Posts by Low-Key Lysmith

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LDS (Mormon) wheelers and dealers coming over tonight at 7 PST. What would you ask them?

by sabastious in

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friends

hey jwn.

a couple of mormon missionaries came to my house last week and i invited them in.

what can i say, curiosity killed the cat.

Low-Key Lysmith

I grew up in SLC, Utah. Half of my extended family are LDS. The other half are JWs. The Mormon side are "Super Mormons". My great 4X Grandfather was John Taylor-3rd President of the Mormon Church.

One question you should have asked them is "why do Mormons believe that people with dark skin (anyone other than caucasian) are considered "cursed"?"

It used to be that Mormons were not allowed to consume caffeine in any form. One day, there was a "revelation" (very similar to New Light) that Coke was OK to drink. The reality is that the Church had just become the major shareholder in Coca-Cola. True story.

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I'm not a camper. I don't see the point in pretending you are homeless

by wha happened? in

jw
friends

i used to camp alot as a kid.

i was in cub scouts and boy scouts.

dad and i went to lot's of camping trips.

Low-Key Lysmith

Now, this is why I backpack...

I do a lot of back country camping, too. In which case, there are no music-playing ice chests.

We were in a group camp at the far end of the campground. there was no one else around us to be disturbed by any music.

One of my favorite seasons for camping is Winter. I love snow camping above all else. If you can camp for 10 days in the middle of February on the Olympic Peninsula (which is mostly rain forest), you can camp anywhere. All those massive steelhead that you catch on the fly rod during the day kinda makes you forget that you might be cold & wet.

To insinuate that I'm not a "real" camper just because we play a little music when we're car camping is a bit ridiculous.

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I'm not a camper. I don't see the point in pretending you are homeless

by wha happened? in

jw
friends

i used to camp alot as a kid.

i was in cub scouts and boy scouts.

dad and i went to lot's of camping trips.

Low-Key Lysmith

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRF*ckingGGGGGGHHHH!!!!

We REAL campers HATE you guys!!!

What, can't youse guys stand the sounds of silence????????????

Geez. Take a chill pill. A couple hours of music 'round the fire while dinner's being cooked isn't the end of the world. That leaves 22 more hours of silence.

"Real campers" indeed. I could out-camp you blindfolded.

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I'm not a camper. I don't see the point in pretending you are homeless

by wha happened? in

jw
friends

i used to camp alot as a kid.

i was in cub scouts and boy scouts.

dad and i went to lot's of camping trips.

Low-Key Lysmith

I try to go camping at least once a month. Yep, even in Winter. It's all about having the proper gear.

My wife & I just got back yesterday from a trip on the Deschutes River in Central Oregon. We stayed 4 nights at a nice riverside campsite with about 16 of our close friends. We took our drift boats along and floated a nice stretch of the river, fly fishing for huge rainbow trout along the way.

We had huge campfires with comfortable camping chairs around it, about 9 different bottles of whisk(e)y, coolers full of good micro-brew beer, the "super" moon in the night sky, etc.

We usually utilize our dutch ovens for campfire meals. Thursday night, we made dutch oven chicken enchilada pie. Friday, it was a huge pot of pork curry over jasmine rice. Saturday, we had red beans & rice, cornbread, and chicken-apple sausages. Sunday night, we made beef tips with BBQ sauce, garlic & onions and then put bisquit dough over the top and put coals on the dutch oven lid until the bisquits were fluffy and golden. All of it was delicious.

I have an ice chest that has a built in iPod dock and speakers, so we had good tunes around the fire, too.

You have to have good equipment. We have a nice waterproof tent. A sweet foam camp bed that is almost more comfortable than our bed at home. Good sleeping bags, plenty of warm clothes, headlamps, etc. There was no running water at this particular campsite, so we brought our own from home. Each car group brought 10-15 gallons of drinking water.

At any rate, we had a blast. I would go again right now if I didn't have work to do.

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What was the best thing the WT did [for you]?

by fadinfast in

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friends

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for me it was putting in the fm at the assemblies, now i could listen to interesting things like the cricket, footy, fishing, news, even music [if i kept the volume down] without looking suspicious, instead of all that..... sure you know the story.

ff.

Low-Key Lysmith

Disfellowshipped me.

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A travesty and and insult to fishermen everywhere

by sabastious in

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friends

forrest city man loses record for largemouth bass after charge for having no fishing license .

by associated press6:40 p.m. cst, march 9, 2012. forrest city, ark.

(ap) a forrest city man has lost his claim to the state record largemouth bass after wildlife officers say he didn't have a valid fishing license when he hooked the lunker.. .

Low-Key Lysmith

As an avid sport fisherman, I have no sympathy for poachers. If the guy caught that fish while angling without the proper license, he was poaching, plain & simple. Poaching is illegal, as well as unethical.

I pay my dues every year for the privilege of being able to fish and retain caught hatchery fish. This comes at a pretty steep price. In the State of Washington, where I am a resident, my yearly license, including freshwater, saltwater, shellfish, and catch record tag costs me nearly $70. I also fish in Oregon. My yearly Oregon non-resident tags cost me $137.00. I suck it up and pay out every year. There are lots of other things I would rather spend that money on, but I pay it anyway. Therefore, I have no respect for folks that feel that they are above having to pay to play.

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Do you eat blood?

by laverite in

abstaining from blood is somewhat trickier for jws than i might have imagined.

meat glue is apparently widely in use, and it is made from the blood products from a variety of animals.

i never heard of meat glue before today.. oh my.

Low-Key Lysmith

When I was in Scotland & N Ireland, there was black pudding available at every breakfast. Some was better than others, but overall, not bad.

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Question for you atheists...

by MrFreeze in

or agnostics too.

are you open about your beliefs (or lack thereof i should say)?

when people talk about anything religious, do you mention that you don't believe in god?

Low-Key Lysmith

I keep quiet unless directly asked, or as Glander put it, it is presumed that I am religious.

It just seems that discussion of religion in a group setting usually ends up heated and somebody's going to get butt-hurt.

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If you don't know what's wrong it can't be fixed

by N.drew in

that is what i heard last night at my yoga class.

she said for something to be fixed first it must become known what needs fixing.

it is true for the physical, but also for the spiritual i believe.

Low-Key Lysmith

So if the book is so full of disposable values, how do YOU decide which are useful forever?

LOVE this!

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Dan Savage talks about the bible and Christian students flee

by Terry in

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zap2it.comdan savage, bullying and the truth about gays and the biblehuffington post - 42 minutes agodan savage, bullying and the truth about gays and the bible... walked out of dan's speech the moment he began talking about the parts of the ...

Low-Key Lysmith

Here's an observation:

I think BTS just likes to argue. I doubt very seriously that he has any regard for anything that he argues for, just that he argues for arguments' sake. In this and many past threads, I have seen BTS take the side which he thinks will attract the most arguments, embellishes his talking points, (like calling "bullshit" profanity and inappropriate for high school-aged children). He then sits and waits for someone to call him out on how ridiculous his "stances" are. It was the same with the Treyvon Martin thread. When his own straw grasping is called against him, he uses his "straw man" and "red herring" labels. It's all a big sad cycle.

Not saying it's right or wrong. Some people just like to argue. Just don't act like your sense of morals or standards have been attacked. Make it what it really is. An Argument for arguments' sake.