I do not know for sure but I feel that gender is irrelevant in this debate. In fact my feeling is that the WTBTS is a much less macho and more femenine friendly environment. Females, as in most of western society, seem to chat/ gossip / communicate about their own feelings far more than do males and subsequently attempt to create influence amongst everyone in subtle ways and through elders wives etc. My feelings may be subjective or inaccurate but it is my feeling and experience. Trying to have an in depth conversation amongst males about feelings and personal experiences is virtually nonexistent as far as I remember.
R.Crusoe
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Would the blood ban be lifted if more men were dying of blood loss?
by Gill inthe watchtower did not wait too long to make factor viii a conscience matter for haemophiliac men.
i believe it happened inthe late 1970's but i'm sure someone would correct me if i am wrong on the date.. but, the blanket blood ban continues and women are still dying in childbirth unncecessarily around the world because they are jws.
if the boot were on the other foot, would blood transfusion be a conscience matter by now to keep jw men safe?.
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What are you listening to now?
by sweetstuff inchair dancing to this.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci8lktsb4uo i love this song.
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BBC Radio2 Evans drive time!
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Poll for the guys....what hair color on women draws your eye first?
by restrangled inthis question is about your initial response visually....not the girl, not the girl your with, just what color hair draws your eye first.. blond, brunette, red, or black?.
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It is black or very dark brown. Dark eyelashes and pale complexion. I always thought Melanie Sykes and Kim Ryder look exceptional. There are many gorgeous women but only certain ones make me feel like butter melting. It is something that is unquantifiable because it can be in a 25 yr old or a 55 yr old and it can be countryfied elegance or sexual refinery. It is not one thing but whatever the woman has can sink me - like forever. Unfortunately I have only been sunk for the wrong reasons with an absence of romantic love. It is the regret of my life on Earth and has made life more complex than I could have ever anticipated. So follow your heart and if it fails you can at least look back on a journey of incredible intensity and feeling! Life has enough responsibility and reason to freeze over any sunset - do not let it grip you.
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My Latest Poem
by Abandoned inbetrayal.
pounded in the kidney,.
in the middle of a hug.. couldn't tell what hit me,.
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Futures lost and stole When a lifetime of love has grown in your heart and is showered on those who hold your every thoughts and when everything you give, others sully and smear then you turn with a smile to the few you hold dear, There's a spear for your heart when their eyes look away and make mind play with those who laugh as you sway with a hope in their hearts they will soon see you fall and see justice is done in their poisonous call. As you melt and run red with your own bloodshed standing still in the pool for the love you were fooled, it's hard to move on or feel anyones won in the mess that is left from the poisonous theft of the life that you had and were ready to glide into happier times with the ones you held dear for the many a year in your futures.
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Hypothetical right and wrong scenerio.
by Salivating Dog inif a gifted student graduates top of his law enforcement and ethics class....and is invited by the instructor to remain on as his aide.
what if his instructor starts doing exactly what he adamantly taught the aide was dead wrong to the next class?.
does the aide speak up and point out his teacher's hypocrisy and crime...in front of the entire class if nessesary?.
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It is true that if you give the instructor th erespect you consider all humans deserve then you will approach him first and risk your neck.
Not risking your neck and attempting to undermine/destroy the instructor whom may be has good and sincere reason for what you see may be a pressumption on your part. Maybe you are not as insightful as you imagine yourself to be and ironically the instructor seems to have elevated you to a position where you have a privelaged perspective that the instructor is fully aware of. Maybe not?
We are in a society which readily judges and condemns with little analytical observation and much less inclusion of the individual about whom the judgements are being formed. This is ironical when one considers that humans, who have, potentially, the greatest capacity for communication and resolution of all species on Earth, completely abandon them at the slightest hint of suspicion respecting any individual, thereby perpetuating a sequence of events guaranteed to be counter productive unless their initial guesswork was per chance correct. And on realising any mistakes, it is gawkingly unsurprising how readily back doors are used and justified reasoning rubber stamped. Chivalry is dead and burried! And the one with the shovel is on vacation!
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my JW boyfriend wants reinstatement. What do i do
by worldly girl81 infor the past 5 months i have been in a wonderful relationship.
he and i had started out as friends a few years ago, but realized that we were attracted to each other while he was going through his divorce earlier this year.
he and his now ex wife are both jws .
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It's hard to know what sort of thinker he is. Someone once asked me if I was in touch with my essence. She perplexed me though at the time I dismissed her point because I did not know what she was on about. She was on about how I was conditioned to reason everything through even when cyclic arguments existed which left me in a state of impotence of some sort and unaware that I was.
To be concise - I feel an awareness that each generation of JW's for over 100 years have had a different essence of what their faith is! That is to say what each generation feels is very different than the last based upon the literature they absorbed at the time. And this generation is conditioned not to analyse that so as to keep absorbing the current spiel. If this guy wants to be sure in his own lifetime that he has exercised free choice then he will have to give himself time to get to a point where he feels that is what he is doing is what he wants and feels is in his heart. This will take a while - maybe even years but unless he realises this he could easily give up and simply fall in line whilst knowing something in his heart does not sit well with himself. He is not in touch with his essence! And there is no guarantee he will be in the future which is why some are reluctant.
Hope this is of use!
And WT spiel has all the warnings about 'the heart is treachorous' and 'man cannot direct his own step' and ' do not lean on your own understanding' to brainwash people into willingly giving up their conscious use of their own free will!
If that were what God wanted maybe he should have left our brains out!
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410 Year Old Animal Discovered
by Gerard in...and the most logical course of action -of course- is to kill it:.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7066389.stm.
ming the clam is 'oldest animal' a clam dredged up off the coast of iceland is thought to have been the longest-lived creature discovered.. scientists said the mollusc, an ocean quahog clam, was aged between 405 and 410 years and could offer insights into the secrets of longevity.
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Lets hope they don't locate any oysters - it could have lasting effects!
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Tis to do with ones culture - look around the world for evidence of that! Sadly where women take control, they tend to adopt the same approach they despise in men of cultures they see as forcing subservience in women, only with western tactics IMHO of course!
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What has this religion become? THE WATCHTOWER madhouse
by Terry inc.t.russell began with a personal "purpose" which was to find a way to believe in/worship god while doing away with the beliefs he found to be personally uncomfortable such as hellfire.
he shopped around and cherry picked 2nd adventist views as a foundation.
to this he added pyramidology.
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Your perspective is incisive and affords a GPS of WT essence on a Tardis time trip!
It is good and seekers of God will get to see that it is so!
The castles in the air atmospheres of each generation since WT emergence are shining through. It is a light I have not seen before.
It will help explain to some why parents had a different perspective and so on!
Let you entertain us!
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ARE YOU PREPARED FOR DISASTER?
by tula inliving simple: .
self-sustaining, frugal, green, bohemian, and having emergency back-up plans.. i am not talking about the big a. .
your disaster could be a financial setback.
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It is cool that there are peole like you. How do you keep self-sufficent though? A regular job?
I think dudes who manage the 'life' are amazing!