Posts by David Gladden

"Too bad... I'm looking forward to meeting as many people as possible. Every once in awhile I stumble across an xJW and have a blast talking about our experiences in JWorld." = "Gotta calm things down a bit so she doesn't think I'm a perv."

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men and women

by peaceloveharmony in

" = i'd eventually like to have sex with you?.

" = i'd eventually like to have sex with .

David Gladden

Sometimes. It all depends on how much the girl needs to be thrilled before she will hop in bed. Some require more, some less.

You wouldn't happen to be comming to the Dallas Apastafest would ya?

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men and women

by peaceloveharmony in

" = i'd eventually like to have sex with you?.

" = i'd eventually like to have sex with .

David Gladden

"Haha! Funny! So much truth to it all" = "I am trying to get your attention and maybe then you'd like to have sex with me."

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The Blood Isseu: Bethel's Vietnam?

by Room 215 in

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this is prompted by bethel's rather cryptic decision not to issue 2002 blood cards and dogpatch's release of an exchange of an eye-opening exchange of correspondence, as have been reported here on earlier threads.

as is usually the case, there is more to this blood card thing than what's being said by bethel's spinmeisters for public consumption.

a hidden agenda, i'm not sure what it is, lurks.

David Gladden

You don't want to forget about the psychological effect the Org's stance has had on it members. When I was in the Org I was completely repulsed by the idea of putting blood in my body. Even now I am still slightly repulsed - even though I know I would accept a blood transfusion should I need one.

Even though I never really believed that "the soul is in the blood", there was the persistent drum beat against the use of blood. Sort of a pavlovian conditioning. ( http://www.employees.csbsju.edu/tcreed/pb/pavcon.html).

It will take time for the members to get over this conditioning.

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Amazing, Remember the Thermodynamics Websites?

by VM44 in

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amazing,.

quite a while ago on the old h2o board, you posted some.

websites that explained the laws of thermodynamics.. would you by any chance still have those links handy?.

David Gladden

(Bit of humor)

Christian Right Lobbies to Overturn Second Law of Thermodynamics
http://www.theonion.com/onion3631/christian_right_lobbies.html

TOPEKA, KS—The second law of thermodynamics, a fundamental scientific principle stating that entropy increases over time as organized forms decay into greater states of randomness, has come under fire from conservative Christian groups, who are demanding that the law be repealed.

"What do these scientists want us teaching our children? That the universe will continue to expand until it reaches eventual heat death?" asked Christian Coalition president Ralph Reed, speaking at a rally protesting a recent Kansas Board Of Education decision upholding the law. "That's hardly an optimistic view of a world the Lord created for mankind. The American people are sending a strong message here: We don't like the implications of this law, and we will not rest until it has been reversed in the courts."

The controversial law of nature, which asserts that matter continually breaks down as disorder increases and heat is lost, has long been decried by Christian fundamentalists as running counter to their religion's doctrine of Divine grace and eternal salvation.

"Why can't disorder decrease over time instead of everything decaying?" asked Jim Muldoon of Emporia, KS. "Is that too much to ask? This is our children's future we're talking about."

"I wouldn't want my child growing up in a world headed for total heat death and dissolution into a vacuum," said Kansas state senator Will Blanchard (R-Hutchinson). "No decent parent would want that."

Calling the second law of thermodynamics "a deeply disturbing scientific principle that threatens our children's understanding of God's universe as a benevolent and loving place," Blanchard is spearheading a nationwide grassroots campaign to have the law removed from high-school physics textbooks. The plan has already met with significant support in the state legislatures of Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi.

"My daughter's schoolbooks tell her that we live in a world ruled by disorder," said Knox Heflin, one of several dozen fundamentalists who spoke out against the teaching of the law at a Statesboro (GA) School Board hearing. "That's a direct contradiction of what it says in the Bible, about how everything is going to get better, and we'll all live happily up in heaven after the End Times."

"The only 'heat death' Jesus ever mentioned is the one that sinners will suffer for all eternity in the Lake of Fire," said Indianola (MS) School Board president Bernice McCallum. "Now more than ever, we need to hear what the Bible has to say about our public schools' physical-science curricula."

Leading physicists contend that, as the foundation of much of our current scientific understanding, a reversal of the second law of thermodynamics would have massive ramifications on the future of both our nation and the universe itself.

"Were the second law to be repealed, random particles would collect and organize themselves instead of dissipating, which could affect such basic processes as combustion, digestion, evaporation, convection—that sort of thing," Columbia University superstring theorist Dr. Brian Greene said. "There wouldn't be much sunlight, either, because all stars, including our sun, would be collecting photons from surrounding space instead of emitting solar radiation. Oh, and the universe would begin to contract rather than expand, which could possibly turn back the flow of time itself, sending our cosmos spiraling inward toward a reverse Big Bang, a sort of 'Big Crunch,' if you will."

"In light of all this," Greene continued, "I would sincerely hope that our nation's legislators think long and hard before making any decisions to amend or repeal this law."

Despite such warnings, the grassroots movement to eliminate the second law of thermodynamics appears to be gathering strength.

"This is America," said Duane Collins, a Gatlinburg, TN, distillery operator and father of five. "And in this country, we have the God-given right to change laws we don't think are Christian. We are united in our demands that the second law of thermodynamics be repealed, and our voice will be heard no matter what. That's just a plain fact, and nothing anybody says can ever change it."

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Theocratic Oddities

by picosito in

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*** when asked why she is reading some publication during the meeting instead of paying rapt attention to her husband speaking from the platform, the c.o.

's wife responds, "oh what the heck, i hear that talk over and over.".

*** when brother prominent elder is asked why he keeps having business dealings with brothers in the congregation (he thus causes lots of problems that the boe has to keep wasting time on), he replies, "well, we all have to make a living.".

David Gladden

Hey Terafera... how 'bout you do a little dance for us?! Wiggle your little tushey.

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I AM NOT AN APOSTATE!

by Pureheart in

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hello room,.

websters new world dictionary defines apostate as one who have abandoned their faith.

that definition does not describe me.

David Gladden

haha! Love it! I guess that even means that *I* am not an apostate either even though I'm an atheist. Can abandoned my faith if I never had it to begin with.