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  What would you say?

  by nicsfreedom in

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  i pondered on a rather strange idea (sort of a divided feeling) today after reading an article and i wondered how all of you would react.

  in the unlikely event the ivory towers of wathtower came crashing down (not literally) lets just say there was a mass awakening.

  for those of you who have suffered from atrocious behavior from friends and family, how would you really react?

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  I'd say, "Welcome back to reality!".

  I have a whack of siblings and I don't harbour any grudges against any of them. I was, after all, one of them at one point.
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  The Truth of the Matter Is.......

  by Este in

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  it's the end of the world does anyone disagree?.

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  But...

  Asteroid 1998 QE2 is coming!!!
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  What is faith?

  by Seraphim23 in

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  Faith is suspending reality and claiming/asserting your belief of x,y,z based on your feelings and mere opinion with no rational method of testing your belief.
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  After the cult how many reject faith in anything?

  by Seraphim23 in

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  JeffJ

  Most everything you do requires faith, whether it is called by that name, a theory, truth or just a guess. You go deep enough and it always requires faith.

  No. Wrong. Very, very wrong. How do you even go 'deep enough' with yourself anyways?
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  Why did you stop believing in God?

  by The Quiet One in

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  Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.............nothing.

  God, God, God.........nothing.*

  Just what I thought.

  * All monikers invoked.
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  Jesus turns up at Kingdom Hall - brothers ordered not to treat him "with partiality" because of his looks (and beard)

  by cedars in

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  hi folks.

  the new june 15th watchtower is now on jw.org in case you are interested!

  here is the link... http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/28/w_e_20130615.pdf.

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  Well if Dave Grohl walked in the KH, not only would I shake his hand but get on my hands and knees and do acts of obeisance to him. He is of course the only true god.
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  Sign Languae is a True Language,Urgues Prof. Harlan Lane

  by Scott77 in

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  professor harlan lane recently published a book that looked at whether deaf people have their own culture.

  lane, a psychology professor at northeastern university, has been studying deaf culture and linguistics since the 1970s, ever since he witnessed a deaf duo conversing and was stunned to learn of the depth and complexity of asl.

  here is his interview wth the boston globe... .

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  Ahh ...it never gets old. Nice FX!
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  Sign Languae is a True Language,Urgues Prof. Harlan Lane

  by Scott77 in

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  professor harlan lane recently published a book that looked at whether deaf people have their own culture.

  lane, a psychology professor at northeastern university, has been studying deaf culture and linguistics since the 1970s, ever since he witnessed a deaf duo conversing and was stunned to learn of the depth and complexity of asl.

  here is his interview wth the boston globe... .

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  @jgnat

  That's exactly how it transpired. Everyone was laughing so hard. I lost count of how many times it was replayed, freeze framed and frame-by-frame dissection.

  @ Gojira_101 PM response
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  Sign Languae is a True Language,Urgues Prof. Harlan Lane

  by Scott77 in

  1. social
  2. current

  professor harlan lane recently published a book that looked at whether deaf people have their own culture.

  lane, a psychology professor at northeastern university, has been studying deaf culture and linguistics since the 1970s, ever since he witnessed a deaf duo conversing and was stunned to learn of the depth and complexity of asl.

  here is his interview wth the boston globe... .

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  I'm actually an certified ASL interpreter

  Hey. Same here. The world just got significantly smaller. Canada or States?
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  Sign Languae is a True Language,Urgues Prof. Harlan Lane

  by Scott77 in

  1. social
  2. current

  professor harlan lane recently published a book that looked at whether deaf people have their own culture.

  lane, a psychology professor at northeastern university, has been studying deaf culture and linguistics since the 1970s, ever since he witnessed a deaf duo conversing and was stunned to learn of the depth and complexity of asl.

  here is his interview wth the boston globe... .

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  However , more than anything else, it offended them.

  While I'm sure there might have been a few people offended, by and large, the community I'm in and others I am in touch with simply laughed at it and mocked it. It's kind of turned into a trademark of the organization now. One joke is how that video clip is useful in teaching proper techniques for pleasuring yourself.

  As to the OP, I agree with what others have said and that this story is old news. In fact, William Stokoe in the 60's investigated sign language and determined it to be a bona fide language on par with spoken languages, albeit in a different medium.

  There are basically two approaches in Deaf education. The aural-oral approach and the visual language approach. Both have merits and drawbacks. But the biggest advantage in exposing deaf babies to a visual language is that they 'get' a language right away. There are many D/deaf people out there that are/were languageless for many years because of the aural-oral approach. That is because so much time is spent on developing skills for vocalization, optimizing hearing, lip-reading etc - ie. the mechanics of spoken language. Mind you, this was more of a problem in the early 70's - 90's. Now days, things are better for deaf education with a lot more options. But the two opposing camps remain.