I was wondering the same thing, at around midnight Saturday night, there were so many people in suits and dresses packing into the local 7-11, that the girl at the counter just told me to take my coffee and go without paying for it. (Course, that's probably also because I'm a regular customer at that location, and it doesn't hurt that I occasionally drop them off free pizza from work when there's a messed up order or something, but that should give you an idea of how busy they were.)
AllAlongTheWatchtower
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Was there a JW convention or something this weekend??
by lavendar inwe heard our jw daughter-in-law went away for the weekend (19 -21).
we're assuming it was jw-related.
our son (her husband) did not go (yea!!!).
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Is There a Celebrity that You Resemble ?
by flipper inguys and gals, here we go !
i started a serious thred tonight, now it's time to relax and have some fun!
i think we have all been a bit stressed what with trevor gate and all, so it's friday night, let's loosen up a bit ?
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AllAlongTheWatchtower
In my teens I had really long hair and liked to play sports, because I wear glasses and was constantly breaking them, I got some of those sports goggle glasses. Some of the black guys on the basketball courts I played on told me I looked like Kurt Rambis of the LA Lakers. I think it was mostly just the goggles and hair though. I've also been told I resemble John Lennon; but again I think it was mostly the hair and glasses... my hair is shorter now, and nobody has told me I resemble anyone famous in a long time.
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Does god hear your prayers?
by LtCmd.Lore inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uazdcs-rmf4&mode=related&search=.
mr. deity explains prayer to jesus.... trust me, it's hilarious.. .
lore.
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AllAlongTheWatchtower
Something that's always bothered me over the years as a rational, thinking, atheist: you can't "win" an arguement with a believer. If a believer prays for something, and it happens, god answered their prayer. If they pray for something and it doesn't happen, god is testing them, they didn't have enough faith, or the best thing to happen was for the person not to get the thing prayed for in the first place, they just didn't know that, but god in his infinite wisdom, did. There's even a country song along these lines, the lyrics go "some of god's greatest gifts, are unanswered prayers".
The one thing that I've managed to come up with that makes people of faith actually THINK, rather than blather out the latest adage about "god's will", is to mention war-all other things being equal, if men of two different armies (both Christian) fighting each other both pray to god, does he answer their prayers? Which ones? Both? I loved how it was put in "We Were Soldiers" by Mel Gibson's character:
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: Oh, yes, and one more thing, dear Lord, about our enemies, ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards straight to Hell. Amen. [quoted from Amazon.com]
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Is agnostic different from athiest? How so?
by wanderlustguy ini know the answer, because i am agnostic.
it is strange to me that people assume if you say you are agnostic that it means you don't believe in god.
from wiki.... agnostics claim either that it is not possible to have absolute or certain knowledge of the existence or nonexistence of god or gods; or, alternatively, that while individual certainty may be possible, they personally have no knowledge.
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AllAlongTheWatchtower
LOL @ RunningMan. I saw a comedian do a skit once, can't remember who but it was probably Carlin, as it was very Carlin-esque...anywho, he said agnostics were nothing but scared atheists. As part of the act, the guy stood on stage and said "I don't believe in god", then took a big step to the right and cowered with his hands over his head: "oh please god, if you're real don't smite me with a lightning bolt".
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hindered prayers says my wife...so I stopped
by oompa ini really have never understood prayers too well or how they are answered or not.
i really think it is more of a self-help type excercise.
aren't there some really funny experiences in the yearbooks on prayers answered!?
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AllAlongTheWatchtower
Prayer has always seemed weird to me, even when I was a believer, and I'm now atheist; I don't even say "bless you" when someone sneezes because I feel it would be hypocritical to invoke the blessing of a deity I no longer believe in, preferring to say "gezundheit" (sp?) instead. This has long been a bone of contention between my wife and I, to a greater or lesser extent, usually lesser.
When I did pray, I felt ridiculous doing it-after all, god supposedly knows our every thought, so what could you possibly have to say to him? And the prayers I heard others say when the occasion called for it were no better, I always had secretly cynical thoughts about the wording or phrases used... "Lord, we would ask that this food nourish our bodies" etc etc... My inner self said, well if it's nourishing food, it will, if it's junk food, it won't, what's the point of saying such an inane thing? (And yes, it tasted the same whether prayed over or not, loved that comment, lol.)
I can still vividly recall once when I was a child, awaking early for some reason or other (about 4 am, my father worked construction most of his life and usually had to get up VERY early to head to work) and happened to enter the living room where my father was down on his knees praying in the dark. I hadn't known until then that this was his usual routine, and at first I thought something was wrong, maybe he dropped something, or wasn't feeling well... I asked if I could help, or was he ok, something along those lines, and he just ignored me...to this day I'm not sure if he was so engrossed that he didn't hear me, or if he purposely ignored me because I was interrupting. I remember standing there for a minute or so, with no idea what to do, until I realized no answer was forthcoming, and quietly backed out of the room. Left me with an eerie feeling, and somehow left out, I suppose.
"sounds like a Verision commercial...Can you hear me now?" - loosie
That reminds me of a joke I heard once...something about an Italian priest and an Irish priest trying to out boast each other over who was more devout, the Italian priest brags that there is a longdistance phoneline direct to god in the Vatican, the Irish priest responds "oh yeah, we've got one of those too, but from Dublin it's a local call".
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Favourite 80s video game
by 5thGeneration injust in some crazy posting mood today.. mine was galaga.
man, was i good.
http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/arcade.htm.
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AllAlongTheWatchtower
Space Invaders (or was that late 70s?), Asteroids, Tron, Galaga, Spy Hunter (which I became really good at, I always took the offramp for the boats, being a poor kid I had to make my quarters last, since I could play Spy Hunter for around a half hour or so, I usually bee-lined straight for it.) Oh yeah, and that one where you piloted a ship which started as a bi-plane and updated through different eras to a jet and then a space ship...Time Pilot?
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Favorite Zep song
by IP_SEC inthis might be a bad time to post this because all the zep fans are prolly in bed .
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2881331813317701650&q=led+zeppelin+what+is+what+should+never+be&total=62&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0.
edit: sorry what prompted this post is several zep songs have been mentioned on several threads tonight .
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AllAlongTheWatchtower
Ramble On
I liked Led Zep for a long time before one day it finally occurred to me that the lyrics said "Gollum, and the evil one..." and it clicked for me: holy cow, they were Tolkien fans! I read the books long before the movies came out and (re)popularized Hobbits and Ents and Orcs, and played D&D for years, so realizing that just made me like them more.
Having been raised in the WCG, which is very similar to JWs, I was of course never allowed to own the albums, only got to hear at friends', on the radio, etc...I often misheard lyrics or wasn't sure what they actually said, and usually without much chance of verifying or correcting what I thought they were. For anybody interested, it's called a mondegreen (laid him on the green) when you hear something incorrectly and believe it to be true, fascinating stuff...
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"God Boards"
by AllAlongTheWatchtower inyou've probably all seen them; those church message boards in some prominent place along the road so passing drivers can read them.
most are simply informational, like "sunday services at 12pm" or the like.
some use little witticisms to gain attention, and these are the ones i'd like to talk about.
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AllAlongTheWatchtower
I'm resurrecting this moldy old topic because I saw another groaner:
"A church is a gift from God-assembly required."
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Quotable Quotes; Please Add Yours ...
by compound complex inthe endeavor to compel all men to think alike on all subjects,.
culminated in the great apostasy and the development of the .
great papal system; and thereby the 'gospel,' the 'one faith,'.
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AllAlongTheWatchtower
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice" -Known by me as lyrics in a Rush song, origin may lie elsewhere though.
"Do not be like the cat, who once having walked across a hot stove, will never do so again...but neither will it walk across a cold one" -Mark Twain
"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese" -seen on net, source unknown.
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Misuse of "impaled"
by RebelWife inthe jw use of this word gets my knickers in a right twist!
when someone is impaled, it means he is run through with something.
the thing he is run through with is the thing he is impaled on or by.
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AllAlongTheWatchtower
Good Topic. Being a non-JW myself, when I first heard of the JW belief in the stauros "torture stake", the mental image I conceived of was influenced by a History channel special I had seen a few years prior, on Vlad the Impaler; who literally did impale his enemies on sharpened stakes. I had to ask folks on this board just what the hell was meant by it, before I understood that JWs think of it as more of a cross sans that pesky crossbeam, rather than an actual stake with spear-like implications.
I don't remember the topic's name, but I remember asking something along the lines of "if JWs believe the bible, and according to the bible not one bone was broken in Christ's body, then how can they believe in some 'torture stake' being rammed through his body without even so much as a rib being cracked?".