Posts by CaptainSchmideo

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Draconian Rules for Attending "Special Convention"

by BluesBrother in

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british dubs are invited to attend a special convention next summer in dublin , irish republic.

o k, this kind of trip has been done many times before.

however i have never seen such a crude and rigid set of rules that would apply to their own people going on a trip, at their own expense of course.

CaptainSchmideo

James Woods: Don't worry about not recognizing a regular convention, it's all still there:Boring Talks, Uncomfortable Seats, Hopeful Elderly Women in the front seats, and if the horrible smells coming from the restrooms in the back. The only difference is that you don't have Tom Crownover's mobile kitchen fixing hamburgers in the corner anymore.

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Taste of their own medicine

by CaptainSchmideo in

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don't know if this has been posted before, but i just saw it on cracked.com, so i thought i would share.. .

http://www.montrealmirror.com/archives/2002/012402/dawg.html.

january 24, 2002. the calling.

CaptainSchmideo

Don't know if this has been posted before, but I just saw it on Cracked.com, so I thought I would share.

http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2002/012402/dawg.html

January 24, 2002

The Calling

They would just drop in. Once a month for the past 12 years, always uninvited. Jane White would answer the door of her East Sussex home to find smiling Jehovah’s Witnesses offering the latest issue of The Watchtower and the chance to hook up with their kind of Jesus. She would tell them to go away. But they’d come back. After the one visit too many, Jane White returned the favour by banging on the Kingdom Hall doors at 10 o’clock Sunday morning, right in the middle of services, and offered those within free magazines. Her crusade lasted 30 minutes before police arrived and told her to shove off. “It is not the religion I object to, it is just the intrusion into my privacy which I find annoying,” White explained. A spokesman for Britain’s Jehovah’s Witnesses said that, had they known White didn’t want the visits, they would have stopped coming. White expects that they now know. : —Scott Saxon

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Do you recall any disputes during the development of the New Song Book?

by Quarterback in

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i seem to recall someone mentioning to me that george benson assisted with some of the work on the new song book.. then he left the assignment after an argument with the team.

is there any thing that anyone remembers about that one?.

CaptainSchmideo

Here is another "George Benson" arrangement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0psTmnf_DKM

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Do you recall any disputes during the development of the New Song Book?

by Quarterback in

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i seem to recall someone mentioning to me that george benson assisted with some of the work on the new song book.. then he left the assignment after an argument with the team.

is there any thing that anyone remembers about that one?.

CaptainSchmideo

Here is a Youtube link to the recording. I have to admit, the old song sounds pretty good with this arrangement.

Of course, you could probably make the theme from "The Flinstones" sound pretty inspiring with the right sort of arrangement....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Mrezb0jR0

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The New Vocabulary of a Free Mind

by breakfast of champions in

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i have always classified myself as someone who was fairly well read, with a pretty decent vocabulary.

but having been raised in the orwellian "loaded language" of "truthspeak", i found over the past 18 or so months that there is a whole vocabulary out there that i was never exposed to, thanks in part to the wts exquisite information control techniques.

here's a sample of some of the words i had never even heard of before my "awakening":.

CaptainSchmideo

Eschatology- part of theology, philosophy, and futurology concerned with what are believed to be the final events of history, the ultimate destiny of humanity — commonly referred to as the end of the world or the "World to Come."

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A Positive Statement in regards to World War I

by CaptainSchmideo in

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all through my life as a jw, i have had it pounded to me that wwi was a negative turning point in history, and that "things were so much better.

prior to 1914" blah blah blah.. .

i put it out there that there were some positive things about the war and it's aftermath.. .

CaptainSchmideo

Wow, James, I didn't even notice! Where's my light saber? Or are they doing that on this board anymore?

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A Positive Statement in regards to World War I

by CaptainSchmideo in

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all through my life as a jw, i have had it pounded to me that wwi was a negative turning point in history, and that "things were so much better.

prior to 1914" blah blah blah.. .

i put it out there that there were some positive things about the war and it's aftermath.. .

CaptainSchmideo

All through my life as a JW, I have had it pounded to me that WWI was a negative turning point in history, and that "things were so much better

prior to 1914" blah blah blah.

I put it out there that there were some positive things about the War and it's aftermath.

The disruption of the established Class system in Europe.

The erosion of the powers of the different monarchical governments (particularly in Russia)

The rise in the assertiveness of the working and middle classes demanding better conditions and better pay.

When one ponders it, prior to all this, life was GREAT if you a White, upper middle class-or-higher male. Everybody else "knew their place" (which was second-place, or last-place).

Yeah, their were a lot of horrors commited and witnessed in the Great War (big surprise! War is never as clean and bloodless as "The Empire Strikes Back"), but this time, the sides were a little more evenly matched, making the mayhem more distributed.

A few lines from the final episode of "Black Adder Goes Forth" spring to mind about why WWI was considered so specifically "horrible":

George: You know, that's the thing I don't really understand about you, Cap.
You're a professional soldier, and yet, sometimes you sound as though
you bally well haven't enjoyed soldiering at all.

Edmund: Well, you see, George, I did like it, back in the old days when the
prerequisite of a British campaign was that the enemy should under
no circumstances carry guns -- even spears made us think twice. The
kind of people we liked to fight were two feet tall and armed with
dry grass.

George: Now, come off it, sir -- what about Mboto Gorge, for heaven's sake?

Edmund: Yes, that was a bit of a nasty one -- ten thousand Watusi warriors
armed to the teeth with kiwi fruit and guava halves. After the battle,
instead of taking prisoners, we simply made a huge fruit salad. No,
when I joined up, I never imagined anything as awful as this war.
I'd had fifteen years of military experience, perfecting the art of
ordering a pink gin and saying "Do you do it doggy-doggy?" in
Swahili, and then suddenly four-and-a-half million heavily armed
Germans hoved into view. That was a shock, I can tell you.

I am not saying that WWI was totally good or anything like that. The end results did give rise to people like Hitler and Stalin, unfortunately. But I believe that it also was the beginning of the end of a lot of negatives as well.

Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong...

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