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judge: elders not required to report abuse .
saturday, june 21, 2003. by andrew wolfe telegraph staff, [email protected].
I don't get this. Where would the law then draw the line?
What If I go to an elder (minister) and report that my father has been kidnapping children from my neighborhood, bringing them back to our house and raping them. Would the judge say it is ok to keep that quiet.
No, I don't think so. I think the biggest problem here is that the society we live in is somehow minimizing these atrocites when they occur within a family in their own house. This is an outrage!
what do you think about all of the lawsuits recently against tobacco companies?.
i see 3 sides to the issue:.
1. people should know better; it's clearly printed on the box how dangerous cigarettes are so they shouldn't sue.. 2. it hasn't always been known how bad they were.
2. It hasn't always been known how bad they were. People that started smoking 50, 60 years ago had no idea and then got addicted before they knew it.
I see a parallel here with the fact that some people got baptised pre-1985 and had no idea that the baptism questions were changed after that to now include and demand their total allegiance to the Borg. Get it? Or, as in my case, those baptised while still a minor had no idea how harmful this "religious addiction" was and before they knew it could be kicked out and shunned (very serious consequences).
3. The tobacco companies knew how addictive AND how harmful they were, so they should have to pay for the consequences.
The WT CORPORATION is also guilty of lying and covering harmful policies . They should pay.
what do you think about all of the lawsuits recently against tobacco companies?.
i see 3 sides to the issue:.
1. people should know better; it's clearly printed on the box how dangerous cigarettes are so they shouldn't sue.. 2. it hasn't always been known how bad they were.
Stinky - Applying this logic, we should be able to sue the WTS for the same reasons.
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i often find it difficult to not be able to share some of life's important moments with other family members still stuck in "the truth".
i'm talking about the things that other people take for granted in this world.
after fading away 8 years ago, i still struggle with having to turn off my feelings around my family, or keep quiet about certain things they might deem as "worldly".
I agree it sucks bad. I know I shouldn't care but I still do. When I walked away from the Borg almost 2 years ago my baby boy was only one year old. Seeing how he's grown and the funny things he does day to day still makes me feel empty sometimes. I have a natural desire to share his life with the people who once meant something to me. I see now how cold hearted they really are. It's all their loss...but I hurt sometimes thnking of what they're missing.
guys like this are a dime-a-dozen in god's so-called organization.... http://www.cleveland.com/living/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/living/1054546530199272.xml.
michael wilcox, 67, cleveland .
q. when do you consider a gentleman fully dressed?
This guy sounds like a complete A-hole. I knew an elder at my old cong in London that used to brag that he only would buy his dress shirts from Harrods.. another a-hole!
a special tv programme on the bbc next tuesday.. website here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/america.
should be interesting !.
c'mon ... i betcha clicked thinking i was going to be saying something didn't ya !
Homer Simpson? This demonstrates that the Brits are watching WAY too much telly, and not doing nearly enough reading!
raising children without religion
by dave silverman.
i often get requests for advice from parents who wish to raise their children without religion, or who at least want to provide a religion -free influence in the lives of their children.
Raising Children without Religion
by Dave Silverman
I often get requests for advice from parents who wish to raise their children without religion, or who at least want to provide a religion -free influence in the lives of their children. While I am far from an expert in the subject matter, I have what I think are some pretty good ideas on raising nonreligious children.
My ideas (not all are mine -- I openly admit to having stolen the last one from Ellen [ Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists. Ed. ]) are outlined below in no particular order. This list is as anything but complete, and suggestions and additions are welcomed. However, I hope and think this will help answer some of the frequent questions I get on the subject.
By equating all gods and mythologies in their minds, they will be more skeptical when someone tells them that one of them is real.
A black dog is standing in the middle of a street with no streetlights and no houses. A car with no headlights comes around the corner and stops before it hits the dog. Why? Because it was daytime.
This game encourages critical thinking, problem solving, and rational processes. I love it!
Got more suggestions on raising an Atheist child?
as ex-dubs we are free to read whatever the hell we want to read.
in celebration of that fact (and to give me some ideas on what to read next .
sirona
"All God's Children" - I just finished this book, I thought it was excellent - very enlightening.
many of you no doubt remember when the society released the book mankind's search for god.
i had always figured that, since there were questions printed at the bottom of each page, the book would be studied at the congregation book study.
till this day, it has not been studied, and in fact, besides a couple of placement campaigns, not much was ever really done with that book.
Excellent point.
When it first came out I read it through twice, it was my favorite WT release. I seemed to be the only one who was really into that book.
I too wanted to go through it in the Book Study and was baffled that it just sort of disappeared into obscurity without much mention ever again. In retrospect, I probably did start to view the Borg from a more realistic perspective after reading that.
