so it has become habit for me to go out of my way when driving to make sure i can give it the finger as i drive by.
i especially like to do this on the way to one of my favorite bars, especially on meeting nights just so people who knew me can see me do it.
i don't know why, but this has become a tradition of sorts.
Sort of. Seeing a KH always gives me a queesy feeling. There is only one locally I see on a regular basis, (a couple of times a month) and I attended one meeting there. I do see others, notable one near Little Falls, MN and one near Nisswa, MN. They always remind me that I am glad I am out and to pity those still trapped inside.
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i so cannot wait!
starbuck (katie sackhoff)
an absolute hottie and a great viper pilot.
Thanks for the reminder. Mrs Thirdson and I will be watching BackleScar. (After the demise of Enterprise its the only SciFi prog I watch regularly).
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i love it!.
love the take off, love the in-flight meal -yum!
- love the landing.
When I was young I liked it. I hate flying now, that is I hate the hastle, waiting, cramped seats, bad food or no food (which may be better). I dread transAtlantic flights and I've done transPacific and 12 hours in coach is a killer. Now, travelling 1st class is pretty good and the only way to travel. If I accumulate a lot of airmiles in the next year I'd consider using the miles form my business trips to upgrade flights for our next family vacation in Europe.
Thirdson
PS I've only travelled 1st class a few times on long-haul flights and the last time was for all three of us travelling after the airline made a mistake with our seat assignments. It spoiled Mrs Thirdson for life --- I don't think she wants a coach seat ever again so I don't think we'll travelling very often then.
i like "theocratic strategy", "new light", "the slave", and "lovers of truth"......anything that you find amusing?
How sad is this? 1 Cor 15:33. "Bad associations" was often not stated we just cited the scripture. The worst thing, I still remember the chapter and verse.
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i like "theocratic strategy", "new light", "the slave", and "lovers of truth"......anything that you find amusing?
My alltime favorite is related to being harrassed about the blood doctrine.
Dub couple spend a long time at one particular house. On meeting up with other members of their group they are asked about the interest at their one call. Couple replies, "no interest. WE GOT STUCK ON A DOOR WITH BLOOD!"
I'm glad I don't get stuck on any doors anymore and Saturday mornings are my own.
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someone just paid $50 for this brochure on ebay!!!!!
why when you can get it for free on the internet?
please, enlighten me.
The good thing about having a real copy of the book is that it may contain notes in the margins. (There were rumours of an update to this book but I haven't heard of it being released.) Elders will usually have their copy with them when they meet with the CO or at KM Training sessions. It's at those meetings that the WTS will have some additional tid-bits for elders to note directly in the margins of their book. These are the secret instructions that come through letters to elders via the CO. To have a book with these additional notes is very useful.
I wish I'd have kept mine. I was still a loyal dub when I resigned and handed in my book with my letter of resignation. The on-line versions are a good source but they lack the 'special notes.'
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had a bizzare experience last night.
i went to see the movie mr. and mrs. smith (which, by the way, was pretty decent).
my girlfriend and i showed up about 20 minutes before the show started, so we picked out some seats and then each went to the restroom in turn while the other watched the seats.
SNG,
Let me get this straight: You were shunned by a group of the self-righteous who felt you were too sinful to speak to while said group was attending a movie about two hired killers that is "Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence, intense action, sexual content and brief strong language (IMDB.com)" Just what did you do to get DF'd!!!?
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yet again because it was in the days text gen 6 vs 3 was discussed at the dc.
it -the talk -was started by stating that god puts a time limit on things and that in noahs day it was 120 years.
we are now 9w1 years into the time of the end since 1914. now 2034 was not directly mentioned but hell it was strongly implied and a gb member was present gerritt losch- so it looks as though statements like this have the wtbts approval.
I don't see the parallel between Noah's preaching and the events from 1914. I guess the WTS has to keep adding periods on to old dates that give an end date somewhat in the distance (so it won't be reached soon) but not too far that many give-up now. To say absolutely that the end is 2034 would mean for many that it's not within their lifetime...I will be 74 in that year.
To say that God fixed a 120 year period from 1914 implies that the warning work that parallels Noah's commission to build an ark began in that year. What then of the 35 years prior to 1914 when C.T. Russell was warning that the end was coming 40 years after 1874 (Christ's first invisible presence)? Was that a false start? Was Russell only given enough insight to predict the start of 120 year final period? What about Russell's 1799 date for the start of the "time of the end?" 120 years added to that date would be 1919.
If Jesus didn't approve the board of directors of the Watchtower, Bible & Tract Society as his true representatives on Earth until 1918/19 (which is actually 1260 days after the start of something else never clearly defined) who was doing the warning work between the fall of 1914 and then? If it was Russell why discount his earlier work? Anyway, the "last days" project kick-off didn't happen until 1919 in Cedar Point, Ohio so why not add 120 years to that date? (Maybe this is future new light to be announced around 2033.)
The whole idea of 120 years from 1914 is a bad fit with current Watchtower doctrine on dates. It is pure clutching at straws to make a date act as a "carrot" for the members and reduce the declining membership.
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you're a contestant on a tv game show.
the host has three boxes, a,b, and c. .
one of the boxes contains keys to the star prize, a car and the other two are empty .
Swap for box B.
The odds are better for changing.
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i was looking around the area of my city and i found this amazing pit.
it is an image of an aircraft and its shadow on the ground..
I noticed a number of planes in the air on Google map's satelite images around Dallas-Fort Worth airport. It appears that as the images were taken the same planes appear in multiple images as the satelite passed south to north. There is also a plane approaching Minneapolis-St.Paul airport close to the Mississippi near Hastings, MN.
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