put aside your religious or moral standards if you can for a moment and give me your viewpoint on this......... generally, the 'beautiful people' pair off with other 'beautiful people' in a sexual union for however long, and the average lookers meet other average lookers and so on down the line until you come to.......................those who don't appeal to the opposite sex due to appearance, injury, illness or mental capacity.. can, or should, these people be given access to those in the sex trade for 'relief' without cause for fear or stigmatising ?
or is it a case of "that's too bad" (meaning you're committing fornication and that cannot be sanctioned in any way)?.
have you ever needed to counsel a person (or their parents) on this ?
Prostitution is legal in Australia.
Now that you've picked yourself off the floor... I agree that there shouldn't be any stigma on those who go simply because they can't get sex from anywhere else. Or if they feel that the sex is merely part of a transaction - sex for money. It's a win for each.
Where prostitution is legalised, it's not always a case of sexual slavery. It's a choice many women go into for a variety of reasons - but it's usually money.
i just heard this within the last day.. i had no clue that the society had a travel agancy within its offices!.
anyhoo, in the area i live they called numerous hotels for deals for the convention and the gm whom i know through friends told me that they play hardball in getting the maximum commission possible for refering people.
he said the average is about 10 to 15 percent of the room cost.
So ppl are calling Bethel to make booking arrangements and paying them for the rooms?
I haven't heard of that before. We used to call the motel directly.
http://entertainment.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=8436695.
george clooney arrested.
george clooney and his father have been arrested during a protest outside the sudanese embassy, and the actor says he has asked president barack obama to engage china on stopping a humanitarian crisis in northern africa.. the protesters accuse sudanese president omar al-bashir of provoking a humanitarian crisis and blocking food and aid from entering the nuba mountains in the county's border region with south sudan.. clooney, his father nick and others were arrested on friday after being warned three times not to cross a police line outside the embassy.
Why would China be interested in working with the USA? They're fighting for Africa's resources, they don't want to be working with the USA.
It's a publicity stunt for American policies.
climate 'tech fixes' urged for arctic methane.
by richard black - environment correspondent, bbc news.
an eminent uk engineer is suggesting building cloud-whitening towers in the faroe islands as a "technical fix" for warming across the arctic.. scientists told uk mps this week that the possibility of a major methane release triggered by melting arctic ice constitutes a "planetary emergency".. the arctic could be sea-ice free each september within a few years.. wave energy pioneer stephen salter has shown that pumping seawater sprays into the atmosphere could cool the planet.. the edinburgh university academic has previously suggested whitening clouds using specially-built ships.. at a meeting in westminster organised by the arctic methane emergency group (ameg), prof salter told mps that the situation in the arctic was so serious that ships might take too long.. "i don't think there's time to do ships for the arctic now," he said.. "we'd need a bit of land, in clean air and the right distance north... where you can cool water flowing into the arctic.".
I agree with Ziddina
i needed to go under my dresser for a dropped item, and came across my scale.
two things i really don't like are mirrors and scales, so i usually avoid them at all costs.
i decided to step on it for a change.
Not bad!!
I wish I was the weight I was when I was 22
i thought this is interesting.. http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html.
That is AMAZING!!!
If I remember correctly, there was a substantial entrance fee for the conference. Something like $300, I think?
Most exJWs are not big income earners, and when you add accommodation prices, meals, transport to and from Brisbane etc, it'd become a costly excursion to Brisbane.
an inactive jw guy, still close and in contact with jw family and some jw friends, wanting to marry a worldy christendom girl.
he made their relationship known to everybody (family and friends).
excited to get married to the girl and to start a life proper.. the jw thinking is still strong in him - doctrine, holidays, voting and stuffs; but indicated disagreement with some wts policies, teaching about wts being the only true religion, and did some research about wts, even read a part of coc.. what say you about this guy?
How long has he been out? It can take a while for the indoctrination to get out of his mind.
However, until he is completely convinced the JWs are wrong, there's always a chance he'll go back. Taking any kids you guys might have, with him.
I wouldn't marry him just yet. Tell him you want to give him the space to discover life outside the JWs more, before you get married. There's no need to rush things.
Fantastic info - thanks for that!
So glad to hear Nick Xenophon was there - he could be a big help in getting publicity for the hurt that the WTS (and other cults) has caused.
Ex-members become refugees in their own community.
I can totally relate to that.
last year i purchased a corned beef package from trader joes.
i love corned beef but my husband didn't so i rarely cooked it for the family.
but trader joes was passing out samples last year, i couldn't resist and hubby decided he liked it but i'm only to buy the corned beef from trader joes.
LOL @ still thinking
