Posts by scotsman

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China purges cats for the Olympics

by frozen one in

i own cats.

this news story about the latest move in china's preperations for the olympic games is just nuts.

i avoid buying products made in china whenever possible (almost impossible).

I like gay people.

by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit in

jw
friends

in fact, if what you are has 'people' after it, no matter what it is, i like you.

you don't have to club baby seals to be my friend.. myeah..

scotsman

I'd think the positive contributions of gays in arts, science, and such would sway a angry white man like me. to tolerance .. cause they have.

The gay contribution to science arts and society has always been there but went on unnoticed until some got militant and started waving flags and going on marches. You're obviously not the angry white man you like to present yourself as!

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I like gay people.

by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit in

jw
friends

in fact, if what you are has 'people' after it, no matter what it is, i like you.

you don't have to club baby seals to be my friend.. myeah..

scotsman

Gay people are like everyone else, a mixture of cool, middling and tossers.

Hillbilly said:

What puts us angry white men off about gays is the freak parade that the media wants to front as the Gay image. Heteros dont make that kind of statement about our lifestyle and those extremists that get all the attention on Gay Pride day sort of scare the un-initiated.

I beg to differ, every day the hetero lifestyle is waved in our face. You need to look at advertsing, sitcoms and movies a little more closely. Gay Pride marches are a response of a minority and previously suppressed group in response to this. The marches didn't start as celebrations, they started as protest and in many countries still are. You just need to look at the events that took place in Russia last year.

While not being a Pride attending gay man I appreciate that these marches contributed to the relative freedoms I enjoy today.

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APOSTASCOTLAND

by Dansk in

jw
friends

would someone seriously consider arranging for an apostafest up in scotland next year?

i know i'm asking this early but i feel it would be good to put the feelers out now.. obviously, it would have to be a location easy to get to - so that means stornoway is out!

sorry, ross & xena.

scotsman

Lol, I was just in that part of town and wondered what was going on.

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APOSTASCOTLAND

by Dansk in

jw
friends

would someone seriously consider arranging for an apostafest up in scotland next year?

i know i'm asking this early but i feel it would be good to put the feelers out now.. obviously, it would have to be a location easy to get to - so that means stornoway is out!

sorry, ross & xena.

scotsman

while i have no desire to be 'in charge' of a bunch of wild apostates if you let me know how many of you there are and where you're staying I'll be able to point you in the right direction.

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APOSTASCOTLAND

by Dansk in

jw
friends

would someone seriously consider arranging for an apostafest up in scotland next year?

i know i'm asking this early but i feel it would be good to put the feelers out now.. obviously, it would have to be a location easy to get to - so that means stornoway is out!

sorry, ross & xena.

scotsman

So what is the current plan regarding what we do on what evenings?

Go on the lash? I'll be around that weekend and am happy to act as chaperone some of the time and steer you round some of the better pubs that aren't full of tourists. I'm an architectural historian and i'd be glad to give anyone a wee tour if their interests lie in buildings. feel free to message me.

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~ The first time I heard ABBA ~

by FlyingHighNow in

i was 17. it was 1975, the winter.

i was riding with my future first mother in law, in her vista cruiser wagon, the kind the kids drive on that 70's show.

we were pulling up to the dekalb county courthouse in decatur, ga. a very near suburb of the great city of atlanta.

scotsman

Here's some more Scandinavian disco campery from Alcazar.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jl7IQ2sLr9w

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ueLFUwddvE0

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Are Witnesses ''allowed'' to attend funeral of a known homosexual? Quotes?

by ThomasCovenant in

help needed as i can't access my wt cd rom.

is there anything in the society's literature to say that a 'brother' shouldn't attend the funeral of a person who was known to be homosexual.

if so could someone provide references/quotes.

scotsman

Have they printed stuff that could be viewed as discriminatory against being gay?

lol depends what you mean by discriminatory! I think they have always differentiated between practising and non practising. They wouldn't permit a civil partnership to take place in a KH, but as they wouldn't allow any nonJW ceremony there it's not discriminatory.

What you looking for?

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Are Witnesses ''allowed'' to attend funeral of a known homosexual? Quotes?

by ThomasCovenant in

help needed as i can't access my wt cd rom.

is there anything in the society's literature to say that a 'brother' shouldn't attend the funeral of a person who was known to be homosexual.

if so could someone provide references/quotes.

scotsman

Don't have access to the CDROM just now but have never heard of such a rule.And I'm aware of some witnesses attending the funerals of colleagues who were gay without there being repercussions.

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Did the word "persecution" scare you as a kid?

by journey-on in

jw
friends

i remember imagining being tied up and my fingernails pulled out one by one and somebody screaming at me to denounce jehovah?

anybody else go through this?

scotsman

I thought it would be kind of exciting - living in the hills, no meetings or door to door stuff. I was however, very afraid of nuclear war - skin peeling off and bleeding gums apalled me.