My advice? Don't go! Regardless of whether or not her friendship was "fake", you haven't spoken to this woman for over 20 years. By all means, send cookies! Send cards! Send flowers! Write a remembrance in her obituary! Donate to her favorite charity if you want to. But really! I have enough trouble attending family funerals, let alone those of friends who I haven't seen in ages!
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I didn't fast or pray but it rained last night at my Phoenix residence...
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They may have been stupid but they sure worked, especially on the gullible. (Updated to correct one of the words in the original post.)
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dagny Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If justice is too slow, it is ineffective. Half > the criminals might be dead of old age before the > courts finally resolve all the appeals and > "loophole" stunts that the rich criminals can > afford. > > A slow grind is better than nothing, but it > doesn't instill a lot of confi
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I actually think this is going to be a state-by-state, district-by-district issue with many so-called "red" states leading the way and many so-called "blue" states trying to push back. This, of course, is part of the dumbing down of our kids that is being spurred on by the Christian nationalist movement. Since biology and evolution are subsections of the sciences, I think t
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Yes it was and the LDS church still refuses to fully acknowledge its role in it. That Said, the action occurred just 150 years ago and there is no public talk of waylaying outsiders from Mormon pulpits nowadays.
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In your neck of the woods, is it better for people to convert to Mormonism or to become southern Baptists or Calvinists.
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While Mormonism is still a cult, it isn't the worst one out there. It's not publicly or privately argued that its members commit suicide or stochastic (I'm betting I'm remembering the word wrong) terrorism. That said, there is a group of people both inside and outside of Mormonism who are factually illiterate and determined to destroy modern civilization because it doesn't match how the Bible
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What you are missing (and what I didn't say) was that the ray band glasses are using AI and information provided by Google to perform the tasks advertised for them.
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No! AI is the idea of a new species that supporters hope will replace human beings. Right now, it is nowhere near ready to do that. As proof, I'm going to switch over to the world I inhabit, the world of the blind and visually impaired. About two weeks ago, I received an email (I've since deleted it) that was a review of the newest technology that is popular among some blind and visually impai
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I fear that in this case they may well be.
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Anybody wrote in part: "Is living without the exercise of free will the same as living without life?" No, because by definition, when you are living you have life. Now, it may be a poor one, one rooted in the evils of slavery, but you are still alive and therefore you have life.
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Court watchers (such as NPR's Nina Totenberg) were fully expecting this ruling given the conservative Justices' responses to the claims of the transgender community and the medical community during oral arguments. I think the die has been cast (actually, it was cast back in 2016 with that Presidential election) and we should expect the reversal of more rights by the current crop of Justices over
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I think a bigger problem is shaping up when members of the political class specifically request that medical care be denied to individuals because of their marital status or political party affiliation. (For those who haven't kept up with the news, this is now the policy under which the U.S. Veterans Administration is operating per an executive order from the POTUS.)
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Keep in mind that religion has no, or very little, basis in reality; rather it reflects human emotional responses to what is going on around them. As such, it has no need or justification for parsing out its criticisms of behaviors it deems to be sinful or against social norms. And that brings up another point about religion. It is a top-down mechanism for preserving or encouraging behaviors t
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...I'd be willing to say I believed him if he paid me enough money. I mean, isn't that the American free market way?...
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While "Kicks," was great, there were all of these messages coming from the other side of this issue. Like these lines from the Grateful Dead's "Casey Jones,": "Driving that train High on cocaine. Casey Jones, you'd better Watch your speed. Trouble ahead, Trouble behind. And you know that notion Just crossed my mind."
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...written by Ruth something-or-other during the 1980s that great moments in history (such as the Egypt-Israel peace treaty of 1978) occurred because Walk-ins, creatures from outer space, entered and controlled the bodies and minds of the participants, particularly Anwar al-Sadat. I know it's fiction! But somehow the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) liste
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I side with the professor (and critic of this new cult) who told Brooke Gladstone on WNYC's "On the Media," that these people will learn the hard way that they are no different from the rest of us. Death will ultimately find them no matter where they are, even if they are hiding out from the rest of the world on the islands of New Zealand.
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GNPE Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Who will we be while waiting ? We will be ourselves. We will be the best that we can towards ourselves and each other knowing that we're going to meet the same fate.
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I can supply some of the answers. slskipper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I like Sloop John B. > > IN all the encomia, please always remember that > the Beach Boys were not paragons of virtue. They > cheated a guy out of royalties. That guy's name > was Charles Manson (yes, that Charles Manson). And > they stole the melody for S
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When I was little and I heard that song, I told my dad that I liked it. His response? "They all sound like monkeys to me." I began picturing little monkeys swinging from the trees singing the song... ...It wasn't until much later as an adult that I finally realized what my late father meant by that racist remark. I loved my father, but I hope that I never make remarks like that to
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My absolute favorite Beach Boys song is "Sail on, Sailor," which made the Billboard hot 100 twice (in 1973 and 1975) but never made the top-40. Though possibly negative, I very much think the song's lyrics apply today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdzC-3UPKbk And, since we're on the topic of passing music legends, here's a shout-out to Sylvester "Sly" Stone who passed
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I am tempted not to answer this post or to answer it in a jocular way. For while I was once conservative, time, experience and knowledge have taught me otherwise. But I'll play your question straightforwardly. First regarding the LDS church. While it is true that some of its national leaders are trying to move towards the middle, many of its local leaders, including some in the G70, are still
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Nightingale Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > blindguy: In your second paragraph it mentions the > sermon on the mound. Made me laugh. And think of > baseball season. No worries - just saying. Sorry - > my editor brain never lets me rest. I had to think for a second about that one. I'm correcting it now. Thanks for the heads up!
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This minister must have been drinking of the KoolAid served by X XX. Frankly, the Christian Bible, especially the New Testament, disagrees with him. Matthew's gospel is probably the most important here. Jesus' "Sermon on the Mount," in Chapters 5 and 6 of Matthew makes it quite clear that the person who thinks of others' needs over his own will be favored by God. And, if the messa
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Looking at the website url, I'm guessing that it's supposed to be a picture of something having to do with the Battle Star Galactica television series.
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valkyierqueen wrote in part: "Maybe this is why Utah is numero uno in Prozac use. Too much sugar." What I would expect to see in Utah with numero uno going forward with this kind of diet is more obesity, diabetes, and heart attacks.
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