you better start drunk dialing me, i miss your voice.
monophonic
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JWs & "Creature Worship" -- Is I...
by BitterTruth injehovah's witnesses, creature worship and active practicers of idolatry.
jehovah's witnesses have long practiced idolatry and various forms of "creature worship," now for many years.
although the wts teaches and has stated many times in their publications that the world in general, by way of such things as "birthday" celebrations, christmas, and other annual events, actually eulogize and extol great glory upon man, the individual himself, and thus, by way of whats known as "creature worship," practice wholesale idolatry!.
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A check in... Anyone here from NORTHERN CALIFORNIA...?
by Kudra in.
i periodically wonder if anyone here might have grown up in my neck o the woods... .
also perhaps some newbies who i didn't know of before might hail from the land of the redwood n such... .
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monophonic
great idea, you'll see my post above suggesting just that.
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A check in... Anyone here from NORTHERN CALIFORNIA...?
by Kudra in.
i periodically wonder if anyone here might have grown up in my neck o the woods... .
also perhaps some newbies who i didn't know of before might hail from the land of the redwood n such... .
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monophonic
[Hey two weeks from today I'm going to San Francisco.
The plan is to fly in to Reno on Sunday about 12:00 noon and spend the night in Tahoe City. Then drive to San Franciso very early the next morning, spend the day and then drive back to Tahoe city late that evening. Then we'll fly back to Mississippi Thursday.
That said -- does anyone want to be a tour guide? LOL. I am so afraid I'm going to get lost in San Franciso!!! I am so not a big city gal!]
I won't be able to tour guide b/c i've cleared out the next four weeks to isolate and work on hopefully the last draft of my novel
One day in San Francisco, that's a tough one. most tourists miss the best thing about san francisco, the neighborhoods, but if it's your first time in san francisco, then there's the obligatory cable car ride, north beach area, walk to coit tower....or drive...north beach and coit tower (telegraph hill neighborhood) are walking distance, but be ready for steep hills. great people watching in north beach as well as bars. vesuvio's is a must, on kerouac alley right across from city lights book store, get that beatnik vibe...i think if i had one day in san francisco, i would avoid the cable cars b/c there's always a line..up to an hour or two... and stick to north beach, hike to coit tower before drinking, then head back down the hill and hang out at a cafe and ask locals where to eat...the bartenders @ vesuvios are cool and i know one also bartends in the mission district (which i'd say to explore if you had three days in san francisco)
fisherman's wharf and pier 39 is all tourists...if you find anyone from san francisco there it's b/c they work there or are begging for money and it's the same as any other city's tourist area, bad gift shops, tgi fridays to make the out of towners feel comfortable, etc. nobody who lives in san francisco goes there voluntarily.
parking is a bitch in north beach...coming from the east bay, i would say park your car at west oakland bart station (the local subway), and bart into san francisco, then get off at the first or second stop and grab a cab to north beach...it's also walkable and most people will give you directions if you ask...you'll be in the financial district/downtown and it's pretty safe.
washington square in north beach is a great place for a picnic or just to relax and north beach borders chinatown, which has a lot of cheap gift shops....and great chinese food and there are herbalists if you're looking for inexpensive supplements for anything health related.
if you want some bad ass illegal fireworks, chinatown is your place, just be discreet. ;)
if you end up hanging out late and want to go quirky, ask for directions to LiPo lounge or Buddha Bar, both hipster drinking establishments in chinatown that make san francisco unique.
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iRIVER versus iPOD a Discussion
by Terry ini've owned two different ipods including the video ipod.. i own two different iriver products including the new iriver clix2 (mp3 player, video player, digital recorder and fm radio.).
to me the iriver is the clear winner on all fronts.
(cheaper, too).. briefly: iriver allows multiple file formats and drag and drop file use.
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monophonic
i agree...i used to do tech support, so i'm always way more nice than many...even when i'm dealing with health insurance (notoriously inept), i always show respect to the person on the other end.
for some reason, even being nice, i got the complete blow off from iriver, could've been a bad apple or whatever, but when i get the blow off that's when i ask the harder questions, like what should i do to resolve the problem, which was, they'd give me a gift certificate for $75 for another iriver product....which the final straw was i was taping an interview with the author of white oleandar, and she did this whole segment about getting picked for oprah book club and how she was working a temp job and got a call from oprah directly and the iriver crapped out again.
i declined the gift certificate b/c i was getting attitude when i was being nice and respectful about it.....i always assume the other person is trying their best, in this case, i got instant attitude from them, so no more iriver products or recommendations from me. even $75 off won't get me to buy another iriver product.
creative and dell, them i'll support, and even though i really dislike being a slave to itunes, ipod has always treated us right w/ tech support and replacements.
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iRIVER versus iPOD a Discussion
by Terry ini've owned two different ipods including the video ipod.. i own two different iriver products including the new iriver clix2 (mp3 player, video player, digital recorder and fm radio.).
to me the iriver is the clear winner on all fronts.
(cheaper, too).. briefly: iriver allows multiple file formats and drag and drop file use.
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monophonic
i went with iriver b/c i hate the being stuck using itunes to organize my mp3s.
with limited use, my iriver h320 battery would die after about seven minutes.
they wouldn't exchange it b/c i had it just over a year, even though i probably used it once every two weeks.
i loved that i could make my own file directory options, but the battery thing and lack of tech support drove me to go with Creative, which was originally Dell, and Dell has never steered me wrong on tech support.
the creative i have is a 30gb w/ video and $100 less than the ipod 30gb.
i like that there isn't an itunes type interface, but it does try to organize your files on its own, i need to figure out how to make my own directory structure.
ipod has excellent support, my wife replaced hers twice w/ the one year warranty....she dropped it left and right and both times they replaced the unit w/o issues.
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A check in... Anyone here from NORTHERN CALIFORNIA...?
by Kudra in.
i periodically wonder if anyone here might have grown up in my neck o the woods... .
also perhaps some newbies who i didn't know of before might hail from the land of the redwood n such... .
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san francisco representin'
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Should I talk to Joel Engardio on the phone? What would you ask him?
by Bob Loblaw inso i met this girl last night whose best friend is best friends with joel engardio.
i said that i would really like to talk to him and she said that she could get me his phone number and he would be happy to speak with me.
i haven't seen the film "knocking" yet,...so i don't really know what i would discuss with him at this point.
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monophonic
yes, see the film first....just from the press notes i couldn't watch it.
i'd ask financing, exactly who financed the film and were any wits involved (save that question towards the end...filmmakers hate to answer financing questions, but in this case it's relevant.)
bring up homosexuality and let him know that every witness thinks he's going to die at armageddon and is bad association. even when they pretend to be nice, they're only hoping their 'niceness' makes him heterosexual, there's not a genuine concern for him if he's adamant about staying gay.
i don't think he was baptized and never had to go through a JC, etc. find some real examples where people have killed themselves out of guilt for being disfellowshipped and ask him why that wasn't covered....and let him know the wtbts washes their hands when they shun someone, even wrongly or if 'new light' changes, b/c as far as they're concerned anything that happens to a dfed person is b/c they no longer have holy spirit.
i would do research on brainwashing techniques, the constant pounding of the same info over and over is a form of brainwashing, as well as other things.
i was going to interview him, my wife asked me not to b/c it would affect her family if they saw the article since i was going to nail him...i would've watched the film, but can't bring myself to do it....except if we can figure some drinking games associated with it....like everytime 1914 is said take a shot. but if i was interviewing him, i'd have to suck it up and watch the film and get into his head before meeting him.
i'd rather watch a snuff film and interview a serial killer....no, both would make me want to vomit.
and, THE HOMOSEXUAL COMMUNITY should be PISSED at him for making this film. they should screen it @ the frameline film fest in SF, he wouldn't make it out alive....i consider it similar to making a nazi propaganda film after WW2 and being jewish.
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How Would You Approach a JW "studying" in Public Transportation?
by GermanXJW ini get to the office by train.
recently, when i left the train at my destination station i noticed a jw, sitting there, obviously "studying" the "revelation"-book for the night's cbs.
it was too late for my, but i was thinking about saying something like "don't you get it at the third time that this is bullshit?
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monophonic
wait til ya read my book. :)
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Tee shirt with foolish WT quotes, I will wear to reunion with witnesses
by dawg inas many of you know, i've been writing letters to family members telling them how damn stupid i think the gb is; providing proofs of all their comedic gaffs (building mansions for prophets and the like) including some of their most outlandish quotes-which i know all of us can remember verbatim.
spurned on by mary and others in this site, i've decided that i will try a new ploy.
my family reunion is every labor day and i've decided to wear a tee shirt to it with russell, rutherford, and franz's images on it... i will include images of a pyramid, beth sarim, on the front and 607?
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monophonic
oh shit, i remember that and we were begging him to tell us where to get that t-shirt.
dude, call me tomorrow, i still gotta tell you about andre williams and the brain dead dave night. don't you hawaians use phones?
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How Would You Approach a JW "studying" in Public Transportation?
by GermanXJW ini get to the office by train.
recently, when i left the train at my destination station i noticed a jw, sitting there, obviously "studying" the "revelation"-book for the night's cbs.
it was too late for my, but i was thinking about saying something like "don't you get it at the third time that this is bullshit?
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it would depend who it was, if it was one of those hottie jws, i'd start with the 'i'm interested' routine, then ask for an instant bible study at my place where i happen to have absinthe and 'no it's not illegal', then we'd do shots and she'd try to preach to me but i'd undress her with my eyes and she'd know and do more shots in the hopes of forgetting the best "O" (and i ain't talking oprah) that she'll ever have in her life b/c her trophy jw hubby that she'll get soon won't go down on her and do the job that needs to be done.
i've decided to ride a lot more public transportation. :)