I've always thought that it's because the JW religion I just plain boring. I've seen people say, "why doesn't South Park do an episode on the JWs like they did with Scientology and the Mormons?" It's because the JWs would make for a boring episode. Both Scientology and the Mormons have a lot of crazy beliefs. Xenu and looking at gold plates through a magic hat is more fun to make fun of than whether Jerusalem was destroyed in 607 or 587 b.c.e. Or the blood issue that has killed more than the people that died in Jonestown but people only care if they die all at once.
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Why are the Scientologists Getting All of the Attention?
by Wild_Thing inthere are more jws than scientologists.
jws shun their ex-members, too, and have beliefs just as weird.
we also have had our celebrities .... michael jackson, prince.
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To Continue the Theme of All Things Prince ... The Dirty Songs List
by Wild_Thing inlink is here.. line outapr 18, 2013. .
"an incomplete and disorderly catalog of prince's dirty songs".
by kelly o. .
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When he started doing his sorta rap stuff, that's where he lost me. Get Off and Sexy MF just wasn't my thing. Probably the last song that he did (that I heard anyways) that I really liked was Seven. I didn't see it in the theatre but I bought the dvd of Graffiti Bridge. I think The Time had the only song on that thing that was worth listening to. I gave away that dvd the next day. I love the music from Under The Cherry Moon though. -
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To Continue the Theme of All Things Prince ... The Dirty Songs List
by Wild_Thing inlink is here.. line outapr 18, 2013. .
"an incomplete and disorderly catalog of prince's dirty songs".
by kelly o. .
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Ah, the songs of my youth.
Just listened to a lot of those again.
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Settlers of Catan
by Wild_Thing inanybody else here love the game settlers of catan?
i love it!
there is an online version that i like to play, too.. "does anybody have any wood?
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You mean, "Does anyone have wood for sheep?"
I love the game. I've never played in online though.
Lots of really great board games have come out over the last few years. I point to Settlers as pretty much ushering in a new age of board games rather than just rolling dice and moving around a board.
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One more ASS embly under my belt
by hoser inthank the almighty god jehovah for smart phones.
helps get me through the day.
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Memorial Audience Filled with Unbelieving Mates and Other Miserable Relatives
by xjwsrock ini looked around my hall and saw so many miserable unbelieving mates and relatives it was actually funny.
they were in a glazed-over stupor.
they looked liked children forced to go to an opera.
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Just in case anyone forgot how exciting the memorial is:
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Did you participate in a Drama?
by Hecce ini am bringing this up because even it was a lot of work, for the majority of the friends this was a rewarding experience.
camaraderie, joking, costumes, props and when the time came the celebrity status of being in the drama.. back in the 50s and 60s, conventions could be as long as 8 days and from about 1966 the dramas became an integral part of the program.
we had one per day and the brothers looked forward to their presentation.
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I played the widows son that Elijah resurrected. My mom was the widow and in the same drama, my step-dad was a guard that threw Jezebel out the window. This was back in the 70s when I lived in Utah and we went to the Las Vegas assembly to do it. Out of everything jw related, doing that drama is probably my best memory.
After that time, I had never even heard of a congregation that was anywhere near by that did a drama.
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Is Reading/Writing about Mythologies bad?
by Messhy inas the topic title says, is reading/writing about mythologies bad?
i read alot of mythologies and enjoy it.
should i stop?.
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Vidiot- I haven't seen Exodus yet. Eventually I will. I did see the Noah one with Russell Crowe. I wasn't crazy about that one.
I did really like The DaVinci Code. The other book about Mary Magdalene, Holy Blood Holy Grail is really good. Like I said, I only like them for the archetype and the story possibilities.
Bill Moyers has a great book interviewing several people about the meanings of Old Testament stories. I can't remember the name right now, I have it at home somewhere at home amongst stacks of books....
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Is Reading/Writing about Mythologies bad?
by Messhy inas the topic title says, is reading/writing about mythologies bad?
i read alot of mythologies and enjoy it.
should i stop?.
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I love me my myths! I have most everything that Joseph Campbell has written about them and a bunch of other books on the subject. If you haven't seen the dvd of him being interviewed by Bill Moyers, I highly recommend that you do.
I've sort or "taken back" the bible as I now only see it as nothing but Jewish mythology and appreciate it in that sense.
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Why don't we have dominion over the animals?
by Coded Logic ina devout christian had his buttocks mauled by a lion after challenging the big cat to a duel in order to prove the “lord’s power over animals”.. alec ndiwane, who has been described as a “prophet” in african media, was on safari at the kruger national park in south africa when he confronted the pride.. determined to prove to fellow tourists that god would save him, ndiwane is said to have gone into a trance and started speaking in tongues before opening his car door and charging at the lions.. but the lions were quick off the mark and bit him viciously on the backside as he clambered into the vehicle.. a warden managed to scare the big cats off by firing a gun in the air.. “i do not know what came over me,” ndiwane told ghanaweb.. “i thought the lord wanted to use me to show his power over animals.
is it not we were given dominion over all creatures of the earth?” he added.. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6994224/devout-christian-has-buttocks-mauled-by-lions-after-challenging-big-cats-to-a-duel-to-prove-the-lords-power-over-animals.html?cmp=spklr-_-editorial-_-twitter-_-thesunnewspaper-_-20160311-_-news-_-394160343-_-imageandlink.
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Trying to pull off the old Daniel in the lions pit chestnut, eh?
Here's a story that would have made it into the bible if it happened 3000 years ago: