dear all,.
my daughter (let's call her abbadette) is visting me in the netherlands for the frist time this week.
she's nearly 16 and lives with her mum who is largely inactive but still culticly influenced.. my darling abbadette has kind of figured out that it is a load of (passes keyboard to daughter) utter and complete shite.. (regains use of keyboard) where ever did she learn langauage like that?
Golly, is it the Memorial tonight?!
Mercy me, I have trained my parents well, they didn't even hint once it would be nice nice if I took Biba to the Memorial... they must have realised a refusal often offends
Richie is a rather daring young man still 'in' for a variety of reasons, but is not letting that stop him posting top secret elder info he found on the internet for everyone to see (for example).
dear all,.
my daughter (let's call her abbadette) is visting me in the netherlands for the frist time this week.
she's nearly 16 and lives with her mum who is largely inactive but still culticly influenced.. my darling abbadette has kind of figured out that it is a load of (passes keyboard to daughter) utter and complete shite.. (regains use of keyboard) where ever did she learn langauage like that?
Dear all,
My daughter (let's call her Abbadette) is visting me in the Netherlands for the frist time this week. She's nearly 16 and lives with her mum who is largely inactive but still culticly influenced.
My darling Abbadette has kind of figured out that it is a load of (passes keyboard to daughter) utter and complete shite.
(regains use of keyboard) where ever did she learn langauage like that?
Please drop by to say Hi! to her, and if any of you have kids near her age, maybe they can exchange mails?
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jesus seemed to believe in the story of noah's flood.
i wonder if god really drowned millions of people like the bible says for simply eating and drinking and not taking any note?
No. It's a myth. Go to Egypt; the Great Pyramid was there hundreds of years before the Flood, it didn't notice, or the civilisation that built it.
Reject literalism. People seek to cling to the literal creation and flood stories as if they insist they are true, they can insist the other stories are literally true too. It gives them security. Doesn't mean it is true though.
say, for example, you ask a jw about the book of genesis, and about the seven days, we all know what they say, that it's in "god time" which means 1 day = 7000 years, by their reckoning.
does this particular argument have any validity?
to me it seems like an "escape hatch", a tool to explain away what one could call certain "irregularities" in the bible.. they seem to think they can cross-reference any one part of the bible with any other as serves their ideological agenda.
One problem with their view of the Bible is, if you step outside their frame of reference, the god they worship was a bit of a bastard.
Setting Adam and Eve up to lose by making them try to see if they can live without god (what their action supposedly meant, which they took when immortal) AND be mortal. Then, after the Flood, when mortal humans seem to be getting it together AGAIN god cheats. Ethnic cleansing, multiple genuscide (sic)?
You want to worship that, even IF it IS god?
Of course, the extrapolation of what sort of god their beliefs would require doesn't mean god IS like that, it's like someone banning a Suzzanne Vega record because of the lyric "I believe right now if I could I would swallow you whole" on the grounds it was about oral sex". A rather sick and extreme 'reading' of the text. Oh, the Suzzane Vega thing actually happened, QED.
judas iscariot's reputation as one of the most notorious villains in history could be thrown into doubt with the release of an ancient text on thursday.
the gospel of judas, a papyrus document from the 3rd or 4th century ad, tells the story of jesus' death from the fallen disciple's point of view.
alleged to be a copy of an even older text, it casts judas as a benevolent figure, helping jesus to save mankind.
All this "who was Jesus' best buddy" stuff is like a camp Spartacus (which would be a thing to see)...
"I'm Jesus' bestest friend!"
"No! I am Jesus' best friend!"
"No! I am Jesus' best friend!"
"I'm Jesus' bestest friend!"
"I'm Jesus' bestest friend!"
"No! I am Jesus' best friend!"
"I'm Jesus' bestest friend!"
Etc., ...
If we're to believe what it might actually mean is true, they're missing the point.
We're ALL Jesus' best buddy.
What next, springtime for Hitler... oh, no, Mel Brookes already did that... how about the senstive, tender side of Torquemada? The celebacy of de Sade? The wit and wisdom of Ronald Raygun?.. oh, someone did that did they? (A blank LP record if I recall)
either this has been going on for years and was never talked about or there is a rash of internet child porn, arrangements for sick underage sex, and family sex abuse.
i read 3 news events in the last couple of days with this constantly happening.
how sick!
stillconcerned
Elsewise, the rate of recidivism of sexual offenders is constant, but the population continues to rise, so the corresponding rate of molesters continues to rise, as a statistical constant.
But this doesn't mean a higher percentage of people under 16 are being subjected to sexual acts by adults than fifty years ago.
You mention kid on kid abuse... that needs definiton. Some technically illegal kid on kid sex under 16 is not abuse, but a perfectly normal part of sexual development, albeit one adults don't feel comfortable with.
Some countries deal with this fact, and still attempt to protect teens from sexula predation by setting 'two-stage' AOC's which do not criminalise normal (but early) sexual development with people of the same age whilst criminalising acts if the age gap is too large.
either this has been going on for years and was never talked about or there is a rash of internet child porn, arrangements for sick underage sex, and family sex abuse.
i read 3 news events in the last couple of days with this constantly happening.
how sick!
It's not you, it's increased reporting of crime and news media.
With sex crime against older kids there's another driving factor; the raise in the age-of-consent
Not to put too fine a point on it, but even only a generation or two ago if someone was attracted to girls in their early teens one had outlets that either don't exist or are highly risky. Some of our great-grandfathers and even grandfathers were marrying girls fourteen or younger. It was socially acceptable and legal. In the 19th Century it was the plauge in child prostitution which drove the changes in Age-of-Consent, but there was no difference between the punishment for having sex with an 18 year old and a 14 year old prostitute..
We see more because what passed as everyday in our great-grandfathers day is now considered bad, but that hasn't stopped it happening.
Now it's pretty obvious why AOC has risen - education takes longer, society is more complex. A 12 year-old might be considered a worthy apprentice in 1880. He'd be as capable in that world as an eighteen year-old is in ours. Now men attracted to teenage girls screw up young women's lives, rather than probably taking her to tea with the neighbours.
So whilst it appears more prominent, it's probably no more frequent, and quite probably better than most of the 19th Century... and the victims today are freer to speak out... but that doesn't mean there weren't as many in the 50's that suffered in silence.
pop superstar prince will reportedly appear on american idol to both coach contestants and perform on the hit tv series - in a bid to maintain high album sales.
the notoriously shy star has just released his latest lp, 3121, which debuted at the top of the us billboard chart.
according to pagesix.com, executives from prince's record company convinced him to appear on the show to keep the album at the top of the charts, after noting a huge spike in album sales when barry manilow appeared on the program earlier this year.
Darling Nikki anyone?
I knew a girl named Dubbie
I guess u could say she was a sex fiend
I met them in a hotel lobby
Distributing a magazine
She said how'd u like 2 waste some time
And I could not resist when I saw little Dubbie grind
She took me 2 the Bethel
And I just couldn't believe my eyes
She had so many magazines
Everything that money could buy
She said sign your name on the dotted line
The lights went out
And Dubbie started 2 grind
Dubbie!
The Bethel started spinning
Or maybe it was my brain
I can't tell u what she did 2 me
But my body will never be the same
Her "lovin'" will kick your behind
Oh, she'll show u no mercy
But she'll sho'nuff sho'nuff show u how 2 grind
Darlin' Dubbie
Woke up the next morning
Dubbie wasn't there
I looked all over and all I found
Was a DF'ing on the stairs
It said thank u 4 a funky time
Call me up whenever u want 2 grind
Oh, Dubbie, ohhhh
Come back Dubbie, come back
Your dirty little Prince
Wanna grind grind grind grind grind grind grind grind grind
[backwards at the end...]
"Hello, how r u? I'm fine. 'cause I know
That the Lord is coming soon, coming, coming soon."
http://www.rzim.org/publications/jttran.php?seqid=52 .
"what cannot be doubted is that many new testament critics have approached the gospels with an utterly unjustified skepticism--a skepticism that wouldn't be considered justified in any other branch of ancient history.
new testament scholar r. t. france declares that "at the level of their literary and historical character we have good reason to treat the gospels as a source of information on the life and teachings of jesus, and thus on the historical origins of christianity.
Rex
What fun! Now you're talking about despots, when given free reign I think Christian despotism is exactly what you'd vote for given the chance, although you'd probably call it 'theocratic government'.
To get the amount of hate and bile you have for everyone who is not an American Christo-facist into your body is a remarkable feat of minaturisation (let alone hypocracy given your claimed religious beliefs).
http://www.rzim.org/publications/jttran.php?seqid=52 .
"what cannot be doubted is that many new testament critics have approached the gospels with an utterly unjustified skepticism--a skepticism that wouldn't be considered justified in any other branch of ancient history.
new testament scholar r. t. france declares that "at the level of their literary and historical character we have good reason to treat the gospels as a source of information on the life and teachings of jesus, and thus on the historical origins of christianity.
Slaphead
Abaddon doesn't have the experience nor the longevity to be of the 'old guard'. He wasn't even around for the old H2O board. As far as weasels go, he is a young one....LOL. How's that for an Ad Hominem, Abadacadabra?
Ah Rex... if we could train a chimp to do what you do it would be deemed remarkable and people would pay to see it.
Coming from a supposed human (I've wondered whether you're a poorly written Turing Test) it is is simply dull and depressing, a bit like the street musician people give money to so they go away.
But you 'coming to the rescue' of a kindred spirit - nah, strike that, it's very unlikely XJW4EVR is as bad as you - is funny as you have shown time and time again in disucssions you can't 'fight' your way out of a wet brown paper bag, no matter what self-felatory opinion you have of yourself.
It's like being rescued by Custer at Little Big Horn...
Please, read a few books and have a brain transplant before you try to insult me... you're such a munchkin you use an appeal to antiquity as an insult.
Is it true you once kept an amphiboly in a bowl and fed it until it turned into a frog?
