Yes, if you are not using 300 words to say what you could have easily said using five, you are just not trying hard enough.
Nevertheless, I, even I, equivocate, and still have no idea wtf you are talking about. :P
Malsonilla
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VOICE
by compound complex inhis voice is liquid, drowning me then rescuing me from the sheer weight of a burdensome life that can no longer be borne.. somehow, a singularly caressing envelope of grace shields me from total obliteration, his ethereal utterance an unknown but strangely welcome entity.. what power lures me outside myself into a realm within my reality but, nonetheless, beyond it?
it is sonority that at once crushes me yet, alternately, cradles me tenderly inside delicate tracery of angel song.. i beg - oh, how i beg - to be released from this aural tidal wave of unquantifiable beauty.. his music is that of other worlds; it holds me in its protective but unrelinquishing embrace.
i equivocate, but it is demurral of little account for i cave and become captive .
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Have You Ever Seen Or Met Anyone Famous?
by minimus ini'm not talking about any gb members, either!.
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1972- Charlie Pride, Sonny James and Ronnie McDowell. It was a Charlie Pride concert at the SD Sports Arena with Sonny James opening. Ronnie McDowell was a young man in the NAVY who sat next to me during the concert. He would later go on to become a Country arist and THE voice of Elvis Presley in just about every biographical movie or TV show about Elvis (Elvis The Move starrring Kurt Russel for example).
1974- One of the cast of the original Little Rascals, some blond woman named Jackie something.
1983- Michael, Latoya, and Janet Jackson at the 1983 District Convention of Jehover's Witnesses at Dodger's Stadium.
1991- Lorenzo Lamas
1992- Bill Clinton (I think he was like the president of something for a few years).
1992- John Stamos
1993- Buena Vista, Georgia, Ronnie McDowell in person (live show).
1997- Dated Ryan Brown for three months (Flipping Out and Spouse Vs Spouse)
1999- Austin Pendleton (My Cousin Vinney, What's Up Doc)
1999- James Waterston (Son of Sam)
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"There will be earthquakes..." Show this site to JW's and watch their faces
by Terry inhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/.
http://earthquakes.tafoni.net/.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/epic/.
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Malsonilla
The rule is this: A statement taken out of context is a pretext.
While working with an elder in the door-to-door publication peddling activity, he explained that while there may not be an increase in frequency of earthquakes, the Scripture is actually accurate WHEN we consider how much more devasting todays's earthquakes are since the world is now so densely populated with more buildings and people dwelling stacked ontop of each other, side by side. The result is an all-time high record number of fatalities and injury per quake. But was the scripture pointing to actual Seismological activity or was it using a metaphor to describe the manner and/or power of the nations rising up against each other?
What I am reading is basically: "Nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom and together with (te) great earthquakes . . . ", but nothing in the passage suggests and increase in frequency or magnitude, and could also be intepreted, I suppose, that the actaul rising up of nation against nation would be in a manner that would cause the world to be shaken or devastated as if by great earthquakes . . . a metaphor, not an actual Seismological prediction. And if the WTBTS, or any other presumed authority, has interpreted the passage to imply increased frequency or magnitude, I would qustion their basis for doing so.
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So, I had a thought about wicked spirits lately...
by sd-7 inthe whole reason i even got dragged into this jw stuff, and we didn't just become somebody's return visit they never came back on, is because my mom claimed that the demons were talking to her.
they told her that the jws knew the truth about them, so she called the local kingdom hall.
bible study was started, and that was that.
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Wait, the demons are real after all. I mean how else am I seeing ads on this forum for random products and topics I have been viewing online???? That logitech HD webcam I viewed on Amazon keeps popping up and winking at me! I just watched a youtube vid of rare Elvis concert footage and suddenly I see an ad for "Graceland Girlfriend Getaway" off to the side of this page AS I AM TYPING THIS!!!! lol wtf, Simon? Are you really tracking everyone's internet browsing?!?!?! that's a little creepy. Explain yourself, man! lol
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So, I had a thought about wicked spirits lately...
by sd-7 inthe whole reason i even got dragged into this jw stuff, and we didn't just become somebody's return visit they never came back on, is because my mom claimed that the demons were talking to her.
they told her that the jws knew the truth about them, so she called the local kingdom hall.
bible study was started, and that was that.
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Malsonilla
perfect1, apologies. sarcasm doesn't always come across as such, and I get what you were saying now. :)
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So, I had a thought about wicked spirits lately...
by sd-7 inthe whole reason i even got dragged into this jw stuff, and we didn't just become somebody's return visit they never came back on, is because my mom claimed that the demons were talking to her.
they told her that the jws knew the truth about them, so she called the local kingdom hall.
bible study was started, and that was that.
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Malsonilla
LOL @ jamie. My transition into atheism lead me to the final frontier, the final test or proving ground as it were, to find out for myself whether supernatural claims of demons and evil spirits had any validity to them.
I had just mind-humped myself by going up against Jehovah Himself and kicking his feckless ass all over the courtroom getting custody of my kids from their JW mother and stepfather. Nothing bad happened to me. Then a very pissed off and bitter exwife dropped off my kids and their belongings to my house because the judge had not only granted me sole custody, but also forbade her to so much as crack open a WT magazine in front of them let alone ever take them to the Kingdom Hall again. That was it. I fought the custody battle pro per against her family law scheister and of course Jehovah Himself with the courtroom seats filled with Firm-n-determined JW holding Watchtower magazines out infront of them like crucifixes to ward off vampires, and I actually beat that little bitch, Jehovah, and his followers, down . . . I was Danai Gurira with a Samarai sword slashing bitch=ass zombies, ha ha ha Just kidding, and back to my point. Jehovah became impotent before me and my own mental and emotional power and focus trumped His Almightiness.
I would sit late at night in nothing but the glow of the tv and dvr'd ghost hunter reality shows, one episode after another with common snake oil salesmen posing as full-time plumbers moonlighting as paranormal investigators caught evp's, caught startling glimpses of apparitions (always somewhere off camera), and pulled bullshit stunts during live episodes . . . and I watched a creepy college student leading a band of loser pimple-faced kids into the homes of emotionally and mentally disturbed, mentally ill, substance abusers and alcoholics giving merit and validity to their claims of paranormal activity in their double-wides, speaking intelligently with special insight into demons under the pseudoscience of "demonology" as each episode lead us along his very private and painful lifelong struggle with a very powerful demon-stalker Belial (don't say its name out loud) who continues to follow and harass him determined to possess his soul. Vomit. finally, I embarked upon my own little paranormal investigations at locations in my own town known for heavy paranormal activity and did exactly as they did, and never once captured an evp, caught a glimpse of a spirit, caught a single misty mystical on video camera, heard or saw a single thing I could attribute to supernatural origins. Total craps. I attended and held candlelit seances eliciting any kind of contact whatsoever with spirits of any kind, then begged them to show themselves, then contemptuously demanded they show themselves, hell, I even did the ultimate and unthinkable! I went into my bathroom, stood directly in front of the mirror, turned out the light, and recited the forbidden words, "bloody mary come alive, bloodly mary come alive, bloody mary come alive!" . . . The hair standing up on the back of my neck was all for naught and anti-climatic, and all that resulted was the urge to purge my bladder of the coffee I had consumed 30 minutes earlier.
it's all bullshit. Anyone who makes claims of supernatural experiences is either a nutter, a liar, a tweaker who has been up for days, or has been horns-waggled, or refuses to look for natural causes for their experience(s).
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So, I had a thought about wicked spirits lately...
by sd-7 inthe whole reason i even got dragged into this jw stuff, and we didn't just become somebody's return visit they never came back on, is because my mom claimed that the demons were talking to her.
they told her that the jws knew the truth about them, so she called the local kingdom hall.
bible study was started, and that was that.
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Malsonilla
Perfect1, you are no atheist. lol
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So, I had a thought about wicked spirits lately...
by sd-7 inthe whole reason i even got dragged into this jw stuff, and we didn't just become somebody's return visit they never came back on, is because my mom claimed that the demons were talking to her.
they told her that the jws knew the truth about them, so she called the local kingdom hall.
bible study was started, and that was that.
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Malsonilla
Charliko, I heard the same cautionary tales of used items of which demons had attached themselves, and was given images of angry defensive demons scratching and clawing to hold onto the item of their obsession as it burned or was being smashed by steel hammer, the item having an unearthly resistance to its destruction while furious shrieks of defiance and gutteral groans of go F yourself issued forth from a stuffed animal or victorian chair. Ridiculous crap.
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So, I had a thought about wicked spirits lately...
by sd-7 inthe whole reason i even got dragged into this jw stuff, and we didn't just become somebody's return visit they never came back on, is because my mom claimed that the demons were talking to her.
they told her that the jws knew the truth about them, so she called the local kingdom hall.
bible study was started, and that was that.
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Malsonilla
I will also offer this: I was so terrified of demons from early childhood on, that it created an intense anxiety in me that caused all sorts of emotional and mental challenges, exaserbated common sleep paralysis I was misinformed to be demon attacks, and during one long year of my life ocurred almost nightly. The advice from elders and other JW's to call out Jehovah's name rarely, if ever, helped. The turmoil subsided during my long kiss goodnight to the WTBTS, its teachings, as I slowly drifted toward the light, relief, and freedom of heart and mind that atheism provided me. No God? No demons. No sin? No need for a savior or redemption. No demons? No fear. No fear? Movies about demons such as the exorcism only makes me think of my first wife, and not any invisible wrathful gremlins who sit on top of me when I sleep trying to get at my pee pee and make me kick kittens into box fans.
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So, I had a thought about wicked spirits lately...
by sd-7 inthe whole reason i even got dragged into this jw stuff, and we didn't just become somebody's return visit they never came back on, is because my mom claimed that the demons were talking to her.
they told her that the jws knew the truth about them, so she called the local kingdom hall.
bible study was started, and that was that.
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Malsonilla
Beautifully written piece, sd-7. Thoughtful, logical, funny, and on point. I don't know anything about you, but you are either an atheist or agnostic, and if not, you will be.
You've taken the bullshit mind-bending teachings of the Bible and its twist-masters, the WTBTS, layed it all out in clever arrangement that raises more questions than they could ever answer, even if they wanted to take a crack at answering.
Does the "sd" in sd-7 stand for San Diego by any chance?
