You switched the topic from the original post. You are not prepared to hear a view that differs from yours. Original post: Man does a quick change without exposing his bits. Moved to: Kid strips off due to being previously abused. I sympathise, but we can't expect the rest of the world to adjust itself to our convenience. So kid is never allowed on the beach due to people being in swimwear?
Gargamel
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Inappropriate Behavior
by rebelfighter innow i know i am getting older or of the older generation.
i have had a very strange day with a lot of strange dealings with people with strange behavior today but this one incident was just over the top.
so i came out of a store in a busy shopping center.
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Inappropriate Behavior
by rebelfighter innow i know i am getting older or of the older generation.
i have had a very strange day with a lot of strange dealings with people with strange behavior today but this one incident was just over the top.
so i came out of a store in a busy shopping center.
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Gargamel
Maybe it's me but so long as he's not showing his tackle, I don't think it's a problem.
Mind you, when I was rough sleeping, I did sit in a launderette with just a towel on while my only clothes went through wash and tumble dry. It was a very large towel though so I was well covered. There was hardly anyone around either.
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The Sadness of the Poet
by compound complex ini feel a sadness so deep that friends wonder why my art and my blinds remain undrawn.. gone is the muse who promised me solacewhile guys played ball and climbed tall trees.. a blank canvas before me says, "here's your life, where has it gone?".
is it too late to become what imight have become .
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Gargamel
Good stuff CC. I like to play around with the written word sometimes. I'm currently writing my JW stuff and what happened after. It was traumatic, so I have a lot of breaks from it. That's when my mind wanders to poetry. Like most people who do it, I treat it as a hobby.
A good site I found is www.writingforums.com . I've learned a lot from the people there and, for the most part, it seems a friendly place. That doesn't stop some of the critique being forthright, exactly what I need as I prefer honesty.
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Why Do People Become Jehovah's Witnesses?
by minimus inbesides being raised in the religion , why do people become jws?
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With my parents, it's one story each. My mother was exposed to it as a child because my maternal grandparents were in it from young adulthood, I think (this would be shortly after WW1). My mother wasn't heavily involved as a youngster because my grandparents weren't pushy about it towards their kids - indeed, they appeared to become heavily disillusioned with it as they aged.
When I was very young, I recall major problems at home. I later understood that my father strayed outside the marriage with several women - and he drank a lot.
So, both parents were disillusioned with life generally, and sought a way to improve things. The first port of call wasn't the JWs though. My father's upbringing left him with negative feelings to the Church of England, and he wasn't too enamoured with more traditional churches. He even gave the Mormons a hearing, but I suspect the alcohol ban may have been a greater deterrent than anything doctrinal.
The JW's came onto the scene when my father asked an old drinking friend how he had turned his life around and repaired his marriage. Oh dear! It transpired that he had become a JW - and that is where the rot set in. I imagine that guilt did the rest, wanting to make amends to his parents-in-law for messing up their daughter.
It probably didn't help matters that my father was adopted in his first year, and only discovered this by accident (he found his adoption papers while looking through the family records as a kid). His step-parents never told him, and it only slipped out many years later that he was aware. So, I suppose he may have viewed the JWs as a quasi-family setup and it fulfilled something for him that had been missing.
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Dodgy poetry
by Gargamel init is a stretch to call my dodgy poetry 'entertainment' but i wasn't sure where else to put it.. .
self-fulfilling prophecy.
precipitation.
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Feeding Meat to Babies
Dear Father,
They called at our door,
Bibles in hand, proffering dreams
of a Promised Land,
where lion and lamb will lie with your children,
where no-one will die
and Spirit fulfils them; a time when angels
will dry every tear, and humankind
will no longer fear.
But when you asked how
this would come to pass,
and listened with bated breath to the answers,
they neglected to mention global disaster,
vengeful Creator, burdensome Master,
for whom you must slaughter original thought,
and be taught from the altar --
of ignorance.
I forgive you, for you know not what you do.
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Question for science geeks
by rebelfighter indo any of you know anything about prescription medications and their reactions?
the doctors cannot explain why but i react to everything they prescribe to the point that now all my doctors are attempting neutral remedies before medication.
tomorrow i am having surgery to drill a hole in my head to put in a titanium rod and we are doing local instead of general simply because it lessens the amount of needed drugs.
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Gargamel
I haven't read all the other responses. Also, I have no medical qualifications.
My first though was auto-immune issues, where the immune system treats too many things as an invading infection. In extreme situations, it has been known to do this to some of the body's own organs.
I know loads about this subject because I'm a window cleaner - so take it for what it's worth.
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Sun,moon, earth and mathematics .
by atomant injust thought id let you all in on some info i found on northeasttruth.com.
that magical moment where the moon blocks out the sun!
but only just enough to perfectly cover the suns disc, whilst still allowing us to see the corona of light and other electromagnetic forces radiating from it.. this only happens because the moon diameter is exactly 1/400th the size of the suns and is positioned at exactly 1/400th of the distance between earth and the sun!so, when we see it from the surface of earth, we are in the only place this can ever be seen, at the only time it could ever happen.
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Gargamel
Like many posts, it overlooks that if this hadn't occurred, life, at least in its current form, wouldn't be here.
However, it wouldn't surprise me if the moon orbit and menstrual cycle interval are linked in some way. We see what the moon's gravitational pull does to water and humans are mostly -- water. Probably coincidence though.
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There is science that prove God exists
by HopeEverLasting injehovahs witnesses think that just the bible is proof that god exists but they are wrong.
there is another mode for how he exists.
now we all know many scientists who are creationists now weren’t creationists until they examined the evidence for themselves.
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Gargamel
HopeEverLasting said: Gargamel it doesn't disapprove his existence either.
Of course, but the more we discover, the balance of probabilities shrinks in proportion.
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There is science that prove God exists
by HopeEverLasting injehovahs witnesses think that just the bible is proof that god exists but they are wrong.
there is another mode for how he exists.
now we all know many scientists who are creationists now weren’t creationists until they examined the evidence for themselves.
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Gargamel
Another one of these? :)
I think that science has actually done a wonderful job of explaining how we are here.
Planets, and other bodies, exist because of the basic law of gravity i.e. mass being (weakly) attracted to mass.
The odds against things, including organisms, existing as they do are huge. This doesn't prove god's existence, rather, it's just an indicator that there were a huge number of "attempts" (I use quotes because it's difficult to imagine inorganic matter attempting anything).
Apparently, science has shown that something from nothin is possible. I won't pretend that I understand that bit. I could probably do so if it were explained individually over a sufficiently lengthy time frame.
It reminds me of the old betting scam where someone reckons they have surefire winners in an accumulator. If enough people sign up and put money on, there will probably be a winner. So it is with universes, I think.
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Keep the meeting going! (even if somebody's dying)
by TimeBandit inthis is a true story.
it's about a sister named henriette venema.
she was a very loyal jw.
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Gargamel
I'm amazed they didn't disfellowship the poor woman for being disruptive.
Ted is an arsehole.