Posts by Kingpawn

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Thoughts

by Wolfy in

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doing the "fade" thing is like a slow, painful torture to me.

i have to do the fade because of my current circumstances (wife being a jw but starting to doubt/both our families very strong jw's).

it makes me angry at having wasted so much time and energy (and money) being a jw.

Kingpawn

Wolfy,

I am afraid it will take years before I can get over it(if that is really possible). I get upset with myself if I hear some news report and it automatically comes to mind "oh..it really is the time of the end". Anyone else experience this?

I started doing this in 1984, a few years after I was d'f. The rise of the Moral Majority was the event I looked to begin "the big A" but I overlooked that it would take more than them to do it.

Now that I see the antics of the Taliban, American fundamentalists, and the WBTS, it makes their conclusions seem more believeable about "Babylon the Great" (in the WBTS's case, a self-fulfilling prophecy maybe? What a downer for them if that's the first one they get right and it turns out God lumped them in with Christendom).

Several people here speak highly of a book by Steve(?) Hassan called "Combatting Cult Mind Control" and Ray Franz's book "Crisis of Conscience." Many times Amazon doesn't have these titles in stock, so people are told to try http://www.commentarypress.com for a copy. I've also found listings for CofC on www.abebooks.com too. Prices are better than Amazon's many times on both sites. They might be very helpful to you.

No need to be upset when you automatically make that connection with news events. A soldier can have "flashbacks" for years and automatically react to certain sights, sounds, or smells that remind s/he of wartime experiences.

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Tampa newspaper (Very Patriotic)

by Beans in

after hearing that the state of florida changed its opinion and let a muslim.

woman have her picture on her driver's license with her face covered, i. believe this is even more appropriate.

read on, please!

Kingpawn

God is part of our culture.

Huh?

That's why we treated every other nationality/religious/ethic group the way we have, starting with the original inhabitants? That's why we interned Japanese-Americans on mere suspicion of disloyalty? That's why we had slavery? That's why the churches blessed boys going overseas to kill fellow (fill in your favorite religion here)?

I'm not saying America doesn't have virtues. But our robes aren't spotless. No nation's is.

God isn't a major part of our culture or we wouldn't worship the State more than Him.

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Tired Movie Formulas

by gilwarrior in

have you ever seen a movie and noticed that you have seen this same formula before?

do you ever see the same formula repeated over and over and over again?

well i have and i will mention some of the formulas that should be dropped and forgotten.

Kingpawn

How many movies have there been (books too) of the "man messes with nature and nature comes back at him with a vengeance" genre?

Or the "kid made fun of in school later gets his/her tormentors back to the abandoned school and kills them fiendishly" class? (Class? Unintended pun!)

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How Dumb Do They Think People Are??

by Scully in

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i just received this e-mail again, to an e-mail address that i rarely use.

it's fairly obvious to me that this is a huge scam, but i have to wonder how many people have fallen for it.

it must be working for this thing to still be in circulation...... love, scully.

Kingpawn

Kenneson,

Wish their was a way to stop receiving this stuff!

Have you tried a filter looking for "Nigeria" or other keywords in the body of incoming e-mails?

If you have but it does not work, you might try some of the sarcastic responses others have suggested. Of course then they know it's an active e-mail account and who knows who all will know that in time?

Plum--nice outfit! Maybe someone could start a "warrior ladies" picture thread!

Edited by - Kingpawn on 29 November 2002 2:33:17

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vampires, friends, and foes.......

by deddaisy in

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i was out tonite, unusual for me, since i now have this child that i adore and spend every waking minute with.

i had an awesome time.

what is weird is that i thought about getting on this computer when i came home.

Kingpawn

Deddaisy,

You know, it's like why do some people prefer third shift? This time of night, or topic, just seems to attract a different type.

I've worked third for eight years now. When I get off work, the lines are less at gas stations, stores, banks, and especially the post office. It's been said you never really get used to it, but you adapt.

I keep that same schedule on my days off too (for my health) and I am a little leery about sunlight. Can't shapeshift and my control over lower life forms doesn't work as well. A real bitch on summer nights when mosquitos start biting and the sun isn't down yet.

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A very brief history of Soviet Communism

by refiners fire in

to have a cult, and have a reason to fabricate history (my own personal special interest) first of all you need a totalistic belief to create your cult around.

soviet communism was built around a doctrine called "marxism".

a utopian doctrine which came to be applied in a totalistic manner.

Kingpawn

A new order where all love to work because it pleases them, where all get the same wages, where there are no bosses, where all are happy and united.

Where pigs fly and cows sing.

Marx, Engels, and Lenin didn't factor human nature into the equation. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, for one.

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Did the Watchtower borrow from the Mormons?

by Scorpion in

did the watchtower borrow from the mormons?

dead leader still active .

though pastor russell has passed beyond the veil, he is still managing every.

Kingpawn

"Borrowed?" More like "stole!"

If this is just a coincidence, the odds in favor of the similarity in wording on so many topics (and the topics themselves) are so small that it's hard not to put faith (no pun intended) in other explanations.

After all, they (like the LDS) believe the Bible alone isn't enough to know God, they've missed prophecies, keep their past hidden from the "elect," and so on.

That very first quote about Russell:

Dead leader still active though Pastor Russell has passed beyond the veil, he is still managing every
feature of the Harvest work.
-Studies in the Scripture, Vol. 7, p.144

If, as they say, there's no survival of the soul after death (Eccl. 9:5), who's running the show from beyond? The same spirit Saul consulted via the Witch at En-dor (1 Sam. 28:7-19)?

Maybe I'm just a stubborn apostate rejecting "new light." <sighes>

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Ozzie's Weekend Poll #27

by ozziepost in

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things are warming up this side of the pacific as we approach the summer season, so it's good to have a little relax and a nice cuppa.

time also to think of our poll for the weekend.

are you ready?

Kingpawn

"#'s 2 and 11.

Also #20, "Help me keep a straight face when I turn on the tape player in my head."

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Things that go bump in the night

by BB in

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my wife hit a deer while driving her new vw passat with less than 300 miles on it.

thats the car with the 300 miles on it.

we dont know how many miles the deer had on it at the time of collision.

Kingpawn

Ditto Ohio. My wife's a police scanner enthusiast and she says the number of car-deer collisions is up this year. IIRC the limit on deer allowed killed during this year's hunting season had been raised...apparently not enough.

Edited by - Kingpawn on 24 November 2002 3:27:3

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Activists vs rationalists

by donkey in

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as humans our brain works in ways that make us tend to generalize and categorize things, including the types of people.

being as i am half human (the other three quarters are pure ass...) i do the same.

from my observations i see 3 types of people on this board: the activiststhe rationaliststhe rest of us (rest-of-us (tm)).

Kingpawn

Donkey,

If someone reads from alternative sources that don't fit within the mainstream,does that automatically identify them with the authors whom they learn from?

This is what Cookie asked. But when you answered:

I see nothing wrong with identifying someone with their written views.

You had misunderstood her question. What she was asking, in essence, is if, for example, someone reads Marx's writings and becomes a believer in the theory of Communism, does that automatically make the reader a fellow Communist?

In your answer, when you said "...identifying someone with their written views," (emphasis added), the person in the above example now believes in Communism, but that belief does not make s/he a Communist. But using the reasoning behind your reply one would be justified in calling the new believer an actual Communist. It's a small difference I know, but the gap between what Cookie asked and what you thought she meant would widen over time.

On another topic...when Jim quoted a reply you'd made about him probably being a gay hater...I have to agree with you that you didn't call him one (because of the word "probably"). Hinted at, yes, but actually stated, no.

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