Posts by tula

By 1884 Gauguin had moved with his family to Copenhagen, where he pursued a business career as a stockbroker. Driven to paint full-time, he returned to Paris in 1885, leaving his family in Denmark. Without adequate subsistence, his wife (Mette Sophie Gadd) and their five children returned to her family. Gauguin outlived two of his children.

And this guy...walter Anderson...he lived like that. Once he tied himself to a tree because he wanted to experience a hurricane. He survived it. He left business and children behind because they did not want to move with him. He is very famous now.

I heard about this man about a decade ago when I was working on a book about shrimping. One day I was packing my suitcase, getting ready to go to Mississippi to catch opening day of the fishing season. All the shrimpers in Panacea were heading west, to be in Pascagoula when the bay opened so they could partake of the rich harvest of brown shrimp. The television was mindlessly on in the background, but I paid it no attention.

Then a film called "The Islander" came on, about an artist recluse named Walter Anderson who had lived in Ocean Springs, Mississippi and created thousands upon thousands of water colors and pen-and-ink drawings of every imaginable creature that swam the water, flew the skies and crawled upon the land. Packing forgotten, I watched with fascination the story of his life. Professionally trained in New York, Philadelphia and Paris, he nevertheless spent most of his adult life in Ocean Springs. He frequently rowed fourteen miles out to Horn Island, one of the narrow barrier islands within sight of his home on the Gulf coast, to live as a hermit and paint.

I say take the boat trip oompa. You know you will love it. You need a vacation. See how things are when you come back. What fun. Stopping at little marinas and maybe find fresh shrimp or flounder when the fishing boats come in.

Watching the phosphoresence in the water at night. Cool breezes. No schedule. Just you....and God. And maybe without all the noise of the city he will be able to hear you for once.

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Untolerable, Unheard of and down right Unbelievable experiences

by REBORNAGAIN in

has anyone experienced something really outrageous among the jw's that you want to share?.

we once had a couple of jw's follow us (policeing us) as we were on our way to my (then, he's now my ex) husband's boss's home.

his boss wanted us over for an end of the year party and didn't consider it a christmas party because he knew we didn't celebrate christmas.

tula

I'm suprized they didn't set up a friggin comitee in your bedroom, with scoring cards to rate your performance.

alt

The paranoia is always there. And the crowds.

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Catholics

by BlackSwan of Memphis in

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so can someone please enlighten me why when people come out with their catholicism others find it necessary to remind them of their pope worshipping, mary praying traditions (sic)?.

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tula

Married to God---Ring and all

All religious groups have their idiosyncracies:

Many women were placed into convents by their families. The Church received a dowry from the parents of the nuns, and any jewelry which belonged to the girl which added wealth to the convent or nunnery. Older women also became nuns, many widows chose this way of life after the death of their husband. Many convents and nunneries only accepted postulents who were from wealthy backgrounds. Every candidate for admission to a nun's order took the vow of obedience. The postulancy usually lasted one month, the novitiate one year, at the end which simple vows were taken. The solemn vows of the Medieval Nuns were taken four years later. Having once joined she remained a nun for the rest of her life. The medieval ceremony for the consecration of nuns was similar to a wedding - a nun would be seen as married to God. A ring was placed on the nun's finger and she wore a wedding crown or headdress.

Actually this excerpt says "medieval" but this custom went on much longer than that. I saw a movie depicting this just a few years ago. The year depicted was within the past 200 years.

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Has the Watchtower ever officially LIED?

by Dead Man Joaquin in

no, i'm not here to defend them.

but you know how they love to get off on technicalities.

i'm sure all here would agree that the wt is extremely evasive, misleading, and intellectually dishonest (i.e.

tula

liar

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

by Wordly Andre in

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i found this on the web:

eisenhower's family originally belonged to the local river brethren sect of the mennonites.

however, when ike was five years old, his parents became followers of the watchtower society, whose members later took the name jehovah's witnesses.

tula

Forget college! This board has covered a lot of history for one day in this thread. Boy howdy! I sure didn't know all that Andre.

alt

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Has the Watchtower ever officially LIED?

by Dead Man Joaquin in

no, i'm not here to defend them.

but you know how they love to get off on technicalities.

i'm sure all here would agree that the wt is extremely evasive, misleading, and intellectually dishonest (i.e.

tula

They lied when they said they joined the UN for library access.

alt

If that is not true, then why did they join? really?

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abomination of desolation

by tula in

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so what does this mean to you?.

and how would you apply this to the future as a revelation?.

tula

There was already a thread where I was able to show that it could not apply to 70CE as most think.

Joseph,

Thank you. Could you please send link to that thread? And also, how do you see this as applying to the future? Do you have some idea of how it might be interpreted in a future scenerio?

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post the OT scripture that you find most disturbing.

by oompa in

i am too tired to find mine right now, but it involves men laying in wait to attack and rape sisters going to dance at a circuit assembly.

i think the purpose was to find even more wives for the tribe of benjamin.

great plan god.. ot stuff always weirded me out more than nt stuff, until i found out we have a totally fraudulant nt version, compete with the name jehovah spuriously inserted 237 times, along with many other spurious verses.

tula

"...there were small boys that came out from the city and began to jeer him and that kept saying to him: 'Go up you bald head! Go up you baldhead!' Finally he turned behind him and saw them and called down evil upon them in the name of Jehovah. Then two she-bears came out from the woods and went tearing to pieces forty-two children of their number."- 2 Kings 2: 23, 24

Cyrus...I actually like that scripture. Instant revenge for name calling. But guess what happens to bald headed men when god gets angry with them.