Posts by seawolf

That sounds about right. They moan and groan at people for doing/having exactly what they are doing/have. They did that to me a lot in terms of wanting things or going places. They'd tell me not to want to visit places, all the while they're jet-setting all over the place. LOL

My contribution to the stupidest comments made is:

At the District Convention in 1999, a young man was up on stage describing how he decided to pioneer and not persue college. He told the audience that the elder studying with him said (in terms of going to college vs. pioneering): do you want to live or do you want to DIE? I couldn't believe what I just heard. If there was a cute girl next to me I would have asked her to pinch me to make sure I was awake and not dreaming this. hahaha

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Letter From Bill Bowen

by Lin in

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this message was originally sent out by bill bowen on the silentlambs mailing list: .

i wish to explain some of the events of the last couple of months and let everyone know where silentlambs.org is going from here.

in october of this year i was approached by a webmaster, rev, who offered to provide server space for silentlambs and set up a new website.

seawolf

I read the entire post that Lin put up.

I'm totally speechless.

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Could Iraq defeat the US

by JH in

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could a war with iraq be more difficult than expected?

i found an interesting site, where they claim that iraq could indeed defeat the us.

tell me your comments after reading it.

seawolf

Sorry about the large text. I tried several times getting it smaller but it just doesn't save it once i submit it to the board. oh well

Edit: nevermind. it's normal size now. Maybe I was hallucinating.

Edited by - seawolf on 11 December 2002 22:43:25

Edited by - seawolf on 11 December 2002 22:43:51

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Could Iraq defeat the US

by JH in

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could a war with iraq be more difficult than expected?

i found an interesting site, where they claim that iraq could indeed defeat the us.

tell me your comments after reading it.

seawolf

Well, the US spent $250 million on the most expensive wargame simulation in history--a wargame simulation between the US and Iraq--and the US lost.

At the height of the summer, as talk of invading Iraq built in Washington like a dark, billowing storm, the US armed forces staged a rehearsal using over 13,000 troops, countless computers and $250m. Officially, America won and a rogue state was liberated from an evil dictator.
What really happened is quite another story, one that has set alarm bells ringing throughout America's defence establishment and raised questions over the US military's readiness for an Iraqi invasion. In fact, this war game was won by Saddam Hussein, or at least by the retired marine playing the Iraqi dictator's part, Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper.
In the first few days of the exercise, using surprise and unorthodox tactics, the wily 64-year-old Vietnam veteran sank most of the US expeditionary fleet in the Persian Gulf, bringing the US assault to a halt.
What happened next will be familiar to anyone who ever played soldiers in the playground. Faced with an abrupt and embarrassing end to the most expensive and sophisticated military exercise in US history, the Pentagon top brass simply pretended the whole thing had not happened. They ordered their dead troops back to life and "refloated" the sunken fleet. Then they instructed the enemy forces to look the other way as their marines performed amphibious landings. Eventually, Van Riper got so fed up with all this cheating that he refused to play any more. Instead, he sat on the sidelines making abrasive remarks until the three-week war game - grandiosely entitled Millennium Challenge - staggered to a star-spangled conclusion on August 15, with a US "victory".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,787018,00.html

BTW, I find it hard to believe that the US will lose--hopefully things are better now? However, here in the midwest, people tell me to never count my chickens before they're hatched.

Edited by - seawolf on 11 December 2002 22:46:53

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A message from the UK re: 9/11

by Adam in

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12188969&method=full&siteid=50143

this is precicely how i feel and i would only add a smattering of curse words to the text.

but then again, it was written by one of our bretheren across the pond and they're a little more understated than us yanks.

seawolf

Also, no one is saying that Americans deserved 9/11. I think many do feel though that there is a refusal of the American government to examine ways of making themselves less of a target by re-examining their foreign policies that seem to upset so many countries. There seems to be a mentality "let's kill everyone that hates us" instead of asking themselves "why are we so disliked on the world scene and how can we improve our world image?"

Another way to word it would be to stop screwing around with other people's countries. Then the terrorists will go home.

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Hot, stuffy Kingdom Halls! omg turn on the A/C plz

by seawolf in

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at my hall, in the spring and summer, it would almost always be so stuffy in there that i couldn't breathe!

i swear the mugginess in there was stifling!

i don't know how many times i was there and couldn't take it anymore and left.....as soon as i'd open the door and go outside it was like a cold front just came through!

seawolf

hehe I totally forgot about the conventions! yeah some of those were pretty bad--especially when you'd sit near the top where all the heat would pool. My hall brings back worse memories though. I guess it's because it was so frequent. There aren't any ceiling fans in there either so when no a/c it just stagnates in there. ugggg talk about body odor hehe

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Hot, stuffy Kingdom Halls! omg turn on the A/C plz

by seawolf in

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at my hall, in the spring and summer, it would almost always be so stuffy in there that i couldn't breathe!

i swear the mugginess in there was stifling!

i don't know how many times i was there and couldn't take it anymore and left.....as soon as i'd open the door and go outside it was like a cold front just came through!

seawolf

At my hall, in the spring and summer, it would almost always be SO STUFFY in there that I couldn't breathe! I swear the mugginess in there was STIFLING! I don't know how many times I was there and couldn't take it anymore and left.....as soon as I'd open the door and go outside it was like a cold front just came through! The worst time: The memorial. I'd see just about everyone there using their Watchtowers/Awakes to fan themselves and the elders sitting there doing nothing. Temperature outside of 80 with 170 people inside and a carpet that was just shampooed the day before and has enough water in it to keep a whale alive for a week. ugggggggg I don't know how many times I was about to blow my stack. A few times I was about to offer to pay them $10 to run the thing for an hour but I knew I'd get looked down on for not being strong and not paying enough attention to the talk.

*sigh* the fond memories of this bring a tear to my eye.

I know there are has to be a lot of other KH climate victims out there. Let's hear your stories!

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Will Simon's beat the WTBS ?

by termite 35 in

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i've just been looking at the steady rise in member numbers here and am amazed- well done simon!.

i wonder who will win the 'percentage increase challenge ' at the end of the year ...i'll try and work it out!

the watchtower and bible tract society v's simon and jw .com .

seawolf

Seawolf, call me a cynic; but why does that not surprise me...???!!!

hehe..dunno Also at my hall there are more children being born!! nahh, probably just a coincidence,

I just come to see Termite bouncing on her pogo stick

hehe....oohhhhh I like it, too.

( bouncing in my profile pic means I get to bounce in all the right places- unlike the real world where some parts refuse to cooperate and other bits jiggle uncontrolably )

got any pics?

Edited by - seawolf on 2 December 2002 14:42:12

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Would you eat this?

by JH in

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forget the hot dog you see in the picture.

just look at the poutine right next to it.

thats right, a poutine.

seawolf

Am I the only one that seems to see a chopped-off finger at the top of that bowl??!?!

besides that, it looks like apple pie without the crust...apple pie in a bowl sorta. I can't make out the fries but that's not surprising after all the after thanksgiving day sales I hit today!

Edited by - seawolf on 29 November 2002 22:21:46