i've never been called for jury duty and i'm not yet registered to vote, although i'm hoping to get that done this month.
i know someone who within a few months of registering to vote was called for jury duty.
i've read some articles that said voter records 'used' to be used to call on people but that was a thing of the past.
I left the tower in 83.
Registered to vote.
Got called for jury duty right away.
Have not been called since.
Its not hard to get out of jury duty if you want out.
You just say, I can look at him and see he is guilty.
And you get to go home.
Today being retired, I would not mind doing jury duty.
in addition to the recent thread, "how to shut your mind down .
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" (which is excellent) but there was another thread about the same time i'm searching for and unable to locate.
Sometimes there is nothing I can do to get a good night sleep.
Often I take melatonin 5mg.
I generally sleep 8 hours a night from 2 am until 10 am.
I find if i exercise hard, it adversely affects my sleep.
But it might have to do with the time I exrcise.
I play soccer from 8:30pm until 10 pm on Wednesdays and I always have a rough night trying to sleep that night.
I play soccer from 6:45 until 7:30 pm on Mondays, tuesdays and thursdays. I sleep much better those nights.
I try not to drink any caffene after 12pm in the afternoon, or it will keep me up when I go to bed.
I am now retired, I sleep much better and longer, When I worked I was always sleep deprived and had to fuel myself with coffee to stay
awake then I had to spend 8 hours coming down from the coffee before I could fall asleep.
i believe in god but i'm not sure of anything....what about you?.
I think earth is a birthing ground for new souls.
I haven't worked out the other details yet.
while i'm glad i found this site, it has also crumbled to bits everything i've believed in my whole life.
i feel like the certainty, magic and wonder has gone out of my life.
this has left a huge hole in my soul.
What are you supposed to believe now?
Believe what you want to believe.
You have the rest of your life to resarch and turn over stones.
I find its hard to find something to believe in that other people will believe in also.
If you find something that a group of people believe in,
another group has already disproved it.
If only you believe in it. Then nobody else knows.
So they cant disprove it.
they say horses communicate with their ears.
mr. ed talked, though.
pet owners, do you think that your cat or dog or goldfish really understands you?.
Most communication is non verbal up to 93%.
I think some animals deffinitely understand the non verbal part of communication.
My dog understands do you want to go for a walk?
Do you want a treat?
Lets go to bed.
Mommys home.
i cant figure out how some persons like my husband and son, simply got too 'busy' and gradually stopped going to meetings, and were totally left alone, and yet some persons.
seem to indicate that people were constantly in persuit of them, for a way to disfellowship them.. the ones who fade never get 'disfellowshiped' unless they write a letter formally requesting thier name be of the membership.. just like the jw org tells people who get baptised to do to thier former church,.
i havent been to a meeting in a few months however it is also under a 'remodel' im sure im not missed.
I stopped going in 83.
I didn't answer the phone or the door.
Today, I can associate with my witness family/in laws with no ramifications.
I don't really like to. But it makes my wife happy who also faded, 20 years ago.
i like so many americans left my parent's house as soon as i could (age 19).
i would see them maybe one or two times a year for the next ten years.
when i hit thirty and got married it was even less frequent.
Life is like a roll of toilet paper the closer you get to the end the faster it goes.
VB6 by Mark Bittman.
Eat veagn before 6:00 to loose weight and restore your health for good.
..specifically, the suffering of animals.
you can talk about free will/sin/people choosing to not listen to god etc to explain human suffering being allowed.. but how can you love a god that allows animals, that haven't sinned or chosen to not have anything to do with god, to have their short lives ended in often long, drawn out, painful ways.
i could list stories i've read that would probably make you feel ill, but i'm not looking to shock anyone or start an emotional debate.
Thanks for your honesty. It does indeed suck, and I can't see how anyone can reconcile the idea of a God that allows animals to suffer, and yet is loving and merciful at the same time.
I cant do that, the above.
I don't see him as being merciful in the present moment, if at all.
i don't smoke anything but i know many that do--- some frequently, most infrequently.. personally, i don't see much difference between drinking alcohol and pot use.. should pot be legalized?.
I believe pot should be legalized.
And I support legislation and groups that are trying to furhter the agenda.
But we are against big money here in Florida.
