Smoke outside.
I don't smoke.
Sorry, but there is a president your freedom doesn't come at the cost of someone else health
Why can't individual premises be given the right to decide whether or not they go smoke-free? A limited number of licenses could be issued, in the same way that liquor licenses are, as a way of ensuring that there will actually be some non-smoking pubs, etc.
What many in this thread seem to have missed is a vital aspect of personal freedom being compromised: that a government is treating private property as public areas that they can have a say in. From the sound of it, no premises are being exempted, not even ones where smoking has never been allowed, eg. churches and Kingdom Halls - those stickers must look bloody silly in those places, and no doubt are offensive to members of those orgs that have always prided themselves on being a smoke-free place. Instead of allowing individual businesses like pubs and restaurants to decide whether or not they'll go smoke-free or provide non-smoking areas, there is a blanket ban. This strikes me not so much as a public safety issue, so much as an attempt to legislate a moral code. Those of us who come from oppressive organisational backgrounds will know what I mean when I say that you cannot create morality by making more rules.
When someone does something good when the right to do something else has been taken off them, have they experienced any real moral growth?
I'm having a little conceptual trouble here: a cult that tells people not to smoke is being oppressive, but a government that does the same thing is not?
i don't know if any of you have considered this but is the new watchtower arrangement partly intended.
to permit the end of the awake magazine?.
it is a financially difficult thing for a religion the size of the "truth" to publish one - much less two .
and the "Boss", Theodore Jaracz, is reputed to hate the Awake, anyway.
Well it IS the equivalent of a college education, and we know how much they hate college...
fess up maybe we can have one of those marvellous meetings like others seem to enjoy?
All of Australia's best murderers come from Adelaide...
Oh, and UncleBruce!
this is from saturday afternoon program.
the speaker first starts with what he called the "alphabet soup" of degrees....a.a., b.a., m.a., ph.d., etc.
; he said they were nothing more than "sheepskins on the wall.
I would find it hard to believe these comments if I never heard my very own JW sister tell my father (who's df'ed) things like: "If Armageddon comes tomorrow you're dead!"
Suggested rejoinder by your father: "And then what? I'll just be dead. You'll be spending eternity serving Judge Rutherford. Now tell me: who's the idiot?"
i have not noticed any posts from crumpet.
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what gives?.
"Crumpet Withdrawal" - is that akin to the Billings Method?
enterprise is investigating beta iii, where the u.s.s.
archon disappeared over 100 years before.
when the landing party exhibits strange behavior, kirk sends another party down to investigate.
That's right I never seen your post, and by the way it's good there guy, I am humbled at being such a Nood.
Hey, your's was fine for a newbie. The disturbing thing is that there seem to be no trekkies left on this board to respond to your post. Or perhaps the disturbing thing is that I find that disturbing...
enterprise is investigating beta iii, where the u.s.s.
archon disappeared over 100 years before.
when the landing party exhibits strange behavior, kirk sends another party down to investigate.
well that was in '03, maybe the new poster didn't read all 5000 of your posts!
I feel so sorry for him!
Speaking of tongue and cheek, why is it that, in this day and age, you can still get tinned lambs' tongues in every supermarket??
enterprise is investigating beta iii, where the u.s.s.
archon disappeared over 100 years before.
when the landing party exhibits strange behavior, kirk sends another party down to investigate.
It's been done before, you Noob!
