Just heard from a couple of news sources that in San Diego, some teachers have been alledged to have shown the Berg video to their classes, telling them that "this is what Bush has done."
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Teachers showing the Berg video
by blacksheep in.
just heard from a couple of news sources that in san diego, some teachers have been alledged to have shown the berg video to their classes, telling them that "this is what bush has done.
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Warning to Kerry supporters (graphic)
by SixofNine in.
just in case you were thinking about voting kerry, a reminder: .
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blacksheep
MOST Liberals Just Want The US To Lose!
So true. Their undermining behavior for the troops is so clear. They are more concerned about the terrorists and Iraqi POWs and all of the "innocent" Iraqis who may die by accident if we get to tough over there.
The answer? A waffling president who's can't figure out if he's a war criminal or war hero, who is ashamed of his military conduct but at the same time tries to leverage his "heroism" at every turn, who doesn't take accountablity for his conduct in 'nam, but just blames the chain of command...
Yes, that's the true valiant leader we need to defeat terrorism...
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Wasn't Saddam ousted for doing precisely this sort of thing?
by Simon inutterly disgusting.
those responsible should be lined against a wall and shot.
publicly.. i think that would win more hearts and minds than bombing cities and using gunships on civilian areas.. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4855930/.
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blacksheep
In fact, what the hell are you doing here at a Jehovahs Witness support site just making rude comments in political threads for anyways?
Shamus, you're too much!! Physician...heal thyself!!
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try a little tenderness
by maybesbabies inhi all you doll faces!!
all the negativity in the world, at work, on this board even, have driven me over the edge.
i've become a love bomb just waiting to explode (gotta do something to counteract some of the negativity) so here goes.
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blacksheep
I agree, except all for the "love your enemy" part. That's suicidal.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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What truths have you come to embrace?
by Steve Lowry inby this i mean, what general basic truths or principles have you acquired in your life that you can use to better understand human behavior as it unfolds before you?
(it doesn?t have to necessarily be human behavior.
here are two i have learned:.
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blacksheep
No one is capable of doing anything for another without some element of selfish motivation attached.
You've obviously never been a mother.
Beyond that, what I've learned is:
I will die one day.
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I want to live life now to the fullest, be fulfilled, and do as little harm as possible.
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Who knows what happens when you die, but I know there's more to our universe than we can possibly imagine
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I don't think our spirit dies. I don't really know what happens to it, but I think I've had some glimpses.
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Governing Blunders - Part 1
by hillary_step ini thought i would start a weekly column of wts inanity, inanity serious enough to have affected peoples perceptions and negatively changed their lives.. .
one famous wts myth that i have heard uttered more times a minimus question is that ?women feel while men think?, did you ever wonder where the wts dug that thought up from?
apparently from an unamed woman psychologist and the famous department of ?many authorities?
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blacksheep
My point is not that the Society is correct, but that they simply took an idea which has a kernel of truth, and "ran with it" into obviously sexist and long-disproven notions.\
Don't give the society any credit on this. They simply took a clearly pre-existing stereotype and spewed it. They didn't do any "personality" research.
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Governing Blunders - Part 1
by hillary_step ini thought i would start a weekly column of wts inanity, inanity serious enough to have affected peoples perceptions and negatively changed their lives.. .
one famous wts myth that i have heard uttered more times a minimus question is that ?women feel while men think?, did you ever wonder where the wts dug that thought up from?
apparently from an unamed woman psychologist and the famous department of ?many authorities?
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blacksheep
The MB type indicator does not say that someone is all "one way" or the other. If you take the time to research the matter -- instead of tweaking your answers to get a job -- you will understand this. For instance, I'm a strong T (thinking) and a strong J (judging), but I'm right on the border between E (extrovert) and I (introvert) as well as S (sensing) and N (intuitive).
That's precisely my personality profile--although I was less borderline on the Into v. Extro--more higher Intro. But I am a woman. The BS that I object to about the WT article is the fact that voila! They've just condensed women and men down to 2 categories based on their sex, not based on their actual personality characterists.
That's utter hogwash.
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Prince has recorded "Kingdom Melody" No 15
by yxl1 inapparently he couldnt sleep, so one night he popped into his studio and recorded km number 15, with drums, bass, piano and jazz guitar.
i've heard that its been copied and handed around a select few (according to jw's on a prince website).
i wonder if he's gonna get punished for this.
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blacksheep
Can someone tell me the actual name of Kingdom Melody #15??
Did he also do a video??? That I'd love to see.
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"Oh Europe's So Racially Tolerant"
by ColdRedRain inhttp://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=1798765&partnersite=espn
racist fans taunt, spit on american on norwegian club
oslo, norway -- an american soccer player in norway was subjected to racial taunts and spit on by fans during a game.. .
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blacksheep
Adjusting for the percentage of non-white people in the country (as there can only be as many mixed marraiges as there are peopl of different race to the majority), both the Netherlands and the UK have around FOUR times as many mixed marriages as the USA.
Almost all of these are with immigrants or the children or grandchildren of recent immigrant where differences between cultures are magnified.
Despite the fact that most of the non-white people in the USA are not recent immigrants, and that therefore the gross cultural, religious and linguistic differences that can characterise recent immigrants are not present, in the US intermarriages occur far less frequently, although there is far more opportunity for intermarriage given the higher number of non-whites.
If you can fault the summery of the statistics I give above, so so explicitly; currently it looks like you just don;t understand them and are bluffing.
What did take me by surprise while living in Europe and working with many different nations was the more overt nationalism I say.
You are simply hysterical. America is the most nationalistic country in the developed world. Do you not read some of the threads here?However, as your first point in this discussion seems to be 'The USA is better' (no matter what the facts may be, as this discussion illustrates), I doubt if you'd conceed this even if you've been demonstrating it.
For example, when an issue came up in business with France which I was trying to facilitate my British boss made the comment "I'm tired of the French riding on British coat-tails." When working with the Germans, several of the Brits refused to productively work with the Germans, because they said "they've want to to things their way, and thier way only. It was clear talking with people from each country, each thought they did things the right way. Beligians didn't like the Dutch who didn't like the Belgians who had disdain for the Germans who didn't like Southern Europeans.
Hang on. You are now talking about cultural sterotypes being alive and well in Europe. They are. We are less PC in Europe than the USA. But there is no bar on intermarriage between white Europeans formed by these stereotypes.
What "bar" exists in the US on inter-racial marriage? I know several couples who are; in fact, I have relatives who are. It's very common. But it's also common for people to marry people of their own race. Because they do so does NOT mean they are racist.
It is you who are hysterial: using stats on who people marry to try to generate some accusation that country "x" is more "racist" that country y.
Bottom line, living in PC California, you just don't see that type of overt "my nation is the best" comments. Probably because whatever nation people were originally from doesn't really matter. Now they're all Americans.
ISeems I've been to more of the US than you have, by the way. It ain;t all like that.
Whatever...back to you competiveness. I've been to more states that you can probably even name; in addition to living in Europe.
Not even in California... If you look at your country as a whole, it is less pretty; and you've still not explained the difference between white and black salary levels or the difference between sentence outcomes.
What's "less pretty" about? And yes, I DID provide a response to the reasons for the salary disparity, you obviously didn't read it.
You are making the mistake of thinking having lots of ethnically diverse people means a country is racially tolerant.
Oh, right. Your "percentage of inter-racial marriages reflects on whether a country is "racist" does. I see you pick and chose what the stats mean...
Bottom line, if you want to "stereotype" Americans as being more "racist" than Europe, that's your problem not mine--I just don't have to buy it.
You cannot "prove" something that is so subjective, and you certainly cannot "prove" that it applies to everyone or even most of the people.
Regarding your take on nationalism, I swear to God while in the Netherlands, I got so fed up with their indoctrination of how "better" they are than everyone else. My relocation host kept going on and on about the culture and how they might do things differently but it's the RIGHT way. Sure seemed like the WRONG way to me. When I deal with people of another culture, I like to understand and appreciate the differences in culture, but I sure as heck to try to shove "my" way as the best way down their throats like I experienced in Holland.
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Why are the publications anonymously written?
by boa inthe society would like to say this is done (except for the 'life stories') because 'all recognition' blah blah blah should go to jehovah...but what do you think are the real reasons why everything is published anonymously?.
and, is this also a common practice in other religious articles/publications?.
boa...
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Because it tends to bolster the appearance that all writings/interpretations are ACTUALLY the words of God, not written by men.
I have to say, God's grammar, sentence structure, and vocabulary sucks.