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  10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong

  by avishai in

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  10 reasons why gay marriage is wrong.

  01) being gay is not natural.

  real americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.. .

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  Jankyn

  That was a hoot, Avi. Thanks for the chuckle.

  Jankyn
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  A book list for recovery

  by Lady Lee in

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  i am posting a list of some of the books that i have that some of you may find helpful.

  please feel free to add any books that you may have found helpful or think might be helpful to others.

  lerner, h.g.. dance of deception.

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  Another vote for Who Wrote the Bible? by Friedman.

  Also, The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses by Joy Castro (I just read it; it's great).

  Along those lines, but about the Mormons: Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith by Martha Beck.

  Fiction, but interesting: By Way of Water by Charlotte Gullick.

  Jankyn
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  Were You Ever Drunk or High At A Meeting Or In Service?

  by minimus in

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  an elder in our hall used to drink his wine before evening meetings regularly, and on more than a few occasions was "buzzed" and laughing up on the platform while giving a talk.

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  Yep. As a rebellious teenager, often the only way I could get through the meeting was to have smoked up before-hand.

  So here's a funny one. I used to store my dope (rolled up joints) in a Sucrets tin (for those who don't remember Sucrets, they were a throat lozenge that came in a sort of Altoids-like tin; like Altoids, they had a very strong smell). I stored the joints in the bottom, put the wax paper over them, and the second layer was Sucrets.

  I can remember sitting in meetings between my mother and grandmother and passing Sucrets to them, with joints right underneath! And they had no idea what I was doing...I just seemed like such a mellow, happy kid.

  Jankyn, 19 years clean and sober; 26 years free of the Tower
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  do you resent your parents for bringing you into the WTS?

  by kid-A in

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  for those born into the wts, do you ever feel resentment towards your folks for forcing this upon you?

  i went through a stage of strong resentment and anger, but no longer feel this way.

  i think they sincerely believed they were acting in my best interests.

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  Mouthy, bless your heart! Your post filled up an empty space in me. It's what I'd always hoped to hear from my own mother, and from my late grandmother.

  I know that, like you, they thought they were offering me paradise. They didn't intend to harm me.

  Love,

  Jankyn
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  The newest identity thieves: PARENTS?!!

  by loveis in

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  just when you think you've heard it all....... .

  http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/banking/financialprivacy/p77623.asp.

  the newest identity thieves: parents.

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  Oh, yeah, I've heard of this. I used to be a cop, and it happens all the time. The other one that's wild is when someone has their privileges to register a vehicle taken away because of DUI, so they register the car in their children's name. We once busted a guy for his eleventh DUI, and the car was registered to his 3-year-old son.

  Then there are the folks with interlock devices on the ignition (that's the breathalzyer that won't let you start your car if you're drunk) who had their kids blow in the valve for them.

  But the wildest was the guy who trained his golden retriever to blow in the valve. Talk about cruelty to animals!

  Jankyn
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  did you escape BEFORE baptism?

  by kid-A in

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  i am of the "born into it but got out of it before baptism class"......listening to so many of the horror stories on this site, i often feel like we are the 'lucky ones'..... we realized at a very young age how wrong and absurd this belief system was and ran away before making the psychological investment of baptism while simultaneously avoided the disastrous consequences of getting df'd......are we the minority here???

  just curious!

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  Yup. Born into it and avoided the big dunk, although the pressure got hairy-er from about 13 on...fortunately, I was such a wild child by 16 that they stopped asking. The good news is that I'm only partially shunned. The bad news is that I'm only partially shunned.

  Jankyn
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  Happy 60th Birthday Mulan!

  by Princess in

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  today is the big day!

  mom is in vegas with my dad, oldest brother and his wife.

  she told me she was bringing her laptop so post your birthday greetings below.. .

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  (Belated) happy birthday, Mulan! And remember, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas (unless you'd care to tell all?)

  Jankyn
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  crime statistics and roe vs. wade connection?

  by onintwo in

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  stepdaughter came home from first day of school.

  at dinner she presented an idea she'd heard.

  goes something like this: during the seventies and eighties the crime rate was still on the rise.

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  The UCR gives a variety of labels for the different types of crime (example: Assault, simple; Assault, serious; Assault with a weapon; Assault with a firearm). The leeway comes in on whether to classify, say, an assault as "simple" or "serious"; whether to classify a bb gun as a "weapon" or a "firearm." Also, "Assault with a weapon" is intended to mean anything from a baseball bat to a switchblade, but I've seen officers classify someone who picked up their keys as using a "weapon."

  Usually in classifying, you'd go with whatever the charge was, but that is often altered by the DA when pleading down (get a guy to plead guilty to simple assault rather than go to trial for serious assault).

  Then there's the leeway given in charging. Some campus police will charge sexual assaults as simple assaults, both so that they "don't ruin some kids life" and so that they will keep their rate of sexual assault down (these things are reported to parents).

  Whoever's filling out the form gets to decide how to classify the crime. You can classify a burglary, for instance, as a theft, which moves it down on the level of seriousness (difference: a theft from a residence is when they take a bike out of your driveway or backyard; a burglary is when they break into your house and is more serious both because of the intent involved and because of the risk to people inside).

  I generally give crime statistics very little credence, because the reporting is so subjective. In fact, I'd guess that most sociological statistics have the same problem.

  Jankyn
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  Hamster-powered phone charger

  by Elsewhere in

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  lol... now why didn't i think of this!

  http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1513938.html.

  hamster-powered phone charger.

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  A very cool idea. And perhaps the Brits on board here can tell us how their grading system works, because I suspect that "C" and "D" don't mean the same thing in this instance that it would in a U.S. school.

  Jankyn
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  Houstonians being affected by the Hurricane.

  by Daunt in

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  from the different houstonians i talk to, many of them are showing some hostility towards the new orleans refugees.

  many of my associates say that many businesses are being bought out and being replaced with new orlean ran businesses, and many other people worry about new orlean's crime history and how that would affect houston.

  i'm trying to volunteer at the astrodome hopefully (parents are jws so everything volunteering for a group is terrible) but i was just wondering how other people felt about the raised emotions of the refugees from new orleans and how that will affect other people.

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  Jankyn

  It's not just Houstonians that are going to be affected. I rec'd this message yesterday, and found it extremely sobering:

  Over 1 Million Homeless, Unemployed, Wandering the South...In the next few hours thousands more are going to die due to rising flood waters from the breached levees, and due to being trapped in attics without food and water.
  
  Over 1 million people are now refugees --homeless, without jobs, without means to provide for their subsistence, and wandering the South for months.
  
  There will be huge numbers of uninsured people seeking medical care for the inevitable health crisis that is coming. Hundreds of thousands will lose their medical health insurance because they lost their jobs. Disease will follow those exposed to the toxic and contaminated floodwaters.
  
  Tens of thousands of displaced children will need to enroll in new school districts.
  
  These people have lost everything except their debt which will follow them wherever they go. They have houses to pay for which no longer exist. Flood damage is likely not covered by most homeowners policies, which means no homeowners insurance proceeds to pay off the mortgage debt still owing. It's the same with car loans, not to mention credit card debt. Bankruptcy is likely the only choice for the great majority who have nothing; with the complete losses suffered, they will qualify under the new, harsher bankruptcy laws.
  
  Access to bank accounts will be delayed. Mail will pile up somewhere outside the city, and take months to deliver.
  
  The mental health of a million people who will examine what could have been done and what was done, what was communicated by their government officials and what was not disclosed, and who will continue under extreme stress for months if not years, will be endangered.
  
  The incredible numbers of deaths will be stunning, and the burying of bodies without identification since there is no way to preserve them and stop the spread of disease will result in no closure for some families. They will never know for sure what happened to their loved ones. For those who've lost everything, how will they pay the funeral and burial costs -- especially when they cannot be buried in the New Orleans area because of standing water?
  
  AND IT ALL WILL AFFECT EVERY CITIZEN IN THIS COUNTRY.
  
  There will be gasoline shortages. Commerce travelling up and down the Mississippi River will be affected. The prices of all commodities will rise. Housing prices will rise, and in some areas (particularly the central U.S.), will become scarce. Families will be overcrowded as they take in displaced relatives and friends who are in shock and without means.
  
  State and local governments will have to accommodate an overwhelming influx of homeless at a time they are already stretched to the limit.
  
  Interest rates will go up on everything as a result of loss of collateral assets and defaults on payment of outstanding loans. Credit card companies, on suffering these unexpected losses, will become more even more aggressive in their collections methods.
  
  The $26 billion quoted as insurance costs is substantially less than the real costs from loss of homes and infrastructure which were uninsured. Add in deductibles of 25% or more where there is insurance coverage.
  
  None of this even takes into account the cost of rebuilding New Orleans, Gulfport and Biloxi, and restoring essential services of electricity, gas, water, sewer, and levees.
  
  THERE IS A REAL QUESTION WHETHER NEW ORLEANS WILL BE REBUILT.
  
  This is already a regional disaster covering hundreds of miles of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida -- all competing for available government aid, which is already limited. AND THE HURRICANE SEASON IS NOT CLOSE TO BEING OVER.
  
  Within a very short period of time, this will be a national disaster of unprecedented proportions. WE ARE ALL IN THIS DISASTER IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.