to combat rape, a condom with 'teeth' is launched in south africa, a country with the highest rape rates in the world, according to human rights watch.
it is also believed that 16 percent of the population is living with hiv.
here is how it works.
I don't want to be the woman who has been raped -the guy will be flipping furious. He's already a rapist! And think of this people-she is still raped, then she will be further brutalized because the man is insanely in pain and pissed. That's a good combination.
If a woman is going to be raped anyway, just have a condom inserted and protect her from aids or something. Don't make her a murder victim jst to prove some point.
the title pretty much explains it all... i don't want to go too much into my story (for paranoid fear of identification), but i have been raised in the "truth", and got baptized at a young age- too young to truly understand what i was getting into.
i still live with my parents, and as such don't want to make a move just yet, as it would destroy virtually everything i have left.
as of now though, i see myself leaning towards agnosticism.. here's my short sob story.
Work your butt off to make your grades massively impressive. Volunteer somewhere that will give you further points for a scholarship. A job and car is great, but at most colleges you won't need a car. Prioritize if you can to make the most of the rest of your free education.
In my home state, one can attend college while going to HS and you don't need to pay tuition, just books.
In Qatar, where I live now(no KH's, btw, and evangelizing is illegal) they offer scholarships through the colleges and Qatar Foundation. If you can get accepted to the college, you can get interest free educational loan, PLUS, if you stay in Qatar and work for 4 years after graduation, you don't have to pay it back at all. Pretty good deal. Check out Qatar Foundation. Nothing like college in another country several time zones away to get you out from under your parents supervision:) Education city has major US universities including TAMU, VCU, Weill Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, and Northwestern(!). Not a exciting uni experience, but if you want an education, you might well be able to get it here, cheap(if you stay on after or get a scholarship.
yet another generation thread... but this clears up quite a bit of the ambiguity in the watchtower/outline explanations.
in "remain in the secret place of the most high", the closing talk of the 2010 district convention, the following clarifications were made on the 2010 generation overlap:.
the generation spoken of in exodus 1:6 includes all those mentioned whose lives overlapped (joseph, brothers, children, grandchildren).
You know what is funny? Watching mostly rational sensible logical people try to explain irrational, insensible and illogical concepts and make sense of the rationale and history behind them. Like trying to get to the bones of a seinfeld skit. It just gets loonier the more you discuss it:) Which is probably why I gave up trying to discuss them like a rational person. Makes me nuts. More power to you all who can pick this stuff apart. I don't have the patience anymore, but it amuses me to see the contortions the WT goes to to put them forth.
consider this possibility.
what if jesus' contemporaries, hanger's on, entourage, posse, disciples and apostles never gave a single thought at all.
to his having been raised from the dead?
I am learning more about Islam since living here and it is kind of interesting that you are stating what Islam does: Jesus didn't die on the cross. There is a sura in the Quran that reads:
"That they (the wrong-doers) said (in boast), 'We killed the Christ Jesus son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah';- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them [or it appeared so unto them], and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not: Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise." 4:157
Different scholars interpret it different ways, but ultimately leads to the idea that he did not die on the cross. Some say he was raised from the cross to heaven before he died, some think he looked dead, wasn't, and died later. Different theories.They do still think he was raised and will return in glory. So, go figure!
i don't log on to jwn much anymore.
you all are always in my thoughts though.
i miss you.
Hi, it was wonderful to see your news and hear good things. We moved to the middle east, Qatar and are staying busy, meeting all the local expats, the workers from all over the world. My son goes to school at a British school filled with Brits, and Arab kids-mostly Arab. There are only a few Americans in the whole school. I am starting an intensive Arabic course in the fall and my son is busy learning to sail in the Arabic Gulf(Persian Gulf). We are just across from Iran, but they aren't much of an issue other than the fact that all the local govts here in the gulf wish they would just implode on themselves and stop causing so much drama. They are concerned with the nuclear stuff,but no one wants to be too confrontational:) The sun is always shining, the birds sing and we have gorgeous flowers that never stop blooming in our yard. I am pretty much happy here. Don't have to wear a burka or anything and the Sharia law isn't really imposing on my lifestyle much. You act decent, you are treated great, from what I can tell. Of course, I am faithful to my husband, don't dress like a skank or drink and drive--so that is good. Worst thing about this place is no bacon and figuring out the local equivalent for various OTC meds and the names of ingredients (caster sugar vs granulated-it matters). No vanilla extract in the country.
It sounds as if you are raising a great kid. I hope the other little boy is happy and well. I hope YOU are living a joyful life.
shelly
i did a google search a few months back and noticed there was "one" who was listed as part of the gb who was not anointed!
true!
if there's any info on this please post.
They are getting fewer and fewer of them. Sometimes when I was a kid, I think there were more than 12. Now there is 8. Who is gonna boss everyone around when they all die off? And they are all dying off. From a conversation I had with my mom, it seems all the 'newly' appointed anointed are pretty much discounted as such, pretty much like has been happening since I was a kid. All the real ones are pretty much dead(in the avg. JW view-or at least my 65 yo mom's view-she would view her own generation with suspicion as to that claim)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjs0novt3x4&feature=digest.
Sorry, double post. Our internet here is kind of flaky:) And yet, I can still discuss religion in this country ruled by Sharia law!!! We do have porn blocked. No freedom there. Bummer for us.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjs0novt3x4&feature=digest.
I am on the second page of this thread.
You are amusing me. I live in a nation with Sharia law. I moved here willingly. I am not forced into Islam. I can go to a great big church if I want to. No, I can not proseletize. Dang. No one, not even my PALESTINIAN neighbor has tried to slit my throat lately. I do have a picture of me in an abaya and hijab for the day I visited the local islamic cultural center and visited a mosque. (Respect, people, I also cover my head in an orthodox church). Otherwise my head is bare and my shoulders and knees are covered when out of the compound I live in. Well, unless I wear a hat because of all the perfectly sunny days here. It is starting to get quite warm (110+ sometimes)
We have western universities, women attend classes with men are employed and respected. Women in fact are the most honored individuals in this culture. Mothers in particular. We can drink. We will be deported if we do a few stupid things, and we will be imprisoned if we go the way of one dumbwit who offered to sell secrets to Iran. No, it isn't paradise. I can't get bacon or buy vanilla. There is no papa murphy's and the BK doesn't taste like real BK. Other than a few glitches, it's a good place to live. 75% of the year it is like living in the perfect mediterranean climate. The water is the most amazing shade of blue green, and I can see Iran from here:) (JK PEOPLE! It is 150 miles across the Arabian Gulf-I can't see that far away:)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjs0novt3x4&feature=digest.
Excuse me, but building a mosque in NYC is not equivalent to building a church in Mecca or Medina. For one thing, our country is supposed to be based on religious freedom and is not supposed to discriminate on the basis of religion. Saudi has never made such a claim. It is a Muslim nation and they are not ashamed of it. The US proudly proclaims #1 that we are NOT a Christian nation. #2 We are diverse, blah blah blah. Right.
There are mosques in people's basements in that part of the city. Would you rather they were meeting in a private home's basement or in a public building? If you are paranoid about the entire mosque idea at all (and many are) then a public, open one is definitely a safer bet than a group of disenfranchised angry people meeting in a dingy basement. And maybe (just maybe) this is an attempt to improve relations. Is there anywhere in NYC that anyone could build that mosque that folks wouldn't object to? Doubt it.
over at freeminds we didn't want this day to pass without some recognition of the life and death of ray franz.
in view of his stated wishes not to have a memorial or service we hoped for something that he would have liked for all of us to take a moment over.. .
we owe a note of thanks to v for his graphics work and atjeff for the obituary writing - i know neither of them need mentioned by me.. .
That was exactly right, the perfect tribute.
It is interesting for some to realize that he was never saying LEAVE, he was saying "Be aware fully of what this is and is not". I think he did a good job of making people aware, even those who chose to stay. I hope he rests easy now.
