just wanted to say thanks for all the drink ideas.
however mental note: do not try all of them in one night.
well maybe i didn't get them all but the bloody mary (nice), rum and cranberry juice, mind eraser, boiler maker, and a whiskey sour later and my stomach feels like there filming the thriller video in there.
oh and make sure I'm buried with all my JW books just in case.
oh jeez this is so funny. how you manage to pull off brilliantly subtle humour like this after only a few studies and with a hangover no less baffles me. i... uh.... think im in love with you.
Punk rock girl, You look so wild
Punk rock girl, Let's have a child
We'll name her Minnie Pearl
Just you and me
Eat fudge banana swirl
Just you and me
We'll travel round the world
Just you and me
Punk rock girl
mox (in Dead Milkmen style)
gathering that there seems to be a mix of active jw's, inactive jw's, ex-jw's, atheists etc.
here, i am wandering on your thoughts on the holidays with more focus on the more religious based holidays like christmas & easter.. i'd like to know if you celebrate them like the mainstream of society or if you still have your reservations about them based on what you learned as part of the wt.
i myself have been very turned off by the holidays in recent years - not because of the wt though- but for my own personal reasons.
having never celebrated the holidays in my life, i dont believe i will ever feel the need to do much around holiday time in the future. its habit. however, on the other hand, i no longer plan to condemn them or denigrate people that do celebrate them or refuse to even attend gatherings that have any connection to them at all.
your question also centered on the religious holidays, ie christmans and easter. do i take it that you are still a little confused as to exactly what is so wrong with acknowledging new years, birthdays or mothers day etc? does it seem that it has more to do with just being different than standing up for religious truth?
mox
perhaps you recall the instance in the bible where samson made a wager with the philistines that they couldnt guess his riddle.
as it turned out they wheedled the answer out of him by his fiancee, but the point is that they had a wager.
since the underlying assumption of the apostasy is that we are not living in the last days of this system of things, and that this world is not facing anything remotely like the biblical apocalypse, at least not any time soon, in the spirit of such antagonism, i would like to propose a similar wager.
hey, what IS the deal with october and doomsayers? proplog was making a similar statement about coming back in october to prophecy his particular brand of doom. and certainly, were all accustomed to the WTs love affair with the month. could all the doomsday cults in the world be the result of disappointment that summer is over?
"man, i cant believe summer is already over. i didnt get to do anything fun and i have no friends. this world is SO going to burn."
mox
Sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up here.
hey all,.
just to get an idea as to how many people are coming to toronto for the next apostofest, in case i need to make reservations at various places...all because the toronto international film festival will be taking place on the same weekend!
when you let me know if you're coming, also state on which day you'll be arriving and which day you'll be departing.. thanks, .
ill try to show up for the friday nite and sat afternoon. lookin forward to meetin lots.
mox
this is a chat i had a few months ago on yahoo (you people who chat on this stupid board, get yer asses over to yahoo, now!)..
jag1lisa: what religion are you.
cygnustsp: last thursdayist.
lol, thats great. i loved the 'last thursday' arguments since i first heard them. which was where again? alanf flood essays? now ive forgotten. is this a REAL chat log, honest? this is too perfect.
mox
goodbye folks,.
i have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile, - landon.
my little sabbatical is over and i plough back into the real world next week.
HS. thanks for dropping by again despite some bad experiences here the first time. it was appreciated. will you still be picking up mail at your hotmail account?
mox
ok. i read somewhere on this site something about those who don't know about jws fearing them so i thought,as someone who has always been 'worldly' i'd share what we really think of jws.. first of all we do not fear you, we fear your visits.
basically you're annoying!.
picture this; there you are happily going about your daily activities skipping joyeusly around your livingroom minding your own buisness and hark!, what's this?
yeah, thats a good question. how big a deal would the dateline presentation be to someone coming into the topic absolutely cold?
would it be like, 'how incredible. im going to remember this for next time they show up at the door.' or would it be 'who? what? what's on TSN?'
mox
the following presentations have been making the rounds at the local hall and on dub e mail.
i thought i might post them for your edification.. if you get a call and someone starts giving you one these spiels you can have some good answers ready perhaps.. anyway,.
here goes.... telephone witnessing.
Is this for real? 15 minutes? Have they quit doing hour-long bible studies?
oh yes, a require brochure study is to be 15 minutes normally. initially even less. of course, the hour-long knowledge book studies follow necessarilly. of course in practice, since the majority of studies in english north america are non-english speaking, that 15 minutes gets stretched a lot in attempts to explain the material across the language gap.
mox
all bodies of elders in britain - december 1, 2000 .
maximus quoted this letter in another thread, and of course the letter is real.
but it is a smoking gun, and i have now posted the scan of that part maximus quoted as evidence to the validity of the posting :).
it seems to me that the actual 'smoking gun' would be the written evidence of a different standing policy outside the UK. does such exist? i suspect that while a different policy exists de facto, there is no clear written directive. ive read all of SL's BOE letters and i dont recall such. if it does, put them side by side and show the implication clearly.
mox
barbara anderson's attention was called to the thread about the differences in policy of great britain and the us regarding child abuse; as you know she has championed a change in that policy.
another post caught her eye, and she expressed the desire to share some thoughts with you.
i'm delighted to share her first post, which i know you will find riveting.
glorious ones?
the term i heard most often from bethelites was "given ones." isnt that the most common term today?
mox
