It's not just KFC, it's all of them. The animals are tortured, and the people who process the animals are tortured too (although not outright strangled). And it's all desperately unhygeinic and bad for you after they get done torturing everyone involved. After I read Fast Food Nation I knew I would have to make a decision to either forget it or never touch any meat again. But then after I read No Logo I realised I would also have to give up practically everything else. I gave up worrying about it. I hardly ever boycott anything, unless it's an immediate pressing issue. But KFC isn't difficult for me to boycott because I find their food truly loathsome.
myauntfanny
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Do yall like KFC?
by Frannie Banannie inhttp://www.kfccruelty.com/
you gotta see the video!
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elder tries to lecture me on parental respect
by unbeliever inever since i attend the dfing announcement of a friend i seem to be on the shit list of every jdub i come across especially mother.
he asked me if i have been respecting my mother.
not this time.. as sweet as could be i asked why are you asking??
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I was waiting for someone to encourage this young man/woman to avoid arrogance and smart-alec remarks to anyone, not just those older, and especially a mother, and to suggest that bitterness and resentment are hardly qualities a mature person would display.
I am not a Christian and don't believe in the bible, but I also think it's important to respect your parents, since they gave you life. I also think it's better to respect other people just because you get what you give in that area. HOWEVER, standing up for yourself is not disrespectful, contrary to JW beliefs. It sounds to me like unbeliever asserted him-herself rather well. The elder was assuming an authority he was totally not entitled to, and with a 24-year-old adult for heaven's sake. The elder's behaviour was inappropriate and disrespectful and actually quite aggressive, and I think unbeliever handled it with more maturity than some other, older people might have done. Unbeliever made all the salient points, but didn't shout or threaten or attack the elder's beliefs or personal life. He stayed and talked to the man, at least. I would have got up and walked away.
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People Imitate the God that they Worship--Good vs. Evil
by Undaunted Danny in[ proverbs 6 .
warnings against folly
12 a scoundrel and villain, .
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I don't think god could care less if you forgive them, Undaunted Danny. And they probably couldn't care less either. I don't even think forgiving is relevant, since what's done is done. But after years of hating my mother for raising me a JW, I realised the only person I was really hurting was myself. That's sad, but sometimes it's just what we need to do, and we move on when we're ready to.
At this point in my prolonged recovery i am still agnostic and ambivalent.I would still like to die 'saved'.
My feeling is that if there's a god, he made us agnostic and ambivalent and likes us that way, so we don't need to be saved. I'm sure he'd be bored to death if he only had true believers.
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I'm so cool, I'm doing mikes!!
by micheal in.
did you ever notice how some guys ( because only males are allowed to do anything ) thought they were so cool just because they did mikes or were behind the magazine counter.
why did they feel this way and what else can you think of that in reality was kinda stupid but to these guys felt really important and special to do?
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I wanted to get the mike and wipe my ass with it, so sister overlyrightous( who didnt like how short my dress was), could put her mouth all over it!
Um, that you even had that thought means you're not a good girl. But who wants to be a good girl anyway?
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Are Christians harmless?
by gumby infirst off....let me qualify something.
lets keep this to modern day christians in civilized lands.. many on this board are non-believers, and there are quite a number of christians.....so we have a mix.. non believers feel they need to speak out concerning what they have come to understand regarding the bibles authenticity to believers because they feel these ones need to at least see the sceptical side so they can make an honest choice.. believers feel they need to speak out to others concerning what they have come to understand about salvation.
here's the deal..............if believers can live a happy, good, healthy life, and take this to the grave with them..........should a non-believer try to mess all that up.....or leave well enough alone?.
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LT:
Take "Amazing Grace" as a good example.
Or that one about the green and pleasant land, what's that called? I love that one. I think the music is the most sublime part. I was walking in Tintern Abbey once while someone was playing the music of Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, that was..... indescribable.
Satanus:
It's simple, really. A reaction of wanting to defend/maintain against a group or individual, doctrine, or whatever would threaten that sublime. Out of the sublime grow controlers - priesthood, and theology. The priesthood and theology also would need to be defended. Especially as it is seen as irreplaceable.
I don't believe it's that simple. Because murderousness is fundamentally about protecting the self. And this experience of the sublime is something quite different, the self dissolves somewhat. I've only experienced it briefly and rarely and I'm sure I haven't experienced anything very profound, as I know some on this board have. But I know that what I mean by sublime is something that does not leave me feeling I have to hoard it or protect it and certainly not murder over it, because it's available to all. When I say it's irreplaceable, I mean that there is no other experience like it, not that it's a commodity in short supply.
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Are Christians harmless?
by gumby infirst off....let me qualify something.
lets keep this to modern day christians in civilized lands.. many on this board are non-believers, and there are quite a number of christians.....so we have a mix.. non believers feel they need to speak out concerning what they have come to understand regarding the bibles authenticity to believers because they feel these ones need to at least see the sceptical side so they can make an honest choice.. believers feel they need to speak out to others concerning what they have come to understand about salvation.
here's the deal..............if believers can live a happy, good, healthy life, and take this to the grave with them..........should a non-believer try to mess all that up.....or leave well enough alone?.
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MAF:Well put. Though additionally, some like to worship in a group as well as at home. We're generally gregarious creatures, wouldn't you agree?
I do agree. In fact we are biologically social creatures. Needing to be in a group was probably an evolutionary adaptation since we aren't physically a very strong species. I don't know how spirituality enters into evolution, but it is clear to me that our spirituality is also partially social, and that we will always organise groups around that, as we do around everything else.
There is something irreplaceably sublime about worshipping in a group. I don't understand how murderous fanaticism develops out of that. Maybe people confuse the sublime aspect of group worship with the more profane pleasures - inclusion, structure, approval - of group membership.
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Are Christians harmless?
by gumby infirst off....let me qualify something.
lets keep this to modern day christians in civilized lands.. many on this board are non-believers, and there are quite a number of christians.....so we have a mix.. non believers feel they need to speak out concerning what they have come to understand regarding the bibles authenticity to believers because they feel these ones need to at least see the sceptical side so they can make an honest choice.. believers feel they need to speak out to others concerning what they have come to understand about salvation.
here's the deal..............if believers can live a happy, good, healthy life, and take this to the grave with them..........should a non-believer try to mess all that up.....or leave well enough alone?.
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Narkissos
If religion were actually eliminated tomorrow, people would find or form some other way of getting membership, rules and approval.
Well said.
Thanks, coming from you that means a lot.
I never did spit on syncretism because I didn't know what it was till I looked it up five minutes ago. I believe you're right (now that I know what it means) but it seems like a long-haul proposition, and nothing we can control.
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WHAT OFFENDS YOU PERSONALLY?
by Terry inwords?
images?
do you want to be protected from anything offensive?
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I really hate sexist, racist, and homophobic jokes. People are entitled to their views, but making those kind of jokes not only shoves those views in my face, it pressures me to go along with it by laughing. If I don't laugh (which I don't), then I'm accused of being the PC rad-fem lesbian elitist-intellectual party pooper. (I'm not any of those things, I just hate those jokes, they aren't actually funny).
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Murder is wrong because...
by logansrun in[your answer here].
bradley.
ps...my english class debated this subject for an hour today without a consensus!
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How do you define "wrong" in the discussion? Because if "wrong" means "illegal", then murder is wrong by definition, since murder is illegal killing.
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Are Christians harmless?
by gumby infirst off....let me qualify something.
lets keep this to modern day christians in civilized lands.. many on this board are non-believers, and there are quite a number of christians.....so we have a mix.. non believers feel they need to speak out concerning what they have come to understand regarding the bibles authenticity to believers because they feel these ones need to at least see the sceptical side so they can make an honest choice.. believers feel they need to speak out to others concerning what they have come to understand about salvation.
here's the deal..............if believers can live a happy, good, healthy life, and take this to the grave with them..........should a non-believer try to mess all that up.....or leave well enough alone?.
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Why do they need membership in a group, and a set of rules, and the approval of other humans to exercise personal spirituality?
I would say that they don't need all that in order to exercise personal spirituality. They just need it (or think they do) for existential security, and religion is available to provide it. If religion weren't available, for example in an atheist communist country, they would behave the same way about the Party; millions of people did. If religion were actually eliminated tomorrow, people would find or form some other way of getting membership, rules and approval.
Edited for confusing typo