My favorite saying ...
There's a skinny woman inside me dying to get out. But I usually shut the bitch up with some chocolate!
i was just pondering how the wts has, for over a century, been able to convince people to do what is contrary to their best interests with fear tactics that armageddon is coming soon, and i came up with what is going to be my pet phrase for a while:.
"only religion has the power to compel people to embrace sheer stupidity in the name of faith.
" ~ scully, december 28, 2006. i googled it, and didn't see that anyone else has claimed it, so until someone else finds an attribution for it, i'm claiming it as my own.
My favorite saying ...
There's a skinny woman inside me dying to get out. But I usually shut the bitch up with some chocolate!
just been looking at an old post about "what jw's are not allowed to do " and one reply was not to eat at hooters, whats that about?.
The great Sir Benny Hill was knighted last year and is now working with Boneo, and Sir Bob Geldof , to help the starving in Africa.An amazing feat, considering he died in 1992.
Maybe he is thinking of Benny Hinn?
just been looking at an old post about "what jw's are not allowed to do " and one reply was not to eat at hooters, whats that about?.
I was in San Antonio one time down on the River Walk, and there is this restaurant called "Dick's" (or at least there use to be). There were a bunch of college kids at the restaurant eating out on the patio, and as the boats passed, the girls would scream "Eat at Dick's!" and the boys would scream "Eat mine!"
I don't why I thought to post that memory but there it is!
i just stumbled across this, thought you may want it for your research.. http://www.cftf.com/online/1998julsepp02-05.html.
sincerely,.
lady liberty.
The "free choice" rule only applies if you live in a country where the government demands that the society butt out of your medical affairs without imposing penalties on ones who choose different from the borg rules. Anywhere else, you are free game for DF'ing, or as they like to term it ... "disassociate yourself by your actions".
the witnesses came to my complex today, this time it was two very good looking women.
i walked up to them and calmly said that this is the second warning that they were trespassing on my property and that no jehovah's witnesses are aloud on this property knocking on doors.
i have a tenant who is a jw and this is fine with me and they are aloud to come and visit her but i do not allow them to bother my tenants as they all prefer they stay away anyways.
Not likely! But you can keep trying!
just been looking at an old post about "what jw's are not allowed to do " and one reply was not to eat at hooters, whats that about?.
It's not pubescent to like boobs. It's pubescent to call them hooters and name a restaurant hooters. That's embarrassing to a lot of us Americans. Nothing wrong with pretty girls, just kind of tacky calling their breasts hooters. It's the word I have a problem with, not the breasts. I have a pair of them myself.
Yeah ... a restaurant called "BREASTS" would go over a lot better, I think! Not! I don't like it when men refer to them as "hooters" either, really. It's about a step up from calling them "tiddies".
just been looking at an old post about "what jw's are not allowed to do " and one reply was not to eat at hooters, whats that about?.
My JW brother in law told my sister that he wanted to go there because he heard the chicken wings were good.
so ... who lives in pittsburgh and is willing to go dig up some archives.
i would love to see original scans of newspaper articles about his divorce.
here is one from 3 years after the divorce.
Thank you for the link, Baba. Now that I read it, I think I have seen it before. I will have to bookmark it! I would to have a copy of the entire transcript of the proceedings from start to finish. I bet it is bore, but probably has some good insight into his character and how he behaved with others.
Also, I am not surprised that the alimony was that much. He was a wealthy man. He owned like five businesses, or something like that, before selling them all and pouring it into his "ministry". Plus, after starting his book publishing company, he became even wealthier. The $7000 included lawyer fees, too, so not all of was alimony. Even so, I think $2000 a year would have been a drop in the bucket for him. I thought it was interesting that the article specifically said that wealthy "women" paid this for him. What? No wealthy men around? I wonder how accurate that is.
I can't get over that girl calling him her "spiritual bridegroom"! That made me throw up in my mouth a little! Did he ever refer to himself as that in any of his sermons or in writings, or do you think this is just something that the crazy girl came up with.
Personally, I think they were all crazy ... I guess there are deeper shades of red, though.
so ... who lives in pittsburgh and is willing to go dig up some archives.
i would love to see original scans of newspaper articles about his divorce.
here is one from 3 years after the divorce.
I don't know. I have never read the entire divorce transcript in its entirety. Is it available online? This newspaper seems to definitely not think too highly of him, so I guess it is possible that they embellished, but somehow I doubt it.
Also, does anyone know of anyplace online where the Brooklyn Eagle archives are available? I found a website where their archives are availble from the mid 1800s until 1902, but unless I am mistaken, Russell did not make the move to Brooklyn until a few years after that.
i had an assignment to write a bunch of holiday articles that would be shared by all the various papers owned by the guy who owns the paper i'm the editor of.
after i'd had enough with the usual holiday stuff, i decided to get a little adventerous and expanded one in the series to include, not just the origins of christmas foods, but also some ideas i've been reading and watching about the origins of the chrisitain religion itself.. this is a link to the article, which ran a few weeks ago: .
http://www.messagefortheweek.com/main.asp?sectionid=1&subsectionid=20&articleid=849.
I have seen that documentary you mentioned, The God Who Wasn't There. It's very good! A little boring in parts, but still very interesting!