Posts by ChuckD

Let me tell you a story. I have a wonderful 18 year old son who is almost as smart as he thinks he is. He is currently a freshman at Northeastern University in Boston, in their engineering program. Because of his great math performance in high school, he was awarded a $1,000 math scholarship and started in calculus IV rather than calculus I as is the custom.

A few weeks ago, I was on the phone with him, and asked him what his schedule for the next day was. He said he had a math class, but was not going. Not going? At $34K a year you sure as Hell better be going was my thought, but my response was a measured; “Oh? Why is that?”

He told me that this class was only to plan a makeup test for the most recent test, in which most students did poorly. He also said that the instructor told him not to bother coming since he was the only one to get 100 on the test in question, and therefore didn’t need the makeup test, AND that he was the only freshman the the class. I can’t begin to tell you how proud I am of my son, and how thankful I am that he is not looking forward to a wasted life of cleaning windows and knocking on doors.

Chuck

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Taliban sing for his supper every night

by joelbear in

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mullah omar, head of the taliban, in an interview with the bbc says:.

the current situation in afghanistan is related to a bigger cause that is the destruction of america.".

"if god's help is with us, this will happen within a short period of time keep in mind this prediction," he said.

ChuckD

Plus, the complete destruction of all the Apost...., I mean Infidels.

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Demonized? Evil? Mentally Ill?

by teenyuck in

recently i received an e-mail from someone very close to me.

the e-mail was so vile, i stopped reading and called a good friend who is a jw.

the jw knows the writer very well.

ChuckD

I am with Nathan on this as well. It is interesting to note that those of us who don't believe in demons are never troubled by them. Sure, there are things that one cannot see but still exist. A virus or bacterial infection will still affect and sicken those who perhaps don't believe in viruses. Such is not the case with demons.

Now if I could only get those damn Leprechauns out of my garden.

cd

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"Self-help tapes" in Bethel?

by Nathan Natas in

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some months ago, someone, maybe maximus, mentioned that fred franz or one of the other top dogs at bethel used to always carry a series of self-help tapes around with him.

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does anyone know what the title of the tapes was?

ChuckD

Carnegie was the originator of the "How to win friends.." stuff. His influence can be seen in many more recent techniques, including EST, and its offspring "The Forum". The bulk of it is hooey, but it is very well pacakged hooey, and it gets its own share of rabid followers.

What is very interesting about the Carnegie seminars is that many of the very same techniques were repackaged and presented as part of the Service Meetings.

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Michael Jackson still a JW!

by ShaunaC in

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last night on one of the entertainment magazines shows they said that michael jackson just gave an interview to tv guide.

in it he says he is still a jw and still goes door to door in disguise.

i had heard a rumour recently that he still donated a lot of money to the society but had no clue he still claimed to be one.

ChuckD

Does he disguise himself as a black male? No one would recognize him that way.

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News Flash: October Ends - World Remains

by ChuckD in

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well, our resident sooth-sayer yk has once again missed the mark, as october ends and the world spins on.

but then again, as was the case in 1914, the world may have come crashing down but i failed to notice.

ChuckD

And don't we know it, those Armageddon fashion designers can be fickle indeed. One year, you find the perfect outfit for having a bear eat you, and by the next Fall you wound not be caught dead in it while falling into a huge crack in the Earth. Personally, I look for the timeless black look, which is ideal when the birds are pecking the eyes out of my lifeless corpse.

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News Flash: October Ends - World Remains

by ChuckD in

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well, our resident sooth-sayer yk has once again missed the mark, as october ends and the world spins on.

but then again, as was the case in 1914, the world may have come crashing down but i failed to notice.

ChuckD

Well, our resident sooth-sayer YK has once again missed the mark, as October ends and the world spins on. But then again, as was the case in 1914, the world MAY have come crashing down but I failed to notice.

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Puzzled still - What is BUMMING upto a car?

by Celtic in

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14 years or so ago, when i used to go around with my best mates steve and keith in west sussex, england, a frind of ours from one of the brighton congregations got a public reproof for bumming up to a car or having sex with it in some peculiar way.

has anyone ever heard of this before, cos we could never quite work out what that involved no matter how much we tried to work out what he'd been up to?.

any offers to put my puzzlement to rest?

ChuckD

No, the Society frowned on autoerotica in all forms.

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Jehovah is sifting the organization

by YoYoMama in

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jehovah keeps sifting and cleanning out the organization.

this board is proof of that sifting work.

congratulations on being cleansed out of jehovah's organization because of your inmoral and prideful lives.

ChuckD

You can say that again! It is indeed great to be here in the real world.

By the way, you hit the nail on the head with immoral AND prideful, that's me!