In response to the op I don't think Mr Dawkins is out of line as it's his website and if he doesn't want people calling him names, well who would like that? A lot of newspaper websites screen comments before showing them on the site so y not Mr Dawkins? I don't particularly like him as a person, but it's his website, his right.
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Is Richard Dawkins an ostentatious acrimonious supercilious pusillanimous calumnious censorious vituperative querulous embittered obsessive and bombastic bully?
by slimboyfat inrichard dawkins closes down his free-thinking/free-thought site (www.richarddawkins.net) for 30 days to reconfigure it 'because too many morons were contributing drivel' (he doesn't put it quite like that!
) he is then surprised because those self-same contributors call him everything under the sun (i won't repeat the names flung at him on our ultra -refined boards).
he now wants the site more or less 'peer-reviewed' (by analogy with papers to learned/scientific journals having to be vetted by vips).
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Are people really over Authoritarianism?
by MissConfused init was couple of interesting weeks for us.
we were visited by some good friends from org.
and ended up discussing lengths and breadths about all org misses in the past.
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Julia Orwell
I think it's just your friends. They sound like reasonable people who can discuss these things without turning into raving fanatics. Raving fanatics has been my recent experience.
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"God's Word Is Beneficial..." 2013/14 Circuit Assembly "Highlights"
by 88JM injust had the circuit assembly this weekend here:.
surprisingly not much fuss over the new bible considering that this was the first meeting for most here to use it (the annual meeting was "invite only" for a select few here, and there was no thursday meeting because of this assembly) and having a new bible was only referred to fairly briefly in a comment about how "wonderful" it is (and in the closing prayer).
i think i was the only one there with an old maroon nwt - i got a confused look from one of the elders - haha!
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Hang on, hang on, how did they explain jw kids at school being sex magnets? Jw kids I know at school certainly are as sexy as the Mormon kids to the rest of the school. But not as academically inclined as the Mormons, but like them they're considered off limits and dorks.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 10-13-2013 WT Study (ENRAGED)
by blondie inwt publications http://www.a2z.org/wtarchive/archive.htm (old).
enraged against.
enraged against.
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I notice the article really foregrounds that we ourselves are responsible for bad things in our lives. Time n unforseen occurrence, as well ad Satan's world, get some lip service at the end. The overall effect is that the jw readers will be blaming themselves for everything, lowering self esteem and instilling more guilt. Criminal! And yet jws will walk away from that study telling each other how encouraging it was!
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The End Of The Anglo American World Power
by metatron inhttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-13/chinas-official-press-agency-calls-new-reserve-currency.
china is openly calling for the end of us political and economic dominance of the world.
they ain't playin'.
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Julia Orwell
Yep, and England hasn't been a world power since before wwtwo, and is certainly not amalgamated with the USA...Anglo American world power was fictitious. Even so, we saw the British empire dismantled from wwtwo onwards, and we'll now see the US empire come undone too.
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Never Become Enraged with Jehovah (tomorrow's WT Study)....pure vomit
by raymond frantz innever become enraged against jehovah.
(watchtower study 7-13 october).
paragraph 4.
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Julia Orwell
Cult psychology is a whole area of its own. I've had to educate my psychiatrist about it!
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What's with all the JWs unleashing the hate!?
by Julia Orwell inmost of us here on jwn, while we can get a bit narky at times, can put forth intelligent arguments and sound observations.
sure we can get bogged down with our opinions, but generally we back up our opinions with examples and evidence, and if someone has a different opinion with examples and evidence, we accept that without recriminations.
that's what adults do.. so my question is, why in the last week or so, have a couple of posters claiming to be jws come onto this forum and berated, spewed hate and judgement, and in some cases verbally attacked members personally?
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Well at least thanks to the new Nwt I'm not mentally diseased anymore.
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My mom just told me I was demonized! :p
by El_Guapo infunny story: back in march i was talking with mom on the phone.
the topic of how great the nwt was, compared to other bibles.
thanks to jwn, i said "o wouldn't be surprised if we had a new bible by this time next year.
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And jws aren't supposed to have superstitions.
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Are JWs more tight with money than normal people?
by Julia Orwell inactually, in my experience, i have not found them to be tighter or more generous with money.
i've found them to be about the same with handling money as non-jws, though less likely to invest their money, but unlikely to waste it on cigarettes, pubs/clubs and gambling like many non-jws do.
i certainly don't find them tighter or stingier than normal people though, and slightly more honest.. what are your experiences with jws and money compared to non-jws and money?.
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I had jw friends who would insist on paying for your coffee even though they were on the pension. I knew jws who spent lavishly, and my money habits have always been the same, jw or not. I think it is to do with the person. Money management seems to be the one thing that rarely changes when u become a jw.
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What's with all the JWs unleashing the hate!?
by Julia Orwell inmost of us here on jwn, while we can get a bit narky at times, can put forth intelligent arguments and sound observations.
sure we can get bogged down with our opinions, but generally we back up our opinions with examples and evidence, and if someone has a different opinion with examples and evidence, we accept that without recriminations.
that's what adults do.. so my question is, why in the last week or so, have a couple of posters claiming to be jws come onto this forum and berated, spewed hate and judgement, and in some cases verbally attacked members personally?
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Julia Orwell
It's not just here on JWN, but lots of jws on fb too. Just cuz u stop going to meetings n point out some old wt that contradicts current truth, my god you'd think I just asked to eat the still-beating heart of their baby.