) the sydney bbq will be held next sunday, may 27th.. some may appreciate some instruction in the aussie language, so each day look here for a lesson in strine (that's australian language).. 1. at the bbq, if someone asks you: "wanna cuppa?
" they mean "would you care for some tea?".
simple, eh?
Old Tom said "free beer" and "bring a plate" why didn't he just say "bring a mug and a plate?"
Free beer sounds great ... I'm dry as a pommies bath towel ... I'll be there .. no wuck'n furries ... wouldn't miss it for quids ... it'll be grouse ... no butts about it .. can we wear thongs? (let's hope the southerly buster holds off)
uncle, 'three sheets to the wind' and hitt'n the bottle..
deacon.....if you didn't know is the cross hairs of the local suited guys in shades, ala matrix.....and is to have a tete a tete with 3 of them.. you have our support, deacon.. isp
G'day Deacon,
Don't worry about the little Johnny bullshits, they think they've nailed your coffin shut but in fact they've set you free.
regards, unclebruce.
PS: OK I'll break the rules - you can talk me about spiritual things anyday (that naturally excludes anything and everything ever published by the 'eyes wired shut' WBTS)
Accident waiting to happen
I've always been impressed with a girl
Who could sing for her supper and get breakfast as well
That's the way I am, heaven help me
He said, "We don't like peace campaigners 'round here"
As he nailed another one to the wall
And that's what gets me in trouble, heaven help me
Goodbye and good luck to all the promises you've broken
Goodbye and good luck to all the rubbish that you've spoken
Your life has lost its dignity, its beauty and its passion
You're an accident waiting to happen
There you are standing in the bar
And you're giving me grief about the DDR
And that chip on your shoulder gets bigger as you get older
One of these nights you're gonna get caught,
It'll give you a pregnant pause for thought
You're a dedicated swallower of fascism
Time up and time out for all the liberties you've taken
Time up and time out for all the friends that you've foresaken
And if you choose to waste away like death is back in fashion
You're an accident waiting to happen
And my sins are so unoriginal
I have all the self-loathing of a wolf in sheep's clothing
In this carnival of carnivores, heaven help me
Goodbye and good luck to all the promises you've broken
Goodbye and good luck to all the rubbish that you've spoken
Your life has lost its dignity, its beauty and its passion
You're an accident waiting to happen
You're an accident waiting to happen
You're a dedicated swallower of fascism
You're an accident waiting to happen
Words & Music : Billy Bragg
g'day tom,.
your parcel of books arrived today (in spite of me giving you a dodgy post code).
these are giving me flashbacks to the hundreds of "truth" and "word" books i placed whilst pioneering back in the early 70's.
G'day Dannybear,
Good to hear you growl ;) (You lost me with the 'bear still one of them' thing ... you been sniffing old Freds again?)
Yep those Photodrama books are a nice little prize if ya can get one and a reminder of pre-rutherford days and the 'light is getting brighter ... um package is getting slicker crap. To think I, at least once, saw them in secondhand bookshops and left them behind. The fear of secondhand books, (especially ones they've printed themselves lol) - another cult/mind trapping device.
cheers galahman.
PS: Your mate Sir Fred does two and three liners now and is begining to venture out into whole sentences and his own cartoon show! ;)
g'day tom,.
your parcel of books arrived today (in spite of me giving you a dodgy post code).
these are giving me flashbacks to the hundreds of "truth" and "word" books i placed whilst pioneering back in the early 70's.
No Scallywagger,
It's been hectic around here and I haven't heard from him in a few days. He's been straight jacketed and moved. Truth is, I hope the cranky old bugger makes australia his home away from home. Talleys books took a month or so to get here, stick some extra stamps on my old bro will ya ;)
cheers, unc
PS: I appreciate your posts and links X
g'day tom,.
your parcel of books arrived today (in spite of me giving you a dodgy post code).
these are giving me flashbacks to the hundreds of "truth" and "word" books i placed whilst pioneering back in the early 70's.
Hey scalley,
Didn't you save a shelf of pretty colored books? Mine met with a dumpster accident ten years ago, what's your excuse? ;) You can get some late model ones from your nearest kingdom hall (their story hasn't changed much .. they're 'spiritual air-line food' - should be a free barf bag with every one :)
unc.
PS: Take the Farkelmeister with ya (don't tell him where you're going - he loves surprises)
g'day tom,.
your parcel of books arrived today (in spite of me giving you a dodgy post code).
these are giving me flashbacks to the hundreds of "truth" and "word" books i placed whilst pioneering back in the early 70's.
G'day Tom,
Your parcel of books arrived today (in spite of me giving you a dodgy post code). These are giving me flashbacks to the hundreds of "Truth" and "Word" books I placed whilst pioneering back in the early 70's. (I started getting a headache reading the cult 'reasoning' in the "Is the bible really the word of God" and better take it in small doses (my sick bucket only holds two gallons)
The Holy Spirit book was another favorite and I'm having a laugh reading how Revelation 11:15-18 was fullfilled when a Judge waved to some angels flying by a group of his syco-phanatic followers at Cedar point Ohio in 1922.
Thanks again, (for this mind-numbing nausiating crap :) Tally-Ho's on their way
PS: Couldn't have come at a better time - wifes car just got wiped out by a dutch tourist running a red light in a winebago .. ah well .. she's OK and gets a nice courtesy car for a while ... they hand delivered your package on a Sunday .. I'm impressed! - you must have special conections with Kevin Kostner or something .. (sat through his 16 hour epic 'The Postman' last night)
thanks to all for replying to my first newbie post.. i am here because scally asked me to repeat a post i made on tishie's board here, because you guys might be interested in talking about them.
(i also think i will stay here, cause you guys sound cool.).
my mom died in april, a lifelong jw.
G'day PurpleV,
Thanks for shariing - ditto to COMF, that was a precious snapshot of past present and future JW mentality.
The end is nigh! (sexually speaking ;)
unclebruce
PS: Welcome, any friend of scallys is OK with me.
youknow, the internet's a funny place.
i sometimes come across tiny christian message boards, usually maned by some poor, pimple-faced baptist lad doing his bit to save us heathens from the confines his bedroom and bible plagued imagination.
sin unto death: following are four un-pardonable sins.. blasphemy the holy spirit!.
G'day Regan,
I've been enjoying your posts. It's allways refreshing to listen to someone sane ;) (I've been spending way to much time in God fearing places)
cheers, unclebruce
i love this subject.
i just wanted to point out that i am not a complete skeptic about these things i just think that there are many possible explainations besides the standard jw "it was demons" response.
firstly, i'd like to reinterate that i respect the reality of your experiances in the realm of the para-normal so i'm not arguing that you are all lying or that you're crazy, i am merely questioning the cause of the event.
G'day Liberty,
I don't believe in demons but some of my closest (intelligent, down to earth, not the least bit religious) friends assure me external dark forces exist. (I say 'outside' because I believe in the posibility of us creating some kinda black aura (tibetan style) from our own internal darkness) Some things are as yet unexplained and it's great to be free of religious and scientific dogmatism so as to enjoy things mysterious for what they are. Either way lifes journey is enhansed by an open enquiring mind.
Though scientists have come a long way in this field I believe it will take a few hundred more years before the bottom of all this is reached and/or the general public ready for the answers.
Just as the hard sciences evolved from esoteric mystic beginings, so it is with this. (a few short years ago, who'd have thunk dentists would be using hynotherapy, or herbal medicines accepted by mainsteam medicos or a little further back, electricity is real)
To those sceptics ignorant of these things I'd sugest seriously researching in the field of the paranormal before shooting your mouths off. I have had a good deal of experience in this field from being a JW demon fighter, laughing at the ancient Romans and their lightning throwing God Jove, while extolling the virtues of my lightning throwing God Jehovah to a complete sceptic to experiencing a heap of strange stuff, from flying saucages to haunted board games. Nearly everyone I know has had paranormal experiences of one sort or another and many, like most of mine, have multiple witnesses. Ghostly apparitions do appear at places of work and during the day although night seems to be the popular time for spooks, perhaps the suns powerful magnetic field interferes with their power. I have a book somewhere of ghosts in Sydney - suburb by suburb. It is amazing when one brings up the subject of ghosts how common they are. One of my friends lives in an old house with two female ghosts, when he argues with his wife one of them gets angry and starts attacking her (she's Latvian and the ghost is aussie so there's probably some racism involved - who want's a Slavic woman taking over their house? ;)
This is a field worthy of further investigation by any one curious but I think some groundwork in human psyciatry and basic physics is necessary to distinguish illusion and imagination from the genuine phenonomen. In England serious open scientific work on this has been carried out for well over 100 years. I can't remember the name of the Journal where the investigations and findings are published. (my books are locked away)
When I get time I'd like to relate some of the things that bought me out of the darkness of arrogant sceptisism and into the bright lights of knowing fuck all ;)
spookybruce, frustrated by old man time and bumps in the night.
PS: I find it amusing and deridable that those most often knocking the existence of ghosts have never even seen one. ;)
PSS: I'm glad you put up this clarifying thread you were comming over a bit silly like the UFO scoffers the other day. Ignorance is sooo ugly
several folks asked to hear my story, so here goes - i hope you don't fall asleep!!
it's a story that's been told many, many times - i was pretty much raised as a jehovahs witness (my mom was baptized when i was 6 years old), and i simply followed along and accepted for years what i was being told.
going through school, i just learned to be different (which, in some ways, is a good thing... im hoping that will make it easier to break free).
Best of luck pooh bear,
Thanks for sharing such intimate details of your life. I have been down some of those roads too and can only hope some separation in time and space will heal and strengthen you.
cheers, unclebruce
