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My wife's JW literature...
by TD in...it went into the trash yesterday.
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this is not "goodbye" altogether, but i'm (understandably, i hope) pretty weary of all things jw at this point.. may all of you have a happy, healthy, exceptional, rocking future!.
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My Conversation With JW's Last Night
by TD inthe subject was how long humans have been on the earth.
although i'm posting this under "jokes & humor" this is (sadly) only a slight exaggeration:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b_0cfmq1nu.
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Front Page of Imgur Last Night
by TD instumbled across this by accident and was mildly surprised:.
https://imgur.com/gallery/m3ffm.
there's a "tipping point" phenomenon on the internet, where people and organizations that nobody knew about before, (like martin shkreli, for example) suddenly become the butt of every joke in the 30 and under crowd.
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Malicious Content on Web Servers
by TD ini hope nobody would fall for this.
not sure what can be done though.... .
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JW's and Violence
by TD inmy wife and i have recently gotten hooked on the history channel's series, vikings.
(my wife is full blooded norwegian....).
to be honest, the show is quite graphic in spots, but certainly no more so than a history book i own of the same time period.. anyhow, we made the mistake of mentioning the show if front of jw's last night and they were all thoroughly shocked that we watch it.. i tried pointing out that big chunks of the ot are not materially different and that even the confrontation between david and goliath would get an 'r' rating if it were visually portrayed in any detail at all.
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This Year's Memorial
by TD inperhaps i'm just getting older and crankier, but it really seems to me that the jw faith is deteriorating at an accelerated rate.. case in point: this year's memorial talk.
it was one of the most incoherent messes i've ever heard.
(and i've heard a lot of memorial talks over the last 50 years....).
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So what was Microsoft thinking with Win 8?
by TD ini know some of you are in the field and many others are hobbyists and enthusiasts.. aside from a tablet/smart phone os, what were they thinking?.
i don't know a single desktop user (e.g.
architects, engineers running autocad, solid works, etc.
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Stapelia
by TD instapelia is a genus of south american succulents that make unusual looking flowers:.
besides the appearance, these flowers are interesting because instead of being pollenated by bees, they are pollenated flies.. so instead of giving off a sweet scent to attract bees, all but one species gives off the smell of decaying flesh.. stapelia blooms are sometimes called carrion flowers for that reason.. (this one was blooming in my house this morning and i had to put it outside....).
this raises an interesting question regarding the jw faith:.
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Interview with TD
by TD ini'm not an 'apostate' in the technical sense, but many of these questions did strike a chord:.
tell us a little about yourself and your family.. grandparents were contemporaries of russell.
one pair liked what they heard and were loosely associated with the bible students.
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So, I met someone interesting...
by TD in.
from the original 1960's star trek:.
irene kelly.. i didn't recognize her at first, but something was familiar.