Most of the "alpha males" I've come across have been alpha only in their own minds. More like epsilons striving impossibly for the delta, like those guys who waved their "ADMINISTRATION" ribbons in everybody's faces at the circuit assembly and then couldn't figure out how to get their car out of the parking lot when it was all over. My father had a lot of the qualities named above, especially the aggressiveness and the "sexual appetite," but all he ever got out of it was a dose of the clap. If that's "manly," then the world is better off without it.
em1913
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Is Being a “Manly Man” a Bad Thing?
by minimus inso much is said regarding men , in a negative way.
shaving commercials are now lecturing us as to how bad we really are.
men should be less masculine.
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Is Being a “Manly Man” a Bad Thing?
by minimus inso much is said regarding men , in a negative way.
shaving commercials are now lecturing us as to how bad we really are.
men should be less masculine.
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em1913
Certainly more so, in my definition than a, let's say, a flinty, clench-jawed Sgt. Rock type who goes into a snit over a TV commercial.
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Is Being a “Manly Man” a Bad Thing?
by minimus inso much is said regarding men , in a negative way.
shaving commercials are now lecturing us as to how bad we really are.
men should be less masculine.
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em1913
I once knew an ultraflamboyant drag queen (you meet a far better class of friends once you get out of the WTS) who I'd call very "manly," if manly means having an unshakable confidence in who you are and the courage to be that person regardless of what those who live their lives in terrified quivering conformity to what they believe their "proper role" to be think they're entitled to say about it.
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Is Being a “Manly Man” a Bad Thing?
by minimus inso much is said regarding men , in a negative way.
shaving commercials are now lecturing us as to how bad we really are.
men should be less masculine.
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em1913
The manliest man I ever heard of was Fred Rogers -- a man of absolute principle, of absolute kindness, and absolute confidence in his mission in life. If all men followed his example, the world would be a far better place. There's nothing manly about being an asshole.
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Mind Numbing Meetings
by minimus inwithout a doubt, jw life is boring.
and those meetings!
5 congregation meetings, meetings for field service, elders meetings, judicial meetings, meetings to figure out who was qualified to clean the toilets....🤔.
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I hated the Thursday meetings with a passion. I worked till 6pm on those nights, and had just enough time to grab something at McDonalds and eat it in the car on the way to the meeting, only to get the side-eye from the elders because I didn't look "put together" enough to suit them.
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Political Correctness and Censorship / Banning Books
by TerryWalstrom inbanned books?censorship?.
let’s say you live in a land where the rule is: you can’t offend anyone.okay, fair enough.
let’s take a look at what follows (implicit in this rule).. if you are speaking to 10 people, is it okay to offend 1 in 10?
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em1913
I think there's a big difference between actual censorship and not teaching a book in a class. When you're taking books off library shelves and burning them for political reasons -- as was done in the United States during the 1950s -- that's censorship. If a teacher chooses not to teach "Huckleberry Finn," that doesn't affect my ability to reach for my own copy and read it any time I want to . I have "Mein Kampf" on my shelf (right next to Marley Cole's "JWs The New World Society," ha ha ha) and can read it any time I want to. I used to have Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" on my shelf until I read it and realized how much it sucked, so I threw it away. That's not censorship, that's having good taste in fiction.
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You might have been a JW if...
by Incognigo Montoya in... unlike the rest of humanity, you looked forward to mondays because it was a day off from a meeting..
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You still have circuit assembly food tickets in your bottom desk drawer.
You have used the word "contrariwise" in a conversation.
You judge a man by the size of his briefcase.
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Political Correctness and Censorship / Banning Books
by TerryWalstrom inbanned books?censorship?.
let’s say you live in a land where the rule is: you can’t offend anyone.okay, fair enough.
let’s take a look at what follows (implicit in this rule).. if you are speaking to 10 people, is it okay to offend 1 in 10?
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em1913
In 1952, the city of Boston banned the comic book "Panic" -- a knockoff of "Mad" -- because it published a satire of "The Night Before Christmas." "Political correctness," so called, goes way way back in America. I'm pretty sure there were banned books when I was attending school, long long ago, but that never stopped me from reading anything I wanted to read, whenever I wanted to read it.
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Have you ever considered trying ancestry.com?
by minimus ini was recently given a gift of ancestry.com and i’m curious if anyone else has used this service?.
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I was a member several years ago when I needed access to some data for a research project, and I ended up tracking down quite a bit on my own family besides. Turns out my 6X-great grandmother was hung for witchcraft in Salem in 1692. Three cheers for That Old Time Religon.
At the time I was a member, close to 20 years ago, Ancestry was about the only place you could find a lot of the information offered. It was worth the price then, but I don't know if it would be now.
My mother signed up for one of those DNA deals, and it turns out we're part Yakut. Siberia's lovely country I hear.
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What JW Beliefs Did You Find Difficult To Explain?
by minimus inthere are a lot.
anything blood related was difficult to reasonably prove from a witness perspective.. 1914 was another one.
what can you add to the list?
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"The light gets brighter." I remember vividly that "tacking into the wind" Watchtower study in the early 80s that tried to put this concept into simple terms, and while it sounded good to a believing JW, you couldn't explain it to a person at the door without them giving you the fishiest of fishy looks. "Tacking into the wind" means absolutely nothing to anybody who's never been on a boat in their lives, and anybody who does know about boats knows that the way the WT used the analogy is completely ridiculous. A tacking boat may move from side to side, but it never goes backwards.