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  Movie recommendation: Defending Your Life

  by seattleniceguy in

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  i wanted to recommend a movie and see if any of you had ever seen it.

  the movie is called defending your life, with albert brooks and meryl streep.

  it's a comedy, but it strikes at some important truths.

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  Sara Annie

  My three percent is swimming

  One of my all time favorite movie quotations. We used it to death in college. Good flick, great fun!
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  Would you do this to your kids?

  by Euphemism in

  1. social
  2. family

  a lot of cell phones now contain locator technology, either in the form of a gps transceiver, or a system based on triangulating cell towers.. some parents are using this to track their teenager's location at all times.

  "before, they might not have told me the truth, but now i know they're going to," said mr. lutz, 46, a lawyer who has been particularly protective of britney and her sister, chelsea, 17, since his wife died several years ago.

  "they know i care.

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  Lets suppose a daughter suspects her dad is fooling around with another woman but mom don't know. The daughter reads the diary and the dad walks in on her reading it.

  Heres the point...would a daughter have the right to do this, as her dads feels he has a right to read his daughters diary?

  The logic here is faulty. We cannot reverse the roles and see if the same action is objectionable because the relationships are not equivalent. The father is directly responsible for the welfare of his daughter. The daughter is not directly responsible for the behavior and decisions of her father, regardless of their impact on her life.

  As a mother, I'm with Yeru on this one. The bottom line is that these are MY children, and I will use any means or information at my disposal to keep them safe. If that means that I search the room of a child I suspect is using drugs, I'll do it in a heartbeat. If I see evidence that my child is not revealing something that could endanger their welfare, I will read that diary with no hesitation. That's part of my job as their mother.

  To protect your children by close supervision or occasional breaches of 'privacy' and to lovingly allow your children to grow and make decisions are not mutually exclusive activites. I get frustrated with the mentality that our children should be our 'friends'. I have seen little that is more destructive to a parent/child relationship than regarding your child as your social equal when they are absolutely not. I listen to parents say "I can't control what he/she does". Bullshit. You are the PARENT, you not only can control their behavior, you must.

  Your reward for maintaining a loving parental relationship using understanding and discipline while still allowing them to make their own choices is that when your child grows up to be your social equal, you can enjoy a friendship with them. I absolutely count my parents as two of my dearest friends, and am so thankful that they were proactive when there was trouble in adolescence. I may not have liked them much at the time, but I dearly love them and respect that they loved me enough to let me make mistakes, but also to find out what I was up to before I made decisions that could have had dire consequences.
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  Why Christmas is so important

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  years ago, we used to wonder about bible studies and why they fought so hard to resist giving up christmas.. it just seemed that many people were willing to face all the negatives about becoming a witness - except this one.. why?

  it's simple.

  friends and family!.

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  Christmas is the devil's holiday. Who cares what the witness taught us, they was right. Half the parents in the world said's they love their children, but at the same time lies to them with that santa bulls---. And the fact is that nobody living knows when Jesus was born , but yet everybody lies about it and Jesus made it clear that you have to worship the father with truth.
  

  You say that without all these holiday, people can not get together and show love, but all things are possible with GOD, not with ignorance and man. you know im telling the truth, but again like half the world everybody is putting aside the truth and following in their own ways, which is the wrong way

  What a well thought-out and eloquently written rebuttal. I've been swayed and seen the light!
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  Debunking the Skeptics

  by Tashawaa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.abc.net.au/centralvic/stories/s1006138.htm

  i thought the above link provides a good argument for those who doubt "his" existance.

  sometimes we get so caught up in the "science" - we forget that with him "...anything is possible".. imo, i'd still believe due to my faith and evidence - there are the writings, personal experiences, songs, miracles, plus he has touched my heart..

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  Don't make me break out the old list of SANTA v. SATAN similarities.
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  This had me laughing.. anyone have hip hugger or jean tales to tell ?

  by Xandria in

  1. social
  2. humour

  this article had me laughing so hard i was crying.

  i know a few friends who have had the ol' hip hugger snafoo!

  all i can say is: full moonnnn... .

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  Sara Annie

  I am 32 years old and have two children. While I can wear low-rise (and it's a good thing I can, because it's damn near impossible to find anything else when looking for a pair of jeans these days), I always feel like little girls are looking at me the same way I used to look at my mother when she tried to wear stirrup pants and Venezia sweaters when I was in junior high. Just because you can wear something doesn't mean you SHOULD.

  My husband looks at me laciviously when I wear them, though, and that's always a good thing...
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  Debunking the Skeptics

  by Tashawaa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.abc.net.au/centralvic/stories/s1006138.htm

  i thought the above link provides a good argument for those who doubt "his" existance.

  sometimes we get so caught up in the "science" - we forget that with him "...anything is possible".. imo, i'd still believe due to my faith and evidence - there are the writings, personal experiences, songs, miracles, plus he has touched my heart..

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  Sara Annie

  *laughing*

  That'll teach me not to read the link before going off half-cocked. Cute.

  Edited at 11:06 CST because I'm a rash idiot.
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  JW's Mentioned on Hannity and Colmes

  by RubaDub in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i hope i'm not repeating another thread, but i was listening to hannity and colmes on fox last night (thursday) and they mentioned a law suit (in washington state i think) filed by a woman to keep the word "christmas" in the holiday songs.. hannity said this resulted from several jw families that requested that the words be changed so their children could participate and sing the holiday songs.

  the school made the changes and now apparently at least one mother wants the original words put back in.. .

  one of the issues she brought up was that the word hannukah was not removed, only christmas.. .

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  Sara Annie

  On a semi related topic, I have a friend who has two JW children in her third grade class. At the last holiday-related class party, the JW children were picked up by their parents prior to the festivities, but both requested that the snacks and prizes to be distributed at the party be bagged up for their children to enjoy at home. (I guess if the Halloween candy and stickers were enjoyed outside of the party, they were OK)

  Since neither family had participated in paying the nominal fees at the beginning of the year to fund the parties due to their religious objections, she politely declined to give the parents the items unless they wanted to reconsider contributing to the fund. She found it odd that the both sets of parents again refused to contribute but were visibly upset that their children weren't getting the treats anyway.
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  Trista and Ryan - did anyone watch it or does anyone care?

  by TresHappy in

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  2. entertainment

  i watched this made for reality wedding last night on abc.

  did anyone else watch it?

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  Sara Annie

  Do you have presents? Give your things away if you are so worried about people who don't have presents.

  I do, and I do. The very best present my parents ever gave me was that they quietly and consistently helped others and did good in this world, and let my brother and I watch them doing it. We have grown up trying to do the same, and I am teaching my children that part of the privilege of having a comfortable life is that it includes the responsiblity to look after those less fortunate than we are.

  Again, I do not begrudge anyone happiness on their wedding day, there is nothing wrong with having lovely flowers and beautiful garments. When it gets outrageously excessive, however, I find it distasteful. Why spend $250,000 on flowers just to say you did? Why not spend one tenth of that amount for flowers that would be just lovely? I always think about a JW friend of mine talking about how the carpet in the den of the house they were building cost $1,000 per square foot, and gushing with how wonderful it was and remember how I actually felt sick to my stomach that someone would spent 200 grand on carpet, but not give a dime to charity because their 'conscience' wouldn't allow them to. Disgusting.
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  Trista and Ryan - did anyone watch it or does anyone care?

  by TresHappy in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i watched this made for reality wedding last night on abc.

  did anyone else watch it?

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  Sara Annie

  I think weddings are lovely, and I don't begrudge anyone happiness....

  However: To spend $15,000 on shoes and a QUARTER MILLION dollars on just the roses for one couple's wedding--when there are children who are going hungry and will likely not see even one christmas present this year--is ridiculous, bordering on the insane.

  I'm just saying.
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  Thinking of becoming a JW - Need urgent honest advice!!!

  by natalienu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have met a wonderful man but unfortunately he is a jw.

  i have never been interested or really ever been around any religion in my life so all of this right now is very fascinating to me.

  i have been thinking of studying to become one but am also having a hard time finding anything on the net that is positive about it.

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  Sara Annie

  Nearly everyone has such sound advice to offer to you, there isn't much I can add.

  In lieu of offering you my opinion on what you should do, I can ask you to think on a few simple questions.

  1. Are you willing to let any of your future children die rather than take a blood transfusion? If you are, and in the future the organization reverses their position on the blood doctrine due to the emergence of 'new light' (their buzzword for doctrine changes), are you willing to accept that the change was divine direction from God himself and not be resentful that your child died under the 'old understanding'?

  2. Are you willing to stop celebrating all regular holidays (No Christmas, no birthdays, no easter, no halloween, no thanksgiving, no national holidays, no mothers/fathers day, etc), and to give up celebrating any form of those days with your 'normal' family?

  3. Are you willing to take as truth any mandate handed down in the publications of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and follow them without question, knowing that keeping all of your new friends is conditional upon your acceptance of all the doctrine? Are you willing to believe that anything said by the Watchtower is looked upon as direct communication from Jesus Christ to his people here on earth?

  4. Are you willing to voluntarily enter into a contract with an organization (your baptismal vows will require you to pledge your allegiance to the society as God's sole channel of communication on earth)? Are you then also willing to, if at any point in the future you begin to question their teachings, break that contract and be shunned by all your 'christian brothers and sisters'?

  5. Are you willing to ignore that little voice inside of you that led you to post the question that started this thread? Are you willing to ignore all the negative information you've found regarding Jehovah's Witnesses as the voice of Satan attempting to deter you from the 'truth'?

  If you can answer an honest 'Yes' to each and every one of these questions then I suggest you begin that bible study right away and work toward baptism.

  If any of these same questions give you pause, continue your search for information, and listen to the instinct that guided you to research the matter in the first place. Once you are a witness, you will be forbidden to engage in "independent thinking" so take this time to do as much of it as you can before making any decisions.

  I wish you the very best, and hope that you follow the path that is right for you.