Lisa, sorry to hear about the death in the family. Please accept my condolence for the loss of your brother.
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91My brother died last night
by LisaRose ini found out this morning that my brother died last night, he was also an ex jw, 73 years old and died of heart disease and kidney failure.
it was not totally unexpected, as he had been in poor health, but it's a blow, especially as i just lost another brother two years ago.
there were six of us, now only four.
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Start A Butterfly Garden!
by Bonsai intime to take a break from debating religion.
take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?
how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?
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As blondie had mentioned, WT had numerous dates from 1799 till 1881 (1874+7) and it was always explained backwards not a forward event. WT was not aware that Jesus selected them until 1918/1919 after he spent 3.5 years examining the Christian religion and found its follower among couple crazies in USA charged with sedition.Link +1 / -0 -
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Here's a view on homosexuality for you...
by konceptual99 in...right from a pro-jw site in response to a post about the relative seriousness of homosexuality.
all you can do is reason from the scriptures, which you appear to have done.
homosexuality is as serious as bestiality, or adultery and fornication.
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"Make America hate again"
by MarkofCane in“trump is predicting he’ll be able to do all these things, but his workload will be pretty enormous and his power would be so limited by precedent, by the bureaucracy, by the constitution,” said robert dallek, a presidential historian.
“even in trade and immigration, where trump says he will make revolutionary changes, congress has a say on those things.
a lot of people have a say.
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I do not put much into the idea of one American president to run the show similarly as it happened in some totalitarian countries around the world. While there is no denial that some people envision having their favorite choice to have this power to squash opponents, it is unrealistic within the political system of USA that survived such crisis like the Civil War and the Great Depression. What is more worrying is the trend, where the American society is heading, which has far more reaching legacy and lasting impact. Trump's big mistake could be destruction of the NATO and USA military standing which itself is worn out by GWB war legacy. Americans after they broke off alliance with France in 1800 until 1942 refused to be part of any, and lived in delusion of isolation until the WWII. Trump is feeding on the same isolationist delusion of the long lost past.
The decline of the USA is already in the second decade of making. Today I saw a chart that plotted car sales in USA since 1951, and we sell 40% less cars than it had in the peaks 30 years ago and less than it was in 1951 when USA had the half of the current population. This only showing a decline of the purchasing power of the American consumers. After inflation, USA incomes are in the 1990's level. Therefore, if anything, the US policy after any election would have to undergo through economic restructuring and reformation while at the same time addressing a needs of Gen Y which is the biggest demographic in the country and its voice was neglected by shrinking Boomer population. I do not see any of the candidate have any ideas what to do, and I frankly do not think that Hillary or Trump even care.
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Share your home remedies for congestion and earache...please?
by GrreatTeacher inthe extraordinarily high pollen count has finally done me in.
i started with head congestion and coughing on friday and have steadily felt worse.
i now have an earache and a heavy feeling in my chest.. yes, i do have a doctor's appointment for tomorrow, as i'm sure the advice would be!
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Start A Butterfly Garden!
by Bonsai intime to take a break from debating religion.
take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?
how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?
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We had tons of rain yesterday, tornado warnings and hail storm. The March-April water deficit was finally erased. The lawn loves the rain, so it is lush and green like in Ireland. However, my shrubs are shedding petals from the rain and hails. I will be traveling next two weekends, so I wont be able to do any yard work, but I am not very pleased how the backyard looks right now, so I have to wait till Memorial weekend to do any major fixes.Link +1 / -0 -
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Start A Butterfly Garden!
by Bonsai intime to take a break from debating religion.
take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?
how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?
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cat has just brought in a weasel for the first time...
Once my deceased cat brought a live snake into the house. And also mice (dead). He also picked up moles, but never killed, but dragged them to the door, and then let it go. I was not very pleased with moles afterwards devastating my garden. Bad kitty.
When I was kid, I stayed the my grandmother house in the southern Moravian countryside. As a city boy, I never seen a snail, so I picked around the countryside a full box of them and brought them inside of her house. Worried that she would be too pleased with my life collection, I hid them in the water tank at her extensive orangery where she stored subtropical plants. The snails got out and went into feast. For year they drove her crazy, because they were everywhere, and they had to call exterminator. When i was older, i mentioned to my grandmother what I have done, and she laughed it of. She suspected her elderly neighbor was jealous and was throwing snails over the roof into her courtyard.
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Start A Butterfly Garden!
by Bonsai intime to take a break from debating religion.
take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?
how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?
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So April is over. We had strange weather extremes that month. Rain deficit is 3" or 4" but this will be erased by the next week. We had non-stop rain for the last three days. We had highs to 88F and early morning freeze. My hydrangeas suffered from freeze burn (the first time ever), while wisteria dropped all its flowers, and early blooming azaleas look terrible. On the other had, lawn looks good. I have a tons of lily-of-the-valley, dragonroot, and may night sage blooming. I am hoping for calla lilies and gladiolas to finally poke from the ground, because this time of the of the year, they should be already sprouting.
I also have a bunny family living under the shed. They stayed there couple years ago, but were gone last year. The biggest issue right now are caterpillars. We never had so many of them like this spring. They totally chew many leafs on my english laurels and some other plants. Birds seem to be too lazy to eat them, but I do not want to overspray the backyard with chemical(s).
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