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  RIP Anthony Bourdain

  by freemindfade in

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  so sad to hear about the loss of one of the best storytellers.

  such a great unique personality.

  he will be greatly missed .

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  NOOOOOOO!!!

  l love Anthony Bourdain. Noooo. He cannot die before l do.
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  Miss America and Misguided Views on Sexuality

  by Simon in

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  so miss america pageant is going to remove the swimsuit and evening gown parts of their pageant because they have decided it's demeaning to women.

  i guess it will just be women in overcoats telling us they want world peace .... bravo, we all applaud, right?

  maybe we shouldn't be so quick to do so .... what is it really saying?

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  Shouldn't we really be promoting the idea that women are beautiful and what's important is to treat them with respect and that it was the men who did wrong and were the only ones that had to change.

  Simon,

  When I read the above I realized that only the thought of loosing the bathing suit competition could have prompted that guileless remark —in view of testy conversations that have risen over male behavior toward women on this board.

  That you said “it was the men who did wrong and were the only ones that had to change.” Well, it is going to stand as a beachhead from now on—at least in my mind . Thank you!

  l hope you turn out to have have a wicked good funny bone. Maeve
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  UK justice..

  by zeb in

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  tommie robinson has reported often about what he sees as the demise of british society by the imposition of 'sharia' norms.. https://www.infowars.com/update-tommy-robinson-gets-13-months-for-livestreaming-outside-courthouse/?utm_source=nightly+newsletter&utm_campaign=9e3ceb30f6-email_campaign_2018_05_25_03_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e12661a83c-9e3ceb30f6-38680565.

  yesterday he was jailed for 13 months for reporting outside a court in the uk.

  his was a non violent offence.. what no community service?

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  Bandicoot —I haven’t heard that Mohammed mutilated women’s genitals, if that is what you mean. Quite a long while back I read that the practice of Female Genital Mutilation is not exclusive to Muslims. I refreshed my memory on it.

  I that what you meant by Mohammed being a mutilator? So many misogynistic practices come out of the extreme patriarchy of that religion.
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  UK justice..

  by zeb in

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  tommie robinson has reported often about what he sees as the demise of british society by the imposition of 'sharia' norms.. https://www.infowars.com/update-tommy-robinson-gets-13-months-for-livestreaming-outside-courthouse/?utm_source=nightly+newsletter&utm_campaign=9e3ceb30f6-email_campaign_2018_05_25_03_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e12661a83c-9e3ceb30f6-38680565.

  yesterday he was jailed for 13 months for reporting outside a court in the uk.

  his was a non violent offence.. what no community service?

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  Bandicoot— l read that horrific story of the Muslim man’s gruesome torture and murder of his wife.....(get sick thinking of it) but there was one thing said that it is fair NOT to lay at the door of his religion.

  the final sentences in the story refers to his use of methamphetamine. The entire scenario of oppressive misogyny in his treatment of the wives was permitted by Islamic texts...but the psychotic extreme torment of the murder was meth use.

  The Organization may have shielded many from seeing much of that drug’s effects . But those who have been around it know it causes frightening transformations. Unbelievable changes.

  https://www.elementsbehavioralhealth.com/drug-abuse-addiction/links-between-methamphetamine-use-paranoia-and-violence/
  
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  JW Parents in bad shape with no retirement.

  by blownaway in

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  my wife's parents are in very bad shape.

  they are both 2nd gen jws.

  my father in law worked for a large american manufacturing company in the 60s and early 70s.

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  humbled

  I wonder what pension provision the higher-ups get?

  I wish we could know
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  UK justice..

  by zeb in

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  tommie robinson has reported often about what he sees as the demise of british society by the imposition of 'sharia' norms.. https://www.infowars.com/update-tommy-robinson-gets-13-months-for-livestreaming-outside-courthouse/?utm_source=nightly+newsletter&utm_campaign=9e3ceb30f6-email_campaign_2018_05_25_03_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e12661a83c-9e3ceb30f6-38680565.

  yesterday he was jailed for 13 months for reporting outside a court in the uk.

  his was a non violent offence.. what no community service?

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  Barry, aren’t they counting rapes in the entire U.K. in that article above ?

  No doubt in cities where the rape gangs were primarily made up of Pakistani men show a higher percentage. ( wow, this is crazy to talk about rapes like this. Isn’t it?)
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  UK justice..

  by zeb in

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  tommie robinson has reported often about what he sees as the demise of british society by the imposition of 'sharia' norms.. https://www.infowars.com/update-tommy-robinson-gets-13-months-for-livestreaming-outside-courthouse/?utm_source=nightly+newsletter&utm_campaign=9e3ceb30f6-email_campaign_2018_05_25_03_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e12661a83c-9e3ceb30f6-38680565.

  yesterday he was jailed for 13 months for reporting outside a court in the uk.

  his was a non violent offence.. what no community service?

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  humbled

  I was able to read the latest posts before work early this morning so l got to think about them all day.

  Luhe- I have read the statistics on that 90% so many times and I am feeling silly about it. It says the crimes against children reported have been perpetrated by white men in 90% of the cases. It is possible I am at puding head. It is possible that as Bandicoot says, the numbers are not to be believed because the authorities simply don’t report assurately.

  And l admit that every time there is s new thread about the tardy discovery of more abuse by white JW men l understand why Janice doesn’t take here eye off the long history of girls being sexually used and ignored.

  If ever I thought the concern over the growing threat of violent extremism wad overblown l see it now as a threat. Though over time I believe we will see the pressure is a feature of a global population that has boiled over its social organization. Bandicoot supplied a video that outlines political, intellectual development that misguided western society and it might have affected some.

  But the raw numbers of raw humans are being impacted by massive global forces that are not looking at the working people anywhere in my view. Hundreds died today off the coast of Tunisia trying to get to Europe. They are hungry and frightened enough to risk death to find better lives. poor people.

  At the same timel don’t feel there is any doubt that there is a growing problem of violent Islamic extremism and the loss of hard won progressive legal and social structures in the European democracies where Muslims now live. The non-Muslim are afraid and often hate them. The immediate problem is avoiding a war .
  

  The violence could come eventually. Geert Wilders and Tommy Robinsons press their rhetoric as though they are the only truth bearers. They are not. Better minds and better hearts are working and speaking. But for many the shouts of angrier voices hold their attention.

  How to stop the country within a country from overwhelming the progressive values of Britain’s? I will post a link that provides the only data that l find credible about Muslim views and the scope of the problem. And there is also a plausible strategy for dealing with the troubling conclusion of the investigation titled: What British Muslims Really Think

  https://youtu.be/xQcSvBsU-FM
  

  Without accurate information no one has any basis on which to act.

  I will continue to watch this thread as the conversations have been good and tough. The struggles to assess facts,issues, disagree and find the areas of common ground and common concern are important.

  Even though the Tommy Robinson matter and the Islam troubles abroad are not yet acute in the US the problems of unresponsive government is similar. But ways for citizen to participate and be included in social development ( not mob action)l is broken.

  One thing that wasmentioned far back is the prison systems both in the UK snd here. They are hothouses for hot heads.

  We’ll see if Tommy gets out. But others need to take over if he does.
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  How to deal with struggling with the doctrines

  by Dval in

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  this is my first post.

  i'm still a jw but am inactive.

  im struggling with the fact that i agree with some of the doctrines (i,e, the stance on the trinity, there is no hell) but i disagree with a lot of things (i,e, men can't have beards, women have to wear skirts).

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  Welcome Dval. So many of us have been in the situation you are in. Here it is safe to breathe and to say just what you have said.:

  I m struggling with the fact that I agree with some of the doctrines (I,e, the stance on the trinity, there is no hell) but I disagree with a lot of things

  If you have lurked long then you know that we kick these ideas around. We treat WT teachings as though they are debatable. We allow ourselves the same right to examine doctrines as the guys at Bethel allow themselves. After all, they have admitted that they are not infallible and well we know: they have changed major teachings over the years when it suited them yet we are disfellowshiped for questioning or researching doctrines for ourselves.

  You say:
  

  I want to know God, but I don't know if I'm coming or going any more.

  And this you must allow yourself the time and space to search out. This is where you get to discover what sits right with yourself.

  Take it easy . And again, welcome.
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  I've graduated at last

  by fulltimestudent in

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  after a bit of a kerfuffle over a procedural matter, my university has awarded me a degree.

  (the procedural problem was caused by my independent selection of what i wanted to study).

  award : bachelor of arts.

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  humbled

  What a proud moment. What a remarkable accomplishment. Good for you, sir!
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  UK justice..

  by zeb in

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  tommie robinson has reported often about what he sees as the demise of british society by the imposition of 'sharia' norms.. https://www.infowars.com/update-tommy-robinson-gets-13-months-for-livestreaming-outside-courthouse/?utm_source=nightly+newsletter&utm_campaign=9e3ceb30f6-email_campaign_2018_05_25_03_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e12661a83c-9e3ceb30f6-38680565.

  yesterday he was jailed for 13 months for reporting outside a court in the uk.

  his was a non violent offence.. what no community service?

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  JaniceA—About 23,000 cases were recorded by police in England and Wales, in 2012/13.[4] Around 21,493 sexual offences on children were recognized in 2011/12. The statistics do not include the children aged 16 and 17.[5] Some 90% of the sexually abused children were abused by people who they knew, and about 1 of the 3 abused children did not tell anyone else about it.[2]

  The true number of offences remains doubtful, generally assumed to be larger, due to expected unreported cases of child abuse.[6]

  A 2013 study undertaken by the National Crime Agency's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command (CEOP) found 75 per cent of offenders in grooming-gang cases were from Asian backgrounds. Other researchers have said that the study's sample size was too small and more research needed to be conducted.[7]A 2017 report by Quilliam International, created by British-Pakistani authors, found that 84 per cent of people convicted of specific grooming-gang crimes in the UK since 2005 were South Asian, with most of the men convicted being of Pakistani origin.[8][9] John Pitts, the Vauxhall Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Luton, cautioned that the links made between Pakistani Muslim culture and child sexual exploitation may have been "too simplistic", writing: "...[I]f the cultural determinants of street grooming are as powerful as [Quilliam] believe, we have to ask why only a tiny fraction of the 2.5 million or so South Asian men in Britain, most of whom have been exposed to similar cultural beliefs, do not perpetrate these crimes."[10]

  However, approximately 90 per cent of those convicted of child abuse and that have been placed on the sex offenders register in England and Wales are white males. [11][12][13]

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  Statistics pasted from Wikipedia . I bold faced the last sentence.