from around 1964, until our congregation had a new kingdom hall built in the mid-70's or so, we had this mural behind the speaker's platform on the stage.
it was supposed to be paradise.
it had a nice range of mountains, a beautiful lake, and some flora and fauna in the foreground.
Oh yeah, we had a mural, too!
And, EVERY couple that got married in our hall always had the same picture taken. The bride and groom happily pointing to themselves in the paradise on the wall. Probably because they all used the same photographer (a JW from a neighboring cong).
*GAG*
CountryGuy
what are some of the more popular jobs jws seem to flock to in your opinion?
personally, the latest trend in my area is school bus driver as well as school bus monitor.
i can think of six jws who drive school buses and two who are monitors.
There were so many JWs who were contractors in our area. You would have thought the KHs would have been a lot nicer than they were!
CountryGuy
creepy!.
pope.
http://www.stern.de/_content/50/82/508282/xray.swf
I KNEW IT!!!!!
LOL!
CountryGuy
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i think bush is trying to screw this country one more time before he's voted out of office....
Civil Rights and Gay Marriage have nothing to do with one another, even if CS King wants to make the leap. Being Black, or White, Or Asian is what you ARE, being gay, or straight, or bi is what you DO.
Yeru,
Now I get it. You think that being gay is a choice. Sorry, I didn't see that before. For me, it's not a choice and that's all I'm going to say about that.
Being gay is what I AM. Just like being an American is what I AM. I realized I was gay for five years before I DID anything with another man. In fact, I DID things with women. It didn't matter, that didn't make me straight, it made me in denial. During that time, I was still a gay virgin.
And, I also agree with you. Gay people do have the right to marry a person of the opposite sex. But, when we are allowed to marry the person we love, YOU will have the right to marry a person of the same sex. So, since you will have the same right I will, I don't see how that's a special right. It applies to all of us.
CountryGuy
Along with the condoms and beer? SURE! They have to talk about SOMETHING in the car groups. It might as well be me, again.
CountryGuy
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this is amazing.. can you drive a tug?.
http://www.yachtmaster.com/news/tug.htm
That was so funny!
CountryGuy
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i think bush is trying to screw this country one more time before he's voted out of office....
What an embarassment, to try to tie the civil rights movement to gay marriage. Geesh.
Actually Yeru, REM is not the first to compare the civil rights movement to gay rights movement.. Correta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been very vocal on this for some time.
Below is an excerpt of an article on advocate.com, if you would like to read the entire article, you may go to http://www.advocate.com/html/stories/825/825_king.asp
I say ?common struggle? because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.
My husband, Martin Luther King Jr., once said, ?We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny?an inescapable network of mutuality.? I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be.? Therefore, I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.?s dream to make room at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.
CountryGuy
i remember how little kids got so excited when they got to actually touch the glass and the dish!
yet, most people seemed to (respectfully) keep their heads down and try to look morbidly serious.
was the act of "passing the emblems" a thrill for you?
It always felt like a holy night to me. My problem was preventing myself from eating/drinking the emblems. Every year it was a battle.
Maybe you were one of the annointed and didn't know it?
this was too good to leave on the bush/gay marriage thread so i'm starting a new topic on it: .
the following was sent to me recently: .
as certain politicians work diligently to prevent marriage between two people of the same sex, others of us have been busy drafting a constitutional amendment codifying all marriages entirely on biblical principles.. after all, god wouldn't want us to "pick and choose" which of the scriptures we elevate to civil law and which we choose to ignore:.
We cannot let God be taken out of our nation. We do not want nor will we tolerate the ACLU and atheistic judges and courts destroying our beloved nation.
ThiChi,
Who said anything about taking God out of our nation? This has nothing to do with the removal of God from the United States. But that line is a great way to stir up those small minded in the religious right. Some gays, like some straights, do not want anything to do with religion. Other gays, like other straights, do. Those that wish to have God in their life, put him there.
The main point about the proposed ammendment is that it designed to deny rights based on an uncontrolable characteristic. Prohibiting gays from getting married would be like prohibiting anyone with green eyes from getting married. This ammendment would discrimnate against an entire class of people. This would make the country that you (and I) hold so dear the "Land of the Mostly Free."
CountryGuy
welcome tonyt!
always nice to see new memebers showing up!.
sincerely,.
Welcome to the Board, TonyT!
CountryGuy
