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  Girls: what would your ideal guy be like?

  by greven in

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  what should be included in your ideal-guy-kit?.

  i also started a thread for the guys to put their wishes on a list, but what do you want from a guy?.

  greven

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  TresHappy

  This is an easy one. The character that Robert Redford played in "The Way We Were" - Hubbell Gardner. Hubba Hubba Robert, Hubba Hubba Hubbell.
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  At what price conception?

  by wasasister in

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  a young woman i work with, and her husband, have been trying unsucessfully for three years to conceive a child.

  she first took fertility drugs and then went for artificial insemination.

  those methods have failed and now they are proceeding with in-vitro.

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  OK, I have become an unwanted expert on the price on getting pregnant. All last year, I spent thousands of dollars in an attempt to become pregnant but had difficultly due to having PCOD. I underwent several rounds of Clomid, was able to ovulate, but did not conceive. Then after that they wanted to do AI (artificial insemination), which costs approximately $1000.00 Then I was only given a 17 percent chance of pregnancy. Then if that failed they wanted to do IVF, which costs $10,000, but then was given only a 30 percent chance of pregnancy (these statistics that the fertility clinic give you are really misleading, they may get you pregnant but they don't tell you 1/3 of all pregnancies end in miscarriage.) My insurance paid for 1/2 of the initial treatments (no telling what my cost would have been if I didn't have that), but didn't pay IVF or AI. The financial costs are one side of the issue, the emotional side is REALLY disturbing. I was going crazy, going from work to the clinic to have a sonogram to see if I had ovulated, etc. I saw people whipping out the credit card to pay for these treatments. I mean, this infertility stuff is a money making venture for the doctors who run this clinic. Of course, if you have success with it, it's worth every dime you paid, but if not, you're out tons of $$ and paid for that doctor to live in a really nice McMansion with controlled access and everything!

  I decided that I coudn't handle the emotional aspects of this. I was getting suicidal (think it was the medicine that had something to do with it, I mean these hormones they give you make you do crazy things sometimes.) I decided to try alternative herbal remedies such as Vitex (to make me regular) and natural progesterone (to help with the estrogen dominance.) It's a whole lot cheaper than sinking your money down an infertility rathole.

  Has your coworker thought about adoption? For the price of 2 rounds of IVF, your coworker can adopt a kid. Your coworker though, may be really into having her own kid, despite the cost. That's what a lot of these clinics prey upon - I remember meeting one lady in the waiting room who wanted her child to look like her - which is why she hadn't tried adoption. Mind you, she had spent $30,000 at that clinic and had failed to become knocked up.

  Pardon my venting, but there are two sides to every story. Mind isn't negative, just telling the truth about a money making venture known as infertility!
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  Here’s to the past it can kiss my glass

  by WildTurkey in

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  a song i like inspires this post.

  i hope the org.

  is happy with all those elders that they have.

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  TresHappy

  I love that song by Toby Keith. I feel the same way too about the borg. Except I would change the last word in the title!
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Can Go To Hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  by Big Tex in

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  i need someplace to vent, so excuse me but i am very angry at the moment.

  as most of you know, my father in law committed suicide last sunday (the 16th).

  his death hit nina hard, but i've discovered this week that my sweet little kitten of a wife has the heart of a lion.

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  Dear Chris and Nina,

  I had the pleasure of knowing you guys briefly when we went to the same hall in the 1980's, and refound you guys this past year on this website. My heart sinks for both of you regarding your loss and I am so sorry. I had talked to Nina last week on the phone briefly and have enjoyed finding you guys again. I am so disgusted with the way some JW's act regarding death and their relatives or friends. I remember hearing that when my great grandfather died in the 1950's, my great uncle insisted on a JW funeral (he was JW and no one else) and they passed around literature at that funeral also. I don't understand at the time of death and grief they insist on shoving their beliefs on everyone's throat with some tract or brochure.

  Again, my heart goes out to you both at this time of sorrow. No words I can say will make it any easier, other than I love you guys and am sincerely sorry for your loss.
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  We're singing in the rain, just singing in the rain!

  by ozziepost in

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  what a glorious feeling,.

  we're happy again!.

  here's tonight's news bulletin:.

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  TresHappy

  Well, it's raining in Texas too. All day, all night, gray and dark and nasty...
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  Watchtower cancels UK subscriptions...

  by Brummie in

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  sorry if this has been posted already..... the watchtower society cancels of all subscriptions .

  on the outside wrapping of the latest watchtower and awake!

  magazines is this announcement in red capital letters .

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  TresHappy

  I remember when I visited Mill Hill back in 1987 the lady who gave the tour said that they recommended people getting their magazines crap from the publishers because in one year they could save enough in postage to buy a delivery truck. I can't believe it took them that long to end the subscriptions. Guess they can save the money now for the lawsuits they are going to fight!
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  I'm fighting over DreadLocks! Need help!

  by plmkrzy in

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  please excuse all the grammar in the first person, i dont care about it right now.

  lol!.

  i am in a heated battle right now with the current resident manager of the building i live in.. i have been here for 10 years.

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  You could claim you were Rastafarian, then no one will bother you...
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  what were you thinking when you got yourself baptised?

  by greven in

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  my first post diappeared so here's another try:.

  this is actually more than one question.

  but let me first explain my own experience: .

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  TresHappy

  I remember thinking how well behaved the audience was when we got baptized. No one crowded around and acted like the paparazzi taking photos. It was because they asked people not to do that. That was the nicest crowd control I ever saw when I was a witness. Sad to say, it was one of the only times I saw JW's behave themselves in a crowd.
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  If Jehovah's Witnesses Weren't So "Cultish," Would You Have Remained A JW?

  by minimus in

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  i see that millions of people belong to a religion yet may be non-practicing.

  there are home baptists, catholics that go to church just once a year, and others that are not considered "devout" but still are members of a certain religion.

  if the witnesses were much more relaxed in their approach as to how they enforced their views and gave people more "normal" rights so as to believe or not believe certain things, could you see yourself totally out of this religion?

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  TresHappy

  The thing is that if the JW's took everything away that makes them cultish, then the JW's wouldn't exist!
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  Photo of Russel Exploring Giza Pyramids

  by Gerard in

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  i found this in a french web site, i thought it was interesting.. .

  french text (original): http://pages.globetrotter.net/mleblank/doctrine/pyrwt.html.

  translation: http://www.letusreason.org/jw16.htm

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  TresHappy

  I think Russell was way ahead of his time. He looks like the original SNL "Conehead."