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  Black cop kills unarmed white male DillonTaylor in Utah

  by moomanchu in

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  golly gee wiz only local media cover for this.. i like the way the media describes it.. mr. taylor wasnt black hes been described as white and hispanic and the .

  officer who shot him aug. 11 outside a 7-eleven in south salt lake wasnt white.. race bias ???.

  naaaaaah can't be !!!!!.

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  Do you know your neighbors? Is it just me?

  by neverendingjourney in

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  i'm a single hispanic guy in my mid 30s living by myself in suburban america.

  i own a home in the kind of neighborhood where you have to get hoa permission to do just about anything, including chopping down a tree.

  i'm a white collar worker and lead a pretty boring life.

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  TD,

  You may not remember but we exchanged PMs probably around two years ago. The first home I owned, the one with mostly older neighbors, was in your neck of the woods. I found that the people out there generally liked to be left alone, though, at least more so than the people from my home state.
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  Do you know your neighbors? Is it just me?

  by neverendingjourney in

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  i'm a single hispanic guy in my mid 30s living by myself in suburban america.

  i own a home in the kind of neighborhood where you have to get hoa permission to do just about anything, including chopping down a tree.

  i'm a white collar worker and lead a pretty boring life.

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  Do you think there is some racial animus?

  Not really. I wouldn't call it that. It's not like anyone has been outright hostile towards me. I imagine there are a lot of factors at play.

  My current neighborhood in squarely in the midst of suburbia and is populated by the type of people seeking an enclave and wanting to get away from the inner city. If there's a burglary 5 miles away everyone is going to hear about it. Neighborhood watch meetings will probably be convened. I don't really live here by choice. My office is in this town and I don't see the point in living in the city and having a reverse commute.

  The neighborhood website I mentioned earlier has threads started by neighbors warning of the dangers of hiring "illegals" to mow your lawn. In other words, it wouldn't surprise me if some of these folks make assumptions based on their paranoia and preconceived notions of me based on my race, marital status, age, etc. I 'm certainly not trying to imply that the reaction is simply a product of racism.
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  Do you know your neighbors? Is it just me?

  by neverendingjourney in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i'm a single hispanic guy in my mid 30s living by myself in suburban america.

  i own a home in the kind of neighborhood where you have to get hoa permission to do just about anything, including chopping down a tree.

  i'm a white collar worker and lead a pretty boring life.

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  Hi Jamie! I hope you're well. Haven't talked to you in a long time.
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  "My Husband is Poisoning Me!" Judicial Committee number 256

  by BucketShopBill in

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  2. beliefs

  i pulled up the notes from one of the more weird judical committe topics, this is the garbage your elders had to handle!.

  the mind games played by one of the elderettes come's to mind, she was speaking to a sister that was suffering from severe anxiety and helped our depressed sister draw the conclusion that "sister depressed's husband is trying to poisoning her!

  " off goes this once pretty and smart woman, she went to college and got her license to draw blood because she wanted to test it for arsenic and polonium (around the time that russian guy got off ed by vladimir putin).

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  My dad hit a phase where he'd tell anyone who'd listen that my mother was poisoning him. Thankfully, nobody really takes him seriously anymore as he's paranoid, has no friends and likely suffers from a host of mental illnesses.

  I imagine elders hear a lot of weird crap and it must be funny looking back on it. Some of it is sad, though. There was a JW family who called the elders because they had a son who was supposedly under the influence of demons. The kid was hearing voices telling him to kill his mother. The elders prayed with the family and encouraged them to throw away any possessions that might have a tie to spiritism. The kid should have immediately been put under medical care as he was clearly exhibiting symptoms of mental illness, perhaps schizophrenia.

  Instead, they sent a welder and a truck driver to attend to a medical emergency.
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  Do you know your neighbors? Is it just me?

  by neverendingjourney in

  1. watchtower
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  i'm a single hispanic guy in my mid 30s living by myself in suburban america.

  i own a home in the kind of neighborhood where you have to get hoa permission to do just about anything, including chopping down a tree.

  i'm a white collar worker and lead a pretty boring life.

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  Single white guy here. My experience has been that my neighbors have zero interest in getting to know me, except for one lady who's outgoing towards her neighbors, and introduced herself when I moved in. The others seem to intentionally ignore me and never introduce themselves even though I try to always look approachable and friendly. That being said, I'm too shy to introduce myself to them, so I can't really claim that I tried to say "hello" and they gave me the cold shoulder.

  Sounds a lot like what I've experienced.
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  Do you know your neighbors? Is it just me?

  by neverendingjourney in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i'm a single hispanic guy in my mid 30s living by myself in suburban america.

  i own a home in the kind of neighborhood where you have to get hoa permission to do just about anything, including chopping down a tree.

  i'm a white collar worker and lead a pretty boring life.

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  This is life in the United states. People have their life and mingle very little with neighbors, maybe a brief "Hello" or small talk.

  I was making small talk with a co-worker a few days ago, a guy in his 60s, and he mentioned in passing that he couldn't imagine not knowing who his neighbors were. He wasn't talking about me and I forget the context in which the conversation came up, but it caused this issue to resurface in my mind. I don't know what's typical and what's not. I suspect people's experiences vary a lot by region, demographics, etc. Just interested in getting a feel for whether my experience is out of the ordinary or not.
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  Do you know your neighbors? Is it just me?

  by neverendingjourney in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i'm a single hispanic guy in my mid 30s living by myself in suburban america.

  i own a home in the kind of neighborhood where you have to get hoa permission to do just about anything, including chopping down a tree.

  i'm a white collar worker and lead a pretty boring life.

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  I'm a single Hispanic guy in my mid 30s living by myself in suburban America. I own a home in the kind of neighborhood where you have to get HOA permission to do just about anything, including chopping down a tree. I'm a white collar worker and lead a pretty boring life. I don't throw loud crazy parties or do anything that would annoy my neighbors. I maintain my lawn. I've owned this house just over a year.

  Not a single neighbor has taken the time to try to get to know me. When I was moving in an old lady stopped her car and instead of introducing herself she started yeling at me about some trash left in the front yard by the prior owners. There was nothing against the rules about it. You're allowed to leave it out the day before so long as you've called the city to have the heavy trash unit come out and get it, which they did.

  I left the country on business a month or two after I moved in and I knocked on my next door neighbor's house. I introduced myself and gave him my cell phone number in case somebody needed to get a hold of me while I was gone. He was very nice. I've since knocked on his door a few times to deliver mail that was accidentally put in my mailbox and he's been curt with me. Not overly rude, but not friendly either.

  My other next door neighbor appears to be a single mother with a bunch of kids. There might be a husband, but I've never seen anyone other than her and her four or five kids. She stares at the ground when she walks out of her house like she's avoiding making eye contact on purpose. There is a neighborhood website and I started a thread there about termites. We communicated and she even gave me a recommendation on a pest control company. Still, whenever I see her, she stares at the ground.

  An ice cream truck stopped in front of my house a while back and I used it as an opportunity to make conversation with my neighbor across the street. It was very short and awkward. He didn't seem to have any interest beyond being polite. I never heard from him again.

  This isn't the first house I've owned. I owned a home in a different state and the reception was much the same. Instead of the neighborhood being populated by 30/40 something year old couples with a bunch of kids, it was mostly populated by older people. With the exception of one friendly woman who stopped to introduce herself, I got the cold shoulder from everyone. I even spotted a neighbor across the street peering out of her window one day when I was working on the lawn. My dad came for a prolonged visit once and brought his dog. Within a few days there was an unsigned hand written note on my door complaining about the dog barking.

  This is a very long way of introducing my question: Does this sound normal to you? Do people normally have some kind of a relationship with their neighbors?

  It could be that people just tend to keep to themselves and there's nothing out of the ordinary here, but I fear people might see a single Hispanic guy who drives a sports car and assume he's a drug runner or some such thing. There was a guy who once told me a single guy living in a family neighborhood might make parents fear he's some kind of pervert. It had never crossed my mind, but maybe that expalins some of it.

  Your thoughts are appreciated.
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  A QUESTION I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANSWERED BY JWs

  by NAVYTOWN in

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  the jws make such a big deal about not taking (eating) blood in any form.

  that being the case, shouldn't they avoid eating steaks?

  even a well- done steak still contains the animals blood.

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  Must you confess to the Elders?

  Believe it or not I used to worry about the occasions when I was eating and I would accidentally bite my tongue or inner cheek. Sometimes blood would be drawn. What if I didn't realize it soon enough and I swallowed some of it?

  As others pointed out, this can be an issue with dental work as well. Thankfully we were too poor to go to dentist when I was growing up and I never had to worry about it.
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  A QUESTION I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANSWERED BY JWs

  by NAVYTOWN in

  1. jw
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  the jws make such a big deal about not taking (eating) blood in any form.

  that being the case, shouldn't they avoid eating steaks?

  even a well- done steak still contains the animals blood.

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  I remember there being a thread here where someone used some kind of device used in medical testing that would detect the presence of blood. That contraption proved that meat does in fact have blood in it. The capillaries carry blood into the muscle tissues and it won't all run out during the normal bleeding process. Jews developed a system to try to get out as much as the blood as possible by using salts and what not.

  I didn't know any of this when I was a Witness. After I learned it, it made very little sense that God would be so fanatical about blood where he would require that people die before accepting a blood transfusion yet he was apparently okay with people eating small amounts of blood with their meat dishes. How long would it take before the blood you ate became the equivalent of a pint or two of blood that you would have injected during a blood transfusion?

  That's the kind of idiocy that results from people trying to apply a centuries-old book (actually a collection of books that span many centuries) literally in today's modern age.