Topics Started by Lore
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What good is punishment after you die?
by Lore inwhen your child disobeys, you punish him.
simple answer: so he will listen next time and won't disobey again.. if the child has a learning disorder and is incapable of learning from the punishment, odds are you will stop punishing him and will deal with his condition in other ways.. we punish children in order to change their behavior.
if the punishment does not promote a change in behavior the punishment is useless and possibly evil.. .
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Ugly people and crimes.
by Lore ini like to think that i'm perfectly rational at all times.. so in the interest of making myself more awesome i'd like to admit to and try to to fix a prejudice i think i may have.
but i'd also like to make sure it's not grounded in reality.. .
so earlier i saw a story about a woman who killed her baby in the microwave.
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Going to start talking figuratively now. . .
by Lore ini think from now on i should just start talking figuratively whenever i want.. but i'm not gonna tell you when i'm talking figuratively.
you'll just have to figure it out.. .
so in some other thread if you see me talking about the time i smothered a 2 year old i was babysitting, you'll have to guess whether i'm being literal or not.. and when i tell the tale about the time i laughed so hard i shot pepsi out my nose, i could be serious, or i could be being figurative.. and if i say that i'm a 32 year old billionaire heart surgeon with a third arm that helps me with surgury.
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Was it designed . . . TO KILL? The funnel-web spider. . .
by Lore inthe cow and the bear themselves will feed; together their young ones will lie down.
and even the lion will eat straw just like the bull.
and the sucking child will certainly play upon the hole of the cobra .
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Suddenly looking up a definition of a common word
by Lore ini knew i'd draw you in with that incredibly fascinating thread title.
it just screams: "click me" doesn't it?
did you ever have to look up the definition of a word that you've heard used all your life?.
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Is it ethical to make rich pay more taxes?
by Lore ini'm having trouble getting behind the idea of making rich people pay more taxes just because they have more.. aside from the obvious: "i'm not rich so lets tax them instead of me.
" the three reasons i hear most often are:.
1: they may have "earned" their wealth but they don't deserve it!.
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The magazines didn't used to be so dumb and boring
by Lore inhere's an excerpt from this weeks watchtower study in 1950: .
*** w50 6/15 p. 180 a victory dedicated to jehovahs honor ***.
the strategy, and the attack.
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Noncommittal Prayers
by Lore inanyone else notice the growing trend towards prayers among witnesses to not actually ask for anything specific in prayers.. .
phrases like: "please help my husband get home from work safely today".
have changed to: "please be with my husband today".
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"If Armageddon came in '75, the new ones would have died"
by Lore inthat was the reasoning in a recent public talk at my hall.. namely: if the end of the world happened in 1975, then loads of people who had not yet converted or been born would have been destroyed, or never existed, so therefore we should be happy that yahweh was patient and armageddon hasn't come yet.. .
anyone else see like 5 blaringly horrible problems with this reasoning?.
#1 that will never stop being true!
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JWs having children lack faith
by Lore inif you're a witness couple and you choose to have a child together, it means you think armageddon is not going to arrive for at least 9 more months.
and then you'll be nursing it for at least 6 months.. that's almost a year and a half.
if armageddon started within that time: woe to you!.