Darn, I thought this was a refernce to that episode of The Simpsons (TM) when Homer becomes and astronaut and goes to space. They mention they have a canister of "Children's Letters to God" that they will jettison.
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8letters to God
by scootergirl ini got this in an email this morning......i thought it was so cute.
<< > a nun asked her class to write notes to god.
> notes the children handed in:.
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Maybe there is a God!!
by RubyTuesday inthe pervert elder that went to court for my niece's rapest(he lied to the judge about what a great jw he was and that my niece was just a liar..when he knew that this sicko had a past for raping little girls) was killed in a car accident tuesday morning.
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Simple coincidence? Or Divine Retribution?
"YOU MAKE THE CALL"
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Keeping it in perspective
by Torn ini've just joined up to silentlambs.
basically i still consider myself a jw, although i'm no longer active.
i do frequent the odd sunday meeting tho, as i still consider 95% of it to be the truth.
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For myself, I am not going to throw the baby out with the water.
Many here have tried to do the same, only to find that there is no baby. Instead, just a foul-smelling turd that was making the water get dirty. If you want to keep the turd and hold it close and call it a baby, that is your business. I don't understand it, but that is your business.
Another thing to consider, put the shoe on the other foot. Really think about this: how would you react if someone you met in field service said "I know that {insert religion here} is not perfect, but I believe in 95% of what they say, and am going to stick with it. I think the errors you point out in {insert religion here} are unimportant compared to their believing and teaching {insert belief here}."
Perhaps if the shoe were on the other foot, you would see it as a cop-out?
Sorry to come on so strong. Welcome to the board, hope you stick around.
Edited by - Quotes on 14 November 2002 13:36:58
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Will They Abduct My Son!
by 68storm ini would appreciate some input from the board that is weighing quite heavy on mind.. as some of you may know, my ex divorced me six years ago, strictly for religious reasons.
after an enormous amount of legal funds, i succeeded in getting an agreement signed that states that when the child reaches an age that the courts consider mature enough, we would both allow him to make his choice of religions.
even if he wanted nothing to do with religion.. it would seem that the time has finally arrived.
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Some really good advice has been posted.
It is interesting to think that this religion claims that "no one is coerced to be a member". It sounds like your son, like so many other teens, is indeed being coerced. But is sounds like he is not falling victim to it.
I doubt a 12 y.o. would be kidnapped. It would blow up in the media and expose the idiocy of the WT/JWs: "Child kidnapped by mother in order to be coerced to be a JW; child's ability to choose not respected".
My personal weapon of choice is to fight fire with fire (or more accurately, fight mis-information with information) but that is not really appropriate for a 12 y.o.
Let him know that you love him -- no matter what. That is something that the JWs can not say, since their love is conditional.
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Favorite King of the Hill sayings......
by Tatiana inhank to bobby..."if you weren't my son i'd hug you!".
peggy's flawless spanish!
"yup"
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".... I'll tell you what."
Hank often finishes sentences with this. My wife and I started using it and laughing about it. Then she met a man from Texas, and he used this expression (TRUE STORY!!!).
He couldn't understand why she was giggling every time he said it!
Another favorite: a young Hank saying that in the future "I want to sell propane and propane accessories... If my grades are good enough!"
And the best one from the episode where Hank became a pimp (I know I don't have this one exactly word-for-word correct): "From now on, the only woman in my life is Lady Propane. And I'm gonna be tricking her out all over this town."
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Aren't the annointed in heaven bored?
by SpannerintheWorks inthey must be just sitting there waiting for armageddon to happen.
boring!.
i tell you what, i'd much rather be down here having a good time!
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They can't be bored, they are busy preparing for Harmageddon (TM).
That's right, just working & planning how exactly 99% of the Earth's population will be slaughtered, planning the irrigation for the "rivers of blood", working on new ways to create famine, new diseases to wipe out entire populations. That keeps them busy. Not much time to prepare either, 'cuz the end is coming real soon:
1914will mark the end of the generation that saw the beginning of the pangs of distress in 1874- ok, whatever we said about 1874 now moves to 1914. And
1925will mark the actual end of the end....um....sorry.... - a generation is 30 years, so the end must come before
1944... um, wait just a second here... - no, 6000 years ended in
1975.......er hang on a second here... - no, the scriptures say a man's years are "70 or 80" so the end is coming before
1994..... um, er, (sweating) - OK, the work will be accomplished
before the end of this 20th century. .... yikes, um, er - OK, the word generation has absolutely no actual meaning. But the end is still coming during this generation. Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket.
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Where are you from?
by Rado Vleugel inmy site (
http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/
) has been visited by people from 97 different countries.
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I'm from....
Beyond the Sun!!!!!
Sorry, but that sounds cooler than just saying "Canada".
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WBTS reply about UN involvement
by Bosho inokay, firstly appologies for it taking me, like a million years to actually get back to you good people.. i was sent a letter back and guess what... standard reply was issued!.
i don't have a scanner (it blew up ages ago!
) but the main body of the letter was the same as i've seen on other threads here.
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Bosho said:
I don't know how to do all that fancy box thing you all do so well so I've just changed the colour of the ink!
It is easy:
After you have entered the information you want to "box-ify", simply:
- Select it (i.e. highlight it with your mouse)
- Click the RIGHT-MOST button on the top row of the editor window. It is just to the RIGHT of the HAPPY-FACE and looks like a cartoon-word balloon, with a pair of SINGLE QOTES inside the word balloon.
That is all there is to it! One button. Happy-happy!
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Georgia School Board Bans 'Theory Of Math'
by Quotes inthis was at "the onion" recently.
yes people, it is a joke.
at least, i think its funny, but only when you realize that the geogian school board mentioned is making a big stink about teaching the "theory" of evoloution:cogdell, ga--the cogdell school board banned the teaching of the controversial "theory of math" in its schools monday.
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And to continue the theme. If you are in a hurry, scroll down to the "test" at the end of the post.
(credit notice: this came from the E-Skeptic email ([email protected]), courtesty of Skeptic magazine.
DEMON HAUNTED TIMES
All the News That's Not Fit to Print
By Brandon Muller
Evolutionists Give Up
Creationism to be Taught in Schools
WASHINGTON, D.C. Leading members of the scientific community, along with creationists, concluded a week long summit in the nation's capital by agreeing on a resolution that demands both evolution and creation be taught in public schools.
"This is a victory for every would-be scientist who wishes to forego all that silly peer review and scientific consensus nonsense, and bring biblical truth straight into the classroom," proclaimed creationist Dr. Wayne D. Fish.
"We have wedged our way into a new scientific era," declared creationist Phillip Dembsky who prefers to call himself a proponent of "Intelligent Creation" (or IC). "Science has been committed too long to the dogmatic philosophy of "evidence" and "reason." Now science can truly move forward."
The resolution calls for a complete teaching of both evolution and creation with a final exam made up of questions split evenly between the two theories. Gene Schott, director of the National Center for Educating Science, conceded that her fellow scientists just grew tired of the constant opposition from creationists.
"They were very persistent," lamented Schott. "Finally, we just threw up our hands and said, "We give up! We'll let you present your side to students." Come to find out, we really didn't give up much at all." According to Schott, the entire creationist presentation will take less than 20 minutes of an full academic semester.
"Basically, evolution teaching will remain the same. The textbooks will not change," explained Schott. "The only difference is that at some point in the class, the first two chapters of Genesis will be read. That really shouldn't take very long at all."
Creationists were happy with the resolution. "Well, truth be told, we'd prefer to have students spend the same amount of time on both theories," said Fish. "However, all we have is the first two chapters of Genesis. God did it.
It's that simple. The evolutionists have a lot more stuff they have to go through."
The only issue left unresolved was between the creationists themselves concerning what Bible translation to use.
"I'm a big fan of the Living Bible," said Dempsky, "but Dr. Fish prefers the King James. See, we really are legitimate. We have our own in-house debate! It's like he's Dawkins and I'm Gould!" The resolution also included a sample final exam containing both evolution and creationist questions. Below are the first ten questions of the exam:
1. Describe the theory of punctuated equilibrium and argue whether or not it represents a paradigm shift in evolutionary theory.
2. What did God create on the third day?
3. Name and describe at least three different mechanisms for genetic mutation.
4. Who named all the animals?
5. Explain the significance of "ring species" in evolutionary theory.
6. True or False? Adam was a monkey.
7. Describe the role of natural selection in evolution.
8. Fill in the blank. "God saw that the light was ____."
9. Define: Allopatric speciation.
10. Whom did God create first? a. Adam b. Eve c. Steve
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Georgia School Board Bans 'Theory Of Math'
by Quotes inthis was at "the onion" recently.
yes people, it is a joke.
at least, i think its funny, but only when you realize that the geogian school board mentioned is making a big stink about teaching the "theory" of evoloution:cogdell, ga--the cogdell school board banned the teaching of the controversial "theory of math" in its schools monday.
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This was at "The Onion" recently. Yes people, it is a joke. At least, I think its funny, but only when you realize that the Geogian school board mentioned is making a big stink about teaching the "theory" of evoloution:
COGDELL, GA--The Cogdell School Board banned the teaching of the controversial "Theory Of Math" in its schools Monday. "We are simply not confident of this mysterious process by which numbers turn, as if by magic, into other numbers," board member Gus Reese said. "Those mathematicians are free to believe 3 times 4 equals 12, but that dun [sic] give them the right to force it on our children." Under the new ruling, all math textbooks will carry a disclaimer noting that math is only one of many valid theories of number-manipulation.