Posts by compound complex

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Do you eat foods labeled "low-fat"?

by compound complex in

jw
friends

greetings, health-conscious friends:.

i had a wonderful cup of peet's coffee today at a friend's house, but had only low-fat half-and-half to add.. just isn't the same .

.. what do you eat and drink?.

compound complex

Greetings, health-conscious friends:

I had a wonderful cup of Peet's coffee today at a friend's house, but had only low-fat half-and-half to add.

Just isn't the same . . .

What do you eat and drink?

Thanks.

CoCo Consumes Nice Fats

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"...A God's Voice, And Not A Man's!" (Acts 12:22; 2 Thess. 2:3, 4) ... That Day Is Here!

by bjc2read in

question: how are members of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses themselves, actually viewed by jehovah's witnesses today?.

well, the following related experience may help answer that provocative question, giving us a glimpse of what the possible future days will bring us.

yes, the answer to that question may even be quite shocking to us, ... with simply terrible, disastrous results!!!

During one of many slide presentations of official WT sojourns to the Third World was a shot of Nathan Knorr holding in his arms a little African Witness boy. He was chuckling over the fact that the parents named the lad "Brother Knorr" in his honor. What a namesake!

Where are you, Brother Brother Knorr ? You'd be about 40 years old by now.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/124322/1/Nathan-Knorr-Holding-Brother-Knorr-Memory-Lane#.U2Pm_t31vaY

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Come On And PLAY!!!

by snowbird in

this here is very educational.. http://www.funtrivia.com/tournament/jwd-trivia-quiz-75350.html.

come on, y'all.. sylvia.

compound complex

Nan & rip:

CC

359

Come On And PLAY!!!

by snowbird in

this here is very educational.. http://www.funtrivia.com/tournament/jwd-trivia-quiz-75350.html.

come on, y'all.. sylvia.

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Billy Crystal's movie "City Slickers" had him and friends -- all them rascals -- toting pistols in their western adventure. Maybe not . . .

flotsam, jetsam, lagan

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MARTIAN novel prologue: teaser

by Terry in

jw
friends

prologue.

weapon-flash burst and thundered ominously outside the atmosphere bubble of mars colony 7.. .

"this is captain nobile, now here this!

compound complex

Good work, Terry!

Holst's "Mars the Bringer of War" would be the perfect musical backdrop.

I find your style evocative of Clark Ashton Smith, whose grotesqueries make the anticipant reader squeal with fiendishly lip-smacking relish and quiver with timber-shaking undulations.

Love, too, those ululations . . .

CoCo, who loves all things Aries.

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OK..Seriously..Has GOD ever answered your prayers????

by DATA-DOG in

look...i am not an atheist.

even so, i have never had one prayer answered my entire life.

the only thing that would even come close was learning ttatt.

compound complex

Greetings, DATA-DOG:

Taking into account all that has been said on this thread and others like it over the years, I tend toward other explanations for why a prayer may seem to have been answered. My prayers of yore had been "answered" in relation to my activities and conduct as a JW. Therefore, I don't know where Jehovah actually fit in as I consider my current belief-in-flux position.

Nonetheless, one experience that still has me nonplussed centers around my life in Brooklyn and Manhattan, circa 1970. I took a noisy bus ride to a forgotten destination, but recall that the friendly driver said to sit behind him so he could tell me when we arrived at my stop. He chatted loudly away and, as was my wont, I wanted to witness to him: impossible, due to noise and confusion. Over the course of the lengthy trip, he revealed point by point personal information: the district he inhabited; the street he lived on; the number of his apartment complex; his name. All this was given me as he gabbed away; I didn't ask a single question.

I got off, went my way armed with this vital back call material. Somewhat later, Truth book in tow, I located his apartment complex and found his name, Patrick Davis, on the registry and went to his door. He was surprised to see me and I gave him the book . . .

Wonder where he is now.

CC

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Possibly the creepiest thing I have ever seen.

by DATA-DOG in

http://www.freeimgshost.com/fullsize/7bhfbsjycap9gurjx8e4.jpg.

http://www.freeimgshost.com/fullsize/q2ez9si8kwcze4h7pft.jpg.

http://www.freeimgshost.com/fullsize/0a2s84sh0thc27bo11tr.jpg.

compound complex

Yes, Tal, you remember correctly. More info if you want it!

I always enjoy your point of view.

Love,

CoCo

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Possibly the creepiest thing I have ever seen.

by DATA-DOG in

http://www.freeimgshost.com/fullsize/7bhfbsjycap9gurjx8e4.jpg.

http://www.freeimgshost.com/fullsize/q2ez9si8kwcze4h7pft.jpg.

http://www.freeimgshost.com/fullsize/0a2s84sh0thc27bo11tr.jpg.

compound complex

Welcome, Enlightenment123, and thank you for your input.

If DD will kindly allow another excerpt from a letter, I would be grateful. The information I have posted has been disputed by an artist who was once a member of this forum. I can send you a link via pm if you like.

CC

The letter below was written by Michael Graves, who studied commercial illustration, graphic arts and photograghy at Bakersfield College. His professional work includes medical photography, photomicrography, illustration and commercial photography.

The letter is addressed "To whom it may concern," February 21, 1992:

[. . .]

"At first glance the illustrations [Watch Tower 'commercial art images depicting religious scenes'] I examined appeared quite normal, but after closer examination, it became apparent that there are many images and symbols integrated into the scenes. Upon further investigation of the illustrations, I noticed a consistent motif and repeatability of these same symbols in every illustration I studied. Some of the symbols and images are so obvious they interrupt the normal flow of lines, shape, and form of the artwork. It is quite apparent the illustrators would use highlights and shadows in the scenes to conceal the symbols in such a manner that they are not clearly distinguishable. However, armed with the knowledge that the symbols may be present, it becomes quite easy to distinguish and isolate these images from the given illustration.

"In conclusion, it is my professional opinion that these figures are present in the illustrations, not by coincidence, but by clear conscious efforts by the originators of the artwork."

Sincerely,

[signature]

Michael Graves

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Possibly the creepiest thing I have ever seen.

by DATA-DOG in

http://www.freeimgshost.com/fullsize/7bhfbsjycap9gurjx8e4.jpg.

http://www.freeimgshost.com/fullsize/q2ez9si8kwcze4h7pft.jpg.

http://www.freeimgshost.com/fullsize/0a2s84sh0thc27bo11tr.jpg.

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AIR STREAM GRAPHIC DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
July 10, 1990
To Whom It May Concern:

"Because of my extensive professional experience, Darek Barefoot recently asked me to review a number of illustrations [in WT, AWAKE!, REVELATION CLIMAX and LIVE FOREVER].

"It is my professional opinion that secondary images have been deliberately incorporated into many of the illustrations I have examined. The secondary images I have seen vary from symbolic shapes and letters of the alphabet to representations of faces and skulls, and deformities of certain extremities. These appear with enough consistency that in my opinion they are deliberate, not coincidental.

"As a professional illustrator and painter, I am very aware of the amount of time and concentration that goes into a painting or an illustration. Any artist doing a piece is acutely aware of every line and brush stroke. It is therefore exremely difficult for me to believe that many of these images, objects, and shapes were not purposefully embedded into these illustrations in question."

James Waggaman

359

Come On And PLAY!!!

by snowbird in

this here is very educational.. http://www.funtrivia.com/tournament/jwd-trivia-quiz-75350.html.

come on, y'all.. sylvia.

compound complex

Hilary, though fashioned along austere lines both metaphorically and physically, always brought down the house with gales of hilarious laughter emanating from guests caught off guard by her unanticipated drollery. Given their otherwise drab minds and consequent like existence, these little folk -- among whom was Victoria -- got their jollies by vicarious means, even the nonsensically out-of-place water bearer, Aquarius, who was on his way to Olympus but became sidetracked by peals of human laughter and, later, those of Olympian thunder because he had permitted himself to be led astray by the foibles of man- and womankind.

THANKS, rip!

liable, likely, libel