well, i was chatting with my mom this weekend. she informed me that the summer convention was in early june this year. which also happens to be finals week for my brother. what a hassle! the wts just doesn't give a damn does it? so now my mom and bro have to ask the teachers if he can complete all his finals by thursday so he can attend the stinkin' convention. she said if the teachers can't do that then my family will attend another district's friday program. i feel bad my family (and all the jws) who have to continously jump thru these little hoops to show how loyal they are to the damn gb. i just wish i had the magic words to convince my family that their truth is nothing but a big fat lie! grrrr
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DC scheduling
by peaceloveharmony inwell, i was chatting with my mom this weekend.
she informed me that the summer convention was in early june this year.
which also happens to be finals week for my brother.
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Am I the Oldest One here??
by Undecided intoday is my birthday, born in 1936. that makes me 66. i can hardly beleive it.
i'm still in good health but know it's just a short run until something does me in.
i'm really thankful for the great life i've enjoyed, no real problems that i consider serious.
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peaceloveharmony
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEN!!
enjoy!
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problems with webphotos.com
by gilwarrior ini get on the page and type in my e-mail address and then my password.
then i click on my account or my picture and it tells me to write my e-mail address and password again.
so i do and it takes me to the starting web page and then i go to my pictures or my account again and it tells to write everything again.
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peaceloveharmony
gil, i have that problem too sometimes. webphotos seems to be a picky bastard at times. look on the left hand side of the screen for "view my albums" right above the photo of the week. click it and type your email and password. after you enter the info you will get the home screen again. now click on "view my albums" again and you should be into your albums. hope this helps.
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Announcing the Great Apostate Song Contest.
by Mindchild ininspired by district overbeer valis and his smurf sticker contest, i decided to up the ante and announce a song contest for all you so inclined to play.. what i have in mind is this: take any recorded song you like, even the dreaded jw kingdom songs, and redub them to something much more fun!.
if you have a cool bastardized song (well that is what valis says it is called when you do this) then we can try it out at some of the apostofests that seem to be popping up like crazy all over!.
what do you win?
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peaceloveharmony
you guys are GOOD! keep 'em coming
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What Qualities Do You Look For In A Man?!?!?!
by ladonna inlilacs started a fluffy thread on what "men look for in a woman".
i think it only fair that we ladies have the opportunity to have our say!!!!!.
and.....it's time i had a fluff post.
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peaceloveharmony
LMAO @ you guys!
i want a man that makes me melt with desire and will love all of me (including all my quirks and craziness)
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news of the weird
by peaceloveharmony inchuck shepherd: news of the weird.
published feb 7, 2002. in january, after the california restaurant chain carl's jr. began televising a commercial chiding competitors' chicken-nugget meals (the ad: executives examining a chicken in a futile attempt to find a body part called the "nugget"), the animal rights group united poultry concerns objected, not just because the chicken was mishandled but because the examination hurt the chicken's feelings (treated the chicken "derisively," united's chief karen davis told the los angeles times).
(a few days later, seemingly in support of davis, australian neuroscientists charles watson and george paxinos announced the startup of a project to compile a comprehensive atlas of a bird's "sophisticated and complex" brain, emphasizing features in common with humans' brains.).
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Chuck Shepherd: News of the weird
In January, after the California restaurant chain Carl's Jr. began televising a commercial chiding competitors' chicken-nugget meals (the ad: executives examining a chicken in a futile attempt to find a body part called the "nugget"), the animal rights group United Poultry Concerns objected, not just because the chicken was mishandled but because the examination hurt the chicken's feelings (treated the chicken "derisively," United's chief Karen Davis told the Los Angeles Times). (A few days later, seemingly in support of Davis, Australian neuroscientists Charles Watson and George Paxinos announced the startup of a project to compile a comprehensive atlas of a bird's "sophisticated and complex" brain, emphasizing features in common with humans' brains.)• The Los Angeles Times reported in January that the ex-wife of casino mogul Kirk Kerkorian had recently filed a petition claiming that the $50,000 a month in child support Kerkorian pays for his 3-year-old daughter is insufficient and asking a Los Angeles judge to raise the amount to $320,000 a month. Included as little Kira's requirements are $144,000 a month for travel, $14,000 for parties (her first-birthday party cost $70,000), $10,200 for food (about $340 per meal), and $7,000 a month for little Kira to give back to the community (in charitable donations).
• Right-to-Life Party candidate Richard Hobbs, 47, overwhelmingly lost his campaign for the legislature of Westchester County, N.Y., in November, probably because it got out that he was a twice-convicted pedophile; he told reporters that he didn't think the convictions were relevant to the campaign because "there are no children at the county legislature." San Francisco election officials denied any misconduct in counting the November ballots on the initiative that would have authorized public seizure of PG&E electric utility lines (which lost by only a few hundred votes); among the alleged irregularities: ballot-box lids blown off, 240 uncounted ballots stuck in a machine, 400 blank ballots found at a pollworker's house and 5,500 absentee ballots quixotically moved from a heavily guarded room to a lightly guarded one on election night.
Police blotter
• In October, police in Fairbanks, Alaska, charged Gail Bergman, 41, with second-degree assault for stabbing her live-in boyfriend in the buttocks with two paring knives in a domestic squabble. Bergman denied it, claiming that the boyfriend actually showed up at the door that night naked with the two knives already stuck in him. According to police, Bergman's main concern seemed to be that she had finally relocated the knives: "I've been asking him where those knives have been for the last three weeks. Why is he walking around town with knives sticking out of his butt?"
• From the Crime Watch column of the Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville, Tenn.), Dec. 5, 2001: "A 36-year-old cabdriver reported one of his riders sexually attacked him Saturday morning in the 100 block of Keith Drive. The cabdriver pushed the rider away. The rider then forcibly performed a sexual act on the driver, the victim told (Det. Larry) Boren. The report indicated the driver didn't know if the attacker was a man or a woman."
• From the police report column of the Union Democrat (Sonora, Calif.), Dec. 31, 2001: "1:35 p.m., Groveland: A driver told the California Highway Patrol that two people were parked outside the entrance to Yosemite National Park with the hazard lights on and their hands in the air. Yosemite rangers said the two men admitted ingesting 'speed' and became paranoid that a sniper was in the bushes aiming a high-powered rifle at them."
Bright ideas
• In November, Mexico City began its latest tactic to help drivers cope with the capital's monumental traffic problem, by hiring five mimes to team with four special traffic officers in street theater sketches to encourage drivers at the city's most dangerous intersections to buckle up, curb their cellphone use and obey traffic laws. (A 1999 tactic had the city reassign its 900 traffic cops in favor of handing all citation-writing over to 64 female officers, who, it was felt, would be less likely to accept motorists' bribe attempts, but the traffic problem has soared since then.)
• Kimberly Herricks, 36, a manager for Donato's Pizza in Lakewood, Ohio, was indicted in December for stealing $38,000 from the company, an amount that included the value of 400 decaying pizzas found in her garage. According to police, she had invented big call-in orders at her store for schools, hospitals, etc., just to get her store's sales figures up and her name in the company newsletter. She would then adjust the books to cover the costs and deliver the pizzas, herself, to her own garage. She was busted when she asked her boss (the owner) to help her move to a new house, and he discovered the rotting pizzas.
• On New Year's Eve, Los Angeles police arrested bicycle-shop owner Michael Howard, 47, and charged him with eight counts in connection with a series of incidents in which a man forcibly cut the hair of women on the street. Although Howard's alleged obsession with hair was apparently not well known to his family, one longtime friend told the Los Angeles Times that Howard "liked playing with [hair], brushing it, everything about it. He says he likes the sound of scissors cutting hair."
Update
• Applied Digital Solutions (Palm Beach, Fla.) said in December that it will sell human-implantable chips with space for about 60 strands of information starting early in 2002, but only in South America. In the United States, ADS still needs FDA approval, which it might get this year. Right now, only some livestock have the chips (and, of course, Prof. Kevin Warwick of Reading University in England, as reported in News of the Weird in July 2001, whose arm-implanted chips open his office door and turn on the lights).
• Yeslam bin Laden, half-brother of Osama, said he will introduce a "bin Laden" designer clothing line that he believes will sell big in Arab countries (but his "bin Laden" trademark application in Switzerland has been held up).
• The director of housing at Princeton University issued a safety directive to students after two undergraduates fell out of bunk beds in dorms; it is believed to be the first warning on how to use a bed ever issued to Ivy League students.
• Probation officers in Staffordshire, England, fresh out of rehabilitation ideas, have started a counseling program based on discussing questions and answers from the board game Scruples.
In the past month: A brothel for female clientele closed because customers were abusing the owner's pay-afterward privilege by claiming the men didn't satisfy them (Waldshut, Germany). A man escaped after robbing an auto parts store of $50, but not before losing his prosthetic leg and his pants in a scuffle with an employee (Kansas City, Mo.). The owner of seven large (up to 6 feet long), house-roaming Monitor lizards died, apparently of natural causes, but then became dinner for his brood before a relative discovered the body (Newark, Del.). A wealthy director of Finland's Nokia telecom company was fined about $103,000 for speeding, based on the country's system of assigning fines by income, but he said his income has dropped, and the fine should only be about $20,000 (Helsinki).
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the doors
by jolly_green_giant injust wondering how many doors fans are out here?
personally, i believe they are one of the best bands ever to come into the music scene.
imho morrison was one of the greatest poets/musicians ever.
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peaceloveharmony
i LOVE the doors and jim especially! have you guys checked out his poetry books?
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Prince married in JW ceremony
by Gopher inthis was reported by minneapolis tv station kmsp, and the link for the story below is http://launch.yahoo.com/read/news.asp?contentid=207277.
1/12/02, 7 a.m. et) -- prince was married in hawaii on new year's eve, to girlfriend manuela testolini.
testolini, 25, is 18 years younger than prince (43).
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peaceloveharmony
hey gopher, thanks for the info. i heard about the wedding but not that it was a jw ceremony. hey maybe when prince becomes disillusioned with the jws, we can invite him to an apostofest hehe
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Can you tell its snowing in Texas?
by Valis inwe don't get to play with snow too often.. .
sincerely, .
district overbeer
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peaceloveharmony
valis, lmao! those are great! glad you enjoyed the snow :)
ps. the chickie one just needs a smoke hehe
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Average age of apostates survey.
by sleepy ini thought it might be a good idea to find out at what age or after how long we descided to leave the watchtower.. prehaps we my find a patern in it which we could use .. i think what we need to know are ,.
1.age you left the watchtower.
(or age you found out it was wrong).
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peaceloveharmony
1.Age you left the watchtower.(Or Age you found out it was wrong)
left at 17
2.Age that you were baptised.
15
3.were you brought up in it or converted?
RAW (Raised A Witness)