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  Who was more selfless? Jesus or Brenda Lee Marquez McCool?

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  jesus was a perfect sinless human (they say) who came to die for mankind.

  he gave up his perfect life for all.

  selfless?

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  kaik

  I read about her that she was a mother of 12 and was very accepting of her gay son and took bullet for him. Very remarkable woman.
  
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  Differences Between Ex-JWs

  by David_Jay in

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  we are not all the same--a real "duh, david!

  so i figured if i didn't feel that sense of solidarity that seems missing among the debating, then i was part of the problem.

  i'm responsible for making this place feel like a support and place of solidarity, just as much as anyone else.. but approaches i tried didn't work until i shut up for a while.

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  I met bunch of ex-JW who I wish I never met, and were rather terrible people to begin with. I met some very nice ex-JW people. Generally, I found the slight negative in both within WT and outside WT community by ratio 60/40. Many ex-JW carry the superiority complex, the feeling to be chosen, after they left WT, continue to preach others, and always trying to proof something, and telling someone how their view/beliefs/experience is right and everyone else is wrong.
  
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  Islam is a religion of peace (2)

  by Coded Logic in

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  in behalf of the horrific events of saturday night, i just wanted to take a moment to remind everyone that islam is a religion of peace.

  it doesn’t matter that the quran explicitly says that homosexuals should be stoned to death (7:84) - it’s still a religion of peace.

  and it doesn’t matter that the scriptures say that all gay men should be killed (sunan 1:152) - islam doesn’t in anyway condone violence.. it doesn’t matter that every mainstream imam calls homosexuality a sin "worse the adultery" - it’s not a religion of bigotry.. it doesn’t matter that 61% of muslims in the uk think gay acts should be made illegal - islam has nothing against the gay community.. it doesn’t matter that countries with sharia law actively persecute the lgbt community - islam is all about peace and love.

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  From what I've seen, they haven't posted any comments in support of the Orlando victims and their families.

  I live below Dixie line in a former Confederacy and certainly the Red Belt does not give a rat about the Orlando victims. Fox news posts are full of hatred against the victims and I can compare to VTech shooting, which was far more covered story than this at that time because it did not involve Latino gay and lesbian community.
  
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  Islam is a religion of peace (2)

  by Coded Logic in

  1. social
  2. current

  in behalf of the horrific events of saturday night, i just wanted to take a moment to remind everyone that islam is a religion of peace.

  it doesn’t matter that the quran explicitly says that homosexuals should be stoned to death (7:84) - it’s still a religion of peace.

  and it doesn’t matter that the scriptures say that all gay men should be killed (sunan 1:152) - islam doesn’t in anyway condone violence.. it doesn’t matter that every mainstream imam calls homosexuality a sin "worse the adultery" - it’s not a religion of bigotry.. it doesn’t matter that 61% of muslims in the uk think gay acts should be made illegal - islam has nothing against the gay community.. it doesn’t matter that countries with sharia law actively persecute the lgbt community - islam is all about peace and love.

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  kaik

  Adam Lanza was mentally ill. The Orlando shooter behaved under religious impulse. He had clearance or public trust position according to news and there is no indication he was mentally ill. He justified his action with his religion. Not much different from SS who burned Slavic villages from Czech to Russia down to Serbia because their National Socialist ideology considered Slavs inferior.
  
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  Are the witnesses really False prophets?

  by MrTheocratic in

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  when you read the following statements from the wt.

  organization... do they satisfy you?

  or better stated...... should you be satisfied by there answers?.

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  kaik

  Yes, they are announcers of the false prophecies released by the WT. I remember when this print went out, and my mom still has it in her possession:

  
  
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  Evidence for a Young Earth

  by Perry in

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  The soft tissue is fossilized, but chemical process was reversed, which gave the opportunity to study the soft tissue, and organic molecules. It is not a raw meat that was preserved. Entire process is described here by woman who invented this method.

  http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaur-shocker-115306469/?no-ist
  
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  Green Burial

  by Xanthippe in

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  so my cousin gave up her fight against bowel cancer a couple of weeks ago.

  yesterday was the funeral.

  i haven't experienced a green burial before.

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  We talked about it, but we do not have definitive plans. My mom wants to be buried with my dad. I am not sure if I would like to be buried in USA or in the Czech Republic. In Czechia, you do not own burial plot, you only rent it for 20 years. However, the lot can be deeded to relative, which is the case of my family plot where we have five-six generations there. It is in the Carpathian mountains surrounded by woods on three sides. My spouse does not want to be cremated (Jewish faith prevents it), and I do not want to be buried in their plot in New Jersey. At the end it does not matter. What matter is to have a written will, decision if you want to be hooked up to ventilator or not, the quality of life at the end-stage and hospice care, and financial obligation after someone had passed.
  
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  Do you work a lot of overtime?

  by hoser in

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  what is the normal attitude as to working overtime?

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  how many hours do you work in a week?.

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  I did a lot of consulting and advisory work, so there was work for the client, but also for the company. While I do not mind working a lot of hours, especially on project I do enjoy, there is a clean line between necessary overtime and getting abused by the management. My previous job was like that and we had terrible attrition rate. I had on the same project three managers in the span of 20 months. I got calls as early as 7am on Saturday demanding to set up account that can be done as the first thing on Monday to doing database backed up between midnight and 3am to be in the office the next morning by 9am.
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  Do you work a lot of overtime?

  by hoser in

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  what is the normal attitude as to working overtime?

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  kaik

  I used to in my old job. It burned me down. It seemed to be 24-7 constant client support. I resigned after I got another position. The same money, better benefits and I work from 9-6. I do not mind working overtime when it was necessary and it was crucial to the success of the project. But on the other hand, I have life outside work. Work life balance is must.
  
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  Evidence for a Young Earth

  by Perry in

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  kaik

  lemonade bottle left in a cave in 1954

  if the average growth rate is 0.13 mm per year than the bottle will be covered with 8.06 mm since 1954 or about 1/3 of inch. It will take 1000 years to get it covered with just over 5 inches of the mineral deposit. How long it will take to be 10 feet or 10 meters?

  I do not know what is the growth rate in Jenolan cave (one site mentioned it is about 0.14 mm) where this bottle appears, but the pure math does not support notion that Earth is just 6000 years old when alone they estimate some of the large formation in that cave to be 500,000 years old based on their size.