RollerDave
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Rollerdave Update
by RollerDave inwell, i've been kept pretty hectic lately, but thought i'd drop and update on all my jwd friends.. the fourth went awesomely, everything was done just at the last minute, screen porch, screens for the garage doors, decorating the garage like a banquet hall, all done.
tho i had to drive 80 miles round trip to pick up the screens on the third, and they were made wrong so i wound up re-framing my two 7x9 garage door openings to be able to use em!.
my daughter's young man had given his word to his family he'd be in duluth with them, so he did.
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The Secret of AGING! (long but worth it)
by RollerDave inscientists has long searched for an answer as to why we age.
there appears to be no physiological reason for the phenomena, neither within the cells, or our dna structure.
for all their effort they cannot tell us why our bodies don't just keep regenerating forever, why we grow old.. stupid scientists, they were looking in the wrong place.. allow me to elaborate, but be warned, this may go long.. your child is born and she's so tiny.
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Can you be HALF a witness?
by RollerDave ini have an ex (my 1st), who is still a true believer in spite of her penchant for smoking, drinking, sleeping around and whooping it up with the lowest of lowlifes she can find.. (yes, moxie, i know you are reading this.
you're a beeyatch and claim to be proud of it, so stop smirking and sign up if you want to refute the above!).
she is one of those people who accept it as "the truth" mostly from the outside even though such acceptance means they better put butter and jelly in their pockets 'cuz they're gonna be toast in the big a.. she has a plan tho, she intends to 'get in' by pretending to comply long enough to get baptized, but still do pretty much as she pleases!.
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I don't care.
by RollerDave ini came on this board, and found a new level of understanding related to my evil cult past i had been seeking but never found before, and i thank you for that.. but i found myself holding my tongue on some issues, avoiding controversy, wanting to be liked.. some of you liked me, others really didn't, but i'm not sure i liked me, or that i even like those i used to want to be liked by.. certainly not enough to go on being so damn mediocre.. i have come to the conclusion that i don't give a flying fornicate if you people like me or not.. you either will, and that's fine, or you won't and i don't care.. i'll just be me, and the chips will fall where they may, and if you don't like it, you may feel free to attempt self-reproduction in an anatomically unlikely fashion!.
i am a believer.. i talk to god.
if you think that makes me foolish, or delusional, then so be it.. i repudiate atheism, evolution, and secular humanism in all it's forms.
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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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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.