TerryWalstrom
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Electrocuting Jehovah's Witnesses
by TerryWalstrom inhttps://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-47419918/russian-jehovah-s-witnesses-claim-state-tortured-them.
russian jehovah's witnesses claim state tortured them.
in northern russia, seven men have come forward to claim they were tortured by police because of their religious views.
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Speed Trap
by TerryWalstrom inspeed trap (1970).
i was driving back from a music gig in austin when i hit one of those sneaky highway speed traps.. back then the speed limit on the interstate was 55 mph.. well--suddenly for a quarter mile--it wasn't.. how do i know that?the patrolman who stopped me was kind enough to inform me...as he bid me follow him...to the local justice of the peace...to pay my $50 fine...or else i'd go to jail.. looking back on that episode in my life--i handled it with less wisdom than i now possess.for one thing, i was a bit insensitive.the justice was older than god's socks.
he may well have been animatronic (you know, like at disneyland).he was deafer than beethoven.. "your honor, there was no reduce speed sign posted along the hi---"he kept interrupting me to ask if i wanted to pay cash or personal check.my remedy was to talk louder.. "your honor, there was...etc".
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My conversation with the "Fixer" attorney for Pentecostal TV evangelists
by TerryWalstrom ini had occasion to chat with a man who was the attorney for a large cabal (all related by blood) of pentecostal tv evangelists.
how it came about was as follows.i was finishing my first book about my stint in prison as a jw (i wept by the rivers of babylon)and a man in a suit walked over and asked me what i was working on.he said he'd seen me every day and got curious.i told him.he jumped at the chance to unburden at that point.in the course of our conversation, he opened my eyes to a great many things, not the least of which was the poisonous inevitability of larceny which comes with being a spokesman for god's 'truth.
'he described the process.
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Audio : I read the first chapter of my Detective story Black Coffee, Hard Justice
by TerryWalstrom inas read by me: (click link below)https://drive.google.com/open?id=1y3qdctyidsojiadgrzm6wyhvvkmg54jkblack coffee, hard justice____________.
private detective joe fisk was pushing 60.
60 was pushing back.
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Justice-but is it really?
by TerryWalstrom injustice: individuals or groups?.
1. you commit the crime--you must do the time.2.
those aren't your fingerprints on the murder weapon--you're exonerated.. justice = you break it--you buy it.
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Three Questions...Agree or Disagree?
by TerryWalstrom inagree...or...disagree.
three questions (answer them in your own head).
1. is it okay to punish people who have done nothing wrong?2.
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The Space Alien is...JESUS!
by TerryWalstrom insilly obsessionsome groups of people in the world believe flying saucers and space aliens are secretly visiting our planet intervening in man’s affairs.
jehovah’s witnesses believe something very similar!
except, the space alien is jesus!throughout the history of christianity there has never been any confusion about what the phrase"the return of christ" actually means.
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Leah Remini: Scientology and Jehovah's Witnesses: "They have the same rhetoric" Newsweek article
by TerryWalstrom inhttps://www.newsweek.com/leah-remini-scientologists-jehovahs-witnesses-have-same-rhetoric-attacks-1267728?fbclid=iwar2myik_ojmxv66tzeu22ql5hnupir2ohgk9teucexkwa6ljcfzurbsih2g.
hey’re hoping that a&e will have enough pressure from disney, their parent company, [and] enough advertisers will pull out.
these are the tactics of scientology,” she added.. remini’s new season, unlike before, explored the jehovah’s witnesses in a two-hour special.
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Alone with God (and melted ice cream)
by TerryWalstrom inalone with god and melted ice cream--------dialectic.
what's so great about being great if you're the one telling yourself, "i'm so great"?.
god is that incredible cask of brandy in the cool, dark cellar...presumably getting better and better with the passing years.. .
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What do you think about this?
by TerryWalstrom ini find the approach, the reasoning, the dialectic rather fascinating.https://www.jpost.com/opinion/op-ed-contributors/the-exodus-does-archaeology-have-a-say-348464a religion, basically, wrestles with science____did slaves build the pyramids?http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8451538.stm.
____the only reason i bring this up is because i have dear close evangelical friends who are--how shall i say it---.
rather opinionated beyond their pay grade :).