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  Bumped into an elder while walking my dog

  by biometrics in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  funny situation.

  an elder lives around the corner from me.

  i walk my dog past his house daily.. early this morning the elder was in the bush wearing his pj's for no apparent reason.

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  valkyrie

  Did you smell any cigarette smoke?
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  Thinking of visiting a Kingdom Hall after 20 years in disguise

  by not bitter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been to my old kh for 2 funerals since i left 20 yrs ago but i don't think they count.

  so i am thinking of visiting a different hall on a sunday for the public talk and wt study.

  i want to go just to remind myself how simple minded it is and to hopefully help me appreciate how wonderful and free my life now is.

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  valkyrie

  You've lived in disguise for 20 years?! That is true commitment!
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  CANCELL MY REQUEST FOR MEMBERSHIP I HATE APOSTATES

  by Simon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  lol, just received this email:.

  idiots!

  you of weak minds that have chosen to leave the truth!

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  valkyrie

  Satan's kids??! I'm too young for that! :-/ [Maybe a great-, great-, great- grandkid. :0 ]
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  Today's WT Study (Who is the FDS - Sep 2013)

  by ohnightdivine in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  please share how your wt study went today...

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  valkyrie

  Why leave all the far-out doctrinal fun to the Church of Scientology?
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  The Car that runs on Air- Tata's Airpod

  by designs in

  1. social
  2. current

  this may have potential- http://gadgets.feedbox.info/the-car-that-runs-on-air-the-airpod/.

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  valkyrie

  I have a nieghbor who thinks I own Tata cars

  Make sure he knows they're not Air Tatas, but the real thing!
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  Boeings "Dreamliner" starting to look like a nightmare.

  by Glander in

  1. social
  2. current

  i am truly surprised to see boeing trying to roll out a plane so full of bugs and flaws.

  hope they can get things straightened out.

  major us industry giant, lots of jobs..

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  valkyrie

  OK, that gracefully formed giant on CA's poster made me smile; and prologos' explanation of a helicopter's aerodynamics made me grin broadly!

  All in all, a great thread!
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  The Car that runs on Air- Tata's Airpod

  by designs in

  1. social
  2. current

  this may have potential- http://gadgets.feedbox.info/the-car-that-runs-on-air-the-airpod/.

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  valkyrie

  Well-suited to Amsterdam!
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  Jehovah's Witness boy fights court for right to die

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/religious-boy-fights-court-for-right-to-die-20130917-2tx5u.html.

  this is tragic.

  the boy is 17, and earlier this year the courts ruled that he was to be forced a transfusion.

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  valkyrie

  Life is not always preferable to death. We all know this, that's the problem.

  This is undoubtedly true, which is why I framed the parenthetical as a "generally perceived good" - and not an absolute good.
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  Jehovah's Witness boy fights court for right to die

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/religious-boy-fights-court-for-right-to-die-20130917-2tx5u.html.

  this is tragic.

  the boy is 17, and earlier this year the courts ruled that he was to be forced a transfusion.

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  valkyrie

  Thank you, SBF. I understand that the minutiae of possible situations can bog down the development of an all-encompassing rule.

  Yet, I believe that one of original fundaments of legislation is an 'everyman rule'. That is to say, state law starts with the codification of recommended or acceptable acts, as would ensue from the deductions and morality of the ordinary, "reasonable" man (of a given time and society).

  Therefore, if "everyman" would find it reasonable and understandable to contravene the deathwish of a loved one, if able, then the state [with initial authorization by the consent of the governed] acts for "everyman" in considering all of its citizens as a member of the national, family body, and subject to imposed efforts at salvation - if possible. The state has been empowered to care for, and act upon the generally perceived good of its subjects (life preferable to death).

  Again, thanks for engaging!
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  Jehovah's Witness boy fights court for right to die

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/religious-boy-fights-court-for-right-to-die-20130917-2tx5u.html.

  this is tragic.

  the boy is 17, and earlier this year the courts ruled that he was to be forced a transfusion.

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  valkyrie

  SBF, I hope I do not raise your hackles, by continued questioning. I only wish to understand the scope of your objection to the external exercise of uninvited mediation of personal will.

  So, to continue: Not the "state," but an individual counteraction of a suicide attempt - is it immoral that a friend/family member/chance discoverer should attempt to negate a suicide in progress (e.g., cut down a hanged man, administer CPR, or bind self-inflicted cuts to prevent a bleed-out).

  I apologize if my examples are too graphic, and cause distress to any reader's sensitivities.