We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
... and we could get it, even if we were locked outside of our own house.
- Preston
first, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
they took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.. .
then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.. .
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
... and we could get it, even if we were locked outside of our own house.
- Preston
after reading the sept 1 2005 article about the mennonites in which the watchtower society condemns the mennonite church for shunning former members, i could not resist the temptation to send a letter to my parents about it.. after my letter i included a copy of the article with key areas highlighted.. [parents' names],.
someone pointed out a very interesting article in the sept. 1, 2005 watchtower mennonites -- search for bible truth.
in this article the mennonite church is condemned by the watchtower society for shunning members who studied the bible and came to conclusions that are different from what are taught by the church.
One time, right after the last time I spoke with my father, I called up the Church of Scientology and told them I was so interested in what they had to say. I asked to have them send me all their information and I would send them a check for $100. When they asked where to send their literature, I gave them my father's name and address
The bad news was weeks later a couple of scientologists showed up at Big tex's dad's house and started jumping on his couch
- Preston
They've forgotten
- Preston
a christian friend of mine had a melt down this weekend and screamed at my roommate about both of us being "preachy atheists".
he also said, in talking about me, that "i can see it in his eyes, he think's he's right!
" it was after a bunch of drinks at a bar and my roommate said that he was nearly in tears.
He got stoned for the first time ever a few weeks ago and I screamed "GOD IS DEAD" in his face sporadically during a NIN concert DVD. Little things like that I think have been maybe getting to him.
Don't forget to clamp his eyes open and tie him to a chair while forcing him to watch Rosemary's Baby
I kid...I kid....
- Preston
well, today i began to think there really was no point in trying to argue a point in a reasonable reasoning way with a jw, after all, there's non so blind as those who will not see.. i saw my, mother, again and we had a humungous scrap on the wtbts.
she wanted to know if i expected her to return to the rcatholic church as that's the religion she originated in.
she told me how she had been badly beaten by the nuns and that on one occasion when she had missed class and gone to the cinema instead she had received such a severe clobbering that she could barely sit down for a week.
WHOA Cowboy!!!!!
This comment alone made me reeling...
Do not leave that apostate filth in my house she screamed. If you leave it here I will rip it up into tiny pieces straight away.
I think I woulda laughed too. But i was kinda like that too. When I was a JW apostates to me were nameless, faceless enemeies from a Don Siegel film who prayed upon people and smoked... It goes to show how successful the WT has been in framing "apostates" as evil reckless people. Wow, you're dangerous gill! lol
- Preston
my bf has a large family.
his parents and 10 brothers and sisters.
im just about done with the whole bunch.
Buttlight,
You're not gonna like hearing this but....your BF is being a pussy. If I was you I wouldn't go to another family function with your BF until he has demonstrated that he has the BALLS to defend you in public. It's really one of DA RULZ' (please forgive the Fairly Odd Parents Reference) that your lover should be incensed that they be treated in a manner not worthy of being treated as such. You should be the jewel, the joy of his life, and you should be treated better
Period.
- Preston
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c'mon chaps - don't let me down .
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"Ohhh yeah..hike up that skirt a little....ooohhhhh *gasp* yeah....love to....NO, must concentrate on selling mags.......ooohhhh......yowza!!!!"
- Preston
i just returned from ontario, where a family member died, i was reading the obit, and i know its been said millions of times, but this really blew me away.
"a private family burial at ______ cemetery.
a memorial service will be held at the kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses on saturday august 13, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. as expressions of sympathy, please send donations to world wide work of jehovah's witnesses.".
The JW Reasoning: "We do not want to give attention to people's lives, we give glory to God, not people."
The Real Reasoning: "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"
- Preston
hey, lets call a spade a spade.
came across this while doing some bible reading with the wife.
she's pointing out to me as i'm doing my #2 talk to her in job 41, gods having to tell job where to get off one day on account of his self righteousness, and shes saying to me, " that's a dragon, he's describing a dragon !!!
18 His snorting throws out flashes of light;
his eyes are like the rays of dawn.19 Firebrands stream from his mouth;
sparks of fire shoot out.20 Smoke pours from his nostrils
as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.21 His breath sets coals ablaze,
and flames dart from his mouth.
Dragons, to the best of my knowledge have existed since the beginning of time. Some ancient hieroglyphics in Iraq depict dragons indicating they were a fact of life, or an element of literature. Even Shakespeare referenced dragons in literature, I even think there's one in Beowulf. I think if we're open to the possibility that there are animals that we thought at oen time were extinct but aren't anymore, I'd be just as open to the possibility that dragons exist.
- Preston
hmmm...havent seen a baseball thread on here in a while, anyone have any choices for the perfect all-time fantasy baseball team (anyone, from any team, at any period of time)?.
mine:.
c - josh gibson.
Logan,
Sharon Stone can't play Baseball
- Preston