Posts by HintOfLime

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This is what I did for 1.5 hours today...

by Gregor in

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sat on the deck this afternoon in some rare late fall sunshine.

sipped a nice chardonnay and listened to the birds singing...peaceful, relaxing...peeling apples for pie.... .

HintOfLime

No...?... no differential equations? Certainly you mean pi instead of pie. Wait, Chardonnay? Is this a some sort of flight? You mean vodka, right? Just what kind of day was this? I'm so confused.

- Lime

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Fun Game !

by iknowall558 in

HintOfLime

I have two books on my desk stacked one on top of the other. The technical closest by the nearest corner:

"Using guards, we can perform simple tests and comparisons on the variables in a pattern." - Programming Erlang, Software for a Concurrent World

And the runner up:

"This Process Group involves coordinating people and resources, as well as integrating and performing the activities of the project in accordance with the project management plan." - A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition

Damn I read boring books.

- Lime

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What accusations do you have about us JWs? AND what group are YOU a part of?

by theMadJW in

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i'm one of the few jws that freely admit our faults and mistakes.. let's compare notes!.

HintOfLime

I accuse Jehovah's Witnesses of murdering Mr. Body, in the Library, with the Candlestick.

- Lime

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Moses's mistake

by highdose in

ok heres another thing that always worried and puzzled me... moses made great sacrifices to lead the isrealites and endured great hardship to do so... but he makes one mistake and suddenly all that counts for nothing and he gets no rewards for his pains at all!????!.

this has never seemed fair to me.

basicly what is seems to be saying is that you can lead a exemplary life at great cost to your self, but if you make one mistake... thats it youv'e blown it!.

HintOfLime

Actually, you're out even if your great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather missed a ball as well.

Of course, you might be able to get back in if you work your ass off your whole life hitting nothing but home runs. "Probably" you will be conceiled in the day of his anger. Probably. Most likely you will. Maybe.

- Lime

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why give them quail and then kill em for eating it?

by highdose in

this is always a passage in the bible that puzzeled me, the isrealites wanted meat, so god gave them quail and then killed them for eating it!?!?!.

if there is an explanation i certainly never heard it from the wtbs!??.

i might also point out that when i listened to the bible drama recordings of this passage as a child, it sounded like the narrator was saying "whale" not " quail"!

HintOfLime

Can you imagine any decent parent feeding their kids a single flavor of babyfood for years on end - let alone 40? Even if mana supplied 100% of our dietary needs... that's just cruel and uncaring. Was it that freaking hard for God to make mana taste like something else on occation, or have a different texture? How about "Mana is nutritious chocolate cake on mondays, steak and potatoes on tuesdays, crispy pizza rolls on wednesday, and fridays are sloppy joe days!" Now thatis an awesome God. None of this concentration camp food nonsense.

Good parents act nothing like God. They aren't cheap, they don't lothe the physical needs of their children, and they don't rebuke a child for making a reasonable request. "Dear God, dyhydration can kill us within hours in the desert, can we have some water?" is hardly something for God to get angry about. Some parents even like to see their children smile and be joyful on occation.

- Lime

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What do you want to be when you grow up?

by Lillith26 in

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20 years ago, i wanted to be a famous country rock singer.... now, my shower is my stage .

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HintOfLime

Meh. An adult is just a child with a closed mind.

- Lime

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A question for all ex jws AND JW's here, btw I'm new too

by EndofMysteries in

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so far quite dissappointed from what i've seen.

this is very very important, first i"ll address the non/ex jw then i'll address the jw's (jw's scroll down if don't wanna see the first part).

i see so many who have concluded that it was not 'god inspired', a lot of what is being done, and their conscience told them that many things conflicted with jesus teachings and the bible.

HintOfLime

I really hope a few I can really talk to and relate are here. So far quite dissappointed from what I've seen.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, your majesty. I spent 5 years studying god, the bible, religion, and science, and you know what I discovered?

I discovered that I had wasted 4 years by studying god, the bible, and religion. Science is a school of establishing small reliable facts - things we DO KNOW - and then building up upon them. It is the art of building a sturdy base of knowledge from humble beginnings.

God, the bible, and religion, on the other hand, is the art of making huge assumptions without any foundation. It is an art of stacking cards, and then trying hard not to sneeze, as it were.

I made my choice, based on what is reliable, factual, verifiable, and reasonable. I'm so sorry if that disappoints you.

Or in other words: "LIME THINK UNLIKELY YOU RELATE HERE. MANY 'EDUCATED' PEOPLE HERE." (Yeah, it's a low blow against someone that's no-doubt trying their best, but I don't like being talked down to from ignorant people who know nothing outside of an old superstitious, racist, sexist book, and who cannot write in complete sentences.)

- Lime

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