Posts by TMS

installed, my sister and i were outside, and saw the "new" antenna on top of our roof, and ran in to watch the "new" black and white t.v., and enjoyed shows like milton berle, howdy doody, and others my memory forgot.

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Sure. Hop A Long, Autry, Roy & Trigger, et al

I learned what it meant to be "yellow-bellied," a "tinhorn" and a "sidewinder"

If Mulan remembers Seattle TV in the 50's, she prob recalls Stan Boreson and NoMo. And Pinkie Lee.

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South Padre Island Bikefest

by TMS in

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the early morning hours are typically dedicated to r.e.m., but .

not with the constant thunder of harley-davidsons rumbling .

fifty yards from the thin walls of my 34-foot park model r.v.

TMS

The early morning hours are typically dedicated to R.E.M., but
not with the constant thunder of Harley-Davidsons rumbling
fifty yards from the thin walls of my 34-foot park model R.V.
South Padre Island Bikefest can indeed be seen and heard!

I chose the highway route to walk my min pin and I couldn't
take my eyes off the custom paint jobs, leather and denim,
bandanas, t-shirt slogans and sissy seats. I couldn't help but
smile, thinking that these folks were doing and portraying exactly
what they wanted unlike my fifty years as a JW.

The parking area of Isabel's Cafe was filled with Harleys. I won-
dered how the bikers were coping with the breakfast menu of
tortillas de harina with choriso, frijoles, juevos, etc. Probably,
quite well!

Saturday would be the "Mexico Run." Hundreds of bikers would
eat breakfast, head for the "Free Trade Bridge" at Los Indios and
ride the twenty miles along the Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) to Progresso
Mexico. That little Mexican tourist town clears main street for the
bikers. The leather shops, cantinas, farmacias and curio shops wel-
come the visitors.

In the afternoon, my wife and I make our own run-to Blue Marlin
IGA to get something for the grill. The IGA parking lot is filled with
bikes and bikers. "Where the hell were you?" screams a 70 year old
woman to her 40 year old son. Mother and son have identically
painted Harleys. "I've been across the causeway twice looking for
you!" The old lady is walking with help of a cane, which she loops
over the handlebars. With Indian features, a denim leather
Harley-Davidson jacket and black/gray hair down to mid-back she
has my attention as she backs shakily out of her parking space. Her
son just watches to make sure she's ok before
they both take off. He fits cautiously into traffic. Grandma gooses
the throttle and passes all the traffic on the right and roars out
ahead of the pack.

Minivans, people and folding chairs line Highway 100. It is not an
official parade, but it is a parade. The fathers are drinking beer
while their kids point out strange bikes and bikers. High handle
bars, big bellies, stretched out choppers, trikes, sequinned tops .
. . . There is so much to be seen.

I'm not a biker. But I envy the individuality, the camaradarie, the
rush.

tms

ATT: Moderators

Feel free to move this post to the "Friends" forum. I guess I was reading about Rutherford, Beth Sarim when I decided to post. tms

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Why? I have to ask...

by AGuest in

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may you all have peace!.

why is it that when someone knocked on your door and said, "hey, we have the 'truth', and some of us are 'anointed'" and yet, could not prove that truth... nor even explain that anointing... you believed?.

yet, when someone who makes that claim has absolutely no problem explaining it to you and telling you of it... blow by blow... you do not believe?.

TMS

Tempted to join AGuest's latest thread, I decided to look up this old one. Everything seemingly has already been said.

tms

ps. I submit the name of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemons) as prophet to the 48 contiguous states, Alaska & Hawaii and the cities situated therein.

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Sexism in the borg....sexist pigs the lot

by Jez in

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let's talk about how sexist the borg is:.

only men can give talks.

only men can be elders.

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Nancy Drake:

"They are probably afraid women would take over the organization and give the G.B. a run for their money (and power)!"

Remember AMNESIAN? Do you think she would have any difficulty dealing with the G.B.?

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Are you an atheist? ...

by Nicolas in

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personally, i consider myself as a "soft-atheist".

i don't believe in god but i keep an open mind and if someone can come with a real proof of god's existence, i'll take it.

for now, i consider that believing in god, is just as silly as believing in santa claus.

TMS

Czar,

Your words:

"So the presence of evil neither disproves nor proves the existence of God, nor does it question his benevolence. All it does is condemn the humans who practice it."

Neither of us can prove or disprove anything. That wasn't the point of my post at all. I certainly have no idea whether god exists or not. My point was simply that if he exists I'm not impressed with him. I cannot directly answer the question "Are you an atheist?" because I do not know.

You detected no anger in my post. There was none.

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Are you an atheist? ...

by Nicolas in

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personally, i consider myself as a "soft-atheist".

i don't believe in god but i keep an open mind and if someone can come with a real proof of god's existence, i'll take it.

for now, i consider that believing in god, is just as silly as believing in santa claus.

TMS

Czarofmischief,

Elaborate? Ok, just a bit. An all-powerful personage has a front row seat to the holocaust and countless other atrocities through the centuries.. . . . . He does nothing. . . . . If He exists, he has a lot of 'splainin' to do. If He doesn't exist, he's "off the hook."

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Are you an atheist? ...

by Nicolas in

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friends

personally, i consider myself as a "soft-atheist".

i don't believe in god but i keep an open mind and if someone can come with a real proof of god's existence, i'll take it.

for now, i consider that believing in god, is just as silly as believing in santa claus.

TMS

Actually, it's almost defamation to say that God exists. If he does, he is heartless, calloused, impersonal, disinterested, arrogant, noncommunicative, aloof, ignorant, biased, cruel, powerless, insane . . . . . . . . .

tms

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Jehovah - The Magical God

by Nosferatu in

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jehovah is such a magical god.

he can make the impossible possible.

he will cure all your problems, he will create logic when there is confusion.

TMS

Annanias,

I hear ya.

Somewhat dishonestly, I snuck that little quote from the Book of Mormon into this thread. . . 2 Nephi 27:23. Of course there are any number of Bible verses saying the same basic thing: God has not changed.

The same God that watched the holocaust moved a householder to hand Sister Pioneer a five dollar bill when her gas gauge touched "E".

Actually, it's almost defamation to say that God exists. If he does, he is heartless, calloused, impersonal, disinterested, arrogant, noncommunicative, aloof, ignorant, biased, cruel, powerless, insane . . . . . . . . .

tms

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Jehovah - The Magical God

by Nosferatu in

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jehovah is such a magical god.

he can make the impossible possible.

he will cure all your problems, he will create logic when there is confusion.

TMS

"For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles; and I will shew unto the world that I am the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever; and I work not among the children of men, save it be according to their faith."

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