Posts by LDH

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Lyman Swingle bites the big taco!

by NikL in

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friends

i received this e mail tonight...thought you might like to see.... sent: wednesday, march 14, 2001 9:01 am.

subject: bro.

lyman swingle.

Child Molestation

by Friend in

following is a slightly improved version of something i posted onto various web site forums a few months ago.

i hope it helps those working so hard on this subject.

what is revealed about the societys motivations regarding reporting (or not) of child abuse to secular authorities?

The difference btw. WT and Firestone/Tobacco companies, they haven't had their ass fried in court (yet), have haven't been found criminally negligent (yet) and they haven't been fined millions of dollars (yet).

How'd I do? It's coming down the pike tho, don't worry.

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"For bodily devotion is beneficial for a l...

by LDH in

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friends

so along the line of other threads about mortality and every disease known and unknown to man, i pose a question:.

if you are an active jw, how much time per week do you spend on regular exercise (not the sunday afternoon softball game)?.

if you are an inactive or ex-jw, same question, only: how long did it take you to realize that regular exercise should be a part of your life to maintain/improve your health?.

LDH

LOL, sigh, OK Venice!

ha ha about two years ago I went down and signed up for a co-ed softball league (city leagues) and I didn't realize the group I signed up with was from this VERYYYYY zealous Baptist church (all black folks,LOL....) For the story line, please note, I'm an excellent softball player.

I didn't really get a warm reception when they found out I wasn't a potential convert. Anyhow, my house had been burgled 6 mos before all my sporting equipment was stolen so I had just replaced my glove and bat. The glove was REALLY stiff, not worked at all, so I kept dropping the damn ball. The women were real b#*@!es. I kept saying "Sorry, new glove."

Then my team is up to bat, all the women SUCK at hitting. I mean the whole spinning around, missing the ball, screaming like they were afraid SUCK. Well then it's my turn to bat, and the women say to me "New bat, too, huh?" Like the ugly greasy sarcastic @*#&es they were. Of course, their men felt they had to 'stand by their women' and they snickered too....

Bases loaded, I hit that M*@$F*#&!@ out of the park, grand slam. I was so damn angry, LOL. I just turn around and said, "Oh it must be this new bat. BOOO-YAH!!!" LOL

The game ends and I think we're going into this group huddle to discuss our performance, and lo and behold this dude starts praying. So instead of leaving and being rude I just stand there. This dude starts praying for the 'woman who has attracted attention to herself by her dress' (I was wearing Adidas leggings and an athletic bra) and next time she comes to practice, won't she dress like a lady of God and I realize he's freakin talkin about me, LOL. And all of the women are saying AMEN SHO ya right. but the men aren't, LOL.

I then took a little closer look at the group. All heavyset women with weaves and they were wearing SWEATS!!! (Hello, this is summer, it was in the high 90's)

Needless to say, I didn't go back.

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"For bodily devotion is beneficial for a l...

by LDH in

jw
friends

so along the line of other threads about mortality and every disease known and unknown to man, i pose a question:.

if you are an active jw, how much time per week do you spend on regular exercise (not the sunday afternoon softball game)?.

if you are an inactive or ex-jw, same question, only: how long did it take you to realize that regular exercise should be a part of your life to maintain/improve your health?.

LDH

So along the line of other threads about mortality and every disease known and unknown to man, I pose a question:

If you are an active JW, how much time per week do you spend on regular exercise (not the Sunday afternoon softball game)?

If you are an inactive or ex-JW, same question, only: how long did it take you to realize that regular exercise should be a part of your life to maintain/improve your health?

These questions are based on JW interpretation of the above scripture. How many were discouraged from participating in sporting events in school or there after?

I might just post an experience that happened to me here in Fresno, when I didn't know the softball group I joined in City League was a CHURCH group, if you ask me nicely, LOL.

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The wonderful future Christian America.

by Norm in

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friends

those of us who have frequented h2o and have otherwise encountered our fundie friends from the usa have many times been reminded of their strange arguments and ideas.

all of them seem to long back to biblical times and particularly the times of the old testament.

they have got the idea that those days were so wonderful when everybody was adhering to biblical morals, values and such.

LDH

The late Steve Allen was a Secular Humanist.

http://www.secularhumanism.org

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NUBIE ON CITE

by dark clouds in

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friends

want to start this out by saying thank you simon .

its been a few weeks since i joined cyberspace, prior to navigating i had no idea their was a place for ex jw's to chat or meet.

the concept is fabulous.

LDH

Welcome, Dark Clouds, Welcome...

I hope your dark clouds turn to silver linings soon!

What instrument do you play?
Lisa

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Foot and Mouth Disease Hits my Town.

by Englishman in

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friends

jw`s will find their attempts at house to house work severly impeded in the rural county of somerset, england.. this afternoon i was driving back home to weston super mare along the a370.

as i approached the town i noticed barriers being erected across the junctions to the `b` roads which lead into the countryside.

across the barriers are signs which read: "foot and mouth disease.

LDH

English, I am very sorry!

If you were to believe the CNN chart showing the ratio of outbreak during the last FAM outbreak, the worst is yet to come....

Lisa

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Teaching Tolerance

by LDH in

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friends

if we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:.

57 asians.

21 europeans.

LDH

Logical,

Whether or not you know it, you have a great sense of humor....

ROTFLMAO
Lisa

6

Teaching Tolerance

by LDH in

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friends

if we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:.

57 asians.

21 europeans.

LDH

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be
from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent. The following is also something to ponder...
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you
are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of
imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ...you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish some place ...
you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If your parents are still alive and still married ...
you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.
If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
Someone once said:
What goes around comes around.
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
It's National Friendship Week.

Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND. Pass this on, and brighten someone's day. Nothing will happen if you do not decide to pass it along.
The only thing that will happen, if you DO pass it on, is that someone
might smile because of you.

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Introducing myself...& need advice...

by ShaunaC in

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friends

my name is shauna and this is my first post here.

in short, i am 26 years old and have been df'd for a little over 2 years.

i come from a strong and long jw heritage (6 generations).

LDH

Shauna, I almost NEVER check my celly for messages, but it's usually on me...