Posts by Kingpawn

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An essay by Rush Limbaugh

by Jayson in

you guys said i need to listen to him.

(talk radio & fox <yawn>) .

------ him or loath him, he nailed this one right on the head............. .

Kingpawn

They also do not receive Social Security on retirement because they didn't have to pay into the system.

I hope my local newspaper archives past columns by (my?) local Congressman who recently addressed this very issue. I'll have to try their website or email the publisher.

DTM, have you ever listened to Glen Beck--not sure of the spelling--he's on WTBN, AM 610 from Columbus--I'm like you, his kind can make sense when they're not name-calling. Generally I'm a liberal or libertarian on issues but I do believe in balanced budgets, for one "conservative" cause.

If I find anything I can scan or otherwise pass on I'll try to do it ASAP.

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What did you learn as a JW?

by JH in

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with 5 meetings a week plus field service, and additional reading of the bible and watchtower literature, what did you learn after all these years in the jw organization?

did we need all those meetings and time and effort just to know some simple details?

in all these years i spent there, this is just about all i can say i learned there: .

Kingpawn

Tron,

I was going to say that a fitting payback for what they taught you would be for you to put counterfeit money in the collection boxes.

Then I realized you'd never get back the change you were due.

What did I learn?

It's not how you stand with Jehovah, literally it's "Who's yer Daddy?"
How to turn any conversation into a sermon.
Elder's daughters are cockteases.
If having a sense of humor isn't a df'ing offense, it should be.
Racism is alive and well in the KH.
How to be politely smug.
P. T. Barnum was right when he said there's a sucker born every minute.
My way around the Bible.
How to rat people out and think it was for their own good.

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Why guys should never expect a straight answer out of a woman

by Maverick in

are you confused?

have you asked your lady friends and female relatives what you are doing wrong and even though you have followed their advice, you are still confused?

have you asked your girl friends what they want and done it and still not know what is going on?

Kingpawn

From reading all through this I can at least say I'm not the only guy who feels really clueless lots of times about "what women want." And who's missing subtle clues as to her meanings.

Maybe part of the problem is we tend to assume all women speak with one voice. It ought to be obvious they don't, but....

Me, I tend to be the type of guy who considers questions that really aren't that interesting to others, for example. To give you an idea how awkward that can be, remember how difficult it is talking to a non-JW about your experiences in the Society? I have that same gulf mentally with many people at work, and with women.

The relevance of that to the thread title? I could be getting totally straight treatment from women, she might find me fascinating, and yet I'd miss it because of their subtlety.

And being an introverted type...non-drinker, mainy because of my diabetes...homebody...I feel very out of touch and not on the same frequency with women, as far as being "the type of guy" women'd find interesting. Very shy around them, which doesn't help. I'd have a terrible time if I had to begin dating again. So it's not a case of me being either manipulated (or otoh being the game player) so much as it is a feeling of mismatch between what's sought and what I'd have to offer. Reason tells me if I were dating again there'd be someone desiring those qualities I mentioned earlier...experience before I got married says otherwise. Still does, in social situations, which can be a "low key" dating situation.

So while I don't consider myself a "player" and I wouldn't be trying to con a woman into the sack, I probably missed many opportunities to meet someone because I was ignorant of her true meaning. I ended up blindsiding myself. I can't blame women for that.

I hope this makes sense. I know what I want to say but I'm not sure it's coming through.

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Movies JW style

by VeniceIT in

a friend and i were chatting tonight and he got on the subject of jw movie themes.

what if wts took over the film industry, what kind of movies would we see (using previous movie titles.

) it was entertaining and i knew you guys could come up with some good ones.. ted jarez and the chamber of secrets.

Kingpawn

Smurfballs

1914

All Quiet on Patterson Front

Life and Times of Judge Joseph Rutherford

How to Steal a Million Dreams

Ted's Big Adventure

The Three Vices of Eve

What Witnesses Want

Bringing Out the Spiritually Dead

Conan the Theologian

Fall of the House of Miller

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Are you patriotic?

by kitties_and_horses_oh_my! in

tonight my husband and i watched the fireworks for the 4th of july.

i've never done this before, save for occasionally peering out of my window as a child hoping to see a few.

tonight was wonderful - beautiful, fun, and there were tons of people there who were behaving themselves at least as well as people behave at assembly.

Kingpawn

Whenever I see a sign in a yard that says "Support President Bush and our troops." I feel nothing but contempt for the Commander in Chief.

The main reason why is that to me, the sign's saying you can't do one or the other; it's all or nothing. Like "America: Love It Or Leave It" from the 1960's. A Neandrathal mind came up with that slogan, not a thinking person, imo. Simplistic "my mind is made up; don't confuse me with the facts" logic.

I think it's perfectly possible to support the troops who went, fought, bled, were injured, and even died, and respect them for their dedication, courage, and willingness to sacrifice. To link the president (deliberate use of lowercase in the title) with that is to tarnish what I feel for the troops. I have as much respect for those who fought as for those who conscienctiously and truthfully, out of sincere moral convictions, refused to fight, or to support it.

That doesn't include those saying "give peace a chance" because to me Hussein had 12 years to disarm. That was one of the conditions of the war's end in 1991. Instead he evaded, interfered with inspections, and so on. He had his chances, took them, and got what he deserved. It's sad the price the world and his own people paid for his obstinancy though.

I made a deliberate decision not to be patriotic* decades ago, beginning with high school pep rallies, an early training ground for this mindset of "We're number one," "my school/company/country right or wrong," and so on. I took what Christ was quoted as saying about the good tree and bad tree producing fruit after their kind and decided the behavior linked to war--looting, rape, atrocities, etc.--made it, and the "gung ho" support for warfare we call patriotism, something to steer clear of.

And then to see the sacrifices of veterans over the centuries to secure our civil liberties being made in vain by many American's willingness to accept curbs and limits on those liberties....

* I like what Country Woman said though--patriotic but not a fanatic.

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Email from Dick Cheney..BARF!!!

by Aztec in

i got this lovely email the other day... .

dear carrie, .

last month, president bush wrote you asking if you would support his reelection.

Kingpawn

With that same lyrical style applied to love letters it's no wonder he swept Lynne Cheny off her feet!

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Harry Potter Promoting Occultism??

by Satanus in

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is harry potter promoting occultism, in your opinion?

i haven't read any of the books, but i saw the first movie.

i do some stuff that would be laballed occult by the wt, yet i didn't see any of that there.

Kingpawn

No, but I will tell you what it does promote, it promotes children's love of reading,

And doesn't that say volumes about the books parents wish their children wanted to read and yet kids pass them over? Why don't they appeal? I think if I wrote children's books that didn't do as well as J. K. Rowling's, I'd read hers with the attitude, "What is she doing that's so good?"

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Supreme Court Ruling Thursday on Grounds of Privacy

by ninecharger in

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thursday, the supreme court overturned the ruling in the 1986 georgia case bowers v hardwick.

in essence the court said that anti-sodomy laws are unconstitutional as they invade the citizen's right to sexual privacy.

how will the wt react?

Kingpawn

ninecharger,

PS how the hell do I just add to a post instead of putting a new one up when I think of something else?

I asked this same question a while back in "Technical Support." Simon's wife very graciously told me how: click on the title of your individual post and go from there.

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newbie and not understanding all of the aspects of this site

by Maggie in

i have read alot on this site for a while and just have been absorbing it as i make my way.. one thing i noticed was alot said about abuse of children... i experienced the reverse...false stories told..believed by elders because of hidden agenda and 20+ years as special pioneers ..etc.

as of no count and belief in a new publisher destroyed our lives and children's lives.

the horror never stops ...some of our family is disassociated...some disfellowshipped...some inactive...some active..some on a fence...mostly because of one or two elders and the misapplication of their power and lack of love to our family.

Kingpawn

Maggie,

First off, welcome. You'll find many friends and helpers here.

Second, I have to agree with those who say look to your heart and the Bible. He will make His message clear to you. He doesn't need a middleman.

Next, as to your questions:

for example if I want to reply to something someone said or ask them a question..how do I do that...

To quote someone else's words like I did yours: when you click on "reply" you can scroll down the page underneath the box you're typing your answer in, see posts made before yours, highlight the parts you wish to respond to, click "Edit" and then "Copy" on your web browser's menu bar. Then click within your message at the spot you want their text to appear, click "Edit" and "Paste," and the highlighted text should be there in your message. To quote it like I did you, highlight the other person's words within the body of your reply (in other words, what you just copied and pasted) and then click on the white balloon with the quote marks in it (beside the smiley face on this page) and the other person's words will be boxed.

If you know the post you want to copy from is going to be too far away from yours to use that method I just mentioned (you'll know after a few posts), highlight text in the original post, click "Edit" and "Copy" before you click on the "Reply" button. Then when the reply box appears (wait a few seconds for all of it to appear) click within it and then do the same "Edit/Paste" thingie and there they are!

To ask someone a question privately (sending a "PM") , click on their username. That'll take you to their "profile" page. On it's a link titled "Send a message." Click on it, pick a title to your message, and after you've typed the msg. there's a "Send" link that'll do just that. I'm describing this from memory for now.

or if someone says email me how do I do that...

There used to be a link in each post that would give an e-mail address (if it wasn't restricted) but it must've been abused in the past because it's gone. Have to ask someone for their addy or "PM" them as described above.

this is not a very computor literate person at this end

No need to feel bad about that! None of us were born that way.

And for adding emoticons like the smiley face to your message (you know you're gonna ask! ) click the smiley face beside the "quote" balloon and choose one.

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What part of Non-Governmental Organization means an arm of government?

by reporter in

hmmm mr. dubya?

hmmm?

tell me that one, you quintessential moron!.

Kingpawn

Mr. Natsios himself embraced this independence in his previous job as vice-president of World Vision. During the North Korean famine, he didn't hesitate to blast his own government for withholding food aid, calling the Clinton administration's response "too slow" and its claim that politics was not a factor "total nonsense."

If he were to say that politics was not a factor in his present series of attacks on NGO's, I'd say that was "total nonsense."