hi guys,.
i am so out of touch with tv shows and i have got a lot of catching up to do.. some-one suggested dexter and it was fantastic and what an ending.
really loved it.
It is not that current, but The Wire is my absolute favourite tv series - very clever script writing. Breaking Bad is similar and also good but I prefer The Wire.
I also loved the Sopranos and Deadwood. You can get these as box sets.
I think 24 is overrated - I found it contrived and a bit predicatable.
I also lost interest in Lost after a while.
Black Books is fantastic if you like that dark understated British style of humour.
my money is on tuscany, italy at the moment..
There is a lot to be said for changing location to suit the season. I plan to split my retirement between the UK, The Philippines and Australia if I can afford it, to avoid winter. I plan to have houses in both the UK and the Philippines and move from the UK to the Philippines in October and return in April. My son and father live in Australia so that would be a regular detour from the Philippines. Just have to make sure I can squirrel away enough retirement money to pay the airfares.
my money is on tuscany, italy at the moment..
Hawaii, anywhere except Waikiki; Santa Fe, New Mexio; Tuscany, the Dolomites, Umbria or the Amalfi coast in Italy; Split or one of the Croatian islands (just came back from a vacation there - like the Amalfi coast but not as expensive or developed); Seville in Spain; Byron Bay, NSW, Australia; Palawan Island, The Philippines; and the list goes on.
you may be feeling deceived, and may be thinking:.
if jws were gods people, why did they become exactly like the catholic church of the middle ages turning themselves into dogmatic folly?
while claiming to be gods appointed channel on earth, how could they become a cult of intolerance with its raging commanders, a cult where all questioning is banned, and shunning is openly encouraged?.
hmm Vincent Van Gogh as a role model, interesting - ears are overrated anyway...just being facetious...your point is well made
one thing i would like to say is will the union jack be changed because the scottish flag is incorpreted in it.
if the union jack is changed will we change our australian flag because the union jack is in our flag?
even hawawi has the union jack also fiji and many other commonwealth countries.. .
The bookies have priced in a resounding no vote (I was looking to punt on No but the price was too short) - the press suggesting that a Yes vote is a realistic possibility is for the purpose of making the story more interesting than it really is. Independence is an emotional thing - it is not really in the economic interests of the Scots - there are definite economies of scale in being part of a larger national entity and the government in Westminster gives Scots generous subsidies.
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having recently been posting on a thread about ot moral values , which are not widely "appreciated " to say the least , i have been thinking about our modern morals about sex and reletionships , or more acurately the lack of any sexual morals todays .
i don't think that we are better off as a society which has gone so far to the do want you want , with whom you want and when you want approach to sexual ethics as we have .
i don't think that women are actually liberated by this attitude .
Jan - Is having a child with two parents necessarily harm reduction? My parents stayed together despite hating each otherr and living separate lives in the one house (one lived upstairs and the other down) and carrying on a protracted cold war which would occasionally becoming hot as it descended into a yelling match. I would argue that this staying together for the sake of the children caused me more harm than if they had separated.
As for your characterisation of male attitudes to women as 'damn whores or God's policemen' I would say that of course I would not want my sister, daughter etc. to become a sex worker or to be flimed in pornography but at the end of the day I can't control that and if that is a choice freely made (which unfortunately is mostly not the case - it is the coercive aspect of it rather than the shame aspect of it that to my mind is morally repugnant) then so be it. We certainly know that prohibition doesn't work - it increases the likelihood that the sex trade will be controlled by organised crime.
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does the watchtower teach that keeping secrets is ok?
does its leadership believe that the advancement of the organization hinges on holding back truthful information from prospective members and others who are not in leadership positions?
do you believe that the organization as a whole has a global agenda?
What punky said!
i was a jw for many years.
during those years i learned how to identify a false religion.
all the other religions were easy to prove false.
Viviane - nice one!
i was a jw for many years.
during those years i learned how to identify a false religion.
all the other religions were easy to prove false.
Bizarre - religions are a tool of Satan but God is real...and Satan uses religion to turn people away from God - that is some bizarre and twisted logic...seems you haven't moved on that far even after 18 years...so who are you - the new prophet for God without religion?
having recently been posting on a thread about ot moral values , which are not widely "appreciated " to say the least , i have been thinking about our modern morals about sex and reletionships , or more acurately the lack of any sexual morals todays .
i don't think that we are better off as a society which has gone so far to the do want you want , with whom you want and when you want approach to sexual ethics as we have .
i don't think that women are actually liberated by this attitude .
Jan - I disagree that stable family life is disintegrating - where is your evidence for this? Families remain the core social unit in Western society and thankfully we now recognise same sex marriages as legitimate families - so in that respect family life has expanded. The reasons for some social changes are often economic - the so called sexual revolution and increase in the divorce rate were to some extent a result of increased prosperity, birth control and women becoming more financially independent - whereas previously women stayed in unhappy marriages because they were financially dependent. The decrease in 20 somethings getting marriage reflects the price of real estate mor ethan anything else. Morality reflects societal conditions and has to adapt to those changes in societal and economic conditions. Morality is a man-made set of principles - they are not absolute or set in stone. Your attitudes may be a reflection of the fact that the world has moved on from the world you grew up in which set your moral code (or moral compass). Modern morality is no less valid than the morality you grew up with. STDs have been around for a long time and are no more prevalent now than 50 years ago. It's just they were different back then - Syphillis and Gonorhea dominated then followed Herpes.
As for the Searcher's comment: "All areas of society are reaping the consequences of the "sexual liberation" of previous decades - morally, physically, emotionally, psychologically, and financially - fact!" This is trite - social and political changes in one period have consequences in subsequent periods - duh! How such consequences manifest themselves and whether such consequences are good or bad are a matter of opinion.
