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  Why is Europe more liberal then the United States?

  by free2beme in

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  i have wondered this for awhile and can not figure out why.

  any ideas?

  apparently being liberal does not lead to an economic power house, but it does lead to a lot of hatred of the united states in these countries.

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  I agree with the person from New Zealand (I forgot your nickname) who said that people in America are in their own little world. When you have a country as vast and diverse as the USA, you have a lot going on within your borders and people tend not to pay attention to what's happening outside.

  I think the media does play a huge role in playing up the differences and the polarization between people here in the US (liberals v. conservatives) and outside (rest of the world v. USA). However, the media revolves around conflict. I believe the old news saying is: If it bleeds it leads! No one wants to watch a news story on the village of happy people unless there was a secret coverup about their happiness.

  I do think that most of the people on this board are a little more enlightened than the average world citizen. We researched our way out of the borg, I'm sure we all research other topics as well.

  I wish people were a little less ignorant to the outside world in this country. I'm leaving on vacation to Buenos Aires soon and you wouldn't believe how many times people have asked if I was getting excited about visiting BRAZIL!!!! AAHH!! And when I correct them they usually say "close enough". Mon dieu!

  (I started every paragraph with "I"!! Now that's American :-) )
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  Rastafarian homophobia....

  by avishai in

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  any thoughts?.

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  Bstndance

  EErrr.. It's one of those macho cultural things. Most of Latin America was crazy like that for awhile but things are getting better there.
  As the article states, it's even in their music. Some of the music that makes it over here to the states are by artists that have been known to say some really homophobic things. It's funny though because some of the music is still played at gay and lesbian bars. I'm on the fence about that because I don't like to support those artists although it would probably kill the artist to see a bunch or gays and lesbians dancing to their music. HAHA!!
  
  And there's always something to be said about someone that shows so much hatred towards something or someone. This is proven time and time again. You would probably be surprised that probably a high percentage of men in Jamaica probably have sexual contact with other men "on the downlow" more than anyone there would admit. In a culture like that it is always considered ok (though not spoken of) to receive certain sexual acts as long as you're not the one doing it. This can actually be very dangerous and lead to the spread of more diseases as the people are not properly educated.
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  Why Did Jesus Not Write Anything ?

  by choosing life in

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  have you ever wondered why jesus did not put anything in writing?

  he was here to explain his father to us and teach us how to gain salvation.

  wouldn't it have been a good thing to write his instructions down, rather than leave it up to others many years later?

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  "Now multiply that over 2000 years and what do you think you will get."
  
  I'm not a religious person. But a teacher making a statement like that is the about the same as teaching religion in the classroom. Although I agree with the statement, it doesn't belong in school.
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  Why Did Jesus Not Write Anything ?

  by choosing life in

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  have you ever wondered why jesus did not put anything in writing?

  he was here to explain his father to us and teach us how to gain salvation.

  wouldn't it have been a good thing to write his instructions down, rather than leave it up to others many years later?

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  Regardless of his existence, there were many accounts of the story of Jesus written by many people. Unfortunately, when the "church" started to put the Bible together, many of these accounts were left out for various reasons including the ever so popular "I doesn't go well with the rest of the Church's teachings".
  The Gospel of St. Thomas, is the one that they were basing the movie Stigmata on. It wasn't written by Jesus as the movie stated. I believe it wasn't discovered until the 19th century but deemed heretical because the teachings contained were too mystical and didn't work well for the church.
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  What was the view on hunting in your former congregation?

  by zack in

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  in the area i live hunting and fishing are big sports.

  quite a few of the brothers hunt.

  they keep it under the radar, though.. what about you're area?.

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  When I was little we spent a couple of years in Arkansas and I think everyone hunted. I know my mom had a few guns. I remember my mom's JW neighbor asking her to come over and shoot the rattlesnakes that would hang out in front of her door. But in CT where I was raised, we were too suburban and hunting was looked down on. Fishing was fine.
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  What Naughty Things Did You Know Of That Went On In Your Hall?

  by minimus in

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  as an elder, i knew a lot of things that happened in the congregation, including "secret sins".

  what i also knew was that some persons were quite good at being sneaky----especially the teens.

  years after my daughter stopped hanging around certain friends and she was in her 20's, she told me little juicy tidbits of what some of her best friends regularly got away with.

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  But then again Jehovah can't see through the casino ceiling

  He knows there are enough "eyes in the sky" at casinos. hehehe

  I guess I was too young to know about anything naughty going on in my cong. I'm sure there must have been.
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  Age Differences in Relationships – Help!

  by noontide in

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  i find myself in a situation that has me very confused.

  id like your input on this.

  i work for a large company (over 550 employees) and as such, romantic and or sexual relationships between employees tend to develop every once in a while.

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  I don't think 10 years is a big deal. My mom is 18 years younger than my step-father. Now that's creepy HAHA... As your friend said, it is all about life experience. What do you know about her and her past? Perhaps she has done her partying and is in a more mature frame of mind.

  Another thing would be to find out about her family life and her relationship with her father. If it was rocky, she may be looking for an older man as a subconscious replacement for the relationship she never had. I heard that on Dr. Laura the other day but there was an 18 year difference in that relationship.
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  JW Claymation Propaganda

  by mavie in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7-i7xqqdhq.

  found this on another board.

  it's about 10 minutes...and o so sickening!.

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  The Wanderer,

  I agree. There is another video on youtube involving "Super Pioneer" or something like that. The quality is actually very good. It gets really depressing to know that these creative and talented people are wasting their lives away in the borg.
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  My congo is being DELETED next month!

  by MinisterAmos in

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  oh noez how will we survive?!?!.

  more details later, but it's a case of a congo that split not growing and the congo it split from losing 50% of its publishers in two years.. i'm tickled pink!.

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  Bstndance

  Their terminology sounds so cold... "deleted".
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  Gone before his time -- Phil Hartman

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  i was youtube'ing the other day and ran across this memorial to phil hartman.

  it is only his work on newsradio, but it captures the man nicely.

  the song it's set to brought tears to my eyes: .

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  Bstndance

  So sad. His former house is only a block away from my office. Sometimes i get creeped out when I take the shortcut down that street.