Bigmac, words have power, they describe real things. Marriage is an ancient concept from a time when unions were all about property and women being used in negotiations for wealth and power. Now marriage is a word denoting two people loving each other and wanting to tell the world about it. Times change and the meanings of words change don't they?
Xanthippe
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Same sex marriage legalised in the UK at midnight tonight!!!
by DuvanMuvan intitle 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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Describe What a Jehovah's Witness Elder Is Like
by minimus ini know what they are supposed to be like.
but at this point in time, do you think the elders look joyful?
are they serious bible students?
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Xanthippe
My JW elder husband was lovely, he really tried to help the brothers and sisters. We visited the sick and depressed - there were a hell of a lot of those. But he was only an elder for four years before we left. He found out what really went on in the body of elders when he started attending their meetings, then it was only a matter of time.
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Does anyone remember the excuse they used in 1979-1980
by Crazyguy inback in 79-80 they came out with another wt stating quite clearly that jesus was not the mediator for most jw's and of course this upset quite a few and some asked "if jesus is not my mediator then how does god hear my prayers?
' does anyone remember what they said to answer this question?.
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Xanthippe
I don't remember that are you sure it was then? I remember thinking Jesus was my mediator when I prayed and I left in '89. There was something in the Watchtower about asking to feel Jesus' presence in your prayers, a bit weird.
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What did you do for St. Patrick's Day?
by Jeannette indid you have some green beer?
maybe some scotch whiskey?
i also baked a chocolate cake and chocolate icing, and put little green spice mints on top.
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Xanthippe
What's that beer they make in Cork city that's like Guinness but much better, very creamy. Would like to go to Ireland and try that again
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Same sex marriage legalised in the UK at midnight tonight!!!
by DuvanMuvan intitle 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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Xanthippe
can we expect laws to now be passed allowing humans to marry their beloved pets ? bigmac
You deny you're in any way homophobic? Dream on.
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Xanthippe
Er, where are you?
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Anyone who was a jw a while ago know when they started using pre-written responses in the ministry?
by DuvanMuvan inone of the things that bothered me as a jw was how whenever i was on the ministry with someone it was pretty much the same sh*t being said every time.
also, it wasn't very stimulating when you had a question and got the same response every time.. i was just curious as to when this started happening.
did the gb decide one day that the majority of jws don't know how to answer the simple questions in the way they would like so they had to write them for them?
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Xanthippe
Hi DM there was something called How would you respond? in the Kingdom Ministry that we discussed at meetings for FS back in the eighties just before I left. We discussed what we would respond with if the householder said - whatever. So no they didn't let us decide what to say, nooo way!
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Same sex marriage legalised in the UK at midnight tonight!!!
by DuvanMuvan intitle 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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Xanthippe
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 ini 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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Xanthippe
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 inthe 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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Xanthippe
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.