Yay! My hubby and I (40 and 38) are freshmen too. We love college! We have taken some online courses and enjoyed them. Lots of reading!! Congrats on your new life
Lunatic Faith
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Hey, Everyone! Guess What!
by FollowedMyHeart ini am officially a 34-year-old college freshman!
woo hoo!!!!!.
due to my current situation, i am taking on-line classes for the summer semester.. i am finally getting this college thing going!
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Masturbation has medical benefits
by Lunatic Faith inha!
i knew it!!
just another ploy to make us miserable and frustrated.
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Man, I lived and breathed Mtv in the 80's and never saw that Cyndi Lauper video. I have heard the song but as a naive JW kid, I never would've gotten the masturbation theme.
Thanks for the education, Vamp!
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Your wedding day belongs to the elders
by fade_away ingetting married means you get your own special day.
a day where the couple getting married gets to call the shots and decide who is gonna be invited, who is gonna be the maid of honor, who is gonna be the best man, how you want everything to look and what music you want to play.....unless of course you're a j-dub.. i got married last year, and no matter how hard i tried, i couldn't decide anything on that day.
i have an amazing friend who has always been there for me and my family.
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That's why I refused to get married in the hall. I had too many friends whose weddings were taken over by "well-meaning" friends. There were many reasons for avoiding the hall: I've seen weddding photos ruined by the flourescent lights (everybody looked yellow); I did not want an open invitation to my wedding, but only people who really mattered to me; and I refused to walk down the aisle to "Marriage is Gods Arrangement" or "Shulammite Maiden" or "Loyal Love". I wanted music that actually meant something to me--so I chose the Enya song from the first Lord of the Rings movie.
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Masturbation has medical benefits
by Lunatic Faith inha!
i knew it!!
just another ploy to make us miserable and frustrated.
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P.S. Hilarious cartoon by the way ! Couldn't stop laughing ! Looked like they picked a Sumo wrestler to entertain those ladies. Pretty bizarre. Peace out, Mr. Flipper
It is from an episode of Family Guy. The fat guy and the red head are the parents of the girl in the pink hat. They are trying to show their support for their daughters crush on the nudist boy next to her. Peter just won at Yahtzee and got a little too excited. Here is a clip of the scene:
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Masturbation has medical benefits
by Lunatic Faith inha!
i knew it!!
just another ploy to make us miserable and frustrated.
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Ha! I knew it!! Just another ploy to make us miserable and frustrated.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20323
Masturbation calms restless leg syndrome
- 00:01 01 April 2011 by Helen Thomson
- For similar stories, visit the The Human Brain and Love and Sex Topic Guides
Too much of it will make you go blind - or so you might have been told. But for some, masturbation might have a real clinical benefit: it can ease restless leg syndrome (RLS). The insight could provide sweet relief for the 7 to 10 per cent of people in the US and Europe who suffer from the condition.
RLS is a distressing neurologic disorder characterised by an urge to move the legs. It is usually associated with unpleasant sensations in the lower limbs such as tingling, aching and itching.
The exact causes of RSL have yet to be pinpointed, but brain autopsies and imaging studies suggest one contributing factor is an imbalance of dopamine - a hormonal messenger that, among other things, activates the areas of the brain responsible for pleasure. It is suspected that dopamine imbalance is responsible for some of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
Drugs that increase dopamine have been shown to reduce symptoms of RLS when taken at bedtime and are considered the initial treatment of choice.
Although such drugs provided significant improvement of symptoms for a 41-year-old man with RLS, he found an even better treatment - complete relief after masturbation or sex.
J. Arthur
Luis Marin and colleagues at the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil, who report on the novel treatment this month in Sleep Science, speculate that the release of orgasm-related dopamine might play a role in the alleviation of symptoms.
An orgasm provides one of the biggest natural blasts of dopamine available to us. When Gert Holstege at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and colleagues scanned the brains of ejaculating men, he said the resulting images resembled scans of heroin rushes.
This temporary increase in dopamine may act in a similar way to drugs that mimic the hormone, granting the man in question enough relief from his restless legs to allow him a full night's sleep.
While the proverbial five-knuckle shuffle has already been shown to protect men against prostate cancer and ease hay fever, researchers have yet to discover any detrimental side effects to the visual system.
In your face! In your face! Now where are my batteries...?
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She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me...........
by miseryloveselders inshe loves me,.
she loves me not.. thats a good lookin sandwich though right?
the new quiznos chicken bacon dipper with a zesty side of cheese sauce.
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Lunatic Faith
Falcon-That's great! And the visual image is priceless!!
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If this gets explained at all to the rank and file, I think they will do what they always do when science comes up with a date for relics: claim science is way off in their estimation and promote the idea that the book was "apparently" published after the Christian church apostatized (somewhere around the Counsel of Nicea).
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Anonymity and Mind Control
by Ding inted dencher wrote a book in 1966 entitled, "why i left jehovah's witnesses.".
one of his chapters is entitled: "effect of anonymity on the mind.".
he points out that the wts goes out of its way to take away jws' individual identities:.
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Thanks for sharing Ding! The damage of conformity and anonymity occurred to me not too long ago. It was my own mental health that finally forced me to reconsider further association. But last years District Convention drove this point home when one of the speakers criticized "the friends" for "making God's of their bellies" by seeking individuality and leaving the WTS to "find themselves". He spoke about the importance of bringing our minds in line with Jahs organization and perfectly adhering to its requirements like humble sheep. Not allowing ourselves to think too highly of ourselves, but humbly submitting to "direction".
I felt like someone had slapped me across the face. I had heard that stuff all my life and did my best to adhere to it. But now I realized that was why I was screwed up--and not me only but the vast majority of JW's have no self esteem and are convinced their salvation rests upon submission to the collective. The term "sheep" was no longer a loving term but one of subjection and humiliation. That was the last time I have been to a JW gathering.
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Water Canopy? Huh?
by Mr. Falcon in*** w80 11/15 p. 23 par.
4 jehovah of armies to the rescue!
the fact that today we do not have a vast water canopy suspended high up in space and all around our globe and thus blocking direct sunlight, moonlight and starlight is because jehovah saw what was going on down here upon his terrestrial footstool and took action.
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Great thread! This has always been one of those teachings that didn't make sense, but I found it interesting so I believed in it. But I always wondered why Jehovah would have put that canopy up there unless he was planning on deluging the world and killing his creation. Since the Bible teaches that would be unjust on God's part then he must have made a mistake by putting that up there. Like an experiment gone wrong, which also flies in the face of everything JW"s believe.
I remember bringing this up to my brother once and he said Jehovah put it there temporarily to help spread the garden worldwide (greenhouse effect) and then he probably planned on gradually diminishing it. I thought the explanation made a small amount of sense, but how the hell could anyone see the moon and stars. Behind such a canopy they couldn't be considered 'lesser luminaries', they would have been flat out invisible!
I have heard the friends argue as to whether another water canopy would be established in paradise. I remember thinking about how depressed people get in places like Seattle when the cloud cover only occasionally lifts. How are we supposed to be gloriously happy when blue skies, the moon and stars are only a distant memory. How depressing!
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Hard to NOT have the last word - let them hang themselves
by Mad Sweeney ini recently had a jw "friend" (the last non-relative one that has any contact with me at all - and it is only electronic) post a typically cultish statement as a comment on my fb page.
there is no good way to respond without going all logical apostate on him.
i know the dubism is idiotic enough on its own to discredit itself and him, but i am still fighting the urge to respond and clearly show how ridiculous the statement was.
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The WT Society does an excellent job of installing defense mechanisms in the minds of their drones.
This is an observation that has been going through my mind relentlessly. I am in awe that people can accomplish this kind of mind control without taking some sort of a fascist class.
