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2009 Global Peace Index: atheist nations are more peaceful
by behemot ininteresting .... http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31030&itemid=1.
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A smart woman behind every man
by behemot inbarbara walters of 20/20 did a story on gender roles in kabul, afghanistan, several years before the afghan conflict.
she noted that women customarily walked 5 paces behind their husbands.. she recently returned to kabul and observed that women still walk behind their husbands.
from ms. walters vantage point, despite the overthrow of the oppressive taliban regime, the women now seem to walk even further back behind their husbands and are happy to maintain the old custom.. ms. walters approached one of the afghani women and asked, "why do you now seem happy with the old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?".
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After the Smurfs ... JWs paranoia hits again
by behemot ini read on an ex-jws italian forum that in certain congregations witnesses are getting rid of their hello kitty toys.
the reason?
well, it's because the hello kitty is mouthless ... and that's how the "story" (the metropolitan legend) goes: .
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"Naive realism" and bias perception
by behemot in"naive realism" is defined as the feeling that we see things objectively, as they really are, that our worldview enjoys a particular authenticity, and therefore everybody else should agree with us ... if they don't, either they lack relevant information or they see things through the distorting, blinding prism of their (religious, political, ideological) bias.. we would perhaps concede that some of our views have been shaped by our personal experience, but we feel that in our own particular case such factors have led to increased insight, whereas in others' case they have impaired their perception, inference and judgment abilities.. cultural psychologist jonathan haidt points to naive realism as "the major obstacle to world peace and social harmony" (the happiness hypothesis: finding modern truth in ancient wisdom), because it works not only at the individual but also at the group level, contributing to splitting the world in good and bad (people, ideas).. such an attitude is typical of fundamentalist political and religious groups like the jws.
but it's worth remembering that's a common inclination to be recognized and fought against: all of us are bound to judge asymmetrically when it comes to detecting (our own or others) bias.. an interesting paper on bias perception here:.
http://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/research/pronin/pubs/2002biasblindspot.pdf.
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Speechless
by behemot infrom an italian newspaper:.
http://ilrestodelcarlino.ilsole24ore.com/pesaro/2009/05/04/172368-auto_tetto_vita_stenti.shtml.
translation:.
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Old immorality / new morality
by behemot intodays established morality, which condones premarital and extramarital sex as well as homosexuality, is what the bible condemns as immorality.
... they endorse a new moralityactually nothing more than the old immorality under a new name.
it is a return to the age-old immorality, but disguised and sugarcoated as the new morality.
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Double standards
by behemot indid you ever notice how double standard leads jws life?.
if someone whos joining the jws gets shunned by his family/friends, thats persecution, if a jw who joins another religion (or does anything outside the rules) gets the same treatment thats loving discipline.. if they are invited to another religions ceremony they wont go, viewing their participation as sharing in false worship; yet at the same time they keep on inviting members of other faiths to share in their own celebrations (memorial) and expect them to show up and participate.. they fight worldwide, even in courts, for freedom of speech, yet they dont grant such freedom to their own members.. they encourage people to question and closely scrutinize their beliefs; but they are discouraged to do the same themselves.. they expect people to read and study their publications; yet they wont touch other faiths literature with a stick for fear of getting polluted.. other examples?.
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November WT: new policy for inactive ones?
by behemot inthe november 15 w.t.
(study edition) features these two articles:.
help those who stray from the flock.
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Parody of "Awake" cover
by behemot indon't know if it's been covered before, anyway, this is the story:.
in 1990 a cult band in the italian underground music scene, named "elio e le storie tese" issued a record called "born to be abramo" whose cover was a parody of the awake cover (italian edition).. .
the record was withdrawn from the market just after a few days, due to the official protests of the jw italian branch, irritated by the misuse of their magazine's logo and layout (although the logo had been slightly modified in the cover, from svegliatevi!
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Tobit, Testament of Dan and Apocalypse's "New Jerusalem"
by behemot in"for jerusalem will be built with sapphires and emeralds, her walls with precious stones, and her towers and battlements with pure gold.
the streets of jerusalem will be paved with beryl and ruby and stones of ophir, and her lanes will cry 'hallelujah!
' and will give praise, saying, 'blessed is god, who has exalted you for ever.