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Relationships Parents - Kids!?

DaZ — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:42:22 GMT

Hello has all !

1 question dear to my heart...
I think some parents are here ? like me ...
I had a discussion with a friend consumer Weed, he told me that he was waiting her daughter is 13 years to burn it was his first joint !?!? :frown:
explained to me it better more trainer directing his daughter with the Cannabis...
it grows longtimes, his daughter sees consume for him it makes sense this is it who taught her daughter Consume !?!
her daughter is 12 years old ! do not smoke cigarettes ! she has never talk of WEED in the house...wall.gif
For me it is terrible id�a ! why do consume a child claiming that it is better the parents if the child initiates ???? WAOUW :frown:
I consumed at night my daughter is lying, my area of culture is not my home and I never spoke to Weed before a child ! Difficult for me to be OK with him....
He explained to me that all children eat ! it is more realistic to do oneself.
The discussion was long...:cool: And we were not in agreement both ...
He left his home with 4 clones of SSH x Bubba Kush :) (lol) but the evening was not great for me !!!!!!
If parents are here, what do you think of that ???
if we are consumers ourselves we must teach our childrens ???
my daughter aged of 20 years not live with me, since longtimes. They NO smoke cigarettes, NO smoke Weed ! She now lives in Australia (Sydney) with her mother (my first wife) and all is well !
My second daughter of 8 years lives with me in France and I not teach her account has consumed the Weed or learning to cultivate the Weed !
not even in dreams ! But this is the third person who explained to me it is more logical to introduce his children... oneself !?!
helpgif
that you intend to do for your childrens by report with the weed ?

.....
Daz

Thread from another site

Patrong — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:44:13 GMT

I like this strictly because I am an atheist, all religion is wrong (except of course worship of the plant of the gods) :)

Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian

Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian

10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.

7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!

6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.

5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.

4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."

3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.

2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.

1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.

Anniversary Today

I8ntLucky_UR — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:22:57 GMT

I wanted to climb a large mountain and scream at the top of my lungs It's our 21st wedding anniversary today. All that time with my beautiful girl and we are so much in love with each other as much or more then when we first met.

We are very lucky to have a gr8t son 18 now in college and he is a wonderful son.

I keep saying only 4 more years before I reach parole but my wife says it's a life sentence. I'm so loved!

Wanted to share that with all of you at GreenPassion as you are all so important to me. I wish you all to have love and happiness in your lives too!

my best friend

Desert Woman — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:31:14 GMT

had to move away
this last year has been tough
just seemed like the hits just kept on comin
and it was this friend who put me back together
everytime i fell apart
and i wonder
what will become of me the next time
now that the one with all the paste and glue is so far away..

Paying it Forward and what it means~Worldwide Movement!

jangel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:47:43 GMT

I often say on the site to pay things forward. I have said this for a while....

What does it mean?

Where did it come from?

Why should I?

...and of course, Why not?

So I did a google search...it turns out this is not a new concept.

Wikipedia: Pay it Forward

Pay it forward

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the philosophy. For the film, see Pay It Forward (film).
The expression "pay it forward" is used to describe the concept of asking that a good turn be repaid by having it done to others instead. In contract law, typically there are two parties but there is the concept of third party beneficiaries. Pay it forward merely applies this contract law concept so that third party beneficiary be a stranger to the creditor (or obligee). More specifically, the creditor (obligee) offers the debtor (obligor) the option of "paying" the debt forward by lending it to a third person instead of paying it back to the original creditor. Debt and payments can be monetary or by good deeds. In sociology, this concept is called "generalized reciprocity" or "generalized exchange". A related transaction, which starts with a gift instead of a loan, is alternative giving.

History

The concept was described by Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Benjamin Webb dated April 22, 1784:

I do not pretend to give such a Sum; I only lend it to you. When you [...] meet with another honest Man in similar Distress, you must pay me by lending this Sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the Debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with another opportunity. I hope it may thus go thro' many hands, before it meets with a Knave that will stop its Progress. This is a trick of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay "Compensation", wrote: "In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody."
Lily Hardy Hammond wrote, "You don't pay love back; you pay it forward."[1]
Wayne Woodrow �Woody� Hayes (February 14, 1913 �March 12, 1987) was a college football coach who is best remembered for winning five national titles and 13 Big Ten championships in 28 years at Ohio State University. He misquoted Emerson as having said "You can pay back only seldom. You can always pay forward, and you must pay line for line, deed for deed, and cent for cent." He also shortened the (mis)quotation into "You can never pay back; but you can always pay forward" and variants.
An anonymous spokesman for Alcoholics Anonymous said in the Christian Science Monitor in 1944, "You can't pay anyone back for what has happened to you, so you try to find someone you can pay forward."[2]
The term "pay it forward" was popularized, by Robert A. Heinlein in his book Between Planets, published in 1951:

The banker reached into the folds of his gown, pulled out a single credit note. "But eat first � a full belly steadies the judgment. Do me the honor of accepting this as our welcome to the newcomer."
His pride said no; his stomach said YES! Don took it and said, "Uh, thanks! That's awfully kind of you. I'll pay it back, first chance."
"Instead, pay it forward to some other brother who needs it."

Heinlein both preached and practiced this philosophy; now the Heinlein Society, a humanitarian organization founded in his name, does so. Author Spider Robinson made repeated reference to the doctrine, attributing it to his spiritual mentor Heinlein.[3]
The mathematician Paul Erdos, in one of his visits to Harvard University, met a promising math student on the verge of expulsion for inability to pay his tuition. Erdos paid the young man's tuition in full. Years later, the man offered to return the entire amount to Erdos, but Erdos insisted that the man rather find another student in his situation, and give the tuition to him. [4]
In 2000, Catherine Ryan Hyde's novel Pay It Forward was published and adapted into a Warner Brothers film, Pay It Forward. In Ryan Hyde's book and movie it is described as an obligation to do three good deeds for others in repayment of a good deed that one receives. Such good deeds should be things that the other person cannot accomplish on their own. In this way, the need to help one another can spread exponentially through society, creating a social movement with the goal of making the world a better place.
The idea of the book has been championed in real life by the Pay It Forward Foundation. The Foundation focuses on bringing the idea of paying it forward to school age children, parents, and educators. The simple idea of doing good works for others to repay the good that has happened to you is one that can easily be conveyed to children and encourages them to be socially aware and take a role in making the world a better place.[citation needed] The main character of the book was a 12-year-old child, thus giving other children someone they can relate to.
In 2004, a small group of University of Minnesota students, wanting to find a way for students to do ordinary things to improve their world, created the student group Students Today Leaders Forever (STLF). The main event for STLF is the annual "Pay It Forward" tour, where college students spend their Spring Break on a bus trip to several cities doing community service projects, with the idea that those served will "pay it forward" and benefit their communities.[5]
In October 2005, Syracuse University's Residence Hall Association began a Pay It Forward campaign on campus. It spread on campus rapidly, and was noted for entering mainstream Syracuse society as a result.[citation needed] Many other schools have begun such campaigns.
On October 26, 2006 Oprah gave her audience a challenge to Pay it Forward, giving 300 audience guests $1,000 USD on a debit card and a camcorder to record the acts of kindness they did. The rules of the challenge were very specific, the money had to be spent within one week and could only be used to help charitable organizations or an individual person but not a relative.

The Book and Movie:

From the Publisher

It all started with the social studies teacher''s extra-credit assignment: come up with a plan to change the world for the better, and do it. Twelve-year-old Trevor McKinney began by doing something good for three people. But instead of paying him back, he asked them to "pay it forward" by doing a favor for three more people, who in turn would help three others, and so on, each act a link in a chain of human kindness. And no one -- not his teacher, his mom, or anyone in his small California town -- could ever have dreamed of how far Trevor''s plan would go.

About the Author

Pay It Forward

The Book:
Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde Published 2000

Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Funerals for Horses and numerous short stories, including the collection Earthquake Weather. She lives in Cambria, California.

The Movie:

"Pay it Forward"

Life imitating artThe idea of the book and film has been brought to life by the Pay It Forward Foundation, and through the work of social activist Jane Tewson and the non-profit organization she founded Timebank. It is also possible that the book was inspired by Lloyd C. Douglas' popular depression era novel, Magnificent Obsession about a doctor who starts a secretive good deeds movement with the catchphrase, "I've already used it all up myself."
Even Haley Joel Osment appears in an ad that aspires the idea.

Main cast

Kevin Spacey as Eugene Simonet
Helen Hunt as Arlene McKinney
Haley Joel Osment as Trevor McKinney
Jay Mohr as Chris Chandler
James Caviezel as Jerry
Angie Dickinson as Grace
Jon Bon Jovi as Ricky McKinney

The Foundation:

�Pay It Forward� is a book written by Catherine Ryan Hyde, but it's also an idea. It's an action plan within a work of fiction. But does it have to be fiction? We're hoping not. In fact, since the book was released in January of 2000, a real-life social movement has emerged, not just in the U.S. but worldwide. What began as a work of fiction has already become much more.

WHAT IS THE PAY IT FORWARD FOUNDATION? The Pay It Forward Foundation was established in September 2000 by author Catherine Ryan Hyde and others to educate and inspire students to realize that they can change the world, and provide them with opportunities to do so. By bringing the author's vision and related materials into classrooms internationally, students and their teachers are encouraged to formulate their own ideas of how they can pay it forward.

What do you folks think?

Peace

I'm thinking about sponsoring a child

Lee — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:36:16 GMT

Do you guys know if these guys are legit charity fund. childsponsor
I want to help a child to live. Are these guys really making a difference?

The Legend of Atlantis - Playlist

freetolive — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:57:28 GMT

Well, its story time in the evenings for me. I've become pretty fascinated by books and interpretations of history. I found the following series of flicks pretty interesting. Some of it seems pretty far out there...and I do not know how much is fact or fiction, but is food for thought for me. I have not watched them all yet, I'm on 18. I noticed there are less views the further I get through it, but I have found it more interesting toward the end. Play-list is at the bottom, if the videos got out of order on the copy/past action. Enjoy.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.