when you post here, do you feel that you that you can make a positive difference in someone's life?
or is this place just a spot to hang with your friends?
I don't know Minimus. You have effected me in the way I interact with people; You and a few other admitted elders. I have realized that through your and their words to me how I lack patience with people. This comes across as hostile or belittling. It's not my intent but is something that I do; Something I should work on. So yeah, you have made a difference in at least one person here for the better.
Thank you
how much vacation do you get per yr?
according to this article, hard working americans get 8 days off.vacations are being downsized by the same forces that brought us soaring work weeks: labor cutbacks, a sense of false urgency created by tech tools, fear and, most of all, guilt.
managers use the climate of job insecurity to stall, cancel and abbreviate paid leave, while piling on guilt.
Self employed so I choose. I tend to not take vacations and have taken off 2 weekends in 8 years. I have been trying to take single days off a few times a month this year for fishing. It's a start.
i have noticed that a lot of you here quote references of history from scripture, so my question is this.
if you say that the bible is not the true word of god then how can it even be a true word of history.
I have noticed that a lot of you here quote references of history from scripture, so my question is this. If you say that the bible is not the true word of God then how can it even be a true word of History.
It's a fair question. So many people attach "inspired" to true.. Which can mean what ever the hell the so called want it to. "Inspired" is out there and is interpreted by them. Kind of like the boogyman.
My favorite saying (on this) is that those who want to interpret the Bible for you are like blind men with a map standing in the middle on Wall Street trying to give you directions to Disneyland but they have never been there themselves.
The Bible has many differnet meanings some are allegory, some is mystical/mythical, some is history. But inspired? In me yes, but out there to be interpreted for my slavory salvation, that is not for me.
i just got a phone call from someone i used to know, oh, about 25 years ago.
she and her cousin and i hung out together as single pioneers -- they got married, i got married, we lost touch.
well, turns out she now goes to the same congregation as one of the witnesses who works at my law firm -- the same one who, months ago when i started telling people i was no longer one of jehovah's witnesses, told me i could believe what i want but "don't make trouble for the rest of us" -- and evidently the two ladies got to talking and my co-worker gave her my phone number at home.
Not being a witness but being caught up in the "just checking up on you and are you started going back to meetings yet why not what happened well talk to you later routine" with my wife. I Can't help but notice that every time a JW stirs the pot with an ex member and that member tells their new world about the old one it is free advertising for the cult. I found when telling them that the JW's meddling is harrassment normal people had a hard time understanding. In fact because of their own desire to protect their own faith's issues many would in some ways defend the JW and claim that "I should give them the benifit of a doubt. After all, there is no way that all JW's can be the same." After a while I kept a copy of CoC in my car. Along with "Questions to Ask a Jehovah Witness." The "Silent Lambs" movement has been nice to show. (Not that it is a nice subject) My point is rather than feeling a victim of JW harrassment or letting them use me as a vehicle to spread doctrinal snippits that normals do not understand I give them the awful truth about this sect. In doing this many, and I mean many people have become informed. I have had people say "I am so glad you told me about them, they were trying to suck in my [insert here] into the cult and I was able to give them some good information."
JW's consider me the devil. And I'm OK with that.
(I hope sharing a personal storyism might give someone some ideas)
a judge awarded vicki boer $5,000 in june.
she claimed in a civil suit that elders told her not to seek outside help or report the alleged abuse.
no no criminal charges were laid in the assault allegations.
It would be nice to get the court transcripts out to ever house in Canada. Then when the "good word" comes to the door in hucksters hands to talk of the "evil" in the world people can say "Why yes there is!" And share a copy with those who need it most.
bill clinton on bush uranium line: 'everybody makes mistakes' former president accepts explanation on state of the union
wednesday, july 23, 2003 posted: 1:31 pm edt (1731 gmt).
washington (cnn) -- the white house, attacked by critics for a now-retracted line about iraq seeking uranium from africa in president bush's state of the union address, has gotten some surprising support from former president clinton.. "i thought the white house did the right thing in just saying 'we probably shouldn't have said that,' " clinton told cnn's larry king in a phone interview tuesday evening.
i dont doubt that one bit.......in fact, thats what ive been saying all along. it made no difference who was in the white house (democrat, republican), saddam was going to be taken out of power, and for good reason imo. it just gets tiring hearing about how this whole war was/is bushs evil plot, and how bush lied to us all (notice clinton believed bushs "lies" before bush even told them!), etc, etc..........the vast majority of the antiwar crowd cannot see the fact that this war had very little to do with bush....he just pushed the final button.-Dubla
I'm I'm I'm speechless....
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cnn is reporting that saddam's sons, oudai and qusay are confirmed to be dead.
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Enjoy the feelings that everyone has come together on Iraq. It won't last. Maybe it will help to quite the war threads at best. Why overhelming force? 8 men are a target. [Black Hawk Down scenario] 200 21st century US soldiers with air and ground support is a guaranteed victory. What does it matter if 2000 soldiers were used? It worked! And it was clear that DNA from a JDAM bombing would not convince the detractors. They wanted bodies to believe. Now they have them. And now the US is a hippopottycrite for showing the bodies. Oh well, those who say that never liked America anyway.
foxnews just stated that part of the release was "for psychological warfare".. if that is the case then the release will have the same, if not worse, psychological ramifications on u.s. children too?.
there is no way i want my child viewing this mindphuck bullkrap!!.
bush wants usa to see this...to make it clear....that if you go against him and his 'laws', you will too be 'deadmeat', as viewed in these photos.. this is sick.
The US gov should have found another way to prove to the naysayers that the sons were really dead.
The "naysayers" as you call them Teen will never be happy with what ever is done. The onesidedness can only me looked at as "The Tower is Always Right." Their carping's like like the freaking neighbors dog that will not shut up. I'd be shocked to learn that they actually belive the imortal Hussian's can die. Their hero's are of mythical proportions.
These two crapolas are just "enemy combatants." And we should have tried to "talk them out" so we can "interogate" them. God we watch to much TV.
Right up there with "When someone is shooting at you then try to shoot them in the foot or something....Just to stop them....." W H A T E V E R
my *personal* opinion is that they should because the people of iraq will probably require some proof.
i don't have any interest in seeing the photos but i believe that their photos will spread throughout the internet and the news media and curiosity will eventually cause me to peek at the photos.
don't know why i would have interest in seeing a couple of lifeless bodies though.
BTW, I do not think they should have shown the pics. However, as all the Wag the Dog detractors have pointed out, they would not believe it until they saw the bodies. Now they can see the bodies and they complain that they should not be shown.- Teenyuck
Well that's a wrap.
ok, i won't give his name, but he is a major with an engineer unit in iraq.
here's what he has to say on iraq, i've highlighted a few interesting points.
it has been a while since i have written to my friends about what's really going on here in iraq.
That's a question, isn't it. On the one hand he or someone else edited the letter, and it wasn't sent as a "forwarded" item. On the other hand, he didn't sign it, and it was sent to some number of email addresses. I don't know what his intention was. -Yeru
Yeru, I am pretty disgusted with people demanding that you condem your friend. You do what every you feel is appropriate. You know him and his character not me. He may have innocently passed on a letter. And, a positive letter about Iraq at that. (THE HORROR) These people that look for and continue to point out ever flaw with Iraq & Bush while willfully ignoring any postive what so ever of the actions thus far probably help the cause more than hurt it. They may not see their bias but others do. They still think their BBC & such is above reproach and that ain't so. (Well, maybe for them it is) Time will tell.
Has anyone read this book? I am considering buying it.
THE CONTINUING STORM
Iraq, Poisonous Weapons, and Deterrence
Avigdor Haselkorn
1999
400 pp. 13 illus., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Cloth ISBN 0-300-07582-0 $30.00“Haselkorn is the first to take a serious academic look at the role of weapons of mass destruction in the Gulf War. It is an important breakthrough, and it will be a major contribution to a complete reassessment of the war.”--Paul Bracken, author of The Command and Control of Nuclear Forces
In this thought-provoking book strategic analyst Avigdor Haselkorn provides an important reassessment of the 1991 Gulf War. Haselkorn’s step-by-step narrative--in which he reviews the events of the war with Iraq, examines intelligence and planning during the war, discusses why President Bush abruptly terminated it, and analyzes the strategic consequences--is absorbing and frightening. He reveals that the war was not the splendid high-tech victory that many Americans perceive, but a nearly catastrophic event. The threatened use of weapons of mass destruction during the Gulf War has redefined the meaning of deterrence, Haselkorn contends, and has set in motion trends that portend great danger to world peace.
This book focuses on the role played by biological and chemical weapons in the Gulf War and scrutinizes the dynamics of deterrence. It supplies the grim facts about anthrax, botulinum toxin, and poison gases and traces the terror of their use. Haselkorn shows that President Bush had little choice about ending the war when he did, given the failure of U. S. intelligence and severe flaws in strategic planning. Indeed, leaders on both sides of the conflict were either dangerously uninformed or did not fully understand the information they had. This book provides a key to understanding the continuing stalemate with Iraq, and it offers new insights into how the spread of weapons of mass destruction will affect world politics and future battlefields.
Avigdor Haselkorn is director of Geopolitical Forum, Lookout Point Online Database. He has advised many governments and businesses on foreign and strategic issues.
“Intellectually gussied up as ‘deterrence,” guessing how to out-terrify one’s enemy without actually resorting to anthrax, nerve gas, or nuclear bombs was a critical subtext in the Gulf War. Haselkorn describes this vital but arcane interaction of threat and belief in detail. . . . The author’s theory that Saddam Hussein’s posture of ‘terroristic deterrence’ indeed deterred Bush from marching on Bagdad challenges most views and should prolong the debate about the ragged conclusion to that war.”--Gilbert Taylor, Booklist
“It is hard to disagree with Haselkorn’s conclusion that in the future small extremist countries--North Korea, Libya, Iraq, and Iran--can use the threat of chemical/biological terrorism against the superpowers. A provocative and disturbing book.”--Library Journal
