lisa's mention of junk food harkened me back to memories of sitting underneath the shade of a big oak tree outside the suwannee swiftee convenience store on north forrest street munching on:.
zingers, the raspberry kind with the coconut on them.. so fess up, what was yall's favorite pioneer junk food?.
joel
on lunch breaks there was a gas station that had awesome fried fish (cod) and mojo dinners. once in awhile though, we could talk the car group into a sit down mid-morning complete breakfast at one of the diners, and those were the best! (other breakfast stops included the usual: doughnuts and coffee.)
aa
in a previous post, some of you talked about your current age and number of years married.
subtract and voila, many of you married young, by which i mean before 20 years of age.
congrats to all of you couples, married long and short!
at age 17 i was involved in serious relationship (both of us were jws at the time), and i remember clearly talking about getting married around 18-19. we had "gotten in trouble" already a couple of times, and marraige was definitely the way to fix all the worries and frustrations of being "in love" and handcuffed with the no touching rules. at the time it seemed perfectly normal to get married before 20, as im sure its still normal for many jws......but wow, i cant imagine what my life wouldve been like had i actually done it. im with andi on this one, you change WAY too much in your 20s to be married. it works with some, but i personally have changed so much, even from 21-25, that its unfathomable for me now to imagine being married at 18. the witnesses force too many of these decisions (marraige, baptism) on KIDS that dont even know what they want in life yet. its sad.
aa
dow back above 10,000, nasdaq soars past 2,000. just another sign of the forthcoming apocalypse.. joel
joel-
looks like you beat me to the punch with your post here......i honestly didnt see it until just now, right after i finished mine. sorry for the duplication.
aa
perhaps you recall the instance in the bible where samson made a wager with the philistines that they couldnt guess his riddle.
as it turned out they wheedled the answer out of him by his fiancee, but the point is that they had a wager.
since the underlying assumption of the apostasy is that we are not living in the last days of this system of things, and that this world is not facing anything remotely like the biblical apocalypse, at least not any time soon, in the spirit of such antagonism, i would like to propose a similar wager.
our firm was expecting and predicting a bumpy road until next spring. of course, that could still happen at any time, and surely we will see more corrections, but i cant really complain about the dow being above 10,000 again (up 200 pts. today), and the nasdaq being above 2,000 (up 75 pts. today). i normally think of a "panic" as something short term, but apparently this current "panic buying" (yks words) is lasting for quite a duration.
......still waiting for the financial collapse, i think yk changed his prediction to the turn of the year, so im getting nervous now.
aa
i want to send lots of christmas greetings cards this year.
i especially want to send a card to dozens of posters from this site.
i suppose the obvious answer is that folks email me with an address.
i posted my address on rhetts site, but im not sure everyones doing that one?? heres my email for anyone that would like to exchange addresses >>> [email protected] ......id be happy to exchange cards with all of you! thanks, i know were getting down to the wire here.........
aa
not nessesarily in order.
i know i'll get stoned with frozen spit balls for this, but..... .
10. we got back bacon.. 9. pamela anderson.. 8. we got french women.. 7. don't have to play global cop.. 6. don't have to worry about pesky mexicans coming through our back door.. 5. bill clinton doesn't live here.. 4. we got more room.. 3. we got real medicare.. 2. we got more water.. 1. the beer is better.
Oh Canada.....home of the two dollar bill (thats really only worth $1.37)
aa
after the lord had drowned every living thing on the surface of the earth except noah and his family and the animals brought to the ark, he told noah that from that time forth there would be no more apocalyptic floods, and as a token of his good intentions the lord would create the rainbow:.
and god...spake unto noah, and to his sons with him, saying...i establish my covenant with you.... neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
and god said, this is the token of the covenant which i make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: i do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
pom-
No you have plainly misunderstood. He created first law based on PRE-EXISTING evil, which was Satan, who was already in the world sinning before the FIRST LAW and before the beginning of the physical creation in Gen 1:1. Please re-read the above. BEFORE THE LAW WAS GIVEN sin was in the world.so it is your belief that god created this angel, knowing that this angel would eventually become satan, bringing sin into the world, and planned on giving the first law after this unfolded? (meaning even though he knew satan would sin, there was no law neccesary until he created humans). im just trying to get your idea of omniscience.Well if before the law of "do not eat" was given sin was in the world, that rules out Adam and Eve doesn't it because Adam and Eve didn't sin yet. God surely was NOT the sin that was in the world before he gave the command of law, so that eliminates Him too. That only leaves the big Bozo of sins creation, Satan the Devil as the one sinning in the world before the first LAW was given.
aa
to make a long story short... nah, i'll just tell it the way it is.
about 3-4 years ago, a @#$@ "brother" made a talk at an assembly.
now, what made this talk so peculiar was that he used a quote from matt groening who apparently said "i'm sorry i created the simpsons, cause i see it has a bad influence on my children... this was to show that the "world" is very, very bad.. since i was (and still am) a devoted simpsons fan, i was completely shocked when i heard that "quote".
"Ever had a pointless argument?".......
anyone whos ever went into battle with yk, nytel, or friday have had pointless arguments.
yk proclaims and will field questions when he sees fit, but will never admit error, even when proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be incorrect......pointless argument.
nytel defends the society at will, but has very little to offer in the form of intelligent discourse. when backed in a corner he will ignore main points and respond selectively, usually resorting to insults when proven wrong or caught in a contradiction........ pointless argument.
friday is a combination of the first two examples. he proclaims, with no real intent to discuss. he will field questions from time to time, but when backed in a corner will ignore/dodge, and almost always must resort to mindless insults........pointless argument.
interesting that all three examples are still very much under the jw illusion. ive noticed on the forum that all posters have very distinct beliefs and views, but current "jws" are the only ones unwilling or unable to carry on actual intelligent debates without resorting to the tried and true jw circle talk and dodge methods.
aa
i was talking on the phone about a week ago with a poster from this forum, and when he found out i was from south bend, indiana, he asked me if i had gotten together with the group of indiana posters that were having a small gathering (around bloomington i think?).
the truth is, i havent had one-on-one contact with too many from this board up till now, save some frequent chat room visitors, so i didnt realize we had an indiana following.
after my name appeared on the whos who page, i did get emails from a couple people familiar with the area, but i would like to get in contact with the rest of the indiana posters.
thank you all for your replies....hopefully ill be able to attend the next area meeting. please feel free to email me at anytime, i welcome chatting with all of you. see you on monday (home computer is on the blitz)..........
aa
i was talking on the phone about a week ago with a poster from this forum, and when he found out i was from south bend, indiana, he asked me if i had gotten together with the group of indiana posters that were having a small gathering (around bloomington i think?).
the truth is, i havent had one-on-one contact with too many from this board up till now, save some frequent chat room visitors, so i didnt realize we had an indiana following.
after my name appeared on the whos who page, i did get emails from a couple people familiar with the area, but i would like to get in contact with the rest of the indiana posters.
hey, great to see the hoosiers coming out of the woodwork finally (and you too tina ).....
ginny-
ill definitely try to chat with you sometime soon, i wish i wouldve known about that apostofest dammit! ill email you when i get time (in other words, ill forget about it, so feel free to email me as well).
makena-
portage....not to far from me at all. definitely look me up if youre ever in town, we'll grab a drink somewhere. my crystal ball, hmmm......well, i can tell you what our analysts have been telling us, but im sure its nothing you havent heard: we're looking for bumpy roads at least until next spring (as if we havent had enough bumps to date). as far as another plunge, i hope its not "severe", but our top guys did tell us to get defensive by turkey day, so.......
aa
