RollerDave
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Trouble with the Paradigm
by RollerDave inok, so if i follow the paradigm, the afterlife goes like this:.
all the good little folks go to heaven where they sing, float around, maybe watch over some clueless schlub back here, and are permanently joyous because they are wired that way and have no choice in the matter, but are basically 'staff'.
the wicked, who got to have a bit more fun while alive, go down to hell where they are poked, prodded, and buggered by demons, they are 'clients', but not 'staff'.
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Hectic July
by RollerDave inwell, it has been a bit since i poked my head up here.. been hopping making the aposta-cruiser ready for her trials, i think today is the day.. had to do all sorts of piddly stuff including flush the fuel system after removing three year old gas that resembled egg yolks.
worked on it with my daughter's boyfriend.
let's call him frodo.. frodo is a hell of a good helper.
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Breaking the mold
by RollerDave inwe are all products of our upbringing to more of an extent than most of us are probably aware.. those of us brought up in the wts mindset have to admit that we have been affected by it.. i, myself, am surprised at the effect it had on me, i sometimes find that i have been molded into the mindset and even though i have discarded the wts trappings, the framework remains to be used be new beliefs just as harmfully.. unless the actual framework, the mold, can be broken; we run the risk of just stumbling from one disastrous belief system to the next.. being a zealot can be so appealing, but it is just a part of the framework that props up the wts mindset.
i have been guilty of it.. as the very glimmerings of disenchantment began faintly glowing within me, i found that redirecting my considerable zealotry helped me to ignore my misgivings for a time.
i redirected my stubborn certainty into computer os bigotry.. i became an amiga fanatic, devoted to that platform with a fervor replicating that of a wts drone.
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WTS Google Earth Placemarks
by RollerDave inif anyone has google earth, you can actually see russel's pyramid!.
these are links to kml files, i don't know how to link 'em so that it's guaranteed they will open in google earth, but you can easily right-click and save, the resulting files are definitely double-clickable.
http://machinedreamer.com/jw/russel's_tomb.kml.
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Holiday Help
by RollerDave ini am trying to prepare a position paper regarding the history of watchtower bans on holidays and could really use assistance.. i am trying to nail down the earliest instance of each of the following holidays being 'discouraged' (aka verboten) by the wts through any channel at its disposal.. here's what i have thus far.
jan 1st new years day .
w68 2/15 pp.
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the blurry line between wolf and sheep
by inkling ini didn't intend to bring this up, but i have been thinking.
about a video a saw on youtube a few months ago.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4xykyyefpq.
it is a recording of two elders coming to an apostates door.
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Chicken Song poem adapted for the Memorial
by truthseeker ini had to get it out..... it's that time of year.
now that spring is in the air.
got my invites out.
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To Lee's Friends on JWD (The Futre Mrs CRR)
by ColdRedRain inhey, some of you guys have noticed that lee hasn't been posting here in a while, it's because lee was in jail for the past few days.
apparently, his ex girlfriend stephanie and his other ex girlfriend kara were coincidently driving on the same road and he decided to throw glass bottles underneath both of their tires.
turns out, he did that in front of a police station (yes, i know he didn't think about what he did).
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turn the page and open your eyes
by inkling inin the dispelling of the grand illusion, was there any particular book or writer .
that just made something "click" in the watchwork or your more rational self?
although i must give credit to many eye-opening books over the past year, .
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Jason P of St Paul Mn, are you out there?
by RollerDave inonce i had a friend.. i met him at an auto show, he was taking pictures of a tv screen that was showing classic mopars.. the very next week i bumped into him at an assembly at the aldrich arena and became fast friends with him.. he was a constant companion and true.
a regular fixture around our home in spite of my wife's intestinal dislike for the fellow.
he stayed with us off and on, we attended the same auto-body training program, shared beers, laughs, rock n roll music, and good times.. then i changed.. i can't say i am proud of who i was or how i behaved, i can't offer any excuse other than i wasn't in my right mind.. he was the best friend i had and i threw him away.. i was so petty, so smugly (and falsely) superior.