Just sent you a PM CoCo.
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How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?
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Dear Diary,
What a difference a day makes! With a little help from my friends and Beethoven's heroics, I will get on with the remains of the day by washing up the b'fast and luncheon dishes. Bought MRS. DALLOWAY, by Virginia Woolf, and MOBY DICK, by Herman Melville:"If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it [MD]."
What glorious stuff! To the sink, DD! Wish me a whale of a time!
C...
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Dear Diary,
Just returned fromma walkabout. Lovely late afternoon to a rather nice day. Love the "quiet" personal messages I get, DD. Could never deal with the blare of the telephone's ringing itself off the hook. Heard from a few dear ones today. It lifts the spirits. And of course, B's 3rd. Gonna watch a 50s Sci -Fi, or more correctly, SF, movie with Richard Carlson and Dana [pronounced "Donna"] Wynter.
Check back later with some research - or maybe just "regular" reading - I've done.C...
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Dear Diary,
Back to my movie, "It Came From Outer Space" - 1953; Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush, not Dana Wynter, as I had thought. It's in 3-D, but I don't remember where I put my glasses. A big deal, DD, when we were kids. Yeah, that and a 5-cent candy bar at the movies. Twenty-five cents admission for a double-feature, a newsreel, a couple cartoons. I remember us kids going to a matinee and seeing something called "Macabre," in the '50s. Well, it ended up being some dorky "horror" flick about a mysterious entity in a bottle. We got in trouble with Mom for watching this child-warping weirdness. No such thing as parental guidelines then - and she sent us! Do non-JW kids walk out on "objectionable" movies? Funny that I should think of this now, 50 years later. Can't find the title in video guide.C...
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Dear Diary,
"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago----never mind how long precisely---having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever it is I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off---then, I account it high time to get to the sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings toward the ocean with me."
MOBY DICK or The White Whale, by Herman Melville, CHAPTER 1, Loomings, p. 21When, DD, will I again set my foot into the sea? Not necessarily as a sailor upon a ship, who aways to a distant port of call. Merely to touch the wet stuff, to wade in the surf till it overwhelms me. Ishmael is correct, DD---'most men in their degree'---long for the sea.
CoCo
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Dear Diary,
Back To The Tunes and a fresh pot of cafe. It's a new week and an opportunity for exciting possibilities---it's too early for excitement. The garbagemen are arriving soon---excitement enough.
Back soon, DD.C...
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Dear Diary,
The fresh brew is circulating through my system. Good to be awake after a night of strange dreams. Was lost in Vallejo, asking strangers on the street, "Do you know the way to San Jose?" Had to get to grandparents' home. Think the connection was this: recently saw "Star Trek---The Voyage Home" where Chekov and Uhura had to get to Vallejo and into the "nuclee-ar wessels." Then 2 days ago I was looking at pics of the old homestead. Put the two together and you get a nightmare, of sorts. Am always lost or using an out-in-the-open-public restroom in my dreams. When will it ever end!? I get so tired of reruns.
Gotta get back to Melville, DD. It's certainly an easier read than Miss Woolf. Hers is truly a unique style; will take some getting used to, I suspect. Also back to Dava Sobel and GALILEO'S DAUGHTER. She was such a dear girl, caring for her dad from the nunnery. The docu-drama about her---I think the title is "Galileo and the Battle for the Heavens," with Simon Callow---is very heart-warming and a true inspiration.
Must away and check on the doings of the not-bored board........Cheerio!C...
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Dear Diary,
I am researching again on the subject of child-custody cases in court. Found some remarkable comments by Ray Franz on the subject. Who would know, if not he, the truth behind the lie? Have to get back to this matter as it concerns many of the friends.
Was blown away, likewise, by Uzzah's comments recently. Why does the Society not rely upon God and JUST TELL THE TRUTH? You and I both know why.
Another gorgeous day on tap. Will I go for a walk? Looks like a less-than-remote possibility. I am grateful to be with you daily, DD. Growing older and slower seems decidedly more tolerable as I become less encumbered by the anxieties of an earlier time. I am at peace---for the most part, yes, truly so, for the most part.........
The outdoors is calling me, DD. I take my leave of you........C...
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Dear Diary,
I'm a nervous wreck---nearly had two wrecks! First a dog, then a deer, within 15 minutes of each other. I purposely take the back roads where I can go slower and pull over for those speed demons, who must do their high-speed mountain driving. In the first instance, some speedster caught up to my rear, and then a pooch jumps out, right in front of me. Slam on the brakes and doggie whizzes off lickety-split, unharmed. I finally pull over to check things out, tailgater zooms on by. Scheeeech! Then the deer, a block from the house---runs right in front of me and barely grazes by. Is tonight the night? Had to tell you, DD. I'm glad the beasties are OK, and I wasn't rear-ended. Hope tonight was only a freaky thing...could've been a skunk!
Back after dinner. Can I get you anything?C...
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Dear Diary,
In doing more research into the WT's justification for lying, I see that Ray Franz's comments are right on the mark:
He states that in order to get the preaching work done in some countries, the Society has some brothers pose as "tourists," and about every six months, they leave and return again a few days later---as "tourists." This while employed at Branch headquarters. These arrangements are not worked out by individual missionaries but by the WTS.
"The reason for discussing these practices is not because of any interest in judging the ethical or moral nature of the practices of themselves, or the individuals involved. What disturbs me is, once again, the double standard applied, where the organization takes on itself the right to judge the morality of a practice when carried on by "ordinary" people (and their qualifying for appointment as exemplary persons), but considers itself above criticism or condemnation when doing the same thing in order to advance "organizational interests." [ISOCF, "Legalism-Opponent of Christian Freedom," p. 283]
DD---Apparently, our seeing the evil doesn't always register its true nature in our conscious minds. Will the existence of lies and deceit, however, make itself felt in the subconsciousness of those trusting souls, and "awaken" them? When it does, will their collective conscience move them do stop 'touching the unclean thing'? I guess I need to be patient, DD---I didn't see it either, at least, not all at once. What will it take?
C...