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  Michael Moore--Bill O'Reilly finally, on Foxnews tonight

  by sf in

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  tonight 8 pm / 1 am et

  challenge accepted michael moore finally enters the no spin zone!

  tune in for the fireworks.. .

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  gypsywildone

  Oh, yeah, Viet nam was a threat to my personal freedoms of typing on my computer. Yeah, Saigon fell and yet here I am still posting away to *people* (original words self edited to prevent moderators from getting upset) like you. Except, I won't after this one.

  How did this thread get hijacked anyway? It was originally about a Tv show & the merits of that particular discussion. How did this once again get hijacked into Kerry is the debbil, no wait, BUSH is the debbil???? Comeon people, must it always turn into this? Can't you take it to a Democrat boad, or a Republican board, or a board about conspiracy theories, or maybe O'Reilley has a board for this stuff
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  Amish Reality Show...

  by Country Girl in

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  for those that were raised in an authoritarian religion, this ought to be a very interesting show.

  i think the jw teenagers should get rumspringa too!

  'amish in the city': nobody drives buggies in l.a. .

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  gypsywildone

  Just put Amish puppy mill into a search engine & see all the newspaper articles & legislation you come up with. And as for the living conditions of the animals & people, filth breeds disease. Plain & simple.

  I asked my sister what city it was in Indiana, & she said Geneva, Indiana is where the Amish are moving in droves & not keeping things clean, etc., & my sister goes over there monthly.

  I have been told by another nurse, but have not verified it, that the Amish & Mennonites are so inbred that there is the highest concentration of hospitals/clinics for birth defects right here in Pennsylvania. The Amish & Mennonites here have a much more pronounced accent than those that were on the TV. They call it Pennsylvania Dutch here.

  I think it was sad that when Moses felt that he almost drowned, he couldn't sleep at night & was haunted by the fact that if he had died, he would have gone to hell because he was not among the Amish. It is just sad period that these kids already seem so screwed up that they would have a hard time functioning anywhere but amongst the Amish. If they woiuld have used more "average" teenagers, it would not have added to the drama. I think the producers deliberately stacked the deck of less Amish, more English, & used mainly jaded English teenagers.. http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=amish+puppy+mills&page=1&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3D14fd0405d9f419fb%26clickedItemRank%3D1%26userQuery%3Damish%2Bpuppy%2Bmills%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.allbreed.net%252Fchows%252FAdopt%252FPAPupMill.htm%26invocationType%3D-%26fromPage%3DNSCPTop%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.allbreed.net%2Fchows%2FAdopt%2FPAPupMill.htm http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=amish+puppy+mills&page=1&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3D14fd0405d9f419fb%26clickedItemRank%3D8%26userQuery%3Damish%2Bpuppy%2Bmills%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Flists.envirolink.org%252Fpipermail%252Far-news%252FWeek-of-Mon-20040419%252F024220.html%26invocationType%3D-%26fromPage%3DNSCPTop%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.envirolink.org%2Fpipermail%2Far-news%2FWeek-of-Mon-20040419%2F024220.html http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=amish+puppy+mills&page=1&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3D14fd0405d9f419fb%26clickedItemRank%3D3%26userQuery%3Damish%2Bpuppy%2Bmills%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.golden-retriever.com%252Fnypost_9_22_96.htm%26invocationType%3D-%26fromPage%3DNSCPTop%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.golden-retriever.com%2Fnypost_9_22_96.htm On Amish horse abuse: http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=amish+horse+abuse&page=1&offset=1&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3D14fd0405d9f435b2%26clickedItemRank%3D3%26userQuery%3Damish%2Bhorse%2Babuse%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Frescuenetwork.com%252Frescue%252Fmodules.php%253Fname%253DNews%2526file%253Darticle%2526sid%253D306%26invocationType%3D-%26fromPage%3DNSBoom%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Frescuenetwork.com%2Frescue%2Fmodules.php%253Fname%253DNews%2526file%253Darticle%2526sid%253D306
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  Amish Reality Show...

  by Country Girl in

  1. jw
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  for those that were raised in an authoritarian religion, this ought to be a very interesting show.

  i think the jw teenagers should get rumspringa too!

  'amish in the city': nobody drives buggies in l.a. .

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  gypsywildone

  Actually, I just watched it, & it was kind of an interesting mix of people & situations. Seems to me the Amish people over react to everything & are way sensitive. Anybody else watch it?

  I dispise this genre & avoid them like the plague, these "reality shows", but this was kind of interesting.
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  Amish Reality Show...

  by Country Girl in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for those that were raised in an authoritarian religion, this ought to be a very interesting show.

  i think the jw teenagers should get rumspringa too!

  'amish in the city': nobody drives buggies in l.a. .

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  gypsywildone

  The gig is up! I was at work & didn't hear any radio all day, but husband did & the scandal of the moment around here was that those Amish on the show had already "left the faith" before the TV deal. Some kind of bruhaha all over today around here, in the stores, etc. & on the radio, apparently. I don't know what state these people on that show are from, but the Amish community is small & insular. It stands to reason if they don't really like their picture taken (but that has never stopped a tourist yet), that they would not be on a TV show, unless, possibly a documentary I wonder where to find this out
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  Michael Moore--Bill O'Reilly finally, on Foxnews tonight

  by sf in

  1. social
  2. current

  tonight 8 pm / 1 am et

  challenge accepted michael moore finally enters the no spin zone!

  tune in for the fireworks.. .

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  gypsywildone

  When I was 19, I had a child & graduated nursing school in the same year, with no parental help. When I was 21, I bought my first brand new house, once again, on my own. I was hardly a child. Did I have the best judgement? No. Hindsight is 20/20, & no 21 year old has the wisdom & experience that comes from living on this Earth for 40 years.

  People that age are asked to choose a college, major in a subject that will lead to a career, make all kinds of life changing choices. Is it only the ones that choose the armed forces that are "children"?

  I watch my 21 year old daughter ( who, by the way, has been quite competant since around the age of 18), in college, living her life, choosing her major, her job, her friends, etc. & to let her go to be an independant person thrills me! To cut the apron strings & allow her to be a free individual makes my heart sing. But there is nothing drastic riding on her college, with the possible exception of our pocketbook

  There is everything drastic riding on the young people that join the armed forces! People's lives ride on their dong what needs to be done & doing it right. Not all the US armed forces are 18-21 years old, to be sure! But the ones that are seem to me to be some of the most together young people I have met so far. They are focused & dedicated, & to me it somehow diminishes them to refer to them as "children".
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  Amish Reality Show...

  by Country Girl in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for those that were raised in an authoritarian religion, this ought to be a very interesting show.

  i think the jw teenagers should get rumspringa too!

  'amish in the city': nobody drives buggies in l.a. .

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  gypsywildone

  I live right in the middle of them, Lancaster County, PA. They are known for not taking care of their animals well, their horses are skinny & they run them lathered & keep on going. Their animals are seen as money to them, nothing more. Their children are hurt or killed in farm accidents every year. I could go around here & take pictures of 6 year olds working in their fields in sweltering heat. They won't drive a car, but will bum rides from the "English", will certainly take money from the "English", no prob. They don't appear to use much in the way of soap or deoderant either. Last year, some Amish teenagers were convicted of being crank (meth) dealers. They might have been taken advantage of in that case, I have no idea how they got into that predicament. They don't seem to stay in school all that long, & appear to be a rather ignorant society.

  Recently, a lady at a job was telling me of an incident where an Amish that found out a customer was a shunned Amish person, would not have any dealings with the shunned one & acted as if it was the devil itself appearing.

  On the bright side, here they keep their farms neat & tidy & plant attractive flowers. My sister said in the state of Indiana where she has family, they do not, & are not liked at all there. They are felt to be dirty & greedy in Indiana. Pennsylvania seems to have an uneasy co-existance with them. They also regularly get killed on highways in buggys, they are a hazard on the road & resist being forced to put reflectors & any other devices & lights on their buggys, yet they persist in driving them on hazardous roads & at night.

  Seems to me to exploit them by making a reality show is kinda creepy. Have we sunk so low in this country that making fun of them is entertaining? Is this entertainment?
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  Anyone from near Jupiter, Florida?

  by gypsywildone in

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  is there such a place?

  i have just been told by an old friend that it is where some jws we knew went.

  apparantly, they are now shunning their 21 year old son

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  gypsywildone

  Is there such a place? I have just been told by an old friend that it is where some jws we knew went. Apparantly, they are now shunning their 21 year old son
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  Would You Outlaw Jehovah's Witnesses If You Had The Power?

  by minimus in

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  as much as i believe that the witnesses are a "cult", i don't think i'd choose to legally ban them.

  what about you?

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  gypsywildone

  Well, I would hardly call them hrmless. Not harmless to children's minds & bodies. Not harmless to people that die for lack of a blood transfusion, & the survivors they leave behind. No, not even harmless to the rest of the families they alienate.
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  i want to go to a witness meeting in nottinghamshire

  by rivers in

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  hi, im new to this, and i would like to go to a witness meeting next week in the nottinghamshire area but dont know of anywhere, would someone please help me out?

  email me at: [email protected].

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  gypsywildone

  Why Sam, the schedule is listed right here: www.freeminds.org
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  Would You Outlaw Jehovah's Witnesses If You Had The Power?

  by minimus in

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  as much as i believe that the witnesses are a "cult", i don't think i'd choose to legally ban them.

  what about you?

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  gypsywildone

  Education is the best way to kill tyranny.

  How true elsewhere. Any resistance only feeds their persecution complex.