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  The UK government SANCTIONS this?

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. social
  2. current

  youngs kids can go behind their parents' and guardians' backs - and against their wishes - and get this vaccine!.

  aren't children so lucky nowadays to be able to dismiss their parents' authority and guidance!

  remember the puppies in george orwell's animal farm?

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  OrphanCrow

  Why wouldn't it be sanctioned?

  A mature minor can make their own medical decisions. Sometimes the parents' "authority" and "guidance" are skewed.
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  Babies Who Are Not Dead From An Abortion

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a woman gets an abortion.

  the baby is supposed to die because of the abortion but doesn’t.

  should that living baby be put to death or should the baby be given medical help to survive?.

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  OrphanCrow

  minimus: Do you think Simon invented it??

  Nope. I don't think Simon invented a redundant phrase. He isn't that original. Lots of people get that one wrong. The same way that lots of people get a lot of things wrong.
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  Babies Who Are Not Dead From An Abortion

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a woman gets an abortion.

  the baby is supposed to die because of the abortion but doesn’t.

  should that living baby be put to death or should the baby be given medical help to survive?.

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  OrphanCrow

  simon: Well, in the feminista fervour about equality, people seem to imagine that men had the right to vote for thousands of years and then finally gave in and allowed women to vote too.
  The reality is that men didn't have the right to vote simply by virtue of being men until a short time before women did.
  It wasn't todo with gender, it was todo with class and wealth. The landowners voted and the peasants did as they were told.

  Well, I guess I don't fall into your definition of "people" because I am well aware that "men" didn't have the right to vote for "thousands of years". The vote came about with the establishment of democracy which didn't occur "thousands of years" ago.

  The reality is that what gave men the right to vote prior to the date you have given of 1918 was if they were white and owned land and/or paid taxes. In addition to being based on race, it definitely was gender based - women could not vote at all - only white male landowners could (I realize that is a bit of a generalization - you appear to be using UK voting rights and in some democratic countries, that right was extended to white males who didn't own land but paid taxes and then later, in 1918 (UK), the common working man acquired the vote. Unless they were Chinese, black or indigenous, etc).

  So 10 years - apparently the "white male patriarchy" wasn't quite as some claim - it only lasted a decade and just applied to a certain age gap.

  Oh please, Simon. Do some more reading. White patriarchy only lasted a decade?? (by the way, the "male" in white male patriarchy is redundant. Patriarchy is male - no need to say it twice)
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  Babies Who Are Not Dead From An Abortion

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a woman gets an abortion.

  the baby is supposed to die because of the abortion but doesn’t.

  should that living baby be put to death or should the baby be given medical help to survive?.

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  OrphanCrow

  Simon:
  Learn some history. Fun fact, men didn't get the vote until only a few years earlier.

  Can you expand on that, please?
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  Jehovah’s Witnesses Hunted Down And Deported

  by Bangalore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jehovah’s witnesses hunted down and deported.. https://bitterwinter.org/jehovahs-witnesses-hunted-down-and-deported/.

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  OrphanCrow

  I could be wrong but...I think it might be important to understand where this article originates. The story comes from the website "Bitter Winters" which was founded by Massimo Introvigne.

  Introvigne also founded CENSUR (one of the abiding principles that CENSUR stands on is that brainwashing does not exist). And that "cults" are just "new religious movements". Introvigne's cronies include James T Richardson (lawyer), who has written supportive papers on the JWs and religious freedom.

  I guess what I am saying is that the article comes from a biased position. Neither Introvigne or Richardson will acknowledge that these "new religious movements" abuse the human rights of their members - instead they are more concerned with the rights of the organizations that are in control of their members. Religious freedom, to them, seems to mean that the right of the religious organization comes first.

  Introvigne proposes that a cult really isn't a cult unless it violates criminal law.

  One of the papers that Introvigne has published is Xie Jiao as “Criminal Religious Movements”: A New Look at Cult. Controversies in China and Around the World (link downloads pdf)

  Introvigne has some valuable research that is worth looking at, however, it might be prudent to be aware of his biases when reading his material: https://skent.ualberta.ca/current/massimo/
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  Jehovah's Witness parents prevent blood transfusions for three children

  by Not_Culty in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  feb 26 2019  jehovah's witness parents prevent blood transfusions for three children.

  the father said he was entitled to refuse to consent to the administering of a blood transfusion as he firmly believed that there were "medically acceptable alternatives that are as effective, if not more effective".. https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-02-26-jehovahs-witness-parents-prevent-blood-transfusions-for--three-children/.

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  Earnest Nigerian-based haemologist Marcus Asuquo said in his affidavit that there were other ways to treat sickle-cell anaemia. These include administration of oxygen, fluid management, electrolyte balance and use of folate.

  Children deserve first line treatment, not alternative second line treatment.

  It makes me sick when the WT/org uses babies and children to promote their alternative brand of medicine.
  
  
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  What is Racially Derogatory Language

  by barry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  here is australia the race commissioner has claimed senator o'sullivan is in violation of racially derogatory language.

  senator sullivan has said the biggest threat to biosecurity is ' some bloody old chinaman that brings in his favourite sausage down the front of his undies' chin tan said using the word chinaman is offensive.

  makes you wonder is englishman or australian man or scotsman is also just as offensive.

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  OrphanCrow

  Yes.

  Really.

  I thought your username implied you had been to university. Your curriculum must have been purely mathematically based. Didn't you take any history classes?
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  What is Racially Derogatory Language

  by barry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  here is australia the race commissioner has claimed senator o'sullivan is in violation of racially derogatory language.

  senator sullivan has said the biggest threat to biosecurity is ' some bloody old chinaman that brings in his favourite sausage down the front of his undies' chin tan said using the word chinaman is offensive.

  makes you wonder is englishman or australian man or scotsman is also just as offensive.

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  OrphanCrow

  Context is everything, LoveUni. You know that.

  A non-Chinese person calling a Chinese person "chinaman" is as offensive as calling a black person a nigger.

  How does Chinaman remove Chinese people's individuality any more than terms such as the Chinese or Han do?

  I probably worded that wrong. I was trying to convey that the term removes their dignity rather than their individuality. Individuality is a foreign concept and best suited to North American cultures.
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  What is Racially Derogatory Language

  by barry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  here is australia the race commissioner has claimed senator o'sullivan is in violation of racially derogatory language.

  senator sullivan has said the biggest threat to biosecurity is ' some bloody old chinaman that brings in his favourite sausage down the front of his undies' chin tan said using the word chinaman is offensive.

  makes you wonder is englishman or australian man or scotsman is also just as offensive.

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  Barry: Makes you wonder is Englishman or Australian man or Scotsman is also just as offensive

  That is not an accurate comparison. Comparable terms would be: Englandman, Scotlandman and Australiaman.

  And to make it even more comparable, the Englandman, etc, would have to have been used to build railroads in China. The Englandman and the Scotlandman would have been the ones to get blown up with dynamite instead of the Chinese.

  Yes, "Chinaman" is an offensive term. It is a stereotypical term that removes the Chinese people's individuality and designates them as a slave class for the Englandman and the Scotlandman and the Australiaman.
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  Research Opportunity

  by researchstudentsophie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my name is sophie, and i am currently in the class ap research.

  the aim of ap research is to have students enter into an academic conversation that exists about a specific topic or issue.

  for my research project, i have chosen to evaluate the social stress levels, or sense of belonging, within members of the jehovah’s witnesses community, due to my personal background with the religion.. the following attachment will help me collect data for my research.

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  OrphanCrow

  I agree with others who have pointed out that a statement like this:

  "Because this sect exhibits mental illness 16 times more than the general population..."

  needs to be backed up. I challenge you to find a credible source for your claim.

  And...what does ethnicity have to do with this survey? or even...what does gender have to do with the questions you ask? How do these markers have anything to do with the "data" you are collecting?

  And...how can you say that your survey measures what it is that you say you are measuring (levels of stress?) ?

  I think your measurement scale needs some work. For this to be classified as "research data", you have to supply proof that this survey does, indeed, measure what you say it does.

  Have you taken a research methodology class as part of your curriculum? If you have, I am sorely disappointed in your instructor.

  Good luck in your courses.