Glad you enjoyed it as much as I did, bohm.
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Feeling down
by tec inmy son got suspended from school for fighting.
not just fighting but choking another boy during their fight.
he started it in anger over something the other boy did, but none of that actually matters.
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bluecanary
I highly recommend this book. I'm glad that the school is taking care to help him. How old is he?
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Is anyone here a Mensch? Then tell us who it is.
by moshe init's great being an ex-jw- and out in the open, living your life your way.
hiding under a rock is for snakes , toads, and other sundry slithery creatures of the night.
a mensch helps people who cannot ever return the favor.
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Dude...you just described what it's like to be Christian..... You don't have to be a Mensch, just be Christlike.
He just described Jewish ideals. If the description of a mensch is the same as being Christlike, why would it matter which religion you follow? Why is your term for it superior to his?
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Awww....animals raising babies of another species...everlasting thread!
by rebel8 inever since i saw a video of a crow feeding and nurturing a feral kitten, i've been fascinated by stories of animals who raise babies of another type of animal.
so here begins my official repository of these stories!
feel free to add any others you know of--humans raising house pets doesn't count!.
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What is your level of morality?
by bluecanary inin my child psychology class we discussed lawrence kohlberg's cognitive theory of moral development.
i find the stages he outlines to be interesting and relevant to our experience as jws, particularly stage 4.. from my textbook, kohlberg's theory of moral development:.
level 1 preconventional morality:.
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In my Child Psychology class we discussed Lawrence Kohlberg's cognitive theory of moral development. I find the stages he outlines to be interesting and relevant to our experience as JWs, particularly stage 4.
From my textbook, Kohlberg's theory of moral development:
Level 1 preconventional morality:
Stage 1: Obedience and punishment orientation
To avoid punishment, the child defers to prestigious or powerful people, usually the parents. The morality of an act is defined by its physical consequences.
Stage 2: Naïve hedonistic and instrumental orientation
The child conforms to gain rewards. The child understands reciprocity and sharing, but this reciprocity is manipulative and self-serving rather than based on a true sense of justice, generosity, sympathy or compassion. It is a kind of bartering: "I'll lend you my bike if I can play with your wagon." "I'll do my homework no if I can watch the late night movie."
Level 2 Conventional Morality: conventional rules and conformity
Stage 3: Good boy morality
The child's good behavior is designed to maintain approval and good relations with others. Although the child is still basing judgments of right and wrong on others' responses, he is concerned with their approval and disapproval rather than their physical power. It is to maintain goodwill that he conforms to families social regulations and to judge the goodness or badness of behavior in terms of a person's intent to violate these rules.
Stage 4: Authority and morality that maintain the social order
The person blindly accepts social conventions and rules and believes that if society accepts these rules, they should be maintained to avoid censure. He now conforms not just to the other individuals' standards but to the social order. This is the epitome of "law and order" morality, involving unquestioning acceptance of social regulations. The person judges behavior as good according to whether it conforms to a rigid set of rules. According to Kohlberg, many people never go beyond this conventional level of morality.
Level 3 Postconventional Morality: self-accepted moral principles
Stage 5: Morality of contract, individual rights and democratically accepted law
People now have a flexibility of moral beliefs they lacked in earlier stages. Morality is based on an agreement among individuals to conform to norms that appear necessary to maintain the social order and the rights of others. However, because this is a social contract, it can be modified when people within a society rationally discuss alternatives that might be more advantageous to more members of the society.
Stage 6: Morality of individual principles and conscience
People conform to both social standards and to internalized ideals. Their intent is to avoid self-condemnation rather than criticism by others. People base their decisions on abstract principles involving justice compassion and equality. This is a morality based on a respect for others. People who have attained this level of development will have highly individualistic moral beliefs that may at times conflict with rules accepted by the majority of a society. According to Kohlberg, among the nonviolent, activist students who demonstrated in the mid to late 1960's against the Vietnam War, more had attained the postconventional level of morality than had nonactivist students.
Upon reading this you will probably agree that the JWs (among others) are generally at level 4.
It is easy to use such a reference to judge others. I wonder how easy it is to place oneself within this framework. Would level 4 people identify themselves as such? Would they find the description overly simplistic or inaccurate?
Honestly, as a JW, I believe I would have proudly identified as level 4, as long as "social regulations" could be defined by Jehovah's regulations (which I now believe are the WTBS's regulations). Now I would say that the description of level 6 adequately depicts my morality.
Do you see yourself in this chart? Do you think it is accurate? Do you fall somewhere outside these bounds?
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Linguistics misunderstanding - please help.
by hotspur inmaybe it's a "common people separated by a common language" thing but i really don't get this.. .
many times i see somebody posting about something that irks them and they say "i could care less.
" but they use it in such a way as to infer they're not really bothered by it all.. .
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It's like saying "irregardless" or "conversate." Somewhere along the way, people got sloppy and the incorrect version stuck. No one thinks about what the words they're saying mean. One of my peeves is when people say, "the fact is, is that . . ."
"The fact is" is treated like one word that needs another "is" after it.
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Awww....animals raising babies of another species...everlasting thread!
by rebel8 inever since i saw a video of a crow feeding and nurturing a feral kitten, i've been fascinated by stories of animals who raise babies of another type of animal.
so here begins my official repository of these stories!
feel free to add any others you know of--humans raising house pets doesn't count!.
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bluecanary
http://woowei.com/amazing-friendly-family
More cute pics.
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Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Atheist
by BurnTheShips inplease note that this list is intended to apply to the fundies alone.
not to all nonbelievers.
so let's turn the mirror and grab some popcorn:.
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Whats funny to me is that the majority of the list does not describe an atheist at all, it describes a fallen believer who still believes in god. The ONLY sign that your an atheist is that you don't believe in god.
Well said, mkr.
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Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Atheist
by BurnTheShips inplease note that this list is intended to apply to the fundies alone.
not to all nonbelievers.
so let's turn the mirror and grab some popcorn:.
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bluecanary
Thanks for that bit of gender egalitarianism, PSac.