Posts by rebel8

The tradition began in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement misprinted the telephone number for children to call Santa. Instead of reaching Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief's operations "hotline." The Director of Operations at the time, Colonel Harry Shoup, had his staff check the radar for indications of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Children who called were given updates on his location, and a tradition was born.

In 1958, the governments of Canada and the United States created a bi-national air defense command for North America called the North American Aerospace Defense Command, also known as NORAD, which then took on the tradition of tracking Santa.

Since that time, NORAD men, women, family and friends have selflessly volunteered their time to personally respond to phone calls and emails from children all around the world. In addition, we now track Santa using the internet. Millions of people who want to know Santa's whereabouts now visit the NORAD Tracks Santa® website.

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"My Husband's Not Gay" New Show on TLC Channel

by ShirleyW in

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"my husband's not gay" a special airing on january 11 follows a group of mormon men who say they are happily married and attracted to their wives but are attracted to men also .

whhaaaaattt !!!!.

first of all don't mormons look down on the gay lifestyle, and they also shun members like jws do.. well, all i can say is i'm waiting for jw version of this show, if they're featuring mormons, the dubs must be next !.

rebel8

IIRC they don't even call it homosexuality. They call it same-sex attraction to minimize the belief that one must act upon one's sexuality.

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It's imminent now.

by rebel8 in

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no, not armageddon, silly.

santa claus.. http://www.noradsanta.org/.

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rebel8

No, not Armageddon, silly. Santa Claus.

http://www.noradsanta.org/

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Could the allowance of blood fractions be curtailing the growth of the religion?

by Apognophos in

so, imagine that you're just a regular joe who's not familiar with the witnesses and is looking for the answers to life, the universe, and everything.

you hear a knock at your door.

before long, you are studying with a jehovah's witness.

rebel8

What the OP described happened to my family, except it was back when fractions weren't allowed (early 1970s).

They don't tell you the worst things until you're mostly hooked. Manipulative.

What is going through your mind at this point? Isn't just about anyone's BS Alarm liable to be going off at this point?

What happened to my mother is, "But my daughter is hemophiliac and needs fractions weekly right now. She's almost died without it. I can't follow that teaching, knowing she's going to suffer and die." (Let's just remember that bleeding to death is slowly suffocating. It's not a quick or painless death.)

Response from jw: several weeks of cult programming, resurrection to petting zoos, Abraham ready to sacrifice his son, the fact that both of us will be executed and permanently dead at jehoopla's hand for taking blood products, and fake medical facts about taking on the personality of the criminals who were donating blood.

My mother suppressed her logic in favor of this thinking, because she was so eager to be in a group with strict, hard-to-follow rules so she could prove to god how much better she is than the Great Unwashed. She could have had her social status highly elevated if I had died one of the times she tried to sacrifice me.

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Watchtower 'Experts' on Being Gay?

by jw07 in

have you seen this article?.

the watchtower is trying to be experts on all things having to do with human sexuality.. repressing sexual desires, gay or straight only creates more problems.. http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/ask/pressure-to-be-gay/.

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rebel8

"WTFness" will appear in the next edition of The Apostate Dictionary. Thanks!

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New forum 'parousia' is upon us! (software version)

by Simon in

the time has nearly come to switch over to the new forum software.

of course it's not completely finished yet (and never will be) but i think it's good enough to go live with and probably already better than the current one.

i'll give you a quick overview of what to expect and post more detail about the changeover process later.. cloud platform.

rebel8

woo-hoo!

I am so appreciative of your work.

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Watchtower 'Experts' on Being Gay?

by jw07 in

have you seen this article?.

the watchtower is trying to be experts on all things having to do with human sexuality.. repressing sexual desires, gay or straight only creates more problems.. http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/ask/pressure-to-be-gay/.

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rebel8

The Bible...simply directs those with homosexual urges to do the same thing that is required of those with an opposite-sex attraction

That is a bold-faced lie. The bible says heteros can get married and do it as much as they want; it says homosexuals can never be together and be pleasing to god. So let's recap:

A-ok

Hetero sex after marriage
God impregnating a human female
Cain marrying his sister and creating an entire race of people
Abraham and Amnon marrying their half-sisters
Lot's daughters getting him drunk and raping him
Moses' father marrying his aunt
Noah's grandkids marrying each other
Jesus cuddling with men

Not ok: any sort of physical contact or marriage between women or between men

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Leaving with Dignity - a sample document

by Ajax in

we live in democratic, not theocratic times.. churches no longer imprison, torture or execute.. cults have absolutely no authority over non members.

we don't have to obey.

we don't have to subject our selves.

rebel8

I like your idea.

I have composed and published another idea here.

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Freinds, how many do you have ?

by Satanus in

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friends

i'll start.

i'm low on friends, for various reasons.

scientists poke their calculators into everything, and the number of friends we can have is one of them.

rebel8

I have literally a few people who I consider close friends, in that I could talk to them about anything and they would help me if a tragedy happened. However, they live on the other side of the continent.

I have only mr. rebel8 as such a close friend nearby. This makes me uneasy, because I'm not sure it's entirely healthy, and what if something happened to me.

I have lots of acquaintences. There are a few I'd like to be closer to.