Also, I apologize for my hubby's comments on the other thread. He had been reading some lately here and still is quite furious.
He's been told he needs to create an account for himself if he wants to comment further.
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I don't know if I've been blind for the last 3 years on this board, as Still said, you see things differently when your mind has been opened to different viewpoints.
But I've really had it driven home to me the double standards for believers:
They do not hold themselves to the same rules of debate. In fact, they set the rules and then don't have to abide by them.
They have special persmission to be offensive, but non-believers must watch their P's and Q's.
Excuse behaviour in fellow believers that they wouldn't tolerate in a non-believer.
I really have to say, what I've seen the last couple months on this board has been life-changing for me.
New Chapter, I know you've been accused of being arrogant and pushy, but I don't see that at all. You've been nothing but fair, reasonable and logical. Snarky, sometimes, yes......but we all are sometimes and I dont' believe it needs to be called out every time it happens.
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I tend to hover
Ahhhh, I was thinking perhaps you weren't house-trained yet.
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And the proof of my last point is just proved:
I was repeated told that I was calling people names.....so I did
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Mrs. J :
Think of it this way: belief is not based on facts or logic, it's based on emotions. Kinda hard to fight emotions.
I think this is the reason why believers here take ANY kind of disagreement as an attack on their person. Their beliefs are so tied in with their emotions that they are incapable of separating the two, and in some people they become almost incapable of rational thought.
The result is they take offense when none is intended.
The thinking becomes very childish and selfish now - "It doesn't matter if no offense was intended, it only matters how "I" perceive the disagreement. And "I" choose to perceive it as an attack on my person".
Now for the believer, the gloves are off and they feel justified to begin name-calling and cursing.
How do you respond to that? I don't know. The same way you respond to a 2 year old's temper tantrum, I guess.
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Horrid Time for Me
by Band on the Run inmy pain has been in remission.
i have a morphine pump.
pain broke through toward the end of the medication.
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palmtree67
I like you.
((( HUG )))
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Asthma
by elder-schmelder inhas there been an article on asthma lately?
my dad seems to have every sickness that the watchtower talks about.
now he has been walking around with an inhaler claiming to have asthma, so i figure there must have been an article about it.. .
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palmtree67
My mother is like this, too.
One time, someone asked me what her health issue was and I said, "What was on Oprah this week?"
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An Update
by Quendi ini've been away from the board for a while but thought i'd put my head in the doorway to say hello to all and give an update on what's going on with me.. i have been unemployed for nearly three years and finally had got to the end of my tether.
so, at the end of march, i left colorado, my home for the last thirty-one years, and returned to my family in alabama to regroup and recharge my batteries.
leaving colorado and the rockies was heartbreaking but i am grateful that i had a home to return to and didn't wind up on the streets.
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palmtree67
Good luck, Quendi.
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Anyone else excited about 'The Hunger Games'?
by sd-7 ini'm trying to figure out if i'm the only one.
it actually feels weird because i would assume this is geared at teenage girls, not, like...28.8 year old men.
but it seemed like an awesome adventure story, the best i've read apart from some of the truly great star wars novels (the best ones are largely written by matthew stover).
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palmtree67
I loved all 3 Hunger Games books, too.
If you liked them, I recommend "Blood Red Road" by Moira Young.
I'm half-way through it and enjoying it just as much as Hunger Games.
