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  The Reason ex-JWs Don't Communicate Well With Others

  by StAnn in

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  2. beliefs

  i've been giving this a lot of thought.

  i'm thinking that, as a born-in, i was raised thinking that everybody who wasn't a dub was stupid and i had to go door-to-door to enlighten them.

  and that the ones who were so stupid and stubborn as to not respond to my message (which was all of them, lol!

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  Junction-Guy

  It is just the opposite for me, I can bond better with "worldly" people more than EX-JW's, especially those with similar backgrounds and culture.
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  The Racist Roots of Georgia's Gun Laws

  by Bendrr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.georgiacarry.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/racist-roots-of-ga-gun-laws.pdf.

  "disarm the negroes!

  " is a headline that once was found in the now ultra-liberal and anti-gun atlanta journal & constitution.. don't think that georgia and the former confederate states of america are alone in this..

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  But what I am wondering is if the people/government of the South even recognized the emancipation proclamation? I have asked this before and the answer was that the the slaves were not freed until the Union soldiers freed them, or the owners voluntarily freed them. What do you think?
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  The Racist Roots of Georgia's Gun Laws

  by Bendrr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.georgiacarry.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/racist-roots-of-ga-gun-laws.pdf.

  "disarm the negroes!

  " is a headline that once was found in the now ultra-liberal and anti-gun atlanta journal & constitution.. don't think that georgia and the former confederate states of america are alone in this..

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  Junction-Guy

  I forgot to mention that within Eastern Kentucky there are 2 small black populations, one is in Hazard and the other is in Harlan, the funny thing is that down there the black people talk with the same mountain accent that the white people do, and you can hardly tell it apart.
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  The Racist Roots of Georgia's Gun Laws

  by Bendrr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.georgiacarry.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/racist-roots-of-ga-gun-laws.pdf.

  "disarm the negroes!

  " is a headline that once was found in the now ultra-liberal and anti-gun atlanta journal & constitution.. don't think that georgia and the former confederate states of america are alone in this..

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  Junction-Guy

  You are right, as I was talking about the 50's and 60's, not today of course.
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  The Racist Roots of Georgia's Gun Laws

  by Bendrr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.georgiacarry.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/racist-roots-of-ga-gun-laws.pdf.

  "disarm the negroes!

  " is a headline that once was found in the now ultra-liberal and anti-gun atlanta journal & constitution.. don't think that georgia and the former confederate states of america are alone in this..

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  Junction-Guy

  Well from what I have read, California was very racist at one time too.
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  The Racist Roots of Georgia's Gun Laws

  by Bendrr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.georgiacarry.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/racist-roots-of-ga-gun-laws.pdf.

  "disarm the negroes!

  " is a headline that once was found in the now ultra-liberal and anti-gun atlanta journal & constitution.. don't think that georgia and the former confederate states of america are alone in this..

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  Junction-Guy

  Many places in the north had "sundown laws", which stated that a black person had to leave town once the sun set.
  
  I lived in Mississippi, and it definitely was racist, however visiting Southern Indiana in the 80's and 90's, I found things that shocked me even more than Mississippi. I saw signs next to the road with black cartoon characters with circles and red lines through them,
  Yeah Indiana had the largest Klan membership at one time.
  
  As for Eastern Kentucky, it is more of a "difference" issue. Most Eastern Kentucky people I know are not truly prejudiced and will treat everyone with kindness, however they don't see black people that often so it is kind of a novelty when they do.
  
  Back in the late 1940's, a black pilot crashed his military plane in Eastern Kentucky and was rescued by the townspeople and taken to the local hospital, he became a quick celebrity there and years later was asked to be the Grand Marshall of the parade.
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  Is it worse to lie about Santa Claus or...

  by JimmyPage in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ... to lie about the generation of 1914 not passing away until the events of mt.

  24 are fulfilled?

  which causes more damage?

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  Junction-Guy

  The 1914 generation of course !!
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  Bush and the Bible just in on CNN news. Bushs bible talk stuns evangelicals

  by Trying2understand in

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  i thought that you would want to see this.

  i can careless about him, but his opinion will be seen by many.

  president bush said in a recent interview he doesn't take the bible literally.. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/12/11/am.intv.brody.bush.bible.cnn if the link does not come up, you can go to cnn.com to click on the direct link..

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  It is kind of disappointing yes, but then again I didn't vote for him based on his personal opinions, but rather what kinds of legislation he was for/against.
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  Blood Issue took my mom last night

  by rwagoner in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after years of fighting a physical disability that ended in kidney failure and several bouts of respiratory/cardiac arrestmy mom landed in the hospital last week.

  the doc's said she needed heart surgery and kidney transplants but before they could operate they need to get her blood count back up.

  it had fallen well below what her body could naturally restore on its own she she needed transfusions.

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  Junction-Guy

  So sorry for your loss, please accept my condolences.
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  did ya miss it..UAW nixes bailout plan...

  by hillbilly in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  or was i dreamin it?.

  heard a bit about this on npr... seems the uaw wont play ball with the congress on this bailout plan and now the whole deal is dead in the water (again).. is there an echo or did i mention 'entitlement" and something about a "poor excuse for a labor union" about the uaw before?.

  hill.

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  Junction-Guy

  What were the demographic breakdowns of the Repubs that voted for/against it? Did all Southern Republicans vote against the bailout? Did all Northern Repubs vote for the bailout? What about the Western Repubs?
  
  I think I would have sided with the North on this one (which is a rarity)