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  Welcome: MOONBEAM

  by RAYZORBLADE in

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  just in case...because someone i know...moonbeam...hasn't made her presence made officially, but i thought: 'what the heck'.

  i wanted to kickstart it for her.. she's a darling, and when she gets all this stuff figured out, we'll see her on here soon.. she resides in the new england part of the u.s.a. .

  but in the meantime, and if you don't mind.

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  (((((Moonbeam)))))

  Welcome!!!!!

  Any friend of Ray's is a friend of mine.
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  Amrozi verdict in

  by smack in

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  guilty, death sentence.

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  The trouble is that the guy seemed just as happy with the verdict as we were, giving thumbs-up signs to the crowd and waving and smiling. Urggh. The guy thinks he's going to heaven now, to be rewarded with virgins for killing other human beings.

  They should lock him away with bread and water for the rest of his life in a concrete cell with no window or even a bed. Let him live like the animal that he is. Or let him be burned alive, just as his victims did.
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  Therapy?

  by StinkyPantz in

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  okay, i think i'm crazy; and i think i need therapy.

  well here's a rundown of my life: .

  born; molested by cousin; best friend murdered by her father; eating disorder; abusive boyfriends; betrayed by best friend of 15 years; disfellowshipped; married after 6 months of dating; disowned by family; moved cross-country where i don't know anyone (this is only a partial list of course).

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  The move in itself could trigger off Post Traumatic Stress/Depression. Moving interstate away from your family and friends is a very stressful thing to do. I know, because I did that myself 5 months ago. If I didn't already have some good supportive friends here in my new town it would have been extremely hard for me to cope.

  If you think that you should give therapy a go, then why not? With all that you've been through, you no doubt have many issues to have to be dealing with. Even if you think you have dealt with the past, something is obviously bothering you. It may turn out that it's due to your move, or it could be something much larger. Only you and your therapist will know.

  ((((((SP)))))) Hang in there. Please seek help if you think you need it. I want you to get better, ok?
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  (OT) Update on Car Burglaries

  by Bendrr in

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  sorry to bring off-topic personal issues to the board but i really need to vent.. you'll recall my post of a few days ago asking some technology advice.

  on a regular basis, my car is being entered at night by person(s) unknown and basically just searched.

  i'll come out and find a door ajar and the glove box open but nothing missing.

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  If you can, I would suggest staying up all night and looking out for these guys. Sit at your window with the lights off, waiting for the first person to sniff around your car. Have your gun beside you, but don't aim at them, just aim above their heads (and at an angle so you don't accidently shoot anyone living across the road) to scare them off.

  As a victim of car burglaries, I can understand your frustration and anger.
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  White Collar Sweatshops....You are Helping to Fund Them!!!

  by teenyuck in

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  interesting article in time magazine..... http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030804-471198,00.html.

  where the good jobs are going.

  some excerpts:jobs that stay put are becoming a lot harder to find these days.

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  I'm not suggesting that we pretend that globalisation isn't inavoidable. I'm saying that it isn't always the best for local economies.

  Businesses die if they have no customers, with or without govt subsidies. It's not a matter of bad business - if the population of the town you're living in suddenly halves, it's not that easy to keep a business going. Most small businesses are lucky in today's market to break even. But the profits need to go into local economies, not the hip pockets of the billionaire industrialists who watch their stock prices with the keeness of a small boy watching a cake cooking in the oven.

  If businesses want to hire cheap overseas labour, then they will lose out eventually. They will lose credibility with their customers who can't understand the English language garbled in the Indian accent. They will find more complaints from unhappy customers who can't get simple problems solved. Quite frankly, I'd rather pay for someone to come and visit my place to fix a computer problem, than speak to someone halfway across the world trying to sort out problems over the phone. And by not hiring their own countrymen, they will decrease the working population, meaning that less will be able to afford their products anyway.
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  White Collar Sweatshops....You are Helping to Fund Them!!!

  by teenyuck in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  interesting article in time magazine..... http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030804-471198,00.html.

  where the good jobs are going.

  some excerpts:jobs that stay put are becoming a lot harder to find these days.

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  If their product is cheaper than one that a local producer can produce, then I do myself a favour by buying it - I have comparatively more disposable income, therefore I am wealthier for buying the cheaper product.

  In the short term, yes. In the long term, no.

  If you don't buy locally, you aren't supporting local businesses. Local businesses employ local people. Local people working means local people spending money in their local economy. Spending money in the local economy means people get wealthier, and are able to spend more with their extra cash, if need be. Everyone wins.

  Spending money elsewhere means the local business isn't getting local money. No money = no profit for the business. No profit means the business goes bankrupt and it has to let its employees go. No work means the employees can't spend money in the local economy, so the local economy suffers. People then leave to find work elsewhere and their hometown/land suffers due to lack of people putting money into the local economy.

  I've seen this happen in my own home town in the country. When the economy goes bust, people lose money, lose jobs, lose their homes. They are forced to look elsewhere for a job, and their hometown suffers from the loss of population. Towns die when this happens.

  Sure, I don't want to see people living in poverty in India, Pakistan, Taiwan or any other 2nd or 3rd class country. But I want to be able to work and support myself. I want my family to have work, and I want my future generations to have work too. I want my local economy to survive and thrive. It's all well and good that if someone in India is hired by a company in a Western country, but what happens to the former local employees (or possible future ones) of that company? They are forced into an increasingly competitive job market, a job market that is decreasing due to the current downturn in the world economy.

  The world is heading towards globalisation on a scale we have never seen before. Things are going to be getting alot worse, before they get any better.
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  why I left

  by teejay in

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  about ten years ago, i started doing research into the jw religion.

  it took a personal event to make me want to do that for the first time in thirty years.

  blindly believing what i was told wasn't working anymore.

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  They would preach about how horrible the Pharisees were but never once saw themselves as Pharisaic.

  You know, it's pretty ironic that one of the things that helped me to see the WTS for what they are was studying the Greatest Man book for the 3rd time in our book study groups. That book used to decry how bad the Pharisees in Jesus' time were in comparision to Jesus' teachings. Yet so many of the things they were criticising the Pharisees for, were things they were doing themselves!!! The unnecessary man-made rules, the harsh attitudes towards the flock, the self-righteousness, thinking they alone had God's approval.
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  smack made jnr.

  by smack in

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  off with the kimbies and on with the trainer pants.

  i'll be wiping my own bum in no thyme.. .

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  That's because it's going to be a surprise party Shhhh... you're not meant to know. Just walk through to the kitchen as if you're not expecting anything, ok?
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  How Do You Handle Death?

  by minimus in

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  for most witnesses, the ressurection hope keeps survivors going.

  i knew of some jw's that were in such denial that they would want to believe that "they're just sleeping but are still alive to jehovah.

  " others would bust themselves "in the work", while others would "mourn as the nations do".

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  I think too that having been suicidal for so many years I don't consider death an enemy. It is a release.

  I agree. A release from the pain that this life inflicts upon us.

  My girlfriend was released from terrible pain of her cancer whne she died. The family was released form the torment of watching her mind and body wither away.

  I feel the same way about my mother's death. My mother battled cancer for 7 years. It stole away life from a loving, gregarious woman who was loved and respected by all who knew her. At least death took away the indignity of the cancer treatments and their side-effects. And it released us (my family) from having to see my beloved mother getting sicker and sicker. From the constant hospital visits and the momentary month of relative health, only to be readmitted again. To see her on the hospital bed with tubes in her body and monitors and oxygen tanks beside her bed. To hear her raspy breathing, struggling to get enough air in her cancer-striken lungs.

  My mother died long before her physical death. I lost her as a real mother when she first started getting sick and hospitalised. It was no way for her to live. It was no way for us to live.

  I don't see sudden death (suicides, heart attacks, accidents, etc) in the same way.

  I know what you mean. At least with someone dying of cancer or some other terminal illness, you have some measure of time to adjust to the idea. With a sudden death, you have no time to prepare yourself. No last goodbyes, no last kiss or hug.
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  How Many are Single? How Many are Looking?

  by Robdar in

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  i find myself finally becoming accustomed to the fact that i am single again.

  i am no longer thinking in couple terms and i now cook to please only me.

  it's fun and scary all at the same time.

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  ROTFLOL @ smack

  Thanks for the kind offer, but you can keep them.