Posts by Uncanny

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Suicide and other Fluff part1

by unclebruce in

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my younger sister ran up to me in the yard, tears running down her cheeks.

"it's mum .. come quick" she pleaded.

i ran inside and there was mum spread out on the bed, pills and empty tablet bottles all around her.

Uncanny

Uncle Bruce,

Fluffy you will never be, and I admire your guts for revealing so much about your family. You may indeed by OUR very own "family jokerman", but when you decide to hit, you hit hard. Great post.

I don't have much sympathy for suiciders myself. To me, UB, it's the ultimate in sulking. I should know, my father took his own life when I needed him most - when I was sixteen years old. What really irked me many years later after I finally came to terms with this 'tragic loss' was how the people who supposedly knew him best - "Fergus was such a kind and generous man" - still kept telling me how much he loved his family. Really? Forgive me for sounding cynical, but how can anybody love their family when they just go away one day and kill themselves, leaving their 'loved ones' to bear the scars and pick up the peices from the mess they leave behind???

Choose life, if only for the ongoing sake of the ones who REALLY love you.

Uncanny

P.S. Next time I roll my ageing FORD down the hill into Adelaide to buy some fish at the Central Markets, I'll keep an eye out for that bikini wearing old lady in her garden with a King James bible.

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I Don't Sympathise With Suicides

by Englishman in

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let me explain.. firstly i have seen any number of so-called attempted suicides.

i've walked past an old girl friends house, seen her watching tv through the window, by the time i'm knocking on the door she's told me that she had her head in the gas oven and my knock stopped her.. my mother in law walks into the sea for a pastime.

every time she can't get her own way she walks in up to her knees and waits for someone to see her.

Uncanny

Ditto, Englishman,

I've never viewed myself as a heartless SOB, but I do view suicide as the ultimate in sulking.

Uncanny

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Mad as hell...shivered and cried like baby

by DannyBear in

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yesterday, when farkel announced his departure and shunning of us all, i was incensed and outraged.

in fact i had similar feeling's to those day's 20yrs ago, after being df'd, where former friends and relatives, just simply said 'your no good, your not worthy of my/our attention anymore' turned thier back's and walked away from me.

then witnessed farkel ignore the sweet comments lilac's writes just for him....made we want to ring his neck.

Uncanny

Well done, DannyBear.

This is my first day back here after many months of absentia. I'm glad I'm back, and you know why. It's because posters like you, and your great sense of humanity. Because when its displayed this way - so openly and honestly - all of us can relate, and usually gain comfort or learn something from it.

Uncanny
Life Is Too Short To Drink Cheap Wine.

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Farewell to all

by Amazing in

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i already said farewell in my apology post to julie.

but many of you may not have read it since it was specific to her.. i was planning a long farewell statement because i have a number of things i want to share, but decided i would do that in private if anyone wishes.

you can reach me at [email protected].. i chose to leave for a number of reasons, and some stated on my last post.

Uncanny

What's going on around here?

I go away for a few months and come back to visit today, and see a 'Farewell' post from Farkel first-up. Then, lo and behold, now I've just read a goodbye message from another valueable poster shuffling off to Buffalo? (Are these New year's Resolutions being fulfilled or what?)

So at the risk of sounding patronsising, I just want to say "Thank You" Amazing for all the hard work and heartfelt concern you have shown to so many of us over such a long time. I was one of them - from way back in the old H20 days two years ago when posters like you, and AF and Farkel and Kent and Seeker and Focus and Randy and COMF and Ros and Wasa and Jan and You Know helped me to see the Truth about the Trooth. (I disassociated myself very promptly after 20 years of WT psychobabble, thank you very much.)

And so H20 lost its way, and a lot of the old gang made an exodus here to JWD about mid March 2001. I think I signed up the same day as you did, Amazing. Yes, it was a shame how Rick did so much great work for such a long time at H20, and then, unfortunately, he let the stiffling, judgemental JW-mindset of that silly Edler/Cop/Moderator thing slowly destroy that site's relevence. So it was a relief to find Simon and his more user-friendly JW Discussion place permitting a sense of ongoing freedom of speech for all. It obviously still does, but now will only be the poorer from the lack of input by people like yourself and Farkel and AF etc.

Amazing, you have no responsibility to anybody here and I wish you well with your future endeavours. But you should know, before you go, that your hard work, mature insight and vital information - not to mention your love for others - has really aided the often confused and damaged Jehovah's Witnesses who bit the bullet and went looking around the Net for answers one day. I know - I was one of them.

No, you will not be easily forgotten. Because its regular contributers like yourself who can often mean the difference between someone starting a happy, new life or continuing to live a sad and dead one. Thank you, again and again.

Uncanny

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Whacker of Woodside

by Uncanny in

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tired of living?.

depressed about world conditions?

missing farkel already?.

Uncanny

Ah yes, mike047, he's a mischievous little bird, isn't he?!

And yes, Unca, I knew another real South Australian galah like yourself wouldn't be able to resist Whacker's new site. By the way, who's your plastic surgeon? Nice job, cobber.

Uncanny

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Whacker of Woodside

by Uncanny in

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tired of living?.

depressed about world conditions?

missing farkel already?.

Uncanny

Tired of living?

Depressed about world conditions? Missing Farkel already?
Overly concerned that your city may be the next target
for a little biological warfare? Feeling ripped off that
after all those many years of pleasing others and making
so many self-sacrifices, you discovered how your religion
was really just a crock of !@#$ after all? Or maybe you
are seriously considering euthansia as a viable option;
if only you could say it right, right?

Don't worry, change the script. We all need a little
pick me up from time to time.

So, to put a smile on your dial, if only temporarily,
come and meet a real Australian galah - Whacker of Woodside.

http://www.whackerofwoodside.com.au

Uncanny

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I'm Going Too. Hello Again.

by Englishman in

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i'm going to the pub.. see you tomorrow.. englishman.. bring on the dancing girls!

Uncanny

Englishman,

After a rather long absence from yours truly, it's great to see how some things never change around here.

Uncanny

P.S. Bring back Farkel!

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Sorry for Delays

by Farkel in

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hello, everone.

i'm posting this to let it be known that i only have about 30 minutes a day to be on the internet.

i have not been able to get to all my mail, nor read much at all on this board.. i sincerely apologize to those who've written me and not received a response.

Uncanny

What's the weather like on Pitcairn Island today?
Any mutinous behaviour in the wind?

Uncanny

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"The Racism of American Warmongering"

by LDH in

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friends,.

this article was sent to us by one of my husband's best friends.

mississippi had the guilty parties been white boys with .

Uncanny

Very Interesting. It's funny how I appear to be the first reader to post a reply here. Discussing racism from within is obviously a sensitive subject, don't you think?

That was also very interesting about Jerry Falwell's slant on the terrorist tragedy, too. I read somewhere how he said that the double plane bombings in New York, at the Pentagon and in Philadelphia represent "God's wrath against gays and civil libertarians." He might also have had the Jews and Jehovah's on his damnation list, but as I've read so much about the crisis over the past few days, I'm starting to suffer from intermittant memory loss: I can't remember.

As far as the United States of America being viewed as the big bully of the world today, the jury is still out on that one. If the US is indeed viewed as the policeman of our planet, then surely the opportunity has arisen, if oh so tragically, for this great nation to become an international guardian of peace.

I have been very impressed by the patient and controlled reaction by the Bush administration thus far, and do hope the perpetrators of this unforgiveable attack will be brought to justice in a UN-organised Court of Law. I noticed on CNN last night how one option for justice mooted would be administred by a 'judgement at Nuremburg' style of trial. (That was an oustanding success in hindsight. And lest we forget how many millions, not thousands, died at the hands of other blood thirtsy fanatics - the Nazis - during World War 2.)

Will we ever be able to stop terrorism? I doubt it. But with cool heads and international impartiality, out of the ashes of the World Trade Centre Towers might even come the chance to resolve the Middle East crisis once and for all. As for delivering 'Infinite Justice', my money is still on the big boys upstairs for that one when the time is right.

Uncanny

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THE USA GET'S READY TO STRIKE!!!!

by Gianluca in

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Uncanny

Great cartoon. I thought the one done early on of the Statue of Liberty buckled over as if holding her stomach from a just received gun shot wound was particularly poignant, and very moving as well.

Yes, it appears as if a strike is imminent now that the Taliban's rather wishy washy order for Bin Laden to leave Afghanistan has been rejected by the United States.

Tell me, Gianluca. You live in Italy. Is that large US Military base just outside of Naples gearing up to join in George Bush's crusade against terrorism. When I was living near there as a JWitness three years ago, I remember meeting quite a few sisters - African American mainly - whose husbands were either soldiers or sailors there. Some of these men were actually studying. I wonder where their loyalty lies now, or what's going through their minds, and also how might their 'loving' brothers and sisters be treating them.

Uncanny
Will 'Infinite Justice' last forever?