Posts by RisingEagle

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Did You Purposely Avoid Certain People In Your Hall???

by minimus in

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i knew of some elders that were very intimidated by a certain elder's wife.

she regularly wrote letters to the society and circuit overseer telling them about the foibles of certain elders.

she was the type that when she raised her hand for a comment that you better call on her or you'd be approached by her right after the meeting.

RisingEagle

I only avoided two. The first one was short and round, wore red all the time and never took off their sunglasses. j/k

I did in fact avoid one brother like the plague. He was a hitter. Someone who had an annoying habit of emphasizing points in their speech by striking others with the back of the hand somewhere between the stomach and the chest. Usually adding his favorite word, "huh? huh?" with each hit.

It didn't hurt at all, it was just irritating as all get out. "Did you hear that talk on xxxx? Xxxx's are gonna regret it when armageddon comes. Huh? (whack) Huh? (whack)"

Now that I think about it he was a grabber also. When you would get enough of being whacked by the guy and you made an excuse to walk away, he would suddenly remember something he just had to relate to you, so he would take hold of you by the forearm as if to stop you from leaving.

"This is my personal hoola-hoop. Do not enter into the space within my hoola-hoop unless you have express written permission from the hoola-hoop owner. Trespassers will be violated."

Chris

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Were You The World's Worst Parent?

by freyd in

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and did your kids love you anyway?

RisingEagle

Were you the world's worst parent?

No, but there are at least 1000 times a day that I think, "Wow Chris, you REALLY suck at this parent thing!"

I could listen better, show more patience and even explain more things in a way that a six year old understands.

For example, a few weeks ago our daughters bio grandparents came into town for a visit and after they left we tried to go through the same bedtime routine that we've established. Due to the excitement of the day, the rugrat was all wound tight and was up and out of bed several times. On the fourth time telling her to go to bed, when I was in the kitchen feeding our dogs, my wife informs her that if she gets up again she was going to, "send Chris in," and that if I have to go in she, "wasn't going to like it one bit!" I hear this from the kitchen and I'm thinking to myself, "What the he!!? When did I become the enforcer?" So, of course, she gets up again and my wife just looks at me in that tone of voice, and yes she looks at me in tones of voices, I swear.

So I lead the little one back to bed and sternly tell her, "All right, xxx, your job is to close your eyes and dream. Your job is to dream about the visit you had with your grandma and poppa. Your job is to dream about all the things you want to be when you grow up. Do you want to be a dancer? Dream about that. Do you want to be a gymnast? Your job is to dream about that. Do you want to be a doctor (oh please, oh please)? Your job is to dream about that...." I must have rambled on and on. When I got done, she looked at me and said, "Can't my job just be to go to sleep?"

Not the worst parent in the world, but I'm getting there.

Chris

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MY DAD MIGHT DIE DUE TO THE 'NO BLOOD' DOCTRINE

by Mary in

i don't have much time to post as i'm headed back to the hospital, but my father collapsed this morning and had to be rushed to the hospital.

in a nutshell: he needs a blood transfusion as his hemoglobin is dropping (bleeding internally), but thanks to this fucking cult, that's not an option...........he'll accept the fractions but those bastards from the blood liaison committee have already shown up to ensure he doesn't cave............... for those of you who still believe, i'm asking you to say a prayer for my dad........and if anyone from crooklyn is reading this: you better hope my father doesn't die due to your fucked up rules, .

RisingEagle

Mary, both your father and you will be in our prayers. I hope you can get those scavengers/book publishing reps away from your dad long enough for a proper consult with a real doctor!

Chris

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why is George Washington posing like this????

by ninja in

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right hand pointing up...left hand down....robe to his waist

RisingEagle

As far as Baphomet goes, I think he/she looks like the first flight attendant. "This plane has two exits, one at the front and one towards the back."

Chris

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why is George Washington posing like this????

by ninja in

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right hand pointing up...left hand down....robe to his waist

RisingEagle

Americans can be a fickle bunch when it comes to art. The Washington statue by Horatio Greenough that was supposed to adorn the Capitol rotunda was so heckled it was removed to a nearby park and hidden by a wooden shed for years. It was finally taken out of the elements in 1908 and put into the Smithsonian. One of the toes was broken off the statue and it literally took an act of Congress to get it repaired.

His quote:

"Allow me to exult a little that, during the months I spent at Washington, while my statue was the butt of wiseacres and witlings, I never, in word or thought, swerved from my principle - that the general mind is alone a quorum to judge a great work. When, in future time, the true sculptors of America have filled the metropolis with beauty and grandeur, will it not be worth $30,000 to be able to point to the figure and say -'There was the first struggle of our infant art'?"

'Wiseacres and witlings', gotta love it. I'm so going to steal that line.

Chris

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Tons of Soil or Sons of Toil?

by compound complex in

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spoonerism: noun; william a. spooner - educator and clergyman;.

the transposition of the initial sounds of two or more words.. tairy fales.

parrots and ceas.

RisingEagle

Professor to student:

"You've tasted the whole werm!"

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my mother sent this to me-

by Younglove1999 in

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so my mom sends me this to me and i hate these jw forward things- .

i want to have a good response when she asks if i got it- because i feel like it has nothing to do with jw's, just a coincidence.

i feel like she thinks i hate god, but it has nothing to do with him- it's the religion itself.

RisingEagle

ASK HER FOR NAMES, DATES, AND PLACES......
OUTASERVICE

Exactly what I was thinking. Ditto what Changeling wrote also. This story is typical jw folklore, always bent towards the wtb$ but light on the details.

Chris

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It's official (family-wise) I am an apostate

by RisingEagle in

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i was having lunch last week with my mom and she dropped the a-word on me.

my mom started off the lunch speaking about what a disappointment i was to her that my wife and i had put our little girl into a christian private school.

i posted on an earlier thread that my wife and i now have a 6 year old beautiful little girl that we're adopting.

RisingEagle

Horrible, it sounds like you had some generous elders in that part of T-town. We're not going to put those kind of limits on our daughters school experience. It would remind me to much of my own super ultra-fabulous wonderful (tongue-firmly-in-cheek) times in school when I was yanked out when the kiddies would do anything remotely religious or political. You know the scenario: sitting down while the kids said the pledge and having them stare more at you than at the flag or being sent to the library during a classroom birthday party, holiday party or Christmas play practice.

That reminds me, I forgot to answer your question about if our new varmint likes steak. She loves it. She came to us from Texas so I'm pretty sure she was weaned on steak.

Chris (Yeah ya'll can call me Chris, howdy!)

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It's official (family-wise) I am an apostate

by RisingEagle in

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i was having lunch last week with my mom and she dropped the a-word on me.

my mom started off the lunch speaking about what a disappointment i was to her that my wife and i had put our little girl into a christian private school.

i posted on an earlier thread that my wife and i now have a 6 year old beautiful little girl that we're adopting.

RisingEagle

I was having lunch last week with my mom and she dropped the a-word on me. My mom started off the lunch speaking about what a disappointment I was to her that my wife and I had put our little girl into a Christian private school. I posted on an earlier thread that my wife and I now have a 6 year old beautiful little girl that we're adopting. I live in area of town in which the neighborhood public schools are a scary place, so that leaves 3 options: private schools that are all run by some religious affiliation, homeschooling or lying about my address and enrolling her into one of the suburban cities school system. My jw mom was the one who suggested using her address to enroll her into the public school system in her town, but I won't lie. Homeschooling is not an option because of our jobs, so we opted for a private school.

About 3 bites into lunch she tells me that by enrolling her into a 'Christian' school I am now an apostate and asked me if I had looked up apostasy in the reasoning book. She also said that she could cut my older brother some slack (he also enrolled his kids in Christian private schools years ago) because he was never baptized. She would not 'go easy' on me or my wife because, "You were both baptized and swore to serve jehovah."

There was an earlier thread that asked if one would be any good at debating with a jw and I guess my answer with this particular jw would have to be 'no'. I just got quiet. Not because of guilt or the need to try and maintain the relationship with the family still inside, my wife and I are ready to DA if an elder so much as looks in our general direction, but because of pity. I felt pity that in one breath she would suggest lying and then condemn the two of us (or three since my wife and I are taking down our soon to be daughter) for pursuing a safe meaningful education for a six year old.

My only response to her was, "If you think that in the last 13 years of us not attending meetings that the worst sin I've committed is enrolling a six year old girl in a Christian school, you're sadly mistaken" and that, "I think the hard part for you is that when I walk out the door of this restaurant nothing changes for me and everything changes for you."

You want to know the weird part? I really expected her to cease contact with me after that but she's been to the house twice and my phone rings numerous times a day from her.

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Are You On The List? HEROES is back tonight! Save the Cheerleader...

by AWAKE&WATCHING in

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i can't wait.

are you a fan ?

RisingEagle

I forgot it was on! I folded laundry until 8:30 then it was time to read the ankle-biter chapter 2 of Charlotte's Web. I only caught the last couple of minutes. I soooo need a Tivo!

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