Posts by joelbear69

Yes, nakedness. We don't appreciate it.

I tend to believe that the end of the world
started when people put on clothes. Clothes
separate us from nature.

We built a fiat world on top on the natural
world and it is slowly but surely crushing
the natural world.

Now, I am not an alarmist who thinks the
end is going to come all at once, unless
a meteor hits us which has happened in
the past.

But, we are slowing consuming the world,
taking natural things and manipulating them.
Paving over paradise and putting up a
parking lot.

So, lets get naked and go swimming.

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Who's the most annoying Jehovah's Witness

by dawg in

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i vote for rutherford, but he's not on the list.

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http://www.amiannoying.com/(s(2ya1ik45f0fdnw55fqvvgu55))/collection.aspx?collection=659

joelbear69

Well, personally, I have two.

T. M. Daniels of Valdosta GA

and Peter Lett, CO of unknown location now.

utterly disgusting human beings.

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You won't believe this...well maybe you will

by mrsjones5 in

back in november the wife of someone who i had been engage to, many years ago, died.

i sent a card of condolence to him.

he googled my name, found my email addy and responded.

joelbear69

he's lonesome. he probably didn't get many

heartfelt condolences.

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New York Times June 22, 1918

by Nathan Natas in

================ text version below ==========.

20 years in prison for 7 russellites.

judge howe scores men who.

joelbear69

I spent a very interesting evening with Sister De Cecca when I was at Bethel.

It was interesting to hear a voice from the past. Someone who had actually
been there.

Of course now, the mystique of that is gone.

5

Freedom

by joelbear69 in

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in the mud or a dirt pile or romping through the woods .

or reading a book or playing a game.

in other words, .

joelbear69

how do you let go of the side of the pool?

5

Freedom

by joelbear69 in

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in the mud or a dirt pile or romping through the woods .

or reading a book or playing a game.

in other words, .

joelbear69

you take a bright kid who likes to be outside playing
in the mud or a dirt pile or romping through the woods
or reading a book or playing a game. in other words,
a kid who need to be totally engaged with stimulating
input and put him in a cell (Kingdom Hall) for 5 hours
a week where he is exposed to totally mind numbing, repetitive
droning of information that is not engaging and expect
him to just sit there. then 3 times a year take him to
3 to 5 day long 8 to 10 hours a day of the same droning
and when he's young you take him outside and spank him
for not sitting perfectly still or twist his ear or thump his
head when
you catch him talking to the kid next to him.

you take a bright teenager who excels in every subject
at school and you tell him that his only future is going
from door to door repeating the same words over and over
again to people and deny him the opportunity to go to
college and get more of the input that he craves so bad
that he aches in his soul

you take a 30 year old man who went out and schooled himself
found a job, without your help and literally created a
position for himself in a bank where he did outstanding work
for 10 years. who couldn't stand the pressure of pretending
to be someone who he wasn't, breaking hearts, causing pain
for himself and others. who lived in personal private agony
because he could not touch the person he loved or even
tell anyone how he felt. then when this kind gentle man
decides to tell the world the truth about himself, you take
him away instantly from his world, where he has hundreds of
loved ones that now all consider him dead.

you take a 50 year old man who has spent 20 years struggling
to prove he is worth something, after his family has told him
he is worthless, who has achieved making a life for himself
and a partner, with a home and a long term relationship and
continue to treat him as if he was a 10 year old that has
no valid opinion. a man who has made so many compromises to
try and connect with you.

you end up with a man who is ready to die, he is tired. he
wants the pain to stop. a man who has always chosen security
over freedom which has given him the superficial appearance
of contentment while inside there is still the intense curious
mind that you strapped into a hood with breathing holes and led into
a mine field full of barbed wire for him to work his way through
trying to find himself.

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Worst Kingdom Melody lyrics- your votes?

by JimmyPage in

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my votes for worst kingdom melody lyrics: song 125- "jehovah is on my side" (try singing these lyrics without laughing like beavis and butthead): "i know that in this crucial hour my faith will yet be tested/ around me swarms the devil's crowd like bees that were molested/ but i can ever beat them off beneath divine protection/ on those who love to bear his name god sets his deep affection.

" or how about song 201- "rejoicing with god's nation" (grab your thesaurus for this one): "in a land so good and spacious/ free from strife and things vexatious/ look!

a happy crowd vivacious/ in god's service that is efficacious.

joelbear69

I didn't go to many meetings after the Pink songbook era. So I have to dig back.

The Kiss the Son lyric has made it into Mitch's and my personal pop culture.

We are always like. Sweep the deck lest god be angry or

Start the car lest ...
Prune the trees lest ...

etc. etc. etc.

It always makes us laugh.

One of my friends grandparents were witnesses and he remembered some of the
songs so I was torturing him with some a couple of weeks ago.

But as for me
determined I shall be
to walk eternally
homosexually

11

Insanity

by joelbear69 in

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i am quite insane.

i am able to function only because of medication.

what has driven me insane?

joelbear69

I am quite insane.

I am able to function only because of medication.

What has driven me insane?

Fear and doubt. Fear and doubt about myself. Somehow
this was instilled in me at a very young age and has
eaten away at my brain for 50 years.

Guilt. Guilt over deceiving my parents by telling them
that I actually believed what the JW's taught.

Loneliness. I cannot feel love. I just can't. I can
feel love for others, but I don't feel it back.