Strawberry Ice Cream. I don't like either, on their own, but together, it's heaven.
La Capra
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marshmallow fluff
by joelbear in.
what's good with marshmallow cream on it?.
my favorite is mushed bananas.
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Northern CA Flooding
by lonelysheep in.
everyone out there, when you can, will you please let us know if you're ok amongst the flooding and mudslides!!
purza?
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La Capra
I live in some foothills, not too near any creeks or tributaries, so me and the property is fine. I worry about the wind more. Lots of big trees around here. It's dry tonight, but come tomorrow with another big storm and another high tide, it will be pretty bad. The lower river (Gurneville area of the Russian River) was evacuated early this afternoon.
Last time the weather conspired to flood us out, I was a senior in high school and we missed school for a week, but my parents lost a car to the Napa River. (No one was in hurt. The car was parked at the dealership, awaiting service...)
Stay dry, everyone.
Shoshana
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Have you ever said " Happy Hanukkah" to a Jew?
by moshe inwe went out to lunch today and when the server brought our check he wished us a merry christmas.
my six year old daughter piped up " we celebrate hanukkah".
when the server returned he couldn't get out a " happy hannukah" - he stumbled for words- finally said something about a happy holiday.
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La Capra
Moshe,
Have you considered this: Perhaps they are worried that to say our holiday greeting, it would offend. Sort of like if you haven't been confirmed Catholic, you aren't supposed to take communion in the Catholic Church? What if Jews were offended by gentiles offering us good wishes of the Jewish-type...I bet that's what they are worried about. You know your neighbor is a perfectly polite woman. She wasn't sure if saying it would offend-I bet that's why she stumbled.
Happy Night Two to you.
Shoshana
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Have you ever said " Happy Hanukkah" to a Jew?
by moshe inwe went out to lunch today and when the server brought our check he wished us a merry christmas.
my six year old daughter piped up " we celebrate hanukkah".
when the server returned he couldn't get out a " happy hannukah" - he stumbled for words- finally said something about a happy holiday.
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Journal of Church and State: WT NO-BLOOD EXPOSE'
by AndersonsInfo in(baylor university, waco, tx) an essay entitled, "jehovah's witnesses, blood transfusions, and the tort of misrepresentation," found in the autumn issue of baylor universitys prestigious journal of church and state, published december 13, 2005, exposes the vulnerability of jehovahs witnesses religious organization to massive claims for compensation because of the religions misrepresentation of the medical risks of blood transfusions.
this milestone essay critically examines one of the religions main publications for teaching their children and new recruits about their blood beliefs, how can blood save your life?
the peer-reviewed essay details many misrepresentations of medical facts, which the religion partly relies on to support its blood prohibition, thus denying its members from making fully informed medical decisions.
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La Capra
As of 12/14 a.m. This article has not made it to the two powerhouse internet-based research sites, LexisNexis or Westlaw. Since I could not actually find the Journal of Church and State as a Law Review, I tried shepardizing the Molko case. Somelaw review articles that cite Molko involve JWs (to be printed and read when have the next two weeks off). The current article was not to be found.
Shepardizing is a search that turns up ALL THE OTHER CASES (articles and statutes) that cite the case. So if a law review article cites the Molko case, then a shepardization should turn up that law review article. If the Journal of Church and State does not make its articles available to LexisNexis or Westlaw, it is unlikely that anyone in a position to take it seriously would take it seriously.
Constitutional issues surrounding church and state are a hot button issue for the federal courts right now. However, if this journal is not on Lexis or Westlaw the lawyers who clerk for federal justices won't find them.
Law review articles are never considered legal authority. However, there is nothing stopping a lawyer from borrowing the arguments from an article, relying on similar analysis of facts to the legal precedent cited in the article. Molko is good law on the issue of misrepresentation by a church, so good tort awyers (with clever law clerks) will be able to lift these arguments, and will at least get past summary judgment (which prompts the settlement dialogues...).
Shoshana
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Journal of Church and State: WT NO-BLOOD EXPOSE'
by AndersonsInfo in(baylor university, waco, tx) an essay entitled, "jehovah's witnesses, blood transfusions, and the tort of misrepresentation," found in the autumn issue of baylor universitys prestigious journal of church and state, published december 13, 2005, exposes the vulnerability of jehovahs witnesses religious organization to massive claims for compensation because of the religions misrepresentation of the medical risks of blood transfusions.
this milestone essay critically examines one of the religions main publications for teaching their children and new recruits about their blood beliefs, how can blood save your life?
the peer-reviewed essay details many misrepresentations of medical facts, which the religion partly relies on to support its blood prohibition, thus denying its members from making fully informed medical decisions.
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La Capra
Has anyone found a LexisNexis or Westlaw citation yet?
Shoshana
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why disfellowshipped?
by knothead34 inas a new unbaptized publisher, i would really like to know why some of you were disfellowshipped if you don't mind sharing your stories.
thanks.
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La Capra
I can see I hit some sort of nerve with you, knothead. You sound so angry. Why would something someone who knows nothing about you upset you so? I guess some people are good at never offering their opinion. Not me. Don't fret about our opinions. When you engage in an anonymous discussion on a free discussion board, you get what you pay for.
I hope the link I posted is helpful to your search. I think it was directly on point. But where are my manners? You're welcome for the link.
Shoshana
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why disfellowshipped?
by knothead34 inas a new unbaptized publisher, i would really like to know why some of you were disfellowshipped if you don't mind sharing your stories.
thanks.
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La Capra
If you want to know about others' personal experiences, you may find some insight from this link.http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/32/78540/1.ashx
You are already living a double life and a lie. If your book study leader, or the congregation leaders knew you were reading the information on this site, associating with known apostates, and worse, posting here as well, you too would be "discarded." And it would be hard to show you didn't do these things with "greed," since you keep coming back to this board and the thread specifically solicits association with disfellowshipped persons. If it were me, I would find the cognitive dissonance in your current position unbearable. It takes being able to suppress and sublimate that conflict to be a good witness. I would think that even if you thought the WTBTS was the best thing going religion-wise, you would never be truly at peace when you were committing an intentional and premeditated disobedience that would result in your ejectment if you were caught.
Hopefully there are other endeavors in your life that you find interesting and fulfilling (like a career, family, or surfing the net...)
I will pray that you abandon them before they can reject you. You deserve a religion you can follow in peace and with which you can disagree openly without consequence. Many other religions have that.
Shoshana
(edited to correct a verb conjugation, while I still could)
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why disfellowshipped?
by knothead34 inas a new unbaptized publisher, i would really like to know why some of you were disfellowshipped if you don't mind sharing your stories.
thanks.
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La Capra
More importantly, you should be asking the person you have been studying with why people get disfellowshipped, and what happens to them if they are. You should ask if a person can get disfellowshipped for talking to a disfellowshipped person, or if a person can get disfellowshipped for disagreeing with doctrine and talking about it. If a person will be shunned if they simply don't want to be a Jehovah's Witness anymore, even if they don't do anything which would have warranted being shunned if they hadn't been baptized first.
Before you contract with the WTBTS by getting baptized be very certain you are willing to live with the results if you "breach" your agreement with them. If you never get baptized, then, you will not be subject to their control. Please visit this site often, and read all about all the tragic and sad tales that come from that religion.
You don't say how you came to be a "new unbaptized publisher" at the age of 34. If you do not already have a spouse, and you are hoping to find one in this cult, your odds are low.
I myself disassociated because when I sought a secular education (four-year college with the goal of a teaching certificate), I started to get ignored by most in the congregation, despite my proper conduct (in contrast to others' may age in the congregation). I realized the love in the congregation was conditional, and it was simply obvious that the religion was not the sole conduit to the divinity, or if it was, then God was not Love.... Also, as an intelligent and capable female, many of my abilities were rejected, ridiculed, or simply ignored so that the males could look better. I didn't think Jehovah would create women with the purpose that men could cut off their noses despite their faces, and not make use of their talents simply because they didn't come equipped with a penis.
I think it might be negligent on your part to go door-to-door seeking converts to this religion if you are not aware of the reasons potential converts could get kicked out of it. You should know what you are selling.
Please do not get baptized.
Shoshana
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And Poof-It Was Gone
by La Capra infunny thing happened during my first year of law school.
i developed a little bump on my left wrist about this time of year-while i was preparing for my first round of exams.
it was not painful and i attributed it to the keyboard on my ibook (on which i could type fast-as-lightening) and the queen-sized blanket i had knitted the previous spring (which in and of itself prompted an epiphany that i probably could be doing something more productive with my time than knitting-like get a doctorate).. my bump accompanied me through my first, second and third year of law school, and into the final and fourth year.
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Funny thing happened during my first year of law school. I developed a little bump on my left wrist about this time of year-while I was preparing for my first round of exams. It was not painful and I attributed it to the keyboard on my ibook (on which I could type fast-as-lightening) and the queen-sized blanket I had knitted the previous spring (which in and of itself prompted an epiphany that I probably could be doing something more productive with my time than knitting-like get a doctorate).
My bump accompanied me through my first, second and third year of law school, and into the final and fourth year. And as it wasn't painful, and it didn't interfere with any of my range of motion or any activities, I decided to wait until after the bar exam (July 2006) to deal with it. You see night-program law school while working full time leaves very little time to keep up with the momentum of one's existence.
People told me it was an accumulation of calcium, or it was a ganglion cyst, and that there was nothing to worry about unless it started to hurt. And so I didn't worry. And besides, it sort of kept me company in my "suffering' through law school. I could bend my hand and the bump would jut out-a shy, but ever present reminder that I had not escaped law school unscathed.
Until this morning. I awoke at my usual time of 5 a.m. and, for some reason, failed to turn on any lights before walking towards the kitchen to start the coffee. And I tripped. I tripped over some things I left on the floor of the living room before I went to bed last night. I was able to maintain some balance and slow my fall, but alas, there was no escaping the inevitable, I was going down. Gravity is so predictable.
Remarkably, I was basically uninjured, in any way. I came to my final resting place with my chin landing relatively softly on the carpet. I was already muttering "that was close" before I climbed back up to my former dignity and tried to save face in front of my dog. I expect a couple of bruises on my shins, where I banged them on the way down.
About an hour after the fall, while I sat at the kitchen table studying defenses to equitable remedies, I instinctively bent my wrist to acknowledge my partner in crime, and IT WAS GONE! I must have banged that exact part of my wrist on something when I fell-and ruptured the cyst. My wrist is a little tender, but only when I bent it backwards (as my friend said, "then don't do that"). I checked in with a nurse friend who assured me that so long as my movement was relatively normal, there was no tingling, numbness or coldness, that there was no need to seek medical attention. She told me that these things used to be called bible cysts because people banged bibles on them to rupture them. And finally she told me that this type of thing does not warrant postponing my Remedies exam on Tuesday. (Yeah, it's true, I was considering getting a doctor's note...)
But now, after three years with my little friend, it's gone, and I think I miss it. And for all of you that wake up one day and decide to go to law school....all the other typical warnings notwithstanding, befriending symptoms of repetitive strain injury is just one of the milder manifestations of craziness that law school produces. And writing stories about it as a study avoidance technique is another.
Shoshana