Warrigal

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  So Many Directions To Go

  by forgetmenot in

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  currently i'm experiencing, for the first time, the ability to make and form opinions on my own but i'm having trouble.

  with no one to tell me what to do and what to think, i find there are so many places in the world that need help.

  and even if i decided to follow something and make a difference in that area, what can i do to really make a difference?

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  Warrigal

  Hi Forgetmenot.

  First of all, take a moment to pause and take a deep breath. Look around you in your own neighborhood. Are there people you can help without spending gobs of money? Like taking an elderly neighbor to a doctor appointment. Or picking up some groceries for someone who no longer drives.

  Decide what matters most to you. If donating to a particular charity is beyond your financial ability, consider volunteering if it is a charity you feel is truly making a difference. They can always use people to answer phones and send out mailings.

  Let your heart guide and direct you. You will find your niche where you are wanted, needed and appreciated.
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  2 concerns about the war

  by Zep in

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  ex-general recently described urban warfare as like having a knife fight in a phone booth.

  yikes!.

  ex-cia described imposing democracy on iraq at this point in time as crazy.. hope they are wrong.

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  I'm afraid that the regime of Sodamn Insane will lure the coalition troops into Baghdad and then set off some kind of a chemical, biological or dirty bomb. It wouldn't surprise me if he thought the sacrifice of the Iraqi civilians justifiable if he could kill Americans.
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  What's Your Favourite War Movie???

  by dottie in

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  well since everyone's mind is on the obvious...thought i'd add a twist to it and hopefully no flame war will come of it .

  what is your fave war movie??

  i have 2: full metal jacket and apocalypse now.

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  Warrigal

  Mine is "Soldier of Orange" Its about the Dutch resistance during WW2.
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  where do pets come from?

  by nowisee in

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  Any non-human creature you share your life with is a pet. Mine are adopted from Animal Control, found as strays and not claimed or flung at my home by people too lazy to take them to Animal Control.

  You can even have a pet rock! Just don't fling it at your neighbors house when it poops on the carpet.
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  Any Homebrewers here? (more OT fluff)

  by Bendrr in

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  i finally broke down yesterday and "did something".

  i did manage to last until about 5 pm, doing nothing.. i drove down to a homebrew supply shop and bought my first beer-making kit.

  i've read the directions several times, as well as done some research on the net so i feel fairly confident that i can do it.

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  My only experience with home brewing was a near disaster. My dad decided to brew some beer in the garage and got a wood barrel and all the stuff he needed to make the brew....this was the days before beer brewing kits....He put everything in that his recipe called for and hammered the bung in the barrel.

  A few days later we heard a tremendous bang underneath the house. Fermentation had launched the bung upward and imbeded it in a large beam. Foam all over the place!!! Good thing no one was standing too close at the time it let go.

  Then my mother got the idea of making wine....really bad idea. She used concord grapes well mashed up and added a little secret ingredient here and there then put them into gallon glass jugs with corks in the top.

  At the time, we had a very large New Zealand White buck rabbit who had the run of the garage and back yard. He took great delight in licking the corks and the fermented liquid coming around the corks. We laughed at his antics! A few slurps of wine, a few hops in the yard then fall over and sleep it off. He was loopy for days. The wine wasn't too bad after it had 'aged' a bit.
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  Alternative pets?

  by DanTheMan in

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  well, i don't have the most active or exciting life, so i've been thinking about getting a pet to liven things up a little around the homestead.

  dogs?

  too much commitment, also high ownership expenses.

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  Hi Dan....cats make very good pets for men. It takes a strong man, sure of his masculinity and independence to put up with an independant creature. The advantages are that you don't have to take them for walks...unless you both want to. You can leave them alone for the day with adequate food and water and they'll be happy to snuggle with you when you come home.

  "Dogs look up to you; cats look down on you. Pigs treat you as equals" Winston Churchill
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  I need to vent. (Taxes)

  by scumrat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i wasn't sure where to post this, but here it goes.

  i had just received my tax forms back from my accountant with a note stating that he tried to call me but had a invalid number.

  in writing he told me that he did not put my rent down as a deduction just like last year.

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  Is your accountant a member of the JW Governing Body? Frequent mistakes, no offer of apology...sounds like the boys in the Borg to me!
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  What TV station were you watching when the first plane struck?

  by Pleasuredome in

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  this picture was famously portrayed in the media as 'the moment bush knew', as the media around the world told us, from white house statements, that bush heard of the twin tower attacks when his chief of staff, andrew card, spoke in his ear in the classroom as he addressed the children.. on december 4th 2001, cnn were broadcasting live coverage of a "town meeting" at the orange county convention center in orlando, florida, where president bush was answering non-challenging questions from a sycophantic audience.

  then bush made a startling statement about september 11th: -.

  the president: thank you, jordan.

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  I heard about it on the car radio...the initial reports were that a commuter jet had hit the first tower and that it was an accident. I arrived home in time to turn on the TV and see the second plane hit the other tower. There was such a sick feeling over the many lives lost and feeling for the first time since Pearl Harbor how vulnerable we were.
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  Could you do without a computer at home?

  by JH in

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  10 years ago, just about no one had a computer at home, but today just about everyone has.

  how would it affect you, if your computer broke down, or didn't have any?

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  Well, lets see....the hedge would get trimmed. The leaves would all be raked up. My plants would be pruned and transplanted. The dogs would earn their Canine Good Citizen certificates. I'd get the car tuned up and the tires rotated. The carpets would be cleaned.

  Sigh....if I only had the time....
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  What the heck is "KERATOL"?

  by Nathan Natas in

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  in looking over a listing of the wts' publications, i notice that some of the "studies in the scriptures" and other books were available in a keratol edition.

  what is keratol?

  was is some super-polymer from watchtower laboratories?

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  Does that mean that there is imitation religious teachings on the inside???