there's some stuff i found in the publications that i found completely rediculous regarding music:.
g78 5/8 pp.
16-20a recording artist finds something far better.
I seem to recall throwing away all kinds of music when I entered the borg, because I wanted to be 'perfect'. It's pretty emberassing now, to tell you the truth.
Backward messages. They had a big thing about that, too. Utter trash. Donahue was reallly popular back then. He had a backwards playing vinyl player on his show.... I guess people were all demonized and stupid or something.
here is something that google is giving away... it is called picasa.
it does a great job of organizing all of the pics on your computer into chronological and topical order.
it also let's you use a few basic image editing tools such as red-eye reduction, cropping and enhancement.
Okay. I downloaded it,,, and WOW! It is a very cool program. Thanks, Elsewhere!
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very interesting website run by a guy that got out of a cult that almost makes the jw's look rational.
http://www.geocities.com/mworcult/.
Hare Krishna's are far worse.
http://www.trailerparkboys.com/main.html
ah, our american compatriots have no idea what they are missing... one of the finest shows on television.
the trailer park boys.
Conky was one of the best episodes.
That's about the extent of a pot smokin' criminal life... LOL! For those who don't get it... I don't blame you. It can sometimes be exhausting to watch, because it's so trashy.
The best has to be the white guy who's always trying to have a rap album. When he got arrested to promote his new album, that was just too dammed funny.
a couple of years ago, my wife's younger brother was moving into his first home.
i've always made a point of being nice to her family, (and they to me as well) so cup of coffee in hand, i drove over there early on saturday to help.
moving is always hectic, even if it is someone else's move.
Don't buy used clothing... demons attach themselves to it. It happens all the time. When I was a witness a tie nearly choked me until I cried out to jehover.... (I heard that one)
One witness took a job at a nursing home. Problem was it was mainly pentacostal people in there... and she had 'troubles attending meetings'. She quit, because she thought that jeehovers spirit was not with her anymore.
After she quit, she made a speedy spiritual 'recovery', and had no problems attending meetings.
Of course, she ended up on welfare.
Even when I was in, I thought "what an absolute ass she is!", but what do you say when everyone thinks that she is right? What do you say when everything she says is crap?
Tons of superstition. Those stories posted above are hilarious. I read every one of them about 6 months ago.
Just for the record, I am not at all superstitious.
beth sarim, the house in san diego rutherford had built and lived in.. from the proclaimers book, page 76,a few years after brother rutherford?s death, the board of directors of the watch tower society decided to sell beth-sarim.
"the watchtower" of december 15, 1947, explained: "it had fully served its purpose and was now only serving as a monument quite expensive to keep; our faith in the return of the men of old time whom the king christ jesus will make princes in all the earth (not merely in california) is based, not upon that house beth-sarim, but upon god?s word of promise.
but, did the watchtower of december 15,1947 state what was the purpose beth-sarim had fully served?.
The audience...applauded when informed that the Society?s board of directors had voted unanimously to dispose of Beth-Sarim, either by outright sale or by rent, because it had fully served its purpose and was now only serving as a monument quite expensive to keep; our faith in the return of the men of old time whom the King Christ Jesus will make princes in ALL the earth (not merely in California) is based, not upon that house Beth-Sarim, but upon God?s Word of promise.( "All Nations? Expansion? Assembly," The Watchtower, 15 December 1947, p. 382.)http://www.catholicapologetics.net/JW_Deed.htm
Have you ever heard such bullsh*t? Talk about delusional. If I was there I would have puked.
no one partakes of it?
out of the many memorials i have been to, i only recall 1 when a bethelite came to give our talk and he was of the anointed and partook of the emblems.
but anyway i've read a post on here and heard about a person in my local area that partook of the emblems and their "anointed" status was questioned.
Trying to make sense of what they do is like beating your head against a brick wall. Why bother?
Hard core drugs. At least some of the people that believe in them do.
i am talking a 3to 4 ft hornet nest in a tree that if you make any movement near it they sworm by the thousands.
how do you get rid of a nest that big?
the nest is actually on the land next to me , only about 10ft from my polebarn , i know of the person that owns the land ,he has no home there just uses it for hunting.
If they're not bothering you, and the nest is far enough away, leave it. In the winter, knock it down. Don't kill them unless you have to. I have never been bit by one, but those yellowjackets sure like to buzz around when you are eating... very annoying, but hardly worth killing them off the face of the planet, so to speak.
It's just getting bigger as I type this...
i have been inactive for the past 5 years or so.
i just could not bring myself to sit through meeting after meeting of the same thing any longer.. however, my wife and children are still regular and as such are preparing to go to the district convention next month.. for the past 4 years i have been able to avoid going to it with commitments to work, etc.
unfortunately this year it is not the case and my wife has made it very clear that she expects me to go with her.. how do i express to her that i don't want to spend 3 days of my life in uncomfortable clothing, sitting in a hot arena, listening to information that makes me want to stab pencils into my ears?
I, personally, went through hell every DC or CA. Not because of the sheer drudgery but because of the fear of large crowds. It was all that I could bear!
You either need to tell her the truth about how you feel, or lie. The truth is better, but if you said what you really feel about the dubs, you would probably find yourself in front of a judicail kangaroo court.
Although I informed persons that sometimes I just couldn't bring myself to go, because I would just panic and run out, they still thought that I was eeeevil. Nice support, no? (I still suffer from this to this day, BTW) Apperantly, I wasn't relying on god enough and was weak in faith. If you want to lie, that excuse can work... but the truth usually works better.
There are no easy answers, unfortunately. You will be a 'pagan' if you don't go. If you're smart, you will hold your ground.
Good luck in your decision, and welcome to the board.
