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  What Surprised You The Most About The "Truth"?

  by minimus in

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  That it wasn't true.
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  Job Prospect

  by Sadie5 in

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  hubby and i went to wal-mart yesterday and the manager checked us out.

  got to chat a few minutes with him, told him i put in an application and really needed a job.

  he said to call him monday morning and talk to him more.

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  Sadie, Good luck with the job. I found that working to help my husband with his business that I thoroughly enjoyed my other job because it got me away from the constant worrying. Best Wishes, Panda
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  If you could have written any piece of music what would it be?

  by azaria in

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  maybe teejays thread inspired me.

  (in the family section) maybe because the church service this morning was especially inspiring.

  there are so many beautiful songs.

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  Papa from Yentl written by Michel LeGrande sung by diva Barbra Streisand

  It all began , the day I found that from my window I could only see a piece of sky

  I stepped outside and looked around and all at once I had the feeling that I could fly.

  the time had come

  Papa can you hear me

  to try my wings

  papa can you see me ...

  papa watch me fly
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  If you liked Gangs of New York ...

  by Panda in

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  if you liked the above movie you'll enjoy this book, city of eros, newyork city, prostitution, and the commercialization of sex, 1790-1920, by tj gilfoyle.. this work discusses the stages of prostitution and who made the money?

  the landlords took the biggest pieces of the pie and often preferred the protitutes who could pay their rent as opposed to poor working men who couldn't.

  gilfoyle describes the impact of prostitution on police, politicians, moralists, and the middle class.prostitution functioned at the nexus of social relations in the nineteenth century city.

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  If you liked the above movie you'll enjoy this book, City of Eros, NewYork City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920, by TJ Gilfoyle.

  This work discusses the stages of prostitution and who made the money? The landlords took the biggest pieces of the pie and often preferred the protitutes who could pay their rent as opposed to poor working men who couldn't. Gilfoyle describes the impact of prostitution on police, politicians, moralists, and the middle class.

  Prostitution functioned at the nexus of social relations in the nineteenth century city. Bourgeois Americans sought to create an ideal world of public and private spheres separating vice from virtue, illicit from licit, the disreputable from respectable But such a divided binary vision never conformed to reality. Prostitution blurred neat and easy distinctions between good and evil. "Respectable" institutions and individuals directly supported and participated in the "disreputable" underworld of New York. Ultimately, prostitution and the corresponding commercialization of sex exposed the limits and contradictions in the ways nineteenth-century New Yorkers defined "freedom." pg.19 Gilfoyle

  The Five points area of the movie "Gangs of New York" figures largely in the business of prostitution at it's lowest form. Five points had the prostitues who serviced customers in the doorways of bars and grocery stores. Many of these women barely half dressed so as to let the customer see what they are getting.

  This book helps set the stage for the likes of women reformers like Margaret Sanger, Stanton, and Anthony. It's amazing that anyone would consider the 19th century as "the good old days."

  Panda of the I like reading class
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  "I Guess We Won"t See It In This System Of Things..."

  by minimus in

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  that is a common jw statement.... what could they be referring to??

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  I always thought of world peace.. . Guess we won't see world peace in this system of things.
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  Answer to E-watchman re: Is questioning reporting time just nit-picking?

  by truthseeker in

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  here is e-watchman's latest reply to a witness who is questoning why time has to be reported when it is not in the bible.

  my reply is at the end of e-watchman's reply.

  1. the wts claims it uses the bible as its "supreme authority".

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  How disgustingly truthful these posts are. And I especially agree with "where's caleb" who said that the same men who are not exhibiting Christ-like qualities and fudge their service reports are making the decision as to who should be appointed an elder. Holy Spirit, SCHMOLLY SPIRIT. Just another instance of power and control in little handed small minded Napoleans. Only not as educated as Le Bonaparte.
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  Do you believe in free will?

  by sleepy in

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  do you believe in free will?and if you do can you explain how it works?.

  i can't see how free will could work.our motivation for doing things good or bad seems to come from a mixture of genes and enviroment, and through a long and complicted process cause us to perform all the actions we experience in life.when we feel a prompting to do something ,eat sleep have sex etc, this is accomplished by our body using chemicals in our bodies to give us a feeling that we then act upon.the degree to which these chemicals prompt us is related to genetic makeup and environment.. so some people have a bigger desire to eat than others because they lack the chemical stimulation that tells them to stop eating.or some will eat less (often when ill) because the chemicals that prompt you to eat are lacking.in normal life lots of over factors will be involved to like say an important phonecall at lunch time .if your brain feels the information from that call is important enough it will send out different chemicals that will cause you to attend to that situation first if serious enought.. knowledge can modify how our bodies react to certain situations, for example a child may see an icecream van and run into the road because his body has yet to learn of the danger of running into a road.when taught how foolish this by a nasty experience or hopefully , taught about the dangers by its parents, then the body will send out a meesage to look at the road first.. our bodies tell us which ideas are good and bad according to the information it holds and we react accordingly.we can fight desires but the will to do so is caused by other desires which are prompted by the body.. to have true free will neither our genes or enviroment could effect what we decide to do.. we have to be able to do things irespective of what promting we recive from our bodies or what information we have learnt and has thus modified our bodies response.. maybe there are but i can not think of any situation where or actions or reactions can not be explianed by genes mixed with environment (often in a very complicated way).nor can i understand how free will could work,unless free will is just a random action which could not be free will in the true sense.. if there is no free will then if there were a god and we are judged on what we do then this is entirely unfair as we really have little say in what we do in life.

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  This is something to ponder, eh?

  Our free will is relative because our genes are telling us to survive and reproduce ( read The Selfish Gene). So thats at an evolutionary level. Our genes help us to learn from our environment how best to survive, so in this sense we decide whether or not to heed the genetic voice.

  Morality, shoot what is that anyway? A muslim thinks morality is women subservient to men. Or any religious person may believe that god's decisions to destroy people, or TAKE children to heaven are moral. So I guess morals have to due with some measured ethical behavior.. Society sets those measures to judge? or decide what is good or evil.

  Psychiatrists call humans the moral animal, so in some way we are making the choice to attune our minds to the accepted morality. But I think morals is more than simply following social mores. I think that they are a measure of what decisions may weigh against. So it is more than fear of punisment that would have you consider the morality of a decision.

  When we see those ancient Egyptian wall paintings of Annubis weighing the dead persons soul, I'm guessing Anubis wants to check how thye mummy's soul measures against Anubis (and Egyptian) philosophical morals. I mention philosophical because a pharoahs soul won't be on the same scale as a potters soul. Because what the Pharoah has been taught is good is not the same as the potters good. A potter must serve a Pharoah, but since the Pharoah is divine his morality is to kill enemies and preserve his kingdom. A potter would never pass the Pharoah test of being weighed against a feather. So we may say that morals teach us good from bad, but of course it's nothing like that, nothing like WTS taught us. And because it is not right/wrong there are many decisions to make. One of them may be whether or not we want to be weighed against Anubis feather.
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  Art vs. Pornography

  by Aztec in

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  i have framed some odd things in my career.

  i didn't mind framing a penthouse spread.

  i did mind framing a "slave bat".

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  Aztec, If the parents think it's okay to take nude photos of 7 year olds because they were raised as nudists; then is it also okay to have photos of the adults in the family (nude)? And if no why not? And eventually those kids will be teenagers who will be deadly embarrassed by those photos. I wouldn't do that to my kid. And don't think just because it's the parents that it can't be wrong. And I don't know any nudists who want someone taking photos of them nude to frame and put up on the wall.

  But then there was the story of the woman who took photos of her nieces jumping on a bed in their underwear and the CPS came and took the kids away from the mother. After a court battle the kids were given back but good grief what a mess!
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  Art vs. Pornography

  by Aztec in

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  i have framed some odd things in my career.

  i didn't mind framing a penthouse spread.

  i did mind framing a "slave bat".

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  Oh and one other thing. Since when , except Calvin Klein ad's, are nude kids ever ever art? I cannot think of one place where I've seen art as nude kids... this seems strange.
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  Did you ever get a virus on your computer?

  by JH in

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  with all the viruses going around, did you ever get one, or do you fear that you will get one?

  good thing that i have norton antivirus, because i would have had a few.

  just wondering with those with windows xp, do you keep your xp firewall activated?

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  I had a virus several years ago on another PC. It cost $$$ to get my PC running again. Now on this PC I use the McAfee security service. But you guys are talking about some hardware protection? Please tell me because I don't want to go through that virus thing again. My problem is that Nick will open just about anything. It frustrates me because I'm trying to protect him (sniff sniff). Anyway what do I need to do?

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