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  Famous People Who've Died In Plane Crashes

  by Dutchie in

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  i'm in the process of making plans for my yearly vacation and although i am not really afraid to fly, i must admit to being a little .

  apprehensive.

  anyway, it seems to me that if i were a famous person i would be even more apprehensive because so many of them .

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  Aaliyah
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  love poetry

  by FreeRangeChicken in

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  the song of wandering aengus

  i went out in the hazel wood, .

  because a fire was in my head, .

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  Blake was an artist in every sense of the word. He wrote his own, illustrated, printed (monumental task when you look at the process he used way back when) and hand painted his books. He was the ultimate in independent works. He even sold his books out of his own home.

  The project I did was for my information media class. I had to teach a unit on Blake, and incorporate all sorts of media. So I showed videos, played Greg Brown's Songs of Innocence and Experience cd for them, had all sorts of overheads of his art, and powerpoints of his plates that combined his art and poetry. It was pretty damn cool. (many hours, but really facinating so I dug it)

  Actually Blake was a very religious man. He wasn't a pagan, but he was unconventional in his beliefs to say the least. A lot of people think that hurt is career, and they saw him as a lunatic rather than the great free-thinker that he was.

  Ok totally sounding like a little teacher right now, so I am just gonna shutenz ups.

  Edited by - joannadandy on 30 July 2002 20:9:3
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  Car Wars

  by Crystal in

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  today i had my jeep towed into the shop..i dreaded the ride in with the driver (im extremly shy).

  but we ended up haveing a great conversation about what vehicle i should buy next.. what a perfect person to ask cuz of his job.

  he said "dont get another jeep they roll too easy and they catch on fire.".

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  Actually seeing a man in a Neon makes me moist...rrrow rrrow!
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  I sold my soul for lobster

  by joannadandy in

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  ok so my parents big deal has always been while i may not go to meetings they are free to ask about my religious status, and invite me to meetings (i do not have to accept the invitation) as long as i live under their roof.

  my parents other big deal is to go out to lunch after the sunday meeting.

  in fact, they usually say "say, wanna come to the meeting tomorrow?

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  Ohhh fatal!! I like the way you think! Good call--the evil eye rocks!

  Anymore suggestions for me?
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  I sold my soul for lobster

  by joannadandy in

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  ok so my parents big deal has always been while i may not go to meetings they are free to ask about my religious status, and invite me to meetings (i do not have to accept the invitation) as long as i live under their roof.

  my parents other big deal is to go out to lunch after the sunday meeting.

  in fact, they usually say "say, wanna come to the meeting tomorrow?

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  Ok so my parents big deal has always been while I may not go to meetings they are free to ask about my religious status, and invite me to meetings (I do not have to accept the invitation) as long as I live under their roof.

  My parents other big deal is to go out to lunch after the sunday meeting. In fact, they usually say "Say, wanna come to the meeting tomorrow? We will take ya to a nice resturant afterword" To which I always said, thanks but no.

  Last night my mother said to my father "Let's go to (my favorite resturant in the whole wide world) after the meeting on sunday"

  I was joking when I said "Dude, if you go there, I will go to the meeting with you"

  To which my mom a.k.a the devil's dark mistress said "deal"

  CRAP ON A CRACKER BATMAN!

  Now granted I was joking, and I know they won't hold me to it, but then I got to thinking it might be fun to go just to take notes and recall all the stupid things they used to talk about. Plus did I mention lobster dinner afterward??

  We'll see how brave I am after drinking all night Saturday...but I thought I would take an informal poll of all you fine posters here.

  Option A) A few laughs, spread some hope to the masses that I may return, and oh yes LOBSTER DINNER

  Option B) Maintain my integrity, sleep off my hangover sunday morning, and stay home.
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  So-called Bible Scholars........

  by hillary_step in

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  it is not a difficult thing to do to criticize wts literature, however i found this comment in a recent wt very enlightening as it seems to explain the unscholarly nature of much of what they produce.

  it also is an object lesson on how to manipulate a conditioned group of people by the use of 'trigger words'.

  i have highlighted these expressions, which are deliberately used by writing, as we have previously discussed to 'encourage' the readers to adopt a patently flawed line of reasoning.

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  I never really noticed HOW inflamatory their language is until I got older--and started attending college.

  First of all as someone who is going into the teaching profession, and English teaching no less--all I can say is that the writers of the literature of the WTBTS would fail most basic college level courses. Lack of evidence, poor citation, inflamatory rhetoric, flawed reasoning, logical fallacies up the butt, and little or no substance of subject matter (meaning they stretch what could be covered in one simple paragraph into two pages).

  No wonder they hate higher education so much.

  Their implication is that being educated and informed is somehow evil and automatically disqualifies you from being correct.

  It does disqualify you--it's too hard to control the thinking mind. Personally I hope Satan signs my diploma. I hear he is a dean at my college.
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  Sisters Rock

  by joannadandy in

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  i was looking for some bad 80's pics to post of me in another thread, and i came across a ton of me and my sister.

  there is a big age gap between us, she is 12 years older than me.

  so when i was in kindergarten she was a senior in high school.

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  Amen MD--especially about the ex-jw sisters you now have.

  Beautiful story too by the way--thank you so much for sharing!
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  And Here's To You, MRS. ANDERSON...

  by AMNESIAN in

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  "...jesus loves you more than you will know...whoa, whoa, whoa..."

  mrs. barbara anderson, that is.. .

  while i wholeheartedly join in with the backslapping and thundering applause being accorded the relentless and selfless efforts of bill bowen and his silentlambs lobby and other men of integrity and conscience---some still, some no longer, associated with the "christian" congregation of jehovah's witnesses--- in exposing the vileness and hypocrisy of certain of the wts's policies, i am moved to hoist a separate and personal tribute to a woman who has turned out to have more integrity and character and courage and conviction than most people with whom i've ever been acquainted and, more on point, than virtually any of the generally good and decent jws i ever knew in my 30 year association---male or female, regardless his "rank" or his/her jw "pedigree.".

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  Awesome post!!

  Really really well written by the way--I got all psyched up even reading it...thank you to Barb, and Amnesian for the effort and brilliant thoughts and writing respectively.
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  JW or Satan???

  by 67mustang in

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  i am going through the process of disassociating myself.

  as usual people are talking, some are rumoring me an "athiest" my brother thinks satan has me.

  it's crazy, just because i don't believe the jw's and want to leave, everyone is all over me.

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  67--I gotta say, the slow fade worked for me...

  I feel kind of like a chicken now, when I read all the stories of people who went out with a bang, but honestly the slow fade was right for my situation. I do feel sort of bad about it because it makes my parents hope that someday I will snap out of it and come back to my senses. Hope is not always such a bad thing.

  If it is at all possible for you to do so, I would do the fade away. Sometimes it doesn't work that way--but it is usually the least painful, and keeps communication open.

  If ya ever wanna talk, my e-mail is open to you...
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  love poetry

  by FreeRangeChicken in

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  the song of wandering aengus

  i went out in the hazel wood, .

  because a fire was in my head, .

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  Chicken- I LOVE Blake--just got done doing a giant project on him for one of my classes. And the Garden of love has always been one of my favorites.

  But I think my favorite poem of his (at this moment in time) is...

  The Little Vagabond Dear mother, dear mother, the church is cold,
  But the ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm;
  Besides I can tell where I am used well,
  Such usage in Heaven will never do well.
  
  But if at the church they would give us some ale,
  And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
  We'd sing and we'd pray all the live-long day,
  Nor ever once wish from the church to stray.
  
  Then the parson might preach, and drink, and sing,
  And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring;
  And modest Dame Lurch, who is always at church,
  Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.
  
  And God, like a father rejoicing to see
  His children as pleasant and happy as he,
  But kiss him, and give him both drink and apparel.

  I think it sums up my feelings about religion at the moment...

  Keats has also always been one of my favorites...

  When I have fears that I may cease to be

  WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleand my teeming brain, Before high piled books, in charactry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripend grain; When I behold, upon the nights starrd face, 5 Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour! That I shall never look upon thee more, 10 Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love!then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.