ATTN Maximus!!!

by normie67 42 Replies latest jw friends

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  Maximus

  Larc, you ratty old codger! (I can say that now that you have admitted you look like Gabby Hayes.) Who you judging as having said something too direct? Have you ever read the four-letter insults flying around here??

  You're right. I'm tired. Frayed. But you can never let them see you sweat.

  Steph, forget it. Consider yourself hugged, and go check out my post on Blood. If you really want to cream someone, here's a dandy vehicle: See http://ship-of-fools.com/Features/Curses/index.html

  "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road."

  ---Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)

  Beecher was the guy in Brooklyn who lived in the Bible House before Pastor Russell.

  Max
  Damned if he does, damned if he don't. Damn!
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  Stephanus

  Thanks Maximus! I will leave it all behind. Nothing like this kind of thread to make one realise how much one is liked. Unfortunately, the answer to that question inspired me to consume a bottle of wine (nothing like alcohol to numb the pain of rejection!), so I'd ignore anything I say for the next few hours. Except: I've always respected you and the work you do - keep on keeping the bastards honest! (to quote [more or less] the campaign slogan of one of our local political parties)
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  sf

  Ah yes, the infamous...:

  "Bible House"

  sKally
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  sf

  < http://www.materialreligion.org/journal/mansions/mansions.html

  

  (Closely related to the Akron Plan for a divisible space in the Sunday school wing were changes occurring in the sanctuaries of American City churches. While Episcopalians and Roman Catholics continued to build their sanctuaries based on classical forms and designs, Protestant churches with Evangelical roots turned once again to vernacular forms to reconfigure their places of worship. Now, instead of the home, it was to the theatre and the lecture hall that designers turned. Pews set in straight rows gave way to curved pews, or even individual theatre seating focusing on the space occupied by the preacher. Communion tables all but disappeared as did Baptismal fonts. The enclosed pulpit also disappeared as a relic of old, to be replaced by a stage with a central lectern opened to the sides so that the preacher might -- like a camp meeting revivalist or a high brow Chatauqua lecturer -- stride across the stage while delivering his remarks. The stage or platform, no longer a chancel, was also large enough to accommodate an organ and a choir which had, in the spirit of theatrical showmanship, been moved from their traditional positions in a rear balcony to be up front as part of the entertainment. Pictured here is Henry Ward Beecher’s Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York, a typical example of the lecture hall church.)

  Is this "BIBLE HOUSE"?

  sKally
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  Prisca

  Skally,

  Are you sure you are posting in the right thread???
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  Dino

  MAX IS AWESOME, I love ya man! Dino
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  joelbear

  If Max looks anything like Russell Crowe, I want to meet him.

  woof

  Joel
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  Eusebius Hieronymus

  Actually, Joel, he is a cross between an older Russell Crowe
  and Sean Connery.

  No kidding.
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  joelbear

  WOOOOOOF!!!!
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  sf

  "Beecher was the guy in Brooklyn who lived in the Bible House before Pastor Russell."

  Yes, Prisca. Why do you ask?

  sKally