Maybe you ought to post this on the Bill Cosby thread. It seems relevant. But you probably had a whole different point, and I just missed it.
myauntfanny
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The English Language Has Made Tremendous Strides
by Larry inbased on the book "in the beginning - the story of the king james bible..." by alsiter mcgrath".. it took the english generations to love, respect, and use their own language.".
"in the early middle ages, literacy was rare, and often limited to the clergy...the ability to read had once been the exclusive preserve of the clergy.
by the beginning of the 15th century, this literary monopoly was in the process of being decisively overthrown.".
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How Does It Feel Knowing That You Were Once A Member Of A Cult???
by minimus indoes it bother you?
the more i think about it---the angrier i get.
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myauntfanny
I was raised as a JW but I don't know how much I ever believed it, I don't remember taking it seriously (although I'm sure it had unconscious effects) so I never felt stupid or ashamed. I was pretty angry for a few years, but it faded. I still sometimes feel both a bit special and a bit isolated, because most people I've met didn't have such a WIERD childhood, and they just can't begin to relate to it.
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Needing a name for a band
by Pleasuredome ini've recently joined a band, playing synth.
our music is going to be depeche mode style.
we need a name and i just can't think of one.
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myauntfanny
Pleasuredome
When you narrow them down, can we vote on them? I especially like Tented Boxers, Erotisch Teddy and Stupefiant.
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ALL TIME FAVORITE "OLD" MOVIE
by sandy ini just finished watching "splendor in the grass".
for some reason i love to torture myself with sad movies and sad songs.. the end of that movie is so heart breaking.
actually its bitter-sweet but when you are still stuck on someone who you cannot have it is heart-breaking.. i had to restrain myself from calling my ex.
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myauntfanny
Champagne for Ceasar, which nobody but me seems to have ever heard of. It's got Vincent Price and a smart-ass parrot, what else can you ask for? Also the original Born Yesterday with Judy Holiday, and The Man Who Came to Dinner.
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I told my mom I was going to Dallas and she FLIPPED OUT
by logansrun indear gentle members, .
remember the thread i started about my "liberal" jw mother?
well, forget all about that.
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myauntfanny
She said that I "choose" not to have non-ex-JW friends and that I -- this is her exact wording -- don't know how to develop real friendships.
It's wierd, that's kind of like what my mom said to me. She said she didn't stop me having friends, I just never wanted them. It really upset me, because it's an absolute load of bollocks. Then I started wondering if I was just crazy and didn't remember right. But I remember that I painted a poster about how much I wanted friends (of all the lame things, but I was 13 and posters WERE the in thing) and she scowled at the stupid drawing and said I'd mispelled "friends". Which I had, but talk about missing the point. Sorry to ramble, that just hit a nerve.
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Cold Turkey-Kurt Vonnegut (kinda long)
by IronGland inmany years ago, i was so innocent i still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable america so many members of my generation used to dream of.
we dreamed of such an america during the great depression, when there were no jobs.
you think arabs are dumb?
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myauntfanny
I think it's terrific. But having read most of his books I find it hard to believe he was EVER optimistic. His mother committed suicide when he was 12 and he once said that after that suicide was always an option when things got difficult. I did think it was funny when he said that he kept hoping that smoking would kill him. Nothing like dark humour. Hats off to him for speaking out, and for managing to avoid suicide for so long.
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Are many of lifes questions from influence?
by gumby inwho put us here?
is there a god somewhere?.
if you were raised on an island completely isolated from outside influence of man.......would you ask these questions above?
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myauntfanny
Well, it's a good question, but it's a hard one. I personally think there's an innate sense of spiritual connection with the cosmic wondrousness of the universe blah blah new age blah. But I think religion is a whole other can of worms, and is just about controlling other people. I think that's why it developed in the first place, and I think that's what it's used for now. So, in summary, the JWs were bullshitting as usual. IMHO.
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Why didn't Sadam........?
by confusedjw ingoing back to the pre-war rhetoric it seemed to me that even the german and russian intelligence along with the english and american intelligence and previous inspectors all agreed that sadam had left over (and possibly made more) chemical wmd.
proof seemed to be provided about what they *knew* he had at *some point* and it couldn't be accounted for.. it seems obvious now that sadam did, in fact, destroy it long ago.. my question - why didn't he just prove it to the inspectors?
why not avoid all of this if he could?
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myauntfanny
Particularly as Saddam Hussein COULD have been taken out by a coup mounted by his own military in 1991 IF the US had provided the support they had promised!
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Nicholas Berg's Beheading
by Elmer J. Fudd ini downloaded the beheading of nicholas berg and watched the video over and over.
my opinion is that the video was edited to the max and berg was already dead when they cut his head off.
no blood, no convulsions.
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myauntfanny
I haven't watched the video and I won't, I need my sleep. But as Noam Chomsky points out, laughing off people who ask questions as conspiracy theorists is just another way of suppressing legitimate inquiry and democratic debate.
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Brits find a new use for condoms!
by ozziepost inon today's news downunder is this piece about what some brits did with their condoms:.
two charged over blair stunt.
10:04 aest fri may 21 2004. afp - police charged two fathers' rights activists with lobbing a condom full of purple-coloured flour at british prime minister tony blair in parliament, triggering a security alert.the incident, during blair's weekly question period, prompted a full-scale review of security at the british parliament, focusing minds on what could have happened if toxic chemicals had been involved.. .
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myauntfanny
Blame it on the weather!
Don't EVEN go there, it's one of the things they are a bit defensive about. I grew up in southern Cal and I complained the whole time I was there, it did not make me popular.