Posts by Glander

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A Berry abundant summer

by Glander in

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these grow wild all around the house.

this is a bumper crop year.

a little sugar, pour cream over them...or.

Glander

these grow wild all around the house. This is a bumper crop year. A little sugar, pour cream over them...or

mash a cupful and dump them over a bowl of vanilla ice cream...or... mix into a smoothie...or etc etc

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Shepherding Calls Question

by garyneal in

just a brief question concerning this practice.. my wife is about to get her annual shepherding call.

frankly, i did not know that this routine practice existed.

what is the purpose of it?.

I have made my share of these so-called shepherding calls. It was all organized by the body of elders as directed by the CO. Who had a good rapport with who? the elders were assigned pubs to smooze. A list was drawn up, etc. You were supposed to set up the visit ahead of time but a lot of elders were too lazy or socially inept so they just "dropped by". What a fuster cluck. Many elders were competent enough to interact in the KH environment but had zero people skills for such home visits.

The unfortunate side effect was that the elder, after a clumsy stab at bonding with the weaky-sicky-newy in their home, would revert back to ignoring them at the meetings. Many people were hurt or offended by "shepherding" efforts.

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Cantleave and Nugget are coming to visit me!

by Pams girl in

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i met the lovely mummatron 2 weeks ago and had a fab day x. tomorrow, cantleave and nugget are travelling down with their kids and stopping off to say hi for a few hours before continuing through wales!.

im making a huge lasagne, and have got the beers and vino in.......so excited!.

will be great putting faces to the name, and im glad that at long last, i seem to be able to step out of my little world and make friends.. have got my smurf hanging outside the door so they know my house............. feels like an early christmas present, happy days!

Glander

Don't forget the Smurf droppings! Kids love 'em

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Polygamist child-rapist headed to prison in TX....

by SweetBabyCheezits in

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http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/polygamist-leader-arrives-at-1089456.html.

... where, in a twist of fate, he will become the "wife" of another polygamist, known only by the name j.b. juggernaut.. enjoy your stay, mr. jeffs!.

Glander

Imagine...The scared weasel child rapist is sharing a cell with a very mean looking big guy covered with tats. The grizzled ex-biker says, "we're gonna be in here together for a long time. Do you wanna be the wife or the husband?"

"well..uh... I guess I'd rather be the husband..."

"OK, you're the husband. Now get over here and suck your wifes d--k"

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Watchtowers Sexual Subliminal?

by Marvin Shilmer in

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watchtowers sexual subliminal?

today i uploaded a new article to my blog.

it addresses one of the cleverest subliminal image sets ive seen in a long time, and perhaps the best of all amongst watchtower publications.

Glander

There is no way that was a co-inkydink. As you said, the illustrator had a repressed sense of humor!

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Between Horror and Heaven

by Glander in

(or, how i grew up in 1950s california in a dysfunctional family that belonged to an end of the world religious cult.).

ill try to keep it brief, strain out the more tasty morsels from which you can deduce the sense of the broth they come from.. the family unit in those days consisted of dad, mom, me and my younger sister, bizzy bee.

we were not lower middle class, we were poor.

Glander

As a matter of fact, CoCo, the question of why our mother stayed with dad during all those years we children were being terrorized has been discussed among we three siblings. (My younger sister, BeksBks, came along in 1960 and she endured the same home life as I describe above.) Seems like a lame excuse for her to simply say, "because I loved him". I believe there was an unhealthy streak of the 'martyr complex' that she was drawn to. I should mention that there was always the couple of days following one his binges when he was contrite and miserable. This put her in the position of being the forgiving loving caregiver. It was a sick situation in many ways.

There was also her support from the family. After all, she didn't have grounds for divorce. Sick.

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Can Cannibals be Christian?

by startingover in

i got this from a local paper.

i say keep your religion to yourself and leave these people alone.

can cannibals be christian?

Glander

Did you hear about the cannibal on his way back to his village who passed a missionary in the jungle?

Two cannibals having dinner. Cannibal #1 "Good, eh?", Cannibal #2, "I'm having a ball"

A Frenchman and a cannibal were hunting in the jungle when they came upon a beautiful woman sunbathing in the nude. The Frenchman said, "Mon Dieu!, she looks good enough to eat!" So the cannibal shot her.

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FYI: Something is going on in Brazil that's interesting

by AndersonsInfo in

posted on www.christianwitnesses.com.

the federal public ministry at ceara, brazil, on july 14, 2011 filed a civil action against the religion of jehovah's witnesses in the 8th federal court for practicing religious discrimination against former members.

prosecutor nilce cunha rodrigues has taken on official representation of sebastian oliveira (ramos) who, after being expelled from the religion was discriminated against by colleagues, friends and relatives, including his mother, in accord with norms of the jehovahs witnesses who are headed by a governing body of the watchtower society.