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36 But if anyone thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virginity, if that is past the bloom of youth, and this is the way it should take place, let him do what he wants; he does not sin. Let them marry.

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Dust on my keyboard

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the sun is shinning on my keyboard, and i can see all the keys i use and the ones i don't use because of the visible dust on my keys.... those with dust on them that i don't use:.

i use all the letters from a to z. i don't use the f1 to f12 keys.

i don't use the numbers on the right hand side .

JH

I hear they have technology to take care of that dust problem.........
the rag.

Let me try that...

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Dust on my keyboard

by JH in

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the sun is shinning on my keyboard, and i can see all the keys i use and the ones i don't use because of the visible dust on my keys.... those with dust on them that i don't use:.

i use all the letters from a to z. i don't use the f1 to f12 keys.

i don't use the numbers on the right hand side .

JH

The sun is shinning on my keyboard, and I can see all the keys I use and the ones I don't use because of the visible dust on my keys...

Those with dust on them that I don't use:

I use all the letters from A to Z

I don't use the F1 to F12 keys

I don't use the numbers on the right hand side

I use the 4 arrows, up down left and right

I use the delete key and screenshot key and capital letters, and Alt, and Windows key and Ctrl, and escape, backspace and period and comma.

The rest are full of dust...

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JW's shouldn't avoid watching violent movies...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/business/media/07violence.html?ex=1357362000&en=bd82c1b46fdcf8de&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss.

january 7, 2008economists say movie violence might temper the real thing by peter s. goodmannew orleans are movies like hannibal and the remake of halloween, which serve up murder and mutilation as routine fare, actually making the nation safer?

a paper presented by two researchers over the weekend to the annual meeting of the american economic association here challenges the conventional wisdom, concluding that violent films prevent violent crime by attracting would-be assailants and keeping them cloistered in darkened, alcohol-free environs.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/business/media/07violence.html?ex=1357362000&en=bd82c1b46fdcf8de&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

January 7, 2008

Economists Say Movie Violence Might Temper the Real Thing

By PETER S. GOODMAN

NEW ORLEANS — Are movies like “Hannibal” and the remake of “Halloween,” which serve up murder and mutilation as routine fare, actually making the nation safer?

A paper presented by two researchers over the weekend to the annual meeting of the American Economic Association here challenges the conventional wisdom, concluding that violent films prevent violent crime by attracting would-be assailants and keeping them cloistered in darkened, alcohol-free environs.

Instead of fueling up at bars and then roaming around looking for trouble, potential criminals pass the prime hours for mayhem eating popcorn and watching celluloid villains slay in their stead.

“You’re taking a lot of violent people off the streets and putting them inside movie theaters,” said one of the authors of the study, Gordon Dahl, an economist at the University of California, San Diego. “In the short run, if you take away violent movies, you’re going to increase violent crime.”

Professor Dahl and the paper’s other author, Stefano DellaVigna, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, attach precise numbers to their argument: Over the last decade, they say, the showing of violent films in the United States has decreased assaults by an average of about 1,000 a weekend, or 52,000 a year.

Crime is not merely delayed until after the credits run, they say. On the Monday and Tuesday after packed weekend showings of violent films, no spike in violent crime emerges to compensate for the peaceful hours at the movies. Even a few weeks later, there is no evidence of a compensating resurgence, they say.

The findings in their paper are part of a recent wave of economic research in what might be called the “freakonomics era.” Practitioners of the dismal science are transcending traditional subjects like labor and markets, and are now crunching numbers to evaluate matters like cheating among sumo wrestlers or the effects of a crackdown on cocaine.

In this case, the authors have waded into a long-simmering debate about media violence, with their findings likely to attract controversy: Their conclusion seems to collide with the research of psychologists, which has fed concerns by parents and policy makers that brutal imagery in films, video games and other media sows aggression in American life by rendering viewers insensitive to horrific acts.

“There are hundreds of studies done by numerous research groups around the world that show that media violence exposure increases aggressive behavior,” said Craig A. Anderson, a psychologist and director of the Center for the Study of Violence at Iowa State University. “People learn from every experience in life, and that learning occurs at a very basic level of brain function.”

The study’s authors acknowledge that their research does not refute and in fact lends credence to the findings of laboratory studies. Neither does it address the long-term effects of exposure to violent media, an influence they view as pernicious.

Rather, the research uses a decade of national crime reports, cinema ratings and movie audience data to examine what has happened to rates of violent crime during and immediately after violent films are shown.

Though such films may indeed stimulate a greater tendency toward aggression in audiences, Professor Dahl offers a rejoinder much favored by economists: Compared to what?

Young men are the most likely to commit violent crimes. In opting to see a movie — even one featuring, say, gang rape or chain-saw amputation — they forgo activities that have a greater tendency to encourage mayhem, like drinking and drug use.

“Economics is about choice,” Professor Dahl said. “What would these people have done if they had not chosen to go and see a movie? Whatever they would have done would have had a greater tendency to involve alcohol. If you can incapacitate a large group of potentially violent people, that’s a good thing.”

Professor DellaVigna added, “It’s not as if these people watching violent movies would otherwise be home reading a book.”

But critics of violent media worry that the study, with its focus on immediate effects, could distract policy makers from troubling signs of long-term harm to society and leave parents thinking that violent films may be the least bad way for their adolescent children to occupy leisure hours.

“The study’s premise strikes me as somewhat goofy,” said Melissa Henson, senior director of programs at the Parents Television Council, a media watchdog based in Los Angeles. “I’d hate for people to walk away with the message that, ‘Oh, I ought to send my son to watch violent movies so they won’t go out and drink or do drugs and commit violent crime.’ What about going to the Y.M.C.A. and playing basketball, or after-school activities?”

Professor Dahl seems an unlikely advocate for the crime-snuffing potential of sadistic cinema. A Mormon, he forbids his four children from watching violent films. He recently purchased a DVD player that strips out brutal or sexual images. He eschews violent films himself, professing discomfort even with “Schindler’s List,” the epic portrayal of the Holocaust.

“I don’t like how I feel when I watch them,” he said.

Yet his rejection of violent media was, in a sense, the spark for his inquiry.

In 2005, he and his wife, Katherine, concerned about their children’s viewing, consulted a Web site, kids-in-mind.com, that rates films for violence, sexual content and profanity. Professor Dahl was then working on another project employing a national database of crime reports. He wondered: Could one combine the movie ratings with the crime data and the numbers of people seeing films to explore how crime rates change with exposure to violent movies?

Analyzing the data, the authors found that “on days with a high audience for violent movies, violent crime is lower.”

From 6 p.m. to midnight on weekends — when the largest numbers of people are in theaters — violent crimes decreased 1.3 percent for every million people watching a strongly violent movie, the study found. Violent crimes dropped 1.1 percent for every million seeing a mildly violent film.

In the hours after theaters close — from midnight to 6 a.m. the next day — violent crimes dropped 1.9 percent for every million people at a strongly violent movie, and by 2.1 percent for every million at mildly violent film. Strikingly, the data shows that crimes also drop, though not by as much, when large audiences see nonviolent films that young men find appealing.

In other words, Professor Dahl suggested, Hollywood could help cut crime in more palatable fashion by cutting out the gore while making movies that still attract male teenagers and 20-somethings.

“We need more Adam Sandler movies,” he said. “Even though I’m not a big fan of Adam Sandler, that’s the implication.”

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I went to visit an old JW friend

by JH in

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i just arrived from his place.

he is almost 80. lives in a very modest apartment all by himself.

he told me that he is starting to lose his memory and forgets a lot.

JH

Oh, and I just remembered what that old man told me.

The brother giving that study to my neighbour isn't an elder anymore.

So, there are 3 elders less in my congregation. There were 6 last year. So they are probably down to 3.

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I went to visit an old JW friend

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i just arrived from his place.

he is almost 80. lives in a very modest apartment all by himself.

he told me that he is starting to lose his memory and forgets a lot.

JH

Earlier today, I talked to my neighbour studying with an elder. He told me that he will stop studying and doesn't like that elder. He told me that he would like to receive a study from one of his old JW female friends he grew up with I told him, they will never permit that a sister gives you a bible study. So he said, then that's it, It's over, I don't want to study with them anymore. He had about 10 weekly studies up to now, and he doesn't get along to well with the elder studying with him. He saw how nasty and crooked he was, saying half truths all time.

Then my neighbour talked to the elder about me. He said "why did JH stop going to meetings"? And the elder lied and said things that weren't true. I won't go into detail.

It's funny how some JW's can be so nice, like that old man, and some elders who should be more spiritual, but distorts facts to the point of lying....

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I went to visit an old JW friend

by JH in

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i just arrived from his place.

he is almost 80. lives in a very modest apartment all by himself.

he told me that he is starting to lose his memory and forgets a lot.

JH

I just arrived from his place. He is almost 80. Lives in a very modest apartment all by himself. He told me that he is starting to lose his memory and forgets a lot. I guess he forgot that he should have shunned me...

Anyways, he was always friendly with me, and never judged me, unlike many others.

Although he is probably one of the poorest and oldest in the congregation, he offered me a beer and was very nice. After talking about many topics, I asked him what was new in the congregation. I heard that brother X and brother Y were buying and building a new house. He confirmed what I was told by another source. I find it strange that some would think of building a new house when the end is so close.

I asked if elder A was still the PO. He said no, he found the task too hard and stepped down and isn't an elder anymore. I asked about another elder and he moved away. I asked if he was still an elder, and he said no.

So, just the old elders in their upper 70's are left and one almost 50. I didn't go there to put doubts in his mind, but just to go say hi, and show that I didn't become a worldy monster.

We talked about computers and the internet, and he thinks that Satan is behind the internet, although he has a computer, but no internet.

He thinks that the end has to be very close, like in a year from now. So, I asked him if they still talk about "peace and security" at the meetings, and he said no. I said, well that has to come first. I didn't want to put him on the defensive neither, he was nice enough to welcome me and was friendly.

There doesn't seem to be any progress at the hall. No mention of new people, just that the old ones getting older and sicker. I didn't want to throw away the only thing he has left, which is hope that the end will be soon and that he will see it.

If only the other younger brothers were friendly and didn't judge, and were more like this old man, it would be a much better place.

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