I should finish this poem (some day)
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1PUZZLES and MYSTERIES and GAMES
by Terry inhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1okz9ij2lnh9lqjmnjf3dy4t9mchakluxki7ppz-oxfe/edit?usp=sharing.
puzzles and mysteries and games.
a poem by terry walstromfor puzzles, i only have cross words to mutter; they’re utterly *dunnies’ arcadesagatha christie confounds me, (astounds me) it’s the gun, or the knife, or the maid!.
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Sunday January 15 is my 76th birthday. I answer some of your questions.
by Terry inhappy birthday 2 me!!.
sunday is my 76th birthday and i know that you want to know how it "feels" to have outlived my usefulness, to have lost my natural beauty (being reduced to wrinkles and flab), and constantly walking into a room not knowing why i'm there.
you also are curious as to how i can continue to find a reason to live since none of my kids think my opinions have any possible value, most of my facebooks friends i wouldn't recognize if i tripped over them on my way into starbucks, and my monthly expenditure on bird treats exceeds u.s. spending on the military.
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More music:
Afternoons with Lily
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jv0kfzqhqu3izz4/Afternoons%20with%20Lily.mp3?dl=0
The Girl with the Moon in Her Eyes
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ngjgwf321AOgmNiVWMJDOqweeyFQ_0bZ/view?usp=share_linkAldous Huxley's Swans
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pDnuK2TQk58pihzI973D9yIlTf9QpEvV/view?usp=share_linkLucinda
https://drive.google.com/file/d/121N2tXj56FYea0A0XA3Nqo5LyjkqLhTA/view?usp=share_link
Once Upon A Paris Night
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cmyNwB5K04LTbKTAUM03WmjvbZaot5oO/view?usp=share_linkSeptember in Giverny
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tvSuDP4yRpzRJdl1yeZDlHbM7M4cARA4/view?usp=share_link
What A Beautiful Sunrise
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lrT6Z2xpmLxEtBoAn7lKgLuFov6iIXkD/view?usp=share_linkPortrait of the Artist (as a Young Man)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kfz89rHf-6UsXznd0wY0KTKhuwY-4Tia/view?usp=share_linkValley of Shadows and Light
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kob1Jvx3JMar3UOCloqoJxq5JBqKu82s/view?usp=share_link -
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Sunday January 15 is my 76th birthday. I answer some of your questions.
by Terry inhappy birthday 2 me!!.
sunday is my 76th birthday and i know that you want to know how it "feels" to have outlived my usefulness, to have lost my natural beauty (being reduced to wrinkles and flab), and constantly walking into a room not knowing why i'm there.
you also are curious as to how i can continue to find a reason to live since none of my kids think my opinions have any possible value, most of my facebooks friends i wouldn't recognize if i tripped over them on my way into starbucks, and my monthly expenditure on bird treats exceeds u.s. spending on the military.
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Thank you
Hopeless16 hours ago
Petite Concerto was composed in 1995 when I got my first synthesizer.
I have such whimsical states in music there will be more annoying compositions
for your ears than otherwise.
I shall get out my shovel and get a buck and head out to the barn where the cattle
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Garbage in equals Garbage Out: A study in computer science as applied to JW doctrine
by Terry inhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1h4dynwkbyakgdibbwlibwtf2ruzpewcd5ipupvo-edm/edit?usp=sharing.
garbage in / garbage outthere is a saying about errors in computer science: garbage in / garbage outin computer science, garbage in, garbage out is the concept that flawed, or nonsense input data produces nonsense output.
rubbish in, rubbish out is an alternate wording.
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Anony Mous3 days ago
I think you see it too complicated.
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I understand what you're saying and I respond by saying, I WROTE IT too complicated for the following reason. My still-in friend (JW) is a coder and computer expert and my strategy was to have him think about things from his own skill set.
If I weren't so lazy, I would rewrite it to simply communicate for non-computer literate friends.
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Sunday January 15 is my 76th birthday. I answer some of your questions.
by Terry inhappy birthday 2 me!!.
sunday is my 76th birthday and i know that you want to know how it "feels" to have outlived my usefulness, to have lost my natural beauty (being reduced to wrinkles and flab), and constantly walking into a room not knowing why i'm there.
you also are curious as to how i can continue to find a reason to live since none of my kids think my opinions have any possible value, most of my facebooks friends i wouldn't recognize if i tripped over them on my way into starbucks, and my monthly expenditure on bird treats exceeds u.s. spending on the military.
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Really? MORE of my music? Isn't that a case of being a masochist?
Rhapsody of the Silver Moon
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gaqh5mrwihp5rr3/Rhapsody%20of%20the%20Silver%20Moon.mp3?dl=0
Something So Beautiful
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xkbf2dknq14vzet/Something%20So%20Beautiful.mp3?dl=0
(Goodbye) She Said
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0qhk3m8m0w3lmp4/She%20Said.mp3?dl=0
Love Can End in Tears
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q6a22tigkaaf2oy/LOVE%20CAN%20END%20IN%20TEARS%20%28Terry%20Walstrom%29%20.wav?dl=0Knock Me Up (A British expression)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n9mko8y60asp1hr/Knock%20Me%20Up.mp3?dl=0
Fatima and Her Snake
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8c8ht211c3mu1tn/FATIMA%20and%20HER%20SNAKE%20%28T.E.Walstrom%29%20.wav?dl=0Death to Spies
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xognekyyh9h0o68/Death%20to%20Spies%20%28SMERSH%29.mp3?dl=0(Petite) Concerto for Keyboard and Orchestra
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y4nfdej3ygiwqba/CONCERTO%20FOR%20KEYBOARD%20AND%20ORCHESTRA%20%28excerpt%29%20Terry%20Walstrom.wav?dl=0 -
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Science Fiction Book about the "Tower Watch Society" and its corruption (SATIRE by Ex-JW)
by Terry inhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2pacx-1vqz6byzdiux57fqz1iwtqihkxqqk1f8tahikjaldgrxs8xl4-226sq2_eyi-v7agjouqpmyjggfocay/pub.
this is the book i published and i'm making it available free to all ex-jdubs.
click link abovethe author owes a big debt of gratitude to h.g.
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smiddy37 hours ago
Now that sounds interesting .Where do I sign up ?
SMIDDY, CLICK THE LINK BELOW and read:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQz6bYzDIuX57FqZ1IwTQIHkxqQK1f8tAHiKjAlDgRxs8xL4-226sq2_eyi-v7AGjOUQpMyjggfOcAy/pub' -
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Science Fiction Book about the "Tower Watch Society" and its corruption (SATIRE by Ex-JW)
by Terry inhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2pacx-1vqz6byzdiux57fqz1iwtqihkxqqk1f8tahikjaldgrxs8xl4-226sq2_eyi-v7agjouqpmyjggfocay/pub.
this is the book i published and i'm making it available free to all ex-jdubs.
click link abovethe author owes a big debt of gratitude to h.g.
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WHITE HOUSE 1908
“Newspapers call this the Heroic Age of Exploration. Hero—that kind of word misunderstands the very nature of a man.”
Roald Amundsen stood speaking softly, centered in the Oval Office of President Theodore Roosevelt. He gazed about appreciating the room and its implications of history, power, and responsibility.
Roosevelt had cleared his schedule savoring the prospects of listening to the wisdom and experience of one of the few men on Earth he might call his equal or his better. Roosevelt—the Bull Moose President, admired self-made men above all.
Theodore Roosevelt had been a sickly boy who had determined to exercise and build his body into something impressive, athletic, and indomitable. He succeeded.
T.R. seated himself at his desk placing both feet on top of the leather blotter revealing a smart pair of cowboy boots. He thought of himself as a legislator, cowboy, and naturalist. Today, he was happy to play the audience as well.
"I am convinced a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved himself a coward." Amundsen mused.
Roosevelt had rarely met a more self-effacing man. He flashed his best smile.
"Well, Bully for you! What do you make of this Mars situation—? Give me your best appraisal. I sent you my file. Everything we know or surmise was in it. I won't ask you if you've cracked it, of course, you did!"
Amundsen leaned forward and hoisted his Gladstone bag off the floor; rummaged through it, and extracted a notepad. He thumbed a page or two and assumed the demeanor of a lecturing professor.
"One fact jumps out at me—Tesla and Edison; men of opposite temperaments collaborating to create something bizarre: a so-called electric bridge to Mars!”
T.R. removed his legs from the desktop. Walking over to a small table he poured himself and his guest three fingers of Russian vodka. They saluted and tossed back the drink. The President sat facing Amundsen. The two men resembled boys hunkered down in a tree house, hatching secret plans.
“Isn’t it obvious--? If they achieve the impossible they become rich and famous.”
"Sir, they’re both those things already. I suspect something more sinister is in play; something connected to Pastor Russell. ”
“Edison and Tesla are egomaniacs, not followers of any religious movement. I don’t see what you’re driving at.”
“What about a coup d’état? Russell says Christ returned invisibly. He’s rallying citizens of a new kind of heavenly government opposed to regimes like yours, sir.”
The Chief Executive rubbed his belly and belched, then pardoned himself.
"I don’t mind competing with invisible insurgencies or invisible rivals."
Amundsen cracked a smile and flipped a couple of pages in his notebook.
"There’s more to it than religious delusion, Mister President.”
"Call me Teddy, please!"
"Thank you, sir—let’s explore this. What if a Christian leader could produce a theocracy with an invisible Christ and actually convince people he himself was speaking on Christ’s behalf? The Pope won world dominion as the substitute for Christ—his Vicar. A convincing proxy Christ could misdirect misled Christians; condition them to do as they were commanded—even turn them against you.”
"High treason can get you shot in time of war.”
"Martyrdom breeds zealots and it’s seen as proof their faith is real. Besides—if you die a martyr you get an expenses-paid vacation on the streets of gold.”
"You wrote me about this Trojan horse idea of yours—how does it work?"
"A true believer’s mind welcomes a certain thing and accepts it loyally on faith. “Such a mind is very receptive to control. Think of Bible prophecy as you would a Trojan horse—it contains an unseen power ready to defeat the unwary.”
"I'm confused here, Roald. Which power is leading this overthrow and takeover?”
“A Christian figurehead who is a proxy for Christ could convince millions of true believers to refuse to fight for their country and to obey their own substitute theocratic Governing Body instead.”
The President stood motionless turning thoughts over in his mind; listening and weighing them.
“I’m a quick study, but the more you explain your theory, the more I want to take a snooze! How can one poor misguided man like Russell be harmful to anybody?”
The Norwegian explorer rubbed his chin and shifted gears wearily.
“Russell is being controlled somehow. His role is to convince others. He thinks God is whispering to him and the man has enough money to spread his ideas. The most dangerous men who have ever lived have thought they were doing god’s bidding. He predicts 1914 is The End. Thousands of people believe him, you see?”
"Tell me in plain and simple English—are Martians coming to Earth with weapons as an invasion force? Convince me and I’m going to give you whatever you need to investigate this theory of yours and get to the bottom of it.”
Amundsen had been waiting for the right question and this one was the key.
“Mars will leverage surrender through an invasion of susceptible religious minds. When the army of Mars appears—only non-combatant dupes will welcome it! It will be seen as the beginning of the Great Tribulation. Such world events are only considered a bad thing if you are on the losing side—the Teddy Roosevelt side. If my theory holds true—you and all world governments will go down in defeat.”
Roosevelt’s eyes widened with understanding.
“Voltaire said it best. What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying god rather than men, and he thinks he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat? I know enough about human nature to know I am going to act on this immediately.”
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Science Fiction Book about the "Tower Watch Society" and its corruption (SATIRE by Ex-JW)
by Terry inhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2pacx-1vqz6byzdiux57fqz1iwtqihkxqqk1f8tahikjaldgrxs8xl4-226sq2_eyi-v7agjouqpmyjggfocay/pub.
this is the book i published and i'm making it available free to all ex-jdubs.
click link abovethe author owes a big debt of gratitude to h.g.
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This is the book I published and I'm making it available free to all Ex-JDubs. CLICK LINK ABOVE
The author owes a big debt of gratitude to H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs for the inspiration they gave me when I was a young man. -
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The True story of Edgar the Crow (as told by me over the last nine years)
by Terry inthe chronicles of edgaras told by terry walstrom.
cue the edgar origins story .... __________.
i broke off a piece of multigrain bread from my sandwich and tossed it toward the little scavenger.. every frickin’ day thereafter he appears demanding (like a sleazy hollywood agent) 10% of my snacks.
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The True story of Edgar the Crow (as told by me over the last nine years)
by Terry inthe chronicles of edgaras told by terry walstrom.
cue the edgar origins story .... __________.
i broke off a piece of multigrain bread from my sandwich and tossed it toward the little scavenger.. every frickin’ day thereafter he appears demanding (like a sleazy hollywood agent) 10% of my snacks.
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enoughisenough9 hours ago
Have you published any stories?
__________________________YES!! 2 books have I published using two separate publishers simultaneously. One is a Sci-Fi novel with a thinly disguised Tower Watch corporation is central
to the plot. Charles Taze Russell, J.F. Rutherford, and Frederick Franz have pretty good exposure that
borders on outrageous mockery. THE MONORAILS of MARS.
Publisher's Blurb:
THE MONORAILS OF MARS In the manner of a Hitchcock film, the suspense runs deep and the plot twists into the macabre and horrific. Who is controlling the finest minds of genius in two worlds? How will the invasion of Earth by Mars and of Mars by Earth bring about the desire of fanatics for Harm-aggedon? What is behind the collaboration of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison to build an "electric bridge"? Why are War Machines with Death Rays secretly manufactured by leading industrialists? Who is the mysterious Ada who has walked the Earth from the time of Noah? Why is a Las Vegas-style religious theme park being built on Mars? How did the son of the Lord of Apes become involved? These and other suspense-filled puzzles are examined and solved in a delightful and humorous look at mind-control and religious delusion, in an old-fashioned pulp-style romp through the 20th-century alternate history in Science-Fiction format!
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The 2nd book (the first written) is about my prison experiences as a Jehovah's Witness Conscientious objector. Title: I WEPT BY THE WATERS of BABYLON (A Prisoner of Conscience in a Time of War).
https://www.amazon.com/Monorails-Mars-Mind-Control-Religious-Destruction/dp/1500547360
Publisher's Blurb:
I imagine there are a great many young men and women who--unless I warn them--will go down the self-same path I took, wasting my youth. I WEPT BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON is a cautionary tale for unwitting travelers on their imagined road to heaven or paradise. I mark the blind alleys, pitfalls, and side-tracks to nowhere and the last horizon where sanity drops off, and HERE THERE BE DRAGONS.
If I can stop just one more person from going along with the Watch Tower allure of empty promises and broken dreams, I can stop my nightmare from its eternal return. You see, it was too late for me. But, while there is still breath in my body, I have determined to raise the cry: PLEASE! DON'T GO INSIDE! For the casual reader, it is a historical recounting of the conscientious objector grappling with the Draft Board, FBI, and federal justice system during the Vietnam War. The 1960s was an incredible decade in which all the old values were turned on their head and a youth movement unhinged the power structure of modern society. Totally at odds with the hippies, flower children, rock n' rollers, druggies, war protesters, and existentialist poets--young Jehovah's Witness men were clean-cut, polite, squeaky-clean oddballs about to be fed by their Governing Body into a meat grinder on purpose. My book reveals that purpose and the human rights violations wrought by men of hubris who ran the publishing business cum religion of Jehovah's Witnesses. The path from ancient Rome and early Christianity up through the centuries to the time of Pastor Russell and Judge Rutherford provides an enlightening contrast. Each denomination, sect, and cult insisted they read the same Bible and followed the same God--and yet--the results of their absolute certainty were ever at odds! How does it happen and what will make it stop? Read my book and hear my own answers. I WEPT BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON has succeeded in granting me peace of mind, at last.
https://www.amazon.com/Wept-Rivers-Babylon-Prisoner-Conscience/dp/1492902063/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2K31CQNGTYZPA&keywords=i+wept+by+the+rivers+of+babylon&qid=1674002185&s=books&sprefix=I+wept+by+the+Rivers+of+%2Cstripbooks%2C172&sr=1-1
