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  Men: Honest answers, please, to an honest question

  by berylblue in

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  from another thread:where else does the media so vividly show females as equal .

  when i read this, i had to wonder: is there something wrong with doing so?

  portraying women as equals?

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  With the way genetics is going, soon we will not need sperm at all

  Really, have you found a s ubstitute ?

  A substitute will be coming forth in the near future. Two eggs can be used to make a girl in a lab. In theory, it is very simple to do. In practice, it either has been done, or will be done soon.

  Good for you! You sound like a very lucky guy. I've only worked for one female boss that I liked, the rest as I have said before have been a pain in the a**!

  I have only worked for one female boss who was an a**. She was power-hungry. The rest I worked for have been very nice.

  The two worst bosses I ever had were married able-bodied heterosexual white males in their thirties. So, logically, all married able-bodied heterosexual white males in their thirties are a**holes and less equal than wheelchair-bound black single lesbians in their sixties. Come on, people, this is common sense.
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  Men: Honest answers, please, to an honest question

  by berylblue in

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  from another thread:where else does the media so vividly show females as equal .

  when i read this, i had to wonder: is there something wrong with doing so?

  portraying women as equals?

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  With the help sperm of a man I might add.

  LOL! I knew someone was going to say that! Hey, making a baby is a lot more awesome and important than making some sperm. Ok, making a sperm is important, being a vital part of the birth process.

  With the way genetics is going, soon we will not need sperm at all. Conversely, we may not need eggs at all either. Artificial wombs have been around for decades. Soon even reproductive ability will be "equal" as well.

  I have worked for both men and women. Good and bad bosses of both genders are out there, and I have worked for them. Gender does not determine competence, nor does it determine if a person is a donkey's behind.
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  Men: Honest answers, please, to an honest question

  by berylblue in

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  from another thread:where else does the media so vividly show females as equal .

  when i read this, i had to wonder: is there something wrong with doing so?

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  Part of the problem with a discussion like this is that no one defines what equal means. I can only think of one important measure where one sex is superior to the other: women have the ability to bring a new life, a new person, into this world. In my view, this makes women superior to men, if we must make such petty categorisations.

  Even the ability to not bear children does not make any one person less equal than another. Is a barren woman less equal than a child-bearing woman? Obviously both are equal.

  Other than the one reason mentioned above, the reasonings used are much like those used when discussing are blacks and whites really equal?

  If you want to figure out if both sexes are equal, think about what equal means and see if you can find any member of both sexes who fits the bill. Chances are, you will.

  As far as various skills such as math or language skills, equality is not an issue. Is a person who is poor at math less equal than a person who is skilled at math?

  Math and language skills only matter if you are hiring a mathematician or a language expert. And at the point, it does not matter if the person you are hiring is a man or a woman. It is easy to find people of both sexes who are good and bad at any skill. Skill level is generally independent of sex.

  I cannot think of any area where being a certain gender guarantees that a person is somehow more equal than the opposite sex. This is simple common sense.
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  Men: Honest answers, please, to an honest question

  by berylblue in

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  from another thread:where else does the media so vividly show females as equal .

  when i read this, i had to wonder: is there something wrong with doing so?

  portraying women as equals?

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  Women and men are equal in every way. That is obvious once one puts a little thought into it.
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  Did you place publications with people and without reading them ? follow up

  by run dont walk in

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  are right fess up people.

  how many of us went in field service and placed literature without even opening the covers ?, let alone reading the articles.. how about following up on a return visit for a magazine you never read ?.

  i have to admit, i did it many many times.. maybe we should of went into the used car business.

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  I normally read all the mags, cover to cover. That doesn't translate into being prepared for field service.

  One huge aid was that I learned the first step in the E. Wood speedreading course. With repetitious material where the context is well known (e.g., WT and Awake mags), it doubles your comphrension and at least doubles the reading speed.

  With the mags, my reading time was reduced from an hour to 15 minutes! And I remembered more! Brothers used to be amazed at my reading speed.

  As far as the KM field service presentations, they actually worked. I preferred to use them because my placements increased when I did.
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  Did anything a householder said ever make an impression on you?

  by Alleymom in

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  coming at this as a householder rather than an ex-jw, i'd love to hear from any of you about comments from householders that made an impression on you, back when you were active in the door-to-door work.

  since the jw's first knocked at my door 13 years ago, i've done my best to give them something to think about every time they knock at my door.

  i always introduce myself by name and try to get their names.

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  One of my return visits was a detective who investigated the drug trade. I presented an Awake! magazine about how TV shows make kids desenitizes them and makes for more violence in the world.. My return visit disagreed, saying that he thought that the reason for more violence in the world was the expansion of the drug trade. That made total sense to me.

  His kids were into sports, and he took them every Saturday to various hockey games, etc.as they were always on sports teams. He told me the benefits of team sports, and I wished that I could take my kids to play on a team instead of the door-to-door work.

  I once had a Bible study who was a born-again Christian. We studied the subject of hell indepth. We never convinced each other at all, but I realized that both the JW view and the born-again view were "provable" from the Bible.

  When I was becoming an agnostic, I still went out in field service. A householder came to the door and had to rush off because he was wallpapering. I wondered because if no one else called on him before Armageddon, then he would not get everlasting life. Yet, what if I had gotten to talk to him and he responded favorably? Yet now he may never get everlasting life because he was too busy when I called? It made me realize how unreasonable it was to think that how people responded to the door-to-door work would determine if they lived forever or not. After all, most of the public just viewed us as salespeople or religious nuts, nothing more.
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  Where is the evidence

  by KGB in

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  many of you make claim that god does not exist, you say that you found your evidence in the bible, what i want to know is where is the evidence.

  i am not interested in just mere thoughts but actuall evidence

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  If I tell you there are aliens living on Jupiter, and you cannot disprove it, does that mean there are aliens living on Jupiter?

  Obviously, you should not have to disprove my statement. How can a person prove something or someone does not exist? Rather, logic dicates that I would have to prove the aliens exist.

  The same reasoning applies to God.
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  OH . . . MY . . . GOD!!!!!!!!!!!! READ THIS!!!!!!!

  by cruzanheart in

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  so i get up this morning, usual time, slog through the shower and come out to the living room yawning.

  there on my sofa are jesika and pr_capone, grinning like two little kids.. guess what!!!!!!!

  they're getting married!!!!!!!

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  Congratulations! I wish you both all the happiness in the world.
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  What is your most hated "platitude"?

  by happyout in

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  mine is the old "everything happens for a reason".

  when i lost my daughter, i heard this so many times, i seriously thought i was going to punch the next freakin' idiot who said it.

  it's just ridiculous.. i also hate the variation "god does everything for a reason".. happyout (whose teeth are still set on edge when she hears that)

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  "Money doesn't buy happiness."

  How naive. Think about it. Imagine a life with no money and imagine a life with plenty of money. Which is easier and happier to live in?
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  "Do JW's and Born-Again Christians have something in common?

  by jads in

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  this might be funny to some people but i really feel that the reason that jw's and born again christians hate each other so much is because they are so much alike.

  they see themselves in each other.

  i have been on both sides of the spectum and believe me all of the born-agains that post on this site are more like jw's then they want to admit to themselves.

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  Having been a born-again fundamentalist and later a JW, I agree that they are more similar than different.