i dont post much at all any more but i had to mention this, i just got back from seeing religulous and cant remember the last time i laughed so hard.
it was great!!!!!!
close-minded religious people should save their money and not go see this movie but instead give your money to the next tv evangelist or street magician you see.
Can't wait to see this. It's in my Netflix saved queue just waiting for release on disc...supposedly next month?
I have ordered this movie form netfliz three times and each time the disk was damaged.
I also tried ordering "what the bible really says" from them and it was also damaged.
I never got a playable copy of either of these movies form netflix, had to find them elsewhere.
they are the only spiders known to be vegetarian..
Aren't spider mites vegetarian too?
All they do is suck the life out of plants.
nother thing that's gonna be hard for me during my fade.
is all the stupid rules.
things i never questioned, but now that i'm more knowledgable about this cult, i hate on these non bible based rules.. they use the nice word "principles" but we all know what they really mean.
now I wanna beat one of the elder's ass for no reason if they just look at me.
You never really get over this part.
They other day a regular poster admitted he was still an elder.
I immediately had an overwhelming desire to kick his ass but good.
And I've been out for about 15 years.
someone recently told this story.. a current bethelite says she is not permitted to get her hair dyed in the beth-hell hair salon.
they only provide it to drones over the age of 35, or something along those lines.
something about being too focused on one's appearance.. i suppose the real reason is they don't want to shell out the $2.99 for a mere underling.. rebel8.
I was just wondering.....
Do they cover the mirrors with paper at the BethHell hair salon?
hi guys...oompa here.
was i in rehab for alcohol addiction or jwd addiction!?!?
!......no computers or cellphones allowed so i have been awol awhile..... ya, i finally made my self sick enough on booze to realize i was really sick and tired of being sick and tired....so checked myself into rehab without any planning at all and while wife was out of town on a family retreat...it was a a very desperate moment in my life, and i was extremely physically and emotionally sick....i was so desperate i took zero time to reseach where to go, but called an old school friend who said rehab had saved his life and he made the calls and actually took me and helped me check in to the place he went to 5 years ago.
Welcome back Oomp.
It's really good to see you.
One visiting speaker used an illustration throughout his talk regarding a farmer and his "combine".
Unfortunately this elder was not a farmer and he thought "combine" was pronounced "concubine"
Ans so several times during the talk he referred to the farmers as "climbing off his concubine", or "climbing back on his concubine".
Everyone in the audiance was about wetting their pants trying to surpress laughter.
this really happened?
cos really take the money and don't say, "put it in the contribution box?
" did you put it in there hand or in a card that they opened later?.
I would put it in a card.
Every CO visit I would empty my meager savings and give it all to them.
we have a lot of new ones on this site as well as some who have been here for years----i know this subject has been brought up before, but were there any memorable cos or dos that you can recall?.
co arnie scneider was my last co when i was an elder.
he was a very sweet man..
I dont remember most of their neams, I do remember Martin Flowers though.
He lied to my face and swore that the society always reports accusations of child abuse and always have. So either he was lying or extrememly ignorant.
I also confronted him about JC's for victims of sexual abuse. I said that it was cruel and abusive for a sexual abuse victim to have to tell her story in detail to a group of men and asked him if that was still the way the society handled such cases.
He stopped making eye contact with me and looked away and to the ground saying " uhhh, I'm not sure about that, I'll have to check"
I have this conversation recorded on tape.
were you spanked?.
is spanking "wrong"?
(they say your iq might be affected adversely from being spanked)..
Dmouse I was beaten and struck across the face regularly as a child.
I spanked my first child because the society told me to. By the time the second came around I spanked her sometimes too but a lot less.
I now have a third child and she has never been spanked or slapped.
Because I learned, from my own experience that spanking children is very short sighted, you often get quicker results, but not as good long term results.
Other forms of dicipline work so much better. Spanking is a copout.
i met two sisters while i was walking my dog.
of course they were quick to stop and talk to and easy mark like me.
things did not go as they expected.
Ohh, i would have loved to have seen that!
