Cardinal Fang

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  What makes a chick crazy?

  by serendipity in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i've heard of men over the years complain about crazy chicks, but they don't always explain.

  so here's the chance:.

  what makes a girl/women crazy or psycho in your eyes?

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  Cardinal Fang

  Picking up on what IP_SEC said, what is it with women and cats?! Time after time after time, whenever you see the animal welfare/public health bods storming some crumbling, mouldy old hovel on TV, it's always, but always some half (or completely) mad, manky old crone with 300 cats and cat$h!t knee-deep all over the house...

  There's even one in my small home town... looks as if the same net curtains have been up at the windows since the house was built back in Victorian times - and the windows don't look as if they've been cleaned since they were put in, either...

  (An aside - with old men, it seems to be an accumulation of junk, newspapers and general filth [JWD women, en masse: "so what's the difference between them and young men?!" ] ....but they may have a point - whenever I visit a certain, long-term single (go figure) friend of mine, you can barely see the living-room floor - I refer to him affectionately as 'Mr. Trebus' (a 'Brits-only' reference there, I'm afraid))

  Anyway, back to the subject... for my money, if any female over the age of about... ooh, 13 or so maintains a substantial collection of soft toys - and especially if she has them arranged on her bed - that's when I start hearing 'The Cuckoo Waltz' (Laurel & Hardy) and begin backing away very slowly....
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  It was all my Dad's fault!

  by whyamihere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  dad came down this weekend to party with my brothers and i....... we have this huge on going july 4th party(all weekend) in my town called "river front rendezvous".

  everyone goes for the food, beer, and bands.

  little big town(country band) firehouse(go to love the 80's) were just a few that played there.

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  Cardinal Fang

  Ah, those famous last words: "Never again - until the next time", eh? Have one for me - though, going by those pictures, it looks as if you've had my share already

  Cardinal Fang, also a member of the "vicarious drinker" class
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  It was all my Dad's fault!

  by whyamihere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  dad came down this weekend to party with my brothers and i....... we have this huge on going july 4th party(all weekend) in my town called "river front rendezvous".

  everyone goes for the food, beer, and bands.

  little big town(country band) firehouse(go to love the 80's) were just a few that played there.

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  Cardinal Fang

  Well, as they say where I come from, "Hell mend you!"

  (NB: Can't/don't drink - don't mind others drinking, but seriously drunken people can cause major rectal discomfort (and I should know ). Scots expat currently living/studying in major English city - relieved that England are out of the footie, for no other reason (honest! ) than that the combination of football and hot weather brought out the local f***tard population out in force - some serious disruption, with police and ambulance sirens going virtually non-stop all day (and night ).

  "And peace returned to the valley...."

  Cardinal Fang, of the "strictly non-partisan, just want a decent night's sleep" class
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  UK Big Brother series housemate a JW?

  by Sirona in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  did anyone see tonights big brother?

  ashlene said some stuff about the bible which was distinctly jw..... she said.... "don't you think that the stuff the bible predicted is happening in our day?

  " then she said "the bible condemns many things, like sex before marriage, smoking and other stuff".

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  Cardinal Fang

  "FROM BIG BROTHER HOUSE TO HOUSE"??

  *rimshot*

  Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week...

  Or not...
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  Love is eroding away in the Congo, why?

  by thecarpenter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i first started studying with the jehovah witnesses, although i am a technical, matter of fact type of guy, the thing that got my attention was the genuine love i saw in the congregation (this was in the early 80's).

  it made such a impression on me that i ignored some of the serious questions i had about the organization and went ahead and got baptized (i figured things would get sorted out over time and decided to give the society the benefit of the doubt) .

  the congregation i went to was a fireball, full of activity and good works and growing fast.

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  Cardinal Fang

  Is it just me, or did anyone else read the title and think this thread was about JWs in Africa?

  Seriously though, whatever happened to "not masters over your faith, but fellow workers for your joy" ? To paraphrase the words of the man they claim to follow (but who takes a distant second place to the Org in their estimation):

  'they make the word of God invalid by their tradition'...
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  Die for what i thinks right.

  by KW13 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i started a thread not long ago about how - if my mum had to choose between me (my life) or the society what would she choose.

  i got the expected response.. today i took it a step further, i said.

  personally even though i claim to be a christian i would not make you die for my beliefs.

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  Cardinal Fang

  
  This is an issue in relation to the JWs which is particularly close to my heart. I'll explain why....

  My mum (whom I love dearly), while still a relatively young dub, developed complications when she was pregnant with yours truly that brought the blood issue into play, and she refused transfusions despite the doctors' warnings that both our lives could be in danger.

  Needless to say, we both survived (a fact I ascribe to a greater power in spite, not because of my mother's JW beliefs) and, growing up, I was actually proud of my mother's 'faithful' stance (the power of cult indoctrination is truly mind-boggling ).

  Looking at the affair now from my post-exit perspective, of course, I am truly astounded (and disturbed) at the extent to which religious/cult brainwashing can override the most basic of positive human instincts (regarding both my mother's decision and my attitudes to it while a part of dubdom).

  To get to the point you originally raised, KW, my attitude on the issue tends towards that of "if you want to die for the sake of your religious/political/other beliefs, be my guest, but don't presume to drag those without power or a voice into your martyrdom" (although others can still be deeply affected - the thought of any of my JW loved ones ending up in a 'blood issue' situation now is one I prefer not to dwell on).

  All this from a religion that cites scripture stating that God sees the unborn child and that condemns abortion as murder (interestingly, the same religion that holds that there is no resurrection for stillborn babies - the unborn child is evidently enough of a human person to make abortion murder, but not enough to warrant resurrection - doublethink, anyone? )

  Such policies and doctrines are emphatically NOT the product of a religion that represents a loving God - certainly not of a God who deserves anyone's worship.

  Sorry if I rambled and missed the point slightly, but I just felt the need to share.
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  Name a rock band that describes the JW's...

  by TresHappy in

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  real or not.... i say "twisted scripture"

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  Cardinal Fang

  JAH WOBBLE
  
  (OK, an individual artiste rather than a group - but he was a member of John Lydon's post-Pistols project Public Image Limited (PiL) - a band name that well describes the WTS, or at least its priorities - whose eponymous track Public Image always puts me strongly in mind of the WTS, and I quote:)
  "What you wanted was never made clear Behind the image lay ignorance and fear You hide behind this public machine You still follow the same old scheme..."
  
  Cardinal Fang, of the " 'Anarchist' doesn't really rhyme with 'Antichrist', does it, John? " Class
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Which Event Made You Think That Armageddon Was Around The Corner?

  by Arthur in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i realize that this topic has been discussed at length, but since i'm new to this site, i wanted to pose the question again.

  i ask this question because of the wide range in ages of all of you on this site.

  but what about those who had already left the organization before 2001?

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  Cardinal Fang

  For me, it'd have to be the fall of the Berlin Wall - thought that was 'peace and security', and me unbaptised at the time (and still unbaptised, thank God ) ... something that I was able to use to deal with the sudden panic I experienced re 9/11, all of twelve years later - the 'Armageddon reflex' is very deeply ingrained, something almost primal...

  Oh and btw, cheers to Darth Frosty for bringing up the 'UN Year of Peace' in 1986 - I'd forgotten all about that (says it all), but I seem to remember there being quite a hoo-ha in WT land leading up to it - the possibility of a 'last convention'... I gather they've had a quite a few of those since, lol
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  STOP THROWING YOUR PEARLS AT JW

  by What-A-Coincidence in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  live allah

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  Cardinal Fang

  From what I've learned recently (from Islamic sources, no less), apparently old 'Hammy-Boy' took a nine-year-old girl as a wife in his old age... and I don't think it gets much more virginal than that.

  Bearing in mind, of course, that "God's Chosen People" weren't exactly above that kind of thing themselves... especially after they'd just pillaged and slaughtered the families of the girls in question... *double *

  "Anyone loving violence my soul certainly hates"??? Things that make you go...

  HMMMMMM.....
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  Your Age in Chocolate!!! (fun)

  by upside/down in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  don't tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood anyway-but the hershey man will know!

  this is pretty neat.

  don't cheat by scrolling down first!

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  Cardinal Fang

  Bang on the button!

  FREAKY DEAKY!!

  (Probably some boring rational mathematical explanation for this, but freaky anyway )

  Cardinal Fang, of the 'prefers plain to milk' class