Tag: dignity
member name: Ian B (in Toronto)
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February 16, 2009 02:35 PM EST --
I don't much like TV marathons; I guess I just don't like many shows that much. There aren't many shows that I can stand enough to put out a whole day to watch them. Particularly one of my . . .
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December 29, 2008 11:59 PM EST --
It's changed over the years and into the decades. When I was young, "religion" had something of a negative association; I was born in the 60s and as I grew up we thought that religion was . . .
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February 17, 2009 05:47 PM EST --
It was several months ago now that my laptop had a fairly major issue: it gave up the ghost one afternoon and crashed irreparably. It was one of those awful experiences where I did not have a specifi . . .
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December 29, 2008 05:17 PM EST --
I was writing a comment last night and noticed something unusual within myself. I must have tried to write the comment a dozen times before I figured out what was wrong. The beginning seemed a bit... . . .
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April 04, 2009 10:41 AM EDT --
It is ironic that the day before the shooting rampage in Binghamton, one of our gather members posted the town as #1 in her list of affordable places to retire . I suppose this might be true... as long . . .
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December 24, 2008 05:01 PM EST --
In the last week, we in Toronto have been through several snowstorms; I'm not sure of the official number, but last I heard it was four. I set up a post or two about the first ones, but after . . .
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March 13, 2009 11:36 PM EDT --
The Fifth Estate is one of our news programs that explores and presents news from aparticularly Canadian perspective to the world. It is on CBC, but like anything these days it is available . . .
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March 28, 2009 08:18 PM EDT --
I was reading some posts recently that had me a bit up in arms. In one of them a comment was made, by the author:
Unfortunately AIDS is spread by any close continuous contact as well as sexual . . .
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April 10, 2009 02:32 PM EDT --
I have not been here on gather too long, but have developed a certain set of protocols regarding my comments that I leave on other people's posts. I consider a post to be the property of the . . .
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April 30, 2009 11:25 PM EDT --
Someone commented on one of my posts that he believed that it was “okay” to torture. I read the comment and drew a breath; my immediate reaction was rather base. But if one person can leave . . .
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March 08, 2009 12:40 PM EDT --
Today is International Women's Day. It is an event that is not just the product of the last few years, as so many of these special days are: it is almost 100 years old. Planning started a century . . .
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March 22, 2009 12:14 PM EDT --
I started writing about the AIG scandal a few days ago: but there were so many opinions floating around that I did not want to add more voices to the confusion. I was not pleased about it: as I can tell . . .
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April 13, 2009 07:01 PM EDT --
I decided to write an intro to this piece. I think it's my longest post. A few days ago I was doing some research and I discovered the website: www.prochoice.com. I wrote a post about that . . .
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May 03, 2009 02:18 PM EDT --
I have posted several times on the necessity of being "civil" on gather. I believe it is first of all something I need to do as a follower of my God; and also because of the ethics and morals . . .
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May 23, 2009 06:29 PM EDT --
When I lived in Toronto in the seventies, I remember that the city had not been a very expensive place to enjoy a day out and about. Now that might be a somewhat distorted memory from my past: I wasn't . . .
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March 07, 2009 09:22 PM EST --
In late February, the conservative government in Canada started something of a war against gangs. Prime Minister Harper believes that stronger anti-crime laws and more jail time is a sure fire way to . . .
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April 13, 2009 05:39 PM EDT --
Angela was sleeping when they came to get her. She slept more these days than she had when they had first locked her away; it was her only real escape. At least she was safer here. Her cell was small, . . .
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March 01, 2009 03:11 PM EST --
I walked through the Jane-Finch mall during February, which was Black History Month in Canada (and the U.S.) I was pleased to see displays about the contributions of people of African descent. I live . . .
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