Posts by upnorth

My wife and I got to babysit our 4 year old niece for this last week, it was great she is just wonderful. Yesterday she informed me she is "1/2 and four", it was so awesome.

Do I like children.... No I love them

God's greatest creation was children

Teenagers are a different story

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Should I reply?

by wheelwithinwheel in

jw
friends

i received this e-m from a well-meaning jw friend who hasn't cut me off and seems to still have hope i will return.

should i reply?

any ideas on what i should say?

upnorth

The only scars I have are from being born into a cult. I would trade the scars with the scars caused be an alligator everyday of the week.

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Swimming Lessons Are Definitely On My To-Do List

by snowbird in

http://www.startribune.com/sports/99785534.html.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38533071/ns/us_news-life?gt1=43001.

for all of us.. syl.

upnorth

I grew up in the state of Washington, playing in the water during the summer heat was important. Learning to swim was a convenience and necessity.

Now I live in ALASKA the water is very very cold swimming in not important, because it doesn't save you. But all my children do know how to swim.

I think the mothers of these children are disgusting for allowing their babies to die

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What Do JWs Think About Dinosaurs?

by Cold Steel in

i've seen evangelical sites that show dinosaurs dying in the great flood.

these people believe that god created the earth in seven 24-hour days, and have wondered that if god could just "speak" the earth into existence, why he would need the other six days.

(couldn't he just will it into existence in a flash?).

upnorth

This has been covered already in this thread

JW's and Think ? in the same sentence

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What's Your Pet Peeve?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i've got a lot of them but i'll share one: drivers going well under the speed limit on a single road where you can't pass.. that drives me nuts!!!

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Jehovah provides for pioneers but takes no action on behalf of children being abused

by jambon1 in

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friends

this was something that i could never get my head around.. i recall being at a convention and a pioneer couple (who happened to be complete arseholes) were talking about how they had had this bill for a car repair & 'didn't know what they were going to do so they prayed about it & waited on jehovah'.

the bill was for 66.73 & within a few days they had returned home to find an electricity rebate made out to them for 66.73. et voila!

all sorted out.

upnorth

This is slightly on topic.

Have any of you heard this song before

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFJu8DCH_b0

I encourage all of you to pray for the leaders of this vile cult we call the JW's

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What's Your Pet Peeve?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i've got a lot of them but i'll share one: drivers going well under the speed limit on a single road where you can't pass.. that drives me nuts!!!

!.

upnorth

People that slow way down for a stop sign but don't actually stop but they claim to have stopped.

It makes zero sense.

When you slow down to 1 or 2 miles per hour you have stopped no better then a driver that has blown through the stop sign without even lighting the brake lights.

You are a perfect idiot if you slow down and call it stopped

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This is a very well thought out statement

by upnorth in

this quote came from the czech republic .

someone over there has it figured out.

we have a lot of work to do.. .

upnorth

I have no idea where the statement is from that I posted. It was credited to a foreigner and that's how I presented it.

Regardless of it's origin I'd say it's true, and I'd also say it applies for several of the last presidents of this country.

Thespians and musicians are performers, they have mastered the art of an act, outside of that they are useless. Why any one of them is considered a reliable source of knowledge is a wonder.

Garofalo is very good at her art, outside of that she is as useless. I've enjoyed a few things she's performed in.

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This is a very well thought out statement

by upnorth in

this quote came from the czech republic .

someone over there has it figured out.

we have a lot of work to do.. .

upnorth

This quote came from the Czech Republic . Someone over there has it figured out. We have a lot of work to do.

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit

and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to

have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails

America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can

survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."