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  go skateboarding day: cop v.s. skaters

  by purplesofa in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh6ayvn2yw4.

  this is a video from a small town close to where i live, hot springs.

  i have been to the hotel in the background, the arlington.

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  That cop was a jerk.

  I've worked with some cops at the high school where I work and most are pretty cool. One of the things about being a cop these days, especially at a high school is, (yes, there are policeman assigned to work at each school these days) they are treated badly by the far majority of students. Know why? Because they're cops.

  I've worked at a high school for 20+ years and i'm friends with alot of kids, but most skaters I know BRAG about stuff they have destroyed while skating.

  Skate And Destroy. Ask any skater what it means....but like I said THAT cop was a jerk...
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  Well now I'm just angry

  by lola28 in

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  i just read blondies wt review and it made me angry.

  how can the society continue to place more importance on pioneering than getting an education or getting a good job?

  why do these men insist on making young ones (and even older members) feel bad for wanting to have a secure future, what the hell is wrong with not wanting to live in a tent?

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  Good post Gill...

  After living at bethel a few years I can tell you how the GB live....LIKE ROYALTY!

  The best of everything. They live rent free on one of the most expensive pieces of property on the planet overlooking lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. They eat fresh food daily, grown on the WT farms. They are treated like they have a direct connection to heaven everywhere they go.

  While they say they also work daily, they have no clue what that really is. Have you ever seen a GB member on a night watchman or dish duty schedule?

  They can travel anywhere in the world they choose to and call it a "Zone visit", then give a half-hour talk where everything they say will be taken as if it was god himself speaking, and then relax on the beach the rest of the time, while everyone in their world wants to take them out to dinner, or have a picture taken with them, or just TALK AND BE SEEN WITH THEM!

  They are the peak of the world they have created and control....that's very important to them.
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  Another J W e mail

  by NikL in

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  i noticed another thread on this site relaying a stupid e mail making the rounds of dubdom.. well i just got this one and i thought i would share.... powerful illustration.

  after the prayer, the local elder slowly stood up, walked up to the.

  platform and, before he gave his public talk, he briefly introduced a guest.

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  I wonder how the old dude would feel if he ever found out the truth about 'The Truth", that he lost his son and made the bonehead play of his life for a publishing company....
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  What Maintains the Universe?

  by metatron in

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  does it ever seem weird that evolutionists and creationists endlessly debate about events vastly distant in the past - without discussing what.

  maintains the universe now?

  clearly, electrons and protons have a certain mass, light has a particular speed and so on - why should any of.

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  I DON"T KNOW....but it's fun to speculate. I personally doubt very seriously if that will be answered in our lifetime. Plus, it hurts my head to think about.

  I just try and be a nice guy to everybody and let the rest of the universe, afterlife, religious thing, etc. take care of itself. Gymbob
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  The Weirdest thing that has ever happened to you...

  by zeroday in

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  in the early 60's my family would pack up the chevy belair stationwagon and travel east from california to georgia to visit relatives.

  2 adults and 4 children.

  we never stopped at motels and would stop at a small town at a local park and have lunch.

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  When I was about 18 a group of us young witness teens took a hiking trip to Death Valley. We stopped to get water at a gas station for our canteens, and if any of you have ever been to DV you know how it got it's name. It hit 124 degrees that day and the water came out of the faucet HOT!

  So as we're filling our canteens out in the middle of the most god-forsaken place you ever seen, this beat-up old truck pulls in and the back of the truck is FILLED with ice and cold drinks, and the old guy driving the truck gets out and says, "hep yerselves boys!" We didn't care how much it cost...we filled everything we had with ice and drinks.

  Then the guy leaves. We all thought that one of us paid him, but as we got talking later, nobody gave him anything!

  I've never figured that one out!
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  Schwinng!

  by SixofNine in

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  man busted for having sex with his bicycle.

  <snip> .

  a man has been charged with having sex with his bike.

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  Well the story said the cycle was bi!!!
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  I've been studying with JW's for a few months..

  by MichaelM in

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  i've been studying with the jw's for a few months and i've attended a few meetings but things are feeling somewhat strange...i don't quite get the jist of things but i feel that i'm learning more of what the watchtower teachers and less of what the bible actually says.. i never open my bible.. i'm always reading the watchtower pamphlets.

  i really like the people i've met in the congregation and the guy thats been doing the studies with me has been an awesome friend.. .

  but i'm just having some issues.. i mean.. they translated their own bible to suit their own doctrines it seems.

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  Welcome back Michael!

  I was born into the witnesses and spent over 40 years as one.

  A few years back I decided I wanted to leave, quietly. When I tried, my parents refused to ever talk to me again (along with the rest of my family), my wife of 23 years left me because I wasn't going to meeting anymore, and since my ex-wife is still a witness she now can't have anything to do with our 2 children who are grown now and have left the witnesses also. My parents have great-grandchildren that they have never met. All this because I didn't want to be a witness anymore.

  All this has happened because this is what the witnesses teach and it's why people say they destroy families. It's not a religion, it's a cult.

  Sorry to have to lay that story on you man, but believe me, they are not what they seem....Peace.
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  BETHELITES - Whatever Became of?

  by Black Man in

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  i often times wonder what happened to certain bethelites that i ran around with during my 1990s tenure there.

  while there are still a few left there, the greater majority of them aren't there for various reasons (marriage, disillusionment, left the borg, etc).

  a couple of cats i wonder about - there was one brother who i believe was from kansas, who got his fingers cut off in a printing press.

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  Minimus~

  Don't know Bruce by name, maybe if I saw him....

  One of the weird things about bethel is that you can sit for YEARS in the same chair, in the same dining room, looking at the same people at the next table over and not have a clue who they are, but you've seen them every day for years!

  If Norman Brekke is still alive he must be close to 90 now, both he and Gilbert Cyriacs were a couple of old stinkie-inkies I worked with (in the Inkroom).
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  BETHELITES - Whatever Became of?

  by Black Man in

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  i often times wonder what happened to certain bethelites that i ran around with during my 1990s tenure there.

  while there are still a few left there, the greater majority of them aren't there for various reasons (marriage, disillusionment, left the borg, etc).

  a couple of cats i wonder about - there was one brother who i believe was from kansas, who got his fingers cut off in a printing press.

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  Brooklyn 76'-79' here.....

  Hey Wunce-wuz, I remember Larry Mainers! We left Brooklyn and pioneered together for a while. He got df'd for 'boinking' a young pioneer gal after he got married, then got reinstated and now lives in Georgia.

  Also remember Joel Reed...I heard he came out of the closet back in the mid 80's, but I can't confirm.

  Anybody remember Peter Coconis, Norman Brekke, Gilbert Cyriacs, Dave Ashley, Richard Chambers, Mike Ersland?
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  Have You Ever Met A "Celebrity" or Actually See One Face To Face?

  by minimus in

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  while i was in new york i walked by two men and one looked like the comedian jackie mason whom i adore.

  i looked at him and said, "i just wanted to say how much i enjoy your shows.

  i've seen you perform a number of times".

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  I met Michael Jackson @ bethel back in 76'-or 77'....also George Benson @ bethel. The most famous person I ever met was the emperor of Japan, Herohito.

  When I was a tour guide at Mammoth Onyx Cave in Kentucky back in 75', he and his family came into the park with about 50 Secret Service guys...I gave them all a private tour of the cave and Herohito gave me a $5 tip when the tour was over!