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  Turns out it was true - "the truth" was the only reason my marriage lasted so long

  by Shattered Reality in

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  i haven't really been on here in like, a year.

  my stbx introduced me to this site and then a whole buch of life happened and i just sort of never had time for forums.

  but here i am at 3am, another sleepless night, and i feel like i am simply lost.

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  You mean the 'Untruth'...

  Very sad when relationships end for whatever reason..
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  My summer camp job experience

  by d in

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  this summer i met a russian women i worked at a summer camp for people with developmental disabilities and she is going back to russia in september.

  i grew to really like her as a person.

  i just feel empty that she is now gone to new york heading beck to moscow we hung out on three seperate occasions and i enjoyed myself and her company .

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  I thought this was a thread about a serious and passionate love story.. but it's just a whimsical and fickle 5 minute infatuation of foreign chick by a wet behind the ears school kid who still listens to his teachers on where he should take his holidays..

  I'm outta here..
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  Give me a reason not to go back

  by chukky 594 in

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  been out now for 10 yrs but life is a mess.

  starting to think its because i have no spiritual compass.

  why shouldn't i consider going back?.

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  Er... How about this for a reason. IT'S NOT THE TRUTH!
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  Looking for a brother

  by fleurette in

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  hi, i"m 25 years and i'm looking for a nice brother i'm haitian .

  and i like to go out i live in florida ft.lauderdale i'm looking.

  for a serious relationship.

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  73% female! Maybe I need to go back!!
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  Post some niceness ! There is too much negativity in the world.

  by new hope and happiness in

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  so here we are on a niceness thread talking about nice things.. yesterday a very pretty girl left her mobile behind at the computer in the libary, i returned it to her and she gave me a hug.

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  I have a neighbour that has a Staffordshire Bull terrier dog. They make the dog live on the outside balcony alwayts alone because he is dirty and smells like dog poo!. I don't think he has ever been near water. This evening I went and got him, took him into my flat and put him is my bath tub and gave him a good old scrub with doggy shampoo. He loved it and my bathroom was a complete mess and flooded and all walls spattered with muddy water.

  But I don't care because now that this doggy smells and feels lovely he is now allowed inside the flat of his owners and even gets to sit on the sofa and get some love.

  WIN! WIN!
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  What did ants evolve from?

  by Pinku in

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  an ant's brain is very minuscule when compared to a chimpanzee, yet it is capable engineering!

  (not to mention its ability to support 5,000 times their body weight before losing their heads.

  http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/5970/20140210/ants-support-5-000-times-body-weight-before-losing-heads.htm).

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  Dam there are apostate ants too!!

  Enslaved worker ants fight back through acts of sabotage

  It would appear that ants that are kept as slaves by more powerful species aren't as helpless as they might appear. New research from Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany shows that enslaved ants conduct their own form of civil disobedience, by neglecting and killing the offspring of their oppressors. And by doing so, the ants may be preventing their comrades outside the nest from being enslaved themselves.

  http://io9.com/5947040/enslaved-worker-ants-fight-back-through-acts-of-sabotage
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  Looking for a brother

  by fleurette in

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  hi, i"m 25 years and i'm looking for a nice brother i'm haitian .

  and i like to go out i live in florida ft.lauderdale i'm looking.

  for a serious relationship.

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  Do you think after one post Fleurette realised she came to the wrong site to find a nice brother? lol.
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  What did ants evolve from?

  by Pinku in

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  an ant's brain is very minuscule when compared to a chimpanzee, yet it is capable engineering!

  (not to mention its ability to support 5,000 times their body weight before losing their heads.

  http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/5970/20140210/ants-support-5-000-times-body-weight-before-losing-heads.htm).

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  The interesting point is that no individual ant has any idea of what's happening even though, jointly, the thing happens.

  How on earth could anyone know that? Did an ant tell you that? It's funny how believers will just make up things and call it voodoo to support their belief in magic. I'm sure if god came down confused the ants tongue they would not be half as organised.

  That makes about as much sense as saying one engineer can't do much on his own.. but 500 engineers coming together to build a suspension bridge is evidence that there is a God. (I am not saying there is no God by the way.. but that this is a very poor way in my opinion to try to prove his existence)

  What does 5,000 apostates coming together to create a forum indicate to you?
  
  I'm guessing this fellow below is possessed then..
  
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  Give me a reason not to go back

  by chukky 594 in

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  been out now for 10 yrs but life is a mess.

  starting to think its because i have no spiritual compass.

  why shouldn't i consider going back?.

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  Don't be a lemming.. find your own centre.
  
  
  
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  Is the ice bucket challenge for true christians?

  by hoser in

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  http://www.jw-archive.org/post/96026163083/would-taking-the-ice-bucket-challenge-raising-monee.

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  Just another social media fad .
  
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  Ice Bucket Challenge: ALS Foundation Admits Less Than 27% Of Donations Fund Research & Cures

  $95 Million Later: Only 27% Of Donations Actually Help ‘Research The Cure’

  

  As a huge proponent of serious charitable organizations, it always is disturbing to see trends such as Kony 2012 and various Susan G. Komen for the Cure initiatives take the social media atmosphere by storm. From the ultimate backlash against the celebrity-driven Kony fraud to the embarrassment of the KFC ‘Buckets for the Cure’ campaign backed by Susan G. Komen, I was immediately hoping that the infamous new ‘ice bucket challenge’ would in fact be an exception to the series of misled social media fundraising campaigns.

  As soon as the ALS Association published its official numbers and my contacts within the investigative community confirmed the worst, however, it was apparent that once again we have been shoveling (or dumping in this case by the bucket-load) our hard earned funds into an organization that only uses about 27% of its financing to actually fuel research ‘for the cure’ — which just so happens to be based on pumping up the bloated pharmaceutical industry.

  But don’t just take my word for it.

  $95 Million Later: Only 27% Of Donations Actually Help ‘Research The Cure’

  Reaching over 94 million in donations at the time of writing this article, thanks primarily due to the viral ice bucket challenge marketing campaign, you may be surprised to see the admitted breakdown of the company’s donated resources. You may be even more surprised to see the income breakdown within this non-profit that prides itself in helping ‘find the cure’ for ALS — now the most common among the five motor neuron diseases. From the company’s own records, we find the following cost breakdown for the year ending in January of 2014:

  

  Research, as you can clearly see, sits at only 27% of the organization’s overall expenditures. Fundraising (marketing), stands at around half at 14%, and 1.9 million in administration (7%) was spent on their roster of highly paid non-profit executives. In fact, we even have the salary figures for each executive, including the ALS Association CEO’s six figure total:

  • Jane H. Gilbert – President and CEO –$339,475.00
  • Daniel M. Reznikov – Chief Financial Officer – $201,260.00
  • Steve Gibson – Chief Public Policy Officer – $182,862.00
  • Kimberly Maginnis -Chief of Care Services Officer – $160,646.00
  • Lance Slaughter -Chief Chapter Relations and Development Officer – $152,692.00
  • Michelle Keegan – Chief Development Officer – $178,744.00
  • John Applegate – Association Finance Officer – $118.726.00
  • David Moses – Director of Planned Giving – $112,509.00
  • Carrie Munk – Chief Communications and Marketing Officer – $142,875.00
  • Patrick Wildman – Director of Public Policy – $112,358.00
  • Kathi Kromer – Director of State Advocacy – $110,661.00

  When it comes to private business and commerce, it benefits us all to see growing numbers among a company and its members. This, however, is not the case for a ‘non-profit’ organization that is based around the concept of ‘searching for the cure’ and ‘funding research’ as its primary goal. Especially when this organization is being funded with close to 100 million dollars through a viral social media campaign in which it appears no one truly took the time to investigate the very company they are shoveling their assets into.