good afternoon!
by any chance, does anyone on this board live in bloomington indiana?
or, did anyone attend indiana university bloomington?
Indiana is a horrid wasteland! Avoid it at all cost. I kid you not. Seriously if Dante was going to describe a tenth level of hell, Virgil would just need to take him on a visit to Indiana.
In fact, I think you can pretty much just read Dante's Inferno and substitute Indiana for Lucifer in Canto 34. Indiana's three wings send forth freezing blasts of impotence, ignorance and hatred!
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do you have will ?...do you really intend to leave it to some swine pedophile loving cult.. .
nadsam...your friendly neighborhood apostate.
Yes I do. I've willed them the contents of my septic tank.
http://www.randomordercreations.com/smurf.html
Hey, I actually watched an episode of the Smurfs last night. That's right I'm 26 and still enjoy the Smurfs -- that's probably not a good thing, huh?
how do you put a broken egg back together?.
does anyone get my drift?.
celt
Smashed emotions? I prefer mashed emotions, at least then you can melt a little butter on them, maybe put a little gravy on them and all you have to worry about is the occasional lump.
Fried emotions are good too, but they're so salty and they go straight to your thighs!
link: http://www.theneworleanschannel.com/news/2953483/detail.html.
court opens door to searches without warrants .
posted: 3:55 pm cst march 26, 2004updated: 4:36 pm cst march 26, 2004. new orleans -- it's a groundbreaking court decision that legal experts say will affect everyone: police officers in louisiana no longer need a search or arrest warrant to conduct a brief search of your home or business.
Awesome! We don't need no darn inalienable rights. Let's just keep blotting out clauses in the Constitution. I'm sure we can trim a few off the Bill of Rights, right? After all we all know our government would never do anything wrong! In fact, let?s just rip up the Constitution and give John Ashcroft and George Bush free reign to do whatever they want ? oh wait we already did that, it was called the Patriot Act.
In another thread, a poster inquired about interesting books to read, well one that's rather relevant: 1984 by George Orwell.
i've noticed that alot of jw youth that leave the faith in their late teens and early twenties become one of those 4 things, yet i haven't seen many in this forum.
it might also be that i'm not here that often (380 posts since oct of '02).
anyways, if there are any, speak up.
Well I have three piercings, labret, nostril and eyebrow and I too like the Rollins Band and luv the New York Dolls but I don't know if that makes me a Punk or a Goth or whatever. BTW left the witnesses 8 years ago.
i was wondering just what the percentage would be on those who .
have left and at some point turn to another group or church.. i know from my own trials that i will never be a part of any.
organization.
I think we have to remember here that as former witnesses, we were part of a cult, not an established historical religion. Yes the witnesses claim to be Christians but I think we all know they aren't. Cults are a perversion of true religion. We've probably all had horrible experiences in the JW cult and that makes us leery of all religion and maybe God in general ? and perhaps rightfully so. But I think to toss all religion and all prospect of belonging to another organized religion out the window because of the past mistake of joining or being born into the JW cult could be tragic.
I think organized religion can offer a lot to help people and it is one of the stabilizing institutions of any society. I don?t know if there is any "true" religion. I?d be very leery of any religion that exclusively claimed that, as the witnesses do. But I?ve been in a few churches since leaving the witnesses (eight years ago.) I would like to eventually join one. I just haven?t found any that I think are fit.
any idea what the cost for newspaper ad would be displaying the letter?
pc
I'd really recommend if you want to get publicity for your cause, don't buy advertising! That is unless you can afford to toss around 100,000 to 150,000 USD. Use the media to do your advertising for you. In P.R. we do this all the time, via press releases, contacting and cultivating relationships with city editors, tv and radio program directors, etc.
The best way for you to get your anti-JW message (UN-NGO letter) out is just call up your local newspaper, ask to talk to the religion or editorial editor and just tell that person your story. Newspapers and magazines love this kind of stuff. But be persistent. I can tell you from working in a few newsrooms that the phones are always ringing. It's worth a try and a whole lot cheaper.
well shotgun persuaded me to tell you all this story.... the mom of 2 of my girl scouts developed a lump before christmas.
after her biopsy which we all thought would show nothing we all felt a special world collapsing.
we cried.
I know this has nothing to do with the posting, but I absolutely love the chocolate mint girl scout cookies. I swear I can eat a whole box in one sitting if I let myself.
this might be worth a watch for us uk ers.
noah's ark will be broadcast in the uk on bbc one on sunday 21 march at 1900 gmt.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3524676.stm.
it's also an interesting read.
Farkel, I couldn't agree more. The fact that so many people claim to actually believe in Noah and his Arch is the real miracle. It's a breath-taking display of stupidity, but still a miracle
