music and art have been a big part of my life since i was a little boy, and although i was never able to play a decent guitar, i can paint.
my art teacher from college said " i was the most imaginative and constructive pupil she had ever had.
" i loved that comment, because in translation i realised it meant i had to work harder than other more naturally talented students, but the effort was always worth it.
Music-No, I've always loved the sounds heard when all man made sounds disappear. It is wonderful to sit on my patio in the summer and listen to the bees humming in the flowers, birds twittering in trees, squirrels chattering. Human noises physically hurt my ears, they seem to pulsate and it hurts.
Art is another matter, architecture, paintings, interior design, sculptures and such are important to me.
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Lee,
You have a pm. The incident I referred to would have been written up in the Express-Times of Easton, PA, if it made the newspaper.
i'm sick and tired of everyone claiming to be "offended".
if you are not politically correct, you will need to apologize for some perceived slight.. when i was an elder, i purposely avoided as much as i could, anybody that got easily offended.
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Rebel-I had to look up 'Gollywog'. It reminds me of a Raggedy Ann doll, except she has red hair. I'm offended that no one has been offended for red-heads who are offensively represented by a stylized red yarn-haired doll.
deity of jesus.
the final part of our discussion took us back to the very beginning where he was asking my christian friend a question about the trinity.
i wasn't convinced that david received an answer that was satisfying [essentially its a mystery, god is too big to understand etc..] i wanted to talk about that more.
You almost have me convinced and I consider myself an atheist!
the more i think about it, the more i feel an extreme dislike for the apostle paul.
he was on par with hitler in his treatment of the jews before he "saw the light".
he replaced jesus teachings of love and mercy with a more legalistic, pharisaical concept of devotion to god.. any evil person can come to believe in god and worship him if the scales were literally and miraculously removed from his eyes.
The guy who forced his sex slave (concubine) to return home with him after she ran off and left him. He wined and dined with her father, then set off on the journey home. Along the way, he stopped over night. The locals wanted his ass (literally) and instead he gives his sex slave to them to do whatever it is that they want to her. She crawls back to the door of where he is staying after being repeatedly raped and violated. He gets up, opens the door and tells her to get up as they are continuing on their journey. Shock of shocks she is dead. He then decides to further violate her by dismembering her corpse and sending the pieces to the various tribes of Israel.
Nice guy-no wonder she ran away from him. Life with him must have been unbearable. She knew him to be the pig he was.
in jw land having such was verboten.
who are some of yours and why?.
1. nikola tesla - greatest inventor ever, and the only one i know of who was a true scientist as well.. 2. elon musk - there is a reason he chose the great inventor's name for his masterpiece work...also has a serious pair.... 3. jim morrison - brilliant and mad poet.. 4. mike krzyzewski - the epitome of success.. 5. maya angelou - brilliant humanistic poet and writer.. 6. albert einstein - do i actually have to qualify this?.
Ulysses S. Grant-He championed civil rights at a time when doing so was taboo. He appointed African Americans to high government offices, attempted peaces with Native Americans (he made a mistake in trying to include them in Euro-American style culture to the detriment of their own, but he was trying have them accepted by the mainstream Euro-Americans.) He attempted to right the wrongs of the 1862 order that he drafted against the Jews during the Civil War and actually became an advocate for them.
He also signed into law the first National Park, Yellowstone. Without his protection, it would have probably would have been turned into an oil field by now.
"sometimes i think the only thing i could do that wouldn't upset someone would be to kill myself.".
those were the frustrated words of my friend as we stood out in his large yard in the country, just about to enjoy a nice bonfire on a beautiful night.
what was it that could have been a lesser evil than killing himself?
for all those who have recently escaped this evil cult i just want to send a message of hope.. i have just had my landlord around.
one of the first things the landlord said to me.
"in just a year i see such a big positive difference in you" .
You CANNOT have had a positive change in your life...don't you know 'Jehovah's People are the happiest People on Earth'?
every flea market i go to a group of idiots sits under a tent top with a few mags on display with a cup of coffee playing on a phone with as much interest in pushing the cult as a teenage girl at the check out line has in bagging your groceries.
when i was in the cult we had to work for our time.
now its like sitting at the coffee shop bsing with the other cult idiots counting time for your pioneer status.
Spanish and English congregations in my area do the same thing, but they rotate weekends. I've never seen anyone approach either language group. I sell things at the flea market several times a year, so I'm there for hours at a time. They look ridiculous too, they are all in suits and ties or dresses and heels...in the blessed heat at a flea market, surrounded by musty furniture, old junk, tools, produce and plants and people dressed in beer t-shirts, shorts, tattoos all over and piercings,.
i have started walking every morning for twenty or thirty minutes.
so yesterday i had to work and almost didn't go, but decided to get in a quick ten minute walk.
i don't usually take my phone, but decided to take it, and i was so glad i did because a block from my house i came upon an older chinese man face down on the sidewalk and bleeding profusely from his mouth/face.
Thanks for comforting and helping a fellow human. Very kind.
