will," Beaver said. "It would be the same as we would relate to a grizzly bear."
Dogs kill an average of 10 to 20 people each year in the United States, Beaver said. The vast majority of those cases involve a single dog attacking a small child, she said.
As few as two or three dogs, whether urban, suburban or rural, can behave like a pack, Beaver said. And when pack mentality takes over, "they do insane things that they would not do" under normal circumstances, she said.
"My bet is there was one ringleader who kind of started it" in the Georgia case, Beaver said.
Something as simple as making eye contact may have made one dog in the group feel threatened, and its body language put the other dogs on edge, triggering an "escalation," she said.
Even though none of the dogs weighed more than about 40 pounds, their numbers would have overwhelmed the victims. Screaming, flailing or trying to run would only make things worse, Beaver said.
"To be slight people, as I'm told they both were, and the ages that they were, I don't know what they could have done. I don't know what I would do," Fornash said.
Jehovah's Witnesses walking up the lane to visit the lone house found the Schweders' mutilated bodies lying next to the car and called 911, Fullington said. He added that a sheriff's deputy had to fire a shot in the air to scare the dogs away.
The house the evangelists had intended to visit was unoccupied, but it was home to at least some of the dogs, Fullington said.
The owner, Howard Thaxton, had moved out some months earlier because of health and financial problems but had someone drive him every other day to leave food for the dogs, said GBI Special Agent Christopher Bish. Several empty 40-pound bags of Ol' Roy dog food were strewn about the property Tuesday.
Thaxton, an amputee who Bish said was recently released from a hospital, has been cooperating with authorities. Thaxton doesn't believe that those animals were capable of killing people, law enforcement officials said. He has not been charged.
"We are still in discussions with the district attorney about culpability and what have you, but no decisions have been reached yet," Bish said.
Bish said it took 14 visits to Thaxton's house to make initial contact with him. CNN's efforts to find Thaxton for comment were unsuccessful.
Stopping the dogs from reproducing might have prevented the tragedy, Fornash said. Just a few dogs can multiply rapidly into a menace, she added.
Watch how dog bites might be prevented »"In the blink of an eye, we have a pack of 50 dogs because people don't spay and neuter," she said.
It took about 90 minutes to euthanize all 16 dogs, several of which were maggot-infested, Fornash said. No one asked that they be checked for rabies, and the sheriff directed that the carcasses be cremated immediately, she said.
"I'm heartbroken for the family," Fornash said. "I can't even imagine how they must feel. And I'm also very sad for those animals, because if they had been cared for the way they should have been, this wouldn't have happened. It's not their fault."
The Schweders' seven dogs and four of their cats were to be brought to the shelter Wednesday and eventually adopted out, she said.
Thaxton's wood frame house that served as the dogs' home sits at the edge of a forest dotted with hunting campers and abandoned 1950s vehicles. Empty 5-gallon water bottles fill a ravine behind the house, and a derelict 1980s Chevy Caprice crouches next to a rusting John Deere tractor under a shade tree.
After all the sheriff's deputies and trappers had left Tuesday afternoon, a scruffy red dog appeared, ears up, next to the tractor. The animal, alone, scampered off into the woods.
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Is It Me Or Are The Males of Today More Feminine and/or Nerdy Than Ever B4?
by minimus inwhen i turn on the tv, i see so many fem men that i'm realizing that a 'manly" man seems to be a relic of the past.. metrosexuals rule the world now.supersensitive males who are in touch with their feminine side are the norm.. the john waynes & burt reynolds have been replaced with ryan seacrest lookalikes.. ladies, do you find these metrosexuals all that attractive?
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Methinks you guys doth protest too much.
Man culture is alive and well, thankyouverymuch. MMA combat as a form of entertainment is exploding in popularity, Chuck Norris is revered as a GOD on the internet, tattoos and extremely loud choppers used to be a fringe subculture but now everybody seems to sporting a half sleeve these days, Arnold fucking SHWARZENEGGER is the governor of California, the last US president was impeached for finger banging a fat chick with a cigar in the oval office and the current president started the biggest armed conflict since Vietnam so that hundreds of thousands of young American men could have the precious opportunity to shoot someone from a wide array of high-horsepower vehicles of death or up close and personal with an M4.
The fact that you guys are so hung up on smooth-chested pretty boys on TV seems to speak more of your own insecurities, if you get my drift. Denial isn't just a river in Egypt. -
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Date results
by B_Deserter ini posted this as a reply but i figured i'd just make a new thread as well.. .
the date went well, very well.
she even asked for a second date afterwards.
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Have you gone on a second date yet? Kissing?
I've been going out for about a month now and dating feels second nature, especially compared to how neurotic and self-conscious I felt before.
It's soooooo nice to be able to go out with someone and not be considered "practically engaged" as someone put it earlier. There's no warped premature emotional attachment, just a shared desire to have fun in the company of a person of the opposite sex. -
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Hello Atheists......need advice
by wings inhow do you deal with "no faith"?
what do you put faith in?
how was you transition from belief to non belief?
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I live, I don't "believe" and defer my life for something else.
I have faith that the sun will rise and that I will one day die, everything else is for me to figure out and experience. -
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Cigars
by besty in...and so to the end of a great evening with new friends and a familiar lover.. my feet are up and the sounds of socal stillness punctuated by occasional dreams departing from lax.. is there more to life than friends, lovers, brandy and hand rolled cuban companions?.
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I agree that cuban quality control sucks. I bought a 5-pack of Jose Piedro Cremas and, granted, they are on the cheap end of the spectrum but you simply cannot get a consistent smoke from one to the next. The first one was so tight you could barely draw on it without looking like a complete fool trying to suck a golfball through a garden hose - to quote the great Sgt.(ret) Lee R. Ermey - but the next one puffed away merrily and provided quite an enjoyable smoke.
My problem is that there aren't many places around me that sell good cigars, or the places that do carry them don't store them properly in a humidor, and I don't have a humidor of my own to revive them. Before anyone mentions it, yes I've tried the plastic bag trick but I didn't like the results. I guess I just have to man up and finally get myself a humidor. :( -
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Retelling of Buddha's Tangerine Teaching -
by AK - Jeff in"when you children peel a tangerine, you can eat it with awareness or without awareness.
what does it mean to eat a tangerine in awareness?
children, that is eating a tangerine without awareness.
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It's funny, back when I was breaking free I thought I was onto something when I worked out my own mishmash philosophy similar to this only to discover that Buddha beat me to it. This led me to more research and when I did some reading on Epicurus I discovered that he had been completely and unfairly demonized by the Watchtower Society. For instance, take this quote from Wikipedia:
"For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by aponia, the absence of pain and fear, and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. He taught that pleasure and pain are the measures of what is good and bad, that death is the end of the body and the soul and should therefore not be feared, that the gods do not reward or punish humans, that the universe is infinite and eternal, and that events in the world are ultimately based on the motions and interactions of atoms moving in empty space."
That's a far cry from the wanton immoral pleasure-seeker that the WTS would have you believe. They sling around the "eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow you shall die" line ALL the time when looking down their noses in contempt at people in "the world", when in fact if we all focused on living for the moment and less on grievances from the past or excessive worry over the future, we'd all be a lot happier. -
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My uncle at Bethel goes camping with my aunt in the Adirondacks. They get scheduled holidays, if I recall correctly.
