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  Saddest cartoon episode?

  by Simon in

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  our kids love the simpsons and futurama but one episode of futurama is just soooo sad, i can barely watch it - it brings a lump to my throat every time!.

  the one with seymour, fry's fossilised dog that the professor is going to bring back to life.

  he decides not to do it because he thinks seymour lived a full life after he got frozen and will have forgotten him.. instead, the dog sat waiting for him all those years ... .

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  ooooops

  Anyway, Heathen, I totally agree with you about Optimus Prime's death.....

  My g/f all ways laughs at me cause I still get choked up when I watch that part..... lol

  -Tad
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  Saddest cartoon episode?

  by Simon in

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  2. entertainment

  our kids love the simpsons and futurama but one episode of futurama is just soooo sad, i can barely watch it - it brings a lump to my throat every time!.

  the one with seymour, fry's fossilised dog that the professor is going to bring back to life.

  he decides not to do it because he thinks seymour lived a full life after he got frozen and will have forgotten him.. instead, the dog sat waiting for him all those years ... .

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  WTBS planned 9-11?

  by TadSexington in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  ok, so i was on quotes.watchtower.com and i found this pic from watchtower 1975 february 15 p.100 .

  http://quotes.watchtower.ca/scans/1975_wt_feb_15_100_large.jpg.

  freaks me out..... but then again i remember an article in newsweek that there were like 3 musical groups that had upcoming albums pulled because they had the wtc on fire on them..... .

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  ok, so i was on quotes.watchtower.com and i found this pic from Watchtower 1975 February 15 p.100

  http://quotes.watchtower.ca/scans/1975_wt_feb_15_100_large.jpg

  freaks me out..... but then again i remember an article in newsweek that there were like 3 musical groups that had upcoming albums pulled because they had the WTC on fire on them....

  Who knows?

  Maybe I need more sleep........

  Tad
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  If you do something contrary to what the bible teaches, how do you react?

  by JH in

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  so many verses in the bible are so clear.

  example: don't steal, don't fornicate, don't have sex with a person of the same sex....etc.

  some verses couldn't be clearer.

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  "If you do something contrary to what the bible teaches, how do you react?"

  I chuckle to myself, cross it off my list of things to do today, and go make myself a sandwich.

  -Tad
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  Something I've wondered about for many a year.......

  by TadSexington in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  o.k..... i've been out of "the truth" for about 10 yrs now.... .

  so when i was in i was still a child, and someting just didn't sit right with my child like mind..... whats the deal with not having any women elders....?.

  did i miss that watchtower article somwhere....?.

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  O.K..... I've been out of "the truth" for about 10 yrs now....

  So when i was in I was still a child, and someting just didn't sit right with my child like mind....

  Whats the deal with not having any women elders....?

  Did I miss that Watchtower article somwhere....?

  Not even just that.... Women don't give "proper" talks either....(or at least that's how I remember it) They all ways seemed to do those... i dunno, re-enactments.... of things that might come up during field service or a bible study or something (please tell me that I'm not the only one that remembers this..!)

  Seriously, after getting out and and growing up a bit, it blew my friggin mind that in other religions, there were women pastors and reverends....

  Now that I think about it, the catholics do the same thing......

  Can someone explain this to me?
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  Any special plans for the 3 day weekend??? usa folks

  by xjwms in

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  we are going to a baseball game.

  i would rather watch paint dry.

  however, a good excuse to do beer and pizza, hot dogs & beer, popcorn & beer, burgers & beer, beer and beer.

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  Well... since this is the 1st memorial day since my 21st birthday....

  I was thinking of combining two of the most popular summer pastimes...

  Swimming and drinking..... simultaneously!!!

  and i will call it...... DRUNKEN DIVING....... ok.... yeah, that was lame, I hereby officially apologize for that one...

  -Tad
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  If you could bring back one thing from the past, what would it be?

  by dh in

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  anything, be it an object, a species of animal, a piece of forgotten information, translation of an unknown language, type of culture, anything.

  any takers?

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  I know this might be kind of lame compared to the others, like clean air and such, but....

  I miss metal Tonka trucks, you know the type that lasted forever, and if not played with carefully, might cause injuries....

  Seriously, I went out to buy one for my 6yr old brother, and they're all made of plastic and have googly eyes and faces...... WHY???

  oh.... and I'd bring back the original Transformers..... This psuedo-anime crap gives me a headache!

  -Tad
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  Twin Towers\ Armageddon

  by Es in

  1. jw
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  hey all this may have been mentioned before.

  i was thinking last night about when the twin towers fell and i remembered thinking how close armageddon must be did anybody else think similar....i guess it would only apply to those who were still in the borg at the time es

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  I know that this is gonna sound silly or something.....

  But I was still living with the 'rents at the time, so my mom wakes me up, and says, "Hey, a bomb just went off in the WTC!" (mind you, this was before the second plane hit)

  So I'm sitting there, not especially concerned, because as I remembered, not that many people died when it happend in '92 or whatever, and it was 4 days before my 18th birthday, and I had a college visit later that week that I had to shop for that day......

  But I was like, "What the hell, I'm up now, I might as well see what's up."

  That's when the second plane hit...

  Right then i wasn't thinking about Jehovah, or armageddon, or anything like that.

  Seeing something like that just overloaded my brain, and i totally regressed and lost connection with reality when I turned to my mom and said,

  "Mom, where in the f*ck is spider-man?"

  She looked at me and gently reminded me that, this in fact was real life and not some bad dream

  and after seeing all the screwed up stuff that's happend over the last 4 years because of that, I'm not sure I believe her
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  Did you meet any con artist types there?

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it seemed to me that there were a number of con artist types of personalities i came across during my years there.

  i am not referring to people who were actually doing anything illegal.

  what i am referring to are people who were very adept at getting things out of other people.

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  I'm sitting here cracking up...

  I mean, all of this talk about pyramid schemes and the like, and we all forgot about the biggest one.

  The whole WTBS is a pyramid scheme..... Come on.... what other religion makes you account for the time you talk to other people about God.......? Ummmm only the ones that rely on you bringing in more and more "publishers" to bring in more and more "publishers" to peddle all of there books and such..... and with no one getting paid to move all of this product, the WTBS must be raking it in.....

  If only Wal-Mart could figure out something this good!

  -Tad
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  Need Help!!!

  by TadSexington in

  1. social
  2. family

  i need help..... rather, my grandmother needs help..... okay... back story first..... i was (past tense emphasized) in the truth from the age of 4 until about 12 or so, when my parents divorced and my mother moved us halfway across country, and we eventually just stopped going to the meeting and practicing.... i'm not even going to get into how going from being a congregational poster boy (giving talks at since the age of 8, and all ways being the one out in service, having all the other parents say, "look at little brother 'sexington,' why cant you be more like him?

  ) would screw a kid up..... i'm almost 22 and haven't had a birthday party, and i'm still nervous about blood transfusions, and don't get me started about christmas........ i'm babbling on..... long short, most of my dad's side of the family is still the truth (except for him, which is kind of funny now that i think about it, seeing as he was the most gung ho one of us, being the ministerial servant, jockeying for elder status, forcing yours truly to make and deliver talks, and to kill every saturday and national holiday of my youth out in field service.).

  jeez venting is nice..... but i'm going to try to stay on subject from here on out.... so, i'm in the midwest, and my dad's family is on the west coast, and about a month ago i get a call from my grandmother.

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  I need help..... Rather, my grandmother needs help....

  Okay... Back story first....

  I was (past tense emphasized) in the truth from the age of 4 until about 12 or so, when my parents divorced and my mother moved us halfway across country, and we eventually just stopped going to the meeting and practicing.... I'm not even going to get into how going from being a congregational poster boy (giving talks at since the age of 8, and all ways being the one out in service, having all the other parents say, "look at little brother 'Sexington,' why cant you be more like him?) Would screw a kid up..... I'm almost 22 and haven't had a birthday party, and I'm still nervous about blood transfusions, and don't get me started about Christmas.......

  I'm Babbling on..... Long short, most of my dad's side of the family is still the truth (except for him, which is kind of funny now that I think about it, seeing as he was the most gung ho one of us, being the ministerial servant, jockeying for elder status, forcing yours truly to make and deliver talks, and to kill every Saturday and National Holiday of my youth out in field service.)

  Jeez venting is nice..... but I'm going to try to stay on subject from here on out.... So, I'm in the midwest, and my dad's family is on the west coast, and about a month ago i get a call from my grandmother. Apparently, my aunt found out that she still smokes. Now I thought everyone knew that she still smoked, because her house all ways smelled lilke air freshened smoke..... Well it turns out that it was one of those things, that the family decided to ignore if there was no actual "evidence" of it.... So my aunt actually caught her smoking, and She turned her in to the elders. I mean, I could see if it were someone else from the congregation found out and said something and told, but her own daughter!! Never that, right?

  So my grandmother is just about crying on the phone telling me this, because she's afraid that she's going to be disfellowshipped for this. I was thinking that maybe they'd just repremand her for it or something, considering that she's been faithful to the "truth" for longer that I've been alive, I mean, she's got health problems and such, so she can't go to the hall as much as she'd like, but she attended all the meetings by telephone, and was religous (no pun intended) about it. I also figured, if she did get df'ed for it, at least she'd still have family to talk to, or at least that was my "Former Unbaptized Publiser" way of seeing how things worked..... I was wrong....

  She calls me back a few weeks later or so and says that the elders decided to boot her. I told her that everything was going to be okay, and asked her if she was going to try and get back in (not bothering to mention the ridiculousness of a religion kicking you out for something like smoking.) She said that she'd try. I told her that she'd have to stop smoking, and that if that was the only reason she was gonna stop, she probably shouldn't. Don't get me wrong here, I'm the most anti-smoking person I know., but, as I told her, she needed to do it for herself, and her health, not anyone else. She said she'd think about it.

  She also told me that, my aunt, the snitch wouldn't even talk to her anymore, neither would any of the witness members of her family, which was everyone except one of my cousins, who was in the truth, but just got out ot prison. He echoed my sentiments when he told her, "No matter what, you're still my grandma, you've all ways been here for me, and not governing body is going to tell me that I can't talk to my grandma." (Word!)

  So this is where the problem comes in. She's got one local grandson to talk to, and one 1500 miles away (that would be me) and, because of the wonderful, "BAD ASSOCIATIONS SPOIL USEFUL HABITS" She's got noone else to talk to. Because of this, she's become depressed, there have talks about uprooting and moving somewhere else, (not a good idea with the health issues) and worse yet, thoughts of suicide....... So, what do I do...... no "religion" is worth this....

  -Tad