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  Computer games are from the Devil

  by ignored_one in

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  sorry guys.

  but the old guys in brooklyn have decided that you're spending far too much time enjoying yourself.

  see aw 12/22/02 for details.

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  yeah kaethra - resident evil....it REALLY sucked.
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  Offensive NASCAR joke

  by Bendrr in

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  what do dale earnheardt and pink floyd have in common?

  their last big hit was "the wall".

  mike.edited by - bendrr on 23 november 2002 17:50:56.

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  Well, before you automatically label someone as a moron, take into consideration the sport has been around for decades. The HANS device is a relatively new device, and the speeds reached now in NASCAR are SLOWER than they have been in the past. Point being, true it's a very dangerous sport, and the wise thing to do would be to take every precautionary measure possible, but it's not like guys get killed in accidents like his ALL of the time. I don't keep up w/ NASCAR as much anymore, but fatalities aren't all that common. There are a TON of accidents that happen, and most of the time guys walk away from them unscathed or slightly shaken up/bruised up. There are a ton of measures taken to make those cars as safe as humanly possible. Look at the wreck Richard Petty was in years ago. The dude rolled over MANY times starting from full speed practically and only thing that happened to him was he broke an ankle. Years later Dale hits a wall and is killed, something that is done almost every race....it was just a freak, tragic event.

  The attraction to the sport can't really be explained. It's something you have to experience in person in order to appreciate. Seriously....I wasn't prone to motor sports that much, and NASCAR had no appeal to me at ALL, but my dad got ticketes and practically dragged me to a race. You have so much more appreciation for it as you stand 20 feet from the track and see how these guys maneuver around each other at 220mph, inches apart. It's amazing, and anyone who appreciates the sound of a highly tuned performance engine will also feel the blood pump through his veins when they start the engines and start rumbling around the track. The anticipation of the green flag is intense, and when it drops, the sound of those engines roaring is enough to make one orgasm.

  plus the whole attraction to it is the battle between car manufacturers. Chevy vs. Ford kinda thing. Easy to get sucked into once you're exposed to it all.

  Take it from a man who's culture isn't quite the most poplular to be involved in NASCAR racing. No joke, you could count the amount of "brothas" in the crowd on one hand. I ain't trippin over it though....It's all good though.

  Go figure. :-P
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  What kind of car would Jesus drive?

  by Binky in

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  there's a debate raging over here.

  i gotta go with a volkswagen mini-bus.

  he was a carpenter, right?

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  Probably one of the Society's Buick LaSabre's. With tinted windows, of course.

  And he'd have a room on the top of 124 more than likely.
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  Computer games are from the Devil

  by ignored_one in

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  sorry guys.

  but the old guys in brooklyn have decided that you're spending far too much time enjoying yourself.

  see aw 12/22/02 for details.

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  yeah, cool game, AWFUL movie.
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  YOUR BEST DRUNK STORY

  by Mary in

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  what's the worse thing you ever did while drunk (assuming we've all been drunk).........when i was 16, we all got blitzed out of our minds at a witness wedding that happened to take place on hallowe'en.

  anyway, on our way home we thought it'd be funny to whip eggs at passing cars.

  unfortunately, the first (and last) car i hit was a cruiser.......i realized this as the egg was in mid-air.

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  One of the most memorable is going through a 1/5 of rum underneath the Brooklyn bridge, yelling at the people making out to get a room...sitting on the edge of the rocks asking my friend if I fell in would he jump in to save me.

  oh. the first time i got drunk, i drank a 6 pack of Fosters, threw up, passed out, then woke up and drove home. How I made it i don't know, but I was very concious of driving slow and staying between the lines - somehow.

  my parents were waiting up for me, and since I was out a little later than anticipated, they sat me down and asked how my day was. I somehow managed to pull off being sober, but I still think to this day they knew I was drunk.

  Next morning i didn't feel very hot. Moms made pancakes, and poured me a nice big glass of milk.

  I had the feeling i shouldn't drink it, but I couldn't think of an excuse not to, so....I drank it.

  You can guess what happened next...

  I'm fortunate I don't have any bad experiences from drinking...
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  Interesting Early Christian History info

  by back2dafront in

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  just thought i'd share an article on the net i'm finding rather interesting.

  they are presenting the history of christianity in a chronological way that makes everything a lot easier for me to picture and understand.

  maybe it's me, but the society's publications never laid things out clearly for me.

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  Just thought I'd share an article on the net I'm finding rather interesting. They are presenting the history of Christianity in a chronological way that makes everything a lot easier for me to picture and understand.

  Maybe it's me, but the Society's publications never laid things out clearly for me. Always seemed like a conglomeration of haphazard stats/facts carefully picked and chosen to support their message.

  At any rate, take a look-see.

  http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_chov.htm

  What I particulary found interesting was this:

  2. Jewish Christian movement: Jesus disciples appear to have regrouped later in Jerusalem under the leadership of James, one of Jesus' brothers. The group viewed themselves as a reform movement within Judaism; they viewed Jesus as a prophet and rabbi, but not as a deity. They organized a synagogue, worshiped and brought animals for ritual sacrifice at the Jerusalem Temple. They observed the Jewish holy days, practiced circumcision of their male children, followed Kosher dietary laws, and practiced the teachings of Jesus as they interpreted them to be. They are frequently referred to today as the Jewish Christians. 2 (These should not be confused with followers of modern-day Messianic Judaism who generally follow an Evangelical Christian theology and who are sometimes also called Jewish Christians.) Many were killed, enslaved, or scattered during the Roman attack on Jerusalem in 70 CE.
  3. Pauline Christianity: Saul, a Jew from Tarsus, originally prosecuted the Jewish Christians on behalf of the priests at the Jerusalem Temple . He experienced a powerful religious conversion, after which, he departed for places unknown for three years. He later became the single most active Christian missionary, from about 36 CE until his execution by the Romans in the mid-60's. He created a new Christian movement, containing elements from many forms of Paganism: Greek, Roman, Persian, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, etc. He included the concept of Jesus as "The Word", as a god-man -- the savior of humanity, the product of a virgin birth who was executed, resurrected and ascended into heaven. There are dozens of points of similarity between the life of Jesus and that of Krishna, the god-man and second member of the Hindu trinity. Paul abandoned most of the Laws of Moses and rejected many of the Jewish behavioral rules that Jesus and his disciples had followed during his ministry. Paul taught that God had unilaterally abrogated his covenants with the Jews and transferred them to the Pauline Christian groups.
     
     Paul went on a series of missionary journeys around the eastern Mediterranean and attracted many Gentiles (non-Jews) to his movement. He was assisted by many co-workers, both male and female. Paul organized churches in many of the areas' urban centers, in competition with Greek Paganism, Mithraism, Mystery Religions, Judaism, competing Christian movements, and other religions. His Epistles record how he and his movement were in continual theological conflict with the Jewish Christian movement centered in Jerusalem, and with Gnostic Christians. Paul ran afoul of the Roman Empire, was arrested, and was transported to Rome where he was held under house arrest. He was executed there about 65 CE. Paul's churches survived his death and flourished. Some of his letters to various of his church groups were later accepted into the canon of the Christian Scriptures (New Testament).
     
     Christian groups typically met in the homes of individual believers, much like home churches do today. Leaders were both men and women. There was no central authority, no standard style of organization at the local level, no dedicated church buildings or cathedrals. The Greek words episkopos (bishop, overseer), presbuteros (elder, presbyter) and poimen (pastor, shepherd) were originally synonymous terms which referred to the leader of a group of believers. 3
  4. Gnostic Christianity: Gnosticism is a philosophical and religious movement with roots in pre-Christian times. Gnostics combined elements taken from Asian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek and Syrian pagan religions, from astrology, and from Judaism and Christianity. "Among Gnostic Christians there were communities under the name of John and Thomas and many other lesser and later disciples." 6 They claimed to have secret knowledge about God, humanity, and the rest of the universe of which the general population was unaware. They were/are noted for their:

     Novel interpretations of the Bible, the world and the rest of the universe. Belief that the Jehovah of the Hebrew Scripture (Old Testament) was a defective, inferior Creator-God, also known as the Demiurge. He was viewed as fundamentally evil, jealous, rigid, lacking in compassion and prone to committing genocide. Tolerance of different religious beliefs within and outside of Gnosticism. Lack of discrimination against women.

  Some Gnostics formed separate congregations. Others joined existing Pauline Christian groups. Still others were solitary practitioners.

  In addition to the above three main groups, there were many smaller religious communities, which have been referred to as Matthean Christianity, Johannine Christianity, etc. "Among Jews especially in the East there were Christian communities and literature under the name of Peter and James that stood in opposition to Paul and John." 6 Together produced over 80 gospels and hundreds of Epistles (letters). "Many of these other Gospels outside the New Testament had very different views of Jesus, produced in communities that held widely different understandings of Jesus." 7

  The Gnostic viewpoint of Jehovah is quite....interesting. I've seen several threads since I've been watching this board that commented on some of the atrocities that support this belief. I just find it so interesting how different types of Christianity evolved so soon after Jesus walked the earth. It seems to me that those that were with him and supported him should NOT have gone their seperate ways speaking different or even contradictory "truths."

  Also, the links under point 2 referring to the comparison of Jesus to other man-God's of mythology is interesting. Not quite sure what to think of that one....

  These are the types of articles I NEVER got exposure to as a Witness. Or maybe I just missed it. At any rate, I'm enjoying the freedom of being able to read and gather numerous sources of material and drawing my own conclusions from it, based on what I really feel to be true, and not what someone else is telling is correct.

  cheers,

  jay
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  Computer games are from the Devil

  by ignored_one in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  sorry guys.

  but the old guys in brooklyn have decided that you're spending far too much time enjoying yourself.

  see aw 12/22/02 for details.

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  I must say that I think video games can have a negative effect on some players.

  Kids especially - if a parent has an easy-going kid whose demeanor seems to be effected by the violent games he's playing, maybe they should strongly reconsider the type of games he plays. Violent vids aren't a CAUSE of violence, but I think they can be a contributing factor - just depends on who the user is.

  I'm a very non-violent person, but playing a violent vid doesn't bother me the least bit, nor does it provoke me to want to go out and reinact what I've been playing on the screen.

  Lord knows though...if I ever get attacked I ain't going down easy, that's for sure. Thanks to Tekken3. Gotta luv that Bruce Lee character!

  :-P
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  Offensive NASCAR joke

  by Bendrr in

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  what do dale earnheardt and pink floyd have in common?

  their last big hit was "the wall".

  mike.edited by - bendrr on 23 november 2002 17:50:56.

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  Yeah.....Richard was the man.

  But Dale was the INTIMADATOR.

  Almost like comparing the Beatles to Led Zeppelin. The Beatles were THE rock n roll pioneers, but Zeppelin just plain kicked ASS.

  :-P
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  Bush not a Moron? Yeah Right!!!! lol

  by troucul in

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  hey get a load of this.

  he's only confirming what everyone else knows.... something tells me chretien feels the same way, he just doesn't want to ruffle any feathers.. http://www.cnn.com/2002/allpolitics/11/22/bush.not.moron.reut/index.html

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  Teejay,

  I agree...his blatant lack of concern about the environment leaves a bad taste in my mouth, especially how lately there's been very pointed material published as to the condition some areas of the earth will be in 20-40 years from now if things don't change.

  I must agree with you also that i don't *really* wish him dead, but I can't say I'd grieve over him either. It would be sad, but I'd have to say, "He had it coming."

  I'm reading your other post now....very enlightening material - thanks!

  late,

  jay
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  Bush not a Moron? Yeah Right!!!! lol

  by troucul in

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  hey get a load of this.

  he's only confirming what everyone else knows.... something tells me chretien feels the same way, he just doesn't want to ruffle any feathers.. http://www.cnn.com/2002/allpolitics/11/22/bush.not.moron.reut/index.html

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  could be, could not be.

  I read an article about the Fireman's response to the calls stating that numerous floors were still waiting for word on whether or not to evacuate when the building (not sure which building) collapsed. They had no idea the tower(s) were going to collapse, they were awaiting for proper instruction on how to evacuate, or even if evacuation was necessary.

  If it's ridiculous, please address the suspicions I stated above, for as I state, i'm just suspicious - I don't WANT to believe anyone knew, I'm simply suspicious.

  thanks,

  jay