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  Another anti-gay Republican Senator (in the USA) caught advertising his body

  by fulltimestudent in

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  why do the republicans seem to have a monopoly on this behaviour?.

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  Smile!

  I can understand your feelings krejames when you posted:

  OMG you're one of THOSE. And what exactly is the "gay lifestyle"? Does that mean that when my TV channel broadcasts shows like Holiday Reps (shows with lots of young drunk, vomitting, naked, straight people who have sex in the street and in nightclubs while throwing up over each other in various European holiday resorts) that they are forcing the heterosexual lifestyle in my face? Please stop with the hypocrisy or take your homophobia somewhere where it's appreciated. Rant over.

  But try to understand what Actigall UR means when he says:

  I don't hate gays for who they are but I hate having their lifestyle forced in my face. I believe this sentiment reflects most who oppose gay marriage and the like.

  There's been a lot of research on these attitudes, some of which I've posted before.

  We may assume that he means that he gets upset, when he sees two men walking hand in hand, or hugging or kissing. Why? The research indicates that heterosexual men do not generally get upset over such things, but men who are attracted to the same sex, but have deeply buried their feelings for men and persuaded themselves that those feelings are a sin or so do get upset. In other words they suffer from an internalised homophobia. My gayxjw friend (whom I guess I defend here) was once confronted with a ranting street preacher, going on and on about the sin of Sodom (which he did not understand at all). My friend turned to him and said, "Oh! I see the gay fairy kissed you too."

  The guy went into meltdown.

  So when you see someone like Actigall UR, you can feel sympathetic. He's having a difficult time dealing with his innermost, deeply buried feelings. If he sees two blokes kissing, he's ripped apart inside. He needs sympathy, not confrontation, as difficult as that may be in the circumstance of centuries of Christian hatred expressed toward gay people.

  I think you'll understand
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  Another anti-gay Republican Senator (in the USA) caught advertising his body

  by fulltimestudent in

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  Sofia Lose: I know of an elder, back in the late 80s that participated in a disfellowshipping committee while in engaging himself in the worst adultery plot ever!

  Some have amazing cheek. They are all dead now, but in Sydney, a long time congregation servant (the old,old arrangement) carried on a 20 year affair with his sister-in-law, who wouldn't leave her husband, until their kids had grown up. His wife suspected the affair and reproached him. He just laughed and said, "whose going to believe you?" The time came when the sister-in-law's kids were grown up, and the two, now middle-aged lovers, eloped, causing the biggest scandal in Sydney's long history of scandals. But within a few years they were re-instated, and a few more years, well, he's an elder.

  Allah is merciful !!!! hahahahahaha!
  
  
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  Beyond comment: Violent child-sex crimes that are shocking India

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  two 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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  Vidiot: There is awareness now like never before, and it is making a difference.
  "God" bless the Information Age.

  It will hopefully make a difference in the future, Vidiot, but on current trends it will be a long time.

  The sad fact is that India has not progressed, as it could have done. Illiteracy, a prerequisite for internet usage is still a problem. Further, since basic education will be in local languages and/or Hindi (unlikely to be in English) and web information and/or TV availability in rural areas may not feature the same information that you could find in the large cities catering for the well-off middle classes, information may filter slowly.

  The great majority of rapes occur in the 600,000+ rural villages and likely involve upper caste young men, whose families have influence and authority in their locality, they choose to humiliate and assault young women from a lower or lowest cast (dalits). There's a great deal of hypocrisy in this, they wont touch a a low caste person (they become ritually unclean) but they are prepared to f**k them. That's a rotten attitude! Until India can get rid of caste superstition, there may be little chance of real progress in this issue.

  The internet hardly reaches these villages. To start with, the villages people are usually poor, and internet access may not be available anyway. A 2013 report on Quartz was headed, "Why only 3% of India has home internet access."

  The article commenced with a quote: "Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt doesn’t think much of India’s internet strategy, telling a television channel that the country “is well behind in the web services model that the rest of the world is adopting.”

  Quartz continued, " But it’s still notable that only 150 million Indians have internet access in a country of 1.2 billion. That’s significantly lower than other emerging markets. Consider this Gallup survey from January, which polled citizens around the globe about whether they have home internet access: While only 3% of Indians answered “yes,” in China, 34% confirmed home internet access, with 51% penetration in Russia and 40% in Brazil."

  I alluded to low literacy rates, here's a graphic map to demonstrate the problem. Its based on the official 2011 census:

  
  

  And guess what? Who is less likely to go to school? No prizes if you guessed girls.

  To exacerbate the problem, families are well aware of the rape problem, and one protective action they take, is to keep their daughters at home.

  More, since the upper caste young men tend to be the worst perpetrators, and its their parents that dominate the villages, the police in rural areas tend to take NO action. And, the upper caste families are often quite prepared to take violent action against any low caste family that dares to protest.

  Its sad!
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  Another anti-gay Republican Senator (in the USA) caught advertising his body

  by fulltimestudent in

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  link.

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  Why do the Republicans seem to have a monopoly on this behaviour?
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  Far fewer references to lesbians

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  i 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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  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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i 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 in

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  two 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.

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  Two 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)

  "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.
  Experts say those figures likely under-represent the true scale of the crimes
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  Are you a 老外 (laowei = foreigner) - where to go for a pub-crawl in Shanghai

  by fulltimestudent in

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  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.

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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.

  See it at: http://english.ctrip.com/hotels/shanghai-hotel-detail-668996/jinjiang-inn-nanjing-east-road-pedestrian-street/?city=2&checkin=2015-10-21&checkout=2015-10-22#ctm_ref=lst_n_1_10
  

  
  

  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.

  http://www.chinatrainguide.com/shanghai-railway-station/hangzhou.html

  
  

  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 it

  If 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 in

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  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.

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  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 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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.

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  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):