Posts by Francois

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More Notes from the Astrodome---Saturday II

by 95stormfront in

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it's quite draining to have your "bs" detector running on high alert for 4 straight hours, so, by the time the clapping was done for all the baptism candidates filing out to change clothes, i'd managed to move it's setting to low power standby.

after a recharge of sandwiches, chips, washed down by now room temperature soda, i decided that i'd take a walk around the general area.

inside the perimeter area of the astrodome, jw's young and old had filed out and filled the area.

Francois

If I had been at the Astrodome, I would have made my appearance in the morning. At lunch, I would have parted company with the WTBTS and its drones and made a dash for Felix' Seafood near the corner of Bourbon and something. All I know is that it's around the corner from the Monteleone Hotel. There I would have mixed up my favorite oyster dipping sauce, gotten an ice cold Jax beer and told the guy behind the solid marble bar to keep the oysters coming until I told him to stop.

After I had so may oysters and Jax I couldn't move, I would have strolled around to the Monteleone, gone up to my room and passed out with a smile on my face and slept it off.

Next morning, I would have done the same thing.

Oysters and Jax is spiritual food enough for moi

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The Silliness of "Neutrality' and "Pagan Customs"

by metatron in

the watchtower engages in commerce, sells stock thru brokerages, trains or retains lawyers, uses 'blame the victim'.

tactics in court, protests to various governments, seeks tax exemptions, holds millions of dollars in banks and .

constantly fends off lawsuits in legal actions.. yet, somehow they are "no part of the world" ??????.

Francois

Well said. However we all know that logic does not and never has informed any of the JWs thinking.

It would be very interesting to know how many people remain in the Borg just because they want to avoid the consequences of DFing. I'd be willing to bet there are as many who stay for that purpose as who stay for any other purpose. Obviously this includes some elders, COs, DOs & so on up the line.

I hope I live long enough to witness the end of the witnesses.

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Poll Suggests World Is Hostile Toward Great Britain

by minimus in

since simon has proven everyone thinks poorly of the united states of america, it might be good to state the polls that we have seen lately, in the states.

actually, the headlines of newspapers and/or magazines are acceptable too.

here's one headline:" england sucks up to bush again!

Francois

All of what you have said is twue, all twue. Comes from inbreeding they say. Well, don't blame me, look at bonny prince Charlie. Boy's got ping pong paddles for ears. Inbreeding.

Well, what do you expect? They live on an island, fer Pete's sake. Can't help it. Had to import this last line of royal family from Germany.

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Poll suggests world hostile to US

by Simon in

an interesting read:.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2994924.stm.

some key bits:.

Francois

Well, Englishman, I don't think the Irish like you all very much. And if the English gummint came along and took my property and gave it to some Imperial General for a job well done in service to the Crown in the Jewel in the Crown, and then that general rented my land and my home back to me, I'd hate him and you too. Personally, I think the Brits should leave Northern Ireland, now that you ask.

Seems to me I remember the British not doing too well with the native population in any of its colonies. Of course WE got over your boarish behavior once we taught you all some lessons, some of which some of you have forgotten as I notice some here seem to have made a life-time hobby of America bashing, to wit: "Yeah, y'all saved our bacon, but you made us wait 'n' stuff 'n' we STILL resent that."

Frankly, my opinion is that we're going to have to band together and act together or we're going to be awash in a sea of orientals who can and DO have an innate tendency toward cooperation one with another. How come you think the red mongolian race came across the Siberian land bridge of long ago? Right, the yellow man RAN him across it. So play nice.

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Something I was never told about JW's.....

by Algun Otro in

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.... those meetings are soooooooo boring.

and don't get me started on the 3 days of hell i just spent at the district convention.

(actually, if there isn't really a "hell", then it was 3 days of "non-existence") ok, ok, i get it.... as a witness, i should "give god glory", and make sure everything i do is being done in the glory of god.... but i don't need 3 days to get that point across.

Francois

Amazing. Here is this God (the real one), the one who made the entire Universe of Universes in all its breath-taking beauty and astounding diversity; a universe filled with phenomena such as we have never dreamed. And WE are supposed to give this god GLORY???? Sheeee-it! The glory and beauty associated with just one planetary nebula is more than all humans put together could possibly rustle up. The very idea.

http://hubble.stsci.edu/gallery/showcase/nebulae/n9.shtml

Can someone look at the HTML code and tell me why the image didn't show up please?

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You are SO not gonna believe this

by LovesDubs in

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well prodigal jw husband came home last night from his jw field trip back up north.

we had the house all cleaned and daddy was on the way home from the airport...but didnt show up.

i knew immediately where he was.

Francois

That's something I left out of my post up there. Usually, if the gal gets rid of the abusive husband, she's more likely than not to pick another just like him. I don't know what the mechanics of that are, but it's very predictable. My mother did it. She married someone she didn't love to get away from a dominating, domineering mother who controlled her life. Her first husband was just like her mother. She divorced him and married my father. Guess what? Yep. He was just like her mother, too. But then there was me! And he was gone into the maw of WW II. She just stuck with him.

I've seen women married to alcoholics pick an alcoholic to replace the first alcoholic; women married to physical batterers pick another batterer to replace the first batterer; and on and on and on.

I don't unnerstand it. And guys tend to do the same thing. Strange.

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Iran will have a nuclear weapon next year

by JH in

us accumulates evidence of irans nuclear violations.

debkafile special report.

june 16, 2003, 4:47 pm (gmt+02:00).

Francois

I predict that the future of N Korea and Iran is going to be short.

Now, if China takes the side of these to rogue states, then it's going to be the cold war all over again.

Damn. I was hoping my generation was going to be the last to do that stupid "duck and cover" or that walking three miles to the rail head. By the time we walked to the rail head, we'd have been little crispy critters. The only good thing was the buddy system as we walked over there and you got to hold hands with your girlfriend.

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New US Constitution

by Francois in

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can't find the original post, so here it is again: .

"we, the sensible people of the united states, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid any more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great- grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt-ridden, delusional and other liberal bed-wetters.

we hold these truths to be self-evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the bill of rights and are so dim that they require a bill of no rights.

Francois

A minority you said? That's exactly what the left, the democrat party, that is the neo-Marxist Party of America is doing right now. The top 50% of wage earners pay 96% of the taxes; the top 5% of wage earners pay something on the order of 36% of the taxes and the democrat party wants to make that curve steeper. Why? So that the people paying the taxes are such a minority that if they banded together to vote against these neo-Marxists it would make no difference at all. The people paying the taxes would essentially have no voice. And when Bush gives some of the taxes back to the people who are actually paying it, the neo-Marxist democrat party screams, "It's a tax break for the rich," No. It's a tax break for the people who actually pay the damned taxes in the firs place.

Have a look at this. See if it chills your bones. It should.

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."

And this guy was not speaking about some modern state. He was speaking about the fall of the first Athenean Republic.

When you see the liberals on TV wringing their hands talking about the poor and excoriating the rich and the Republicans, and you see Hillary running for president, etc., etc., be afriad, be very afraid.

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All right -- What does God need 144,000 "rulers" for, anyway?

by logansrun in

one of the great philosophical conumdrums amongst the vast number of philosophical conumdrums of the watchtower society is this: why would almighty god (or jesus christ) need once earthly, now spiritual "co-rulers" for anyway?

god is not lacking in anything (supposedly).

now, anything means anything, right?

Francois

How odd of God
To choose the Jews.

And y'know what else? That sentence that blabbers on about the 144k? The WTBTS has part of that sentence as literal, part as symbolic, another part as literal again, bouncing back and forth between literal and symbolic like a ping pong ball making sure that no where in that sentence does it trip over its own so-called theology. It's grand to watch them in action. Gotta hand it to them, they're as sleazy and slippery as James Carville or any of them super spin doctors that Clinton had.

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Poll suggests world hostile to US

by Simon in

an interesting read:.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2994924.stm.

some key bits:.

Francois

Asked who is the more dangerous to world peace and stability, the United States was rated higher than al-Qaeda by respondents in both Jordan (71%) and Indonesia (66%).

... most find America more worrying than al-Qaeda !

Jordan and Indonesia, both Islamic nations. Now that's what I call objective polling. Now the BIG question. Since I'm "getting tired of this" can I lock this thread?

francois