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Hortensia

remembered a JWism today - forefront. Isn't that redundant? I always used to wonder about that - if you're at the fore, you're in front, aren't you? Oh well, they have their own vocabulary.

I wonder if I'm the only person who finds Vern Yip's "Deserving Design" to be nauseating? Can't stand to watch it. So puke-making. Nancy Grace is pretty awful too. Can't stand her. Can't stand the commercial with the house saying "paint me."

I wonder how many JWD posters are in Indiana. I am going to Indiana in August.

Does anyone remember "Queen for a Day?" It was a television show in the 1950s. People would compete to be the most pathetic and the one who won was crowned QFAD and got washer/dryer and stuff like that. A lot of modern shows strike me as just being QFAD resurrected. Especially Vern Yip's show. I think that QFAD started the whole trend of entitlement - I'm pathetic and my life is awful therefore you owe me. But life sucks for everyone one way or another and we all just have to pull up our socks and get on with it.

I have a real hankering to go star watching, but no one to go with me. A friend who is a photographer wants to go one of these nights, and I know a great place in the high desert (all the UFO chasers go there) where local light is totally blocked out. I saw Hale-Bopp there, and it looked huge and really clear there, while when I looked at it from other places it looked kind of small. Watching stars makes me feel the same way that the ocean or a big ol' mountain makes me feel. I don't believe in the bible at all as inspired of god. But there are some beautiful phrases in it, like "I will lift mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help." Somehow when I look at a big ol' mountain or the stars or the ocean, I feel uplifted. Maybe it's a sense of our very real connection to the earth. Say what you want about spirit, we are definitely flesh. We're critters.

I think it's pretty obvious the earth and all it contains were not created by someone. But that in itself is pretty amazing, isn't it? Makes me want to break into "How Great Thou Art."

JK666

Hort,

What the heck are you coming to Indiana for? This is a good place to be from!

I would like to meet with you in August while you are here. I will PM you.

JK

jamiebowers

I wonder if I'm the only person who finds Vern Yip's "Deserving Design" to be nauseating? Can't stand to watch it. So puke-making. Nancy Grace is pretty awful too. Can't stand her. Can't stand the commercial with the house saying "paint me."

We must be kindred spirits, because I hate all of those things too. I hope you and JK666 can go stargazing in the Indiana sky.

changeling

I totally agree with your assesment of TV shows and commercials. Here's some that irritate me:

American Gladiators

My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad

Dancing With the Stars

Nashville Star

It's like a competition to see just how cheesy a TV show can get!

changeling:)

Quandry

Does anyone remember "Queen for a Day?" It was a television show in the 1950s. People would compete to be the most pathetic and the one who won was crowned QFAD and got washer/dryer and stuff like that.

Yes!!!!!!! I remember QFAD....I lived in California as a child....Dad was in the Marines, and we lived in Oceanside....loved it....anyway, yes, my mother always watched the show, and even went to a taping in L.A.

Wow, those were the days...I Love Lucy, etc.

My family and I went through Hollywood to see the star's homes-Jack Benny, etc. Dad drove although there were tour busses even then. This was in 1960. We'd never have had the money to take a tour bus. We did go to Disney and Knot's Berry Farm. Loved those places.

It is funny to think that, yes, the show was about who was the most pitiful.

But today, I love Extreme Home Makeover...It is wonderful that some deserving people get a new house. I just wish it could happen for so many more.

Hortensia

I'm going to see my sister in Indiana, a California girl who has been marooned in Indiana for too many years. Actually, she likes it there. Would be fun to have a mini meetup there.

I'm glad I'm not alone on the television shows - some are so nauseating and self-serving it's just awful. Add to that the list we made recently of cooking shows that demonstrate deadly recipes, there's a lot NOT to watch on television.

Had a long weekend, taught a class. Half the class were JWs - but they don't know my background. It was fun to watch the nice JW ladies, lovely people, have lunch with the gay guys, and swap ideas with the pentecostals and sstrut their stuff in their revealing clothes and in general live a double life. I had a good time - all the students were really nice people and they meshed well. A love-fest sort of weekend.

kurtbethel

I don't know much about going to Indiana, but I do know about star watching. Last night I was in the mountains east of San Diego with a reflector telescope and was watching the sky. I saw M13, M8 and several other star clusters in the area of Scorpio and Saggittarius. Then I got a great view of Jupiter, managing to take some pics. It was a great night for viewing.

Hortensia

Hey, I'm on the other side of those mountains, out in the Palm springs area. I remember going out to the observatory past Julian to look at Halley's comet.

kurtbethel

That would likely be the Mt. Laguna observatory. There is a 22" reflector and a smaller companion scope. I have done some viewing there. It is open to the public, unlike Palomar.

Hortensia

yes - Mt. Laguna observatory. Went up there in the middle of the night and stood in line to look through the telescope at Halley's comet which looked like a fuzzy cotton ball. Hale-Bopp was much more interesting - we could see it clearly without a telescope.

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