my sister was sifting through some old papers recently and came across this old poem that she had written for a friend to advise her of her reinstatement.
she emailed it to me under the subject above.. it made us both laugh to remember how crazy we had been.
hope it lightens your day and gives some of you a laugh too.. love to you all .
Hey ashitika, what gives?
Doesn't it lighten your day to read poetry about backroom commitees raping the soul out of young people for the mighty crime of following natures urges? Haven't you any joy in poems about Elders holding out thier forgiveness for lonely women to suck on? Doesn't your heart miss a beat and trip lightly when you read about children being caste out the Kingdom Hall gates to fend for themselves in a world they've been taught to fear.
you are a strange one .. unc.
i realise that the name ita buttrose may not ring any bells with most of the people frequenting this board.
last sunday wt study used a quote in the first paragraph from the australian womens weekly a monthly (?
) magazine here in australia.
They're not changing the name .. Womans Monthly Rag hasn't a very good aura about it Stephanus!
next time you're at a kingdom hall, or during a watchtower study,.
or book study, make the following statement out loud:.
"jesus exaggerated a lot!".
Pathetic anti-christ retoric Metatron .. no scholarly references, no scriptural backup.
Was Jesus exagerating when he said he'd knock the Temple of Jerusalem down and build it back up in one day? NO! I don't think so! Just because some so no good raghead scribe said he just pushed some tables over and set the pidgeons free is no basis for doubting the Lord and saviour Jesus Christ! Just because Jesus said 'he who drinks my blood won't taste death' doesn't mean the disciples aren't alive somewhere in the caves of Judeah. Just because Jesus said you can move mountains with faith alone doesn't mean some true christians aren't running a stone quarry 150 miles South of Galaganbone with bibles instead of earth moving machinery .. geez you're thick!
unclebruce giving jesus a serve.
i realise that the name ita buttrose may not ring any bells with most of the people frequenting this board.
last sunday wt study used a quote in the first paragraph from the australian womens weekly a monthly (?
) magazine here in australia.
Ita Butrose is one of Australias most well respected commentors on social issues and the Australian Womans Weekly is a respected and well loved institution here.
What is shocking about the WBTS is that they'll use and distort the work and opinions of well known people to thier own power craving ends. JWs in Australia will cream thier pants if any indication is given that Ita sympathises with the Brooklyn zombie cult. Ita would be truly agast and more than likely seek legal address if she found they used her good name and reputation in that way.
Journalism in general has slid a long way but comparing Australian Womans Weekly to lampooning rags like The National Enquirer is just silly. Shallow and as short on opinion as A.W.W. is the two papers are nothing alike are aimed at different readerships.
Ita what a beaudy!, unclebeast
PS: Glad i resisted making a joke about the Womans Weekly now really being the Womans Monthly.
my sister was sifting through some old papers recently and came across this old poem that she had written for a friend to advise her of her reinstatement.
she emailed it to me under the subject above.. it made us both laugh to remember how crazy we had been.
hope it lightens your day and gives some of you a laugh too.. love to you all .
Alive yes .. but well?
Oh freddled gruntbuggly thy mictuations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes.
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!
my sister was sifting through some old papers recently and came across this old poem that she had written for a friend to advise her of her reinstatement.
she emailed it to me under the subject above.. it made us both laugh to remember how crazy we had been.
hope it lightens your day and gives some of you a laugh too.. love to you all .
g'day Cassandra,
move over, give this mad deviate a go..
Take a load of bollocks
A dozen alcoholics
twelve pretty sisters
feet full of blisters
A dozen young brothers,
thier fathers and mothers,
sit 'em in the hall
facing a blank wall
tell 'em to stay seated or they're all gonna die
paradise is comming and we'll all eat apple pie.
unc, still writing crap
i thought that would get your attention.. could anyone tell me exactly how many people are now running churchs as some type of jehovahs witness.. and if you could give me thier names and websites too.. thank you in advance.. josephus
could anyone tell me exactly how many people are now running churchs as some type of jehovahs witness.
G'day josephus,
In the tempory absence of 'the smart guys' (i think you scared them off .. with flattery) I'll give you my two bobs worth.
While cruising the University library about 3 years ago, as one does when one hasn't thought of finding Watchtower/Cult information on the internet, I came across a huge book titled something like "Book of American Sects and Cults." I then spent nearly two days reading the damed thing. What had me transfixed was the fact it had listed in alphabetical order every cult and splinter group then known throughout the continental U.S.A. It was copyrighted circa 1985 and gave the religions official name (one can't just call oneself human ya know) it's headquarters address (which ranged from muli-million dollar office complexes in New York to a barn at the back of Jed Clampets place in oil soak Tennasee), it's membership and at least a detailed paragraph on the Churches, beliefs and practices.
At the time it was a real eyeopener to see so many JW splinter groups listed along with Rutherfords big splinter group. Names like "Church of Jehovah", "True Witnesses of Jehovah" and at least 80 other small groups and not so small groups that originated as Jehovahs Witnesses or Russelites.. (quite a few had memberships in the thousands)
I also thought what a good book this is for secular law enforcement agencies in keepiing an eye on the lunatic fringe. Long may the sane secularites protect America and the world from religious and political fanatics, Jesus freaks, biblenuts, nulear waste dumping capitalists, totalitarian thugs, and the people who made those little plastic bread bag closure things.
OK .. over to the smart guys .. i'll take smug over smart anyday (not that i have much choice ;)
cheers, uncle smug bastard.
and if you could give me thier names and websites too.
Don't want much do ya, ya lazy dub!!! (just getting in before the Farkelmeister
PS: Sorry I have no links here but .. Randy's freeminds site has a link to "The Evil Slave Class" and there are a number of websites where these defenders of Pastor Russell hang out and preach Biblestudent doctrine pre Rutherfords cigar smoke, brandy breath and psycotic paranoia.
i remember this article from when it came out; found it whilst looking for info on low frequency sound, it's very interesting, but was ignored by-and-large by the spook community as it's less rimantic than dead grandpa's.. .
http://users.iafrica.com/s/sa/salbu/apollo/huma.html.
monday 29 june 1998 .
Interesting topic Abaddon,
This thread's an enjoyable read. My rebuff to a link made between a new scientific insight explaining some of the phenonema accociated with some ghost reports and deridiing ghosts as no more than previously unexplained electrical activity (both internal and outside ones cranium) is simply .. phht.
but was ignored by-and-large by the spook community as it's less rimantic than dead grandpa's.
I think you'll find it was only ignored in the sense of being the be all and end all of knowledge on the subject. I sugest if what you say is true, much of "the spook community" ignored it with a great yawn. Afterall the society for psychic research has been producing similar findings and studies for well over 100 years. (and numbers in its ranks eminent scientists)
MotherDank: Very interesting observation .. the walls have ears ;) I have witnessed this phenonemon many times from working alone in factories at night to walking about in my own home during the day. Walls obviously absorb sound and i am convinced it is sometimes reflected back in a comprehensable way if the conditions are right. (especially loud sharp calls)
To me all strange phenonemon have natural scientific explainations. Ghosts do exist. I know they do from personal experience. Next time something appears or disappears before our eyes around here what shall we say? Put that back Jack, you don't exist! (he wouldn't like that) There are many ghosts around here and powerfull ones at that. They put heavy metal objects in my campfire, they levitate things right in front of us, they appear in photos .. they mostly seem to just want us to know they're about.
Some ghosts repeat a scene like they're locked in some weird time loop. It seems some ghosts are people who've died suddenly but don't realise they're dead. Other ghosts are fully aware of thier surroundings and act just like ordinary people going about thier busiiness. (that's what the ones around here are like. I just wish thier everyday business didn't include practical jokes and borrowing things ;)
I am convinced that one day within the next few hundred years science will finally catch up with and work out the nuts and bolts of things for a long time only understood and spoken about openly by the alternate experiencers and thinkers. I hope Jan and Alan are listening, they love it when I act the hillbilly know it all.
It always amuses me that those most often not believing in ghosts have never even seen one and that those most often deriding UFO's wouldn't know the first thing about aircraft design, astronomy or electro magnetism.
midget men of science have bought much discredit to thier communitee/s by over the centuries, discrediting phenonema as bunk only to later have men and women of high degree enter thier ranks and rattle the chains binding lesser men to thier pomparse ignorance. The modern world owes much to openminded researchers who ignored the shallow critics of low brow acedemia and published and explored the world around them. My hat is off to the warlocks and witches that gave us electric appliances, phsyciatry, physics and numerous other things once considered esoteric and not subjects for the serious mindead university proffesor. Einstein might be spinning in his grave but that doesn't mean a peasant Russian wouldn't tie him to his table of the elements or a Serbian genius wouldn't fit an alternating current generator to him. .. um in all fairness the only scientist i know who said he didn't believe in ghosts was Sir Mark Oliphant but he always was an atheistic, atom bomb making freak. (reconed we could use some of his bombs to reshape the australian desert to prepare it for habitation .. mmm)
unclebruce who ain't afraid a no ghosts or weather balloons of swamp gas from venus. (but mad scientists give me the heeby geeby's)
***editors note: who wrote this rubbish? .. geez give a man a crystal and he kicks yer bucky balls.
why won't you let me help you?
you have been deceived!!!
it's not too late.
Apostatebuster,
***Catholics pillaged and murdered through the centuries.***
Yep the Catholic religion in practice is nothing like the ideal 'love thy neighbor but keep yer mind off his ass' biblical scribes nibbed on clay sheets, papyrus fronds and sheepskins way back when men were patriachs and the ice took ages to melt.
***Muslims butchered and tortured their enemies.***
g'day love, I'm pretty peckish today .. make mine a butchered tortoise and two fried sea enemies .. um and face my plate to the east would ya .. best to keep a watch out for Buddha.
***The Buddhists worship a fat little man (which is just weird)***
Buddhists can be weird (the'll try anything to make you think) but they don't worship a little fat man or any thing else, unless you stretch the word worship to include grovelling at the feet of Circuit Overseers and such.
cheers Sir, unc.
there has to be a reason for the contempt that jw's have for the united nations.
it just doesn't make any sort of logical sense for a religious body such as the wtbts to have such a virulent hatred of an organisation who's main interest is in maintaining a peaceful world.. they say, i recall, that it is a "sham" or a pathetic substitute for god's kingdom.
this is nonsense.
G'day English,
It might be even simpler. Rutherford had a personal antipathy toward President Wilson (Wilsons wife went attended bible student meetings)
my two bob.
