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does anyone here know anything about the supposed resolution that the un have about banning all religion?.
i've done a google search but can't find anything and i'd be grateful for any help on this.. thanks.
'Ending discrimination' IS one of the charter purposes of the UN (more or less). The goal of the UN - pretty much the only goal, really - is to have equality among people's of all races and nations.
Ending discrimination is part of that, obviously.
I guess if you were a JW you could read 'the need to stop discriminating against other religions' as a 'ban on your religion', since that's basically all they do - but the charter and resolutions do not actually go that far.
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does anyone here know anything about the supposed resolution that the un have about banning all religion?.
i've done a google search but can't find anything and i'd be grateful for any help on this.. thanks.
Interestingly, I could have sworn it was on Snopes, too.
No luck finding it. DID find an urban legend about the FCC trying to ban religious programming (READ: 'Urban Legend' as in 'completely fictional scare-mongering by the religious right to try and get attention to themselves'). But, nothing on the UN.
i loved the recent topic asking what each of our screen names means.
great question as i have always wondered about quite a few of our screen names.
as i was reading the responses, i looked at holey cheeses - king of the juice's avitar and thought about how i have been wondering for the past three years, what the hell that is a picture of.
Sorry, I'm just teasing. Sarcasm doesn't come across well on the internet, I spose. And, then, you are pretty new and probably haven't read many of my posts yet.
When reading my posts, assume someone speaking with an extremely dry, sardonic sense of humor. I'm a sarcastic bastard, basically.
(EDIT: Actually, seeing new faces who don't know us all is great! Lot of people have been here for a number of years, and thus seen the infamous "Pictures thread", so...yeah....)
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does anyone here know anything about the supposed resolution that the un have about banning all religion?.
i've done a google search but can't find anything and i'd be grateful for any help on this.. thanks.
Are they still circulating that rumor in JW-dom?
I've heard it, oh, once every few years since the early 90s. It stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of what exactly the UN is (other than the scarlet-colored wild beast ) combined with their intense desire to see their own prophesies fulfilled. Obviously, they have such a lack of understanding of how politics actually WORK such rumors are eagerly accepted and dissipated
Of course, what do you expect from a cult that takes pride in having nothing to do with politics - they don't even have a basic understanding of it when it DOES come up!
In short:
I've actually had this conversation with my brother recently when I tried to bring up the WTBTS as a UN registered NGO. His response was along "Oh, that was just for access to their library, but did you hear what the UN is trying to do now?!". Classic misdirection.
The real problem is the large number of JW-ites who seem to believe the watchtower teaching that the UN is somehow an independant entity, elevated above (and manipulating) the governments of the world. They are the perfect 'boogeyman' since so few JWs bother to learn anything about the UN or its history.
An entertaining comparison viewpoint is held by most US soldiers - the UN as a worthless entity, since it's basically just a political think-tank with absolutely no power to do anthing at all.
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does anyone here know anything about the supposed resolution that the un have about banning all religion?.
i've done a google search but can't find anything and i'd be grateful for any help on this.. thanks.
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i loved the recent topic asking what each of our screen names means.
great question as i have always wondered about quite a few of our screen names.
as i was reading the responses, i looked at holey cheeses - king of the juice's avitar and thought about how i have been wondering for the past three years, what the hell that is a picture of.
i gave my intro and then disappeared for a month.
just not enough time these days.. anyway .
.. some of your names are self-explanatory, but some definitely have to be explained to be understood.. i'll start.
Ciara:I stopped fighting about the same time I got married. My hubby wasn't crazy about me going out and participating in hand -to-hand combat.
Really? See, I couldn't do that. Love my wife and all, but could not (nor will) give up hobbies for her. If she did not love me - ALL of me, with all my eccentric ways (not that many, actually), then I would not have married her. I mean, hobbies are part of *what you are*. How can someone love you but not your interests? Doesn't make sense to me.
ANYWAY, my name is...well, my name. My full name means "defender of man".
i have a jw friend who thinks her husband would look better with facial hair.
(omg, it would improve his face!
) anyway, we all know this is a no no in some congregations.
Well, all I can say is that growing the goatee (which I've always wanted) was one of the first things I did when I started losing interest in the meetings. Wife liked it a LOT.
We hit up a few meetings now and then (we 'faded' out) with it, and it did generate some looks. Never got counselled for it, but, then, we HAD just moved to a new hall, so I wasn't even GIVING talks yet to be removed from doing so....
...is that at all the district conventions?.
did that rule come from the society or from a safety law on the books(fire hazard)?.
if i take a baby stroller to the dc will i get kicked out?
Errr....okay, whoever it is then. Local police or something? Never paid much attention to what uniform they were wearing....
i loved the recent topic asking what each of our screen names means.
great question as i have always wondered about quite a few of our screen names.
as i was reading the responses, i looked at holey cheeses - king of the juice's avitar and thought about how i have been wondering for the past three years, what the hell that is a picture of.
xLaurax : <----------- This is a pic of me and my friends on the last day of school. I got chased with a marker pen when the two boys you can see insisted on signing my chest They wrote there names on either side and insisted that we posed for a picture.. i didn't enjoy the attention..honest i didn't
