I went to community college but I always wanted a linguistics degree from University. I speak Spanish French Portuguese Hebrew Ethiopian you name it, just not Chinese.
SonoftheTrinity
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How important do you believe education and knowledge is?
by new hope and happiness inhow educated are you?
and how great is your vocabularly ect ....?.
do you think ir right to judge people by how intelligent/ educated they are and how much vocabulary they use???.
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How important do you believe education and knowledge is?
by new hope and happiness inhow educated are you?
and how great is your vocabularly ect ....?.
do you think ir right to judge people by how intelligent/ educated they are and how much vocabulary they use???.
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SonoftheTrinity
To me, education is everything. My kids are being cheated. Church isn't a place to be scared shickless, its a place to read the King James Version so that you're ready to read Shakespeare by the time you're in High School, or a place to learn Greek or Hebrew and how to if that's you're background, or a place to learn music. The lack of a cultural element in the Jehovah's Witnesses is what shocks me. The Jehovah's Witnesses is a place to learn sales techniques. I was a telemarketer once upon a time and I hate salesmen!!!!!
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Raising kids - JW mother, agnostic father
by Zana inmy wife and i have two wonderful children aged 1 and 3. i was raised as a lutheran but stopped believing in my late teen years.
my wife is what i would call a liberal jw (yes, i believe such people exist .
sooner or later our children will have questions about religion and the differences mom and dad show towards it.
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SonoftheTrinity
I wish I were more than just a stepdad so I could protect them from being indoctrinated. Their attitude towards higher education is what bothers me the most.
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Idiotic WT reasoning for birthdays
by Batman89 inadditionally, birthday celebrations tend to give excessive importance to an individual, no doubt one reason why early christians shunned them.
(ecclesiastes 7:1) so you will find that jehovahs witnesses do not share in birthday festivities (the parties, singing, gift giving, and so forth).
school and jehovah's witnesses p.18.
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SonoftheTrinity
The Bible has nothing good to say about clean-shavenness just as it has nothing good to say about birthdays, therefore I judged the JWs to be practicing the sin of transvestism because they don't grow beards. If your overseer doesn't have a beard his name must be Mitch.
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"You should grow a beard if you're a man of God (slam)!!!"
by SonoftheTrinity inif jehovah's witnesses are taught the "truth" that people are afraid of men with beards, wouldn't sending them the vibe that clean shaven men are creepy, as indeed they are in some localities on some faces be the best favor you could do them.
imagine if every trinitarian christian told them the same thing instead of engaging in a conversation with them.
in the part of california where i live them telling me that beards are threatening to some people is like those hipsters who attend the "no pants subway ride" on the subway in the middle of winter and then say that it just felt too warm today to be wearing pants.
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Disposable Hero of Hypocrisy, I just can't sit through a meeting of bald-faced men giving talks. I truly believe that for most grown men to be clean-shaven is to miss the mark in terms of God's commandment against transvestism. I'll wear a dress before I shave off my beard. That's great that its different in Europe. I suspect that one of my boys has a thing for blondes, maybe he should go to Europe after High School. I would say 99% of my contempt for Jehovah's witnesses is my desire for my two stepsons to grow up to be bearded college graduates. The way I was brought up a man is not a man until he goes to college and grows a beard. They will always be child slaves to the Witchtower as long as their mother force-feeds them the Witchtower's spiritual slop.
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Why do Christian nations think they can assimilate Muslims into their communities , does Islam attempt to assimilate Christians in their communities ?
by smiddy inislam /muslims today are what christianity was centuries ago , the two beleif systems are like oil and water , not to be mixed .
christians are not tolerated spreading their infectious disease amongst muslims, in islamic countrys , and harsh penalties apply for them doing so in muslim countries , including the death penalty.
stonings , whippings etc.. on the other hand christian nations are very tolerant of muslim extremists who incite hatred and violence on their own territory , and they get a slap on the wrist and say dont do it again .
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SonoftheTrinity
The problem isn't all Muslims, its with the Salafi/Wahhabi and the extreme Twelvers in power in Iran. Imagine if the most intolerant forms of Protestantism and Catholicism came to power in Rome and Canterbury. There are anti-extremist Muslims like the Sufis too. In Places like Lebanon and Ethiopia there is a clear Christian/Sunni-Sufi alliance headed by the Ahbash against the Salafis. When you look at some countries in Africa and the former Soviet Union a pattern of Christianization can be seen in spite of thousand dollar Saudi-funded bonuses for conversion to Islam
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"If Your Dad Doesn't Have a Beard, You've Got Two Mums" by the Beards
by SonoftheTrinity ini wish i could link this video from youtube....every kid growing up in the borg should watch it..
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I wish I could link this Video from Youtube....every kid growing up in the Borg should watch it.
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Am I a judgmental bastard or just one of the last sane persons on this planet?
by skeeter1 inso, i happened to see a young lady.
she's about 13 or 14, can't be more than 16 years old.
fresh faced, rosy cheeks, and a little pudgy.
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SonoftheTrinity
Don't you remember the Nazirites of the Bible who grow long hair? Or how Ezekiel Would roll in dung? Or how Job tore apart his clothes? Or the Holy Fools of Holy Orthodoxy? God likes deviant if it proves a point. The best clique a daughter could belong to in some communities is a straight-edge punk rocker (no drugs, no fornication, no meat, no alcohol to interfere with doing it yourself and thinking for yourself) who dress ridiculously to make a statement. I feel sorry for people who have been raised to equate peculiarity with wickedness. You have to look at the soul that chose those clothes and why are those clothes not ridiculous to that person. Personally I love the diversity of my great nation, from Cowboys to Homeboys to Punk Rockers to Hippies. Its a shame that Watchtowerdumb blinds souls to such radiance.
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"You should grow a beard if you're a man of God (slam)!!!"
by SonoftheTrinity inif jehovah's witnesses are taught the "truth" that people are afraid of men with beards, wouldn't sending them the vibe that clean shaven men are creepy, as indeed they are in some localities on some faces be the best favor you could do them.
imagine if every trinitarian christian told them the same thing instead of engaging in a conversation with them.
in the part of california where i live them telling me that beards are threatening to some people is like those hipsters who attend the "no pants subway ride" on the subway in the middle of winter and then say that it just felt too warm today to be wearing pants.
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SonoftheTrinity
Well I have a beard, and fortunately my JW wife happens to be from a culture where beards are sacred so she doesn't nag me about it. I have a deformedly weak chin so I really would like a world where the beards are the squares and the clean-shaven are the misfits. Going to District Assemblies where there isn't a single beard to be seen truly creep me out. I finally reached the kids with a music video by the Beards "If your Dad doesn't have a beard you've got 2 moms" which I hope they remember to serenade whosoever god forbid may take my place.
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Is College Worth It? Clearly, New Data Say...
by NewYork44M ina new set of income statistics answers those questions quite clearly: yes, college is worth it, and its not even close.
for all the struggles that many young college graduates face, a four-year degree has probably never been more valuable.. here is the article from the new york times:.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/upshot/is-college-worth-it-clearly-new-data-say.html?hp.
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SonoftheTrinity
Community College and Trade School combined are worth it. The money for University might not be worth it, but the time is. The JWs don't want the youth to have the time to think at a collegiate level, or even to think about what they want in life.