LaceyLou

Another step to get people to accept increasing levels of hatred, and persecution.

I do know a few people who are from evangelical families who no longer believe, but keep quiet around families to avoid being ostracized. I have no idea how common this is. I do know that 'knowing a guy' isn't exactly proof of anything. Still interesting.

I'm also wondering how many people go through the motions, who don't really believe in them. I'm not sure how they'd be classified, or how they can even be counted.

It's a wired one with AA battery backup (Kidde). I'm in a building where the wired ones are required in bedrooms. It seems odd that the battery still drains so quickly. Reviews seem mixed, and indicate that the 10 year ones don't last even close to 10 years. Oddly enough I haven't had any problems with the CO/smoke wired detector in the hallway. I'll look for the smoke detector spray-thanks for the tip!

Any smoke detector experts here? I'm wondering if I can switch to a wired one with a 10 year backup battery. Are they really less likely to chirp every few months? In previous homes I only had to replace batteries once a year (and never had any chirping), but I've had two fail completely and the current one that chirps every couple of months. The other one I have is a CO/fire combo and I have no problems.

I thought I had a lot of wax until one time my doctor cleaned out my ear and it turned out to be skin cells-eczema. No wonder the solution made it worse.

Looks like the tiles/countertops for my kitchen and bathroom. Good grief.

Hope you're able to get it fixed. I am with you on the music part. I haven't played in years but I did used to be a musician.

Ugh, sorry about that. Been there, done that. Sudden hearing loss in one ear is an emergency-so you should go to the ER. (I just googled it to make sure). If you can't or don't want to go to the ER: Do you have an urgent care center near you? If it's ear wax, most of them will be able to clean it out on the spot. Around here we have quite a few of them, including in pharmacies. I hope this gets better soon.

I lost access to a FB account for a while because of a similar reason-only mine was because people have decided that my nickname can't possibly come from my first name. I literally have my real first name on my account in parentheses, but FB still doesn't recognize it. About after a year I decided to try one last time and got in. So FB doesn't really care about I.D. like it claims to.

Some of the New England states offer in state tuition to people from other NE states for majors that aren't offered in a student's home state-so it's worth looking into.

After all the work that's been done on her, maybe they consider her as being 'made in America?'

Good point.

..and a way to isolate cult members from those outside of the cult.

I don't know that I see TDS as a slur, but it's close to it. It reminds me of times when a woman is angry about something and is automatically dismissed with variations of 'it's probably her time of the month.'