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  What's Your Opinion of the Opposite Sex?

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  are you of the mind that all men and all women are basically the same?

  you know---all men just have one thing on their mind or all women are just users?

  there's so much stereotyping when it comes to males and females...typical man, typical woman.

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  Vita Nuova: Can you name any female equivalent (or superior) to the achievements of an Einstein, a Shakespeare, or a Michelangelo?

  frenchbabyface: I don't give a damn myself about Einstein, Shakespeare, Mickeal who ?

  "Mickeal who?" You must be kidding.

  those guys have been raised by women !!! and was quiet lazy !!! (sure they got time enough to do whatever they want and could)

  Sure, they had mothers, I agree. I celebrate the family institution. But as for being lazy? This childish comment can be nothing more than the sum of ignorance and fevered feminism (I know I'll draw ire for that one).

  Men couldn't stand that Jeane d'Arc did what she did but they couldn't denial it (cause everybody acknolegde what she did they couldn't hide it) so they said she was crazy !!! LOL (interesting don't you think ? And she didn't have kids yet ... does that talk to you ??? hum ... ???)

  Well, the remarkable Jeanne D'Arc herself claimed she had the aid of divine inspiration. She was being guided by the "voices" of St. Michael, St.Catherine, and St. Margaret. That's what talks to me... err, not the voices of Saints but that she exhibited enough piety to acknowledge the presence of the divine for what she could have taken credit for herself.
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  What's Your Opinion of the Opposite Sex?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  are you of the mind that all men and all women are basically the same?

  you know---all men just have one thing on their mind or all women are just users?

  there's so much stereotyping when it comes to males and females...typical man, typical woman.

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  Vita Nuova

  Coconuts? Doesn't sound to me like bendrrr came right out and said so.

  Exhibit A:

  Note the ambiguity before you flame me ladies!
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  What's Your Opinion of the Opposite Sex?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  are you of the mind that all men and all women are basically the same?

  you know---all men just have one thing on their mind or all women are just users?

  there's so much stereotyping when it comes to males and females...typical man, typical woman.

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  I did not omit Apollonious from the last sentence, I copied and pasted it exactly as it was written.

  Then the omission is imputed to the source.
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  What's Your Opinion of the Opposite Sex?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  are you of the mind that all men and all women are basically the same?

  you know---all men just have one thing on their mind or all women are just users?

  there's so much stereotyping when it comes to males and females...typical man, typical woman.

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  Hypatia was known more for the work she did in mathematics than in astronomy, primarily for her work on the ideas of conic sections introduced by Apollonius. She edited the work On the Conics of Apollonius, which divided cones into different parts by a plane. This concept developed the ideas of hyperbolas, parabolas, and ellipses. With Hypatia's work on this important book, she made the concepts easier to understand, thus making the work survive through many centuries. Hypatia was the first woman to have such a profound impact on the survival of early thought in mathematics. Later, Descartes, Newton, and Leibniz expanded on her work.
  

  She paved the way for Einstien and others!

  maybesbabies,

  Great response! But a little tricky, too. I would also like to highlight "She edited the work On the Conics of Apollonius" and "With Hypatia's work on this important book, she made the concepts easier to understand."

  And it seems a little misleading when you omit Apollonius from the last sentence in that paragraph: "Later, Descartes, Newton, and Leibniz expanded on her work."

  Correction: "her work on Apollonius."

  Her contribution is very important, not to doubt, but I almost read through that passage thinking that she alone had "paved the way for Einstein." :)
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  What's Your Opinion of the Opposite Sex?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  are you of the mind that all men and all women are basically the same?

  you know---all men just have one thing on their mind or all women are just users?

  there's so much stereotyping when it comes to males and females...typical man, typical woman.

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  Vita Nuova: Can you name any female equivalent (or superior) to the achievements of an Einstein, a Shakespeare, or a Michelangelo?

  frenchbabyface: and how many men stole women's job !!!

  Frenchie,

  Please relate to me the tale of how Einstein stole the job of formulating the theory of relativity from the unsuspecting Jane Doe. Or how Shakespeare stole his job from some brilliant young English lass. Or even the one about how Michelangelo deviously disguised himself as the Italian woman whom the Pope actually wanted to commission to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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  What's Your Opinion of the Opposite Sex?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  are you of the mind that all men and all women are basically the same?

  you know---all men just have one thing on their mind or all women are just users?

  there's so much stereotyping when it comes to males and females...typical man, typical woman.

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  Vita Nuova

  Do you really think that women artists and poets and philosophers would have been taken seriously at those times around the people you mentioned?

  jwbot,

  You are absolutely right. But now, we have an Emily Dickenson don't we? Despite her circumstances, she becamewidely regarded, albiet in posterity, as one of the greatest American poets.
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  What's Your Opinion of the Opposite Sex?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  are you of the mind that all men and all women are basically the same?

  you know---all men just have one thing on their mind or all women are just users?

  there's so much stereotyping when it comes to males and females...typical man, typical woman.

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  stillajwexelder,

  Marie Curie -- discovered radium and was a brilliant chemist

  greater than Einstein?

  world /great leaders -- Boadicea - Queen Elizabeth 1st, Queen Victoria, Margaret Thatcher

  world /great(er) leaders: Alexander the Great, Augustus Caesar, George Washington, Churchill
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  What's Your Opinion of the Opposite Sex?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  are you of the mind that all men and all women are basically the same?

  you know---all men just have one thing on their mind or all women are just users?

  there's so much stereotyping when it comes to males and females...typical man, typical woman.

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  Vita Nuova

  OK, since everyone is wimping out on actually asserting anything in this thread, allow me to start the fire.

  Fact: Men and women are biologically as well as mentally different. Beyond the cultural differences, men and women have respective tendencies that, by and large, are reflected by the whole of the gender. Just one example right now: Men think in the macro sense. Just look at those classic works of literature that were written by men; most of them burst with themes of God, war, politics, conspiracy, humanity (universal), and large scale events. But women think on a micro scale. Their classics usually deal in the realms of personal relationships, family, humanity (private), spirituality, and themes more droll than grand. I am not judging one over against the other, although I prefer one over against the other. Yet, I do enjoy the sporting nature of the gender wars, so I will pose a question to any: Can you name any female equivalent (or superior) to the achievements of an Einstein, a Shakespeare, or a Michelangelo?
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  God and Man -- The Paradox....The Choice

  by logansrun in

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  here's the deal: if you are an atheist you still must come to grips with the ultimate question, that is, why is there something rather than nothing?

  even a universe with nothing more than a tiny electron floating about would require a reason as to why it exists.

  our universe is one in which there are, almost literally, but not quite, an infinite amount of electrons (and protons, neutrons, etc.

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  "Without a universe already in existence, there could be NO God with a near infinite information density."
  

  "The Big Bang and the resulant causative development of the universe, is the only way an evolutionary development of intelligence or information density is possible. "

  Obviously, you're more comfortable dealing with things that you can grasp logically, systematically, scientifically. And so you frame God within terms open to your realm of experience. But the existence of God is not something to be necessarily grasped through observation. I think the most fitting statement on the observable aspect of this has already been described as illogical either way you go. But God is not in the realm of history, nor is he in the realm of explained phenomena. By definition, God is mystery. And so belief in God depends upon faith. When belief depends upon direct observable evidence that belief is NOT faith, it is fact. The question, then, that opens itself to observation is what the nature of faith really is. Unfortunately, this is a subjective matter. If you believe faith is nothing more than imagined credulity, so be it. If you believe faith is something less than apprehension, yet something more than imagination, you are equally justified. From a theological perspective, the ultimate question is either ignored, negated, or engaged. From a scientific historical perspective, the ultimate question is subjective at best.
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  If You Could Write Articles For The Watchtower What Would The Titles Be?

  by minimus in

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  if you had the power to print millions of watchtowers & awakes and you could see to it that the articles that you wrote got to all the readers, give a sampling of what the articles highlighting "spiritual food" would say.

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  The Dictionary--A Stumbling Block to Understanding the Watchtower

  Young People Ask: Is there Anything that's NOT Regulated by the Scriptures?

  Will This World End Before We Are Proven False Again?