any other board game fanatics here.. i love them.. favorites are trivial pursuit, risk, masterpiece.. love card games too.
favorites are spades and bridge.. joel
Star Fleet Battles!!!
But I haven't played that in a *long* time... (And it takes so *LONG* to play... even with a few ships!!)
Settlers of Catan, Magic: The Gathering (I got addicted to this one when it first came out! Then one day my parents found some of my cards.. They threw them out on me... At least there weren't any rare cards!)
Merchants of Venus, some of the fantasy games from Avalon Hill.
Speaking of ICE... I used to *love* their RPG Rolemaster..
i just noticed this in the latest mags (15 june, 2002, see picture below) on the top box: if we want .
a concordance to the bible, we can find no better than the internet.. im just wondering if this will lead more witnesses to indulge in some web surfing, with the inevitable consequences of them coming across some critical matter?
lets hope so!
Who cares about the Hebrew or Greek translation of the Bible. What matters is what we, the faithful and discreet slave, tell you. And do not concern yourselves with those three dots you see so much of (called an ellipsis by the worldly ones). There are only there for you to give pause and reflect on what you have just read.
i have heard that argument from the jw's since i was a child - i still hear it from my family.. now that i am out it seems like such a silly argument.
in fact, you could liken it to someone in an abusive marriage for years.
they're used to the situation and somewhat frightened at the thought of change.
MegaDude:
Hmmm... So maybe there is a God(ess) but we shouldn't be so organized...
b_ster
i`m sitting here in front of the computer with a nice cold bottle of molson canadian beer.i don`t drink canned beer unless i`m camping deep in the forest.its easyer to pack,and cans dont explode(bottles will)if your going up a rough mountain road.i prefer my beer stored in a bottle,i think the taste is a lot crisper.so how do you prefer your favorite beer?bottles,cans or on tap served in a frosty mug..
On tap or bottles.. :)
mmmMMMMMMM Canadian.....
reading the lb thread "home but hiding" struck a chord with me.. i remember when i was inactive for the period of about a year the elders made a few "sheperding calls".. did anyone else out there find these very rude and condescending?.
first of all, in my case at least they always showed up unannounced.
how much do you think those "hell-ders" would like it if someone randomly dropped by their house unexpected?
They came to where I was working once!! I worked at a computer store. I was in the back fixing computers and I had to come out front so they could _encourage_ me for ten minutes..
the june 1, 2002 wt has an interesting discussion of whether genetics and our biology have any influence on "alcoholism, homosexuality, promiscuity, violence, other aberrant behavior and..." .
their conclusion?
essentially, they say no.
Next thing they we be telling us is that we will all become white in Paradise.
the june 1st wt has the cover article should you be afraid of death?
on the first page it sets the scene as to how death casts a shadow over us.
it then seemingly gloats over how people in the world are fixated by death.
Death fascinates us? So when 3,000 people were massacred on 9/11, we were just "fascinated"?! We can't get enough of that? They (WTS) are the one who are the sick bastards.
Do they somehow believe that when we see death on the screen we want to see more?!! When we see it we are shocked, saddened and never want to see it again..
b_ster
what's your opinion on this?
what if you caught your husband or wife engaging in an odd situation at his/her computer screen?
is it cheating?
What about strip clubs? More then 90% of the men there are married.
Butalbee:
Your ex was probably duped in to downloading a file to get supposedly "free" pictures. Then that program would disconnect you from your ISP and dial the 900 #. It is most likely that wherever he downloaded it from did *not* say anything about the charges for using the new phone #. It is like a computer virus. I hope you were able to get the offending program off your computer.
b_ster
ok, heres my question for all the ex-elders out there.. it will be announced thursday that my niece will be disfellowshipped.. the circumstances are not important to this discussion, but she is .
remorseful for her actions and has taken steps so it will not happen again.
she actually made a lot of sacrifices to try to make her mistake right.
I expect the reinstatement to come in a year.
I was never an elder, but my best friend was df'd for _apparently_ the same thing and that lasted for a year.
I hope she enjoys being alone...
well think gave me a great idea.
lets start an apostate yearbook.
i think it could include things over the past few years, to let us know how we're doing!!!!.
Speaking of "apostate", I remember going to District assemblies and there was a person dressed in a gorilla suit outside. He held a sign saying "Don't let the Society make a monkey of you".
I remember my parents saying those were bad people.. "apostates".. But I always wanted to know what they had to say. But at the time, how could I?
I always thought "If what the Society says is so right, anything these people say could never hold up."
How wrong I was.....
I still get sooo emotional thinking about this stuff...
b_ster
