more than one thing for me, but i have learned to enjoy festivals, and just enjoying free time.
it's not that the org wouldn't allow it, i just felt i shouldn't.
there are others, of course, and i really have been happier and good things have come my way since i left.
Doing lots of things with a clear conscience! From playing dungeons and dragons to having sex. working out my own moral code was wonderful. Discovering that *I* didn't steal because I empathised with other people and didn't want them to feel bad (I've been robbed a few times). NOT because I was afraid of being caught either by the police or some deity or whatever.
It's enough to make a chap feel good about himself... :)
follow the link\.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqlczog202k.
prepare their graves.. .
Could you give us a synopsis of the contents? I'm at work and I don't like looking at videos while I'm at work.
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 .
Onager, interesting economics. The cab drivers I talked to in New York worked for similar reasons. They made their money in the Big Apple then spent the rest of the year in Puerto Rico or some other tropical paradise. The noise, stink, dirt, and stress for a few months paid for paradise.
Yeah, if a person is not being coerced into it then I don't have any argument against them doing something which I (or my sister or mother) would find distasteful.
If they are being forced into it against their will then that's a different matter. That's an issue that extends well beyond just the sex trade though.
Why are there two identical threads with this title? I thought my "Global Flood" post hadn't posted!
Weird.
i guess there are many, but what would be the strangest teaching, or "wackiest" ?.
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Global flood!
Global flood?
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 .
I was in a lapdancing club for a stag do a few years ago. I had a brief conversation with one of the ladies, before she worked out I was there under sufferance and wasn't going to pay for any "fun".
She told me that she lives in Poland, but comes and works in this club in the UK for 3 months a year and that earns her enough money to live for the rest of the year in Poland.
I didn't enjoy a single minute I spent in that club. I mean, seriously? Sitting round a table with work colleagues is not the environment I want to be in when enjoying the sight of naked ladies. It's just weird.
But I can't argue against the ladies choosing to do it for work though. I wish I could work 3 months out of 12.
watch these clips...there is no way the account of noah's ark could ever be true!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i225vcs3x0g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk1owd9y1hc.
It was fascinating.
Digest version (spoiler alert) ...
Academic at British Museum with big beard deciphered Babylonian tablet and discovered origin of biblical flood story - even has the "animals two by two".
Unlike the bible the Babylonian story describes a boat that doesn't defy physics. It was circular!
The Euphrates and Tigris flooded all the time and these large coracles might actually have been built as community lifeboats.
The program had one built 12m diameter using the instructions from the ancient tablet and it worked beautifully.
Bible writers got the story during the exile in Babylon and turned it into the ridiculous Noah version.
There were a couple of things that made me laugh watching that program:
The boats that the ark was based on were called "Guffers" and the narrator kept saying the name with such deadly seriousness. I gave a puerile snicker every time.
The other thing was that the bearded academic was called Irving. "In his quest to discover more about the Babylonians Irving has come to Berlin". Irving Berlin??? Again the narrator didn't even give a hint of a smile. He must have been a robot.
The things that interested me were:
The program wasnt trying to prove the biblical ark \ flood story at all (despite the misleading program title). Instead it was trying to prove that local flooding was behind this Babylonian story and that the bible had clearly stolen and adapted it.
The flood story and ark instructions the program was working from predated the bible by a 1,000 years and *wasn't* the epic of Gilgamesh.
All in all, I was expecting ridiculousness but didn't quite get it. It was actually rather good.
as a jehovah's witness:.
two things finally struck me:.
for now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now i know in part, but then i will know fully just as i also have been fully known.. _______________________.
"The light gets brighter" makes my blood boil!!
THIS is light getting brighter
1. My name is Matt
2. My name is Matthew Richard
3. My name is Matthew Richard Hollands
SEE? None of the later statements invalidate the previous statements. They're ALL true but statement 3 is brighter light than statement 1!
And then when they talk about a sailing ship tacking... ARGH! Just: ARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!
what is the society's current view on medical marijuana?
obviously smoking is a no-no, but what about edibles, or oils (think they're called tinctures)??.
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This reminds of my meeting with the elders when I was young on the use of Poppers (Amyl Nitrate). My position was as there is no mention of sniffing poppers in the bible it must be a matter of conscience whether you do it or not. The elders disagreed but had the devil of a time proving their case, in fact I don't remember them being even remotely convincing. After all it's a) legal b) not addictive c) doesn't have lasting effects.
