GentlyFeral
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Apostate "daily" text, 1/24/04
by GentlyFeral in...nevertheless, that night after dinner i found myself sitting down with knowledge that leads to everlasting life.
chapter one, you can have a happy future!
makes a case for life after death: there is so much on the earth that delights our senses -- delicious food, pleasant birdsong, fragrant flowers, beautiful scenery, delightful companionship!
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FLUFF: Basquiat vs. Rimbaud
by GentlyFeral inscooby, thanx for your "favorite movies" fluff thread.
now here's a question for everybody who's seen both basquiat and total eclipse: which was better -- and why?.
gentlyferal
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Apostate Daily (ha!) Text, 10/12/03
by GentlyFeral in...we have invented the technology to eliminate scarcity, but we are deliberately throwing it away to benefit those who profit from scarcity.
we now have the means to duplicate any kind of information that can be compactly represented in digital media.
we can replicate it worldwide, to billions of people, for very low costs, affordable by individuals.
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Looking for the VAN ROEKEL family, SF bay area, 1980's
by GentlyFeral inhubby and i got to reminiscing about a jw family who we were close to back in the '80s.
they took us in (for a year!
) when we got cheated by a landlord, gave my husband a job, were good friends.
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Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush : or, Why I'm voting Dadaist in '04
by GentlyFeral ini hate embedded pages, so here's the link.
i've pasted the url to the title, which you could use as a search term after the article migrates off the front page.
-- gentlyferal .
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Picture this: "Jehovah's Rastafarianism"
by GentlyFeral infound this at the latter-day lampoon site:.
jehovah's rastafarianism.
dreadlocks are worn, as are comfortable walking shoes.. members are not allowed to accept blood transfusions from whitie.
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Did your kids wise up before you did?
by GentlyFeral in....don't really know how to phrase my question any better than that.. see, i left when my daughter was 12 and my son was 19. but they were both ready to leave years before that!.
at 17, my son heard a talk about conforming to the borg.
"don't put any energy into being different," the speaker said.
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Apostate Daily Text: Triple play
by GentlyFeral infound these three little gems at the end of someone's email last week.
found this at the end of somebody's email this morning:.
"if i pass for other than what i am/do you feel safer?
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Apostate daily text, as promised. Enjoy.
by GentlyFeral inpresented without comment, 'cause y'all have actual working brains.
"there are only supposed to be certain people who are worth the trouble and you basically have to be middle class or exceptional in some way, really beautiful or really smart or be kissed by jesus for god's sake--the rest of us, we're background noise and our stories aren't important.
i think the working class is the story of this country.
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Normal people join cults, says researcher
by GentlyFeral in.
book extract i found while researching a different topic (cultural appropriation of native american religions by clueless white folks).. .