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  Anti-Gay Cartoon Still Making Rounds: George Takei weighs in

  by freemindfade in

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  i also heard the video was being discussed on howard stern today.

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  Thanks, Tal!

  I always enjoy hearing from you.

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  Anti-Gay Cartoon Still Making Rounds: George Takei weighs in

  by freemindfade in

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  i also heard the video was being discussed on howard stern today.

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  I generally do not refer to family here, but it grieves me deeply that some of my little loved ones are distressed that Jehovah is going to kill their classmates.

  I'm absolutely helpless. I can talk to family who, like me, left the org. Those still in?

  No . . .

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  Anti-Gay Cartoon Still Making Rounds: George Takei weighs in

  by freemindfade in

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  i also heard the video was being discussed on howard stern today.

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  Vidiot:

  Thank you for the education; Poe's Law is new to me.

  Why must one inform the reader of one's foray into parody (it takes some intelligence and tongue-in-cheek acumen to pull this off) that one is being ironical and not sarcastic? Just like the disclaimer 'no pun intended' when, truly, there is. No need to explain. Let the reader draw his own conclusions.

  More on DA:

  The term had its origin, as mentioned earlier, in the RCC where the advocate for the devil presents arguments against the canonization of a saint; he, advocate, is "the blackener of the good." [Fowler]

  The term is now used -- quite incorrectly by people in general -- to mean advocating a bad cause or injuring a cause by endorsing it. Sadly, these egregious usages have become accepted. -- A DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN USAGE, Evans and Evans, page 133

  What a world! What a world! Who would have thought all my deliciously correct speech could be destroyed by the acceptance, as standard, of grammatical and literary error?

  Is this where I insert a smiley?!?!?!?

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  Anti-Gay Cartoon Still Making Rounds: George Takei weighs in

  by freemindfade in

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  i also heard the video was being discussed on howard stern today.

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  Interesting background info:

  play devil's advocate

  to pretend to be against an idea or plan which a lot of people support in order to make people discuss it in more detail and think about it more carefully

  Usage notes: The 'Advocatus Diaboli' was a person employed by the Roman Catholic church to argue against someone being made a saint (= someone given the honour ofbeing called Saint by the Roman Catholic church).

  I don't think he was really in favour of getting rid of the scheme, he was just playing devil's advocate. I know that most people here support the project, but let me play devil's advocate for a moment and ask if anyone has considered the cost?

  
  

  http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/play+devil's+advocate
  
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  I cringe when I think about the talks I gave.

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
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  you brothers who gave talks do you thinks about the crap you spoke from the platform.. thirty years old, no knowledge what so ever of the world we live in, barely making the grade.

  to graduate from high school, a year and half in jc college and now with schooling of jw higher.

  education i thought i was a hell of a speaker.

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  "I would really speak with conviction from the platform. I would wonder though, as I noticed some of the reaction in the audience, why weren't more people moved by what I was saying? I was talking about our love for God and how lives were involved."

  -- xjwsrock

  I was Field Service Overseer and made myself available almost any day of the week. Included in my duties was visiting each book study group once a month and giving a pep talk, followed by field service on the weekend.

  When I finally burnt out (working full time, buying a house, raising children, Theocratic activities, etc.) I could understand a little better why some sheep bleated but did not follow the leader. It wasn't all bad, of course. There were always those who kept the ball rolling, their being 'eaten up by the zeal of Jehovah.'

  I used to be.

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  I cringe when I think about the talks I gave.

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  you brothers who gave talks do you thinks about the crap you spoke from the platform.. thirty years old, no knowledge what so ever of the world we live in, barely making the grade.

  to graduate from high school, a year and half in jc college and now with schooling of jw higher.

  education i thought i was a hell of a speaker.

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  "One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." --Bertrand Russell

  [link provided by Anders Andersen]
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  I cringe when I think about the talks I gave.

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  you brothers who gave talks do you thinks about the crap you spoke from the platform.. thirty years old, no knowledge what so ever of the world we live in, barely making the grade.

  to graduate from high school, a year and half in jc college and now with schooling of jw higher.

  education i thought i was a hell of a speaker.

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  Likewise, our supposed authority granted by Scripture put us out there as a 'theatrical spectacle to men and angels.' I am a ham and loved being special.

  Jehovah used us to shake up the arrogant of the world, those who had already found paradise; He used us to comfort those 'who were sighing and crying' . . .

  He did, didn't He?

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  Baby Jesus

  by ab.ortega in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  unbelievable.

  never in a million years would i have thought they would publish something like this.

  i remember we weren't supposed to think of jesus as a baby.

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  Bad art . . .

  When I tried out for the art department, circa 1970, the art work was saturated color, of course, but well done. One sister did original oil paintings that served as the basis for the calendars, which I worked on.

  They've come so far and gone downhill.

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  Interesting Wallpaper

  by NeonMadman in

  1. jw
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  my wife and i live in a small town in northern new jersey.

  there is a building near our house that, many decades ago, used to be the local post office.

  it sat idle for many years, but a couple of years ago, some folks bought it and renovated it into a nice little cafe.

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  Thanks, NeonMadman, for sharing.

  Rutherford's still in the news . . .

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  "Different to" is new to me.

  by compound complex in

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  thanks very much to posters from uk, australia, new zealand, canada, et al.. as an editor, i must keep up with what is current re: so-called standard english.

  english speaking posters outside the united states have presented me with copious writing samples that i have had to research: grammar; spelling; punctuation; etc.. i learned from the following link that american writers' exclusive use of "different from" when stating contrast does present problems in syntactical construction.

  "different to" and "different than" (wrongly maligned) have both been around a long time, but it's you fellow posters across the ponds and borders who've opened up these narrow eyes and mind.. talk about a strange reason for gratitude .

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  Thanks, Xanthippe:

  Illuminating!

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