someone just called "bull$h*t" on a sick poster.
i'm getting really, really fed up with the petty witch hunts and hall monitoring.
fed up, i almost don't want to be on here anymore.
Frankly, the ongoing outbursts from both the self-appointed defenders AND the self-appointed monitors are more than tiresome.
And then there are the self appointed $#!+ stirrers.
FWIW avaishai your question is redundant at the very least, I guess that would mean we should only call bs on people we know, get real!
This thread is just playing to the peanut gallery and it's locked.
on my travels this morning, i drove past an abandonded farm.
i've driven past here before, and stop there every may/june and pick the sweetest smelling lilacs.
something compelled me today to turn around and go back and do some exploring and take pictures.
bikerchick - I'd love to see the pics if you can get there safely! I will definately go back in the spring. Lilacs are one of my favourite flowers and I fill the house with their sweet smell and beauty for as long as I can when they are in bloom.
You just may get your wish.....or I mine! Snow is in our forecast overnight so tomorrow morning might be a photo op! I'll post 'em if it works out.
on my travels this morning, i drove past an abandonded farm.
i've driven past here before, and stop there every may/june and pick the sweetest smelling lilacs.
something compelled me today to turn around and go back and do some exploring and take pictures.
Those are beautiful BB thanks for show us them! I loved how they have the appearance that you were shooting with black and white film when it was totally the color of the season, really cool!
I can't say I have a favorite they are all beautiful on their own merrit. I would however love to see the same pictures in the sping especially when the lilac is in bloom.
There is an old farm house my hubby and I ride by on one of our bike rides we do not too far from our house and your pictures remind me of it. We usually get off our bikes and explore that house and the farmland around it making up stories about who must have lived there and imagining it in it's glory days. I'll have to take a trip out there and take some pictures of it in the next snow, if my car will make it up the hill w/o chains! I'll post them when I do.
i just found out that a dear friend of mine was outed by a poster on this board!!!
i am soooooo angry and disgusted it's hard to contain at the moment!
so to all those out there that are trying to fade and get other family members out, don't let anyone know who you are!!!
Odrade you are really trying my patience here and in hindsight I should have let your deleted post stay so it would be evidence of why you've been put on reduced posting.
You've shown you're not about to let a Moderator tell you what you can or cannot do even when it's for the peace of the board, that's all I'm trying to do is to restore peace to the board but you won't let it go now matter how many times you've been asked.
This thread is locked.
Hindsight for the 20/20 deleted post:
And the most abusive poster of them all speaks. Hey Bicker, I think there are some other XJW boards around that might have need of you to come and cuss them out!
I'll leave that up to you Odrade it's more to your liking.
i just found out that a dear friend of mine was outed by a poster on this board!!!
i am soooooo angry and disgusted it's hard to contain at the moment!
so to all those out there that are trying to fade and get other family members out, don't let anyone know who you are!!!
Odrade said:
It's a "cause" that I won't drop. I know I'm not the only one who feels like this, and I'm pretty sick of seeing people demanding that new posters (and established) reveal themselves or be thought a troll. Since your discussion is about forcible "outing" and since you are one of the people who wanted another poster to give up her anonymity to satisfy your paranoia, I think this is a perfectly acceptable place to discuss it.
Here is what SWALKER said in the thread you won't let go of:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/150543/1.ashx
SWALKER Re: Hi everyone, I'm Cognac's friend!
Post 2432 of 2447
since 25-Feb-04I don't usually say anything...but something smells fishy to me. Come on, this "pioneer" joins board and gives this fantastic story and then her best friend signs up the next day????????? Then the friend hurriedly posts from her own computer when the IP address match? I could go on, but what's the point?
I wish we had a red flag in the emoticons and I'd throw it!
Swalker
and her second post:
SWALKER Re: Hi everyone, I'm Cognac's friend!
Post 2433 of 2447
since 25-Feb-04Not pioneer talk, whoever you are!!!!!!!!
Swalker
and her third and last post in that thread:
SWALKER Re: Hi everyone, I'm Cognac's friend!
Post 2434 of 2447
since 25-Feb-04Swalker:
Your obnoxious, leave me alone.
I think you're lying and have NO TROUBLE leaving you alone at all!!! BTW, I thought this was your friends thread...not yours. You betray yourself in volumns, honey.
Swalker
Now unless I'm missing something Odrade she never asked for this poster to out herself. So would you kindly get off your high horse and quit badgering people about this already. You've made your point, we've gotten the message it's way past time to let it go. You are being abusive and it won't be tollerated any longer.
Plenty of people have apologized profusely to you on this and the other thread and you have never acknowledged or accepted their apologies you just keep throwing it all back in their face. It really must be hard keeping your angel wings tucked in your shirt, you might try giving us mere humans a break after all we're imperfect and can at least admit it. Is it really that hard to be kind?
Thanks Xena. Nice to see you, BTW!
Yeah big surprise...........
i just found out that a dear friend of mine was outed by a poster on this board!!!
i am soooooo angry and disgusted it's hard to contain at the moment!
so to all those out there that are trying to fade and get other family members out, don't let anyone know who you are!!!
Odrade...I must have missed the thread that elected you "thread monitor!!!!!" I have heard enough from you on MY THREAD! I haven't bothered YOU in the least and yet you PERSIST in disrupting the ongoing discussion on this topic, trying instead to make it about YOU and YOUR concerns!
Start your own thread and say anything you want on it. I won't bother you in the least! Get over yourself and grow up! I don't care if you have a viewpoint different than mine and it shouldn't bother you this much that I do!!!
Calm down SWALKER......some people have a need to feel useful regardless of how it's felt by others.
FWIW you may be the starter of a thread insomuch as it's your idea and you continue the dialog but no one really OWNS a thread, they seem to have a life of their own.
i just found out that a dear friend of mine was outed by a poster on this board!!!
i am soooooo angry and disgusted it's hard to contain at the moment!
so to all those out there that are trying to fade and get other family members out, don't let anyone know who you are!!!
JWD should have an authenticated user mechanism whereby if you are happy to be identified everybody else can see who you are, and validate you.
They do and if you choose to use it you can it's in your Profile upload a picture of yourself and ta-da!
last week i revisited a place in my youth that was important.
it no longer exists.
not even an address.
Lots of back in time memories. The older I get the more I have.
I recently went down south where I raised my family and stayed in a Motel for several days right in the downtown section. It was weird for me almost haunting and very emotional. I get emotional as I type this thinking about it. So many memories and it's true mostly all the good ones come back to mind I didn't remember any of the bad ones.......I did get a sick feeling when I drove by the KH.
I had a neat experience going back to my Grandparents house years after I had left the city they still lived in and I had long ago moved from I took my kids for a visit. It was fun to watch them play in my Grandparents yard just like I did when I was their age. My boys were climbing the old walnut tree out back and my younger son had uncovered the little "boat" fountain which is under the tree covered in leaves and debris from the tree for probably several years! He automatically became Cap't Hook....hey I used to play pirates on that boat too! Then came the familiar shrill of Granny's voice yelling at the boys to get down from that tree before they fall and get hurt! I remembered that too!! What I didn't count on was her then scolding me for letting them kids run wild! My Mom could probably relate to that one.
i've done research on the subject and realized that it really is talking about whoredom when its referenced in the bible.
any other points regarding that word?
I've done research on the subject and realized that it really is talking about whoredom when its referenced in the bible. Any other points regarding that word?
cognac you're right about how the Bible references the word fornication. I looked it up at www.dictionary.com here is what it said:
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for·ni·ca·tion 
/ ?f?rn?'ke???n / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation [ fawr-ni-key-shuhn ] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun
| 1. | voluntary sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons or two persons not married to each other. |
| 2. | Bible . idolatry. |
] / 'f?rn?k??t?ri, -?to?ri / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation [ fawr-ni-kuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation , adjective | Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. |
| for·ni·ca·tion (fôr'ni-ka'sh?n) Pronunciation Key n. Sexual intercourse between partners who are not married to each other. Word History: The word fornication had a lowly beginning suitable to what has long been the low moral status of the act to which it refers. The Latin word fornix, from which fornicatio, the ancestor of fornication, is derived, meant "a vault, an arch." The term also referred to a vaulted cellar or similar place where prostitutes plied their trade. This sense of fornix in Late Latin yielded the verb fornicari, "to commit fornication," from which is derived fornicatio, "whoredom, fornication." Our word is first recorded in Middle English about 1303. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
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| fornication | |
| noun | |
| 1. | voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other |
| 2. | extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; "adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce" [syn: adultery] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
for·ni·ca·tion (fôr
n.
forv.
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Main Entry: for·ni·ca·tion
Pronunciation: "for-n&-'kA-sh&n
Function: noun
: consensual sexual intercourse between two persons not married to each other
| Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
Main Entry: for·ni·ca·tion
Pronunciation: "for-n&-'kA-sh&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Late Latin fornicatio, from fornicare to have intercourse with prostitutes, from Latin fornic- fornix arch, vault, brothel
: consensual sexual intercourse between a man and esp. single woman who are not married to each other; also: the crime of engaging in fornication —compare ADULTERY
NOTE: Where still considered a crime, fornication is classified as a misdemeanor.
| Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
Fornication
in every form of it was sternly condemned by the Mosaic law (Lev. 21:9; 19:29; Deut. 22:20, 21, 23-29; 23:18; Ex. 22:16). (See ADULTERY.) But this word is more frequently used in a symbolical than in its ordinary sense. It frequently means a forsaking of God or a following after idols (Isa. 1:2; Jer. 2:20; Ezek. 16; Hos. 1:2; 2:1-5; Jer. 3:8,9).
| Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary |
The definition given here goes along with what I was taught as a JW, it has many meanings some of the meanings symbolic such as when the JW's refer to Babylon the Great and Christendom committing fornication, bla,bla,bla....
imagine that you are staring down from some ethereal plane of post-death...not the funeral, mind you, but perhaps years or decades after your physical decease.. what would you feel pleased to see written on your gravestone?.
me:.
he thought he'd figured it out,.
It's been lovely but I have to go now.
