Don't keep fighting about silly things just go to the polling booth tomorrow and vote for the conservatives and don't forget to vote for the conservatives in the half Senate election. Tony Abbott will make a good prime minister and besides he also a royalist. Barry
Posts by barry
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197Aust. Election in 1 week - A review of Kevin Rudd, PM
by fulltimestudent ini'm still determined not to vote - just to write something unpleasant about pollies on the ballot paper.
if i lived in victoria, i just may, as an act of sheer bastardry, vote for julian assange (of wikileaks fame), but i don't live in vic, so i cant.. my objection to voting is that the political choice offers two self-perpetuating oligarchies (who are something like the governing body).
they make up a slate of candidates and election advertising consists of attempting to persuade swinging voters to vote for their slate of candidates.. anyway, i noted that k.rudd has made a video in chinese, aimed apparently at mainland china.
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"Worlds Apart" A danish movie about a young coming of age Jehovahs Witness , screening on SBS2 tonight in Victoria
by smiddy ini know their have been screenings of this movie before , but this notice is for any newbies here that may not have seen it previously.
it is scheduled to screen at 10:25 pm on ch.32 sbs2 sun.25/8/13 .
maybe other states in australia can view it on-line , or request it be shown by sbs in their state.. it is an interesting movie , and apart from minor flaws , pretty accurate despite the beard,though i am told the danes are a bit more liberal than the west.. the real / actual jehovahs witness this story is based on has a cameo appearance near the end of this movie in the train sequence.. please let me know if you watch it and your thoughts about it .. smiddy.
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barry
I don't know why the elders suggest they should get married that would solve the problem of living in sin.
It reminded me when I had a JW girlfriend and I went to the kingdom hall with her.
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Disfellowshiping a pagan practice says AWAKE! magazine
by Rufus T. Firefly inthe [catholic] hierarchys excommunication .
is altogether foreign to bible teachings.. .
the encyclopedia britannica says that papal excommunication is not without pagan influence.
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The Catholics excommunicate and thats pagan but the JWs disfellowship and thats ok.
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We wouldn't want your Sarah Palin ours is realy stupid and dumb. At least we win on this one
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Stephanie Banister has withdrawn from preselection in the poll for next month. She would have no chance anyway to win a house of rep seat.
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Go one quarter down the page under the bush fires and the title says even better than the original and I thought Americans were dumb she is far worse
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barry
That one will work just highlight and go to url
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sorry couldn't get it to work if anyone can have a go at it would be good it's on Yahoo
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Scary Stuff
by Farkel intoday's high school students in the usa:.
less than 1/2 of them cannot identify the century when our civil war happened.. one in four thought columbus discovered america sometime after 1750.. one in three cannot name one right enumerated in the bill of rights.. three out of four cannot name the first us president.. two out of three do not know the length of term of a member of the house of representatives.. half cannot find britain on a map.. one out of four cannot find america on a map.. when my oldest daughter, who is now a physician was in 9th grade in this once-great state of california, i asked her about the three branches of our federal government.
she was clueless and told me she would take civics in her junior year in high school.
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I went to California for my holidays and while there and watching the news on TV the content was all about America. Being Australian and haveing been used to news from all over the world I just had the feeling that not only did Australia not exist but it seemed the rest of the world didn't exist either. I also understand the education in the states is a bit different because you study about the world starting from your own town and district in the early years and as you go up in grades you study more about th erest of the world only in higher grades. This is where there is a great divergence with us over here in Australia because we study at least when I was at school about the whole world and because of our culture we study the British empire including the Boston Tea party and the war of independance from Britain