samsung's new 3-d tvs come with health warning: don't watch if you're pregnant, sleep-deprivedby michael pantelidis and oren yaniv.
daily news writers.
wednesday, april 14th 2010, 4:00 am.
Panasonic, which also markets the new TVs, does not carry a similar warning on its Web site.
So far as I know, neither do all the tons of theaters that showed Avatar 3D, etc.
Then they should be banned.
For realz?
They're just covering their ass in a sue-happy society.
Yep. In case anyone's forgotten: life is in 3D, and I think most of us are doing OK with that aspect of it. :-)
i have been playing a game with my boyfriend (it totally blew his mind, btw) and would like to invite you to participate, but first you must suspend your disbelief.
if you choose to play, here is the game:.
go outside and look up into the sky.
I made one dissipate and then reform!
Hail Satan!
well my mom has been a jw ever since i was 5 but was studying since before i was born, i am now 21 and hate every minute of it.
i could never stand it, she knows i dont like it but still makes me go preaching and go to the meetings and what not, your probably asking yourself why dont i just leave?
well shes the one who pays for my college and everything tht i need.
If you can get the college degree with your mom's financial support and maintain your sanity and well-being while doing it--great!
If you start to hate life due to the guilt and BS that your mom or other JWs might make you endure during college, don't allow it to get so bad that your grades go to shite, and don't otherwise allow the JW crap you might experience to manifest itself negatively in your actions or cause you to lose your will to live and thrive.
Good luck! :-)
the supreme court recently determined that corporations are entitled to freedom of speech because they are legally persons.
the ramifications of this decision, citizens united v. federal elections commission, cannot be overstated: it introduces an entirely new and untapped population into the dating pool.. chances are youve never dated a corporation before.
but dont be intimidated.
...on the plus side, this is a victory for transparency in campaign funding: now all the funds won't have to be surreptitiously channeled through scores of actual human persons. :-)
i told my mom that i'm not going back to the meetings.
i wasn't planning on telling her that but i've been going through some hard times with my husband and just got fed up with her hounding me.
so she asked if i'll still consider going back to the meetings and i just flat out told her no and that it wasn't up for discussion.
My experience was similar in some ways, different in others, and all I can do is echo what others have said and I know from personal experience: it's probably difficult now, but eventually it will get far better and you'll be able to have a normal relationship with your mom--hang in there. Good luck with your business! :-)
i was born in 1970 to third generation jehovah's witnesses.
like all those born in, i was brought up without hope or guidance for a life in this world.
instead of being taught to be self sufficient and confident, i was trained to obey my parents without question (ephesians 6:1).
Thanks for giving us your story thus far.
You see unlike those who convert to Jehovah's Witnesses, those born in have no past that is free from Watchtower influence. There is no home to go to. No one waiting for our return.
Nicely put. All of us born-ins feel this to some degree when we break free, and it's frightening at first.
i hated field service and would avoid it as much as possible.i tried to work on my own if i could and would just drive some where and lisern to music or pretend i had return visits and just go home.what did you do to get out of the misery service?.
Towards the end of my JW days, I had a friend who realized about the same time as me that it was all bullshit, but we didn't know what to do about it yet. So we'd pair up for FS, leave from the pre-FS meeting, then go partake of mind-expanding all-natural botanical remedy.
this is going around the internet.
enjoy.. "on her radio show, dr. laura schlensinger (a popular conservatve radio talk-show host) said that homosexuality is an abomination according to the bible leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance.
the following is an open letter to dr. laura, penned by james m. kauffman, ed.d.. dear dr. laura:.
This is also why the WT Borg and other cults who use mind-control should be sanctioned from using those methods, because their teaching methods and policies infringe on the mental freedom of their victims. Words CAN and DO hurt people at times.
This, to me, seems to be crossing a very dangerous line. As horrible as the cult is, they don't use coercion. They obviously use certain mind-control techniques, whether consciously or not, but they're not bodily forcing anyone into a KH or to sit through a bible study. Laws against allowing adults to associate with whatever group they choose are not the solution here.
Now, like Richard Dawkins, I don't believe the same rules ought to apply to children, but at the same time I'm not ready yet to agree to laws that prevent parents from religiously indoctrinating their children--though I do think it is morally reprehensible to program these types of things into not-yet-rational blank-slate minds which are genetically programmed to believe just about anything they're told.
even if that speech offended or disgusted you?.
"I (may) disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the [great personal inconvenience] your right to say it."
That Johnny Cash story is awesome. I appreciate someone who demonstrably and fully believes in both the first and second Ammendments!
I believe that government censorship of "hate speech" is potentially very dangerous. Much like the body of existing law itself, the definitions behind what types of expression can be justifiably limited by government coercion will likely tend to grow over time until one day we look at it and realize we're all criminals.
this is a tangent from another thread where angry responses to jws was a side-topic.. my opinion is that it is important to remember that the rank and file jw is a victim of the cult and that focusing our anger on any of them individually is doing them a disservice for two reasons:.
1. their behavior, thoughts, and feelings are not their own and are only informed by the borg.
it isn't just or appropriate to attack those who are victims just like many of us were.. 2. opposition, especially angry opposition, reinforces the false information that the borg has indoctrinated in them: that one of the proofs they have "the truth" is that they are persecuted.
My opinion is that it is important to remember that the rank and file JW is a victim of the cult and that focusing our anger on any of them individually is doing them a disservice for two reasons:
1. Their behavior, thoughts, and feelings are not their own and are only informed by the borg. It isn't just or appropriate to attack those who are victims JUST LIKE MANY OF US WERE.
Being completely honest with myself, I think my (sometimes) tendency to become irate at JWs for believing such a load of shit is a projection of the anger I feel at myself for having beleived it for a time. I've not read any of the books on cults, mind-control, or the JW organization in particular that often get mentioned here--maybe I should. Perhaps forgiving myself for having believed it will help me turn that same feeling outwards, and I can more easily concentrate my disgust towards the leadership rather than the rank and file. I guess it's worth a shot, anyway. What does anyone consider to be the one best book that I might read in this case?
