you know what to do.
post pics, vids, story; something for laughter.. .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwsqdl7fie8&nr=1&feature=fvwp.
Thanks for starting this Friday tradition, OTWO.
It's leaning toward midnight here… I'd like to squeak these in for the animal lovers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bmhjf0rKe8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXo3NFqkaRM&feature=related
~Sue
http://www.ra-el.org/.
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anyone familiar with this guy?.
Read about him just last week on another (non-JW) DB.
The board has too many wannabe messiah freaks as it is.
Ditto that. "We're full already, thank you."
Free speech is a wonderful thing. It allows us to sort out religious shysters, the mentally unstable, and the criminally minded elements. IMHO, this guy's got it all.
~Sue
hi guys, long time lurker first time poster.
i will give you a summarized version of my background so as to still stay somewhat anonymous.. .
i was never baptised, but i grew up having most of my life stolen to the society.
Welcome, Druid! From another raised-in, never-baptized one here.
It's not all Easy Streets for us just because we weren't dunked into the cult, we still have JW parent(s) and Watchtower-poisoned siblings to deal with the rest of our lives. But you know that already. I wish you strength.
I suspect we'll see more of "us" here as you rassin' frassin' kids media-savvy, critical-thinking Millennials embark on adulthood. And that's a good thing.
~Sue
jury selection begins in officer's theft trial.
by virginia hennessey .
herald salinas bureau.
Jury selection begins in officer's theft trial
By VIRGINIA HENNESSEY
Herald Salinas Bureau
Posted: 06/15/2011 01:32:38 AM PDT
Updated: 06/15/2011 01:32:39 AM PDT
After numerous delays, jury selection began Tuesday in the embezzlement trial of Salinas police Sgt. Jay Malispina, who is accused of stealing $40,000 from his mother's bank accounts.
If Monday's pretrial session is any indication, the final panel should be anything but bored. Judge Terrance Duncan spent the day trying to cinch the limits of testimony to keep the proceeding from turning into a family soap opera.
For the time being, he granted prosecutor Gary Thelander's request barring defense attorneys from mentioning that Malispina's mother "shunned" him for 25 years because she is a Jehovah's Witness. Thelander said the alleged victim's religious beliefs were irrelevant and "may be prejudicial to some folks."
Duncan also declared off-limits defense contentions about the relationship between Malispina and his brother, Randy Malispina. Defense attorney Mike Lawrence said Monday his client's brother spent some of the "missing" money bringing "not one, but two foreign brides" to the United States and that Randy held a grudge against his brother for throwing him out "after one of Randy's ex-wives tried to burn (Jay's) house down with him in it."
"Is this one of the ones that was imported?" Duncan asked.
"No," Thelander responded. "This may be why he started importing."
Duncan said he could not determine in advance the admissibility of much of the testimony that was being challenged from both sides of the table. Among other contentions made regarding the alleged victim, Kay Malispina:
· That she is a "hoarder" whose spending habits might have contributed to the disappearance of her nest egg.
Duncan observed that his parents grew up in the Great Depression and "frankly what to us seems to be hoarding to them is common sense."
· That her numerous medications make her forgetful and that she is known to feign incapacity and strokes. Lawrence said he fears she will use such tactics on the witness stand. Duncan suggested, if she did, the jury would be smart enough to see through it.
· That she has made numerous false charges against her son and others. Among them was her initial allegation that Malispina had stolen more than $100,000. Police later determined, according to prior testimony, that at least some of that money was taken by Malispina's drug-abusing ex-wife, Sandra.
Duncan's reading of a witness list Tuesday confirmed she is on the witness list.
Defense lawyers Lawrence and Juliet Peck said it's imperative for jurors to understand the full nature of the relationship between mother and son. They claimed Malispina was first shunned by his parents over teenage transgressions, then "disfellowshipped" altogether "when he had the audacity to join the Air Force," because he might kill someone.
It was only after her controlling husband died and the Jehovah's Witness elders in Angel's Camp decided they didn't want to be responsible that she and they reached out to Jay Malispina to take over his mother's care, Lawrence said.
Thelander said he was tempted to let the pair pursue the defense since it established a motive on the part of Malispina, who is accused of stealing from his mother after he moved her to Salinas and she granted him power of attorney. The prosecutor alleges the defendant, who is on paid administrative leave from the Salinas Police Department, used the money on luxuries like a Mexican cruise and San Jose Sharks season tickets.
Duncan cautioned Lawrence that much of the evidence he was pursuing could confuse and distract the jury from the issue of Malispina's state of mind when he wrote 11 disputed checks between December 2004 and April 2008.
He warned Thelander, however, if Malispina takes the stand in his own defense and thinks the information is relevant, "I think I'm going to be hard-pressed to stop him from saying whatever he wants to."
Virginia Hennessey can be reached at 753-6751 or [email protected].
on facebook tonight there was a post asking to take a personality test, in posting the personality tests a trend started emerging that certain personality types seem to leave around the same time.. i came out as an intj which is introverted intuitive thinking judging.
which a good paragraph describing it was:.
intjs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "does it work?
I actually used to work for an HR consulting firm, so had the MBTI professionally administered. Rarest of the rare, a female INTP.
My mother got sucked into the cult when I was 2 or 3, all I ever knew. Left as a teenager in the 1980s (no Internet yet ). Started studying again in my 30s, Googled "Watchtower" and there was NO FREAKING WAY I could ever baptized.
Thank you Al Gore and Simon!
"Architects are rare - maybe one percent of the population - and show the greatest precision in thought and speech of all the types. They tend to see distinctions and inconsistencies instantaneously, and can detect contradictions no matter when or where they were made. It is difficult for an Architect to listen to nonsense, even in a casual conversation, without pointing out the speaker's error. And in any serious discussion or debate Architects are devastating, their skill in framing arguments giving them an enormous advantage. Architects regard all discussions as a search for understanding, and believe their function is to eliminate inconsistencies, which can make communication with them an uncomfortable experience for many.
Ruthless pragmatists about ideas, and insatiably curious, Architects are driven to find the most efficient means to their ends, and they will learn in any manner and degree they can. They will listen to amateurs if their ideas are useful, and will ignore the experts if theirs are not. Authority derived from office, credential, or celebrity does not impress them. Architects are interested only in what make sense, and thus only statements that are consistent and coherent carry any weight with them.
Architects often seem difficult to know. They are inclined to be shy except with close friends, and their reserve is difficult to penetrate. Able to concentrate better than any other type, they prefer to work quietly at their computers or drafting tables, and often alone. Architects also become obsessed with analysis, and this can seem to shut others out. Once caught up in a thought process, Architects close off and persevere until they comprehend the issue in all its complexity. Architects prize intelligence, and with their grand desire to grasp the structure of the universe, they can seem arrogant and may show impatience with others who have less ability, or who are less driven."
~Sue
this guy is off the wall today.
coming up and looking like he was going to bite the camera a couple times.
and then, laughing at himself.. he was doing the same thing that a pitch-man for an electronics store in the new york area used to do.
edward a. dames, major, u.s. army, is a decorated military intelligence officer and original member of the u.s. army prototype remote viewing training program.. major ed dames served as the one and only training and operations officer for the defense intelligence agencys psychic intelligence (psint) collection unit, and currently serves as executive director for the matrix intelligence agency.. today, with the secrets of remote viewing developed through a top-secret u.s. military program with the cia, major ed dames has refined remote viewing to an exact science.. youtube his "coast to coast" broadcast may 17th.
2011 and then post your comments.
it will blow your minds.. some of his team of 60 "viewers" (and they all agree) predictions.. 1. many major earthquakes.
Dames' predictions from two years ago:
The Dire Future
Remote viewing teacher Maj. Ed Dames discussed some current cases of his Matrix Intelligence Agency, as well as issued some dire warnings over future events. Here is a rundown of what he sees coming:
• In five to six months a powerful quake, probably in the 6.5 to 7 range will hit near Carson City, NV.
• In that same time frame, Israel will attack Iran, in what he called an "Armageddon"-like situation.
• The global economic collapse is just beginning and will be especially bad this summer. Gold will rise in price to $2000 an ounce.
• A coming Bird Flu epidemic will further damage the economy.
• The North Koreans are going to use a nuclear weapon, and the Chinese will allow it. This will further tax US military forces.
• Within five years, the solar "killshot" will occur, with the sun emitting some very large solar flares. The first series of flares will take down all electrical infrastructure. People may need to be underground, and have fresh sources of water to survive.
• ET races have been observing humankind. Another race similar to humans in appearance will help us rebuild after the catastrophes.
~Sue
charles c. mann wrote an article about the "birth of religion" june "national geographic".
did anybody notice that in the temples at gobekli tepi, all the central sacred shrines had two pillars at the center?.
all the [circular temples] follow a common design.
Fascinating! Thanks for posting it.
National Geographic article and photo gallery.
~Sue
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/government/thehall/article_8627dd7a-8812-11e0-bc0d-001cc4c03286.html.
then, the wts saves $35,000 for rental.
then, at the assembly, the youth are strong discouraged to go to college for 4 yrs.
But Oh, the happified children! Just look at the joyous expressions on their faces!
Surely they are pleased to serve Jehovah in their youth?
~Sue
lottery winner's son finds religion.
published: may 26, 2011 10:24 pm?by matthew chayes [email protected].
for gloria bentivegna, winning the $1-million lottery jackpot was .
Lottery winner's son finds religion
Published: May 26, 2011 10:24 PM?By MATTHEW CHAYES [email protected]
For Gloria Bentivegna, winning the $1-million lottery jackpot was . . . divine.
The West Babylon woman is crediting the state Lottery win with helping to bring her son Sal, 28, -- who places himself someplace on the spectrum between atheism and agnosticism -- back to his mother's faith.
The day before she won the scratch-off game in late April, Sal had challenged his mother -- and their Roman Catholic faith -- to win in the name of religious proof.
"I told her, 'Why don't you ask Jesus for a million dollars?' and she said, 'It doesn't work like that,' " he said Thursday.
" 'Jesus, give my mom a million dollars,' " the Smithtown man recalled saying at the time. "If he wanted me to have a little bit of faith, he would do it."
Then his Gloria Bentivegna, 61, won.
"It was a true miracle," the retired store manager said. "I prayed for it so hard. . . . Jesus was there, guiding everything."
After taxes, she will be paid $33,000 a year for 20 years, which is about how long she said her son hasn't gone to church.
But all that's changing: After Bentivegna won, Sal, a car audio installation technician, and his mom went to a Wednesday Mass at Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Deer Park, his first service in decades.
Bentivegna said she's still absorbing the fact that she's a winner and hasn't decided how she'll spend the money.
And her son is beginning to believe again.
"There's so many coincidences. Sure, I could brush it off as another freak incident. But to do so would be just stupid -- would be ignorant on my part," he said.
http://www.newsday.com/video/newsday-video-1.1482431?idno=31780
