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  The Abject WTS Plate Spinner!

  by ISP in

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  ever seen the plate spinner rushing from pole to pole keeping all his plates spinning?

  substitute lies for plates and you will see as time goes on it will be increasingly difficult for the wts to keep all its stuff ticking over.. it was so easy in times gone by.

  after all ever wondered why you're in this position?

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  ISP when I read the theme of this thread, I nearly laughed myself out of my seat. That comparison is just too much.

  Lisa
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  The writing is on the wall the pale horse is here.

  by spectromize in

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  when you look at the news headlines concerning the many out of control pestilences, i can't help but think of the scripture in revelation chapter 6 verse 8, what do you all think about this subject?

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  Really, guys. BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH pretty much sums it up. That's what I think of the TOPIC, not of Spect.
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  People Are Stupid

  by Kismet in

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  people are stupid.

  sometimes that is the only way to describe how certain things can happen.

  especially is this so when panic, stress or hormones kick in which often serves only dilutes whatever common sense is left remaining.. a couple of examples:.

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  Mommy you are *right*, lol. The Civil war is a hot topic after two beers, or sometimes one.

  When I was a little girl and we would go down South to visit family, I could usually manage to keep myself out of trouble. But one day, whilst in Piggly Wiggly (And perhaps becase I was in a store called Piggly Wiggly) I took it upon myself to shout something to the effect of "The South Will Never Rise!" LOL I didn't know the seriousness of what I was saying. I got clobbered by my dad and dragged out of the PW post haste....
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  People Are Stupid

  by Kismet in

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  people are stupid.

  sometimes that is the only way to describe how certain things can happen.

  especially is this so when panic, stress or hormones kick in which often serves only dilutes whatever common sense is left remaining.. a couple of examples:.

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  Lawn Chair Larry
  1982 Honorable Mention
  Confirmed True by Darwin
  (1982, California) Larry Walters of Los Angeles is one of the few to contend for the Darwin Awards and live to tell the tale. "I have fulfilled my 20-year dream," said Walters, a former truck driver for a company that makes TV commercials. "I'm staying on the ground. I've proved the thing works."

  Larry's boyhood dream was to fly. But fates conspired to keep him from his dream. He joined the Air Force, but his poor eyesight disqualified him from the job of pilot. After he was discharged from the military, he sat in his backyard watching jets fly overhead.

  He hatched his weather balloon scheme while sitting outside in his "extremely comfortable" Sears lawnchair. He purchased 45 weather balloons from an Army-Navy surplus store, tied them to his tethered lawnchair dubbed the Inspiration I, and filled the 4' diameter balloons with helium. Then he strapped himself into his lawnchair with some sandwiches, Miller Lite, and a pellet gun. He figured he would pop a few of the many balloons when it was time to descend.

  Larry's plan was to sever the anchor and lazily float up to a height of about 30 feet above his back yard, where he would enjoy a few hours of flight before coming back down. But things didn't work out quite as Larry planned.

  When his friends cut the cord anchoring the lawnchair to his Jeep, he did not float lazily up to 30 feet. Instead, he streaked into the LA sky as if shot from a cannon, pulled by the lift of 42 helium balloons holding 33 cubic feet of helium each. He didn't level off at 100 feet, nor did he level off at 1000 feet. After climbing and climbing, he leveled off at 16,000 feet.

  At that height he felt he couldn't risk shooting any of the balloons, lest he unbalance the load and really find himself in trouble. So he stayed there, drifting cold and frightened with his beer and sandwiches, for more than 14 hours. He crossed the primary approach corridor of LAX, where Trans World Airlines and Delta Airlines pilots radioed in reports of the strange sight.

  Eventually he gathered the nerve to shoot a few balloons, and slowly descended. The hanging tethers tangled and caught in a power line, blacking out a Long Beach neighborhood for 20 minutes. Larry climbed to safety, where he was arrested by waiting members of the LAPD. As he was led away in handcuffs, a reporter dispatched to cover the daring rescue asked him why he had done it. Larry replied nonchalantly, "A man can't just sit around."

  The Federal Aviation Administration was not amused. Safety Inspector Neal Savoy said, "We know he broke some part of the Federal Aviation Act, and as soon as we decide which part it is, a charge will be filed."

  DarwinAwards.com © 1994 - 2001
  Submitted by: Ed Greany, Douglas Walker, Walter Hecht
  Reference: UPI, Stabbed with a Wedge of Cheese by Charles Downey

  Footnote:
  Larry's efforts won him a $1,500 FAA fine, a prize from the Bonehead Club of Dallas, the altitude record for gas-filled clustered balloons, and a Darwin Awards Honorable Mention. He gave his aluminum lawnchair to admiring neighborhood children, abandoned his truck-driving job, and went on the lecture circuit. He enjoyed intermittent demand as a motivational speaker, but said he never made much money from his innovative flight. He never married and had no children. Larry hiked into the forest and shot himself in the heart on October 6, 1993. He died at the age of 44.

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  AP Article
  3 July 1982
  UPI Followup
  18 December 1982
  Excerpt from Robert Fulghum's Book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
  Larry's Obituary
  Los Angeles Times

  Ed Greany adds:
  I am a member of Crest REACT, a non-profit organization that monitors CB Channel 9 for emergencies. I have the entire event recorded on cassette, while Larry and Santiago REACT Unit 66 were in CB contact. He was not rescued by a helicopter, as you inaccurately report (see our previous version) but came down of his own actions and became entangled in power lines. He later committed suicide. He recorded a song called "Lawn Chair that Flew" c. 1982 ASCAP and gave me a personal copy. I invited him to be a guest speaker at a later REACT Council meeting in Corona, CA. The CB recording is not copyrighted, and you may have a copy by sending $2 to cover duplication to:

  Ed Greany c/o Crest React
  P.O. Box 395
  Corona, CA 92878-0395
  Ed says, "I prefer cash as it is simpler, but any medium is okay."
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  Stuff-Not to Tell the R+F;)

  by ISP in

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  things to avoid.

  circulate to all elders.

  please let us have feedback so that we can maintain a full database.. well don't get involved in anything about past chronology.

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  Man, am I glad I don't know about all this stuff! It would really ruin my view of JWs as God's spokespiece!
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  GB question,

  by somebody in

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  does anyone here know what year the wbts spirit appointed a gb/f&ds?.

  thanks in advance,.

  edited by - somebody on 26 february 2001 13:24:19

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  know I don't.
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  Laughter Is The Best Medicine

  by somebody in

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  1898 "god .. evidently has been a respecter of races, and has specially blessed and favored certain branches of the aryan race in europe and america.. the white race has been more abundantly blessed with the light of the gospel than others .. the elect church will probably be composed chiefly of the highly favored white race.." {evol 30-1}.

  1900 "there are probably as many as a hundred colored brethren on the watch tower lists, some of them very clear in the truth, and very earnest in its service, financially and other-wise .. [but they are not allowed to participate in the "pioneer work" as] although we have received letters from several of these, who had intended engaging in the volunteer work, expressing surprise that in the call for volunteers in the march 1, 1900 issue we restricted the inquiry to white protestant churches.

  .. the reason is that so far as we are able to judge, colored people have less education than whites - many of them quite insufficient to permit them to profit by such reading as we have to give forth.

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  Whatchootalkinbout, Willis?
  :)
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  Special Assembly Day "Wisdom"

  by deludednomore in

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  this is my first post here.

  this forum has really.

  helped in my break from the organization.. .

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  How could you all have forgotten these evil organizations?

  Greenpeace

  Amnesty International

  Farm Aid

  Boys and Girls Clubs of America

  Rotary International

  Lions Club

  Kiwanees

  World Wildlife Federation
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  The writing is on the wall the pale horse is here.

  by spectromize in

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  when you look at the news headlines concerning the many out of control pestilences, i can't help but think of the scripture in revelation chapter 6 verse 8, what do you all think about this subject?

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  The kings of the earth and Armaggeddon and wrath!

  by spectromize in

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  then the kings of the earth and the great men and the generals and the rich and the strong, and everyone, slave and free, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, "fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the lamb; for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand before it?".

  some of the kings of the earth and their supporters are aware of what the bible book of revelation says concerning the time of the end and their destruction for not having acknowledge jehovah's rulership and sovereignty, also they have failed to acknowledge jesus as king of kings and lord of lords in subject to the great king jehovah god.. the scriptures have put satan's system on notice but few take notice.

  they prefer to live like the days of noah.

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