the recent thread about the 5yr old baptized got me to thinking....... i learned to read at an early age.
i was also in all the gifted classes in school.
i remember a great deal of the witness kids were in gifted classes.
jwbot was right on. Younger JW kids are more advanced in school, generally. Being forced to study, sit through meetings and read names like Maher-shalel-hash-baz will do that.
But there is a DEFINITE leveling off after middle school and most certainly after HS.
Bradley
PS -- Interestingly, I heard the same thing about other "fundy" kids on a different forum (non-JW, mind you). The same thing already stated could be said for 7th Day Adventist kids, Mormons etc.
i saw this flick last night.
the most violent movie i've ever seen, hands down.
a little more and it would have gotten an nc-17 rating for sure.. that being said -- brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
Jade,
I believe Vol. 2 will be released early next year. I believe all the original intent was to release one movie but it simply was too long. Some people are aggrevated about that -- the fact they will have to pay double to see the whole thing. Idiots.
Bradley
PS -- Damn. You're cute too.
my dreams are not just like "dreams.
" they are like memories to me, and my mind can create something when i sleep with the most vivid colors, feelings, sounds, cold or damp or wet or smothering heat.
it all seems so real to me.
Wet.
i saw this flick last night.
the most violent movie i've ever seen, hands down.
a little more and it would have gotten an nc-17 rating for sure.. that being said -- brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
Stacey,
it was made artsy crafsy
Huh?
Bradley
PS -- You're cute.
i saw this flick last night.
the most violent movie i've ever seen, hands down.
a little more and it would have gotten an nc-17 rating for sure.. that being said -- brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
Six,
Oh, what does he know. I said go see it, that's all that matters.
B.
i saw this flick last night.
the most violent movie i've ever seen, hands down.
a little more and it would have gotten an nc-17 rating for sure.. that being said -- brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
I saw this flick last night. The most violent movie I've ever seen, hands down. A little more and it would have gotten an NC-17 rating for sure.
That being said -- brilliant, absolutely brilliant. For those of you who can stomach gratuitous violence for artistic purposes, see this movie. For those who have seen it, WHAT AN ENDING!
Bradley
PS -- Lucy Lieu I love you.
it's getting down to the nitty gritty in the world of baseball .
so who's gonna win it all ????????
i say yankees .
As a Jehovah's Witness I waited and waited and waited for two things: Armageddon and a Cubs World Series. One of them will happen, thank God!
CUBS!!!!
Bradley -- from Chicago
if you are keeping up with scientific developments in the health sciences you might already know that ectogenesis is the next ?big thing?
in the reproductive sciences.
by definition, ectogenesis is the development of life in an artificial environment or artificial womb.
You know, the Society doesn't allow artificial insemination. They classify it as fornication.
Bradley
**Of course, insemination from someone other than your husband. I'm not sure what they would say about non-coital insemination from a husband to his wife. At the very least they would condemn it due to the fact that masturbation would be involved.
so, i'm looking through some booklets at school (college, mind you) about sex and abstinence and all that good stuff.
seems like the department of health really promotes just holding hands and smiling at each other as opposed to mind blowing orgasms.
this got me wondering.
Watson,
Condoms don't guarantee protection, and AIDS is pretty damned scary. I doubt that's the entire picture though.
Correct. Yet condoms, when used correctly, are nearly impermeable. Studies have shown that it is usually when someone is inconsistent in using condoms or when they use them incorrectly that "mistakes" happen.
Moral -- always use condoms and be careful with them. Oh, you're married, that's right. Just forget everything I said.
Bradley
so, i'm looking through some booklets at school (college, mind you) about sex and abstinence and all that good stuff.
seems like the department of health really promotes just holding hands and smiling at each other as opposed to mind blowing orgasms.
this got me wondering.
once a social taboo is no longer related to survival of a society, why keep it around?
Yes! Exactly!
Now, that doesn't mean I believe "anything goes." But, if two people who have no other obligations to anyone want to shag, and as long as they are responsible (read: condom) -- well then, why not?
I notice that most all the literature I see promoting abstinence quote fear-mongering statistics. Here's one: "Every minute, six people aged 10 to 25 get AIDS." Okay, so how many of them were wearing condoms? And what part of the world are we talking about here? Africa? India? Come on.
Bradley
