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Trust (not easy to find out from the start)
Supportive (humm ... sounds cool and maybe it's easier to realise it from the beginning)Now it's really interesting that you've thought about putting the negative !!! Thanks !!!
Posts by RAF
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19I'm just curious
by RAF in.
i'm just curious to get the point ... what did you find the most satisfying in your relationship (i mean serious relationship which is supposed to last) with your other half after 5 to 10 years:.
a listing would be nice in the preferential order like.
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Name your Top Ten or However Many you can Favorite Comedy Movies
by flipper instarted one thread serious, so thought i'd go light and easy on this one.
so what say yee to this?
here are mr. flippers, about in this order, but not necessarily.
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Pulp fiction (funny somehow)
Antz
Big hit (funny somehow)
Wasabi
The good the bad and the ugly (funny somehow)
Money Talks
Forrest Gump (funny somehow)
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Lethal Weapon (1-2-3-4)
The Last boy scout
Two much
Innerspace
Familly Man (funny somehow)
The War of the Roses
Maverick
Snatch (funny somehow)
Rain man (funny somehow)
Switch
Shangaï kid (1)
Desperado (1) (funny somehow)
The Witches of Eastwick (funny somehow)
There's Something about Mary
The cable guy
Loaded Weapon (1)
Back to the Future (1-2-3)
Meet the Parents (1)
Rush hour (all of them)
Toy Story
Last action hero
Coming to America
Big
Sister Act (1)
Robin Hood Prince of the Thieves (funny somehow)
Mafia blues (1)
Bad boys
Blast from the Past
George of the Jungle
The Whole nine yards (1) (funny somehow)
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Groundhog Day
A Fish Called Wanda
Sonatine (funny somehow)
Myster cool
Kikujiro (l'été de) (funny somehow)
Pédale douce
La Grande vadrouille
La folie des Grandeurs
Didier
Casimodo del Paris
True lies
Big Momma's house (1)
Le cerveau
Le corniaud
Hitch (funny somehow)
Bird on a Wire (funny somehow)
Housesitter
Police academy (1)
What Women Want
Tootsie
Hudson Hawk
Chicken Run
Gremlins (1)
Heartbreakers
Monthy Pithon "The meaning of life" not sure it's this one but it's the one where then sang (Oh God you are suppa fantastic ... we are really impressed down there ... LOL ... don't grill toast us in a rotissomat - I don't remember all the lyrics but when I've heard it I couldn't stop laughing)Switch on TV right now (maybe the 5th time I see it)
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I'm just curious
by RAF in.
i'm just curious to get the point ... what did you find the most satisfying in your relationship (i mean serious relationship which is supposed to last) with your other half after 5 to 10 years:.
a listing would be nice in the preferential order like.
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(in the long run is important here - so maybe it was not obvious in the begining or maybe not even any kind of priority at first)
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I'm just curious
by RAF in.
i'm just curious to get the point ... what did you find the most satisfying in your relationship (i mean serious relationship which is supposed to last) with your other half after 5 to 10 years:.
a listing would be nice in the preferential order like.
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I'm just curious to get the point ... what did you find the most satisfying in your relationship (I mean serious relationship which is supposed to last) with your other half after 5 to 10 years:
A listing would be nice in the preferential order like
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What is your heritage?
by greendawn inso what is it?
i say mine is english with an admixture of german (before the nazis ever existed, no need to go on about that) northern french and italian from venice.
i look northern european and feel close to that part of the world with family tradition being roman catholic.
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African (don't know from where since they were slaves) both sided / Italian Father side / French Father and Mother sides / Biello russian Mother sides / Chinese both sides of my Father sides ... but all together that makes me 1/3 of the 3 basic races and I'm very happy about that.
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........Condemnation........
by WingCommander inloving 80's music, electronic, etc i have always liked such artists as inxs, depeche mode, etc.
every time i hear depeche mode's, "condemnation" i feel they could be singing about ex-jw's or any person leaving a cult or hard situation.
condemnation.
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RAF
I like the lyrics too but (to me) kind of limited about what it is pointing at. What about blindness in kindness?
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Small Steps - My Progress
by Princess Daisy Boo ini just wanted to to write quickly and let you all know how proud i am of myself... .
this weekend, hubby and i took the kids to my mom and dad for a visit.
i have avoided doing this for a while, just because i get so stressed when we get together.
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Contemplating my end here
by Junction-Guy inthis has by far been the best xjw forum i have ever been on, but the time is coming when i must move on to other venues.
the net is very time consuming, and i cant keep up with every post on here, no matter how hard i try.. .
im embarking on a new journey here in the next few months, and i just have to break myself free from the internet.. .
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Yeah there is a time for everything
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Questions ...
by RAF inok this is an attempt to make you understand my personal approach of the bible.
why i do think that it makes sense conceptually (like some other beliefs in fact lets say as a unique example: the belief of the native indians in substance just because its simple to compare again conceptually).. i take into consideration that the bible have oriental and african roots as origin, but that its spreading by religions have been most leaded by occidentals it s very important in the reasoning in the approach of the bible from all religionists, means their probable missinterpretations - imageries and symbolismes and reasons of some principle of it and more over on the long run regarding to the meaning of everything when it have been written) .
what leaded me to post this thread is related to 2 posts (but will only talk about one) ive read lately in different threads.. for anything to make sense we have to understand the purpose (the why).
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Also to be clear on my position about religions (all kind of disrecptectull fondamentalisms whether it comes from believers or unbelievers) ... I'm against ... And my feeling is that more and more people will got enough with that (and somehow that's also what the NT is saying) Religions will go DOWN !!!
Because we (or our kids or their kids) will know better and better from the past/experiences where it leads. and maybe we need more catastrophies related to that for a majority to get it.
We have a proverbe here which says: my right stops where the right of the other one begins. and it makes sense in fairness - So it's all about fondamental rights against fondamental bullies and bulls.
I mean discernment is this matter, is more about what is fair or unfair to be able to state what is right or wrong contextually. and here again somehow the NT is saying the same thing - in saying that we do not depends on laws but love/which have something to do with charity which have something to do with respect (even when the other one is wrong - again - as long as it doesn't hurt someone else and spit on any's fondamental right).
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Questions ...
by RAF inok this is an attempt to make you understand my personal approach of the bible.
why i do think that it makes sense conceptually (like some other beliefs in fact lets say as a unique example: the belief of the native indians in substance just because its simple to compare again conceptually).. i take into consideration that the bible have oriental and african roots as origin, but that its spreading by religions have been most leaded by occidentals it s very important in the reasoning in the approach of the bible from all religionists, means their probable missinterpretations - imageries and symbolismes and reasons of some principle of it and more over on the long run regarding to the meaning of everything when it have been written) .
what leaded me to post this thread is related to 2 posts (but will only talk about one) ive read lately in different threads.. for anything to make sense we have to understand the purpose (the why).
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Terry
Two thousand years ago there were many opinions. Today, there are even more.Opinions about God multiply daily. Worse still; they are at odds with each other.They can't all be right. Worse still, none HAS to be.
The thing is that even the bible says that we don’t have to believe the exact same thing (and that makes sense) it means that we can disagree on the details. I don’t remember the scripture but if someone know it please post it.With no way of proving one's opinions about God, the Bible, the meaning of a word in an important scripture we must face the fact we could EASILY choose a wrong opinion.
What is the cost of a wrong opinion?
That is the real question; the PRIMARY question.
That’s why whether we believe or not, we still need discernment to not messing up in what is really important = respect (in all matters needed with discernment contextually). While there are very important reasons to not agree with religions (which doesn’t allow to respect what needs to be) there are no reason to not respect anyone's faith or on the reverse someone which doesn’t have faith when it doesn’t it doesn't hurt anybody. (and again there is a difference in between faith and religions)
What is the actual cost to us in clinging to one orthodoxy and rejecting the others?
Clearly, all honest-hearted people make the very best choice they know how to make. Yet, they can't all be right and could very well all be wrong.
Again it is not about being right or wrong in the matter of religious belief (that’s what each religion would like people to think to validate their doctrine/postulates) everything have to be analysed but regarding the main purpose, which shouldn’t be salvation regarging faith for instance (that’s being interested – thinking that our lives depends on it – that’s when people might miss the point and forget about others rights in the matter of respect – just because their religion leads to that but again faith is an other matter) and for the same reason I don't think that anyone needs to not respect anyones faith just because he/she feels the need to be the one who is right on the matter. As long as it doesn't hurt.
For me, I've narrowed the choices down.
I've read as much as humanly possible about the bible and how it was written, compiled, redacted, "preserved", translated and tampered with.
I can eliminate the bible as a reputable book of integrity and certainly as a divine revelation from a transcendant being.
Others may make different choices.
No others just may think differently about the matter and it is related to everyones personnal way (and even reasons) to analyse the matter – it’s stays a matter of mindset – that’s why people needs to stay open minded while analysing to not separate information (as one is ok and the other is not at first – which in this manner and all matters lead to throw all babies with their baths) you have to analyse both sides in details to discern everything both sides and in this matter regarding what is the most important (about what looks respectable and what does not – regarding the respect due to everybody and everything important).
Since we can never ever know if our religious selection is correct or not (in view of other sincere and intelligent objections) I feel the cost of even trying is futile.
It is far better to concentrate on being honest, being fair, just and charitable and leaving the rest for others to argue.
What fair-minded God of Justice would argue with such an honest choice?
Is it because you do not believe that you think that your choice (in fact a personal belief) is more honest than others and feel the need to disrespect in many ways peoples beliefs (the fact that you don’t believe the same thing as others is about your own belief. I mean it is not because you don’t belief that is not a/your belief system)
Whether people do or not have faith, whether they want to talk about it or not it shouldn’t change what is the most important about respect and that is why I’ve said in my first post:
Don’t get me wrong this is not for you to change your belief (whatever it is) but you’ll see that at the end spiritually talking (not religiously) it doesn’t change a single thing about what is really important (I do insist on what is really important) because that’s where there’s no difference (to make the difference in between what is contextual in the details of the story and conceptual in the meaning).