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  WHY don't Americans realize GUNS are destroying their country?

  by Witness 007 in

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  usa today everyone has a gun, why?.....to protect themselves...from who?

  other folks with guns!.....yes it's in your laws...but they were written when the british ruled you.

  one school gun killing every week does not happen anywhere else in the world....maybe you need more guns to protect your kids.....one in the lunchbox.....does anyone else see this.

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  Guns are NOT destroying my country....lack of parenting, ethics and morals are more the problem than guns. Guns are a tool. Protection, hunting, sport.

  Gun laws keep honest people honest. The criminals still get them.

  There are no easy answers to school shootings. I attended a seminar on that a month ago. One of the big similarity in a lot of the school shootings is that the suspects were heavily involved in violent video games. I'm NOT saying that this is THE reason or that if you play a violent video game that you'll go shoot a bunch of people. But the violent games combined with inattentive parents, isolation, and other things such as mental illness all contributed to these awful shootings.

  Millions of Americans including me are responsible gun owners. And if I'm ever in a situation like that I will NOT be a sheep and let the bad guy get me. I will fight for all I'm worth to defend myself and others.

  Mandette
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  yes you can throw a kitten off a 20 story building...no harm

  by oompa in

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  see...if you are raised that way...and even if you are also raised to love all kitties, but told they will not be harmed if you ever throw them off a tall building....you will have no choice but to believe this as fact....you will believe it completely.....and if ever you find youself atop a tall building with a kitty...you will have no problem...no doubt at all.... that if you toss that baby off the roof or out the window...no harm will come to it.. now if you were not raised that way...you may decide to doubt that no harm will come to a kitty thus tossed....that it may be awful for the kitty.....yet those that were raised that way will say horrilbe things to you about your doubts...and make you feel like a freak....and shun you......and even divorce you..........oompa...but i saved the kitty.

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  Oompa...

  You're a good Cat, sweetie......save yourself!!!!! Save that sweet wonderful kitty!!!!!!

  Mandette(who's DNA has got to be part feline!)
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  Phobias, Taboos, and Perversion

  by jgnat in

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  all three - phobias, taboos, and perversions - exist in society.

  phobias, certainly, are created by an anger/aggression response in a particular zone in our brain.

  it triggers powerful hormone production such as adrenaline, to get us ready for fight-or-flight.

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  Jgnat,

  You've really made me think and I thank you for that. As I sit here at work trying not to get teared up I think of all things over the years that the JW's have caused in my life either directly or indirectly.

  When I was 20 yrs old, my best friend was df'd. I was disassociated. The elders told us that we should not have any contact with each other if we wanted to be reinstated. Michelle and I talked and decided to follow this advice. It was the worse advice I was ever given. Last Sunday was the 20th anniversary of my dear Michelle's death. Because I listened to those nasty elders I lost out on the last few months of Michelle's life. She became ill suddenly and died within 3 weeks. There's definitely still anger there even 20 yrs later. So I'm not sure if that's taboo or what with HAVING to listen to the elders especially when you're 20 yrs old and either don't know any better or your powers of thinking and reasoning aren't fully developed yet.

  As far as taboos...the dating thing. I've had friends of mine that have never been JW's tell me that I'm socially inept due to my upbringing. I've never learned to date. Now here at 40 yrs of age, I wonder what is wrong with me that "normal" non-JW men see and shy away from. Now THAT was hard to type too. And no I don't have horns, webbed feet and an eye in the middle of my forehead.

  The pain from these taboos, phobias, etc go so deep(fear of Armageddon, etc).

  Once again Jgnat thanks for making me think....

  Mandette
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  Mrs.Chickennest has cancer

  by Thechickennest in

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  my wife and i learned this week that she is suffering from a large malignant tumor in her sinuses.

  the cancer has spread to her lymth nodes and the pet scan indicates a mass on her left lung as well.

  the sinus cancer is called sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma.

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  ((((((((Mr and Mrs Chickennest)))))))

  My thoughts are with you! Mayo Clinic is AWESOME!!!!!! They do very good work!!!! Please research all you can. That will help you both to make informed decisions. Medical technology is wonderful these days and the medical field is making progress all the time.

  take care....hang in there....

  Mandette
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  never done fluff...but what movies or songs make you cry?

  by oompa in

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  ya....as you know i am pathetic...a cryer.....oompa.

  there are even some andy griffith shows that make me cry..... i wrote a song that almost always makes me cry when i play it....but cant post it as it would totally out me...in case my other revealing threads have not...tired of the game.....oompa.

  i know it is pathetic...but sleepless in seattle make me cry...and ya...i love the soundtrack................. .

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  "Oh Holy Night"

  "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from Phantom.

  Mandette
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  Anybody shun you that you wish wouldn't?

  by MegaDude in

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  family, former friends, acquaintances?

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  My sister.

  Mandette
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  What's Your Favorite "Goody"?

  by minimus in

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  milk chocolate covered raspberries or cherries.

  that and milk chocolate raisins.....the stuff you get from a place that makes their own homemade goodies.

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  Every year the day after Valentine's, I go and get all the Necco hearts I can on clearance. Then I proceed to overdose on them. I'm addicted. I can admit it. I even contacted the Necco company to see if I could get them any other time of the year(I couldn't...sigh).

  I will be stopping today to get some Necco wafers.

  Mandette
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  What's Your Favorite "Goody"?

  by minimus in

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  milk chocolate covered raspberries or cherries.

  that and milk chocolate raisins.....the stuff you get from a place that makes their own homemade goodies.

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  Gently Feral and Horrible Life??

  YES!! Necco wafers....not only do I like flavored chalk but they have wonderful wonderful memories attached to them. That's probably half of it...

  OH and at Valentine's Day, Necco makes conversation hearts that are oh so yummy!!!!!!! It HAS to be Necco conversation hearts,,,,Brach's are nasty!!!

  So is this better for a favorite goody? A Margarita on the rocks with a top shelf tequila!!

  Mandette
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  Fluff for Bath and Body Works fans

  by restrangled in

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  just went and picked up the scented oil called "evergreen" and am using it in their burner.

  it is delicious!

  it smells like christmas cookies and fresh pine trees rolled into one.

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  Elizabeth'sEmbellishments.com ..I found Botanique on that site....

  Mandette
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  Fluff for Bath and Body Works fans

  by restrangled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just went and picked up the scented oil called "evergreen" and am using it in their burner.

  it is delicious!

  it smells like christmas cookies and fresh pine trees rolled into one.

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  I wasn't able to paste link but type in Botanique Candles in your search engine.......

  Mandette