Why do the Republicans seem to have a monopoly on this behaviour?
fulltimestudent
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Another anti-gay Republican Senator (in the USA) caught advertising his body
by fulltimestudent inlink.
why do the republicans seem to have a monopoly on this behaviour?.
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Far fewer references to lesbians
by Doug Mason ini notice that while a search of the wt library reveals many references to homosexuals, there are few references to lesbians.. does the wts include women when it uses the term homosexual?.
when discussing masturbation, does it mention both sexes?.
i am asking out of pure ignorance, seeking clarification.. my only comment is that religion of every shade has difficulty with the subject of sexual activity, as if it were something that is not part of nature.. doug.
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fulltimestudent
Doug Mason: My only comment is that religion of every shade has difficulty with the subject of sexual activity, as if it were something that is not part of nature.
That's certainly true Doug, but Christianity is likely to be the worst among all religions. Just think of the implications of Jude vs 23,
" ... hate even the inner garment that has been stained by the flesh."
It is possible the author of Jude, in writing those words, had Leviticus 15:16,17 in mind. That earlier text says that even getting semen on your skin makes you unclean.
Christianity is at its happiest when sex is not mentioned at all.
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Far fewer references to lesbians
by Doug Mason ini notice that while a search of the wt library reveals many references to homosexuals, there are few references to lesbians.. does the wts include women when it uses the term homosexual?.
when discussing masturbation, does it mention both sexes?.
i am asking out of pure ignorance, seeking clarification.. my only comment is that religion of every shade has difficulty with the subject of sexual activity, as if it were something that is not part of nature.. doug.
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Both in the general community and the JW community, there is more emphasis on male homosexuality than there is on female homosexuality. Why that discrepancy exists is not clear. It could be simply a numerical issue, but in the current situation of lingering community discrimination we are unlikely to know the relative percentages of same sex attracted males and females.
Within the JW congregations in which I had some knowledge of what was going on, I can only recall one disfellowshipping in which female/female sex was the issue, but quite a few disfellowshippings in which male/male sexual activity was the issue.
It is, of course, easier for a woman to hide her unexpressed same sex yearnings than it is for a man. A man who is same sex attracted and married to a woman (which I'm guessing is likely to be the situation for most same sex attracted male Jws. ) has a huge problem. He is expected to perform marriage dues with his wife, while not being sexually attracted to her, and somehow provide an explanation for his lack of performance.
In that situation something is going to give, both in the marriage and in his personal satisfaction with life. That may have something to do with the higher numbers of males who are disfellowshipped, compared to women.
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Beyond comment: Violent child-sex crimes that are shocking India
by fulltimestudent intwo indian girls, aged two and five, raped in new delhi.
source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-17/manhunt-launched-after-two-indian-girls-raped-in-new-delhi/6863212.
reaction of the authorities (from the same report).
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Two Indian girls, aged two and five, raped in New Delhi
Reaction of the Authorities (From the same report)
"What are PM [and] his [lieutenant governor] doing?"
Mr Kejriwal and Mr Modi's administration are jostling for control of the capital's police department, with Delhi city authorities saying they are unable to improve security for women.
They have deflected the blame on to Mr Modi's central government which controls Delhi's 84,000 police, the largest metropolitan police force in the world.
The attacks add to a grim catalogue of sexual assaults in India, many of which have sparked domestic and international outrage.
The fatal gang rape of a young student on a bus in Delhi in 2012 led to an outpouring of anger over frightening levels of violence against women.
India recorded 36,735 rape cases in 2014, with 2,096 of them in Delhi.
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Are you a 老外 (laowei = foreigner) - where to go for a pub-crawl in Shanghai
by fulltimestudent inwhen i was less experienced in chinese ways, i used to think that chinese people couldn't drink (low tolerance to alcohol).
not so, last trip i tagged along on a night out, a friend put on for his staff.
after a long dinner of many dishes, cooked specially by a 5 star hotel chef hired for the occasion, lubricated with many bottles of wine, we finished up at a nightclub on the edge of a lake, where they continued drinking shot after shot of tequila.
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Bonsai: I'd love to visit Shanghai someday. Thanks for the travel tips.
I like Shanghai. I don't know your travel budgets, mine are rather low, so if you're's are like mine, you may like some shared tips.I usually stay in a mid priced hotel in what could be called the centre of Shanghai. Its in Nanjing Lu, a long pedestrian street. Its good for transport as its 5 minutes walk from People square subway station, which is at the intersection of subway lines 1 and 2.So if you travel in the low cost range, you can catch the Maglev train (about 400km/hr) from Pudong airport to its terminus at Longyang station on subway line 2 and then to People's Square. But if there are two of you, its not much cheaper than a taxi from the airport.This hotel is the low end of 3 star. Its quite clean, secure and safe.Its also next door to Shanghai No 1 food store with a good mix of Chinese and western food. You can buy a variety of dried mushrooms, ginseng and sea cucumber, as well as more tempting snacks including fresh fruit, western cakes, asian cakes and sweets, sunflower seeds, nuts, dried fruit, moon cakes and tea, etc. There's a Macdonalds, if you fear asian food (which I'm sure you don't), and up higher there are all sorts of restaurants, and in the side streets you can still buy traditional breakfast foods very cheap.If you want to just explore Shanghai, the subway network is not quite as large as Tokyo's. but its extensive and getting bigger all the time. And if you want to, you can easily do day train trips to other cities like Suzhou (26 minutes by VFT) and Hangzhou (about 1 hour by VFT) and come back the same day, if you want.Train timetable Shanghai to Hangzhou - as you can see at certain peak times there is a VFT about every 5-10 minutes that will whisk you the 150 km distance in about 1 hour.Personally, I think HZ is worth a few days, just sitting around West lake - a very large lake that is now almost surrounded by parklands - and 'people watching is entertaining.' When Marco Polo visited HZ, he described it as the most beautiful city in the world. It suffered during the 100 year Chinese decline, but is now surging back. And Suzhou has many beautiful gardens and a great museum, that includes a palace used by the Taiping Christians during their nearly successful rebellion against the Qing.Nanjing is a 2 hour trip by VFT, so stay there a couple of nights, if you want to see itIf you decide to make that trip, hope you have a great time! -
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Are you a 老外 (laowei = foreigner) - where to go for a pub-crawl in Shanghai
by fulltimestudent inwhen i was less experienced in chinese ways, i used to think that chinese people couldn't drink (low tolerance to alcohol).
not so, last trip i tagged along on a night out, a friend put on for his staff.
after a long dinner of many dishes, cooked specially by a 5 star hotel chef hired for the occasion, lubricated with many bottles of wine, we finished up at a nightclub on the edge of a lake, where they continued drinking shot after shot of tequila.
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fulltimestudent
Village Idiot: Very colorful fulltimestudent but they could use a bit more of yellow.
Not sure why there's a the lack of yellow, in a color experience that's somewhat overwhelming.
Yellow is an important color in Chinese traditions, and was a key color in Imperial color schemes.
Maybe it has something to do with Chinese ideas on color matching.
Maybe I'll find out sometime.
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Are you a 老外 (laowei = foreigner) - where to go for a pub-crawl in Shanghai
by fulltimestudent inwhen i was less experienced in chinese ways, i used to think that chinese people couldn't drink (low tolerance to alcohol).
not so, last trip i tagged along on a night out, a friend put on for his staff.
after a long dinner of many dishes, cooked specially by a 5 star hotel chef hired for the occasion, lubricated with many bottles of wine, we finished up at a nightclub on the edge of a lake, where they continued drinking shot after shot of tequila.
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fulltimestudent
And for gay XJWs, you'll be happy to know that there are quite a few gay bars also in Shanghai.
Here's the latest (courtesy of my gay xjw friend):
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Are you a 老外 (laowei = foreigner) - where to go for a pub-crawl in Shanghai
by fulltimestudent inwhen i was less experienced in chinese ways, i used to think that chinese people couldn't drink (low tolerance to alcohol).
not so, last trip i tagged along on a night out, a friend put on for his staff.
after a long dinner of many dishes, cooked specially by a 5 star hotel chef hired for the occasion, lubricated with many bottles of wine, we finished up at a nightclub on the edge of a lake, where they continued drinking shot after shot of tequila.
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fulltimestudent
When I was less experienced in Chinese ways, I used to think that Chinese people couldn't drink (low tolerance to alcohol). Not so, last trip I tagged along on a night out, a friend put on for his staff. After a long dinner of many dishes, cooked specially by a 5 star hotel chef hired for the occasion, lubricated with many bottles of wine, we finished up at a nightclub on the edge of a lake, where they continued drinking shot after shot of tequila. I'd withdrawn (mentally) by that stage - knowing what's good for me-grin, and soon withdrew physically and left for my hotel. But they continued on at some other bar.
So if you visit Shanghai, here's some recommendations.
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Not for unthinking Christians. The OUP blog looks at the question, How Did Life Begin on Earth?
by fulltimestudent inoxford university press daily offers thoughts on many serious topics.
in this life it examines the possibilities of a 'non-created' beginning of life.. the blog post commences:.
quote,"news broke in july 2015 that the rosetta missions philae lander had discovered 16 carbon and nitrogen-rich organic compounds on comet 67p/churyumov-gerasimenko.
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Oxford University Press daily offers thoughts on many serious topics. In this life it examines the possibilities of a 'non-created' beginning of life.
The blog post commences:
Quote,"News broke in July 2015 that the Rosetta mission’s Philae lander had discovered 16 ‘carbon and nitrogen-rich’ organic compounds on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The news sparked renewed debates about whether the ‘prebiotic’ chemicals required for producing amino acids and nucleotides – the essential building blocks of all life forms – may have been delivered to Earth by cometary impacts. The argument goes that the shock of an impact may be sufficient to produce these essential life chemicals, so seeding the young Earth with the ingredients required to get life kick-started."
Read more at, http://blog.oup.com/2015/10/how-did-life-on-earth-begin/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=oupblog
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Kara- An ethical dilemma that's closer than you may be thinking
by fulltimestudent inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w7we1op7d4
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Yeah, OrphanCrow, I thought Simon was talking about me as a JW.
