Good points Village Girl.
I also think Leolia posted something about translations errors in that scripture concerning head coverings.
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Head covering for women--how did you feel about this? Men? Women?
by humbled inthinking about how this felt awkward to some of us women when a bible student noticed something was "up" if a baptised brother sat in on a study.
had to reference 1 cor.
11:1-16.. i wonder if this irked any while you were still in?.
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Head covering for women--how did you feel about this? Men? Women?
by humbled inthinking about how this felt awkward to some of us women when a bible student noticed something was "up" if a baptised brother sat in on a study.
had to reference 1 cor.
11:1-16.. i wonder if this irked any while you were still in?.
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scotoma
I hate rituals.
On average men are about 4 inches taller than the average woman.
On average men have more physical strength than the average woman.
On average men have more facial hair than the average woman.
On average men have lower voices than the average non-smoking woman.
Men don't have babies but like to be babied by women.
Why do women need head coverings. It's a carry over from primitive male dominated societies. It's also a way to prevent barbaric men from getting hot and bothered if , god forbid, they see an attractive female face.
God supposedly told the Jews to go through ritual sexual mutilation to show their membership in a racist society. Later he said he really wanted circumcised hearts.
Jesus commanded his apostles to follow the example he set by washing their feet. If women need to keep up the head covering nonsense then there needs to be a foot washing area at the KH.
God told the Jews to sacrifice animals. Later he said he really just wanted obedience.
Aside from the fact that it is ridiclous to believe there is some God dictating through writers with ambiguous credentials, Isn't it time to quit all of this symbolic stuff?
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Question to atheists: if there is no creator/god---
by prologos inif you are sure there is no god, do you then believe that we,our minds, are the highest intelligence?
not just of the universe, but the cosmos?.
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From a personal experience shared by family and neighbors I am positive there are aliens visiting the Earth.
I realize by saying that I jeopardize any claim to rationality in the eyes of skeptics. So what. I didn't ask for my experience but I am content with my judgement and the perspective that experience has given me.
I don't believe there are more intelligent beings than humans. That is not a statement that should be labeled as arrogance. Species succeed when they have enough generalized abilities to adapt to a wide range of environments.
Too much individual intelligence becomes non-adaptive. At a certain point extremely high IQ's handicap a person especially in the area of sociability which impedes cooperation.
Most likely advanced civilizations have arrived at that state through cooperative techniques that evolved through trial and error.
If humans could learn to cooperate and get past the fighting betweens males for access to females they could be capable of amazing things. Even god-like things. Through cooperation humans can match the achievements of any other evolved species that may exist.
After all, look at the cooperation that goes on between the specialization of cells in our own bodies. Think about the amazing symbiosis between the bacterial invader we affectionately call "mitochondria"as if they were just another part of our cells. Humans still haven't learned how to fully exploit human resources. If we can learn to cooperate the door will be open to understanding the genetic aspect of individual talents. There will be no need for crude psychological testing to understand a person's ability. There will be no wasting of human talent and potential with the hit or miss random distribution of people to various occupations. Think of the "genius" of all sorts that go to waste in the billions of people that are working at jobs inappropriate to their unique talents. Imagine a society where everyone has a job that fits their capacity.
Unfortunately, this has been given the name of socialism and is scorned by the libertarian freedom fanatics. Libertarians are usually highly intelligent and they need to recognize that they stand to benefit greatly from a society that is focused on discovering and utilizing peoples assets.
Instead earthlings will continue to use the artifact of struggle for reproductive access (war and strife at all levels) until they destroy themselves or are rescued by intervention from our advanced brothers from other planets or multiverses.
Not in our lifetime! So you just have to make do.
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Why I feel that worshiping "God" is a waste of time...
by CaptainSchmideo inhave you ever had a so-called friend who never seemed to be around when you really needed his active, participatory help, but was always good enough to show up after the fact, to lend you his "support" after the event?.
maybe he failed to show up when you needed to move furniture.
did he show up afterward, and praise you for the ability to get it done without his help?
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Nothing fails like prayer
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JW's Anti-Gay position puts them in the axis of ignorance
by scotoma indarkest area is most anti-gay.
perhaps they need to focus on those areas since they seem to agree with them on this issue.
jehovah.
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The really bad part about society accepting homosexuality is that homosexuals no longer try to go straight by getting married to a woman and having children. Since homosexuality has a genetic component this means that there will be fewer homosexuals.
How will broadway musicals, balet, and fashion survive when that gene pool drys up?
Pardon the stereotype.
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Testify to ritual humiliation in the judicial process
by rory-ks inthose judicial committee videos are remarkable viewing.
(part 1, part 2) they can leave one in no doubt about the humiliating way that jehovah's witnesses treat their men.
i urge you to get hold of a copy.
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There was so much in those videos that could be commented on.
I think there would be more comments except there were so many issues that were so obvious that you hardly know where to start.
Why didn't they act like the wannabe jews they are and tell him that since he got the girl pregnant he ought to marry her and take responsibility for raising the child as a witness. Sometimes a person's mate doesn't become a JW. Live with it. At least take care of the kid and who knows maybe his worldly girlfriend may become a witness once they are married and she sees that she has allies in an organization that will help her control his penis.
The part that smelled was when the coordinator asked the one elder to TALK TO JEHOVAH. That was stinky cult talk if I ever heard it.
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JW's Anti-Gay position puts them in the axis of ignorance
by scotoma indarkest area is most anti-gay.
perhaps they need to focus on those areas since they seem to agree with them on this issue.
jehovah.
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The problem is also that you can't expect things to change quickly when psychologists viewed homosexuality as a mental illness in their diagnostic handbook up until 1973.
Modern psychology is making it clearer how much of our behavior is genetically based. Liberals need to understand that the liberal-authoritarian dimension is also not a choice but genetic.
Openness to experience/vs/fear of change has a high genetic component.
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JW's Anti-Gay position puts them in the axis of ignorance
by scotoma indarkest area is most anti-gay.
perhaps they need to focus on those areas since they seem to agree with them on this issue.
jehovah.
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There are a broad range of anti-gay laws.
The dark areas on that map represent countries that imprison and kill practicing homosexuals even if they are consenting adults.
Russia doesn't have laws punishing homosexual acts between consenting adults. However, they ban public advocacy for homosexuality especially directed at minors.
Russia is in the anti column but not as severe as those that criminalize homosexuality and punish it with prison or death.
Russians are conservative and ignorant but not as much as the areas of the world dominated by crazy desert religions.
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JW's Anti-Gay position puts them in the axis of ignorance
by scotoma indarkest area is most anti-gay.
perhaps they need to focus on those areas since they seem to agree with them on this issue.
jehovah.
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Darkest area is most anti-gay. Perhaps they need to focus on those areas since they seem to agree with them on this issue. Jehovah
must really love those countries.
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Bizarre comment about jw.org at SAD
by sir82 inrecently attended a sad.. bethel speaker was gushing about the wt's embrace of new technology, in the part of his talk warning about "apostate" web sites.. a loose summary of his comments:.
"and the brothers at headquarters have made it very safe for you to go to our website.
in fact, the brothers talked to the folks at google, and they made a special arrangement so that when you type in 'j w period' into the google search engine, it automatically shows you the jw.org website.
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This is good news. Give the closed minded people all the tools they need to stay in their little dark caves.
But, it tells you they would rather hide from challenges than confront them.
If you have the "TRUTH" why hide? Simple answer is they are scared.
They are asking for bread and fish and are given stones and snakes.
