in a recent magazine article, the author follows a long line of others by arriving at the same conclusion whenever the subject is breeched.
he said that current u.s. president george walker bush was "the most manifestly ill-qualified candidate thrown up by a major party since warren harding.".
while i must admit that i know little of president harding, in my lifetime no president (or candidate) prior to gwbush was ever as under-qualified for the office.
TJ said:
"No excuse from here. I just wish that one, he was sneakier like kennedy, and two, he had better taste like... well... like kennedy."
Say...word. You're on-point with this one. Kennedy had my respect instantly by bedding the lovely Marilyn. Clinton's picks just lacked that....oh....how can I say it....luster. I kind of wonder how it would have been IF Kennedy were president now. Could he cover up his illicit trysts like he was able to back in the 60's?
in a recent magazine article, the author follows a long line of others by arriving at the same conclusion whenever the subject is breeched.
he said that current u.s. president george walker bush was "the most manifestly ill-qualified candidate thrown up by a major party since warren harding.".
while i must admit that i know little of president harding, in my lifetime no president (or candidate) prior to gwbush was ever as under-qualified for the office.
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in a recent magazine article, the author follows a long line of others by arriving at the same conclusion whenever the subject is breeched.
he said that current u.s. president george walker bush was "the most manifestly ill-qualified candidate thrown up by a major party since warren harding.".
while i must admit that i know little of president harding, in my lifetime no president (or candidate) prior to gwbush was ever as under-qualified for the office.
Wassup Big Boi: Yeah, man I've been mad-busy at work and life lately. It's like the plantation **(sound of whip cracks)**. Anyway, I pop in when I can. Peace to you bruh....
TJ: I agree that Clinton IS one of the most talented and gifted presidents that we have ever had and I think in time peeps will recognize that. What WAS/IS his weakness is his personal judgment. I mean DAYUM, he fucked up seriously on the ethical/moral tip. But if they didn't have term limits there's no doubt he would be PREZ right now. I often wonder how he would have handled this crisis. I am NO fan of George Dubya, but I feel he's done alright during this crisis. It's too early to judge the efficiency of his presidency. I think you need at LEAST 2 years for that. Dubya's presidency is more of a presidency-by-committee type deal to me. While Clinton was outstanding (in my opinion) his overall staff to me didn't blaze any trails. Dubya has a more distinguished and rounded out cabinet. So yeah...he can be somewhat of an idiot but combine the peeps around him, you MAY have the makings of a great PRESIDENCY (not a great president, but a great PRESIDENCY).
Another observation, and don't get me wrong on this. Clinton was one of the most outstanding presidential speakers far surpassing Dubya. But I think Bush is a lot better and way more personable one-on-one. I think back to the congregation setting with a body of elders and you would have some that were outstanding in charisma and speaking, and then you would have one that wasn't so great but was awesome one-on-one in showing compassion, sympathy and understanding no matter how crude it may have come out. I think Dubya may be like that. Peeps that Bush has worked with as Governor and etc., just gush over the man. That's gotta say something.
I think use his name to get where he's gotten, but who hasn't? I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for now. Now 2 years and 20,000 butchered english words later, my opinion may change. I don't have time to get into detailed accomplishments and failures of the two, but those are my casual observations.
memorial.....the time of year where we meditate on the supposed significance of jesus' death and watch all types of crazy mufuckas come out of the woodwork.
anyway, we had a new sister move into our territory and lo and behold claims she's of the anointed.
she was all of 40 years old, 350 pounds, friendly, feels that the friends should treat her with special reverence "since she's one of christ's brothers" (wouldn't that be sisters?).
Well put, NWH.........
based on comments in various threads, it seems that many of you are acquainted with the various ``dodges'' jws use to strech out their field service time: foot-dragging, driving around on return visits from one far-flung end of the territory to the other, the skilful avoidance of contact with housholders, coffee breaks, etc.
etc.. do you have any impression of how pervasive these time-wasting such practices are, and what proportion of the time reported by jws is actually bogus and not spent productively?
or, put another way, how rare is is to encounter who just loves to go out and who uses his/her time efficiently from beginning to end?.
And telephone witnessing.......what a joke! At our hall we had phone directories made of our territories and would meet (on inclement days especially) at the hall and sit around the table at the library and make calls. Of course publishers would stumble embarassingly through their phone presentations. I can't recall getting any discernible interest off of phone witnessing. It usually gravitated into 1 or 2 of the more experienced publishers or pioneers doing all the calls while the others would just sit at the library tables with their coffees gossiping about other peeps........
based on comments in various threads, it seems that many of you are acquainted with the various ``dodges'' jws use to strech out their field service time: foot-dragging, driving around on return visits from one far-flung end of the territory to the other, the skilful avoidance of contact with housholders, coffee breaks, etc.
etc.. do you have any impression of how pervasive these time-wasting such practices are, and what proportion of the time reported by jws is actually bogus and not spent productively?
or, put another way, how rare is is to encounter who just loves to go out and who uses his/her time efficiently from beginning to end?.
What about the big push for time in AUGUST when you were behind? One year several of us were behind in our time so we decided to hook up with several other young pioneers from other halls and do witnessing at the AIRPORT. Oh, my....it was a time-wasters PARADISE. You had coffee-shops, restaurants, arcades and any other means of divergence. Start your time by offering mags to some flight attendant at the terminal or some bum sleeping outside and you were on your way.........
memorial.....the time of year where we meditate on the supposed significance of jesus' death and watch all types of crazy mufuckas come out of the woodwork.
anyway, we had a new sister move into our territory and lo and behold claims she's of the anointed.
she was all of 40 years old, 350 pounds, friendly, feels that the friends should treat her with special reverence "since she's one of christ's brothers" (wouldn't that be sisters?).
Memorial.....the time of year where we meditate on the supposed significance of Jesus' death and watch all types of crazy mufuckas come out of the woodwork. Anyway, we had a new sister move into our territory and lo and behold claims she's of the anointed. She was all of 40 years old, 350 pounds, friendly, feels that the friends should treat her with special reverence "since she's one of Christ's brothers" (wouldn't that be sisters?). Anyway we brothers were like, cool....whatever...we'll go ahead and count her when she partakes but also include a note to the Society stating our reservations.
Time comes for the Memorial and she enters the hall right before with a large yellow feathered hat (at least 24-30 inches in length) and a neon green dress, takes a seat on the last row in the back of the hall. We're like....awww, man. Talk ensues, emblems are being passed, and sister proceeds to NOT take the unleavened bread. Brothers are like COOL. Maybe she's had her thoughts readjusted on her supposed calling. Wine is now being passed around and the speaker is giving various scriptural commentary on 1st century events while emblems are being passed. Brother keeps on talking and talking almost as if he's stalling. He then stops talking as the wine has not yet returned to the front. There's a dead silence as everyone turns around, looks in the back of the KH and hears annoying slurping sounds. It's the sister....partaking the wine........FROM A STRAW........
based on comments in various threads, it seems that many of you are acquainted with the various ``dodges'' jws use to strech out their field service time: foot-dragging, driving around on return visits from one far-flung end of the territory to the other, the skilful avoidance of contact with housholders, coffee breaks, etc.
etc.. do you have any impression of how pervasive these time-wasting such practices are, and what proportion of the time reported by jws is actually bogus and not spent productively?
or, put another way, how rare is is to encounter who just loves to go out and who uses his/her time efficiently from beginning to end?.
Ooooh, yeah.....pioneer memories......
I just about wrote the book on how to constructively kill some time. Since I was the only bro-man hangin' with the sistas, i'd start my time right before I took the group out. You know, offering the magazines in front of the KH to passerby or witnessing to dead roadkill on the side of the road.
Once we got to the territory, you drop the sistas off and just ride around for a good 20 minutes to survey the land, make sure peeps were working the right doors, catch that nice DJ mix on the radio. Got out of car go up to home (where you know no one's home) and stand at the door for 10 minutes to make sure you're giving that potential sheep every opportunity to hear the good news.
In between doors, complement sister so-and-so on that god-ugly hat she's wearing, linger in convo, get in the car, go to the next street, drive down the street, check out that vicious looking poodle chained to the fence at the end of the block, go back and warn friends not to work the home of the vicious looking poodle chained to the fence, ride around some more, park, listen to that slammin' song that just came on the radio while looking like I'm prepping my service bag, get out of car, go up to house, press doorbell in gingerly (where it looks like you're pressing it, but in reality barely touching it), wait 10 minutes come off of door, end of territory, suggest bible studies and R.V.'s to group, go to lunch at McDonald's......
I really didn't learn the art of riding around the territory to kill time until I really started working with a lotta the elders early in my pioneer career. You can just ride all around and talk about anything AND COUNT THE TIME.......
in a recent magazine article, the author follows a long line of others by arriving at the same conclusion whenever the subject is breeched.
he said that current u.s. president george walker bush was "the most manifestly ill-qualified candidate thrown up by a major party since warren harding.".
while i must admit that i know little of president harding, in my lifetime no president (or candidate) prior to gwbush was ever as under-qualified for the office.
Yo...TJ, DB, Larc, Big Boi & Fark:
This has been one of the best threads I've read in a while. Don't have time to post my opinions, but major props on putting together a TIGHT-ASS THREAD.....good reading......
...suffering was not so bad.
his "perfection" and understanding of the situation would certainly have mitigated his suffering.. his death was not really death, not in any meaningful sense.
it was a 15 second nap, using bible reasoning.
Alan, you made me come out of lurker mode. You're so on-point with this topic.......
