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VERY short day at the Arlington/Dallas International Convention-My Observations

by CaptainSchmideo in

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okay, some good takeaway:.

i have never been to a convention quite like this before.

a very friendly vibe all around, lots of banners and posters with sayings like "sending love to all our brothers", "see you in the paradise", "ecuador sends greetings", and "jehovahs-witness.net" (okay, i lied on that last one...).

QuestioningEverything

my God none of loving brothers would pick you up?

Probably could have walked to your car in a half hour, you know! just a thought

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How much punishment can WT take

by joe134cd in

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in some ways i just have to admire wt for the amount of crap they can take and despite this can keep it from the r&f, and still keep coming up smelling of roses.

you think about all the dramas they have had and can yet still keep showing an increase - all be it in internet deprived developing countries.

but even still an over all increase is still an increase.

QuestioningEverything

Hey Ocean,

I think I'm following you but can you dumb down your explanation for a possible decrease.

I don't quite understand it

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US Supreme Court: Hobby Lobby wins we lose

by designs in

the old guys sided with hobby lobby today in denying birth control coverage to its female employees based on the owners religious views.

intact- is viagra for the guys.

funny how the far right evangelical owners of hobby lobby didn't want to touch that one.... read judge ginburg's scathing counter argument and opinion.. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf.

QuestioningEverything

Happy dad...

Now that's what I call... Eating your words!!!!

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US Supreme Court: Hobby Lobby wins we lose

by designs in

the old guys sided with hobby lobby today in denying birth control coverage to its female employees based on the owners religious views.

intact- is viagra for the guys.

funny how the far right evangelical owners of hobby lobby didn't want to touch that one.... read judge ginburg's scathing counter argument and opinion.. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf.

QuestioningEverything

The TRUTH is that this isn't the first time religious objections by companies has come before the Supremes! In 1964 a man sued to keep blacks out of his restuarant, because god told him too. He lost 8-0! Decades later a company religiously thought only men should work outside the house. They paid women employees less money after being forced to hire some. They lost!!!!

This is another example of the rich and powerful controlling the poor and weak!!!!!!!!!!!

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Has anyone ever saved another persons life?

by LogCon in

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i don't mean you advised them and they changed their lives around, kind of saving a life.. i mean right before your eyes, right now, you had to do something to save a person or they would be dead.. how did it make you feel?

did it have any affect on you?.

forty years ago i was working on a construction site and a back-hoe had loosened a large boulder.

QuestioningEverything

I did a few years ago. It was a surreal experience. I learned the man who i helped died about 18 months later.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/183814/1/I-helped-save-someones-life-today

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the green mile?

by sparrowdown in

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just wondering.. do you agree/disagree with capital punishment?.

are there any circumstances that would justify it?.

or is taking any human life unacceptable, regardless of the crime?.

QuestioningEverything

I also want to say, as a Court Recorder, I am in the courtroom during all types of trials-both civil and criminal. One particular trial was a murder case. The victim was a 2 year old little boyand he was beat to death by his mom's boyfriend.

That poor baby was battered to death. He had bruises on top of bruises, a lacerated liver, bruising on his lung and heart and cigarette burns all over his body and these are not all his injuries! The pictures were devastating to see. I cried when i left the courtroom that morning.

The guy who did this does not deserve to live. He is a demon, a monster. I would feel no sympathy whatsoever if he was to be executed.

And again, i don't want to have to pay my hard earned money for the upkeep of this monster in prison.

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the green mile?

by sparrowdown in

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just wondering.. do you agree/disagree with capital punishment?.

are there any circumstances that would justify it?.

or is taking any human life unacceptable, regardless of the crime?.

QuestioningEverything

If one of my loved ones was a victim of a violent crime and it was proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was guilty, i would not blink an eye at their execution. I don't think that they deserve to live and i certainly don't want to pay for their long term stay in prison.

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