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  Would you condone abortion?

  by haujobbz in

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  today i questioned my mother about the fact that she told me ?

  yrs ago how she lost 2 kids through a miscarriage but then later told me she aborted them,well i didnt know what to say, but then later questioned her about this i asked her why she did it, she told me that she was already bringing up me and my sister and financialy impossible to look after two more kids,well i didnt agree with that reason or any reason to kill the unborn she then said she wasnt in the truth then "huh what difference does that make".

  then she gave an illustration of reasons when you should condone abortion and it goes like this, if you were raped and later found out you were pregnant what would you do she seemed to say she would abort it,i said i wouldnt if that happened to my wife i said i would probably end up having it adopted,after all its better than murder.. how has this affected my familys view on abortion i wonder, well i have 5 sisters and 1 more brother,and already my brother in cold blood made his girlfriend abort hers due to the inconvienience,and also my older sister had hers aborted 2 yrs ago because the father didnt want to know with out a hint of regret,so im now starting to see a pattern in my family,whos to blame them or my mother as a role model.. so to cut a long story short do you think killing an unborn child is murder,would you do it under certain scenarios.

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  Maybe some of you are just plain selfish and should have been aborted

  What a christian attitude, very consistant too I might add--your parents must be so proud!
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  Oh Mother...

  by joannadandy in

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  i get a phone call at work today.

  i am very stressed, my boss has left, thus i am in charge.

  i had little to no sleep and was very cranky that i was left to blow up 200 balloons by myself.. on the phone is my mother.

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  HAHA Derek!

  I work in advertising. My job changes daily. Sometimes I strip plastic men of their clothing, RROW RRROW! Or I hang banners, or create signs to be put on displays, or count socks to make sure we have enough to run an ad, or I call and yell at newspaper people for not running the right ad, it goes on and on and varies daily. We have a giant 100th Anniversary deal going on and we are giving balloons out to kids. Somehow they figured this fell to the advertising department to handle, so there ya have it...
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  Born Again Christians

  by Celia in

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  something is bothering me.

  from time to time i watch two or three little boys, the sons of a young woman i know.

  i did again 2 days ago, as she needed to go to the mall with a friend for back-to-school shopping.

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  I have been to a few non-denominational born again woo-hoo jesus services myself. I have to TOTALLY agree with the JW's on Acid.

  I was actually told by more than a few members I was not singing, or rolling in the isles and that I was not really worshiping Jesus and bringing praise to his name. Oh well, to each his own, I am not going to blast any born-againers who post here, but I just can't fathom it myself. But that's me.

  My one crusade in life will be to never paint an entire group of people with the same brush. And I have met some very sweet individual Born Again people. However that being said (I know I am hijacking this thread, and I know I am going to get flamed for this) how come so few here extend that same non-sterotypical view to JW's? Sure I don't agree with the views, I think those views warp the individual mind, but I don't feel that makes those individuals bad, nor do I feel that all JW's are evil.

  Oh well, just struck me while I was reading this, sorry...

  As for the whole going to church on sunday or not going to the school, how awful! That education can be so conditional sometimes blows me away, but oh well. The nature of private schools is they get to do whatever they want to whom ever they want and they don't have to have the same standards as public schools. But now I am ranting on something else. Haha! I'm going to stop before I get three more tangents going here...
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  Oh Mother...

  by joannadandy in

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  i get a phone call at work today.

  i am very stressed, my boss has left, thus i am in charge.

  i had little to no sleep and was very cranky that i was left to blow up 200 balloons by myself.. on the phone is my mother.

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  *luara* I loves ya! I really do! You hit the nail on the head in more ways than one. Can you be my new mommie? No tattoos or haircuts for the kitties, I like them, they are my kitties too, no need to bring them into this. My mom has always been manipulative, you would think I would be used to it by now....

  NI--oh my god! You would sober cab?? For me!! That's the sweetest thing anyone has ever said!

  Ugly--on the contrary I don't expect unconditional love from my mom, her love has always been conditional on my behavior, my friends, my meeting attendance, my choice in clothes, entertainment. You name it, if I didn't do it they way she wanted, I would never hear the end of it. And when I would protest it was me being a bad and ungreatful child. It wasn't really that shocking. Like I said she has said things like this to me before, to my face, however, it's just always hard when you hear someone talking about you when they think you aren't there. To see the depth of their hate, disgust, or just true feelings about you--hurts. Probably because you realize they are not sugar coating it. They are saying it under the assumption that you will never hear it, which makes it seem all the more powerful and how they "really feel" if you will. I guess today was all about coming to terms with I am never going to be good enough in her eyes. I don't jump when she calls, I don't think the way she does, I don't like the way she does things, and she doesn't like the way I do things...and where do we come together on that??
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  Oh Mother...

  by joannadandy in

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  i get a phone call at work today.

  i am very stressed, my boss has left, thus i am in charge.

  i had little to no sleep and was very cranky that i was left to blow up 200 balloons by myself.. on the phone is my mother.

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  Maybe, you were both to blame. If I were you, I would apologize for being brusk with your mother

  Larc apparantly you missed it when I said:

  I do chalk it up to two pissy people talking to each other on a Friday morning

  And I am sorry, but I have to disagree, there is no appology needed on either side. As far as I am concerned the two offences balance each other out.
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  Bleep Poll: Fair turnabout

  by The Devil in

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  since bleep has posted his poll reguarding god i decided to post a poll on what afterlife torture bleep should recieve from yours truly.. here are your choices:.

  a. fire pit.

  b. frozen tombs.

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  I am all about the Ostrich lovin!

  Bleep, you said:

  I need more opinions to make a pie graph

  You do know you can't eat the pie graph right?
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  Reparations & Protest

  by Larry in

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  this weekend i'm going to dc for the reparation march.

  i know this is an highly volatile subject for some so i'm not even going to ask for opinions.

  but, for the record here's my stand - i'm for reparations based on principle.

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  Larry--I get what you are saying...I think it's funny when other people seem to read the word "reparations" and just go off. A few people obviously didn't read your whole post.

  Frankly I think reparations paid in the form of education is a great idea! (But then I am a future educator, and reap the benifits as well-hahaha!)

  Have you ever read any books by Jonathan Kozal? Savage Inequalities comes to mind.

  Oh yes and I must add:

  If there is one thing I have learnt from being in the BORG is that our opinions are relative. One day I'm willing to die for the BORG and the next day I want to kill myself for believing in the BORG. So our viewpoints change as our situations change. I also learned that every issue could be debated - nothing is absolute. We can quote books, peoples, experiments, data, articles, etc. to prove a point, but one set of 'facts' are just as good as the next. No matter what we believe, we can't stop the inevitable. We can debate for days but it's not going to change the movement(s).

  Beautiful! Very well said! Thanks so much for your posts!
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  A question

  by sundialer in

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  is it possible to love and be in love with two people at the same time?

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  But you're not doing anything wrong...that's what I am trying to point out. The heart is large, it has room for everyone. Don't obsess, just ride it and see what happens...
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  Oh Mother...

  by joannadandy in

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  i get a phone call at work today.

  i am very stressed, my boss has left, thus i am in charge.

  i had little to no sleep and was very cranky that i was left to blow up 200 balloons by myself.. on the phone is my mother.

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  Larc-not picking on ya, not being sullen or sarcasti either but:

  Hearing sullen, begrudging comments from one of my children sets me off.

  Is this true of anyone, or do you grin and bear it from other people, but let yourself be set off by your children?

  Goph, and Incense- You're right, it was minor but it did "set me off"

  This brings up another point I have always wondered about: why do we treat our family members the way we do? We take all kinds of crap from co-workers, friends, schoolmates, teachers, whatever. But the slightest provcation we lay into a family member...
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  Anybody Still playing Dreamcast

  by Legendary U.2.K. in

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  if you own a dc, you should already know that seganet is free till jan 1th 2003... so join me online for the following games: nfl2k1, nba2k1, 4x4evolution(servers is down right now), & ncaa2k2.....

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  My father didnt write it...if he had, it would have been much funnier...