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  Disco Sucks!

  by professor in

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  does anyone remember how the society joined the "disco sucks" movement of the late 70's?

  i remember reading in the mags about how disco was created by homos and that it has an "immoral beat" (whatever that means!

  ) it was also mentioned not to go see "saturday night fever" because someone gets a blowjob in the movie.. in our congregation, we had a special meeting about disco because people would request disco songs at our once-a-month jw skating party at the local skating rink.

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  I dont remember the anti-disco sentiment, but I do remember the psycho-babble warnings of Watching Saturday Night Fever in the congregation.
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  Does this sound like a man who is inspired by God?

  by Coded Logic in

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  absolutely disgusting!.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqzc2m8_mba.

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  On this forum alone there are women who intellectually and pragmatically blow away most worldly men I know personally - let alone the uneducated male morons of the bOrg!
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  JW message becoming more and more relevant

  by lsw1961 in

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  mans requirements are limited which can be satisfied with a little and tension-free endeavor..

  however man attempts not only to collect but also to grab and amass everything to the excess.

  somehow he feels that he can be happy only when he has in abundance whereas others have nothingwhich seems to be the thread that runs throughout the history.

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  Cofty: a beautiful, well reasoned and presented debate on your part. John wont be back but I'd love to see other Christians tackle your point on John's behalf.
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  So ... Russia and Nato at war? Should we be worried?

  by Simon in

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  it seems unbelievable but turkey (a nato member state) shooting down a russian jet fighter on their syrian border seems to be "meh" news and no one is too bothered about it too much.. the world seems a bit upside down right now.

  i don't think a lot of countries really know who the hell they are fighting and who is and isn't on their side in it all and really what is going on.. smaller incidents than this have led to major conflicts in the past but hopefully calm heads will prevail.

  china shot down a us spy plane years ago and the world survived and forgot about it so things will move on i'm sure.. i'm guessing the price turkey pays for their gas supply from russia will be going up soon though.. man, that republican primary is sucking all the news attention from the room.

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  I am more worried on proxy war escalation. Russia will not start war with NATO, but it will punish Turkey. Russia will not let anyone crap on her, but it will calculate political cost on internal scene. The best way Russia can punish Turkey is to support Kurdish separatism.
  

  Every family has the idiot who gets drunk at weddings and starts a fight. NATO has Turkey.
  Unlike the rest of NATO Turkey's agenda is selfish and motivated by ethnic and religious allegiance. Their decision to shoot down a Russian plane was idiotic. Of course Russia should not have been so close to Turkish air space but so what? They flew across a projection of Turkey's border for a total of 17 seconds. They had left Turkey and were back in Syria when they were attacked.c
  It should have been the sort of incident where rational, intelligent governments summon the ambassador to a meeting without coffee.
  Turkey cannot be trusted any more than Putin can.

  NATO should make it absolutely clear to Turkey they have no intention of backing them up. It's the only reasonable response to prevent escalation.

  Put these three statements together and you have my take on the situation. Whatever may transpire, nuclear war will not be a part of the end result in this instance.
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  I just found out that my youngest brother committed suicide

  by SnakesInTheTower in

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  my middle brother called me a couple of hours ago.

  our youngest brother, josh, who was 38, was found by his friends in his apartment.

  he hung himself.

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  My deepest, sincerest condolences. Suicide is one of those things I simply cant wrap my head around and I know first hand how confusing and devastating it is to friends and family.
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  Stop the war

  by Diogenesister in

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  http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=d9bk76nb6bk please watch this link to a really great american video which features a touching clip of a dad trying to treasure & explain things to his son as they are both caught up in the paris attacks.

  it starts with an interview with a muslim victim of the attacks and ends with wise words on the effects of war on kids everywhere , including american sanctioned drone strikes in syria.

  its about 10 mins long..

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  Drop all the bombs you want, fire all the muntions you have and kill the fanatics you can but I guarantee you will not win the war, only battles against the countless new threats which will replace those before them. There are fundamentalists waging jihad across 5 continents and in dozens of countries. The issue extends far beyond ISIS or Al-Qaeda. The fact that Al-Quaeda and the Taliban (who incidentally are growing stonger by the day) are still alive and kicking despite years of earnest fforts to erradicate them, proves there is an endless line of willing jihadists willing to step forward into the ranks and wage their holy war regardless. It's not organizations that are the problem, it's the belief in superstition which provides the means for those seeking to manipulate others that is the problem, be it Islam, Christianity or African ancestral worship. Fundamentalism will never go away until such time that those subscribing to these superstitions decide for themselves they want no part of it simply because they accept it as nonsense and nothing more than a means to have their emotions manipulated. You can declare all you like that not all religious people wish to impose their superstitions beliefs on others, but the fact is as long as those beliefs are allowed to exist there will also be those exploiting believers and even in minorities, they can be influenced to affect society in the most severe ways. This is why I and others are so vehemently opposed to superstitious "faith" and come across as being unreasonable, unfeeling and often seen as "bullies". Your freedom to believe in superstitions affects everyone, not just you.

  Incidentally, it is not superstition alone which provides the perfect petri dish for manipulation. Any emotion is capable of allowing one to be manipulated - even love. Not allowing our emotions to dictate our behaviour but instead allowing positive emotions to enhance clear thinking is key. If humans are to progress to the next level of psychological evolution, we HAVE to stop letting our emotions preside over our thought process and make an earnest effort to think critically.

  Just my two cents.
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  Should Jehovah`s Witnesses be worshiping Jehovah ? or Jesus.

  by smiddy in

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  jehovah`s christian witnesses , as they like to be known as , used to worship jesus in earlier times ,but now they do not worship jesus .

  they worship a god named jehovah , who they admitted in the first edition of " aid to bible understanding " was not the correct pronunciation of the tetragrammaton `s four letter hebrew letters that represented god` name , by the way , a catholic monk of the 13th century came up with jehovah by just adding a couple of vowels.. to those four hebrew letters .which has since been revised to correctly translate the tetragrammaton as yhwh and many scholars put this name more accurately as yahweh or something more similar.. fact 1 .

  the tetragrammaton does not appear in the " kingdom interlinear of christian greek scriptures " printed by the wtb&ts , a word for word translation of the greek scriptures.

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  Neither.
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  I'm a cynical, sarcastic and curmudgeonly old bastard most of the time.

  by nicolaou in

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  but as i move into my early 50's i find i'm more and more comfortable in my thick, leathery hide.. please get it into your thick skull's that i don't insult or make snarky comments with the intent of hurting anyone's feelings.

  that being said, if your precious feelings are hurt it's probably your fault for being a prissy, over sensitive drama queen who can't defend his argument.. i do actually love you all, it's just that most of the time you spineless pussies really get on my nerves!.

  good god i feel better for that!

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  Well said Nic, and we definitely share the same mindset.
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  Who would you vote for Today?

  by James Mixon in

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  d. trump or h. clinton and why.. i would vote for gun slinging trump..

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  Sanders or Clinton. I really like Sanders and its possible that if he were president he would break the problem of American politics being "lobbyists business as usual". How he would pan out with foreign policy or security is an uneasy uncertainty.

  There is not a single Republican I would go for until they dropped their religious rhetoric.
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  My first post

  by thewalker in

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  hi, i just joined the board and wanted to present myself.. i'm active, in fact very active in congregation activities serving "where the need is great" in a foreign language congregation somewhere in western europe.

  as a young brother, i'm seen as an example as i'm doing all a good witness should do.. i had doubts years ago but i decided just to ignore them and move to another congregation to preach more.

  that worked for some years but i'm now at the exact same point.

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  Welcome!