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  Fifty Per Cent Of Personal Bankruptcy Claims in US Due To Medical Costs

  by hillary_step in

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  i was stunned by this dismal piece that i read in forbes magazine recently.

  coming from the uk it is astonishing to me that an affluent nation as is the us, cannot provide better protection for the health and welfare of its citizens.

  i was especially astonished by the fact that insurance companies withdraw their coverage while a person is sick and in need of help.

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  IronClad, how is that info wrong?
  
  As a person with no health insurance, I earn too much to get any assistance. I am a college student that works, I am not considered independant so my parents income is used against me. I live on my own, pay my own bills, taxes, etc. Too poor for a certain prescription drug I need ($200/mo) so my lovely doctor just keeps giving me samples..otherwise I am way too poor. I can barely afford heating. But if I have to pay $800, $400 a month, for health insurance...then I will just have to try very hard to not get cancer!!!
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  SEND ME STUFF (for my documentary)<br>

  by jwbot in

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  Anything I can say to convince you? I will send you chocolate. :)
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  SEND ME STUFF (for my documentary)<br>

  by jwbot in

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  jwbot

  Ok people, I need stuff for my documentary. You can send me:
  
  
  
  
  
  documents (copies)
  
  video clips
  
  
  I am making a documentary on the JW religion and I need your help. If you wish to have a mosaic over your face, I can do that easily.
  
  
  Here is my site for more information: INFORMATION
  
  
  Download the release in doc format: RELEASE
  
  
  Download a doc format of the interview questions I provide below: QUESTIONS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  a. Were you ever a pioneer/ms/elder/etc.?
  
  
  
  
  
  a. Were you converted? At what age?
  
  i. How has this affected you?
  
  b. Were you born into the religion? What generation (first? Second?)?
  
  i. How has this affected you?
  
  
  
  
  
  a. Did you home school? Was their pressure to home school?
  
  b. What was it like to go to public school?
  
  i. Did you fit in?
  
  ii. Did you lead a ?double-life??
  
  c. What were your jw-peers like in the congregation? How were you treated?
  
  d. Were you pressured to get baptized at an early age?
  
  i. Did you?
  
  ii. If you did not get baptized, how were you treated?
  
  e. Were you ever ?marked? as a kid/teenager?
  
  f. How did you treat your jw-peers? Those that were ?spiritual?? Those that were ?marked??
  
  g. How did you treat your non-jw-peers?
  
  
  
  
  
  a. Where from did these problems arise?
  
  b. What sort of things were you told as a child/new person?
  
  i. How did it affect you?
  
  c. Did you suffer from depression having to do with the religion?
  
  i. Why?
  
  ii. How were you treated? Pressured to get treatment?
  
  
  
  
  
  a. Were you disfellowshipped? Disassociated?
  
  i. Why?
  
  ii. Did you want to be?
  
  iii. How were you treated before/during/after?
  
  b. Did you disassociate yourself?
  
  i. Why?
  
  ii. Did you write a letter?
  
  iii. How were you treated before/during/after?
  
  c. How old were you when you knew it was not ?the truth??
  
  i. Did you tell anyone?
  
  ii. Did you ask questions?
  
  1. What happened when you started to question?
  
  d. Did you ?fade??
  
  i. Why?
  
  ii. How were you treated before/during/after?
  
  iii. Have you told close jw friends/family? Why or why not?
  
  e. How did your family treat you? Do they know?
  
  f. How has shunning affected you?
  
  g. Did you practice shunning?
  
  
  
  
  
  a. While you were a JW?
  
  b. Currently?
  
  c. Why?
  
  
  
  
  
  a. Why or why not?
  
  
  
  
  
  a. How did that affect you?
  
  b. Did you feel pressure to marry young?
  
  c. If you married outside the faith, were you marked? What happened?
  
  d. Were you abused within the marriage?
  
  i. What was done about it?
  
  
  
  
  
  a. Did your family know?
  
  i. How did they handle it?
  
  ii. Did they go to the authorities?
  
  b. Did the elders know?
  
  i. How did they handle it?
  
  ii. Did they go to the authorities?
  
  c. Did you experience bad treatment/shunning because of your abuse?
  
  d. What happened to your abuser?
  
  
  
  
  
  a. Dates: 1914/1975 etc.?
  
  b. 607 BCE?
  
  c. New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures?
  
  d. Russel/Rutheford and Jehovah?s Witness history in general?
  
  e. Disfellowshipping/Shunning?
  
  f. New Light?
  
  g. The ?organization??
  
  h. The Governing Body?
  
  i. Blood Transfusions?
  
  j. Patriarchy?
  
  k. Marriage?
  
  l. Homosexuality? (ie: the treatment of.)
  
  m. Any other controversial topics?
  
  
  
  
  
  a. What got you into it?
  
  b. Are you familiar with silent lambs?
  
  i. Why/How?
  
  ii. What are your thoughts on it?
  
  c. What do you hope to accomplish?
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  I Q

  by stillajwexelder in

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  already got a thread on intelligence but any of you care to state what your measured iq is/was last time you checked 9had it checked)

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  145, and my brother is 148! But we dont use our heads so much. oops!
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  might go back to the meetings - what am I getting myself into?

  by jwbot in

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  well my sister and her husband are now working towards figuring out the custody issues and divorce.

  both being very civil about it.

  my sister will most likely be disfellowshipped as she is with another man (a very nice british guy, actually).. .

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  Well she does not seem interested in going...and will be sending a DA letter...I say go for it!
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  Shunned? Be Nice and Keep Trying!

  by metatron in

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  a couple years ago, i bumped into a chronically ill brother in a store.

  he was friendly initially but backed away from me quickly.

  when he heard i barely attend any meetings.. i ran into him again last week.

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  Yeah it bugs me when people assume I am depressed or unhappy...I was that when I was a witness!
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  im allowed to go to prom now

  by crizlee in

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  but i have no date :/ .

  the girl that i met at the beginning of the school year who got me into partying and just having fun isnt with me anymore and ive been upset about that a few months, i was planning on asking her to prom but it was too late.

  i see a few girls that i want to ask out, but i dont know if they're single or not or if it would just come off being wierd stalkerish since its the middle of the year and ive never really talked to them much.

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  I had to sneak out to go to my prom! My senior prom was the funnest high school moment for me, so you have to go whether you have a date or not. Just ask a girl and be upbeat and friendly about it. Ask all the girls if you have to :) HAVE FUN!
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  Did I challenge my JW husband too much?

  by wordlywife in

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  in case all of you don't know, i'm married to a wonderful jw man, for a few years now.

  he was reinstated ater we were married.

  anyway, i have children from a previous marriage and at times disagree with my husband on discipline, how things are explained, etc.

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  worldlywife, I am glad you have been able to talk on this somewhat. Giving ones partner the cold sholder is childish and does not solve anything...I am so glad he finally talked!
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  might go back to the meetings - what am I getting myself into?

  by jwbot in

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  well my sister and her husband are now working towards figuring out the custody issues and divorce.

  both being very civil about it.

  my sister will most likely be disfellowshipped as she is with another man (a very nice british guy, actually).. .

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  Oh Jez, I mistyped...I meant to say that my S/O and I are going out to dinner with them, friday night. It will be a good way to get closer to my sister and also get to know this guy further. They were over today to use my computer, and just chat (and my sister needed to do laundry). My dog really likes him and she is a good judge of character. :)
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  Desperate Housewives.......

  by ScoobySnax in

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  2. friends

  i love this programme,.......we get loads of crap from the states, but when they make a good show....wow!!

  along with friends and simpsons.....this has got to be right up there with the classics!!!!.

  go edie!!!!

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  I downloaded a whole bunch and I am now caught up. But I missed episode 11, still on the lookout for a download. But I can watch it from the TV now that I am caught up. I LOVE THIS SHOW. That and Law & Order are the only shows I watch.