Karma and idiocy

Does everyone see the flaw in Sharon Stone’s Karma statement?
I am far from an expert on this, but I belive that karma makes one responsible for one’s own life.  Thus, what you give out to others will come back to you. 
So, Sharon Stone is saying that all those children who died in collapsed schools deserved it [...]

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FLDS = brainwashing, not religion

Thank you, Grandma in Illinois, for saying it: “Precludes a choice”
This has been my biggest objection to FLDS, right after whatever/if child abuse we suspect is going on. I am trying to be unbiased here and this is an issue that is difficult for me as some of my grandchildren are living in a similar [...]

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Where in the world would you go?

Where would you go, if you won a trip to anywhere in the world.
 

My list is almost too long to mention. Alaska to see the Northern Lights, anywhere to watch the whales, Holland/Norway, the Basque Country, to see what really made my ancestors who they were, and Japan to find a long lost friend, Junko [...]

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First Edit-Change of plans

My Young Adult Fantasy novel is at 61,754 words. It ranges from being the first draft, at the end, to being probably thirtieth draft, in the beginning.  I have three possible openings, none of which I am happy with.
I write nearly every day.  I get in anywhere from three hours to ten hours at my [...]

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FLDS+Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

This is a response to H. Millard. If anyone misses the point, as has been commented on, I understand. I do too. Sometimes comments lead to apples and oranges being compared and other times it’s just my brain leading to goodness knows where.
 
The Native Americans were persecuted because the Caucasians wanted their land, not because they abused [...]

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Close your eyes and become a child again, in the FLDS

Please do me a favor.  Close your eyes a moment and pretend you are a child again.  You are a child growing up In the FLDS.
 
In many ways, it is a great childhood. Other kids are not snobby to you because everyone dresses the same.  You are in good health because you do not [...]

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FLDS-Just to straighten out some of Facts of my Blog

This is my second start at this. I am going to try to winnow it down.  I have two new blogs here, so I hope you will read each. I tried to cut these down to the bare facts.
 
1. I do not know, nor have I ever known, anyone in the FLDS.
2. IMHO: Anyone [...]

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FLDS and My Opinion

First, let me state that I do not care what religion anyone has/is, anymore than I care who or how many partners anyone wants.  That is strictly, in my opinion, a persons own private choice.  I do not believe the government has the right to legalize or outlaw either.  I have never understood what right [...]

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A challenge to the FLDS: Slavery is illegal, unlock your gates

FIRST:  If you do not have anything to hide, why are you hiding behind locked gates? If everyone wants to be there and do as you say, why do you have to keep him or her behind locked gates?   Okay, got that off my chest!
For years now, we have read of young boys, the “lost [...]

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My Aunt Lulu

To a seven-year-old girl, growing up in the semi-rural Midwest, Aunt Lulu was just plain exotic.  First, she lived in the city. Here was her two-story house, right next to the neighbor’s two-story house.  There was barely room to spare for a walkway between her house and the next. The house I lived in sat [...]

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