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  What book are you reading now?

  by Dimples in

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  i just stated reading a book called "the lovely bones" by alice sebold.

  i am beginning chapter 3. here is the excerpt from the inside cover:

  when we first meet susie salmon, she is already in heaven.

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  Just finished Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino (umpteenth time)

  Just started Greenvoe - George Mackay Brown (it's lovely)

  and I'm swamped amidst a sea of books on urban design theory.
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  Do You Fear That Islamic Fundamentalists Will Start WWIII ???

  by minimus in

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  a lot of people are worrying about these uprisings, riots and violence being done----it seems everywhere.

  i've read how some feel that europe does not have the ability as a union to fight against this.

  is this like it was in germany prior to ww!!

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  immigrant Muslim population

  I think you'll find a lot of the rioters in Clichy-sous-Bois were French, though maybe of French Colonial parentage.
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  How many here were homeschooled?

  by Highlander in

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  i'm quite new here, so i apologize if this topic has been covered.. the reason i ask this,, i was raised in the midwest.

  a majority(more than 50%) of the children at the local congregation were homeschooled.. the end result was that these homeschooled kids had social problems, found it difficult making and keeping friends and were completely out of touch with the world.. as these kids became adults, rarely did they stay on as witnesses and usually went to the other extreme,, you know the old saying,, sex drugs and rock n' roll..

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  greendawn

  It's legal in the UK to homeschool your children too.
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  Do you oppose Gay marriage?

  by LittleToe in

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  inspired by this thread:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/107010/1.ashx.

  personally i'm hetero, though a few of my gay friends would like me to be gay .

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  LT, unleash the beast!
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  Do you oppose Gay marriage?

  by LittleToe in

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  inspired by this thread:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/107010/1.ashx.

  personally i'm hetero, though a few of my gay friends would like me to be gay .

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  watch out ts, you're falling into a trap!
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  Do you oppose Gay marriage?

  by LittleToe in

  1. watchtower
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  inspired by this thread:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/107010/1.ashx.

  personally i'm hetero, though a few of my gay friends would like me to be gay .

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  Blue - Top

  Pink - Bottom
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  What 'Brokeback Mountain' and JWs have in common

  by Peter123 in

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  the story is beyond excellent.

  every line is so well crafted and the story, published in the new yorker magazine in 1997, is much more than two young men falling in love.

  one of the major themes of the movie is fear.

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  I thought the short story was excellent and didn't think the film would improve upon it. I was half right, it didn't improve upon the central relationship, but it did convincingly flesh out the wives characters. Maybe because I'd already read the story I remained unaffected by Jack & Ennis but felt totally gutted for Lureen and Alma.

  Nice comparison though Pete.
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  Do you oppose Gay marriage?

  by LittleToe in

  1. watchtower
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  inspired by this thread:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/107010/1.ashx.

  personally i'm hetero, though a few of my gay friends would like me to be gay .

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  In the case of this especially provocative subject of minority practices, why would a Christian desire to interfere, when it is allegedly the Christian that is in the minority? Further, if they are to busy themselves in politics at all, surely it should be to the extent of preserving their own rights to worship and live their life to the standards they desire, rather than impose their standards on everyone else?

  Are no Christians to reply to this?

  Maybe, as Witnesses, they got tired of 'waiting on Jehovah' so now think it's important that their religious views are expressed politically. Does that indicate a lack of faith in god?
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  Do you oppose Gay marriage?

  by LittleToe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  inspired by this thread:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/107010/1.ashx.

  personally i'm hetero, though a few of my gay friends would like me to be gay .

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  When I wrote that LT was a stirrer I forgot to add

  The question on this thread is subtly different from the others currently bobbing about, but maybe some are blind to that difference, just as they have been blind to LT's musing on this thread. The topic will continue to make regular appearances because it's not settled in society at large, with difference in attitudes and labels (marriage/civil union) according to nation/metropolitan area being well reflected by posters on the board.

  Gay bulls... only a hetero would compare himself to the bovine. Us gays will always be that little different and take our cues from those impeccaply dressed penguins.

  edited to add: if you can't take being called a bigot, don't post on these threads.
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  IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT.

  by THE GLADIATOR in

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  three cheers for australia!

  muslims who want to live under islamic sharia law were told on wednesday to get out of australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.

  a day after a group of mainstream muslim leaders pledged loyalty to australia at a special meeting with prime minister john howard, he and his ministers made it clear that extremists would face a crackdown.

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  *shudders at the memory*