scotoma
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Ned Ryerson/David Splane To Honor Ground Hog Day
by scotoma inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xqsyc_vwhdg.
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Bipolar Landlady kicks me out!
by Terry infun times.. a year and a month have passed since i moved in to the house where my cousin deb and her husband bobby live.. i had a small but comfortable room, tv, etc.. a nice cozy family situation, you might say....right?.
i pay $600 a month to defray expenses.. hunky dory.. sure.
until the first few eruptions!.
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scotoma
BANKRUPTCY: There is a filing fee of $155.00. You can pay it in installments. You can even have it waived. All the forms are on line in fill able PDF format.
Most courts have free help available. They will look at your forms and tell you how to correct them.
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Bipolar Landlady kicks me out!
by Terry infun times.. a year and a month have passed since i moved in to the house where my cousin deb and her husband bobby live.. i had a small but comfortable room, tv, etc.. a nice cozy family situation, you might say....right?.
i pay $600 a month to defray expenses.. hunky dory.. sure.
until the first few eruptions!.
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scotoma
Just go bankrupt. Do it yourself. It will keep you busy until your check comes. There is nothing wrong with bankruptcy. You never asked to play the game. It just means a bunch of overpaid doctors lose 1% of their income.
Message me. I can walk you through the process.
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The Rise Of America's Lunatic Fringe
by metatron inhttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-30/rise-americas-lunatic-fringe.
every once in a while, you read an article that really puts it all together (or spot on, as some would say).
ever on the fringe,.
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scotoma
I consider myself both open minded and skeptical. Let me explain how I got fooled lately.
I don't like Obama. He is not a leader. He's a law professor. Professors like to profess ie. sound authorative. He knows he's good looking. He knows white people are still under the spell of the perfect Huxtable (Cosby) family image. He's not liberal or progressive. He only wanted to get elected to two terms because that seals his legitimacy.
So I pick up a book about Obama knowing it was written by a conservative with an ax to grind. I like reading things by people I don't agree with.
Then I read this juicy morsel that fit into my personal contempt for Obama. The book says Obama brazenly gave the Queen of England an Ipod loaded with his speeches.
Perfect. This is the Obama I like to hate. So I pass it by my liberal friends who all know that I'm a communist by temperament. I want to show them what the "bougie" liberals are like.
Woe is me. I forgot to fact check the book. I searched on Obama/Ipod/Gift/Queen and found out that she requested an Ipod as a gift because even though she had one already she didn't have one with video capabilities. So the Obama crew gave her an Ipod with movies of her visit to the United States and also a video of her favorite Musical - Oklahoma. Also he installed numerous show tunes. .... and YES he included some of his speeches.
Now I had to call all my liberal friends and tell them I made a mistake. Now I look like a fool. Of course I am a fool. I was fooled. I could have let all this go and not tell my friends. They probably wouldn't even do the research I did to try to verify my statments. But I felt obligated to myself to set this straight for my own self respect.
This is a case where a half truth is worse than a bald face lie. Intuition can usually detect a lie. But a half truth sneaks right in there. I swallowed it down because it confirmed my feelings about Obama.
And that's what goes on with the Lunatics and religionists. They simply want to believe what they already believe because ambiguity is so hard to deal with.
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It Appears The Elderly Are More Taken Care Of Then Ever Before By The Elders
by minimus ini usually find fault with the religion but i must give credit when due.
in the hall my mom is in, they regularly check on her and assign different ones to visit and check on the elderly.. if there's a storm or an extremely cold day, they come by to make sure the elderly have everything they need..
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scotoma
So what. They get an eagle badge. Why is eveyone so interested in helping elderly people who are sitting on a pile of cash and live in a 4 bedroom house while their children pay high social security taxes and can't even pull together a down payment for a house.
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Were you popular in your congregation or district?
by Emery innot to start some form of popularity contests here but i was wondering how popular some people were?
how far did your network go in this organization?
this question also pertains to those who are actively fading..
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scotoma
More like "notorious"
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The Rise Of America's Lunatic Fringe
by metatron inhttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-30/rise-americas-lunatic-fringe.
every once in a while, you read an article that really puts it all together (or spot on, as some would say).
ever on the fringe,.
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scotoma
They have to quit calling it the Lunatic Fringe. Is it really a "fringe" when half the people believe that stuff.
What do you call religion? It's conventional "lunacy".
It's an inability to weigh evidence.
And it's simple.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Conspiracy theories are really conspiracy excuses.
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What is the most valuable thing your mother taught you?
by usualusername inwhat is the most valuable thing your mother taught you?.
as an aside was she a witness or not at the time?.
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scotoma
My mother died when I was 7. She taught me the meaning of death and the value of life.
I learned more from her dying than I could have possibly learned from her living.
She was a JW. I had her old publisher record card. I found it in the KH attic. She was getting in 25-30 hours a month back in the early 1950's It said "faithful until death".
I finally threw it away about 20 years ago.
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Is the Truth so delicate?
by Socrateswannabe inthe gb brooks no questions or dissention.
their brand of truth seems quite delicate and incapable of standing up to scrutiny.
"the truth is incontrovertible.
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scotoma
Truth is what can be successfully defended. Religion relies on dogma to defend its conclusions.
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gets stranger with time
by d ini am noticing that as time goes times on, the jw's become more stranger.
they seem a whole more distant at least to me.they also more depressed at least the older ones i see.. what do you think..
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scotoma
The word "appreciate" has now become a buzz word with all the irritation that goes along with "buzzzzzz".
The worse things get the more I hear "appreciate this" and "appreciate that".
I no longer appreciate the "truth", brothers, spiritual paradise, near, around the corner, service, meetings, assemblies, CO visits, the Bible, Bible aids, counsel etc. etc.
