Can scientists predict the future?
huh! shan't! doh! jello, i began my life online being taken for someone else's sock puppet, so my sense of reality is already warped. you cant touch me. i predict meadows et al will be fully vindicated as all their predictions in 'limits to growth' continue to come true, unfortunately. jim, if dana could make me up i would have even more respect for him that i already do. an english feminist, with knowledge of environmental and systems science, water treatment, anthropology, low impact living, horticulture and permaculture (not to mention cats) on top of his other skills? the man's a genius!
How do men pick the future mother of their children ?
I think guys go for girls that a) are physically appealing to them and b) are the best they think themselves capable of. Guys want to feel lucky and proud of their woman (of course, who doesn't want that?) and so it's good for that woman to have goals, and similar views on life. And to be a bit Freudian, probably either very similar to or completely opposite from their mother, depending on their relationship with her.
Do Jehovah’s Witness parents limit their child’s future?
All parents limit their childrens' futures because all parents are limited themselves. It's only a question of degree. All children get parental baggage dumped on them - the fortunate ones only get a satchel-full and it finds its way on to their backs with very little awareness that it's there. Others get buried alive with a ton of angst and horror tipped on to them, right from birth. So let's not be unfair with JW parents, who nearly all do their level best to do the right thing by their children. JW children are shielded from a lot of bad things 'out there', in the world, but the limitations that results in always requires pay-back. A lot of JW kids just cannot take being so different at school and being bullied as a result. Many of them run away from home as soon as they can. No JW will ever admit to this. But we've got a JW family living round the corner from us, and two of their children got out as quick as they could. Their parents were / are nice folks. They just couldn't understand how they were stifling their kids. Other people can understand it. You've got to give kids space to flap their wings, make a few mistakes, do a few daft things yet not feel threatened with disfellowshipping etc. Other JW kids seem to do all the right things they're supposed to. They are model teenagers! They pioneer straight from school. Then they get married to JWs and start bringing up their own children the JW way. But because they were never encouraged to aim for a structured career, they struggle. They often don't even have enough money for medical insurance. Now, if they are content with that - fair enough. The question is, as decades go by and still Armageddon does not come, do they begin to doubt to themselves. Do they regret having had such a limited outlook, given they're approaching old age and hardly anything of a pension saved? Again, no JW will ever admit to this. You need to observe them over the years, getting to know families, then you can see the cycle of events. It's one that has been repeating itself since the late 1800s. Who knows how many JW couples died childless because they believed the Society warning not to bring children into the world so near Armageddon? Who knows how many JW children felt they wasted most of their life in a system they now view as limiting? You won't get a single admission from any JW here. Only ex-JWs will share with you and then they will be accused of being bitter and spiteful and telling lies.
Do we have a right to create life?
I think that there are certainly allot of people that have children that arguably shouldn't have the rigt to. People should not have kids until/unless they are prepared to dedicate the rest of their lives to them. I still have a vivid image of a bus trip when I was about 13. I was with my elder brother, and sitting across from us were 2 kids that had missing teeth, ratty hair and dirty smelly clothes. They were causing a havock on the bus and their parents were completely oblivious, high off their kites, complaining that the local welfare office wasn't giving them enough food stamps. I just remember being so sad for the future of these kids. Just seeing into their future, knowing they will follow the same cycle purely because they don't know any better...., and being helpless to do anything about it. I still worry when I think back at it, privately wishing them well. Human life is such a fragile thing. What we learn as kids. The patterns we get into form our beliefs we have about ourselves, therefore it's so critical parents are aware of the impact f their behaviour on their kids. A very interesting thing one of my teachers and world famous acting coach - Larry Moss once said is that "it is the responsibility of your parents to do everything for you unconditionally until the day you have children of your own" in a world that is triky enough as it is, not having a strong family foundation I believe limits the potential of what you can accomplish in life or at least makes it harder to get there.
Why are jehovah's witnesses right or wrong in their beliefs?
The same type of people who persecuted Jesus Christ while he walked the earth and persecuted the Christians of the first century are the same type of individuals in modern times today who make the ignorant and lying claim that Jehovah's Witnesses are a "cult", when the very definition of the word clearly has no application to them. Jehovah's Witnesses base all of their teachings, beliefs, and practices on God's Word, the Bible. If you are an objective, open-minded individual not given to the bigoted and prejudiced comments of people who claim they are former Jehovah's Witnesses, or people who simply just want to cry out "they'll brainwash you" or "they're a cult, stay away!"..........if you sincerely want to know who they are or why they believe what they believe, then take the 60 seconds or (heaven forbid) 5 minutes to ask them honest questions when they come to your door. Or, perhaps you may even work with a Jehovah's Witness. Just by asking them a question or two, don't think they're going to hound and harass you. Our goal, as Jehovah's Witnesses, is to share the Bible's positive message for the future with those who want to know the truth about who Jehovah is, who Jesus is, why is the world in the state it's in today, and will it always be this way. It is also a warning that we deliver to others that shortly God will directly intervene in mankind's affairs and cleanse this earth of the things that have caused misery to mankind for so long. ______________________________________... The ones who may scream out that that we're wrong in our beliefs are the same kind of people who, for whatever reason, cling to unscriptural, false doctrines of men and make no personal effort on their own to compare those things with what the Bible actually teaches. For example, those who ignorantly claim Jehovah's Witnesses are wrong are the same ones who believe in the trinity doctrine, hellfire, immortality of the human soul, "Jesus is God", and so forth......even though NONE of those teachings are taught in or supported by the Bible.
Why do people want to live forever?
I’ve always associated longevity with good fortune. It’s what I wish on those I love and the reason I do my best to live a healthy life. (OK. Besides vanity.)My ex- husband’s grandmother lived to 104. And I can tell you, by 90 she was tired of living. She had seen all her friends - and their children - and most of her family (parents, brothers, sisters, cousins) die. She was a widow for many years and missed her husband terribly. Towards the end of her life she cursed him for leaving her here alone. Her age became a sentence. She lived in a world she no longer understood, one that left her behind. Everyone she loved had built a life that (she felt) only included her out of a sense of duty.She was a woman of great dignity, slender and silent, who preferred to eat her meals alone rather than “invade” her son’s life (and she did indeed eat lunch alone at her dinner table, day after day, despite her son begging her to come upstairs to his apartment, for almost 20 years.)She was completely independent for a long, long time. She lived alone without any help until she was 98, going to the store and cooking for herself until she showed signs of short term memory loss that led her son and daughter in law to fear she might wander off or leave the stove on.The last years of her life she lived in a home where she was the oldest. She was the only one who took the two flights of stairs that led to her room and who refused to go to the doctor. She shunned all forms of medication, even vitamins. She drank no water, only a glass of red wine with meals. Of all her traits, my favorite was her lack of interest in being tactful. A few years back, her grandson told her she looked beautiful. His tone, although completely void of cruelty, was flip. The immediacy of her razor sharp response (along the lines of “go to hell”) left him reeling.I love life. Sounding negative about having more of it feels counterintuitive and not very gracious. But I wonder how much of what I now consider crucial to my well being I would still have 55 years from now. I wonder if I wouldn’t be feeling more of an ever-present sense of loss than any feeling of gratitude or triumph.
Married men are you happily married honestly?
You must not know much about marriage - or men. FWIW, I'm very happily married to my 3rd wife. We've been married for almost 4 years and have more sex than ever. What you don't appear to know about sex and men and marriage is that all the studies say the same thing; married men say they're happier with their sex life than single men are. With some lucky marriages, the longer you're married, the better it gets. All the stress that goes with hooking up and junk when you're single, all the stress about STDs and pregnancy, you can let all that stress go after you get married. I wish I'd met my wife years earlier. She's wonderful and I've never been happier - and I'm turning 50 next month.
Why are people so interested in my love life?
dats de way gurl!!! u really really rock!! and u better not come back here 2 ask such a ques.! trsust me i m jus totally imressed by u!!!(( eeeee!!) damnnn i m jus 17! lol!! jus be happy the way u are.. wwell u have been really really satisfied with wat u have been for all dese days... and now the ques arisin mite make u take sum stupid decision... but jus imagine... every guy would prefer a gurl like u... ur jus totally rockin! be happy for wat u are!!