my youngest sister was married last sunday and i was actually invited.
not to the reception of course but all of us ex-jw relatives had our own party so it was still a great family reunion!
i'm one of 6 siblings (2 step siblings, 1 half, and 2 whole :-) anyway, this was not my first time going to a wedding of a sibling and being an ex-witness.
My wife and I got married in the KH on Sunday afternoon, however there was only the one congregation using our hall. We had four bridesmaids, and four groomsmen. We were broke and it as a very simple wedding. That will be 39 years ago in October, we're still together.
I'm a big fan of simple weddings. The modern American wedding industry is a bigger ripoff than the oil companies.
okay, this is pretty weird.
is it really supernatural?
or is it just my imagination?.
Looks like the first life stage of the monster in Alien to me. Don't let it get close to your face.
mcmillan & wife with rock hudson is what i just saw on tv.
watching rock hudson kiss his wife while smoking a cigarette is pretty funny.
and he solved a murder case as he lit up another cigarette at some wealthy person's party.....good stuff!.
Oubilette, Space 1999 was dumb beyond belief. It was the most scientifically ignorant thing every attempting to pass itself off as science fiction.
Along the same line, everybody in Seattle hates "Here Come the Brides." Anybody that knows anything about Seattle history hates it more. The words to the theme song should have been a giveaway.
i believe they are very powerful as a group.
if they dig in and go after someone or something, they are relentless.. conversely, if they choose to ignore something or somebody, the public may never be aware of a matter.. i support freedom of the press and i think they should be applauded for their convictions.
on the other hand, perhaps more should be expected of them..
Where to start.
Everytime they report on anything of which I have personal knowledge they've gotten it wrong. News organizations now exist to make money not to provide information. Most news reporters (esp TV) are ignorant of history, business, science, law or just about anything else. A local paper smeared my Dad about ten years ago, he won the resulting lawsuit. I think the problem is that most reporters are communications majors. They've learned how to smile for the camera and read off the teleprompter at the same time. This is in stark contrast to journalists, who learn how to find and analyze facts.
mcmillan & wife with rock hudson is what i just saw on tv.
watching rock hudson kiss his wife while smoking a cigarette is pretty funny.
and he solved a murder case as he lit up another cigarette at some wealthy person's party.....good stuff!.
Dragnet. McHale's Navy. M Squad. Highway Patrol.
"the aim of propaganda is not to try to pass judgment on conflicting rights, giving each its due, but exclusively to empahsixe the right which we are asserting.
propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favorable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side...... the broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form a reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly waveering between one idea and another....the masses are not in a position to discern where the enemy's fault ends and where our own begins..... the great majority of a nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning.
this sentiment, however, is not complex,but simple and consistent.
Paraphrase of a quote about "Mein Kampf" I've always liked:
Hitler adopted an old goal: to conquer the entire world. Unlike previous ambitious dictators, he wrote a book about his idea. What most people did not understand was that, while the approach was novel, the book was nonfiction.
though it was impossible to transport massive blocks when building these pyramids, would it not make more sense that blocks of clay were formed and shaped (one or more at a time), waited to dry and hardened, then continue with the next one or two blocks?.
wasn't this how the egyptians made anything?
(clay and so forth?).
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/the-adventurtes-of-benny-the-bunnyduck?store=kids&keyword=the+adventurtes+of+benny+the+bunnyduck.
this is what i have been working on for the past 5 years.
i told a few people i would post a link when it was published.
Congratulations. Having worked on trying to get published myself I know how much work you put into getting done. Good job!
this from a recent thread: .
"recent ridiculous instructions about not calling 9-1-1 yourself at district conventions if someone is having a heart attack but, instead, telling an attendant, who is supposed to let the first aid department know so they can come and assess the person and then call the paramedics.".
i hadn't heard this before.... sadly, it seems in perfectly in character for them.
Data Dog
I thought that was the coolest movie (I was nine when it came out). A very good analogy for how the WTBS is set up.
this from a recent thread: .
"recent ridiculous instructions about not calling 9-1-1 yourself at district conventions if someone is having a heart attack but, instead, telling an attendant, who is supposed to let the first aid department know so they can come and assess the person and then call the paramedics.".
i hadn't heard this before.... sadly, it seems in perfectly in character for them.
Today everyone owns a cell phone and I am pretty sure 911 attendants are accustomed to receive and handle multiple calls for the same event
Yup. About ten years ago my neighbors house caught fire. I heard her and the kids yelling, figured out what was going on and called 911. As soon as I said "my neighbors house is on fire" the operator said "if that's at xxxx y street we already have it." As soon as you start talking they start typing into the computer system and all the other operators can see what's going on.
WT policy on this is idiotic and will kill somebody, if it hasn't already.
