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  If You Could Live In Any Era or Decade What Would It Be?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i kind of like the 50’s and early 60’s because of the innocence and “happy days” outlook by that generation.

  it seems most people were pretty innocent and real.. would you rather be living in a different era or is this century working for you?

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  LoveUniHateExams

  I love 60s and 80s music.

  I love films from the 70s and 80s, too. They're much better than the crap spoon-fed to audiences today.

  But if I could pick any era to live in it would be right here and now, 2019 in a Western country.
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  San Francisco authorities go co-co bananas

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  authorities in sf have decided to 'sanitise' language around criminals.. because, yeah, that's the big problem facing san francisco, not drug abuse, gangs, violence, people crapping in the street or illegal immigrants.

  glad to know they've got their priorities sorted.

  under this stunning and brave new scheme, a criminal who's served his sentence will be referred to as a 'returning resident who was involved with the justice system'.

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  Authorities in SF have decided to 'sanitise' language around criminals.

  Because, yeah, that's the big problem facing San Francisco, not drug abuse, gangs, violence, people crapping in the street or illegal immigrants. Glad to know they've got their priorities sorted.

  Under this stunning and brave new scheme, a criminal who's served his sentence will be referred to as a 'returning resident who was involved with the justice system'. XD

  This is purely Orwellian. Control the language in an attempt to change the way people think.

  Meanwhile, there is actual crime going on and it needs to be tackled.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnrYZpBT9yo
  
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  Serena William is 'fighting for women'?!

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  so serena williams lost the us open final 6-2, 6-4 to naomi osaka, her japanese-american opponent.. williams received three code violations from the umpire, carlos ramos: .

  1. a warning for illegal coaching (subsequently admitted by williams's coach).

  2. a point penalty for smashing her racquet.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  ^^^ that is indeed a bad decision.

  That particular umpire (Ramos?) is actually quite highly regarded. He's tough but fair - a bit of a stickler who applies the rules fairly and consistently. He did nothing wrong in the US Open final - all his warnings and decisions to penalise points and games were correct and in complete accord with the rules.
  

  Serena is a great player but, like all champions, she hates losing. And when she loses, she starts to behave like a spoilt brat. Well, she needs to grow a bit - she's a 37 year old mother, ffs.
  
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  Would You Stop Buying A Product Because of Political Differences?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  would you stop buying nike products because you didn’t like their politics?

  conversely, would you give business to a company because you liked their political stand on a matter?

  would you stop watching an entertainer because you disagree with their political perspectives?

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  Like a lot of other people I thought the Gillette advert was at best silly, at worst man-hating.

  But I like my Gillette Mach 3 razor.

  So, I've reached a lazy kinda compromise - I grow my beard out and only shave once a month. This means I spend less money on Gillette products, plus I shave less and I hate shaving every day or every other day.

  What I've been thinking of is getting rid of my Gillette stuff and buying a proper old fashioned razor, with the pot of shaving soap and horse hair brush. Anyone still use them? Recommend?
  
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  WT Teaching That You Can't Leave Behind

  by jhine in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after posting on another thread it became apparent to me that it can be difficult for some ex jws to totally shake off all wt teaching , even after leaving the org.

  do you still feel guilty going into a church for a wedding or a funeral .

  can you bring yourself to celebrate birthdays or christmas .

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  Do you still feel guilty going into a church for a wedding or a funeral - nope. I don't find myself in churches often but I realise that other people have Christian beliefs. I no longer subscribe to the Watchtower's 'Christendom' crap.

  Can you bring yourself to celebrate birthdays or Christmas - hell yeah! Every year, I go up to the Cairngorms and visit friends and family. We celebrate xmas and see in the new year. In 2017-18 me, my cousin, my cousin's partner and his sister went to a big Scottish Hogmaney in the street. We saw in the new year with line dancing and whisky. Generally speaking, when I visit these guys, much stilton and turkey is eaten and much red wine and Scotch whisky is drunk.

  Would you hesitate to accept a blood transfusion if you needed one ? - I would have no hesitation if I really needed one. I'd have no religious concerns on the matter. The only concern I might have would be that the blood has been properly screened. I don't want AIDS.

  PS - I eat black pudding. It's rich but quite nice. I recommend anyone to give it a try.
  
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  The One Per Cent (1%) - Is it a Phenomenon of Nature itself? Is it Fair? Is it our enemy?

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  open discussion.

  the rich and powerful vs the struggling poor.. the 1% we all hear about.... is it fair that a tiny minority has more and wins more often than the rest of us?____.

  (let's make a survey).

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  Your article wonders how gender representation in a given specialist field happens - There are several ways this could happen. Most obviously, these gendered stereotypes could lead to bias on the behalf of practitioners already in the field, which could lead to them offering fewer opportunities to women. Take philosophy, for instance: The US National Science Fou​ndation reports that only 27 percent of PhDs in philosophy and ethics were awarded to women in 2013, though 51.2 of all doctorate recipients in the humanities were women. On the other hand, some STEM fields have a high rate of female doctorates, with 58.8 percent of microbiology PhDs in the same year going to women practitioners already in the field, which could lead to them offering fewer opportunities to women. But stereotypes are also more insidious than that; women could internalise these stereotypes and effectively self-select out of the field, feeling that they probably don't fulfil the requirements.

  Giving a few stats and using them to support 'gendered stereotypes' just doesn't cut it. Virtually the next line says that some STEM fields have a high rate of female doctorates, with 58.8 percent of microbiology PhDs in the same year going to women practitioners already in the field. This isn't gendered stereotyping at all, it's just all about getting your foot in the door.
  

  There are no studies cited that refute the IQ distribution I've spoken about - i.e. males dominate the genius and dumb ends and females cluster more around the mean.

  "Like women, African Americans are stereotyped as lacking innate intellectual talent," the authors wrote - mean IQ for African-Americans and other racial groups do differ. That's not negative stereotyping, it's fact.

  Here's something for consideration: natural selection acted on male and female bodies for many thousands of generations, so that the average man had broad shoulders, narrow waist, male genitalia, facial hair and chest hair. The average woman has breasts, a general lack of facial hair and body hair in general, has female genitalia, and wider hips for childbirth. Why would evolution act on males' and females' bodies but not their brains?

  Natural selection has also acted upon people for many generations so that we have different ethnic groups. Peoples' skin, facial features, hair type, eye colour, bodily proportions and even % of fast-twitch muscle fibers are different. Again, it seems absurd to accept all that but then deny natural selection acted upon people's brains.

  The brain is just another organ, like skin, eyes, hair and muscle. Behaviour is just another phenotype.

  The US National Science Fou​ndation reports that only 27 percent of PhDs in philosophy and ethics were awarded to women in 2013, though 51.2 of all doctorate recipients in the humanities were women - these statistics simply reflect women's choice of career, that's all.

  It's not just STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths) fields that suffer from low levels of female representation, though they definitely ha​ve a problem - this isn't a 'problem'. Again, the numbers simply reflect people's choice of career and life.

  There's nothing arbitrarily stopping more women from going into STEM or becoming members of board of directors. The main factor that's effecting women is poor life choices, such as when to have children, etc.

  There are no doubt many factors that contribute to low diversity in certain academic fields, from outright discrimination to internalised biases, and all manner of social influences. - now we're almost starting to get somewhere. Men and women do differ on behaviour, on average.
  
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  The One Per Cent (1%) - Is it a Phenomenon of Nature itself? Is it Fair? Is it our enemy?

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  open discussion.

  the rich and powerful vs the struggling poor.. the 1% we all hear about.... is it fair that a tiny minority has more and wins more often than the rest of us?____.

  (let's make a survey).

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  LoveUniHateExams

  Influence and luck are as good of predictors of financial success as raw intelligence - no, I don't think so.

  IQ is a great indicator of financial success.

  Mean IQ varies between ethnic groups. The pattern of this is echoed in the so-called 'achievement gap'.

  Chinese and Jewish Americans have the highest mean salaries. They also happen to top the IQ chart (these two groups have the highest mean IQ figures).
  
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  The One Per Cent (1%) - Is it a Phenomenon of Nature itself? Is it Fair? Is it our enemy?

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  open discussion.

  the rich and powerful vs the struggling poor.. the 1% we all hear about.... is it fair that a tiny minority has more and wins more often than the rest of us?____.

  (let's make a survey).

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  Only approximately 1% of the people in the world have an IQ of 135 or over - and most of these geniuses are men.

  I don't know what the actual gender ratio is - it might be something like 12:1.

  Males dominate both ends of the IQ distribution (the dumb end and the genius end).
  
  

  Edit - good OP, Terry.

  There's no point whinging about things 'not being fair'. That's what children do. In fact, it could be argued that the top 1% geniuses being successful is completely fair. IQ is a pretty good indicator of success.
  
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  Is It Israel or Palestine??

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  does palestine actually exist?

  does israel have the right to exist!.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  LUHE said " Israel has existed since 1948 - it also existed thousands of years ago, too."

  That is not an argument for anything - it's may not be an argument but it is a pretty good point that puts this whole issue into perspective.

  Jews were living in the Levant many centuries before Arabs settled the region.

  The first Arabs to settle the Levant came from what is now Yemen - they were Christians from the Al Azd tribe, if my memory serves correctly. They started settling in the Levant from the end of the first century CE onwards. Muslim Arabs seeped into traditionally Jewish land from the 7th century onwards.

  Jews had already been living in the same area many centuries before (Kingdom of Israel, Kingdom of Judah). So Jews do have a legitimate claim on that part of the Levant. Meanwhile, there has never been an independent Palestine.

  I have a few questions for you ...

  1. Palestine for the Palestinians?

  2. Ireland for the Irish?

  3. England for the English?
  
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  Fossils fail to provide a connection

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  page 24 of “the origin of life” cites henry gee:.

  a second, more serious challenge is the lack of proof that those creatures are somehow related.

  specimens placed in the series are often separated by what researchers estimate to be millions of years.

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  Here's a fossil that's been repeatedly called a link ...

  
  

  It looks very much like a link to me. Teeth in the jaw, three fingered hand and a long bony tail (therapod dinosaur); hollow bones and feathers (bird).