i follow chess players news, and there is an interesting development at a women's chess tournament in iran.
all the women, whether muslim or not, are required to wear a headcovering.
the news story and reader comments are at:.
Even though I am glad to see a chess tournament being held, if I were in that position I think I would boycott it and decline to participate.
If there were a tennis tournament in Iran, would the best women players agree to participate if they had to wear traditional garb while playing? Seriously, I doubt it.
I don't know what they are thinking, but to me it is outrageous.
i follow chess players news, and there is an interesting development at a women's chess tournament in iran.
all the women, whether muslim or not, are required to wear a headcovering.
the news story and reader comments are at:.
I follow chess players news, and there is an interesting development at a women's chess tournament in Iran. All the women, whether Muslim or not, are required to wear a headcovering. The news story and reader comments are at:
http://en.chessbase.com/post/tehran-wgp-rd5-keeping-the-status-quo#discuss
It really looks strange to western viewers to see the European women with the traditional garb, but is it wrong? Considering the WT's past stand on headcoverings, it is an interesting story.
it is now thought that we have been interbreeding with neanderthals as early as 100,000 years ago.. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35595661.
craziest thing i just realized: some women still breed with neanderthals up to this day.
rihanna and chris brown anyone?.
these numbers and letters:--gbr659967--are the only identifying markson this boe..the "informant" who sent it said:.
"this letter came through the congregation inbox and so hasn't got theusual identifying information.
the name of the file is probably thebest way to identify it.
i had never heard of this woman, but given prince's jw connection and this person's identification as an evangelist, is there a jw connection that anyone knows about?.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/16/entertainment/vanity-denise-matthews-dead/index.html.
I had never heard of this woman, but given Prince's JW connection and this person's identification as an evangelist, is there a JW connection that anyone knows about?
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/16/entertainment/vanity-denise-matthews-dead/index.html
saw in atlantis post re pioneer school abroad this in brnch letter.
piioneer identification number.
so do publishers get one, are the jws now just numbers?.
back in my teen years this story swept through jw land, that according to, the guinness book of records , freddy franz, was listed as one of the seven, most intelligent , men in the world.
dose anyone else remember this?
i remember trying to look it up, but never found anything in print, and ii point that out once or twice , and was told a co, had told about it, and he wouldn't lie!
I'll make an assertion which will no doubt find diagreement.
The JW religion exists as it is due to the influence of three persons:
William Miller
Charles Russell
Fred Franz
back in my teen years this story swept through jw land, that according to, the guinness book of records , freddy franz, was listed as one of the seven, most intelligent , men in the world.
dose anyone else remember this?
i remember trying to look it up, but never found anything in print, and ii point that out once or twice , and was told a co, had told about it, and he wouldn't lie!
found this interesting article in the december 2015 issue of the australasian science journal, on whether it might be possible to change a person's beliefs by stimulating their brain via transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms).. "the study by us and uk researchers recruited 38 undergraduate students, with each reporting they held significant religious beliefs and conservative political views.
participants in the experimental condition received tms to the pmfc for a period of 40 seconds, a process that reduces neural activity in this region for up to an hour.
control participants underwent a similar process, but with a low level of tms that has no effect on the functioning of the pmfc.. the researchers found that those who had received tms reported significantly less conviction in their beliefs concerning god, angels and heaven following a reminder of death than those in the non-tms control group.
i was at a concert last night and the presence and stature of the piano struck me.
and i thought: if the piano wasn't invented when it was, would it have been invented by someone else instead?
or if there was a world the same as our, except with a different history, would it have pianos now too or would it be modern world, similar in many respects, only without pianos?
