that's the number for wallstreet's settlement for fleecing so many out of so much.
has it ever been that so few have screwed so many?
i know a few characters might see the inside of a country club correction facility (for a little while) but it makes me .
The 1.4 billion was just another business expense to these guys. The so called "perp walks" with corporate big wigs hand cuffed and being hauled off to jail in their expensive suites probably does more to deter these guys than any fines.
My 2 cents worth. Bug
iraqi prostitutes back on the streets after saddam
baghdad, april 29 (reuters) - um jenan used to wear gold jewellery, tight jeans and see-through blouses to attract vip clients to her apartment in baghdad -- until the masked men in black packed her into a minibus and drove her away.
when they laid out her body in front of her home the next day, she was dressed in loose-fitting sweat pants and a t-shirt.
One of Saddams sons used to demand school teachers bring pictures of their female students, aged 10 to 13, so he could pick out the ones he wanted for his personal pleasure. I don't care rather they find weapons of mass destruction or not, this creep, hopefully, is now dog meat. Bug
ok, just catching a little snippet of matt lauer's interview of madonna right now.
a few things come to mind.drop the fake ass british accentamerica is not interested in a "spiritual" pop starkaballah is just another religion, regardless of your argument that it is not.
(doesn't everyone say that their religion is not a "religion" but the "truth.
Madonna is one of those people who work at being dumb. She obviously has musical talent and, in my opinion, she should stick to singing. However, she is probably crying all the way to the bank over what I think. Bug
ok i saw it, the first girl heidi can across pretty well.
the redhaed looked slightly drugged, good they did not give her more than a second of time.
bill was good, as usual.
The piece did say that jws adimit this, but say elders are instructed to tell police , even if there is only 1 witness. Big lie
" In states that require the police be notified" Texas, where I live is one of those states, but Jesika tells me the WTS doesn't enforce this little rule. Bug
last week i got two emails from "russian businessmen".
they are complaining about the difficulty of doing business, due to the high taxes there.
so, they suggest a "workaround": they need to find people to privately ship merchandise to them.
Just remember one simple rule, if an offer is too good to be true, you can bet your bottom dollar it is. Bug
hi everyone, this is my first post.. i have come to this site for almost 2 months but have been too scared to post... don't really know what i'm scared of but i even set up a different hotmail account when i registered... anyway, i'm a 19/f who was raised a jw (baptised a year ago).
i was homeschooled, and basically had no communication with the "world" even though my father is an unbeliever.
my parents were divorced last year (unscriptual divorce from my jw mother).. and now i'm living with my dad and have not spoken to my mom, not because i have doubts about the truth (she doesn't know) but because she was a hypocrit and liar through the divorce.
Welcome to the forum. You will find many here who can offer all kinds of support and understanding.
Having said the above, Spice gave you some good advice. Have you thought of college, do you currently have a job ? These things will be a good learning experience, and help as far as meeting people and gaining friends. If you live in Texas we have some very supportive and intelligent folks who can help. Not that other areas do not, its just that I'm familiar with the Texas former witnesses. At any rate you have several avenues open to you, it's up to you to take advantage of them. Bug
about a month ago, xenawarrior, scootergirl and heaven sent us a gift certificate for calloway's gardens.
no special reason, other than the fact that they are the kindest people i know.
well as organized as i am (
Hey, the dogs, the kids and the tree look great!!!! Just kidding, the adults look good too. Bug
i made a post about sociologist rodney stark stating he said that ex member of a religious group arte the most reliable.
correction!
what stark said was that ex-members of a religious group are the most unreliable, with a few credible exceptions.
What Stark said was that ex-members of a religious group are the most unreliable
This brings up a question, just how reliable is Mr. Stark ??
i'm a 25 yr old female that was in the "organization from birth until about 18. my mom was babtized; dad was an unbeliever.
is there anyone else that can related to my background/situation that feels 100% meloncholocy and pessimistic about everything in this world?
i feel like when i was growing up, i was taught that, basically, i could not be a part of society.
Welcome to the board. You will find many different opinions here which is the way it should be. However, some may find this difficult to deal with as we've all spent time getting our opinion out of the Watchtower and didn't use any other source of information. So, listen to all the opinions expressed here and in the news media, and come to your own conclusions. You are obviously intelligent so this shouldn't be much of a problem for you.
Best wishes, Bug
in response to a previous post of mine about internet file sharing, a poster by the name of brad (anti-absolutist or something) told me that he's not suprised i "steal music files" as from my my previous posts he felt i'd been trying to steal the spirit out of this forum for a while now, and that he despised me more than jws, as my form of reasoning, he felt, was even more shallow than theirs.
admittedly i disagree with alot of posters here and will at times post pro jw posts as i see fit from my perspective.
some here choose not to answer any of my posts, some will and will mainly say i'm mis-informed to some extent, which is fine by me as that is what an open forum is about.
Scooby, we are dealing with human nature here. Almost all of us have a competitive side to us and when we see something we don't agree with, we engage in what is now being called "push back". Name calling and abusive language should not be tolerated and Simon has a long list of rules against this sort of behavior.Personally I don't think anyone is capable of "stealing the spirit of this board."
The Dixie Chicks, when they received a lot of push back, posed nude on the cover of a magazine. Perhaps if we took some shots (push back) at Xena, she might pose in a similar fasion. Bug
