Posts by Eric

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CNN/Connie Chung/silentlambs

by silentlambs in

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wednesday evening at 7:00 pm cst there will be an airing of an interview with myself, heidi and amber with connie chung.

there may be an additional followup on thursday.

enjoy this wt.

Eric

Plmkrzy,

Why are JW offenders NOT REGISTERED!

I'll have to wait to see the program, but I agree that the format strategy is a good one. Maybe this will be seen by someone who will ask for the 23,000 odd pedo-files in Brooklyn to be opened to proper legal investigation and who will have the authority to not take no for an answer!

Bill,

I recall when your initial efforts were ridiculed by one rabid JW supporter on this board as small potatoes because your news coverage was small-town Pedukah newspaper.

Well it is big-time now, You Know, CNN, NBC, BBC, New York Times. So stuff a sock in it, You Know! And way to go, Bill.

Eric

48

New Harley, or Kawasaki...hmmmm

by TR in

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friends

well, crap.

i want a new harley fxd dyna superglide.

but, then again, a kawasaki vulcan classic is a few thousand $$'s cheaper.

Eric

I used to have an '85 Yamaha RZ500. V-4 two-stroke, which I bought in '90. At redline it sounded like a dumpster full of chainsaws, but gawd when it came into it's powerband the hit of acceleration was not to be believed. That bike and Suzuki's square-4 two-stroke RG500 were well beyond the tire construction of the day, the rider really had to know when he could use all that was on tap.

The inboard end of the clip-ons (separate lowmount handlebars) had this plug on the end that presumably was there to keep out moisture. On my bike, it did not. Unknown to me and not visible on the outside of the bar, oxidization, evil rust was eating away from the inside.

There is a lovely little bit of twisty two-lane road, the kind I live for, just outside of Mississauga called Sideroad #16. You come at it from the east and dive down some tight swichbacks, through a medium speed knee-dragging downhill sweep until the road flattens for a bridge across a creek. The road drops away at the end of the bridge, and if you are going fast you will catch some air there just before the road snaps right 90 degrees and up a steep hill. Perhaps you can see where this litte story is going...

I came rocketing off the end of the bridge reminding my self "DO NOT brake while the bike is off the tarmac, wait for touchdown, wait..." And I brake, hard, clamping my knees to the tank to keep myself seated and ready for my upper body weight to transfer to my wrists. Already thinking ahead to banging off two quick downshifts and then shifting my weight to the inside, I realize with horror that my right bar is failing! The thing is just giving out! It's still in my hand, but christ! where is it's connection to the bike?! Shit!

I slid wide through that corner, almost to the ditch on the opposite side, scraping through I honestly do not know how, my eyes out on stalks expecting a camper van lumbering straight at me downhill in the on-coming lane. There was no traffic. It could have been different.

Stopping to assess the situation and relieve a spontaneous self-induced wedgie, I realized that my bar contols still fuctioned, throttle wire and brake line were still intact, so I rode slowly home with my right bar held ontop of the tank, and practicing my newfound skill of steering with the left bar only.

I later figured out what had happened, the rusting was clear to see. I went to a parts shop and got the bits to fix the bars up AOK, good as new. Better than new even. But I could never trust that bike again. What else had Yamaha missed? I could ride it, but I couldn't push it hard so what was the point?

So I bought a new ZX-7.

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If you are not the sport-bike type, and you like the big cruising metal, really there is only one. It's gotta be a Harley. One Fine Day I will own a Harley, but that's going to have to wait until I am as old and slow as they are.

Mind you, that V-Rod has a certain something going for it...

Eric

49

Many more pedaphiles in the churches with reason

by Bleep in

there are many many more pedophiles in the churches.

before making accusations that jehovahs people are the religion of child abusers look at the other churches.

1. the priests that they have can not marry.

Eric

Bleep,

You are absolutely right.

The Catholic church is having it's guts ripped out over pedophilia in it's ranks. It is happening right now, and it is about time. This we can agree upon.

The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society also stands ready to be gutted due to policies that harbour pedophiles. This is also overdue and who gives a rat's ass if you are dismayed?

Pedophiles will go where they feel safe, and JW policy is an open invitation.

I know that it is hard for you to always see yourself as second to the Catholic church, (actually you are ninth or tenth) but in this matter, being busted for pedophilia, you are right up there with the guys with the big hats. Enjoy the limelight!

Eric

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Don't buy into Ray Franz's stumbling block.

by Bleep in

ray franz wrote, "i was baptized a jehovah's witness in 1972 (three years before armageddon came) and served as an elder for a good number of years.

all i can say is put franz book to the test for yourself.

1)he is making money off a dumb idea.. 2)he was expecting 1975 to be armageddon.

Eric

Bleed,

Since it is a given that the WBTS made way more profit off of the books that Ray wrote for them than he has ever made off of his own books, I think you would do well to reconsider your position of assigning a profit motive to the "making of many books" and the "weariness" that such activity entails.

Eric

14

Remember the food tokens at conventions!!

by haujobbz in

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friends

they were the good old days, in the uk about 10 years ago were able to purchase food tokens to get our lovely hot food supplied at conventions i used to really look forward conventions then,then all of a sudden voila no hot food supplied at assemblys no more i was "gutted" i really missed the currys and sunday veg mmmmmmmmm.

but why did they stop doing it, i think this really upset most having to bring your own grub.they do give free water at them now though

Eric

They said that cutting out the food service would enable hundreds more brothers to be with their families and enjoy the "rich spiritual food". This of course was a huge joke, because the only reason most people volunteered was to get OUT of listening to the programme.

Yes, I remember volunteering when I was about thirteen and being able to finagle a job in the kitchen at a circuit assembly. I got to stand on a stepstool over huge stainless steel vats of steaming hot boiled potatoes in the heat of the kitchen and mash them with an industrial size wooden-handled potatoe masher. Once I'd gotten them broken up enough a brother would chuck in bricks of butter and some reconstituted milk, and I would blend that in. Vat after vat. For hours. Mind-numbing, repetetive grunt work. All-in-all, far preferable to sitting on a metal folding chair in the audience listening to the mind-numbing, repetetive clap-trap...

Eric

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JW Claims To Be Personally Offended? Haha!

by Focus in

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friends

in bbc panorama feedback the idiotic jw claim to be "personally offended" by the proven facts and court verdicts... and continue to attack the victims and whistle-blowers!

this sensitivity when they have the bare-faced audacity to tell all non-jws, irrespective of whether or not the same have clearly told them to stay away:.

1. all your cherished beliefs are totally wrong, actually.. 2. your god is really satan.. 3. you must let us in to your house.. 4. you must very soon join us, surrender all your independence, suspend your conscience (to be replaced by a "bible-trained" one which equates to "obey the elders without question!

Eric

EYES ROTTING IN YOUR EYEBALLS,

Eyes within eyes? Must be true, since Focus says so! LOL!

Yup, Yadirf what a catch! Of course it should read "Eyes rotting in their eyesockets". Jeremiah and all that, which Brooklyn likes to trot out every few years to make JW's feel just so special!

Eric

29

Sign of the Last Days THEN!

by JanH in

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the last days in the 14th century

all through recorded history there have been people who have pointed to the calamities, horrors and disasters in the world, and preached that this signified an imminent end of the world.

this isnt even unique to christianity, which started off with strong millennial expectations in the 1st century, and for the most part retains the same expectations almost 2000 years later.

Eric

Dan,

You say you would not be surprised if we lost one third of the world population over the next fifty years. Will you be similarly unsurprised when the next fifty years result in growth?

Eric

15

Kingdom Hall burned down

by Mulan in

i just heard that the tumwater washington (near olympia) kingdom hall burned down today.

my friend said it was on the news, and dubs were being interviewed.

Eric

Two couches that had been mysteriously placed near the church's north wall on Monday were the subject of somber conversations.

One witness told officials he saw a couch on fire at the building's north end before firefighters arrived, Ridgeway said.

Was this Kingdom Hall situated in a trailer park? Is it normal for this congregation to ignore refuse that is being dumped along the north wall? Were there any abandoned refrigerators and pickup trucks lost in this blaze?

How bizarre, how bizarre...

Eric

20

If Ray Fanz had never.....?

by sleepy in

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friends

if ray fanz had never left the watchtower and written his book would you be here now?.

if not, is that worrying for you?

how many here worked out it was not the truth alone without the aid of a specific book and how many needed franz's work or someone elses?.

Eric

sleepy,

No, it wouldn't have made any difference to me, I've never read his books. The deceptions embedded within the Watchtower's own writings were enough for me.

I do understand that Ray is something of a hero for some people and that they would like this very old man further fulfill this perceived role for them. But, having seen many posts in the past from people who know him personally, I got the impression that he has never had a desire to be on any sort of pedastal, and that now he would prefer to quietly withdraw into apostate "retirement". Since I certainly don't know Ray, I apologize in advance if I have this wrong.

Eric

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Anti-Evolutionists Wanted !!!!

by Francois in

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there is an evolution question bubbling up down the threads a little way, and it minded me to try to really get to the nub of the opposition to the technique.. i would like to pose very serious questions, and i hope they attracts serious, considered responses - once and for all.. why is it impossible, in the minds of anti-evolutionists, that god did indeed create us, the earth, the sun, and everything around us including the entire physical universe, and that evolution was his technique; evolution as a divine technique?

how do you know, how are you so certain that's not the case?

how would you explain your opposition to god if he told you personally that, yep, that's the way he did it alright?.

Eric

Farkel,

My standard answer for my belief in hovering pink unicorns is, "it can't hurt".

Sure, I'm covering old ground, but the argument is still valid, unless I'm missing something.

Eric

Edited to relieve my concern for other peoples feelings

Edited by - Eric on 6 July 2002 11:3:21