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People You Meet At The Grocery Store

by DakotaRed in

22 years ago

here it is 11 pm and i just returned from safeway where i went for a few quick items at 10. safeway is only a few blocks from my house.

as i was looking at the meat counter for some good bargains, being the cheap dude i am, as well as broke, a not unattractive blonde lady walks up to me and starts in complaining about the cost of granola, saying there is no way in hell she will pay $3 for a granola bar.

now, i have heard of women who go to stores late at night to get picked up by guys and quite honestly, always thought it was bs.

22 years ago

Adam 22 years ago

Dude, if I were single, I would have been all over that. I lean more to the right (though I'm pro choice and applauded the Supreme Court's overturning of the Texas sodomy law) but I would have totally agreed with everything she said, then invited her back to the pad to talk more about it. Drunk chicks rule.

I've been accosted more than once by religious fanatics in grocery stores. I think that for some reason they have an affinity for spreading the word of dog around produce. One time I was with a co-worker who I knew to be a believer and, just being me, I made the comment that Easter is the most lame holiday because it's ALWAYS on a Sunday and you NEVER get a day off of work for it. Then some jesus freak behind us said "Pardon me, but are you saved?" I turned to find some older lady wearing that stupid grin and blank, thoughtless stare that you get from the faithful when they're trying to "help" a non-believer. I asked her "What do you mean? Saved from what?" Obviously she was unable to enter into even the most rudementary analysis of her inquiry 'cause she simply chose the path of least thought and repeated herself. "I mean, are you saved?" I told her I didn't have the slightest clue what she was talking about. So rather than attempt to explain herself, she simply asked my co-worker if he was saved. He said yes. Getting the answer she was looking for and apparently the only one her vacant skull would accept, she said "Wonderful. Bless you." Then she turned to me and said "You are in good company." Rather than waste my time with this robot, I simply turned around and moved on.

That co-worker was later fired for stealing. Yet in her mind he was better company than me simply because he uttered the word "yes." Religion is grand, ain't it?

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Egypt, back from the dead?

by peacefulpete in

22 years ago

the desolation of egypt .

jeremiah 43:8-13 .

then the word of yhwh came to jeremiah in tahpanhes, saying, "take large stones in your hands and hide them in the mortar in the brick which is at the entrance of pharaoh's palace in tahpanhes in the sight of some jewish men and say to them, 'thus says yhwh of hosts, the god of israel, "behold, i am going to send and get nebuchadnezzar the king of babel, my servant, and i am going to set his throne over these stones that i have hidden; and he will spread his canopy over them.

22 years ago

Adam 22 years ago

you make assertions without showing your source.

And lets just forget my post with nearly all necessary documentation provided.

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Egypt, back from the dead?

by peacefulpete in

22 years ago

the desolation of egypt .

jeremiah 43:8-13 .

then the word of yhwh came to jeremiah in tahpanhes, saying, "take large stones in your hands and hide them in the mortar in the brick which is at the entrance of pharaoh's palace in tahpanhes in the sight of some jewish men and say to them, 'thus says yhwh of hosts, the god of israel, "behold, i am going to send and get nebuchadnezzar the king of babel, my servant, and i am going to set his throne over these stones that i have hidden; and he will spread his canopy over them.

22 years ago

Adam 22 years ago

Just one of many, many, many prophesies in the OT that were totaly false. The god of the OT has a crappy track record. Dunno about anybody else, but I like my dieties to know a little more about the future than this guy.

Genesis:

God says that if Adam eats from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, then the day that he does so, he will die. But later Adam eats the forbidden fruit ( 3:6 ) and yet lives for another 930 years ( 5:5 ). 2:17

As a punishment for killing Abel, God says Cain will be "a fugitive and a vagabond." Yet in just a few verses ( 4:16-17 ) Cain will settle down, marry, have a son, and build a city. This is not the activity one would expect from a fugitive and a vagabond. 4:12

God promises Abram and his descendants all of the land of Canaan. But both history and the bible ( Acts 7:5 and Heb.11:13 ) show that God's promise to Abram was not fulfilled. 13:15 , 15:18 , 17:8 , 28:13-14

Contrary to the prophecy in 48:21 , Joseph died in Egypt, not Israel. Gen.50:24

Deuteronomy:

God says that the Israelites will destroy all of the peoples they encounter. But according to Joshua ( 15:63 , 16:10 , 17:12-13 ) and Judges ( 1:21 , 27-36 , 3:1-5 ) there were some people they just couldn't kill. 7:24

This verse says that Ai was never again occupied after it was destroyed by Joshua. But Nehemiah ( 7:32 ) lists it among the cities of Israel at the time of the Babylonian captivity. 8:28

2 Samuel:

God says that Solomon's kingdom will last forever. It didn't of course. It was entirely destroyed about 400 years after Solomon's death, never to be rebuilt. 7:13, 16

2 Kings:

In Jeremiah ( 34:4 ) God tells Zedekiah that he will die in peace and be buried with his fathers. But this verse and Jer.52:10-11 say that he died a violent death in a foreign land. 25:7

Isaiah:

These verses falsely predict that Babylon will never again be inhabited. 13:19-20

This verse prophesies that Damascus will be completely destroyed and no longer be inhabited. Yet Damascus has never been completely destroyed and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities. 17:1

This verse predicts that there shall be five cities in Egypt that speak the Canaanite language. But that language was never spoken in Egypt, and it is extinct now. 19:18

Jeremiah:

God says he is going to punish Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians for what they have done to his people -- even though God Himself is the one who made the Babylonians attack and enslave Judah! As part of the punishment God will take the land of the Babylonians and "make it perpetual desolations." A false prophecy, since present-day Iraq is quite occupied. 25:12

AND THE BEAT GOES ON......................

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Can anyone confirm this? New congregation consolidation 'unofficial' policy

by truthseeker in

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22 years ago

i recently was told by an elder in queens, that there are so many young people being df'd, marriage problems and divorce, that some congregations in the queens, bronx and manhattan areas are very small as a result of the above problems.

he said that there is an unofficial policy of the gb, that they don't like congregations with less than 75 publishers.

as a result, some kingdom halls are being sold and congregations with few publishers are being consoloidated with bigger congregations.

22 years ago

Adam 22 years ago

This tactic totally makes sense. The GB keeps people so seperated, different, and isolated from the real world that the individuals need a large group of fellow JWs to keep their sanity and continue to fulfill the necessary human requirement to belong and to associate with other humans. If a congrigation gets too small, members of the flock will naturally look to outside sources to fill this need since the smaller group isn't enough to do it. Looking outside will expose them to reality and undermine their commitment to the un-natural way of living that the GB imposes on them. I immagine that there is a critical mass of regular attendees that must be maintained to keep the group sustained. Once the number falls below that limit, mass exodus for that particular group is an eventual enevitability. I am sure that the GB has studied this in depth and taken these measures to avoid it.

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New Light on 2005- Another False Prophecy?

by Tower Man in

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22 years ago

i have a new article on my site about the watchtower's claim of the end by 2005. if you're not burned out on this topic yet, check it out.

my friend, cheryl, wrote it.

http://www.towertotruth.net/articles/last_generation.htm

22 years ago

Adam 22 years ago

Since 1879 anyone who became a Jehovah's Witness but who left the Watchtower is on that narrow road to destruction.

Ahh, the ~~few~~ growning majority, the proud.

This is so lame and I truly feel sorry for people who actually buy into this crap. I mean, don't they see that "the end" has been "right around the corner" for over 2000 years now? Don't they know about all the other "end is near" predictions by the JW's, by other bible based religions, and even by jesus himself? Ever since jesus told people that the kingdom of god was comming "soon" and that some of the people then living would see it manifested, bible based belief structurs have been predicting the immenent end of the world. You think people would have learned by now.

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jw view on sex

by abraham in

22 years ago

genesis1:28 -gods purpose is to populating the earth , sex is not wrong but .

sexual before merriage is wrong .

(1 thess.

22 years ago

Adam 22 years ago

Abraham, do JWs say it's okay to do anal? (Within the bonds of marriage of course) Please provide scriptural backing for your response. Not because I belive that collection of cruelty, lies, and contradictions, I'd just like to know what you think the Bible's position is on anal.

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13 soldiers dead!!!

by petespal2002 in

22 years ago

Adam 22 years ago

Two words: HUMAN INTELIGENCE

We need it, we need lots of it, we need it to be reliable, and we need it now.

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Do you sometimes wish you could believe?

by Xander in

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22 years ago

idle thought for the moment.

i consider myself pagan - mostly because of the earth-friendly orientation of the 'religion'.

i tend to feel some forces guide us, but not in a christian way - to no real purpose or divine goal.

22 years ago

Adam 22 years ago

Xander, you and I are on the same page. Semantics is just getting in the way. To believe is to accept as true and/or real. Faith is belief in something for which there is no proof. I think I have been using "believe" in leiu of "have faith." I have not dismissed the supernatural either, for the simple fact that you can not prove to me that there is no supernatural being or force. Yet, like you, I need to see it happen and be able to repeat it, to quantify it, or have some form of verifiable proof in order to accept it as true and real (to believe it). I would love to be shown proof that cantations or potions or prayer works. If I had that proof, I would then believe in it and that would be great. But in the mean time, I am incapable of having faith that one or the other is reality.

Basically, if I had the proof, then I would both know and believe. Without the proof I have two choices. I can either have faith and believe or say "I don't know." I believe the latter is a more honest and open minded outlook.

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Do you sometimes wish you could believe?

by Xander in

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22 years ago

idle thought for the moment.

i consider myself pagan - mostly because of the earth-friendly orientation of the 'religion'.

i tend to feel some forces guide us, but not in a christian way - to no real purpose or divine goal.

22 years ago

Adam 22 years ago

I wouldn't say that I wished I could believe. I feel that my inability to accept that which can not be proven to me is a good thing, an honest thing, and leaves my mind open to explore different theories. I some times do get a pang of jelousy when speaking with someone who "knows" whether there is a god, who "knows" which god is the true one, who "knows" what happens after death, who "knows" why we are here and what we are supposed to do with our time on this Earth. I suppose that feeling arises because I want to know the answers as well. But the pang is only that, and it never lasts more than a few seconds. Why? Because I realize that these people, despite all of their conviction, really do not know, they believe. No, I don't wish I could believe, but I would still like to know.

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Only about a month 'till Return of the King!

by Adam in

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22 years ago

dunno how many of you are hard core lord of the rings fans, but i am so looking forward to seeing this movie.

personally i can't wait to see the paths of the dead.

any particular part you are especially impatient to see on the big screen?.

22 years ago

Adam 22 years ago

Dunno how many of you are hard core Lord of the Rings fans, but I am so looking forward to seeing this movie. Personally I can't wait to see the Paths of the Dead. Any particular part you are especially impatient to see on the big screen?

--------------------------------------WARNING: AXE TO GRIND SECTION----------------------------------

Found this (partially quoted) article in the UK Guardian while searching Lord of the Rings online:

It was the same with The Phantom Menace - I had no choice. When part of your childhood is playing down the road on a big screen with surround sound and popcorn, there's no escape. But as the wonder of discovering that there was more to New Zealand than sheep wore off, something began to worry me.

Maybe it was the way that all the baddies were dressed in black, or maybe it was the way that the fighting uruk-hai had dreadlocks, but I began to suspect that there was something rotten in the state of Middle Earth.

Perhaps Dubya's war on terror is making me a bit uneasy, or maybe it's just good old-fashioned Guardian-reading imperial guilt, but there was something about watching a bunch of pale faces setting off into the east to hack some guys with dark faces into little bits that made me feel a little queasy.

We also get a sneak preview of the army that's going to be representing the forces of darkness in part three. Guess what: "Dark faces... black eyes and long black hair, and gold rings in their ears... very cruel wicked men they look". They come from the east and the south. They wield scimitars and ride elephants.

Perhaps I'd better come right out and say it. The Lord of the Rings is racist. It is soaked in the logic that race determines behaviour. Orcs are bred to be bad, they have no choice. The evil wizard Saruman even tells us that they are screwed-up elves. Elves made bad by a kind of devilish genetic modification programme. They deserve no mercy.

Will someone tell me where they grow these people so I can lobby to have the crop plowed under and the field seeded with DDT? I swear, people can read racism and intollerance into ANYTHING. I even heard that some hypersensitive group of people with nothing better to do than bitch-n-moan were protesting Matrix: Reloaded because they say it promotes a negative image of albinos. Here?s the email address of the putz that wrote the above article if you wanna give him a piece of your mind.

email: johnyatt@yahoo.com

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