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  Walmart Slashing Clothes, Not Prices

  by cameo-d in

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  at a time when so many in this country are more needy than they ever have been....... .

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  at the back entrance on 35th street, awaiting trash haulers, were bags of garments that appear to have never been worn.

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  So, the story is focusing on H&M clothing stores and has a byline on Walmart. Which has one store destroying clothing. H&M apparently is doing it more. And, the customers of H&M, who are young, hip and faddish, are outraged. Customers of Walmart shrug their collective shoulders.

  Yet your thread is about WALMART not H&M.

  Why? Because so many Obama loving, Walmart hating (yet they shop there anyway, because their sister used to work there) types might see your thread and comment?

  Pathetic.

  http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/01/hm_promises_not_to_destroy_and.html
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  How can you test whether you have broken free of the mind control

  by cantleave in

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  it's been less than a year but i think i am nearly there.. i can read through a mag or sit through a meeting and instantly see through the bs.. i can watch the news without thinking is this a part of the composite sign.. i see people for what they are without trying to pigoen hole them.. i'm not worried what the elders think.. however,.

  i still show too much interest if i see something about a jw in the media.. i notice kingdom hall if driving through a new place.. i still want to stop and say hello if i see a group of witnesses on the street.. how do you guys and gals measure the progress of your exit from the cult?.

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  I drive by a KH about 3 times a week. I look it over, sometimes I think "I wonder if they have security cameras and if they would see me torch the place?"

  Other times I drive by and don't even realize I have. Other times I have seen the cars sitting there during the day. All the pioneer vehicles. I feel sorry, then just shake my head. Then I wonder if they have security cameras and if they'd see me torch the place.

  So, *I* would say I've broken free.
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  Is this our fate?

  by paul from cleveland in

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  is there fate?

  if so, are we fated to be the bad evil slave?.

  if the bible prophecies that there will be an 'evil slave that falls away and beats his fellow slaves because the master is delaying' doesn't that mean that someone has to fulfill that prophecy otherwise the prophecy would be false?

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  Parable schmarable.

  Evil slave. Weevil slave.

  Is it our fate to be the bad one? Do most people have no choice but be bad because of all the prophecies, that were made before they were even born, said they'd be bad?

  why can't I have God's spirit and be born again too?

  There is, probably, a big mega-baptist church on a corner near your home, and they can help you with this question. For a mega donation.
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  phrases I dislike

  by John Doe in

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  pat of oleotelling competitors they better "bring it"talk to the hand

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  "It's all good"

  "To be honest"

  "No offense"

  "Don't get me wrong"

  "With all due respect"

  "At the end of the day"

  "Going forward"

  "Fairly unique"

  "I personally"

  "At this moment in time"

  "It's not rocket science"
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  MINNESOTA VIKINGS !!!

  by elder-schmelder in

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  it is not easy to be a mn vikings fan !!.

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  Go Bears!!!

  It has been worse being a Bears fan this year.
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  Do you have good memories of associating with JWs?

  by asilentone in

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  NO.

  Like all of these threads, any group you "associate" with will have some people who are *nice*. However, the dubs are trained to shun you. How many of you are able to call up your old JW friends and just hang with them? Like, today? Or on this coming Friday when just about everyone will have the day off? Are you going to call your old JW friends/pals and wish them "Happy Holidays"?

  Yeah, thought not.

  Which is why I have zero good memories of associating with them.

  Which goes to the qestion:

  Associating with JWs? What happened to hanging out with them? What happened to the true friendships? To being friends with JWs, etc. Being in a mind controlling cult is the whole problem being in the JWs. You "Associate" with people. You aren't really friends with them. True friends don't dump and shun over a disagreement with them over dogma.

  Only people in a cult do. People they "associate" with.

  Sad.
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  Where did this avatar come from?

  by Gregor in

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  it just showed up this am.

  i guess you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can't pick your avatar!.

  it does sort of look like me though..

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  Must hear J. W.christmas carol.

  by koolaid-man in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cjmrwulzas.

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  If God Truly Cared About People Wouldn't He DO SOMETHING By Now?

  by minimus in

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  i know what the witness response is to this but what do you say now?.

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  Why exactly would anyone want God to get involved in this?

  We've come full circle.

  The New System and Resurrection. Back to the KH.
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  Wouldn't the death of three suffice?

  by AK - Jeff in

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  why would a so-called 'loving' god put mankind through millenia of time, untold suffering, death to billions of mankind, all over the sin of a naked lady eating an apple without permission?.

  how could his need to 'fulfill justice' or whatever theological argument is presented to justify such time to pass before correction - ever equal the pain it has forced mankind to endure?.

  why did he not just kill one man, one woman, and one snake-imitating fallen angel - wipe the slate - and start fresh?

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  Sylvia, God has his sinless Someone give His life to blot out the error of the first parents. (This is according to the *witnesses* who documented it decades later. For the record, unless I write it down, I can't remember what I ate for dinner or how long I jogged on Monday, but, *those* events are not historical; I can see why they waited decades. They really wanted to get it right, right?) So, if it was supposed to blot out the errors, etc, why didn't it blot out the errors of all future generations?

  Why let future generations be imperfect and why let all the pain and suffering go on and on?

  Why no other *signs* from God or His Someone?