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  Older men dating teenagers/Lolitas

  by wanderlustguy in

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  lolitas older men with little girls.

  i promised myself only 30 minutes on thisso the timer starts now.

  my perspective on this is probably different than most, i am a male, 32 years old.

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  Cygnus

  The book "Lolita" is on my reading list. It sits no more than 2 feet from where I sit to read or talk on the phone.

  If you consider (in particular, amateur) pornography, the "women" have gotten progressively younger and younger (Traci Lords not withstanding). Teenage girls these days look and behave far older than 20 years ago when I was teen-aged. I won't go into the many reasons for this but there are many. My girl is 32 and she always had older men, 20 years her superior, check her out since she was 15. Consistently, today 50+ men are interested in her. I suppose there exists an evolutionary biological reason (justification?) for this type of behavior. However, in my own mind, what in the world would I have in common with a girl 20 years my younger? I simply don't understand relationships built entirely on physical attraction. I made that mistake as a 19 year old JW who got married to a gorgeous 20 year old JW, and would never repeat it with a younger woman/girl.
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  Im Sad! My Mom is slowly dying from a rare disease!

  by ButtLight in

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  2. friends

  she has something called, corticobasildegeneration.

  yeah i know what a name!

  its a disease that shrinks the brain, and there is no cure for it!

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  Cygnus

  I certainly don't belong in a position to advise you, but I'm quite sure, no matter how heartbreaking it might be to experience, that I would house and look after my aged and ill father/mother in a NY minute. And if they accidentally did something irresponsible and e.g. burned down the house, so be it. My love and feelings of responsibility towards my aged parents would outweigh that scenario. After all, they spent years with me, raising me, as a naive child who could have done extreme damage. Nursing homes have their place, but I'll reiterate a notion you described, I'd sleep on the pull-out sofa if need be.
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  Are You A Male Chauvenist?

  by Legolas in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  are you the type of guy that has to drive even if it is your wife's car?

  my husband is not.

  we both have our own, but my husbands drives a truck, so going to the meetings i nearly always drove because it is my vehicle, i was never talked to about this, but from the 'looks' i got from the elders i know i would have been if we were still there!

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  Cygnus

  I've always absolutely hated being a passenger, no matter who else is driving. However I have to admit the one person I didn't mind doing the driving for me was my ex-wife. She was a very good driver and I recall her driving to the meetings with me passenging and nobody ever gave me trouble for it. How silly for someone to comment that it would be more appropriate for the man to be doing the driving. My life-mate now doesn't even drive, so the decision is settled.
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  Many many books from library on 586/87

  by ithinkisee in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have listed all the books i found at the library that mention 586/87 as the fall of jerusalem.

  i was also able to link to all of them (except the first one listed) on amazon.com!

  many are out of print or unavailable as new books but you can buy almost all of them used on amazon.com ... some are only $10-12 each!

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  Cygnus

  The Lukian community post-temple destruction was trying to make sense of why Jehovah allowed Titus' armies to destroy the centerpiece of his worship to be destroyed. The text has nothing to do with a 2520 year time period and to read such into the text does severe violence to it. There is really no other inescapable conclusion, and the Society's (and Adventist's for that matter) calculations and speculations are not and never have been taken seriously by honest-to-goodness bible interpreters and scholars.
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  Many many books from library on 586/87

  by ithinkisee in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have listed all the books i found at the library that mention 586/87 as the fall of jerusalem.

  i was also able to link to all of them (except the first one listed) on amazon.com!

  many are out of print or unavailable as new books but you can buy almost all of them used on amazon.com ... some are only $10-12 each!

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  Cygnus

  Scholar.....A God's Word? I'm assured English isn't your native language... but that 20-year gap makes the WT's chronicling of the neo-Assyrian/Babylonian kinglist a mess, whereas Jonsson's explanations make both secular and biblical sense. You've not shown otherwise. Neither does the Appendix to Let Your Kingdom Come. All you can do is spout some wishful thinking and hand-waving and you'll continue to make bluntly stated assertions that have no definitive or even theoretically possible substantiation.
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  Many many books from library on 586/87

  by ithinkisee in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have listed all the books i found at the library that mention 586/87 as the fall of jerusalem.

  i was also able to link to all of them (except the first one listed) on amazon.com!

  many are out of print or unavailable as new books but you can buy almost all of them used on amazon.com ... some are only $10-12 each!

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  Cygnus

  I remember the feelings of trepidation and excitement when investigating this at the library for myself over eight years ago. Sorry, Watchtower, but you've got a 20 year gap you just can't fill with any evidence. I remember way back on H2O Zach's posting on this 20 year gap and how he showed how the Society's explanations were so vapid as to be stupifying. And I recall emailing AlanF some eight years ago with a king list of the neo-Babylonian epoch. And how gracious he was in reply, step by step. He's still that way, if I can insert a plug for my old buddy, who was also gracious for,listening to my incessant babbling on the phone tonight for 90 minutes.
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  Many many books from library on 586/87

  by ithinkisee in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have listed all the books i found at the library that mention 586/87 as the fall of jerusalem.

  i was also able to link to all of them (except the first one listed) on amazon.com!

  many are out of print or unavailable as new books but you can buy almost all of them used on amazon.com ... some are only $10-12 each!

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  Cygnus

  What difference does it really make what year Jerusalem was sacked. Zedekiah blinded and killed and removed from the typical davidic throne. Etc etc etc. The whole process of understanding what Jesus meant by Jerusalem being trampled on by the nations should be looked at from the original author's point of view and who his intended audience was. Scholar, do you really think the Lukian writers concerned themselves with a date far far off in the future, 1800 or so years later?
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  HOW LONG WILL YOU LIVE?

  by Amazing1914 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the following link is very interesting.

  it is from the web site of northwestern mutual financial.

  they are part of northwestern mutual life insurance.

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  Cygnus

  79 for me. Biggest factor was the 5 years taken off for the smoking. But in actuality I have no pulminary issues at all (borne out by hospital beathing tests and x-rays of the chest).
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  Girls.............do you wiggle when you walk?

  by vitty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i feel really embarrassed when i walk my dog down the street, as i know i wiggle but cant help it.

  it really seems to have gone out of fashion, a while a go ( ok years ago) when i was young every young girl tried to wiggle when she walked but now they dont know the word!!!

  they just seem to show off their bellies and forget the rear!.

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  Cygnus

  My girl's got it all, comin' and goin'. I'm hugely lucky and happy. :)
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  Alan F's flaming arguments and insults

  by Rex in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hi alan, .

  have you ever looked at the carved up mountains, hills and valleys?????

  have examined the remarkable similarity to the mount st. helen's canyon that was carved our very quickly?

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  Cygnus

  Rex, I remember you, I remember your debates with a catholic on H2O probably six years ago. Doing ok? You know how Alan works, you don't have to ask to have it explained to you. Since your exit from the JWs, why can't you apply the same level of scrutiny and real scholastic approach to this subject?

  Alan, if Julie hadn't have already snatched you up some years ago I would have stalked you until you gave in to my desires.