Madame Quixote

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  6 Die From Brain-Eating Amoeba in Lakes

  by Elsewhere in

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  http://www.physorg.com/news110255496.html.

  it sounds like science fiction but it's true: a killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die.

  even though encounters with the microscopic bug are extraordinarily rare, it's killed six boys and young men this year.

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  Madame Quixote

  Having a brain eating amoeba is not as pleasant as it sounds. Else, do you think this is a good subject for you to dwell on in light of your recent surgery? Am I the only one who laughed out loud at this? Sorry, elsewhere, if you've really had surgery recently. (?)
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  first post

  by enz in

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  hi everyone ( "a great crowd ....

  ") with my first ever post .... i discovered this site a couple of wks ago and have lurking nearly every day since!

  wow - what a fantastic forum - really impressed with the support and validation i see here.

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  Madame Quixote

  Welcome to the Tree Of Knowledge, enz!
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  Thoughts from our CBS today, Is Jesus not really involved in politics?

  by dark angle in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was wondering over this question when we came across a point that christians should not get involved with politics.

  the account of john 6:14, 15 indicates that jesus refused the change to be made king of the jews.

  therefore witnesses concluded that jesus don't want to get involved with political power or politics and so his followers should not get involve in politics.. but this conclucion seems very contradicting & quite suspecious, since jesus knows he will become king (a political figure) of not only to the jews but to the whole world in the future.

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  I am of the opinion that asking whether or not Jesus is active in politics is about the same as asking whether or not Tony The Tiger is. Of course, they're both very involved in politics, as marketing devices somewhere, some how, some way, along with Jessica and Roger Rabbit, Foghorn Leghorn, Bugs Bunny and that urinating little cartoon guy pasted on the rear windows of a few local rednecks' trucks.
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  They came to my door this morning

  by knock knock in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i started not to answer but opened the door anyway.

  nice enough people and so full of compliments.

  "it's such a nice quiet area you live in.

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  . . . it's pretty easy to spot lame attempts to "win you over" no matter where they come from. I've been praised by HareKrishna's, Jehovah's Witnesses, Telemarketers and now even Baptists. lol They ALL want something from you.

  So true. I will never forget a dear friend's discussion about the Baptist minister down the road who left a flier at our door one day.

  My friend contacted the preacher and asked him if he'd left this at our door. Yes, and he's praying for us.

  My Jewish atheist friend kindly said, "Don't pray for me. The devil might hear you and then he'll really screw up my day. He just didn't get what I was saying."
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  They came to my door this morning

  by knock knock in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i started not to answer but opened the door anyway.

  nice enough people and so full of compliments.

  "it's such a nice quiet area you live in.

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  Madame Quixote

  A fat and lovely, older set of black JW 'sisters' came to the door at my place of work about two weeks ago, during some very stressful days there.

  I wondered if they - (or someone else, who might have sent them my way) - noticed my "Stop Watchtower Abuse" bumper sticker on the car parked directly across the street.

  I quickly and politely told them,"No thank you, I don't have time. I'm at work right now," and shut the door as they said,"Oh. I understand." Clik. Clik.

  Simple, clean, easy. No confrontation. No buckets of mop water on their heads. No discussion. No argumentation. No yelling. No door-slamming. None of the drama I envision.

  Of course, if they came to my own "marked" place of residence, I'm not sure I would not have engaged them with a quick discussion of JW U.N. involvement or asked them about their opinion of the pedophile coverup and recent settlements and gag orders. My work place is not the place for any of that.
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  How many of you have food stored in case of an emergency??

  by Lady Liberty in

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  2. friends

  good evening everyone,.

  another topic here made me think of the mormons who are counseled to have a years worth of food on hand in the event of an emergency.

  food, water, money and gas are all things suggested to save.

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  Madame Quixote

  Maybe we should just move to Salt Lake City, where all our neighbors will have lots of provisions.
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  How many of you have food stored in case of an emergency??

  by Lady Liberty in

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  2. friends

  good evening everyone,.

  another topic here made me think of the mormons who are counseled to have a years worth of food on hand in the event of an emergency.

  food, water, money and gas are all things suggested to save.

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  That shopping list is ridiculous for people living in small apartments. If I tried to buy all that stuff, there would be no place to put it, and I'd end up with rats in my eaves, chomping down on wheat. I could not afford to buy all the storage containers for all that shit, LOL~
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  How many of you have food stored in case of an emergency??

  by Lady Liberty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  good evening everyone,.

  another topic here made me think of the mormons who are counseled to have a years worth of food on hand in the event of an emergency.

  food, water, money and gas are all things suggested to save.

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  Madame Quixote

  I have some extra provisions stored in my butt, upper arms, and gut.
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  Do those of you "born into the truth" have problems with relationships?

  by marmot in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm a 4th generation dub and i was the epitome of a goodie-two-shoes elder's son.

  i was taught/brainwashed that dating was evil and only for mature brothers (i distinctly remember a part on the assembly with a "demonstration" that said even 24 years old was too young to date and you should concentrate on becoming a ms or pioneer first) and went through so much soul-destroying guilt because of the society's utterly ridiculous stance on masturbation that it almost drove me to suicide.

  didn't help that my father the elder had a massive porn stash.

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  Madame Quixote

  Yup. Counseling is helping a lot. I've had several important, difficult issues to deal with recently, and have made significant progress in addressing some of it, with the help of counselling. I feel very fortunate to have it available now because it's very clearly helping me to address and end some damaging behaviour patterns; althought it's very incremental. Best wishes!
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  Cain and Abel - where did they get the idea of a burnt offering?

  by truthseeker in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it has always puzzled me why abel, a herder of sheep, would want to kill his own animals to offer them up to god.. prior to the flood, it would be fair to say that no one ate meat.

  maybe they did, maybe they didn't, but assuming that meat.

  was not eaten, why would abel's offering be better than cain's offering?.

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  Madame Quixote

  He was hungry and wanted an excuse for a pig-picking, but then remembered he wasn't allowed to eat pork, so it had to be bah bah black sheep instead, as usual. Making an offering to god was just an excuse for a sheep bbq.