"....it's just my normal way of life. Forever on the watch."
Camera pulls back to show lone figure on the mountaintop, peering into the distance through binocculars.
Majestic music rises.
Fade out.
Credits roll.
ChuckD
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LET'S MAKE A LITTLE WAGER
by You Know inperhaps you recall the instance in the bible where samson made a wager with the philistines that they couldnt guess his riddle.
as it turned out they wheedled the answer out of him by his fiancee, but the point is that they had a wager.
since the underlying assumption of the apostasy is that we are not living in the last days of this system of things, and that this world is not facing anything remotely like the biblical apocalypse, at least not any time soon, in the spirit of such antagonism, i would like to propose a similar wager.
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We Will Win.....but when + against who?!
by ISP inhere's a pot-pourri of quotes and stuff which shows the problem of declaring war, making promises of victory and committing resources....when there is little information about.
bush pledges to "exact revenge, just as soon as we know who we're exacting revenge against and where they are.
"america's enemy, be it osama bin laden, saddam hussein, the taliban, a multinational coalition of terrorist organizations, any of a rogue's gallery of violent islamic fringe groups, or an entirely different, non-islamic aggressor we've never even heard of... be warned," .
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ChuckD
It is taken from the latest issue of "The Onion". It is, of course, a satirical publication and not at all true.
. http://www.theonion.com/onion3734/us_vows_to_defeat_whoever.html
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We Will Win.....but when + against who?!
by ISP inhere's a pot-pourri of quotes and stuff which shows the problem of declaring war, making promises of victory and committing resources....when there is little information about.
bush pledges to "exact revenge, just as soon as we know who we're exacting revenge against and where they are.
"america's enemy, be it osama bin laden, saddam hussein, the taliban, a multinational coalition of terrorist organizations, any of a rogue's gallery of violent islamic fringe groups, or an entirely different, non-islamic aggressor we've never even heard of... be warned," .
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ChuckD
I think you should credit this collection of "quotes" to its real source, before anyone gets themselves too fired up about this. You DO know where this story came from, don't you?
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Bill Bowen on Radio September 30
by Kent ini got this message from jim moon:.
talk show host meria heller (herself an ex-jw) has put out the following reminder of her upcoming radio program.
you can tune in on the internet at http://www.meria.net/.
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ChuckD
I must admit that I also find the information on Heller's website, at best, kooky. I would recommend thinking twice about associating such an important message with such a fringe messsenger, and feel that presenting anything there or through her radio show may prove counterproductive in the long run.
(Grammar corrected)
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Something that is common to all of their rules
by ChuckD inthere have been a number of threads started here on the subject of the organizations seemingly arbitrary rules for daily life.
from moustaches to car choices, we all know that there are written or tacitly understood rules concerning almost everything.
i have noticed that there is a common element among many of these rules and wondered if anyone else noticed it as well.
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ChuckD
There have been a number of threads started here on the subject of the organization’s seemingly arbitrary rules for daily life. From moustaches to car choices, we all know that there are written or tacitly understood rules concerning almost everything. I have noticed that there is a common element among many of these “rules” and wondered if anyone else noticed it as well.
This is the fact that the organization’s most important rules are those for which compliance can be easily measured.
For example, “love your brother” is pretty vague. Who can tell who is a loving person and who is not? Better off ignoring this one to be fair. But “don’t grow a beard” is much more concrete. It is easy to measure, and easy to determine compliance. Same with smoking; ANY smoking is bad, EXCESSIVE drinking MAY be bad. The first is easy to measure; a single cigarette or a cigar to celebrate a special occasion, and BAM – you are on the list of the damned. But the whole drinking thing is just too hard to measure.
And of course, reporting one’s time in field service goes without saying. You can make charts and graphs with that stuff, and rate people on a scale of their worth as human beings. You could even rank them on a bell curve, with the doomed to the left and those to the right receiving everlasting life. Easy as pie (or pi, depending on the chart).
Skirts X-inches above/below the knee. Four door cars. High school education. Shirts and ties. Compliance with any of these rules or practices is something that anyone can see – there is no deep thinking involved in determining if someone is toeing the line. Good or bad – that’s the choice.
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HELP - Trip to New York City next month...
by Billygoat inhey all!.
i've been planning a surprise trip to nyc for my boyfriend neil for several months now and i've just told him about it.
(it will be our year anniversary the weekend we go.
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You absolutely MUST BUST MUST have a cosmopolotan at The Temple Bar on Lafayette right off Houston. they cost a fortune, and will put you both smack-dab on your asses in no time flat. If you have enough people, have dinner at Carmine's at 90th and Broadway (they have one in the theatre district as well, but the one uptown is more fun). Unfortunatley, it is not a place where you can eat if there is just going to be the two of you, unless you plan to share a single salad AND take home 80% of it in a doggy bag. If you get chance, stop into McSorley's, on 7th off Cooper, and ask for "2 and 2". That is 2 light, and two dark beers - that is the total drink menu selection available there.
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British People Ask: Does America Know.....
by Englishman inbeing a sociable sort of animal i enjoy the cut and thrust of lively pub banter in the mid-evening.
however, there are only about 3 or 4 of us who take part in on-line discussion forums such as this.. time and again, because it is known that i take part in this forum, i am asked the same sort of question: .
"do americans in general realise that the uk is totally 100% behind them in this present crisis, not just the politicians, but the grass roots of the country, do they know that we feel outraged at the wtc attack, as outraged as if it had been on london?".
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ChuckD
Although I am not in direct contact with many Brits these days, I can only assume that is indeed the case based on what I have seen on the news or have heard from public statements made by Blair, Straw and others.
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Out of the mouths of JW sickos...
by Jigrigger infound this on the great crowd db.. posted on the day of the wtc attacks:.
"we've been watching the news the whole morning and worried with our brothers and sisters in the united states... if u have any news pls let us now!!!.
here in brazil everybody is so thrilled.. with the news.... .
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ChuckD
Can you provide a link to the full posting?
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LET'S MAKE A LITTLE WAGER
by You Know inperhaps you recall the instance in the bible where samson made a wager with the philistines that they couldnt guess his riddle.
as it turned out they wheedled the answer out of him by his fiancee, but the point is that they had a wager.
since the underlying assumption of the apostasy is that we are not living in the last days of this system of things, and that this world is not facing anything remotely like the biblical apocalypse, at least not any time soon, in the spirit of such antagonism, i would like to propose a similar wager.
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ChuckD
I suppose, come Halloween, that the demons will have by then conned many of you into hanging yourselves in effigy.
How does one hang oneself in effigy?
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In the big scheme of things, Jesus'....
by SixofNine in...suffering was not so bad.
his "perfection" and understanding of the situation would certainly have mitigated his suffering.. his death was not really death, not in any meaningful sense.
it was a 15 second nap, using bible reasoning.
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ChuckD
This subject was always in the back of my mind when I was an active witness. The whole death/sacrifice thing just never made sense to me on so many levels, not the least of which was the idea that physical death would mean nothing at all to an entity that had (if you buy into it) full knowoledge of his life pre-human, and a full assurance that he would go back there lickety-split after this human business was done with. He didn't give up anything by dying as a human.
And let's face it; assuming you believe this all to be true, and that he was able to raise the dead and cure the lame, why wouldn't he also have power over his own pain if there was any to begin with?
Jesus' experience of human death seems no more significant than it would be if the CEO of some large company decided to "slum" and see how the other half lives, by getting a minimum-wage job at McDonald's for a week, get fired, and go back to making 7 figures the next day.