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Posts by teejay
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33Prince is going to be a presenter at tonight's People's Choice Awards
by orbison11 inyeppers, our dear friend, prince, is a presenter.
info can be found at aol entertainment, can't past and copy.
orbi
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Prince is going to be a presenter at tonight's People's Choice Awards
by orbison11 inyeppers, our dear friend, prince, is a presenter.
info can be found at aol entertainment, can't past and copy.
orbi
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teejay
You have GOTT to be kidding.
I... I... I... I just don't know quite what to say. That does certainly appear to be young Sister Williams and yes... she does appear to be braless. Just to be sure, let's have another look... -
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Prince is going to be a presenter at tonight's People's Choice Awards
by orbison11 inyeppers, our dear friend, prince, is a presenter.
info can be found at aol entertainment, can't past and copy.
orbi
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teejay
Almost missed this...
I keep wondering about those Williams girls! One wore a blouse that was totally see-through with no bra on...
I absolutely believe this to be an untrue and desperately malicious, not to mention fallacious, falsehood.
Um... you wouldn't happen to have pics to substantiate such a nefarious claim, would you?? For the sake of truth, is all.
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2 year old daughter slips from mothers grip
by freedom96 inhere in southern california we have been just pummeled with rain.. here is the saddest story that i have heard here.. a lady is driving her vehicle with her 2 year old, and i think a 10 and 14 year old.
along comes a barrier, blocking people from driving through a flooded street.
she decides to go around the barrier, and gets stuck.
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teejay
I thought you were going to mention the several reported incidents in SE Asia where mothers/fathers couldn't hold onto their kids as the waters surged and swept them away.
I cannot fathom such a thought. If that were me, my life would be over. I'd make it so. I just wouldn't be able to live with the idea of being less than enough for my daughter in a time of her greatest need. Life would be downhill from there...
As far as the lady who purposely drove around barricades and into swirling waters, I think she needs to be bitch-slapped and face two years in solitary. But what of her other kids while she's gone? -
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My Son is Going Back to Iraq for his Second Tour
by Miata inand i am so angry about it.
he leaves on the 29th of january and will be gone for 15 months.
i am so scared that if i think about it for too long, i have panic attacks that leave me breathless and immobilize me.
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Yeah. What freedom96 said. Lot I could say about Bush (of the Mandate Class), but I'll leave it at:
I hope your fine son stays safe and you get him back just as he left. -
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Before and after....
by Tatiana inclick on each pic and toggle back and forth.
everything gone so fast.
everything lost.
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teejay
Too sad for words.
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Prince is going to be a presenter at tonight's People's Choice Awards
by orbison11 inyeppers, our dear friend, prince, is a presenter.
info can be found at aol entertainment, can't past and copy.
orbi
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teejay
if I was a 40-something pathetic former star with a career that was lapsing into the gray zone....
According to Yahoo news (and tons of other sources), Prince's critically acclaimed Musicology Tour was the highest grossing ($87.4 million in ticket sales) and most attended (1.5 million concert-goers) tour of 2004; and Musicology, his latest release considered by fans and critics alike to be his best album in years, spent most of the summer on Billboard's top 10. Wish *I* was that kind of "pathetic".
That said, I wonder if we'll hear the name "Jehovah" at any time tonight. I await with bated breath... -
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teejay
Like everything and everybody else, some are better than others.
What I wonder about is what happens in the locker room after the game. Do they see the players in various stages of undress? And are male reporters allowed into women's locker rooms?
Interesting article... with photos... -
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my take...
by teejay in... on the watchtower society.
i am not one who will ever bother to waste my time heaping praise on the jw religion as though it were some kind of improvement on society.
i have no qualms in saying that it was, is, and always will be a dangerous religion ?
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Although I was born in Renton, Washington and my wife in Texas,
we regard Arkansas as home. It was where we sort of made our
own life together, where our son was born in 1972. ? TMS:I *knew* there was a reason I liked you!! :-)
Your comments about my beloved home state rekindles memories that are never far from the surface. I'm biased, but Arkansas is home to many of the finest people alive today, and, as you say, scenery almost too pretty to take in. It is a jewel of a place. Home.Wooooooooo! Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig! Souieeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Go Hogs!
Forever!
What brought me into this discussion initially, was the idea that standing in the hall during birthdays (for example) was a terrible, damaging moment. While I spent my time doing just that, I honestly think it gave me courage to face other, more important battles. I learned something very valuable while enduring the ridicule of my classmates: it is sometimes the better course to go against the majority. I stood my ground at that time, firmly believing that my ideals were correct. ? wasasister
I understand what you're saying ? just don't know if I agree with it totally.
Yes, those of us who survived the experience took with us from the JWs a strength of character?a burning will; a willingness to hold our ground against what appeared to be insurmountable odds; also, for a lack of a better way of saying it, we learned to have an undying faith in ourselves, to value our own opinions. I'm just not entirely convinced that those Life Lessons couldn't have been learned in a less painful way.
IMO, those of us who suffered through being raised JWs are damaged in ways that a lifetime won't provide time to remedy. Children are done irreparable harm, IMO, if they are constantly made to feel they don't fit in, and JW kids (at least those of my generation [or was it just my family]) experienced those feelings all the time. It's one thing to take pride in one's individuality; it's another to constantly feel like a fucking oddball 24/7. Even at the Hall, lines were drawn between the spiritually weak and the strong, and I don't have to mention the effects of marking and shunning.
Not long ago, my daughter participated in a school program... just some singing and simple dance productions. It was a delight to be there and watch her take part in ways I was never allowed. There came a time to sing this one song... a song she'd sung around the house several times leading up to the program. If I recall, it was He's Got the Whole World In His Hands.
Instead of singing her heart out like the other kids, for some strange reason she sat there mute, just as I'd done when I was a good JW kid. Out of nowhere, all of a sudden all those feelings of hurt, disappointment, fear, loneliness that I'd felt as a little kid came rushing back, and it was everything I could do to keep from bawling like an idiot... remembering when I felt like some sort of freak due to some weird religion.
While I agree that, as you say, "there is much to damage children in almost all religions - not just JW's", I think the JWs are unique in stressing their exclusive connection to god and, as a result, are ultimately more damaging than other mainstream Christian religions in it's treatment of children. And women.
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Calvin
by teejay init was a while back... ten or twenty years... when elder calvin and i happened to be in the same place at the same time.
by then, having been raised a dub and seeing all i needed to see, i'd learned the ins and outs of what it took to gain and hold the office of "older man" in the congregation.
saying "yes" to the higher ups never hurt.
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It's all a game... Scully
That's what I was getting at. On a clearly conscious level, even the higher ups demonstrate a crass disbelief in god.
Calvin's (and a bunch of other people's) behavior more or less said, "I can fool this guy (the CO), and then I'm home free." Little thought was given to an omnipresent god, a mega-Santa Claus, if you were, who knew about, not just the sideburns, but about the men-pleasing attitude that caused a so-called older man to play silly games. Wish I'd-a been that clever a lot sooner.