Ah, sweet mystery of life
Posts by Terry
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17Can we really talk about BEAUTY?
by Terry incan we really talk about beauty?
(first, a necessary preamble.
bear with me, please.
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Why did you have so many jobs???
by Terry inwhy did i have so many jobs?.
i became a velcro salesman, but i couldn't stick with it.and besides - it was a ripoff.. i tried my hand at a career in tennis, but it wasn't my racket and i was too high strung.. i was a masseur for a while, but i seemed to rub people the wrong way.next i got a job at a pool company, but the work was too draining.then?i was a historian, but i couldn't see a future in it.i took a job as an elevator operator—the job had its ups and downs, and i got the shaft.. i became a banker, but i had an affair with boss's wife because she promised to hold my interest right up to the moment of withdrawal.. i just lost my job as a psychic.
i did not see that coming.if a job’s worth doing, it’s too hard.. i quit my job working for nike.
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Proctology would be a well-paying job were it not for having to deal with so many assholes.
Butt for that - not too shabby a ca-rear.
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I met an Exorcist
by Terry ini like to ride my bicycle to starbucks.
when weather permits i sit on the patio and write in the sunshine.a pesky crow i call edgar usually arrives to beg (or steal).that's all you need to know before we begin._____________________.
location exterior : the patio of starbuckstime: 11 amcast:lou : media / news analyst, religious fundamentalistterry: crow magnet and know-it-alledgar: spawn of satan________________.
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The awe of living in a controlled society run by divinely guided overlords gives way to
a self-administered head smack - "What was I thinking?"
Turns out - I wasn't able to think.
JW's are strapped in highchairs like mewling infants with a spoon shoved in and utter pablum to be swallowed.
Our ministry? Emptying our diapers on the front porch of neighbors. -
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That's all there ever was to being a Jehovah's Witness
by Terry injehovah's witnesses weren't jehovah's witnesses until 1931.until that year the people who had been hard-headed followers of end times false prophecies by william miller and seventh day adventists, more or less settled into following charisma-ballyhoo preaching by folks like "pastor" c.t.
russell.what was it that attracts these people?
it is a thin veneer of pious bible interpretation as a means of prepping for the end of the world.yep.
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Terry
I can still remember all too easily how fantastic it felt to be enthralled of
ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY. I knew what the entire universe meant and where it was headed.
What a heady exhilaration!
Ah, but - turns out I was just a plaything - a puppet with the cold hand of a Govern Body up my bum.
My life wasn't MY life - it was the wiggly fingers of those proctological dumbasses.
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JW's had a reason for wanting to be banned in Russia?
by Terry ininteresting video.
i'd like everybody's thoughts on this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrlfvxinte8&fbclid=iwar2omsj1dkm7rzxcyjblkd9aqnnp5xmijrxoc-rfaoh7ucfgvwlpkiynofs.
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Terry
Mystery. Suspense. Shadowy behind-the-scenes figures - for decades, the GB
were the Great and Powerful OZ.
Suddenly - a puff of Mephistopheles smoke!
A clown car arrives and bumbling dolts appear in a fake TV studio acting like
dull, unburnished accountants rushed in to emcee jobs beyond their talent or
expertise.
These Governing Boobies feel like bored insurance salesmen on cable, selling term insurance pre-disaster.
I just wonder how 3rd and 4th generation JW's handle this sudden reveal of
plain vanilla jelly beans posing as mystical demi-gods? -
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Why did you have so many jobs???
by Terry inwhy did i have so many jobs?.
i became a velcro salesman, but i couldn't stick with it.and besides - it was a ripoff.. i tried my hand at a career in tennis, but it wasn't my racket and i was too high strung.. i was a masseur for a while, but i seemed to rub people the wrong way.next i got a job at a pool company, but the work was too draining.then?i was a historian, but i couldn't see a future in it.i took a job as an elevator operator—the job had its ups and downs, and i got the shaft.. i became a banker, but i had an affair with boss's wife because she promised to hold my interest right up to the moment of withdrawal.. i just lost my job as a psychic.
i did not see that coming.if a job’s worth doing, it’s too hard.. i quit my job working for nike.
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Terry
Sometimes dumb humor is all we have left to ward of the medieval plague
as Nature reaches ever closer to the 'reset' button. -
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Why did you have so many jobs???
by Terry inwhy did i have so many jobs?.
i became a velcro salesman, but i couldn't stick with it.and besides - it was a ripoff.. i tried my hand at a career in tennis, but it wasn't my racket and i was too high strung.. i was a masseur for a while, but i seemed to rub people the wrong way.next i got a job at a pool company, but the work was too draining.then?i was a historian, but i couldn't see a future in it.i took a job as an elevator operator—the job had its ups and downs, and i got the shaft.. i became a banker, but i had an affair with boss's wife because she promised to hold my interest right up to the moment of withdrawal.. i just lost my job as a psychic.
i did not see that coming.if a job’s worth doing, it’s too hard.. i quit my job working for nike.
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WHY DID I HAVE SO MANY JOBS?
I became a Velcro salesman, but I couldn't stick with it.
And besides - it was a ripoff.I tried my hand at a career in tennis, but it wasn't my racket and I was too high strung.
I was a masseur for a while, but I seemed to rub people the wrong way.
Next I got a job at a pool company, but the work was too draining.
Then?
I was a historian, but I couldn't see a future in it.
I took a job as an elevator operator—the job had its ups and downs, and I got the shaft.I became a banker, but I had an affair with boss's wife because she promised to hold my interest right up to the moment of withdrawal.
I just lost my job as a psychic. I did not see that coming.
If a job’s worth doing, it’s too hard.I quit my job working for Nike. Just couldn’t do it anymore.
I love being a maze designer. I get completely lost in my work.Inspecting mirrors is a job I could really see myself doing.
I think my job interview to be a bug sorter went well. I boxed all the right ticks.
Then I worked in the woods as a lumberjack, but I just couldn’t hack it, so they gave me the ax.
After that, I tried to be a tailor, but I just wasn’t suited for it.
Frankly, the job was just sew-sew.Next, I tried working in a muffler factory but that was exhausting.
I wanted to be a barber, but I just couldn’t cut it.I had a job at Minute Maid orange juice. I got fired because I couldn’t concentrate.
I became a professional fisherman but discovered that I couldn’t live on my net income.And finally - I just didn't have the patience to be a Doctor.
I would seek employment at Apple, but they have no Jobs since Steve passed. -
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I met an Exorcist
by Terry ini like to ride my bicycle to starbucks.
when weather permits i sit on the patio and write in the sunshine.a pesky crow i call edgar usually arrives to beg (or steal).that's all you need to know before we begin._____________________.
location exterior : the patio of starbuckstime: 11 amcast:lou : media / news analyst, religious fundamentalistterry: crow magnet and know-it-alledgar: spawn of satan________________.
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Terry
Confession from me: I get nervous speaking to any JW.
I grow self-conscious. It's like standing before a parent who disapproves.
I HATE THAT FEELING.
But I've learned to turn that emotion into another emotion: anger.
"How dare this person make ME feel inferior!"
This, in turn, fuels my manic sense of dialogue like a prosecutor in court compelling evidence used to debunk lies.
It's not a healthy way to go about it.
It's simply the only way I've been able to avoid my first impulse - which is to
AVOID conversations with active Witlessess. -
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JW's had a reason for wanting to be banned in Russia?
by Terry ininteresting video.
i'd like everybody's thoughts on this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrlfvxinte8&fbclid=iwar2omsj1dkm7rzxcyjblkd9aqnnp5xmijrxoc-rfaoh7ucfgvwlpkiynofs.
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Terry
The onslaught of millions of letters clogging the Russian official's mail system
was sabotage deliberately goading - poking the "bear" to react negatively and
make a MARTYR by banning them (for cause).
The story changed making Watchtower the victim of Russian oppression.
Positive spin and drowning out the "hiding pedophiles" side of the worldwide reporting. -
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That's all there ever was to being a Jehovah's Witness
by Terry injehovah's witnesses weren't jehovah's witnesses until 1931.until that year the people who had been hard-headed followers of end times false prophecies by william miller and seventh day adventists, more or less settled into following charisma-ballyhoo preaching by folks like "pastor" c.t.
russell.what was it that attracts these people?
it is a thin veneer of pious bible interpretation as a means of prepping for the end of the world.yep.
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The first time I went to Las Vegas and played the stupid slot machines I had fun.
Every time a slot pays off - there is a ding ding ding ding dinging bell and the sound of coins clattering down the long chute. Exhilarating!
So many machines - the sound of the PAYOFF here and there and - everywhere!!
This makes winning feel and sound INEVITABLE!
It isn't.
But the sound of the payoff is ever-present in an echo-chamber of reinforcement.
In this Watchtower religion - your only world is that Casino with everybody echoing the payoff promises. It's all you hear - that and the fear of losing (Armageddon) unless you keep playing.
When I ran out of coins I stopped.
"I won't play anymore."
Yeah.
Right.
But - if you aren't playing ... there is nothing to do but watch all those "winners" collecting coins (in aggregate) as the losers are silent and all but invisible.