Posts by Cardinal Fang

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Are you addicted?

by greendawn in

are you addicted to cigarettes or alcohol or perhaps some other habit that you would like to kick?

did you manage to fight successfully a habit in the past or planning a battle for the future?

i never had any addictions in the past except on sweet things which creates an excess weight problem, as many times as i tried to get rid of it up to now i failed.

Cardinal Fang

Hi, I'm Cardinal Fang and I'm an alcoholic...

Seriously, just passed 6 years in recovery... a couple of hospital detox admissions, at least one night in the cells, and incalculable mental/emotional torture (to both myself and my nearest and dearest) under my belt... was pretty much in the gutter by the end...

Although it's been by no means an easy road, overall, my life has changed beyond measure...now at university working to recover as much of a career and a life as I can from what the WT and alcohol conspired to take from me... perhaps equally as importantly, going into recovery forced me to seriously examine myself and my life, and to be brutally honest about it, which in turn forced me to make the painful yet necessary decision to divorce myself from the WT, for which I now thank God as I understand Him (yes, I know, AA-speak, but for this ex-dub, the freedom to have one's own conception of a Higher Power was/is heady stuff )

As for your situation, Greendawn, I can't share beyond my own experience (no personal knowledge of weight problems/compulsive eating), though if you feel it might pose a serious problem, I know there is an Overeaters Anonymous programme in existence, but you'd have to find out if there were any groups handy.

Speaking for myself, I know (as is common with many recovering alkies), I developed (and still have) a bit of a sweet tooth, and my physique is far from being a Greek god's (unless Dionysius counts ), but when it comes down to it, being overweight, to the best of my knowledge, rarely leads to people losing their jobs, homes, families, or sanity... it's all relative.

Wishing you all the best in achieving your goals,

'C.F.'

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YOU HAVE BEEN PUT ON NOTICE!!!!

by Elsewhere in

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Cardinal Fang

FYI looking_glass:

'Wee' (meaning 'small') has been used throughout Scotland for centuries, and by the look of the terraced apartments in the background, I'd say it's a fair bet that the pic was taken somewhere in either Glasgow or Edinburgh.

(I'm Scottish, can you tell? lol)

Cardinal Fang, of the "Here's tae us, wha's like us, damn few an' they're a' deid!" class

23

Embarrassing...........

by beachbugg in

ok, i was giving one of those rehearsed skits during the ministry school meeting one time and i got the giggles..........seriously bad situation.

the lady sitting across from me forgot "her line" and it struck me funny.

the more i tried to get past it, the funnier it became.

Cardinal Fang

Not a story of personal embarrassment, but one that, similar to Moggy Lover's, plays on the 'common language divide' and the US-centric Gibbering Body's woeful lack of knowledge of colloquial usage among their anglophone brethren around the globe...

The context: a drama, mid-to-late-80s that some of you may remember, which featured the trials of a faithful young brother forced to fight off the attentions (pffffft) of a worldly young Jezebel at school.

He relates his traumatic experiences to his righteous old mum, climaxing (arf) with... "...then she dragged me into an empty classroom and tried to get me to commit fornication with her!!" - to which his mother responded with an anguished cry of -

"Oh, Randy!!!"

... for such was the boy's name.

The GB were obviously blissfully unaware that 'randy', in UK and (I think) Antipodean English translates to the US 'horny'.

The ripple of snorting and choking that swept the crowd at the convention I attended will stay with me forever - I only wish I had been at one of the larger internationals (London) where there may have been American dubs present, just to witness their expressions of utter mystification at the barely-suppressed pandemonium erupting around them....

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WT FEB. 15 Barf quote on "Increasing Light"

by stillAwitness in

"accepting a change when it comes and adapting to it can be difficult," admits one longtime elder.

what has helped him accept the many refinements he has witnessed in the 48 years that he has been a kingdom proclaimer?

he ansewrs: "having the right attitude is the key.

Cardinal Fang

From "whom" to "where" - a complete 180-degree twist of scripture to bend to WT dogma - in quite literally the same breath.

The totality of both the brainwashing and the mental blindness is at once breathtaking and frightening.

Lest we forget, we were all in that same mental black hole ourselves once, and I personally thank whatever Power there may be that I am free - as far as I am concerned, it is nothing short of a miracle.

"A blindness that touches perfection, but hurts just like anything else."

- from the song 'Isolation' by Joy Division

18

What is Love?

by Soapydish in

i've become confused w/love in these past two years.

my wife says she's polyamorous.

that opened my eyes to a whole way of seeing things.

Cardinal Fang

I have one dear XJW friend (now happily in an exclusive LTR) who, several years ago, became embroiled (and burnt) in a relationship with a man who described himself as 'polyamorous'...

Where I'm from (Scotland), we have a fine, earthy old word which more accurately (and realistically) describes men like him...huremaister (lit. "whoremaster" = rough trans. "womaniser") (NB in no way meant misogynistically... it is a very old word and hence of its time)

I'm sorry, but IMHO, 'polyamory' is just a psychobabble BS excuse for people behaving like dogs. I'm not saying that it's realistic (or even possible) for people not to feel sexually attracted to others beside their partner (before any of the board's well-known libertines dive in )... but I would argue that it is not possible to put in the same degree of emotional investment that a 'serious' emotionally and sexually intimate relationship (if that's what we're discussing, rather than random sh***ing or 'friends with benefits') would seem to demand with more than one person at a time.

My 0.02 (which, as a long-term single, may not count for 5h!t to some people... but I still have my standards - and no, that's not why I'm single - far too long and depressing a story...)

(BTW, slightly overdone with the brackets, d'ya think? )

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A film about jw history - what would you call it?

by dedpoet in

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i f someone made a film about wt history, what do you think would be the best title?

i 'd probably go for "pulp fiction", but someones already used that.

a ny ideas?

Cardinal Fang

What else could it possibly be but....

Dumb and Dumber

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London explosions

by Cardinal Fang in

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just heard there's been at least two explosions in central london - one on the underground and a double decker.. don't know if any here are from round those parts or have family there - if so, hope all are ok. .

another 'sign' for the local dubs .

Cardinal Fang

Incidentally, Simon, I was wondering why I can't see this thread on the main page - thought maybe the explosions'd taken out a server somewhere

There's one or two particularly whacked-out dubs I know who'll be frothing at the mouth right now

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London explosions

by Cardinal Fang in

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just heard there's been at least two explosions in central london - one on the underground and a double decker.. don't know if any here are from round those parts or have family there - if so, hope all are ok. .

another 'sign' for the local dubs .

Cardinal Fang

Just heard there's been at least two explosions in central London - one on the underground and a double decker.

Don't know if any here are from round those parts or have family there - if so, hope all are OK.

Another 'sign' for the local dubs

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I'm home....

by RichieRich in

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well brothers and sisters,

i just returned home safe from the convention.

as much as i would like to give you the minute by minute breakdown, i won't because this is going to be a freaking long post anyhow.

Cardinal Fang

Crumpet - don't mean to be a pedantic arse, but they've been holding DCs at an indoor arena up in Newcastle for the past couple of years (my bro & mother go there) - where, incidentally, they were all melting/suffocating (babies, old folks and all) in the unseasonal (especially for Newcastle) heat this year because having the AC on supposedly costs £1400 a day extra (works out to about 0.60 per attender per day) - my bro ended up listening outside in his car (where he could safely take his tie off )

I somehow get the suspicion they'd have found the money if one of the GB was in attendance.

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Evidence for the Exodus?

by Cardinal Fang in

one for the historians here...

was round visiting my jw mother and bro (who stays with my folks when he's in the area working) the other night.

the conversation swung round to a documentary they'd been watching on video earlier that evening, supposedly putting forward all sorts of archaeological evidence for the exodus, including coral-encrusted remains of chariots at the bottom of the red sea, no less.

Cardinal Fang

Thanks for that video still, Tetrapod - looks exactly like what my brother was describing - a shiny wheel that didn't have coral growing on it cuz of how the metal had been treated - he couldn't remember the name of the process involved - electroplating Egyptians? Oy!

Just goes to show that the credulous* (and the dubs are more credulous than the average) will leap on any spurious/junk science that appears to back up their belief system (while disregarding any conflicting evidence of course - see above).

*As a side note, after seeing a previous goofball 'documentary', my bro (God love him) believes in the existence of the 'Bohemian Grove' and Molech the 60-foot owl god (I've seen the net footage, and IMHO it looks like the work of a bunch of drunken fratboys, but what do I know? )