Posts by nilfun

kingdom melodies did it for me everytime.. i tired so hard not to have uncharitable thoughts about the ppl who wrote the tunes and words to the kingdom melodies.

there were about 2 that i could stomach.. the rest were so totally uninspiring and mechanical.. .i can say that apart from maybe 2 i didnt get any up lifting joy from them.. elders complained that ppl wern't learning the tunes and singing properly.they got realy irritated over it .but i really really hate the dam songs .

eveyone sounded totally joyless

nilfun

Lurk, you must have the faith that the bible does revive, you must build such faith if God's war you would survive.

Do I have a faith accompanied by works?

The answer is no, and that's why I don't like the Kingdom Melodies.

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Lest We Forget

by Scully in

nilfun

Dulce Et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned out backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

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What impression do you think you've made here, since you started posting?

by JH in

jw
friends

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i'm listening .

nilfun

My PM box is ready to receive, so go ahead and let me have it. I can take it. But first let me say:

Klaatu barata nikto!

Whew. I feel safer now that I have that barrier of protection in place.

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Have you ever looked at your old posts?

by Aztec in

jw
friends

i did for a little while today and i was cracking up!

what i saw was a younger, more naive version of myself.

i came out swinging!

nilfun

Maybe leopards don't change their spots often.

Each leopard's spots, like fingerprints, are unique to that individual leopard. Leopards never change their spots. Maybe there is only a coming back, or a moving away, from who we really are; All the while our spots remain the same (?)

All this time I had mistaken myself for a leopard when I am really a giraffe. Or is it the other way around?

I love this place. During my time here deadly humor has administered a coup de grace to the Jehovah that I'd met on the road.

Wait a minute...

Here he comes again!

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