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  Does Looks Really Matter?

  by butalbee in

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  does looks really matter in love?

  would you go out with someone who was not physically attractive if he/she had a big heart on the inside, a great personality, lot's of things in common with, etc...i guess i'm asking what's more important to you the person on the exterior or who he/she really is underneath?.

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  It's far more important to me what is on the inside than the outside of a woman. In fact, I've met very few traditionally beautiful women who had personalities I admired. Society treats people differently based on looks, and it spoils beautiful women to such an extent that it's the hard not to give in to this.

  A less traditionally beautiful women cannot depend on her looks, and thus gravitates toward nice behavior almost subconsciously.

  Yes, I know, those are gross generalizations, and I've met quite a few exceptions to those rules, in both cases, so don't bother providing anecdotal evidence about this genuinely nice beautiful woman or this horrible ugly woman -- I know.

  More to the point of the question, I prefer the inner beauty because after you have been with a person for a while, you stop noticing their looks for the most part. You don't see "a beautiful woman," you see "my partner." Meanwhile, their inner beauty shines through day after day.

  Having said that, I have been conditioned by society enough to be affected by physical beauty, sad to say, so I often succumb to the charms of outer beauty before noticing their inner qualities. Not proud of it, but I admit it. To my credit, inner beauty always wins the day eventually. But I wish it didn't have to take time. Being online helps, as I get to know the inner person first.

  One last confession, and one I'm not at all proud about, nor do I have any idea where it comes from: I am not attracted to women who are more than a little overweight. A little? OK. More than that? Nope. Shallow? Absolutely. Wrong? Yes. Built-in to me? Sure is. Why? I have no clue, but it's very deeply built in and seems to have always been there since childhood. It could be, I'm guessing, that I come from an extended family where no one is overweight, so perhaps as a child all I ever saw as models of body types were either slender or, at most, middle-aged slightly overweight. Whatever the cause of it, I find it hard to be physically attracted to such a woman, no matter how much I admire their inner beauty. As I said, I'm not proud of it, but there it is.
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  A Beautiful Mind

  by speechless in

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  "a beautiful mind".

  what a great movie!

  (a somewhat true story of the life of john forbes nash, mathematician, princeton).

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  If you've seen any commercial or trailer for it, you've seen more of the story than bboyneko said. Hollywood doesn't want you to go to the movies nowadays without knowing the full story ahead of time. That's why so many movie trailers cover the entire story arc from start to finish. It's the McDonaldiztion of entertainment -- you know what you're getting before you walk in, and people seem to like it that way.

  I like how the movie portrays loyalty and love, when it real life they split up long ago because she couldn't stand his behavior any more. They then got back together and about a year ago remarried. Not quite the message of this Hollywood fantasy, but a lot more realistic when dealing with such behavior in a human being.
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  Criminal , new US ally

  by Norm in

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  the norwegian newspaper vg, reports: iraqi general nizar al-khazraji was the man behind the butchering of 180,000 iraqi kurds in 1988. he was one of saddam's faithful generals.

  he later had to flee iraq and is living on a secret address in denmark.

  he is under investigation by the danish police.. ---------------------------------------------------.

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  IW,

  There has been much said here concerning countries who want America to leave them alone, but no names.

  On the contrary, I have several times mentioned Latin America. Ask El Salvador or Nicaragua if they would have preferred to be left alone by the U.S. in the 1980s rather than have the U.S. prevent democratic movements in those countries from flourishing because the U.S. would rather have had a despot in place that would be friendly to U.S. political interests even while they were using terrorism on their own people.

  And when Nicaragua did get a democratically-elected government, the U.S. lied about them and made it sound as if they forced their way into power over the will of the Nicaraguan people, despite their overwhelming support locally. Why did the U.S. do that? Because the previous regime, though brutal to the Nicaraguans, said all the right things to America. The new regime, elected popularly, was willing to make economic deals with the Russians. To Ronald "Evil Empire" Reagan, this was anathema, and thus the steady stream of lies designed to undermine democracy in that country.
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  How many Watchtower Lawyers are there?

  by VM44 in

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  in amazing's exit series, he mentions one lawyer who works.

  exclusively for the watchtower society.

  i posted a link to.

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  100?! No way. I'd be surprised if they had more than a dozen at Brooklyn. Now, the entire Legal Department could well run into the 100s, I suppose, but the question was how many lawyers are there. A few years back I knew all of them, and there were fewer than half-a-dozen actual lawyers on staff.

  JT is right, however, that there are outside brothers who are lawyers who do work for the Society even though they aren't actually at Bethel. Does that make them a "Watchtower lawyer"? Probably, in which case the answer is higher than in my first paragraph.
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  Criminal , new US ally

  by Norm in

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  the norwegian newspaper vg, reports: iraqi general nizar al-khazraji was the man behind the butchering of 180,000 iraqi kurds in 1988. he was one of saddam's faithful generals.

  he later had to flee iraq and is living on a secret address in denmark.

  he is under investigation by the danish police.. ---------------------------------------------------.

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  Jan,

  Quite right. I should have been more explicit. I was referring to a specific sub-group of criticism that hypocritically condemns the U.S. while accepting its help yet pretending not to want its help. I am not talking about the more general types of criticisms from countries that are U.S. allies. After all, I'm engaging in that form of criticism, so I clearly think that is valid!
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  Criminal , new US ally

  by Norm in

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  the norwegian newspaper vg, reports: iraqi general nizar al-khazraji was the man behind the butchering of 180,000 iraqi kurds in 1988. he was one of saddam's faithful generals.

  he later had to flee iraq and is living on a secret address in denmark.

  he is under investigation by the danish police.. ---------------------------------------------------.

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  IW,

  We may be talking at cross-purposes here. There are two different types of countries being discussed here:

  1. The kind you refer to, the ones who ask for America's help and then sullenly complain about us endlessly. That is not good.

  2. The kind I refer to, the ones who want to be left alone, but America meddles anyway, causing suffering to their people. That is not good.
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  Criminal , new US ally

  by Norm in

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  the norwegian newspaper vg, reports: iraqi general nizar al-khazraji was the man behind the butchering of 180,000 iraqi kurds in 1988. he was one of saddam's faithful generals.

  he later had to flee iraq and is living on a secret address in denmark.

  he is under investigation by the danish police.. ---------------------------------------------------.

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  pat,

  Maybe I'll be reading foreign news instead of just the US news and gain a better perspective.

  An excellent thing to do, IMO. It's eye-opening how misled we are by the U.S. media. Only by reading all sides can we begin to get a true picture of reality.
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  Criminal , new US ally

  by Norm in

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  the norwegian newspaper vg, reports: iraqi general nizar al-khazraji was the man behind the butchering of 180,000 iraqi kurds in 1988. he was one of saddam's faithful generals.

  he later had to flee iraq and is living on a secret address in denmark.

  he is under investigation by the danish police.. ---------------------------------------------------.

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  The U.S. Government is no better or worse than any other bureaucratic democracy in Europe or elsewhere.

  The U.S. has more power, and thus more corruption. There aren't too m any democracies in Europe that have prevented democractic rule in neighboring countries while propping up dictators who oppress their people. Yet that is precisely what the U.S. has done in some Latin American countries, while lying to the American people about what they were doing and why.

  It's a deep issue, and the corruption runs deep. The irony, of course, is that this corruption is designed for a pragmatic reason: to uphold America's interests. Hard to argue with that, except that this can lead to situations where America acts to keep people in other countries under ruthless regimes, all because that ruler of the country will fight Communism or something else that America thinks is in its best interests. So people living in those countries rightly resent the political meddling by America that keeps them suffering under a brutal rule.

  So when American leaders say they are going to "fight terrorism," some people wonder when they will stop supporting terrorism in other regimes that happen to be America's "friends." That is hypocrisy.
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  Criminal , new US ally

  by Norm in

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  the norwegian newspaper vg, reports: iraqi general nizar al-khazraji was the man behind the butchering of 180,000 iraqi kurds in 1988. he was one of saddam's faithful generals.

  he later had to flee iraq and is living on a secret address in denmark.

  he is under investigation by the danish police.. ---------------------------------------------------.

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  Thanks, Xena. I'm sure that if we ever met in real life, you'd like me, and you'd laugh at my humor, just as I would laugh at yours and like you.
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  Criminal , new US ally

  by Norm in

  1. jw
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  the norwegian newspaper vg, reports: iraqi general nizar al-khazraji was the man behind the butchering of 180,000 iraqi kurds in 1988. he was one of saddam's faithful generals.

  he later had to flee iraq and is living on a secret address in denmark.

  he is under investigation by the danish police.. ---------------------------------------------------.

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  Thank you, Pat. I am actually a reasonable, friendly person with a great sense of humor and a self-deprecating nature. I'm also an idealist. What tends to show on this forum is my idealism, not my easy-goingness. People probably think I'm this wound-up, angry person with a chip on my shoulder. Just the opposite, really, but I use this forum and these discussions to blow off steam in this subject.