Every time I walk on the beach, I think of all the unseen life in the ocean - all of the marine mammals and exotic fishes I'll never get to see - except in photos or in an aquarium - and I wonder about the sensibilities and sensitivities of these poor whales and dolphins that have been beaching themselves - one or two in my own area. I've heard that a number of the beaching problems are caused by naval sonar:
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Navy Being Sued On Behalf Of Marine Mammals . . . what do you think?
by Madame Quixote inevery time i walk on the beach, i think of all the unseen life in the ocean - all of the marine mammals and exotic fishes i'll never get to see - except in photos or in an aquarium - and i wonder about the sensibilities and sensitivities of these poor whales and dolphins that have been beaching themselves - one or two in my own area.
i've heard that a number of the beaching problems are caused by naval sonar:.
http://www.grist.org/news/daily/2007/05/17/#1.
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How did you decide it was "true love"?
by Crumpet inwas it in a gift, a kiss, or other?.
how did you decide you were crazy about or connected to someone?.
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Like it said in the movie ... he would always give me his last morsel of food.
Now, that's the man for me! hmmm, I wonder, would I actually take his last morsel of food? probably . . . or would I give it to someone else? hmmm . . . makes you think about what love really means . . . outside of the romantic ideal
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How did you decide it was "true love"?
by Crumpet inwas it in a gift, a kiss, or other?.
how did you decide you were crazy about or connected to someone?.
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Well, a good bit depends on the label. And the mood I'm in. I have a great passion for whites, although I've been experimenting with reds . . . oh, you were talking about love! good gracious, honey! Let's just get to the sex!
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What did you say when someone asked how's your mother doing?
by MsMcDucket inor any other family member that was not in "the cult"?
i was always embarrassed to say that i didn't know.
i never did learn how to deflect the question.
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Usually some variation on what gymbob said, or a variation of "same as always - I guess - unless she's (or they've) gotten treatment . . . but I wouldn't know; they shun me for religious reasons because a book publishing company tells them to . . ."
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A suggestion re: WT$ settlement
by darth frosty ini was just watching the daily show and they did a regular feature of theirs called this week in god ( for reference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbyrpy-siuu).
any way a thought hit me(i dont in any way condone making light of these victims suffering) what if the daily show did a feature in this segment where they talk about the settlement and coverup, compared against the special km tract the wt$ destributed last year.
they can highlight the part in the tract where they speak against the catholic church and there law suit issues.. .
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I love the concept of "this week in god" as a parody; this week in jehovah would be even more scathing.
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Happy New Year! 80 million more "wicked" ones added to the bird food pile.
by Open mind inwhat is the net effect of every year that our loving god jehovah, who is patient and desires "none to be destroyed", holds back the winds of destruction?
it ultimately results in roughly 80 million more humans to be added to the pile of post-armageddon bird food.
i've read this concept several times before on jwd but decided to do a little googling to get the 80 million number.
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what excellent points, open mind. You sure have opened your mind to a few sobering facts!
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A suggestion re: WT$ settlement
by darth frosty ini was just watching the daily show and they did a regular feature of theirs called this week in god ( for reference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbyrpy-siuu).
any way a thought hit me(i dont in any way condone making light of these victims suffering) what if the daily show did a feature in this segment where they talk about the settlement and coverup, compared against the special km tract the wt$ destributed last year.
they can highlight the part in the tract where they speak against the catholic church and there law suit issues.. .
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Or you could get online and advertise the settlements like I did (and almost forgot about the thread til a few minutes ago) and consequently discover that allegations of sex abuse in one of your own local halls (!) was made on a public forum.
Feel free to read and comment here, disregarding the idiots who claim the victims were precocious little tarts who deserved or encouraged the abuse. See what "tarheels" had to say to the thread:
I am totally floored, as I said I almost forgot. Such claims might be important to lawyers and to other victims; it's certainly the first time I've heard any allegations - public or private - regarding sex abuse in any of the local halls. I sent an email and thread addy to silentlambs. Gosh! I hope the link works. I'm completely floored.
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REALLY NEED SOME HELP HERE!
by sinis injust to reiterate, i have not been to a meeting in years, and have no intention of going back.
my wife on the other hand is a "cold"/"lukewarm" jdub.
i really like it that way as she is not "strong" and misses a lot of meetings.
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Just when I thought I was F*CKING winning!!!!
Sorry, it actually sounds like you're in a lose/lose situation. cuz, if you try to control her or her studying, you're getting labelled as the control freak/unbelieving mate and if you don't fight it somehow, you lose your wife's mind to "da troof."
Maybe a marriage counselor could help?
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DEMAND THE RESIGNATION OF THE GOVERNING BODY
by Pistoff inin view of the breathtaking mistakes made by the governing body in the last 10 years, the time has come for all with influence in or out of the organization of jehovah's witnesses to ask for the resignation of the entire governing body.
<br>in the past 5 years alone, we have seen the defacto president of the watchtower society, theodore jarascz, dismiss reporters from the bbc without addressing their questions about sex abuse; they have denied repeatedly that there is a problem in the 2 witness to sex abuse policy; they have arranged the excommunication of whistleblowers in the organization, implying that they are spiritually deficient or worse.
<br>thousands of members of this fellowship have been sexually abused by family or friends in the group, only to be told that it didn't happen, that they misunderstood it, and if they could not produce a second witness or the accused confessed, they were told that they must be silent or face shunning.
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THIS corporation has lost a legal fight to keep their database of accused molesters private
Are you sure about that? I hope you're right, although, I thought a prime reason for the 16 settlements and for the so-called "gag" rule was to maintain the secrecy of the pedophile database; usually that's what settlements are all about - damage control. Anyway, I don't know for sure, just asking . . .
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Senior Prom For My Daughter
by Madame Quixote ineverything that i would have liked to have had on my senior prom night is happening for my daughter tonight:.
she has a date with a real boyfriend;.
she has a bunch of friends to hang out with;.
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Awww! No piccies, yet. They got them taken at the prom, but then went to a friend's and changed clothes before coming home.I didn't even get to see my baby in her sr. prom outfit! Oh well! Maybe I'll get to see the pictures in a couple of weeks! She's on her way home now, and no doubt she forgot it's Mother's Day. Oh well, time to go work on graduation invitations, maybe . . .