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  Jail those who turn a blind eye to child abuse, says Cameron

  by JHK in

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  2. child-abuse

  teachers, social workers who work with children and councillors could face up to five years in prison if they turn a blind eye to child abuse under proposals to be set out on tuesday by david cameron.

  [...].

  http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/03/david-cameron-child-abuse-ignore-jail.

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  That is the law in California.... if you work or volunteer with children you are a mandated reporter.
  
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  Borg music video a real tear-jerker

  by Slave4_38y in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  this is a must watch video.

  it brought tears of laughter!.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx-akomec3q.

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  As a musician I gotta say... the song and the singing is crap!
  
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  WT is trying to scare off memorial partakers

  by cookiemaster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't know how many of you still participate in the sunday wt study, but i unfortunately still do.

  even though i was asleep half of the time, i did notice something i thought i should share with the rest, in case you haven't noticed.

  a lot of the paragraphs were worded strongly against partaking and used clear language of intimidation and discouragement toward anyone thinking of partaking.

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  John 6:53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
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  JW going to prestigious university

  by ivanatahan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been debating this, and my mother (the spiritual head of my family, she even controls my father spiritually, who is an elder) doesn't seem to be starkly against me going to a prestigious university.

  in fact, i've been going over my chances, and i'd say i have a pretty decent chance of going to my dream university, oxford university, to study philosophy, politics, and economics.

  naturally i wouldn't tell my mother about me wanting to take the three most hated subjects of jws at a university that would bring me into bad relations with "spiritually sound jws".. do you guys know any ex-jw or knowledgeable jw who knows ttatt that went to a randall group or ivy league school?

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  Why doesn't the watchtower just open their own university? Every reputable religions has already done so. This way they still have a chance at keeping those youngsters that wanna go, AND they can make tons of money in the process.
  
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  A couple questions for atheists on Suffering

  by little_Socrates in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  who told you that the world should be free from suffering?.

  do you find any value in suffering?.

  do you think it is possible to experience all the beauty and goodness and pleasure the world offers without also experiencing the bad?

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  A child being Kidnapped raped and murdered....
  

  In and of itself that is a pretty horrible event. However when taken as a whole with the whole human condition it doesn't make the world an evil place.

  Cofty I am not here to prove God. As absurd as the question is I want to know, for an atheist, what makes suffering evil?
  
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  A couple questions for atheists on Suffering

  by little_Socrates in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  who told you that the world should be free from suffering?.

  do you find any value in suffering?.

  do you think it is possible to experience all the beauty and goodness and pleasure the world offers without also experiencing the bad?

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  alert - Retreat into deism imminent!

  LOL I admit it is very difficult not to use Christian based arguments but I am trying as hard as I can.

  So address the hard question.

  My comment about "except for Tsunami" was only in reference to the comment "know you are alive"

  You didn't answer my question on this though.... What makes those 250k deaths any more evil than any other death?
  
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  A couple questions for atheists on Suffering

  by little_Socrates in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  who told you that the world should be free from suffering?.

  do you find any value in suffering?.

  do you think it is possible to experience all the beauty and goodness and pleasure the world offers without also experiencing the bad?

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  Just how suffering in the gym makes us physically healthier.... Suffering in the world helps us grow roots and be stronger of soul. It gives us depth to our human experience. It keeps us connected to all other living creatures and lets us know we are alive (except for your Tsunami example).
  

  The Atheists argument is... the world does not appear as though it has been created by a loving God so therefore no God.

  I want to know what would the world would look like if there was a loving God in charge? What qualities should we look for?
  
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  A couple questions for atheists on Suffering

  by little_Socrates in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  who told you that the world should be free from suffering?.

  do you find any value in suffering?.

  do you think it is possible to experience all the beauty and goodness and pleasure the world offers without also experiencing the bad?

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  Morpheus I never said that and I never meant to infer that.
  

  My point was while the entire human experience is beautiful I feel that atheists are a bit to focused on the suffering aspect of it. The suffering does not negate all the good. And I would say in light of how good the world can be... if we also have to experience some suffering it is not evil.
  
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  A couple questions for atheists on Suffering

  by little_Socrates in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  who told you that the world should be free from suffering?.

  do you find any value in suffering?.

  do you think it is possible to experience all the beauty and goodness and pleasure the world offers without also experiencing the bad?

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  Morpheus... when atheists say "Why does God allow suffering" how do they define it? That is the definition I want to work towards.
  
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  A couple questions for atheists on Suffering

  by little_Socrates in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  who told you that the world should be free from suffering?.

  do you find any value in suffering?.

  do you think it is possible to experience all the beauty and goodness and pleasure the world offers without also experiencing the bad?

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  The entire human experience is beautiful. Yes I know many things can be unpleasant but they just fall on that continuum will all the great things we can experience.

  My point about the victims you mentioned... even though they died tragically, it doesn't negate all the great things they experienced in life. The goodness of living is so much greater than the badness of some suffering we may face.

  What makes their deaths any more evil than any other one?