good morning everyone.
it's just one week until the election; have you checked out the candidates and what they would like to do?
we have a govenor, us senate and us rep race going on this year as well as several state questions to vote on.. .
Sadie,
I know the campaign you are talking about, I live in the same state.
The candidate with all the mud slinging campaigns, in my opinion, is also doing something I have never heard a candidate do before. He is addressing specific issues, such as the suckola condition of our highways, and the ripoff turnpike authority. Other than that, he kinda seems like a kook....
Who're you leaning towards, if you don't mind me asking?
Talking at you from the center part of the state....
Captain Schmideo
reading an earlier post about the caffeine "intervention" reminded me of this: remember lynn newton's online glossary of "theocratese"?
i remember this entry under "coffee" coffeestimulating hot black liquid, consumed in great quantity by most hard-working christians in the usa; the drug of choice for most any occasion.
one co calls it ``the elixer of life''.
Reading an earlier post about the caffeine "intervention" reminded me of this:
Most of the friends at my hall wouldn't be able to function at midpoint in the morning without the almighty "coffee break"!
One of the worst "users" was an elder who said that we wouldn't be eating meat in the new system, because it wasn't good for you. (Only good for the sacrifices to Yahuwah, with the leftovers going to the priests, huh?)
h2o and watchtower observer were the ones that helped me the most.
of course, jwd is the best discussion forum on the net.
Anybody remember "The Free Zone"?
That was the one I really enjoyed.
It even had articles that could be submitted by board members.
I really miss that site....
my apologies if this was already posted.
los angeles (ap) - actress teresa graves, who starred as a sassy undercover cop in the 1970s television police drama "get christie love!
", died thursday in a fire at her home.
That was a particularly fat-headed thing to say, Nance....
Shame on you....
our new circuit overseer is named shepherd.
does anybody know anything about him?
i heard he was wealthy and was from the dakotas or served there.
To Un-
David Jolley is currently the CO for the Oklahoma Circuit. He seems a decent enough fellow for a company man. He easily outstrides our last CO, Fred Kua (pronounced queue-ahh). There was a speaker who would rush! through a scripture reading, almost as if it were an interruption of the more important material in his outline. Never warmed up to the guy, seemed to treat any problems of the friends like they were inconsequential.
we had a whole list of shows we were not allowed to watch including 'speed racer', you'll never guess why.
it was beacuse in the theme song it says "he's a demon on wheels" but then my mother was a jw fanatic lol.
william
Sabrina the Teen Age Witch (cartoon version), Dark Shadows, Star Trek (my mom thought the transporter was too much like people appearing and disappearing like "gods".), Bewitched, anything with "Supernatural" in the title.I appreciate the fact now that my mom wasn't trying to be cruel, she was just kinda ignorant and frightened, and worried about what others might think of her as a parent.Today, while I try to use good judgement with my chidren's entertainment, I am not so uptight as to keep them in a cave.
In a side note, many years ago, I pointed out "The Man in the Moon" to my then eight year old sister in law. ; After she and her younger friend oohed and aahed in genuine surprise and delight, my very straight arrow mother-in-law just had to chime in and point out, "Even so, remember, it's still just the Moon!". ; Sigh, imagination is dead. ; Of knowledge and imagination, guess which one Einstein said was more important?
Edited by - CaptainSchmideo on 10 October 2002 19:30:47
gonna go see episode ii today!
...i know i know..it's been such a long time since it came out but i havn't gotten the time to do that stuff especially 2 hours out of a day on a busy work schedule.
but i wanted to get people's opinion...what did people think of the star wars episode ii compared to the other 4 that have come out already.
Episode III won't be released until Summer, 2005. The episode 3 you're probably thinking of is Lord of the Rings, part 3, which will be released in Christmas, 2003.
there have been several posts about the way witnesses discipline their kids lately, this prompts me to ask.... has anyone had the "dr spock quote" thrown in their face by a witness?
i have heard witnesses throw this about for years, but cannot honestly remember ever seeing it in print.
and i have never read any of dr. spock's books.
This has always been a sore spot with me. Especially at the WT study. Some illiterate whose only reading fare are the Society Pub.s and the TV Guide will expound like an expert while simply parroting the paragraph. In this case, the "Dr. Spock" recantation.
Let's put the matter to rest. In one of his more recent books, Spock categorically denied ever publicly apologizing for ruining a generation of kids. It simply never happened.
Here is what happened. During the late sixties, the anti-war movement was gaining momentum. One of the more prominent participants was Dr. Spock. Hey, what better advocate for speaking out to prevent the needless deaths of thousands of young men than the Doc who helped so many moms raise them?
This did not sit well with the "establishment". The Right Reverend Norman Vincent Peale (emphasis on "the Right"), in his newspaper column, provided parents with a scapegoat for why their teenagers had turned into "long-haired, hippy, dope-smoking, draft-dodging, free-loving peaceniks." It was all the fault of that darn old Dr. Spock, he made parents too lenient with their kids, and now we have this generation of agitators.
Soon after that, the late, great Spiro Agnew, vice president to Richard Nixon, (two honest, law-abiding representatives of "the establshment") took the text of this article, and used it as a major point is political speeches around the country.
Hence, the accusation becomes "fact": Dr. Spock was responsible for a nation of brats. The story that he apologized was a tacked on urban legend.
Dr. Spock, in fact, never apologized for anything of the kind. His book is still a best seller world wide.
What many people dont't realize now is how revolutionary his ideas about child rearing were, especially in 1946.
"Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do." Simple advice that helped a lot of moms.
His views on child correction were seen as permissive, and probably are still seen that way by many JW's who are quick with the old "Rod of Correction."
So, when the Society tells this anecdote, they are really paraphrasing N.V.Peale, a member of Christendom. And they don't even bother to show the reference; Those plagiarists!
silentlambs: silent no more!!!.
published as a joint venture by houghten mifflin and del rey books, this moving narrative of the multi-national efforts of united group of jehovah's witnesses, non-jehovah's witnesses, and former jehovah's witnesses to change long-standing child abuse policy of the 120 year-old religious corporation, watchtower bible and tract society.
in the late 1800's a man named charles taze russell undertook to establish a printing company with volunteer workers.
NONONONONONO
Wesley is too cool and TOO BLACK for JR Brown casting.
You need somebody a lot more weasily, a lot whiter, a lot more annoying.
My vote goes to......Bryant Gumbel!
