Damn they got to you too Elsewhere?!?!?!?
Hallowed are the Ori!!!!
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has anybody been watching this season's shows with the new menace, the ori?.
daniel and vala have been saved from the fanatical ori followers, but because their savior is an ori priest and they're still trapped in "borrowed" bodies in a distant galaxy they're not exactly home-free.
instead, the priest transports them to the ori's holy realm of celestis, where daniel begins to uncover the secrets of the mysterious gods.. .
Damn they got to you too Elsewhere?!?!?!?
Hallowed are the Ori!!!!
ok why don't the image link worky??
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in the final installment of my story, i am done with my local congregation now.
in the past month, i have been df'd, un-df'd attended a meeting where i shook everyones hand and smiled ... and now i have sent everyone in the hall this letter, roughly 60 addresses:.
open letter to the north congregation of jehovahs witnesses.
There is no need to DF you, you have DA'd yourself with that letter.
Horefully though, it will cause any readers to stop and think about where their children are and who they are with.
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what are your favorite sci fi movies or books.. mine.. asimov's foundation series.
clarke's childhoods end.. the day the earth stood still.
close encounters.
Most of my favorites have already been mentioned...Asimov...the Dune series, Clarke has some excellent works(Childhood's End, 2001), some not so great(Rama, 3001). I also enjoyed Julian May's Pliocene/Galactic Milieu series.
No one has mentioned David Brin, the Uplift series is awesome. Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle... Another newer writer is Peter Hamilton, look for his Reality Dysfunction/Neutronium Alchemist/Naked God series(not sure what the correct name for the whole series is). I also recently started reading Stephen Baxter, a great hard SF writer in the Clarke tradition.
Movies: Wrath of Khan never gets old, original SW trilogy. anyone remember Silent Running?
Television series Star Trek(of course) TOS, TNG, DS9. I watched Voyager and Enterprise more out of Pavlovian response to the Trek name than anything else. Babylon 5 was entertaining, sometimes incredible, sometimes dreadful. Stargate SG-1 is entertaining in a guilty pleasure kind of way, starting to get a little past its sell date, although Ben Browder is at least some fresh blood. The new Battlestar Galactica is one of the best SF shows ever: no time travel, no transporters, no holodecks, no technobabble. 3-dimensional characters. I expect it to be cancelled at any moment.
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report: more kids being home-churched no apologies
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Righteous!!!
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hey ya'll, t was announced this morning at the breakfast table that there are two new members of the governing body.
they were formerly "helpers" or "given ones.
" anthony morris raised a family and then went into the traveling work.
To be one of the "young" annointed you have to be mentally ill.
Or.....you could be a young JW guy aiming to climb the Watchtower Corporate Ladder, realizing that to go all the way to the top, there is one thing you absolutely need to have...
Just a thought... I'm sure no loyal JW brother could be this cynical.
No Apologies(of the never-even-made-elder class)
hey ya'll, t was announced this morning at the breakfast table that there are two new members of the governing body.
they were formerly "helpers" or "given ones.
" anthony morris raised a family and then went into the traveling work.
Once again much excitement over something not that earth-shattering. I will bet a buck that both these guys are 'anointed' and have professed to be such for many years.
Actually I think one or two of the other recent appointments(Sam Herd?) have also been anointed ones already serving as Nethinim 'helpers'. So nothing too surprising there.
Now of course, new GB members is a rare event, as the remaining members all continue to fade away. And if indeed either of these two are not anointed, why yes, that would be a major shift in the leadership, bigger even than when all the GB resigned from the various corporations several years ago.
But I really doubt they are not anointed.
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our island is all on waste watch, we have to seperate everything and wash some stuff!
peanut butter jars, mayo bottles, ketchup and mustard bottles, cans, i know it's good but it can be a pain in the butt!
do you have it in your area?
Leo, I'm thinking of something...something orange...can you guess what it is?
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we had some of the cong go all the way to california to attend the same assembly that they knew michael jackson would attend!
when i made a comment about how they were going just to get a glimpse of him.
that was not received too well.
I walked past Prince at one of the last circuit assemblys I went to. When I first saw him, little short guy, wearing what was obviously not your typical dub suit, NOT typical dub hair, and his very fine wife, I did a double-take, then realized who it was and tried not to stare.
Then Larry Graham was on the program at the DC, giving his experience, how he was able to 'simplify' his life to make room to pioneer. Yeah, cause I can really relate to a millionaire rock star who still is able to pioneer.
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announced our circuit overseer last night in his talk about the urgency to preach because of the times.
followed by a silence that was broken with ohhhs and ahhhs.
he said that a couple of times throughout his part, simulating a beating heart with his fist.
I think its great that the CO makes comments like that. Its that kind of hardcore statement that the Org in general has been backing away from in current years, as they try to present a more mainstream image.
They would never be so bold in print anymore, even at a convention they have to watch what they say, but a CO or DO at a Hall can get away with remarks like that.
You know there have to be dubs sitting there that are going to be bothered by such a cruel statement, and might start to do some <gasp!!!> independent thinking!!!!
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