here's a question.. how many of you used BBS's back in the days? dial in with DOS, a terminal program, and a 2400 baud modem...eh?
marriedtojw
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I miss my Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 2
by garyneal inwas reminiscing with a friend on facebook about our past and the thread concerning windows 7 got me thinking about the hours i spent writing programs for my trash 80 computer.
any other nerds like me who miss the old hardware?.
or does anyone miss anything from their younger days (not necessarily computers)?.
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Most-Ignored Scriptures by JWs
by Mad Sweeney inthe watchtower has been known for over 130 years as a great scriptural cherry-picker.
they pick out disparate unrelated verses and combine them to support the wackiest of wacky doctrines.. on the other hand there are many scriptures they almost never address, whether because they contradict wt doctrine or because they simply don't have a clue what they mean or how to spin them to the wt advantage.. one of these is revelation 19:1 that mentions a "great crowd" "in heaven.
" the only time it is ever brought up it is dismissed.
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One of these is Revelation 19:1 that mentions a "great crowd" "in heaven." The only time it is ever brought up it is dismissed.
Funny you mention this one I brought it up to my wife during an argument, she told me the great crowd was the 144,000 ... when I told her that the watchtower calls the great crowd the non-144,000 who are suppose to be on "Paradise Earth" she told me I didn't know what I was talking about and repeated that the great crowd was the 144,000...
Yeeesh....
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Just ONE FACT, that's all I ask, JUST ONE.....
by Terry inwhat is a fact?
a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened.
i've read the bible many times in many ways with many methods.. .
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--- disregard --- already said
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Interfaith marraiges and children
by garyneal ini just wanted to share this story with everyone:.
last weekend on saturday, my wife found out that field service was not being cancelled due to snow.
all week prior to saturday, my wife kept saying that she was going to swim classes with my daughter and i and actually swim with my daughter that morning.
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oh and btw... we didn't celebrate valentines day this year.. first time in six years....her excuse? "because I'm going back to church now..."
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Interfaith marraiges and children
by garyneal ini just wanted to share this story with everyone:.
last weekend on saturday, my wife found out that field service was not being cancelled due to snow.
all week prior to saturday, my wife kept saying that she was going to swim classes with my daughter and i and actually swim with my daughter that morning.
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wow garyneal... not to hijack your thread, but it amazes just how her actions towards you are EXACTLY how my wifes actions are towards me.. I have endless nights of alone time where I've become depressed because of all her JW/KH time .... Its gotten really bad between us within the last week to the point where I'm now moving out of our bedroom into another bedroom... our relationship as become so shallow and almost non existent.
She spends all her time doing KH stuff now, and inside of our baby's diaper bag I noticed Theocratic Ministry books amongst all the other (about 15) books and all are highlighted throurougly...
I wish I had the same patience you have.. (btw my wife is also pregnant, which also adds hormones to the whole thing)...
Today (Monday), I ask my wife if we can find some fun things to do together as a family. Her reply is that she is so busy with work, school, and Kingdom Hall activities. It bothered me a bit and I said, "You are not willing to make time for your family? For me?" She said, "The things I want us to do together as a family you do not want to do." (Read: become a JW and worship the faithful slave)
This has come up in our arguments about once a week... almost verbatum...
I don't understand how it is that they can be in this religion that scares them so much that they are willingly giving up their own family and own happiness to be enslaved by them. My wife is normally a reasonable person when it comes to things... she can think things out logically.. but it amazes me that she's so willing to blindly follow a cult like this...
I'll be praying for you Gary...
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No global warming for 15 years, a key scientist admitted
by MegaDude inthis scam just keeps getting more and more exposed.. .
article below:.
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/158214.
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Ted Kennedy dying = global warming
You got this one wrong Farkel.. you know the truth..
Ted Kennedy dying = Bush's fault..
oh and:
global warming = Bush's fault
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marriedtojw
Wow Thanks! My wife broke it to me yesterday, YES YESTERDAY that she no longer celebrates valientines day... sigh..
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:Now if government is bad, and people run governments, does that make people bad? Just asking.
I don't have time to answer the rest cus its late, but for this one... people are human.. unfortunately humans sin... however, the humans have something the government doesn't.... a controlling authority.. but who governs the government? Yes people run the government, and they are inherently evil, so they do evil things and if they are the ones in charge, then they will do evil things without someone punishing them...
then if the government becomes tyranical, ie mao, hitler, stalin, any of the african/middle eastern war lords... etc...etc..., there is no controlling authority aside from a stronger foreign power.. and the UN is not a controlling authority and never will be (unless you consider writing strongly worded letters authority).
Therefore, they are free to do whatever they want to their people. Look back at history when we had the upwards of 75% income tax during world war i and a whopping 94% at the highest level during world war II ... so if you don't think its possible for OUR government to take everything from us and find a way to keep it... think again...
Our founding fathers developed our government for the people by he people simply to provide for the common defense, preserve life, liberty and *pursuit* of happiness (not to provide happiness) and to regulate interstate commerce. Nowhere in our founding documents does it give the government permission to take tax money from an honest working citizen to give to a less fortunate.. because as seen over and over again throughout history, it leads down a very dark path...
Leave it to the populous to take care of its own, not the government...
:Are you familiar with the "poor laws" of colonial times?
I've read up on them briefly, and it doesn't take much research to show that they're simply social welfare programs instituted from about 1500 to 1900, and just like today there were several government studies done in europe where it was believed that the "poor laws" made the "poor" problem worse by providing free money/services to people who were otherwise able bodied... anyways I'll write more on that tomorrow.. off to bed
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Well articulated. The minute people start working for the good of the State instead of themselves and each other, tyranny is inevitable.
Thank you sir, and history has proven your point. Once the government or state takes control of providing for its citizens, history has shown in almost every case that it causes more people to become poor and needy.
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again, government versus society... Its our duty to help the poor and desolate, even if illegal, but not the governments, look at many of the african countries of which we send billions in aid to, so the government can "help the poor" by selling the aid on the black market and using it to fund military operations. Once the government controls something, there's no higher power (especially in a so-called secular nation like ours) to hold their feet to the fire.