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  My Gay Life

  by joelbear in

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  it seems millenia ago that homosexuals dared not declare that fact about them out loud for fear of being imprisoned, beaten to death or at least ostracized by society.

  true, some are still ostracized, some are still beaten but more and more they are simply becoming a part of the social fabric of families, communities and society as a whole.. was it just 1969 that a handful of drag queens decided enough was enough and refused to meekly be led off to jail for the night simply for socializing with each other in a bar in new york city.

  i was 11 years old when that happened and was just beginning to understand that i myself was a homosexual.

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  ThiChi

  Thank you for sharing your story!
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  Apostates are very disappointing. I just found the WTS is true about them.

  by reason in

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  2. beliefs

  your conduct, attitude, manner of speech, avatar, all of these shows what sort of hearts you people have.

  i can't feel the holy spirit operating in you people.

  the first time i exposed myself to apostates, i was imagining matured people, more matured than the jw's.

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  ThiChi

  You do make some points, however, on the whole, I disagree. It depends on what you are looking for. You want humor? Lots of it here, you want Scholarly debate, you came to the right place, you want Current Events, political debate, it is here, you want to talk to persons of different backgrounds and beliefs, its all here.

  I will agree with you, that if you are just coming off the JW Train, you will be in for some shocking stuff here, which has been a subject of discussions for some time.
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  Report: U.S. Mistakenly fires on Wedding Party in Iraq

  by dubla in

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  u.s. reportedly kills 40 iraqis at party .

  http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040519/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_attack_4.

  very sad if this turns out to be an accurate report.

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  ThiChi

  ""Coalition forces came under hostile fire and called for support from the air. After the strike, coalition forces recovered numerous weapons, foreign passports, a SATCOM radio and two million Iraqi and Syrian dinars, military officials said.""

  Must of been some wedding!
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  First gay couples wed in US state

  by ignored_one in

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  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3719905.stm

  first gay couples wed in us state

  two lesbians were among the first same-sex couples to wed under a new law in the us state of massachusetts.

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  ThiChi

  Perry: I agree...which takes me back to my very first post on this topic.......

  Penwell:

  Lol, is this what we have stooped to? While your comment is amusing, it is also irreverent. Why scare people? Why present a false dilemma? (sorry, I am on a tight leash here, so my posts are all used up...)
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  OK, I found a reason to vote for Kerry.

  by JeffT in

  1. social
  2. current

  or maybe two reasons.

  shoot, link didn't work.

  go to yahoo news and check out the photo section.

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  ThiChi

  here is another reason...his daughter!

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  Report: U.S. Mistakenly fires on Wedding Party in Iraq

  by dubla in

  1. social
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  u.s. reportedly kills 40 iraqis at party .

  http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040519/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_attack_4.

  very sad if this turns out to be an accurate report.

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  ThiChi

  Ahhhh, Now the rest of the Story.........

  U.S. Disputes Strike Report on Iraqi Wedding Party

  Wednesday, May 19, 2004

  AP

  BAGHDAD, Iraq ? U.S. military officials disputed suggestions that an American helicopter struck a wedding party in western Iraq on Wednesday and said coalition forces staged an attack against suspected foreign fighters.

  Arab television and The Associated Press aired video showing the bodies of small children in a truck full of bodies and people digging graves as they quoted witnesses and Iraqi officials who discussed the attack.

  But senior military officials in Washington said U.S. and coalition forces conducted a strike on "anti-coalition vehicles" along the Iraqi-Syrian border.

  According to the military, at 3 a.m. local time Wednesday coalition forces conducted an operation against a suspected foreign fighter safe house in the open desert. The house was 25 kilometers from the Syrian border, 85 kilometers southwest of Husaybah, military officials said.

  Coalition forces came under hostile fire and called for support from the air. After the strike, coalition forces recovered numerous weapons, foreign passports, a SATCOM radio and two million Iraqi and Syrian dinars, military officials said.

  The attack killed about 40 people, officials said.

  Iraqi officials and others described a very different scenario.

  Lt. Col Ziyad al-Jbouri, deputy police chief of the city of Ramadi (search), said between 42 and 45 people died in the attack, which took place about 2:45 a.m. in a remote desert area near the border with Syria and Jordan. He said those killed included 15 children and 10 women.

  Dr. Salah al-Ani, who works at a hospital in Ramadi, put the death toll at 45.

  The Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television reported that more than 20 people were killed and 10 injured in the attack.

  The videotape, obtained and aired by Associated Press Television News, showed about a dozen bodies, one without a head. But it appeared that bodies were piled on top of each other and a clear count was not possible.

  Iraqis interviewed on the videotape said partygoers had fired into the air in a traditional wedding celebration. American troops have sometimes mistaken celebratory gunfire for hostile fire.

  The video footage showed mourners with shovels digging graves. A group of men crouched and wept around one coffin.

  Al-Ani said people at the wedding fired weapons in the air, and that American troops came to investigate and left. However, al-Ani said, helicopters attacked the area at about 3 a.m. Two houses were destroyed, he said.

  "This was a wedding and the (U.S.) planes came and attacked the people at a house. Is this the democracy and freedom that (President) Bush has brought us?" said a man on the videotape, Dahham Harraj. "There was no reason."

  Another man shown on the tape, who refused to give his name, said the victims were at a wedding party "and the U.S. military planes came... and started killing everyone in the house."

  In July 2002, Afghan officials said 48 civilians at a wedding party were killed and 117 wounded by a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province ( search ). An investigative report released by the U.S. Central Command ( search ) said the airstrike was justified because American planes had come under fire.

  Fox News' Bret Baier and Ian McCaleb and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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  Your prayers/thoughts needed -- NOW!

  by talesin in

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  2. friends

  i just got home from the store.

  there is an armed stand-off on my street, one block down.

  there is a man with his child and wife.

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  ThiChi

  Prayers to you........
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  Report: U.S. Mistakenly fires on Wedding Party in Iraq

  by dubla in

  1. social
  2. current

  u.s. reportedly kills 40 iraqis at party .

  http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040519/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_attack_4.

  very sad if this turns out to be an accurate report.

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  ThiChi

  I am going to wait for more news on this........I bet something was up.....
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  OK, I found a reason to vote for Kerry.

  by JeffT in

  1. social
  2. current

  or maybe two reasons.

  shoot, link didn't work.

  go to yahoo news and check out the photo section.

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  ThiChi

  How come Tom Bombadil was not in the movie(s)?
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  How many of you are smokers?

  by Joker10 in

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  it seems that a lot of people on this board are smokers?

  lets get some figures.

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  ThiChi

  Burning Man is not during thanksgiving (Nov 27 th ) BM starts August 30 th and runs till the Next Sunday (the Man burns on Saturday.)

  Bus Camp is just having their own "Thanksgiving" in August at BM!!.....(that?s how cool we are!!). Really every night is a communal meal, if you want, but this year, it is special!!!

  All Dub Burners are invited to our Thanksgiving Meal on Thursday....At Sunset (no watches or clocks allowed!!)

  Go to Burningman.com click on the Camps link, and go to VW Bus Camp. The link to our e-mail list is there, for all the updates and camp location!!!!