your leadership is a bit dodgy.
for starters, theyre all so close to deaths door that he has repeatedly asked them to stop loitering and just ring the bell.
theyre so old and wizened that they have a hearse on 24-hour standby.
Dying?Sorry!
But we are over 6 million, and we expect to be more tahn 12 million within the next 3 some years.
Well, excuse me for not taking more seriously, posts which are made by someone who has the same name as the lead singer of Guns 'n Roses, but if you think JWs can double in the "next 3 some years" you should suggest your entire congregation start having kids as quickly as possible. That's about the only thing that could get that kind of increase for JWs.
i heard about this on the news earlier, i only caught the tail end of the report.
what i dont understand is why she did it.
why she was only charged with child endangerment and not attempted murder?
Realist: oops. sorry. next time I'll read over the thread before saying things like "Nobody mentioned this"
Gopher: No argument there, with the caveat I made in my earlier post - most, if not all, of us have done things which could have, under the right circumstances, had catastrophic consequences - I think our society has become a bit too anxious to "string somebody up" based on a single mistake which went horribly wrong before even making sure it's a pattern of behavior. Sometimes we even make laws in response to kind of bizarre events - would anyone be surprised to see the Calif. legislature pass a law in response to this that makes it a felony to put a kid in a washer? Sometimes a freak occurance is just a freak occurance.
I'm not saying the woman should be totally forgiven and given her kid back without somebody sticking a microscope up her butt to check out her parenting skills, but can we not withhold judgement until we have all the facts??
my cat lives inside, and once in a while i bring her outside.
i bring her outside to walk and get exercise, but no she sits there and eats grass.
that's all she does is eat grass.. then she comes back inside and a few hours after she throws up the grass she ate.
my Dad "inhereited" these cats and refused to fix them. I tried to rescue as many as possible. I rescued my three and three others but ran out of patience with my Father and refused to do anymore.
You could always cut to the chase and kidnap his cats and get them fixed without his knowledge
I'm big on kitty population control.
i clean house for a guy who practices paganism and have asked him about his beliefs.
i want to learn more about it and talk with others who also practice this belief.. a friend here on the forum has given me a few links but i also would like to talk with people about this who practice it.
the more i learn about it, the more i like it.
I'm an animist, animatist, agnostic pagan My husband is an agnostic with pagan leanings
I was just on the phone with my sister Laurie and was telling her that I was considering this and she said that she believes that may be what my niece is into. She said she has been using crystals and things. Could it be she is?
It's possible, but crystals are admired and used by a wide variety of people, not just Pagans.
I'm of the belief that, if crystals, psychic abilities, etc work for some people, they will actually work for all (either they have these true natural qualities or not), so it's not unusual to hear what my grandfather would have taken for granted (things such as water witching), work for people of many different faiths. Some Christians chose to believe they are gifts of God, Pagans believe they are 'magickal', I just think - if it works, it works!
my cat lives inside, and once in a while i bring her outside.
i bring her outside to walk and get exercise, but no she sits there and eats grass.
that's all she does is eat grass.. then she comes back inside and a few hours after she throws up the grass she ate.
LOL poor Jag, but what sex they were didn't enter into it. I don't know if you've been to a cat show and seen the Coons? After I'd been showing a while, I learned to recognize different "looks". Some catteries have very definite "types"...and you'll hear people say, "Oh, yeah, I can see the Capecoon in him" and "You can tell his daddy came from Willowplace". Of the 4 in my litter, one boy (Wimmy) and one girl (Stargazer) had one look, and the other boy (George) and the other girl (Pauli) had another look. Jag has that "sweet" expression I always associate with Capecoon.
i heard about this on the news earlier, i only caught the tail end of the report.
what i dont understand is why she did it.
why she was only charged with child endangerment and not attempted murder?
We're leaving out one possibility. Maybe the woman is just plain dumb. Maybe it didn't occur to her it was dangerous?
Not that this is an excuse, but it's a possibility. I have a friend who was a labor & delivery nurse for a long time at a university hospital (large % of high risk and teenage and low-income pregnancies). She can tell you stories that would curl your hair of people (sometimes well-intentioned people) that are just several IQ points short.
I must say, my mother and my grandmother were downright paranoid, and naturally I'm that way too. "Don't do that, you'll get hurt" "Be careful around that table, it has a sharp corner" They were always thinking of some obscure way that no one else would think of, that someone could get hurt or something could go wrong. My husband, who had a much more normal mother, has had 20 years to get used to this constant apocalyptic "Oh, no! What if...?" He still shakes his head at it. There's a lot of reasonably normal stuff I never got to do as a kid because something might get broken or dirty or I might get hurt. Now, lest you think I believe I missed out because I didn't get closed in a washer, I don't.
This rather rambling tale is to try to make the point that some mothers are hyper aware of what could go wrong, some are normally aware, and some apparently are hardly aware at all. In the animal kingdom, survival of the fittest usually ensures that mothers with bad parenting skills reproduce less than mothers with good parenting skills.
16 then yahweh god gave the man this admonition, "you may eat indeed of all the trees in the garden.. 17 nevertheless of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you are not to eat, for on the day you eat of it you shall most surely die.
you will not die!.
you will not die!
I have his Gaia statue...it's one of my favorites.
my cat lives inside, and once in a while i bring her outside.
i bring her outside to walk and get exercise, but no she sits there and eats grass.
that's all she does is eat grass.. then she comes back inside and a few hours after she throws up the grass she ate.
My cat pictures are here
http://community.webshots.com/user/steve_584
Black Powder, St. Pauli Girl-Dark, and Sweet William are still with me. The others are with friends now.
The pic of Stargazer was when she was about 4 months old, so I don't know if you'd still see the resemblence (I can)
my cat lives inside, and once in a while i bring her outside.
i bring her outside to walk and get exercise, but no she sits there and eats grass.
that's all she does is eat grass.. then she comes back inside and a few hours after she throws up the grass she ate.
Jag looks like my little girl Stargazer ('little' being relative - she's 12 lbs). She went to live with an older couple because we had to reduce the cat numbers in the house to go to grad school. Apparently Stargazer now wishes she'd found out about this "life as an only cat" gig years ago ... she's quite the little princess and is practically carted about on a velvet pillow now. She loves it!
my cat lives inside, and once in a while i bring her outside.
i bring her outside to walk and get exercise, but no she sits there and eats grass.
that's all she does is eat grass.. then she comes back inside and a few hours after she throws up the grass she ate.
Ravyn,
Have you read Anitra Frazier's or Dr. Pitcairn's books? Anitra's are exceptionally good, especially "The New Natural Cat: A Complete Guide for Finicky Owners".
re:bathing
Would you believe I not only used to bathe mine at least once a month, I blow dried them?? I used to show them (show cats are bathed and blow-dried so they don't get that 'bad perm' wave on their tummies). I started when they were babies so they accepted it with a minimum of "help I'm being drowned" yowling...no actual struggle. They haven't had a bath in years but will still lay still while I comb their tummies (they know better than to argue with mommy).
My avatar is a picture of my boy. I had it taken at a show we went to.
