Posts by Eric

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Sitting in the dinning area at the assembly a no no?

by bronzefist in

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Eric

Auwwgh! Those annoyingly arrogant attendants, some of them acted like they had been deputized by Jehovah himself. As if everyone didn't know that after food prep volunteering went away, attendant patrol was THE best way to avoid excessive ass-time.

It was primarily because of them that I discovered that the best seats at any assembly were: (with the dainty hand of a comely lass in tow) On a local bus, a corner table in a pizza/spaghetti joint, then a park bench or just the grass under a shady tree, back on the bus with the excitement of timing a last minute arrival into the exiting throng, milling about to meet back up with the parents.

It got even better after I was old enough to get my drivers license.

Eric

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Sitting or Standing?

by LittleToe in

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a recent thread brought this to mind:.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/86271/1.ashx.

i had a male friend, when i was a jw, who was taught by his mother to always sit when he pee'd.

Eric

OK now, this is getting out of hand...

My Mom tried to get us boys to pee while sitting, not that she was a single Mom or domineering (she wielded an effective wooden spoon to chase us off from climbing the furniture, but if some real dastardly craft had been developed, it was always "Wait until your Father gets home!") but simply that we lived in a rusticly styled home, and the walls in our house including the bathroom were solid tongue in groove planking, and there was no way to get the pee smelliness completely out after badly aimed effort.

I found that after trying the sit method, I wasn't getting full relief, I'd finish the sit method, stand up and feel like there was a little bit more unfinished business. I reported my findings to my brother who agreed that it was not proper for a boy to pee like a girl, but that we should endeavour to perfect our aim as no reasonable person would argue against a bathroom wall free of pee-stains.

We developed pee aiming accuracy as a sport, first using the target-in-the-bowl-weapon-ranging technique. The idea was to put something really floaty into the bowl and then piss forcibly down upon it, tracking its bobbing attempts to re-surface and trying to keep it underwater for the entire duration. You can believe me, keeping a wine cork well down does develop the hand-eye-penis coordination.

However successful our efforts at accuracy were becoming, this form of training was not achieving the desired outcome of a clean bathroom wall, a fact that was brought to bear through a stern wooden spoon reminder. My brother and I modified our sport of peeing accuracy to include our Mothers frank talk about how a man can find the quiet spot on the upper zone of the bowl side to make the flow "Swoosh" splashlessly down into the awaiting waters below. Now the game was to see who could get the most bowl rotations out of the floating bit we would place near the waters edge.

As with anything my brother and I did together, the competition elaborated, soon we were placing two pieces of identically floaty bits (small flecks of cedar wood performed admirably) at opposite sides of the bowl, and we would try to get one piece to catch up and lap the other one. The games finally culminated when we would both stand at the bowl and attempt to co-join our streams at the point of best swirl contact and get the bowl water positively racing.

The plank wall was, of course, eventually covered over with an easily sanitized arborite cladding.

Eric

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2 year old daughter slips from mothers grip

by freedom96 in

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here in southern california we have been just pummeled with rain.. here is the saddest story that i have heard here.. a lady is driving her vehicle with her 2 year old, and i think a 10 and 14 year old.

along comes a barrier, blocking people from driving through a flooded street.

she decides to go around the barrier, and gets stuck.

Eric

So what about her two other older children! She endangered them as well, didn't she?

Whatever else this woman suffers from her own internal aches over this, she ought to have to pay the financial costs of her rescue and her drivers licence must be revoked.

I'm sick and tired of people who think that traffic controls are for everybody else.

Eric

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Repost - Disturbing Assembly Program - Obey Organizational Direction

by truthseeker in

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sorry about the double post, i had problems with the computer....

before i go into some parts of the program, here is the program for the following weekend.. .

circuit assembly program 2004-2005. .

Eric

truthseeker,

I've been off of this board for months and months due to computerlessness, I log back on and find out immediately just how this place is a fount of needed info! Well done!

over the years, persons who have sat in your seats who were getting baptized have now left the truth and are a dim memory in the minds of those who know them.

· Within The Family Circle

I need to know truthseeker, did they ramp up the warnings against socializing with family who have DA'd from the witnesses? Good Lord, I hope they just leave that dog lie.

After years of a strained frostiness between me and my parents and some of my sibs, getting only the most urgent of family news, in the summer of 2003, it all miraculously changed.

I was invited to a wedding, sat about for two days and had drinkies and caught up, my mother visited in the fall and we took a trip to the Hockey Hall of Fame together, been invited up to their house for a family barbeque or two, poured over old photo albums together and just plain acted like a relatively normal family. It has been just great.

There was no preaching, no judgementalism, no urging me to join them at the Kingdom Hall when I would stay overnight on a Sunday morning, nothing. And in return I never probed the issue as to the new, open, 'let's be cool' stance my family had taken. For me, that old dog could just stay sleeping over there.

I'm invited up to my parents again this weekend. There is going to be a big turkey dinner, and sibs of mine both 'in and 'out of the truth will be there. Not that it's a Chistmas dinner mind you, it's just that a lot of us have some time off from work, and turkeys are readily available at a good price doncha know, wink, wink.

I don't know if this assembly has been held in my parents area yet.

Do they come down on associating feely with us 'lost ones'? Am I to be a dim memory, yet again? Should I steel myself for some Theocratically subversive warfare?

I'll be crushed, my parents may just throw up their hands if they turn this screw one more time.

Eric

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BOLD move

by Puternut in

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i have been a dub for too long, and most of my ambitions were hindered because of the 'kingdom first' issue.

i never persued the things i wanted to do in life.

and everywhere i go i run into people that i know, and they give me the 'dirty look'.

Eric

A favorite author of mine, Ray Bradbury once advised young writers to " Jump off the cliff, build your wings on the way down." His point being, I thought, that if you wait for conditions to be absolutely perfect, if you require that all circumstances favour you, you will wait a very, very long time. And, you can become quite open to what you'll accept as funtioning wings when you make it up as you go along. Good Luck, Eric

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I have moved to Vancouver Island, BC

by Eric in

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have yet to update my profile.

i'm right in victoria.

new job (more work, less pay, what more could i want) does not start up for a little while yet.

Eric

Hmmm, formatting blown. Och.

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I have moved to Vancouver Island, BC

by Eric in

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have yet to update my profile.

i'm right in victoria.

new job (more work, less pay, what more could i want) does not start up for a little while yet.

Eric

Have yet to update my profile. I'm right in Victoria. New job (more work, less pay, what more could I want) does not start up for a little while yet. Can't wait. Living situation is nightmarish, but solves some other problems temporarily. Won't have personal access to the internet for a while, so I'm on a terminal at a public library. Would like to hear from anyone here on the Island. Orbison 11? Estee? Belbab? Tany43? Responses will be slow due to checking in at a public terminal, but if anyone PM's me I'll get back with my 'phone number as quick as I can. Look forward to meeting some new people out here! Eric (goes to update profile)

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News Report still identifies Watchtower Society as NGO

by nicolaou in

i've no doubt that this is just a bit of sloppy research on the part of the journalist concerned (maybe his ngo directory is a couple of years old) but it is interesting...... .

sri lanka:demand for anti-conversion law gains momentum champika liyanaarachchi.

oneworld south asia 28 january 2004. colombo, jan 28 (oneworld) - the issue of unethical conversions to christianity is snowballing in sri lanka, with the country's leading buddhist organization demanding the government ban all nongovernmental organizations (ngos) engaged in anti-buddhist activities, and introduce an anti-conversion law by the month end.

Eric

Folks,

Euph is right.

This report has NOTHING to do with the UN whatsoever.

The NGO label is from the viewpoint of the Sri Lankan Government, and any group claiming religious or chartitable status will be viewed by the local government as an NGO. Every government will have a list of NGO's that operate within its jurisdiction, whatis allowed to them and what is not.

Nothing to see here, move along.

Eric

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Question for you Men: Are you a ...

by codeblue in

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hopeless romantic?.

i am a hopeless romantic and a woman.

until i met mr. cb, i had never heard a man say he also was a "hopeless romantic"...when he said that, i knew our connection would be sealed.. codeblue

Eric

Well, though I've sometimes been a nomad, going where the work was, living out of a duffel bag, I have hung on to the mash notes written to me by a girl I had a mad crush on in high school...

...In a little cedar box, kept along with a tress of her hair. (sigh)

Eric

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were there any psychopaths in your congregation?

by badboy in

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any comments?

Eric

BB,

There was an MS in our small congo who, though single, and about 25 years old, owned an 8 passenger VW van. Wait, it gets better. He had a huge stash of wild west theme comic books that were written for young boys, all about cowboys, gunslingers and shoot-em-ups. He wore cowboy boots all the time though he didn't own a horse, and he affected a Texan drawl, though we were all Canadians, born and raised. Wait, it gets better.

One halloween, his Wyatt Earp fantasies got the better of him, and he took his Daddy's shotgun (did I mention he still lived with his parents?) and replaced the shot with rock-salt in a couple of shells, just like he had read in one of his comic books. He then jumped in his VW van, drove into town and, as came out during his trial, trolled up and down main street until some kid egged him. His sense of vigilante justice properly tweeked, he chased the kid down in his van and blasted him a belly full from close range.

Poor kid had severe bruising, required surgery to pick out the melted clothing from his wounds and hospital time for the equivalent of burn therapy to heal his stomach area. When he came back to school, he showed everyone his scars, what the "Crazy Je-homo's" had done to him.

My PO Dad attended the trial, and our soon-to-be-ex-MS told the judge that he didn't understand why the salt didn't vapourize instantly like it said in the comic he'd read. Now, who ever would've thought that "Guns Ablazin' , issue No. 25" was a work of fiction? Not our Hero!

Eric