So sorry for the duplicates. Don't know what happened there.
tall penguin
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Sex and Relationships 20 Years From Now!
by new boy inthis is basicly a spin off of "flippers" sex thread in february.... the future of male/female relationships?....things are changing but we still have a long way to go!
the old paradigm is changing...... governments and religions have tried to control sex for 1,000s of years...and mostly they have done this by depowering women...they have put women in roles servitude to men.
look at the governments and religions of today....they are all male dominated.. its only been 50 years since we believed in the "donna reed" concept of women, as being "mans helper"....stay at home, make cakes and raise the kids.
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Sex and Relationships 20 Years From Now!
by new boy inthis is basicly a spin off of "flippers" sex thread in february.... the future of male/female relationships?....things are changing but we still have a long way to go!
the old paradigm is changing...... governments and religions have tried to control sex for 1,000s of years...and mostly they have done this by depowering women...they have put women in roles servitude to men.
look at the governments and religions of today....they are all male dominated.. its only been 50 years since we believed in the "donna reed" concept of women, as being "mans helper"....stay at home, make cakes and raise the kids.
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tall penguin
I agree that we will see less marriages happening. I think marriage is an outdated institution. It served the purpose of creating a seemingly stable foundation for children to be raised within, but has ended up being a bubble where unhappy mates stay together for the sake of the kids and lose the sense of what love and relationship are all about--love and relationship.
I think we will see more children born to one parent, or to two parents living in different homes. I'm hoping the "it takes a village to raise a child" philosophy will be adopted to a greater degree. This way kids can be exposed to different cultures, world views, ideas than just those of their parents. I'm not as convinced as I once was that kids need a mom and dad in the same home to be healthy and successful in life. I think time will show this, once we all get over our old beliefs of what things "should" look like.
I'm hoping we will reach a place where gender won't even be an issue of consideration. The best person for the job will get it. I hope that men and women will be able to celebrate their differences without seeing them as divisions. I would guess that perhaps, for a time, it's even possible that women will come to dominate. It seems that the scales often swing to the extremes before they find a comfortable balance.
I'd like to see prostitution legalized across the world. I think history's oldest profession deserves acknowledgement and destigmatization. I think the things that scare us are what need to be brought to light. Only then can we evolve and move beyond these things. As long as we're afraid of it, it gets more power. Why not just accept what is and see what happens?
Like R. Crusoe, I'd like to see men be able to control their fertility. A birth control pill for men would be an incredible tool.
Interesting discussion.
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Sex and Relationships 20 Years From Now!
by new boy inthis is basicly a spin off of "flippers" sex thread in february.... the future of male/female relationships?....things are changing but we still have a long way to go!
the old paradigm is changing...... governments and religions have tried to control sex for 1,000s of years...and mostly they have done this by depowering women...they have put women in roles servitude to men.
look at the governments and religions of today....they are all male dominated.. its only been 50 years since we believed in the "donna reed" concept of women, as being "mans helper"....stay at home, make cakes and raise the kids.
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Sex and Relationships 20 Years From Now!
by new boy inthis is basicly a spin off of "flippers" sex thread in february.... the future of male/female relationships?....things are changing but we still have a long way to go!
the old paradigm is changing...... governments and religions have tried to control sex for 1,000s of years...and mostly they have done this by depowering women...they have put women in roles servitude to men.
look at the governments and religions of today....they are all male dominated.. its only been 50 years since we believed in the "donna reed" concept of women, as being "mans helper"....stay at home, make cakes and raise the kids.
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Sex and Relationships 20 Years From Now!
by new boy inthis is basicly a spin off of "flippers" sex thread in february.... the future of male/female relationships?....things are changing but we still have a long way to go!
the old paradigm is changing...... governments and religions have tried to control sex for 1,000s of years...and mostly they have done this by depowering women...they have put women in roles servitude to men.
look at the governments and religions of today....they are all male dominated.. its only been 50 years since we believed in the "donna reed" concept of women, as being "mans helper"....stay at home, make cakes and raise the kids.
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Intro: disfellowshipped as a teen in 1999
by Moxie ingreetings and warm wishes to everyone out there...
this is my first post here on the site, though i have spent many countless hours as a guest reading and reading your posts and conversations.
they have been a great encouragement to me, who as a young woman was disfellowshipped from the society about nine years ago.
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tall penguin
Welcome Moxie. Would love to read your blog. I've been writing one for over a year now and I find it very cathartic. Where can we read yours?
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Have you gained more than lost?
by compound complex ingreetings, my friends:.
the above question is not in regard to one's weight.
that would be a rude question .... in terms of your jw experience, have the losses you've suffered been offset by the good you've gained?.
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Not yet, but I'm workin on it.
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Watchtower 2008 dumb logic= "Belief in evolution makes you an orphan."
by Witness 007 inwatch, feb 1 2008 p.4 "if we really are the product of evolution and there is no creator, the human race would in a sense, be an orphan.
mankind would have no source of superior wisdom to consult- no one to help us solve our problems.
we would have to rely on human wisdom to avert enviromental disaster, to solve political conflicts, and to guide us through our personal crises.
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Does anyone have a scan of this? What rubbish.
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White vs Black vs Grey (Gray)
by coolhandluke inwhen i was a young man everything was black and white, good and evil, you see?
but then i grew to find that there was only grey" ~ anonymous character.
in the days of dogmatic reasoning i knew that i had the truth.
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tall penguin
As you realized yourself as a child, it's the parent's inability to say "I don't know" that causes problems for a child. Children naturally ask questions. They are cause seeking creatures. We all are. Where cognitive dissonance begins is when parents make shit up or speak with authority on a subject they no little about.
When I've been around children with questions that I can't answer, I will usually turn the question back to them before I comment. And when I do, if it's an opinion matter (which most of life is), I make sure to tell them that it's my opinion and that I don't really know for sure what the answer is, and that it's okay not to know.
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On knowing what you are not supposed to know and . . .
by Lady Lee inover 20 years ago i came across this theory "on knowing what you are not supposed to know and feeling what you are not supposed to feel" at the time my focus was on abusive families and how this concept fit into it.
the citation for the article follows but i will break it down.
title: on knowing what you are not supposed to know and feeling what you are not supposed to feel.author(s)/editor(s): bowlby, johnsource/citation: canadian journal of psychiatry; vol 24(5) aug 1979, canada: canadian psychiatric assn; 1979, 403-408abstract/review/citation: contends that much psychopathology stems from impressions, scenes, and experiences of childhood having been forgotten yet continuing to influence thought, feeling, and action.
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tall penguin
"TP, did you just shake your head later and think, 'wait, wasn't I there, I know how I felt???' Geez."
I know what I felt. It just took me a few years before I allowed myself to believe it again. I allowed the elders to convince me that a "worldly" person couldn't possibly know what true love is. And that what we had was all a lie. Talk about projecting! Idiots.
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