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  My apologies to everyone

  by TipToe in

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  i didn't know this was an " ex" board...i'm very embarrassed right now.

  i didn't mean to hurt anyone here especially if some of you have been victims of sexual abuse.

  i was enraged yesterday by what i saw on tv and felt i had to say something...wrong board loll ...so sorry

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  Sir Paul

  Welcome Aboard!

  Personally, I think you should keep your current name.... Now I know that at first glance these people may LOOK innocent... but there's always more than meets the eye!
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  Art vs. Pornography

  by Aztec in

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  i have framed some odd things in my career.

  i didn't mind framing a penthouse spread.

  i did mind framing a "slave bat".

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  What in the world are you... up to, in your latest photo there Azzy?? (wink wink)
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  Are you related to anyone famous?

  by Mulan in

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  i thought this might be a fun "fluff" thread.

  someone posted the other day that marc anthony (the singer) is their cousin.

  i have done extensive genealogy research so i know a few famous relatives.

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  Sir Paul

  My Greatgrandparents (on my mothers side) were Beauforts from England.. so I'm distantly related to all the old Beaufort kings and Queens of England... I believe Henry The VIII falls in there somewhere..
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  Have YOU Ever Met Up With Anyone Famous

  by RAYZORBLADE in

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  have any of you on this forum, ever met up with anyone considered famous?

  i've met a great deal of people over the years.

  one of my most memorable: dennis leary, drinking a few pints with him as he sang "margaritaville" from the jukebox.

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  I used to be pretty involved with acting at one point, nothing to really write home about - But I've had a few featured spots in a few Vegas-based Films and TV shows... Met the whole CSI cast of course (rode in the bus with them), Met Andy Garcia, George Clooney (who is VERY nice and chatty) and Brad Pitt (Great guy - shyer than you'd think he'd be) on O11... Met Robert Wagner on Play it to the Bone (horrible movie - but I got to do a little scene with Rob..) as well as Woody Harrelson (Taller than you'd think he'd be) and Antonio Bandaras (fairly short - But nice) as well as Antonio's family (Melanie and the kid) ..Hmm let's see... 'Met' Julia Roberts twice now.. from America's Sweethearts and O11.. and Catherine Zeta Jones and Billy Crytal from America's Sweethearts (Catherine was gorgeous in person) ...Oh yeah, almost forgot - John Cusack was there too and during a break in filming I felt someone put there hands on my shoulders balancing themselves trying to get through the crowd - and I turned around, and it was John.... (Tall guy too) Hmmm.. Maybe he was just trying to 'cop a feel'? LOL... Well, in any case, he was a nice guy and (ladies) now my shoulders are 'blessed' by John Cussack. LOL

  Outside of film sets, I also met and spoke to Diane Keaton while I was acting as host for Border Grill when it first opened here in Vegas, and have also met Andre Agassi many many times back when he had hair - as we grew up in the same neighborhood, and he used to go in the big video store I used to work in.. (psst.. back then, he favored the 'red room' if you know what I mean) I liked him though.. great guy. Met his fiance/wife Stefi years later at the mall when I was selling Men's Fragrance - as she bought a whole bunch of Gendarme for Andre (Gendarme is a brand that's very light - good for people who are normally allergic to cologne..)

  I met the Carters (Rosalynn and Jimbo) this past Valentine's day, and did some artwork for them which I hear is hanging in their house now.. :)

  Allright.. I'll stop showing off now.. Perhaps it would've just been easier to say who I haven't met yet - Haven't met Jack Nicholson... so there...
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  What Makes A Person A Potential "Apostate"?

  by minimus in

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  the more i think about things, the more i believe that i have been, as the society likes to say, "courting sin".

  for years, i've questioned internally, the policies of the watchtower, the teachings, the directives of co's and do's and the overall "attitude" of jw's.

  mind you, no one would have ever thought that i didn't believe this is without a doubt the "truth".

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  Anyone that has a streak of independance about them that is not too quick to follow others advice or wants...

  Speaking of 'Really Hot Bods' - Nice picie Stac!
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  Past lives?

  by Lutece in

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  anyone here ever try past life regression hypnotism?

  i'm curious and wondering what my "imagination" will come up with.

  maybe it's true.

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  All the way back to the court of Pharaoh, eh?

  Bah.. I was Pharaoh! Never met Cleo though... she was AFTER my time! LOLOL
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  Just Get Over It?

  by sens in

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  in the last couple of days ive been reading info on the un & wts ...so have been pretty absorbed with the amount of info out there on the wts...

  anyway...it hasnt been that long since i left the wts...and a close friend of mine (never a witness) said to me ,twice now, and rather strongly again today...

  "its over, you have left, get over it...your obsessed with this, who cares, just get over it before it drives you mad...its really pathetic"

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  Tink: - I'm Really sorry to hear that... 'I' would certainly understand of course! {wink wink}

  Well, it's like David Reed said in his book (which I got from the library) 'BLOOD ON THE ALTAR'... That depending on whatever amount of time that you spent WITHIN the Org getting yourself INDOCTRINATED... It's reasonable to expect it to take an almost equal amount getting Dis-Indoctrinated.. It just takes a lot of time, there's no overnight cures when it comes to something like this.

  I've been away from them for years, (8 or 9 now) and I've read a few books by other people that had escaped the org themselves (Barbara Harrison's 'Visions of Glory' was my first) and that helped me a great deal... And it's amazing to me now, that as real as it might have seemed then.. How completely ridiculous and cultlike it obviously is now...

  But that's 'the rub' for me I guess, that continues to cause me to dwell on those years long passed - that there are many others now, particularly young children, many of which could have bright futures otherwise, that are trapped in this 'man-serving nonsense' that ultimately has no real purpose..
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  Your favorite artists?

  by berylblue in

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  okay...my evil reactionary brother in law is one of my faves.... .

  this talented bastard won every award when he was at the pa academy of fine arts.

  i love his work.

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  I'm not a HUGE Warhol (less so for Lichtenstein) but I would say that he largely managed to avoid that particular criticism because his silkscreen prints and painting of household items were supposed to be a statement on how he viewed the world of Pop culture and commercialism... In that sense, he made a statement and created an art of sorts that reflected on how he looked on things...

  Course, one could argue that that's all a bunch of Mumbo Jumbo... but that's how his work came to be percieved.. along with his comments and writings...

  But Kinkade?... what's he trying to SAY exactly with all these samey cottages surrounded by pink and blue bushes? Done Over, and over, and over, and over again?....

  "Thanks for the Dough" perhaps? :O)
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  Ever get the feeling your just not "normal"?

  by logansrun in

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  even when i was a dub i felt this way.

  i mean, i would just stand there at gatherings and feel that i was in my own world -- that, somehow, everyone else was "in" and i was "out.

  " i never felt this way at formal gatherings -- meetings, assemblies, etc -- only in most social settings.

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  Normal? - I only cared about things like that back when I was in my teens or early Twenties... (and KNEW I wasn't, all the same..)

  Now that I am thirty, I embrace what bit of 'eccentricity' I have about me... I don't care or want to be 'normal' if i can help it.
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  Your favorite artists?

  by berylblue in

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  okay...my evil reactionary brother in law is one of my faves.... .

  this talented bastard won every award when he was at the pa academy of fine arts.

  i love his work.

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  Aztec: Well what do you think of BOB ROSS aficionados? LOL... Used to run into those back when I worked in an art store (which, by the way, was a thankfully BRIEF period LOL) and they could be pretty dedicated too! Well,... he did seem like a real nice guy and all, what with his 'Happy' Rocks, and 'Good Little' trees.... But somehow seeing his big goofy afro head on paintbrushes and such.. kinda sets me off my lunch.

  Ang: I really like Vettriano's stuff. If caught my eye the very first time I saw one. He does all these different widely-varied scenes, many with outlandish occurances being depicted, often with these semi-sinister titles... and yet there's an obvious recognizable style throughout them all that is entirely his own... Pretty much the sort of thing one WANTS to accomplish in art or music... Be highly vaied, take risks, and yet - retain a style throughout. Of course, his stuff is appearing on all kinds of commercial items now... But hey, It's the thing to do in this day and age anyways.

  Gambit: Like i said - If any Kinkade did something for you that was positive- then It Is good. Back when he first started to gain a bit of popularity and I saw some of his stuff - I actually liked it a bit at first (like I said - I happen to like little European-looking cottages and houses) It wasn't until I started seeing him having entire galleries of the stuff (all looking very much alike) and had studied up on some art history - that I recognized that what he did was far more a formulae than a geniune artistic expression. Hell, If 'I' had to paint guady-colored cottages over and over and over again - I'd be BORED out of my freaking mind from a lack of expression... no matter what money I was making! - See my point? But Obviously a lot of people do like his stuff.. almost religiously (hmm.. wonder if I'll ever manage to have 'followers' when 'I' paint?? ....call em' 'The Shortall's' maybe... and people in art stores all over will cringe when one of them wanders in, like: "Psst... watch out! That guy over there? - Nuther one of em' 'Shortall' fukers..." LOL ....

  Look at it this way, I know PLENTY of people that absolutely HATE anything that Picasso or Dali did, and consider them nothing more than a bunch of 'madmen'.... :o)