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  IMPERFECTION (Lesson learned)

  by Terry in

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  imperfection______________my favorite teacher (grade 9);mr. mcgilvray.he had a way.

  charm, humor, intelligence, and irreverence.i loved the man.he'd teach a quick lesson that would linger in the mind for a long, long time.

  even as long as...well....now.. allow me to tell you about it...______.

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  My 8th grade teacher, Mrs. Green, took a special interest in me.
  A white-haired lady with spectacles, she praised what appeared to her to be an excellent memory.
  This inspired me.
  On 'Recitation Day" (students could earn extra grade points by tackling The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) I recited the entire poem.
  All 625 lines.
  The bell rang before I was finished but everybody remained at their desk.
  I finished to uproarious applause and a mad dash to next class.

  614He prayeth best, who loveth best

  615All things both great and small;

  616For the dear God who loveth us,

  617He made and loveth all.

  618The Mariner, whose eye is bright,

  619Whose beard with age is hoar,

  620Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest

  621Turned from the bridegroom's door.

  622He went like one that hath been stunned,

  623And is of sense forlorn:

  624A sadder and a wiser man,

  625He rose the morrow morn.
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  IMPERFECTION (Lesson learned)

  by Terry in

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  imperfection______________my favorite teacher (grade 9);mr. mcgilvray.he had a way.

  charm, humor, intelligence, and irreverence.i loved the man.he'd teach a quick lesson that would linger in the mind for a long, long time.

  even as long as...well....now.. allow me to tell you about it...______.

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  Terry

  Acerbitous
  
  Can you imagine trying that today?
  A friend and I were planning to hook up smoke-bombs to the electric circuits of the school bells on the last day of school. It never happened.
  But the very idea I would get myself into that sort of conspiracy appalls me now.
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  We had a coach in Jr. High School who was a real piece of work. A bully who liked to walk around naked inside the dressing room with his horse dick lolling about.
  He used a cricket bat to discipline me when I simply forgot to bring my gym shorts.
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  IMPERFECTION (Lesson learned)

  by Terry in

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  imperfection______________my favorite teacher (grade 9);mr. mcgilvray.he had a way.

  charm, humor, intelligence, and irreverence.i loved the man.he'd teach a quick lesson that would linger in the mind for a long, long time.

  even as long as...well....now.. allow me to tell you about it...______.

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  Terry

  IMPERFECTION
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  My favorite teacher (Grade 9);
  Mr. McGilvray.
  He had a way. Charm, humor, intelligence, and irreverence.
  I loved the man.
  
  He'd teach a quick lesson that would linger in the mind for a long, long time.
  Even as long as...well....now.

  Allow me to tell you about it...
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  Microscope on tabletop. Very sharp kitchen knife.

  "This blade is sharp and perfect for slicing. Even a mushy tomato.
  A thin page of newsprint - sliced clean through."
  
  (We watched.)
  
  

  "Did you hear me say something about the blade being 'perfect'?"
  
  (Heads nod.)
  
  

  "Okay, let me project the magnified blade onto this screen for a very close-up look."
  
  (Clicks the switch. Image projected.)
  
  

  "Just look how jagged the metal edge really is -- up close. Are you surprised?"
  
  

  (See photo below)

  "This is reality. It is ugly, isn't it? Looks like a mountain range instead of something that slices through paper. What's going on here?"
  
  

  (We all sat dumb. My hand usually went up first. Not this time.)
  
  Silence for a full minute.

  "Think about it."
  
  And that was all to the lesson that day!

  He turned off the projector and removed the microscope from the table and reached for a paperback book.

  He began reading to us (as he always loved to do).

  The book was hilarious.
  (Barefoot Boy With Cheek (Max Shulman)
  
  
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  I was 15 years old.
  20 years later, I ran into my old Science teacher quite unexpectedly.
  
  "I know you!" He declared quickly.
  That warmed my heart.
  I was older and wore a beard!

  We exchanged casual conversation for a minute.
  I told the man what he meant to me. I poured it out. I simply had to do so.
  He listened and thanked me.

  Then, he closed his eyes gently and reopened them - like someone waking from a dream. He turned toward me and spoke.

  "You probably understood the lesson about imperfection. Remember?"
  
  I did remember.

  "Well, I think so."

  He lifted his eyebrows. He was inviting comment.

  "Imperfection is finding a way to complain about what is perfect."

  (Big grin)

  Lesson learned.
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  Corona-virus facts

  by Terry in

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  corona-virus facts.

  in china, people generally do not wash their hands.

  there is no soap in restrooms or even in hospitals.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBxZ1XIYmGc&t=1814s

  "Official numbers are deliberately low. About a factor 50 times lower."
  
  
  
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  Corona-virus facts

  by Terry in

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  corona-virus facts.

  in china, people generally do not wash their hands.

  there is no soap in restrooms or even in hospitals.

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  Terry

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjWq0cyR4Qc
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  Corona-virus facts

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  corona-virus facts.

  in china, people generally do not wash their hands.

  there is no soap in restrooms or even in hospitals.

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  Terry

  https://www.who.int/influenza/preparedness/en/
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  Corona-virus facts

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  corona-virus facts.

  in china, people generally do not wash their hands.

  there is no soap in restrooms or even in hospitals.

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  DO YOU KNOW THIS?

  Where is ground zero for the Corona-virus?
  The city of Wuhan.
  Did you know what else is in Wuhan?

  The Wuhan virology institute is under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. ... In 1993, China declared a second facility, the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products, as one of eight biological warfare research facilities covered by the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) which China joined in 1985.
  
  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/24/virus-hit-wuhan-has-two-laboratories-linked-chines/
  
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  Corona-virus facts

  by Terry in

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  corona-virus facts.

  in china, people generally do not wash their hands.

  there is no soap in restrooms or even in hospitals.

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  Terry

  Remember: do NOT believe Chinese statistics.
  These authorities are pathological liars.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jAWPcyPFQc
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  Ask yourself why you don't DESERVE "kindness" (A look a the Watchtower's struggle against "Grace."

  by Terry in

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  graceyou won’t find any in the new world translation!no no no.you only find “undeserved kindness.”(ask yourself why you don't deserve kindness.

  ?isn’t kindness basic decency?

  ?if you are one of jehovah’s witnesses you have a reason.jehovah’s witnesses are never on firm standing with their god.

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  The Watchtower asserts. Scriptures are cited. Truth and sole understanding are fronted. Obedience is demanded.
  Time passes.
  Truth becomes a banana turning mushy, with gooey spots.
  (Old Light).
  Over and over and over again.
  Confidence is unwavering.
  Is this really food at a proper time? Eat it before it rots?
  Yeah.
  Why is communication between heaven and the Faithful Slave so corrupted in transmission?
  Answer. There is none.
  Watchtower is constantly ASSERTING to eight million people : "We've got it right this time - pay no attention to all those other wrong misunderstandings."
  
  Sooner or later, the non-brain dead wake up and leave.
  The Kingdom Hall breathes a sigh of relief, "Good Riddance."
  New victims arrive to replace them. Time after time.
  Faces shining with innocent belief find themselves on the conveyor belt from
  newbie to discarded EX-JW in a never ending devouring of hope and genuine victimization.
  Should we call our awakening, "naive" - or clinging to a pack of lies - "cognitive dissonance"?
  Insanity : "Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
  There is your answer.
  
  
  
  
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  Have you ever? (Suffered a Great Disappointment?)

  by Terry in

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  have you ever suffered a great disappointment?.

  well, meet william miller!______.

  time: 1782 (after the american revolution and before the war of 1812).

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  Terry

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_c-PdT0SsE

  ROOTS, SHOOTS - and those in CAHOOTS
  tracing the "family tree" from William Miller to all the splinter cults.