Posts by Adam

(could be serious, could be fun...) i for one, am just sooo curious to meet the cat himself... just to find out if he's much different in person than in his online persona!

...and maybe pet him a few times in the process...

The devil on my shoulder is screaming XENA! XENA! But the angel is reminding me that I am taken. Not sure who would win the fight if we met in person so I'll be safe and say Peaceloveharmony. I think she would be the coolest friend to just chill with.

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Depressed Or British?

by Englishman in

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depressed man diagnosed as "british" from the guardian:.

george farthing, an expatriate british man living in america, was recently diagnosed as clinically depressed, tanked up on anti-depressants and scheduled for controversial shock therapy when doctors realised he wasn't depressed at all - only british.

not depressed, just british: .

Adam

Sirona, that all may be true, but do you guys have volcanos? Do you have the unibomber? Do you have multiple high speed chases throughout your country ever day? Do you have cop-assisted suicide? Do you have hurricanes every year? Is over half of your population overweight? Do you have rattlesnakes, brown recluse spiders, alligators and fire ants? Do you have an illegal drug business that moves more money than the GNP of most other countries? I'm tellin ya, you don't know what you're missing over here in the states.

An idea for the Middle East

by Adam in

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i had an idea that may solve the problems in the middle east.

the idea is a little extreme and may have some negative effects in the short term.

but before you get all sensitive and yell you right-wing, inbred nazi bastard!

Adam

I had an idea that may solve the problems in the Middle East. The idea is a little extreme and may have some negative effects in the short term. But before you get all sensitive and yell “You right-wing, inbred nazi bastard!” carefully consider the LONG-TERM benefits both for world peace and for the average person living in the Middle East. Here I go…

First, we secretly drill several massive tunnels deep underground to the Middle East oil fields from a friendly area relatively near by, perhaps some British colony or a puppet government that will keep it's mouth shut for some money. We've got our oil. Then we pull out our troops and our diplomats from the whole region including Israel. Many groups and many people in the Middle East will always hate us but without anything American right in their face, and if history is any indication, focus will shift away from us and to more immediate and more conventional military actions. They'll fight Israel and fight each other. Israel can hold it's own without us, we've sold them all the best equipment after all and their training is very professional. Without all the money they get from selling us oil, the governments of the Middle East won't have the money to buy all the guns and ammo they need to kill each other. So we offer to sell them the arms on something like the lend-lease agreement of WWII. Slowly but inevitably the U.S. and her allies will own massive amounts of land in the Middle East. American business will follow in the wake of property ownership and eventually control nearly all commerce in the region. At the same time the militaries and governments of the Middle East become ever more weak from all the fighting. When the experts deem that the situation is ripe, U.S. government and American business effectively takes over all political and economic control remaining in most of the Middle East countries. The US armed forces will necessarily be deployed to protect American interests. In their weakened state, the governments and militaries will be helpless to resists the take over. In 10 to 15 years from the implementation of the plan, most of the Middle East becomes a protectorate of the US and her allies, it's foreign and domestic policies, it's governments and it's militaries heavily subject to influence and oversight of the Western World.

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Masturbation is more dangerous than atheism

by Elsewhere in

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http://www.whitehouse.org/initiatives/purity/index.asp .

president bush is proud to introduce an ambitious new phase in the fight to preserve all that is decent in america.

conceived and championed by the revered republican think tank americans for purity, "operation infinite purity" is dedicated to the complete eradication of masturbation from american soil by the year 2005. .

Adam

Peace, don't be so drastic. There's gotta be a loophole, there always is. If someone else is doing the manipulating, then it's not technicly masturbation is it? We'll just have to start designating "fondle partners" that are responsible for coming to the aid of a friend in need. We can all wear special beepers for emergencies.

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Your Favorite CHRISTIAN Music and Song!!

by D wiltshire in

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what is your favorite verse of song?.

what bands do you like?.

what are some of your all time favorite song?.

Adam

One of my favorite songs is inspired by the behavior of God in the Old Testimant. It's called "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor."

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Austria goes "German Only"

by Adam in

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i must be a glutton for punnishment or something, but here i go again, broaching the subject of speaking english in america.. apparently a law was recently passed in austria that people must satisfactorily pass a basic german language skills test in a few months or they will be fined.

if they do not master basic german in 4 years, they can be kicked out of the country.

many people interviewed in the article mentioned that they are too poor to afford the classes.

Adam

Oh, LDH. I realize that we are in agreement on many points. I even agree about the free classes you put in bold and italics, read my fist post. However, here are a few points I think you need to consider.
1. Contrary to your last statement, I do NOT assume that people aren't learning the language on their own.
2. While true that the world is moving to a universal economy, the international language of business is already English.
3. The statement that I am using the language issue as a "red herring argument to limit immigration into this country" is simply not true. I bring up the language issue for the very clear reasons I have already stated in previous posts. Again, you're running to defend the helpless who are not even under attack.
4. Should people in Southern Britan feel bad that they don't know Italian? The Romans were once there. Should the Mexicans feel bad that they don't know Aztec? The Spanish came second This arguement is rediculous. Consider this: You said "...when the immigrants from Europe came here. As a group, did they make an effort to learn those languages? No, they didn't. Period." You seem to feel that they should have made that effort. Why then shouldn't the immigrants coming to America today make that same effort you feel the Europeans should have made? Are two wrongs making a right here?

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Do you Remember the Moment you Stopped Being a JW?

by Smoldering Wick in

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"it only takes a moment.

a moment of sanity.

clarity.

Adam

There were realy two things that came at the same time and contributed to the moment I broke free. They were the study of the Revelation book and the coming of my Dad's divorce. While on summer break of 6th grade visiting my dad, he studied for about a week with the JWs, he was searching as was I. He decided that it wasn't for him and quit. But the JWs struck a chord with my step-mom and I. We both went in full bore. I moved in with them so I could continue. As the years went on, my step-mom bacame more and more of a controlling bitch. But she was my "spiritual head," immagine my wonderful life. My dad let it be know during my senior year that he was going to get a divorce after my graduation. I could not stand the thought of living with my step-mom and wondered how I was going to make it on my own with all the temptations. I wanted to see what it was like to smoke pot. I wanted to have premarital sex. Many other "bad" things. Then I realized that if I wanted to do these things, I must not think that they were bad. After all, I always had hated killers, cheaters, and liers, I thought they were bad. But I saw nothing bad about masturbating. If, after 5 or 6 years of trying to convince myself that these things were wrong, I didn't think that way then I never was going to.

At the same time I was worrying about life without my step-mom to keep me in line we were studying the Revelation book. My anylitical mink kept yelling inside me, "How can they KNOW that this vision means what they say it means? How can they KNOW that their interpretations are correct? WAKE UP MAN! These are words from men with no conclusive proof of their validity. How do you not see that?" I realized that faith was the acceptance of something that could not be proven, and that I had no faith.

These two issues kept yelling at me in the back of my head, no matter how I tried to shut them up. I felt guilty for my doubt, but couldn't escape that fact that thru all my study there was no resolution I found accetable that the JW literature could provide for either of the issues I had. I had visited my mom one week. The next week I was sick. So I had skipped several meetings. I had no excuse one night and started getting ready. I realy didn't want to go. Finally my step-mom asked me "are you ready for the meeting yet or what?" Butterflies were working overtime in my tummy. Finally I said fuck it. "Barbara, I'm not going." "What?" she said angrily. "I'm not going to the meeting, I'm not going to any more meetings at all." She stood there with no words. Finally she said "fine" and took herself and her son to the meeting. That was the moment I was no longer a JW.

After about 5 minutes, my chest relaxed. I was free. I breathed in and it felt like I hadn't taken a breath in 6 years. I stood up and I felt taller than the Empire State Building. I was master of my own destiny. I was not a Jehovah's Witness. I was not bound by the doctrines of any organization or the controlling dictates of a power hungry bitch. I was only Adam, no more and no less. Adam was a rock, an island, untouchable, impenitrable. I had been being groomed for Bethel and I got a sinister pleasure out of the schock from the congrigation at the announcement, communicated to me thru some JWs who would still talk to me under cover. Elders and pioneers called on me, invited me out to lunch. I would accept their invitations and explain with a smile that, no, I didn't want any spiritual help, the reasons I left are personal, thank you for your concern. The best part was seeing Barbara every day for the months prior to my graduation. Sometimes I was stoned, sometimes I had beer on my breath, and I made sure she knew it. I can't exress to you the satisfaction it gave me to tell Babrara one day, after telling me that I couldn't go out 'till I had done some menial chore, "Barbara, I'm going to do whatever I damn well please. I am 18 years old, you are not my spiritual head any more, and your status as my step-mother exists only on paper and everyone knows it. The only authority you have over me is what I choose to GIVE you! Think about that!" The look on her face was worth all the money in the world.

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Question for Expatbrit, or any other bloke

by Adam in

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*this question is posted on my errantly titled "german only" post but it's now on page 3 and i'm realy interested in the answer.*.

written: we are in america.. brit speak: we are in america.. *compared with*.

brit speak: a champaign supernova.

Adam

*This question is posted on my errantly titled "German Only" post but it's now on page 3 and I'm realy interested in the answer.*

Expatbrit, I have a question about "proper" English spoken by your ilk over there across the pond. What the hell is up with the invisable "R" added to words that end with the letter "A"? For example:
Written: We are in America.
Brit speak: We are in America.
*compared with*
Written: America is at war.
Brit speak: AmericER is at war.
Another example from a UK band, Oasis:
Written: a champaign supernova
Brit speak: a champaign supernova
*compared with*
Written: a champaign supernova in the sky
Brit speak: a champaign supernovER in the sky
Why the ER dude?