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  Poll suggests world hostile to US

  by Simon in

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  an interesting read:.

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2994924.stm.

  some key bits:.

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  cowhand

  The US is, for the foreseeable future, our world power, and the only way to look the part is to act powerful.

  I don't have to like everything they do, but when they stop doing it someone else is going to take the job, and I don't care to think who.
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  Another Question for Those Against Capital Punishment

  by StinkyPantz in

  1. watchtower
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  which is worse?

  a convicted murderer getting executed or a convicted murderer being released after serving the minimum of a life sentence, 15 years?.

  btw, before anyone even mentions the low recidivism rate of murderers, you must realize that that is only for those that have been caught.

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  cowhand

  stinkypantz - mine were not claims, they were recent news items and well publicised.

  Societies ideas as to whether it is better that guilty people should go free than that the innocent should be punished has been variable over the years and will continue to be.

  I have been witness to a person being convicted of murder on a balance of probability. Fortunately his appeal was eventually upheld.
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  Being Gay Is a Choice

  by ISP in

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  being gay is a choice by david cornwell

  a different perspective on the old argument

  have you ever heard a person make this statement?

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  cowhand

  Thanks Rayzor. Delighted to meet you!
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  Being Gay Is a Choice

  by ISP in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  being gay is a choice by david cornwell

  a different perspective on the old argument

  have you ever heard a person make this statement?

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  cowhand

  Beautiful amac = just beautiful!

  Nature has one thing on its tiny mind - the next generation.

  And nature NEVER deals in absolutes. 80% of humanity reproducing will do just fine.

  I have a gay son and I briefly beat myself up about where I might have gone wrong. A few years down the line I have come to consider that it's the luck of the draw.

  He's a thoroughly admirable young man and judging people according to what they do in bed is to give undue attention to what is an incidental part of their lives.

  Some folks decide to acknowledge what they are later than others and some never at all.
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  Another Question for Those Against Capital Punishment

  by StinkyPantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  which is worse?

  a convicted murderer getting executed or a convicted murderer being released after serving the minimum of a life sentence, 15 years?.

  btw, before anyone even mentions the low recidivism rate of murderers, you must realize that that is only for those that have been caught.

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  cowhand

  BTW sheilaM what would you recomment as punishment for the two boys in question? These are hard matters which should trouble any of us. There is no known way to put things right nor to ease the grief of the victim's family.

  As for the two boys who did this, we can only start from where we are.
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  Another Question for Those Against Capital Punishment

  by StinkyPantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  which is worse?

  a convicted murderer getting executed or a convicted murderer being released after serving the minimum of a life sentence, 15 years?.

  btw, before anyone even mentions the low recidivism rate of murderers, you must realize that that is only for those that have been caught.

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  cowhand

  This is the U.K. and in the last few days a man hanged in 1950 has been "pardoned". This is one of our British euphemisms for "He didn't do it". It seems the police "forgot" to present some evidence that would greatly have favoured the defence.

  In another case recently a woman won her appeal against sentence for killing her two babies at least partly on the grounds that a medically eminent witness for the prosecution had failed to present evidence favourable to the defence.

  More recently still a woman has been aquitted of the murder of three of her children. Quite right too but strange that the prosecution wheeled on some of the same discredited "experts".

  If people are imprisoned at least there is the chance that mistakes can be addressed.

  I know little of justice in the US but if no miscarriages of the death penalty have ever been found it sounds to me that no-one is looking very hard.

  As an afterthought what effect does gun law in the US have on the murder rate? I understand it to be a hot potato.
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  How Would You Prove That JW's Do Not Have The Truth?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  one thing jw's believe is that they have the truth.

  they believe jehovah god guides them in every possible way.

  they state that all other religions are condemned by god.

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  cowhand

  "Millions now living MAY never die" instead of WILL never die? I rest my case. They lie.

  Nit-picking over doctrine doesn't work and wouldn't have worked with me either.
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  Is JW just another denomination?

  by John Vogel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello :) i suppose this is my introduction to the forum, though i am not sure if i will actually post and read much here.

  i did go through several posts, and didn't find anything helpful, though i did find many posts interesting... anyway, i am not a jehovahs witness.

  i hope this doesn't immediatly diqualify me from posting this question here... but basically, i was wondering just what is jw?

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  cowhand

  Hi John - and welcome.

  My beef with the WTS is not mainly about doctrine although there's plenty about that too.

  It was when I discovered that they would also lie that my eyes were really opened.

  A WT article in 1991 quoted from a booklet published in the 1930's which they said was entitled "millions now living may never die".

  It wasn't called that. It was called "millions now living WILL never die"

  My JW sister seemed unable to see the difference.

  BTW the WTS doesn't do misprints.
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  Here is something to debate!

  by Aztec in

  1. jw
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  does true love exist?.

  i'm a skeptic by nature, although not necessarily a very logical one.

  i believe in love but i am not sure of the idea of one true love or soulmates.

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  cowhand

  funkeyderek, that was going to be my line

  Bob
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  What do the British think of Camilla Parker Bowles?

  by unbeliever in

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  2. friends

  i saw on the news this morning that the queen has invited camilla to a westminster abbey service to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the queen's coronation.

  from what i heard this is a major deal.

  i know 2 people that are from england.

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  cowhand

  Well said Dansk!!

  My personal knowledge of any of these people is zilch.

  In C-P-B's favour, she gives the news-hounds nothing. Probably why the press and quite a few others hate her.