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  Same sex marriage legalised in the UK at midnight tonight!!!

  by DuvanMuvan in

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  title pretty much explains it all.

  lots of people are getting married at midnight tonight.. what do you guys think?

  maybe if anyone gets called on by a jw this weekend you can ask them what they think about it.. im just glad because it shows that religion doesn't define our conscience, that basic human decency can prevail over time and hopefully, these types of gradual but big changes will be present in the wts too in the future .

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  I haven't read the legislation in detail but I don't think it makes gay marriage compulsory for everybody.

  As far as evolution goes sex is very variable. The majority of living things don't do sex at all, many practice bi-sexuality, some can switch from asexual to sexual reproduction depending on resources, some are hermaphrodite, there is a marine flatworm that fights duels to decide who gets to be the male and there is a fungi that has not 2 sexes but 28 000 of them. Apparently number 27 999 is widely considered "unnatural".

  Cofty thank you for making me laugh, it's been a crap few weeks.
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  A medical question.

  by quellycatface in

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  i have been having pain in my left hip for around 4 years.

  got worse this winter.

  hurts at night, after walking and periods of inactivity.

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  My aunt had arthritis. Had her first hip replacement at 47. Tends to run in families.
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  ....and the deaf will hear again!

  by snare&racket in

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  the moment a 39-year-old deaf woman hears someone for the first time, thanks to cochlear implants......... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ueo9itfxic.

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  enough said..

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  I heard this on the radio on the way to work today. Her tears of joy had me sobbing in the car. Modern medicine at its most fabulous.
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  Female JW's....No hierarchy here....

  by snare&racket in

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  despite jw's lying to outsiders about there being no hierarchy in the religion, we all knew there was plenty.. i love that in the real world, by enlarge equality is something we strive for and seek.. that aside, focusing on this forum in paticular, isn't it refreshing to see that the opinion of females, of the youth, of everyone... is as valid and equal as everyone else.

  i hated the sexist, ageist, authoritarian rule of the jw's when i was a member.

  so females of the forum, how does it feel to have a voice post wt ?

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  Outside of the WTS sexism or equality are down to the individual. Some individuals on this forum are sexist, some are not.
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  Hello, I am new

  by LillyC in

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  i am not a jehovah's witness but i am very interested, i have many questions and hope they can be answered here.. i do believe in god, privately.

  i do say my prayers daily and do believe god helps me in countless ways.

  but i don't go to any church.. i have always been impressed at how smart, polite and nice jehovah's witnesses are and i always make time to speak to them when they call at my door.

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  Guys just so you know LillyC has made five posts, three saying she is not a JW but singing their praises, two saying that this forum is rubbish technically. 'Her' words are copy and paste Watchtower speak. Nice to know we are attracting attention
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  How Do You Come to Terms with Being Just One of the 7 Billion?

  by will-be-apostate in

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  being a jw makes one feel special, no doubt.

  when i found out ttatt i realized i'm not special at all.

  i'm just one of the other 7 billion human beings who will live and die being nobody, the world will forget about them (and i'm not talking about relatives and friend), they didn't make anything special in their life, they didn't change the course of history, were not famous nor rich, didn't invent facebook, google or anything awesome, didn't have an article published in newscientist, had no imdb profil, not even a wiki page, didn't write a book etc.

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  I watch my favorite TV show or the Cosmos and I don't feel like the pressure to be someone who matters is gone at alll.

  I can relate to the need to find a purpose, my place in the universe. Instead of this purpose being handed to us by God I now had to figure out what is important to me, what makes me want to get out of bed in the morning. It's slighlty different things for everyone, not one great Meaning of Life.
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  How Do You Come to Terms with Being Just One of the 7 Billion?

  by will-be-apostate in

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  being a jw makes one feel special, no doubt.

  when i found out ttatt i realized i'm not special at all.

  i'm just one of the other 7 billion human beings who will live and die being nobody, the world will forget about them (and i'm not talking about relatives and friend), they didn't make anything special in their life, they didn't change the course of history, were not famous nor rich, didn't invent facebook, google or anything awesome, didn't have an article published in newscientist, had no imdb profil, not even a wiki page, didn't write a book etc.

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  I think it's great; the pressure to be awesome all the time is gone...

  ...it's like a huge load has been lifted from my shoulders!

  So true Vidiot, I have wanted to be just normal all my life, I hated being that weird kid who didn't join in at school, then the weird employee who couldn't even sign a Xmas card. I know, I know, normal is just a setting on a dryer, but just to be accepted by people as, well that's Xan she's got her funny little ways but she's just human, like the rest of us
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  funny thoughts when pondering the actions of god

  by confusedandalone in

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  isnt it interesting that if god needs to warn millions of people that they need to change he talks to like 1 guy and tells this one guy to talk to 1 million people or 7million to talk to 7billion people.

  it would obviously be easier faster and far more convincing.. .

  yet when alot of people need to die.... he will personal kill each one.

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  It's all our fault we just don't listen. We keep making mistakes and getting the wrong idea. It's a perfect God trying to communicate with imperfect people. Perhaps he should get a website. 'God' , follow him on Facebook.
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  There are still JW's calling the masturbation video as fake and apostate propaganda

  by EndofMysteries in

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  10 hours ago, " another malicious propaganda against jehova's witnesse!!".

  "he is not a jehova's witness!!

  !thois a big lie against jehova's witnesses!

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  When I was pioneering I remember showing my partner a booklet called Religion Reaps the Whirlwind. She was horrified, where did you get that she said. I said oh in the town centre, a man in a long black cloak gave it to me. More looks of horror and 'apostate' accusations. Eventually I told her the truth, I got it from the literature desk at the KH. They were having a clear out of very old stuff. It had a very lurid cover as I recall, nowadays old literature is just not kept at the KH at all.
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  Murdoch mysteries and the watchtower

  by hoser in

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  anyone here watch murdoch mysteries?

  when i watch the program i hear a lot of words that are used at the kingdom hall.

  it puzzled me for quite some time then i realized the connection.

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  Poet John Keats? He died in 1821.