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  Punctuation within and without quotation marks

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  http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .

  would someone please make this link clickable?.

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  humbled

  I might have copied and pasted all of the above. I’ve read it couple times. And finally the following memory poked its head out of the past.

  About 10 years ago I worked in the Facilities Department at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. They had a summer music camp. There were instructors and young teens in every nook and cranny of the building. (Pheromones so thick l could hardly breathe) Parking my cleaning cart in the entrance of one of the smaller restroom l was to clean, I realized just beyond near the alcove leading to an outside garden there was a tutor and a boy holding his sax. The words of the tutor to his student, a boy of perhaps 13, fascinated me. Best l can remember he said:

  “... and don’t be tempted to go down the road that some musicians do. To “feel the music” even famous players have gone into drugs or alcohol. You don’t have to do that to play with power, play with feeling. You can take your head and put it in a special place without doing that. Some good musicians use drugs and alcohol to unlock their heart —but after a while it breaks them. You gotta learn how to get into your own head sober.”

  Unfortunately l had toilets to clean so can’t say if the kid’s tutor had more than cautions on the matter. Maybe later he gave guidance as you did for Thomas on the safer methods to artistic “madness”.

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  Interesting conversation.
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  Punctuation within and without quotation marks

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  http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .

  would someone please make this link clickable?.

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  Teaching people how to write—now that’s a wonderful thing to do.

  Do your students ever have impediments to clear writing because they can’t identify a thought or a feeling?

  My thoughts first appear back to front and l have to reassemble them nearly every time. I see others write clear statements and they are well ordered. Thoughts pelt me and l have to sort them with great care.

  It sounds as though your creative writing students learn better speech as a bonus.
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  Do Jehovah's Witnesses Accept Evolution?

  by jukief in

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  2. beliefs

  by evolution or by creation?

  by evolution or by creation?

  "the bible is a myth" and "evolution is true".

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  humbled

  I just solved the problem of evil—slimboyfat

  what a sharp skirmish has gone on and l arrive late with only some odd observations and barnyard reflections.

  But there is something so profoundly troubling about your solution , SBF, that —well —l will risk embarrassment by confessing l have myself tried solving the problem of evil in the barnyard and will see if you agree with my disappointment.

  I believe we both share the view that victims, whether man or beast, if they must live with and relive the trauma of their terror and pain and death—then evil lives too. But —if God can stop the memory of the memory of the evil in the victims—that solves the problem of evil?

  I experimented by sparing ____ (fill in the blank)the terror and pain of death by careful planning and deceitful behavior. There were ways and means by which this can happen. The expression “he didn’t know what hit him.” serves here. My victims (when it went well) had no trauma, no memory of their collapse, expirations, the gore and dismemberment. They had no knowledge of evil.

  The problem was that the memory of the plotting, the power, the termination the violation of life did continue to live. Just because the victim didn’t know what happened didn’t mean l could forget what l had done.It lived in my brain afterward.

  The taking of life is violation,is evil whether or not the animal felt it. Maybe if l had been purer l would not have been bothered by carrying death in my head. But a god that hold that secret evil in his holy brain? This didn’t solve the problem of evil for me.
  
  
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  Child Abuse issues in India

  by MaxPayne in

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  any jw's ex or pimo ones aware of child abuse cases in india.

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  if there would be seems like they would conceal it alot in india.

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  https://www.google.com/amp/indianexpress.com/article/blogs/the-deafening-silence-of-child-abuse-2980397/lite/

  How easy is it to hide? If a society looks the other way in general then it would be easy to hide.

  Indians has recent law to curb their 50% incidence of child sexual abuse but attitudes are slow to turn around. Info here says half the victims are boys.

  Must care about the least. Must care for the children.
  
  
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  How do you deal with people who do not like you?

  by usualusername1 in

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  hi guysin the last year i have started to socialise a lot more.

  namely comedy and a tennis social club.. for a variety of reasons i find socialising tough.

  in my tennis club a couple of women have been extremely rude to me and i have blocked one from my phone and refuse to speak to both.. is my behaviour extreme?paul.

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  Morpheus —“ Peoples opinion of me is none of my business.”
  Coco: "Never explain yourself, your friends dont need it & your enemies will never believe it!"

  Perhaps Paul is confounded by a thing that puzzles all of us from time to time: The moment when we discover that a person we felt was in our “friend camp” is not. In fact we are shocked to learn they are hostiles. Enemies.

  Friends are those to whom we talk freely. From whom receive free comment, occasional questions, often support—at the very least —respect.

  When a person of my acquaintance—one whose goodwill l had no reason to doubt— shows a readiness to harm me, l readjust. But I do not castigate myself for having thought them a friend.

  Afterward l will maintain a buffer in my mind from this person who thinks badly of me. I do not try to engage them —even reasonably because there is a saying that is very true:

  “Ill will never spoke well.”

  There is a lot of good advice here.

  I do think for JW’s it can be difficult figuring out authentic interactions since WTBTS programming discouraged emotional honesty.
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  Punctuation within and without quotation marks

  by compound complex in

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  http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .

  would someone please make this link clickable?.

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  jp1692–

  1. Does it make sense?

  1. Does it have style?

  Everything else is just filler.

  I appreciate that remark. I do value good writing and struggle toward it though it is often beyond me.

  Your comment indicates something that touches on a subject thread Coco brought up a day or so ago on the art of debate-ln my mind without a little goodwill on the side of the person you are trying to communicate with one’s best efforts to express thought will inevitably fail due to one’s lack of expertise in the art of written words. In written conversation the desire to understand what another person is trying to express can either be revealed as an examination of a subject or as ...something else entirely.

  As quite an aside and yet somewhat related, I used to most enjoy watching the sign language interpreters . “sense and style” through body and facial expression beyond commas and grammars’ reach. I love it.
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  Languages, Dialects, Accents

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.

  first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.

  red, arrow, break.

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  humbled

  In 1973-74 I lived in Dublin. My job in Germany as an au pair(sp?) had folded and l wanted to see the land of my ancestors before going home to Arkansas. Ireland and the US share the English tongue? I had to develop an ear for Dublinese.

  I was sketching along the banks of the Liffey when a couple young fellows approached and said something to me. I asked him to repeat it as I didn’t understand. They did -and I didn’t again. Again l asked for a repeat with no better results. I never knew their original question but as they gave up in disgust my ear picked up their final remark “air yea feckin diff?”

  What a beautiful conversation. If only we could hear each person’s actual voice instead of reading it. Thanks Diogenesister for the video on the Edwardians.

  Rub a dub: (edit) hilarious: “day-ed” reminds me of sounds around the hills where l live
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  Did you learn how to debate in school (or elsewhere)?

  by compound complex in

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  last night i was taking another look at the term "dialectics":.

  the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions: discussion; debate; logical reasoning; etc.. the dialectical method is, at base, a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments.. while i intend to do further research on my own, what is your own experience regarding preparation for debate, the do's and don'ts, maintaining your cool, .

  i ask, in part, because i observe that some online debaters present facts and figures and use sound reasoning while maintaining their decorum; many do not.. thank you..

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  humbled

  You have introduced the nitro and the glycerin, Coco. There is discussion and there is debate. Let’s see how it shakes out.

  Your thread is inviting discussion that invites subjective comment. It will be interesting to see if it gets diverted into caustic debate.

  You are inviting others to respectfully probe a topic that defies the use of facts and figures—unless by some means we were able to establish (for instance) the number of posters who abandon discussions -or even this forum -not on account of facts, figures and sound reasoning -but because of what you call a “lack of decorum” that renders discussions null and void of value.

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  Thank you, gentleman Coco. I will try to maintain a ladylike demeanor.
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  My Dissociation letter

  by TJ Curioso in

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  hi to everyone!i was summoned to the judicial committee and went.

  it was a respectful conversation from one side to the other.

  in the end i handed the dissociation letter in hand and a binding to each of the elders, with an article i wrote on the subject, "are jehovah's witnesses a destructive sect?

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  humbled

  Your letter was filled with two qualities the Organization made war on: individual responsibility and real love.

  A beautiful letter.

  I have no use for theology now. But individual responsibly and real love — teachings attributed to Jesus hold me together. Was he just a r&f Jewish Carpenter? I truly do not believe it matters.

  l am glad that you measured out why you disassociated in your letter. I know it would have affected me even at the height of my JW attachment if l had read it.

  Thanks for sharing it.
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  Growing a beard

  by Coded Logic in

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  i've always been currious as to how i would look with a beard so i've finally committed to doing it.

  over the next 30 days i'm going to grow out a full chin to ear beard.. .

  ps:  any suggestions or advice on how to grow a beard would be much appreciated!.

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  humbled

  If your skin gets funky, itchy, flakey like it does for some guys( three guys l know had that trouble) buy pine tar soap and shampoo your beard with it.

  Maybe sounds weird but it is not an uncommon problem and pine tar soap is a fine old remedy. Check it out on line.

  Good luck, fella!