Posts by Brother Apostate

All is so small and empty without love. And if you have everything and yet no love...who gives a rats butt. No I that is for sure. You can't kiss a "cold home."

So true. It's all about love. This life and the next. It's what makes life worth living. All the material possesions in the world mean nothing without love. Yet love, without the material posssesions, is as strong, or maybe even stronger, without those trappings.

BA- Loves love.

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WHO ELSE IS GOING TO THE MEMORIAL THIS YEAR???

by Mary in

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friends

geeze, the memorial to remember your place in the organization jesus christ is next tueday i think.......anyone else getting roped into going besides me?

i'm trying to talk my brother into going....just so i'm not the only slacker there.

i know whats going to happen.

Brother Apostate

Not me- I will commemorate Jesus' sacrifice on behalf of us at home, with family and friends, partaking of the bread and wine as He commanded.

BA

PS- I know, I know, we must "barely remember", Lol!!

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"Be" love. For we must.

by Sparkplug in

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love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust.

it sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.. ~mother teresa.

Brother Apostate

Not to deprive Mother Theresa of the admiration and blessings she clearly deserves, I find this gentleman captures my thoughts on the subject, at this moment, quite well:

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

-Sir James M. Barrie BA- My sentiments, exactly.

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If you had to, what religion would you choose to be?

by Crumpet in

you can answer this as seriously (lt) or as inanely (buttlight) as you like!

i was reflecting having read someone's thread about blowing off non jw family that actually it would have been so much better if i had a larger family, preferably not completely jw saturated and this random train of thought led me to thinking that if i could choose i would be catholic, because then i would have a huge family, go to really nice gothic churches with lots of candles and tortured saints and be able to go to confession (instead of lt's mobile).

also the colours of the whore of babylon always were a lot more enticing to me than the mild blues and undistracting beiges of the khs.. i think we all have religions which would suit our personalities so much better.

Brother Apostate

If you define religion as any organized religion, then my answer would be none.

However,

If you define religion as independantly absorbing like a sponge:

that which is truly good and eternal,

that which is the understanding of life and death,

that which is the knowing of both good and evil,

that which is the causation of blessing and cursing,

that which is the love of knowledge, and the painful hindsight of ignorance,

that which is the drive to excel, and the weakness to sin,

that which impels us to improve, and that which hampers our progress,

that which makes us god-like, and that which makes us mortal,

that which teaches us patience, and that which helps us to take decisive action,

that which is the striving for understanding of everything,

that which urges us to immortality,

Then my answer would have to be:

Christian, as in individually striving to be like Christ Jesus.

BA- It's a multiple choice quiz, you know.

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They question/analyze everything- except the Watchtower

by OnTheWayOut in

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friends

many of you were probably the type to question everything or analyze everything, yet .

just accept whatever the wts says.

you broke out of that.

Brother Apostate

They question/analyze everything- except the Watchtower

You had me hooked just from the title of this thread.

All I will say now is that I realized at age 8 that this was not the "truth", too much hypocrisy from the get-go.

BA- Perhaps (perhaps not) I will elaborate later.

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Classical music anyone?

by zagor in

lately i've been listening more and more to classical music.

went to several concerts, opera and a ballet..

just wondering if anyone else loves classical music or maybe modern incarnations like styles of vanessa mae, maxim mrvica, bond, amici and alike.

Brother Apostate

I love classical music (as well as many other genres).

Some of my all time favorites:

Beethoven- Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor 'Moonlight Sonata' Op. 27/2: Adagio sostenuto

Bach- Prelude for lute in C minor, BWV 999

Joaquin Rodrigo- Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar & orchestra: 2nd movement

Pachelbel- Canon and Gigue for 3 violins & continuo in D major: Canon

Bach- Oboe Concerto in D minor, BWV 1059r

Mozart- Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major 'Elvira Madigan' K. 467: Andante

Beethoven- Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92: Allegretto

Franz Schubert- Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in C major, D. 956, Op. posth. 163: Adagio

Bach- Suite for orchestra No 3 in D major, BWV 1068: Air

Mozart- Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622: Adagio

Mozart- Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488: 2nd movement

Beethoven- Minuet for piano in G major, Wo0 10/2

Gaetano Donizetti- Andante sostenuto for oboe & harp in F minor

BA- Many more as well, these are what I'm listening to right now.

PS- There's a 10 CD set on the Delta label titled "Meditation: Classical relaxation", that is the best of the best, imo.

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Do you have a flat panel computer monitor?

by averyniceguy in

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friends

do you have a flat panel computer monitor?

i would like to hear from you about your flat panel computer monitor.

i would like to buy one asap.

Brother Apostate

I use a HP Pavilion f1703 - Flat panel display - TFT - 17" - 1280 x 1024 / 60 Hz - 250 cd/m2 - 350:1 - 0.26 mm - VGA (HD-15)

I love it- very good resolution, never had any issues with it, the base is only approximately 6" x 12".

As far as getting a new one, I'd check PCWorld and their ratings here:

http://www.pcworld.com/product/reviewfinder.html?id=10&CMP=KNC-SEM&HBX_PK=pcw_01-MONITORS-REVIEWS-R2&HBX_OU=50&gclid=CK72tuqvlYsCFQ3XgAodWhTZRg

BA- hope that helps.

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Songs that make you cry...

by El Kabong in

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i've been kind of sad the past few days for several reasons, but, there are certain songs that just cause the tears to flow whenever i hear them (and especially alone).

only time by enya.

i know that this song is often linked to the sept 11 attacks, but it really is just so hauntingly beautiful.

Brother Apostate

Lyrics:

Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes,
Long as I have my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Through all trials and tribulations,
We will travel every nation,
With my plastic Jesus I'll go far.

CHORUS
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Through my trials and tribulations,
And my travels thru the nations,
With my plastic Jesus I'll go far.

I don't care if it rains or freezes
As long as I've got my Plastic Jesus
Glued to the dashboard of my car,
You can buy Him phosphorescent
Glows in the dark, He's Pink and Pleasant,
Take Him with you when you're travelling far

I don't care if it's dark or scary
Long as I have magnetic Mary
Ridin' on the dashboard of my car
I feel I'm protected amply
I've got the whole damn Holy Family
Riding on the dashboard of my car

You can buy a Sweet Madonna
Dressed in rhinestones sitting on a
Pedestal of abalone shell
Goin' ninety, I'm not wary
'Cause I've got my Virgin Mary
Guaranteeing I won't go to Hell

I don't care if it bumps or jostles
Long as I got the Twelve Apostles
Bolted to the dashboard of my car
Don't I have a pious mess
Such a crowd of holiness
Strung across the dashboard of my car

ALT CHORUS
No, I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I have my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
But I think he'll have to go
His magnet ruins my radio
And if we have a wreck he'll leave a scar

Riding through the thoroughfare
With his nose up in the air
A wreck may be ahead, but he don't mind
Trouble coming, he don't see
He just keeps his eyes on me
And any other thing that lies behind

ALT CHORUS
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Though the sun shines on his back
Makes him peel, chip, and crack
A little patching keeps him up to par

When pedestrians try to cross
I let them know who's boss
I never blow my horn or give them warning
I ride all over town
Trying to run them down
And it's seldom that they live to see the morning

ALT CHORUS
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
His halo fits just right
And I use it as a sight
And they'll scatter or they'll splatter near and far

When I'm in a traffic jam
He don't care if I say Damn
I can let all sorts of curses roll
Plastic Jesus doesn't hear
For he has a plastic ear
The man who invented plastic saved my soul

ALT CHORUS
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Once his robe was snowy white
Now it isn't quite so bright
Stained by the smoke of my cigar

God made Christ a Holy Jew
God made Him a Christian too
Paradoxes populate my car
Joseph beams with a feigned elan
From the shaggy dash of my furlined van
Famous cuckold in the master plan

Naughty Mary, smug and smiling
Jesus dainty and beguiling
Knee-deep in the piling of my van
His message clear by night or day
My phosphorescent plastic Gay
Simpering from the dashboard of my van

When I'm goin' fornicatin
I got my ceramic Satan
Sinnin' on the dashboard of my Winnebago Motor Home
The women know I'm on the level
Thanks to the wild-eyed stoneware devil
Ridin' on the dashboard of my Winnebago Motor Home
Sneerin' from the dashboard of my Winnebago Motor Home
Leering from the dashboard of my van

If I weave around at night
And the police think I'm tight
They'll never find my bottle, though they ask
Plastic Jesus shelters me
For His head comes off, you see
He's hollow, and I use Him for a flask

ALT CHORUS
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Ride with me and have a dram
Of the blood of the Lamb
Plastic Jesus is a holy bar

There is nothin that is cuter
than a smilin Jolly Buddha,
Ridin on the dashboard of my car,
I don't have no idol cuter,
comes in plastic, bronze and pewter,
Take him with me when I go afar.

Jolly Buddha, fat and squattin,
on a pad of aspirin cotton,
He's with me wherever I may roam,
When it's late and I start to hurry,
I know he ain't gonna worry,
He looks at me and all he says is, "Oooommmmmmm."

There is nothing that is gaucher
Than eatin food that isn't kosher,
Right in front of my smilin Moses' face,
I'm afraid that he'll awaken
When I'm eatin ham or bacon,
And throw them Ten Commandments in my face.

I don't care if I'm broke or starvin'
As long as I've got a fish named Darwin
Glued to the trunklid of my car
God, I'm feeling so evolved
Drivin' with my problems solved
Proclaiming what I think of what we are

Riding home one foggy night,
With my honey cuddled tight,
I missed a curve and off the road we veered.
My windshield got smashed-up good,
And my darling graced the hood.
Plastic Jesus, He had disappeared.

cho: Plastic Jesus! Plastic Jesus,
No longer chides me with His holy grin.
Doctors in the X-ray room
Found Him in my darling's womb.
Someday, He'll be born again!

I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
He's the dude with the rusty nails,
Walks on water, don't need no sails
Riding on the dashboard of me car

I don't care if the night is scary
As long as I got the Virgin Mary
Sittin' on the dashboard of my car.
She don't slip and she don't slide
Cuz her butt is magnetized
Sittin' on the dashboard of my car.

Now I'm feeling quite contrary,
cos I got the Virgin Mary
Sitting on the dashboard of my car
There's no room for imperfection,
in my Catholic collection
Which sits upon the dashboard of my car

Jesus, Mary and St. Patrick,
now I've got the holy hat-trick
Sitting on the dashboard of my car
One more statue I've got to get
is the plastic Bernadette
Sitting on the dashboard of my car

Plastic Jesus, you've got to go,
your magnet's burst my radio
Sitting on the dashboard of my car
But I, won't lose faith and I won't lose hope
cos, now I've got a pope on a rope
Swinging from the dashboard of my car

Once as I drove to Knock,
at a petrol station I got a shock
at the special offers that they had for me
20 more points and I can barter for a Jesus with stigmata
to sit upon the dashboard of my car

From one of the best movies of all time:

"Cool Hand Luke"