Posts by ziddina

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Rick Simons' Opposition to WTS Motion in Conti case is brilliant--Check it out @ Alameda Sup Ct Website

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ziddina

Aw, crud...

144001, I just don't follow this website like I used to.

Sorry to hear about the conflict.

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A truce between Atheists and Non-Atheists?

by palmtree67 in

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ricky gervais tweeted this 11/14/12 and i totally agree with it:.

"there are good atheists and bad atheists.

there are good believers and bad believers.. no god has ever changed that.".

That is one comment that really is NOT allowed in the SCA, because we are too aware of the ugly realities behind that comment - it was aimed at Jewish people during the Dark Ages and Medieval times, totally FALSE, of course - and was used as an excuse for the most horrific persecutions against Jewish people...

I'm not JEWISH, but man - I cannot stand anything that smacks of the "Spanish Inquisition"...

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A truce between Atheists and Non-Atheists?

by palmtree67 in

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ricky gervais tweeted this 11/14/12 and i totally agree with it:.

"there are good atheists and bad atheists.

there are good believers and bad believers.. no god has ever changed that.".

ziddina

Ahh... Sure...

Just like she's 'joking' in all of her other vituperative posts.

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A truce between Atheists and Non-Atheists?

by palmtree67 in

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ricky gervais tweeted this 11/14/12 and i totally agree with it:.

"there are good atheists and bad atheists.

there are good believers and bad believers.. no god has ever changed that.".

ziddina

Okay, that quote is JUST too good to pass up...

Quoting Chariklo, just in case she decides to edit it in a few minutes...

"Oooh, have you started cooking Christian babies, NC??!!!

we didn't know that..." Chariklo, page #17, post #2405

Fascinating... She uses one of the most repulsive attacks ever used by Christianity - AGAINST Jewish people during the Dark Ages, I might add - to assault atheist behaviors..

Talk about behaving in the manner with which she accuses and attacks OTHER people...

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Conti v Watchtower - Court Denies Watchtower Motion re: Substituting Bond - November 16 court documents in pdf

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jw leaks has published the latest court documents, in pdf, relating to "candace conti v the watchtower bible and tract society of new york" as filed on november 16, 2012.. the watchtower society motion to substitute or reduce bond on appeal is denied.. www.jwleaks.org.

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ziddina

If Candace settles for an undisclosed figure, can future lawsuits use the $11 million settlement as a 'guideline' or standard? Legally, I mean...

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VOTE TO REVOKE UK CHARITY STATUS OF JW CHARITIES! URGENT!

by Blablaman in

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not long left... closes 20/02/2013 @ 08:01am.

vote now!.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/29949 .

ziddina

Bump for all the U.K. Citizens on JWN...

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Conti v Watchtower - Court Denies Watchtower Motion re: Substituting Bond - November 16 court documents in pdf

by jwleaks in

jw leaks has published the latest court documents, in pdf, relating to "candace conti v the watchtower bible and tract society of new york" as filed on november 16, 2012.. the watchtower society motion to substitute or reduce bond on appeal is denied.. www.jwleaks.org.

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ziddina

"...As I said above, I think the WTBTS will be trying to settle with Conti. The only question is how much are they willing to offer to make this go away? If they do settle, they will insist on confidentiality provisions that will prevent Conti or her lawyers from disclosing any details of the deal." 144001, page 1

However, the details of the CASE are now public record, and cannot be sealed, right? So the most significant part of the situation is that the inner workings of the Watchtower Society in the way that they mis-handle child sexual abuse cases is now out there for anyone in the public to access....

Am I correct in stating this?

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Conti v Watchtower - Court Denies Watchtower Motion re: Substituting Bond - November 16 court documents in pdf

by jwleaks in

jw leaks has published the latest court documents, in pdf, relating to "candace conti v the watchtower bible and tract society of new york" as filed on november 16, 2012.. the watchtower society motion to substitute or reduce bond on appeal is denied.. www.jwleaks.org.

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ziddina

"Travelers is a VERY conservative insurer, and has no problem saying NO (unless the underwriter is a JW who has not fully informed the boss about Watchtower). If this is the case, a few emails to Travelers Insurance Investors relations, and loss control Dept. might be in order." Balaamsass, page 1

If Travelers is very conservative, they would be more likely to assist a "Christian" organization, especially if the Watchtower represented itself to them as the "innocent, injured" party in all of this...

Or maybe Travelers is just very well aware of how much the Watchtower is worth...$$$$$

Never mind - the answer was lower down on page 1...

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Don't tread on my dreams

by Xanthippe in

favourite poem anyone?.

here's some of mine.

had i the heavens' embroidered cloths,.

ziddina

Ooooo, I LOVE "The Cremation of Sam McGee"!!

Thanks for posting that!!

I 'cut my teeth' on Badger Clark's poetry - I was born in South Dakota, in a small town on the edge of the Rosebud Sioux reservation...

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Don't tread on my dreams

by Xanthippe in

favourite poem anyone?.

here's some of mine.

had i the heavens' embroidered cloths,.

ziddina

Geez...

Let's have some rip-roaring cowboy poetry - thicken the blood around here!!!

The poetry of 'Badger' Clark (1883 - 1957) - poet-laureate of South Dakota...

From Town

We're the children of the open and we hate the haunts o' men,
But we had to come to town to get the mail.
And we're ridin' home at daybreak—'cause the air is cooler then—
All 'cept one of us that stopped behind in jail.
Shorty's nose won't bear paradin', Bill's off eye is darkly fadin',
All our toilets show a touch of disarray,
For we found that city life is a constant round of strife
And we ain't the breed for shyin' from a fray.
Chant your warwhoop, pardners dear, while the east turns pale with fear
And the chaparral is tremblin' all aroun'
For we're qicked to the marrer; we're a mid-night dream of terror
When we're ridin' up the rocky trail from town!
We acquired our hasty temper from our friend, the centipede,
From the rattlesnake we learnt to guard our rights.
We have gathered fightin' pointers from the famous bronco steed
And the bobcat teached us reppertee that bites.
So when some high-collared herrin' jeered the garb that I was wearin'
'Twasn't long till we had got where talkin' ends,
And he et his illbred chat, with a sauce of derby hat,
While my merry pardners entertained his friends.
Sing 'er out, my buckeroos! Let the desert hear the news.
Tell the stars the way we rubbed the haughty down.
We're the fiercest wolves a-prowlin' and it's just our night for howlin'
When we're ridin' up the rocky trail from town.
Since the days that Lot and Abram split the Jordan range in halves
Just to fix it so their punchers wouldn't fight,
Since old Jacob skinned his dad-in-law for six years' crop of calves
And then hit the trail for Canaan in the night,
There has been a taste for battle 'mong the men that followed cattle
And a love of doin' things that's wild and strange,
And the warmth of Laban's words when he missed his speckled herds
Still is useful in the language of the range.
Singer 'er out, my bold coyotes! leather fists and leather throats,
For we wear the brand of Ishm'el like a crown.
We're the sons of desolation, we're the outlaws of creation—
EEEEE~YOW! a-ridin' up the rocky trail from town!
Badger Clark