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Theif gets 200yrs......only in the USA!

by ISP in

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yeah 200 yrs sounds a tad excessive..................but things are bigger and better in the us.....i guess it works for sentences as well.. sacramento, calif. (ap) -- a man who used tiger woods' identity to steal $17,000 worth of goods was sentenced to 200 years-to-life in prison.

anthony lemar taylor was convicted of falsely obtaining a driver's license using the name eldrick t. woods, woods' social security number and his birth date.

though he looks nothing like golf's best player, the 30-year-old taylor then used the false identification and credit cards to buy a 70-inch tv, stereos and a used luxury car between august 1998 and august 1999. .

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Hello

When you are considering why the United States has so many people in prison, you have to realize that one of the main reasons is because of the fact that there is so much money to be made from keeping the prisons full. Prisons have become privatized and the owners receive about $24,000 per year for each person that they have incarcerated. This adds up to big bucks.

Yes, it would be better to try and prevent crime in the first place and reform and educated criminals already in the system, but like any good bussines knows, repeat business is good business. And if you want a life criminal, it's best to start on them at an early age and get them caught up in that kind of life.

For this reason, you get an extremly high incidence of police profiling of minority youths. It's all about the money. It's easier to target those who are the least educated and have fewer resources for defending themselves. 90% of minorities arrested have two choices: court appointed attorneys or go to jail, it's as simple as that. I believe we all know that a court appointed attorney gives you little chance at actually beating the system whether you are guilty or innocent. Afterall, the law does say "innocent till proven guilty." But it should say "guilty till proven innocent," because that is how it usually works.

Anyway, that's my opinion.

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convention flooded out, haha

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today, here in houston, the district convention was closed due in thanks to tropical storm allison.

talk about an act of god.

haha.

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Believe me you all, this was much more than a few drops of rain. Some areas recieved 20+ inches. Whole freeways were under water. The news said 17,000 families were displaced and in shelters. The buses stopped running. Hospitals flooded and people had to be transported to other facilities. Thankfully, there were only two deaths reported from all this water(it could have been much worse).
I still can't locate my little sister. No one has seen or heard from her.

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convention flooded out, haha

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today, here in houston, the district convention was closed due in thanks to tropical storm allison.

talk about an act of god.

haha.

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sorry, posted twice

convention flooded out, haha

by vsecret939 in

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today, here in houston, the district convention was closed due in thanks to tropical storm allison.

talk about an act of god.

haha.

vsecret939

Today, here in Houston, the district convention was closed due in thanks to Tropical Storm Allison. Talk about an act of God. Haha

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convention flooded out, haha

by vsecret939 in

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today, here in houston, the district convention was closed due in thanks to tropical storm allison.

talk about an act of god.

haha.

vsecret939

Today, here in Houston, the district convention was closed due in thanks to Tropical Storm Allison. Talk about an act of God. Haha

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NEW RELIGION! NEED INPUT!

by TR in

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this is sort of a take-off of the "what should the wt do" thread.. i need to get together a board of directors and elect a president and officers.

we need to figure out a doctrine, a manifesto, and a set of disciplinary rules.

we need to figure out a way to fund our new movement.

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Ok, sorry I'm late. But I do need a job. I'll be willing to give of myself to the cause no matter what position I'm put in.

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Demons / Urban Legends! Which Is It????

by Big Jim in

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has anyone on this board ever experienced contact with demons?.

i have heard demons talked about for years, however i have never known anyone that has had any real experiences with them, i have only heard storys.. .

(some quotes).

vsecret939

You know, I understand that some of you may have a hard time believing that some of the things that others have experienced. I can deal with that. But the fact remains that things have happened that you yourselves cannot come up with an explanation for. Some say dreams and night terrors (although they do not fit every circumstances). Some say ufos. Some say that its someone's own mind causing things to move. That may be, I can accept that there may be other explanations besides demons.

What bothers me though are those who keep insinuating that those of us who have posted our personal experiences are making them up, that we are all just trying to scare people. That's just plain crazy to me. I could not speak for others here, but ever since I came here I have tried to be very open and honest about every thing that I say. The fact that I (a very low income individual who does not own a camcorder and if I did, I really don't think that I would have been thinking about trying to video tape my son's incident instead of trying to help him) do not have the incident on tape, does not mean that it did not happen.

I love my child very much, more than anything and the idea that some are saying that i made it up to scare people is just plain insulting to me as a mother. Like I would really want to make something up that scary about my son.

Like I said, you don't have to believe in demons to realize that there are somethings that cannot be easily explained and that just because they could not be explained, doesn't make them false. Some of you need to open your minds a little.

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For VSecret

by BugEye in

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hi vs. i read your da letter with keen interest and it is an excellent.

if you intend to do this, then i have one suggestion.. about halfway down, just after the baptism questions, you have the.

phrase bible says we should question everything.. .

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I do thank you for the input, and that is something I think I overlooked. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I will make nessesary changes. And, by the way, I think I might weight a little whilt longer before turning it in. Not an extrodinarily long time, but long enough to where I can talk to a few more people with out the apostate lable.

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How to Leave WT and Intact

by JT in

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one of the most painful things i continue to see here on this forum as well as all the others is that many who want to leave wt simply don't know how to leave and remain "intact" as it were.. i recall talking with jw who "formally disassociated themselves back in the 70s and it was not till the 90s and the net did they finally feel free.

or many who jump up and write a letter off to mo larry and curly (congregation service committee).

while i feel there is absolutely nothing wrong with writing a letter for many it is a matter of.

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I agree with alot of the things that you all have said. But the comments of Tergiversater very closly reflects how I feel at this point. I don't want to have elders coming to vistit me, I don't want to have to listen to my family try and persuade me to come back, I don't care if they don't want to hear the truth about the org.,and i don't want to end up difellowshipped because my life is not up to the Wts standards and have to go thrue the whole shunning thing anyway.

I do have family in the org. There are two uncles who are elders, one who used to be, there are two aunts who are pioneeres, and I have a cousin that does sign languge interpertation for the conventions. But the problem is that I don't care if they don't talk to me anyway. They have always treated me like dirt because I didn't measure up to the WTS standards and even when I was really young, they have always been unkind. My family is just not emotionally close.

My mom, who by the way is considered inactive or weak right now, has never really followed their rules and has always found a way to get around them to do what she wants (right now, for instance, she managed to get away with nothing but private reproof for getting engaged even though she doesn't have grounds for remarrige). I don't worry about her not talking to me. My little sister is thinking about getting baptized, but we already had a talk, and now she agrees with me on alot of points. My dad, who used to be a bethelit and an elder but has been inative for about 8 years, agrees with me on a lot of things and has told me that he would support me in whatever I chose to do. My older sister and I haven't had a discussion yet, so I don't know exactly where she would stand on the matter, but I know her, and at the most she just wouldn't disscuss religious matters with me.

I want to be formally no part of this org. because other wise I just would not be able to get them out of my life and I would rather do it myself than have them do it to me. And if I don't, my being disfellowshipped will only be a matter of time. I'm not one to hold my tounge when I think something is wrong. I will voice my opinon. And if my uncle would tell my mom that my dad beating her was her fault and that she should deal with it, and that when I was molested as a child that she made it all up, I do beleive he would turn me in as an apostate.

So i thank every one for their input, but I do plan on going forward with my letter. And if any one has any input as to any changes I should make to it, those would be greatly appreciated.

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Demons / Urban Legends! Which Is It????

by Big Jim in

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has anyone on this board ever experienced contact with demons?.

i have heard demons talked about for years, however i have never known anyone that has had any real experiences with them, i have only heard storys.. .

(some quotes).

vsecret939

Ok, alot of people keep talking about being alseep and dreams.
That's ok for a lot of occurences, but what about the incidents
that happen when more than one person are involved. As with my incident that I posted earlier, both me and my husband saw what happened. Now, did we both have the exact same dream at the exact same time. I don't think so, and if we did, that would be freaky enough on it's own. I just don't feel that to blanket dreams as the cause of all these incidents is right. I don't know if it is demons, but there has got to be another explanation.

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