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  The Holocaust - do we need to know?

  by eyeslice in

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  this week in uk, there starts a new 6 week series to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/programme.shtml?day=tuesday&service_id=4224&filename=20050111/20050111_2100_4224_37699_50.

  personally, i do not like cinema films about the holocaust and, therefore, have never watched things like shindler's list or the pianist.

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  I know that 6 million Jews perished in Nazi Germany. I know this should never be allowed to happen again (though it has in places like Cambodia and Rwanda, and probably will happen again in the future). I know we must never tolerate hatred and prejudice in our society. I know we should never forget.

  But, I am not sure that I need to know much more.

  Do we need to know the details or how far should holocaust education go?

  IMO: Seeing something on paper as just a number doesn't mean much. Six million... People can't even get their heads around the 150,000+ killed recently in physical terms of how many bodies that is, so in my opinion we need to make sure future generations see more than just a number, be it the pictures, videos of the piles of bodies being bulldozed or just hearing the individual stories on TV. I visited Auschwitz when I was younger and I think everyone should go there once in their life to put it in perspective.

  I also know that it's easy to say we shouldn't tolerate hatred and prejudice in society, but we all do it every day.

  I think the day we look at it as just a number is the day we start down the path of repeating it.
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  Cabbage Patch Dolls?

  by KKLUV155 in

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  looking at the smurf thread i was wondering, in my congregation in the 80's there were also storys of demonic cabbage patch dolls attacking jw kids.

  i wasn't allowed to have one because they might be demonized.

  was it just my cong.

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  i remember something about cabbage patch dolls but i can't remember what.
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  Your resolutions?

  by jwbot in

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  1) to lose 20 more pounds (on top of the 35 i had recently lost).

  2) to give blood.

  3) to get financially on track.

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  to have a better year than last and a worse year than next.
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  AVATAR UPDATE!

  by Valis in

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  time for an avatar change i tell you!

  sincerely, .

  district overbeer of the "evil jebus" class

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  Rabbit is One Year Old !

  by Rabbit in

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  yes, it's true.

  i know it is not a great achievement for mankind, but, it is for me.

  i never really had a voice before and now in a year...i have been able to give my meager opinion almost 1000 times.. rabbit

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  let's get high.
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  Foreign aid: Is the U.S. stingy?

  by mkr32208 in

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  i cut and pasted this off msn i hope it works!

  my personal take is that we as individuals should do more and the goverments should do less!

  i think it's too easy to just say "i pay my taxes, let them worry about it!

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  We ALL stink. The US, the UN, etc. The tsunami is'nt preventable. What's happening in the Sudan, what happened in Rwanda, Cambodia, etc. was/is preventable or stoppable. And those deaths were in the millions.

  This kind of mass death happens all the time. We just usually ignore it.

  Well said avashi, I agree completely.
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  Ghostly WT Illustrations

  by prophecor in

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  is it just me, or do the illustrations in the watchtower and other related material have an eerie, almost ghostlike appearance?

  especially the ones that depict the new system.

  the spirit that's reflected in them is of an almost mindless, robotic stepford wives type of mentallity, or maybe irobot, i don't know.

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  it's all in the hair
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  Do you tell your friends your were a JW?

  by eljefe in

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  last night i was out with my friends and i ran into another ex-jw.

  based on the conversation with this ex-jw, my friends could tell that i was hiding something.

  i think i will have to tell my friends that i was a jw.

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  yeah, it helps explain many aspects of my personality that if i didn't say i was raised a jw, there would be no explanation for.
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  Do you still Pray?

  by Dustin in

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  since i stopped being a jw i haven't prayed.

  so the other day i went to supper at my parent's house who are still jw's, and they prayed before we ate.

  it was a very strange feeling, and it stirred up alot of weird feelings.

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  prey, yes i am a predator.
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  AL-LAH BLAMED SENT TSUNAMI AS PUNISHMENT

  by Raphael in

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  bbc news reported today that islamic clerics in indonesia proclaimed that allah had sent tsunami, just as he did the flood in noahs' day as punishment for peoples wicked deeds.... sad how religion always rears its ugly head and tries to use a natural disaster to strike even more fear and guilt into peoples minds and hearts, when what they really need right now is compassion and comfort.. .

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  at least they weren't blaming the americans eh, LOL !