Ravyn, that's great! With some good video of the smurf sightings, you ought to be in the running for grand prize in some funniest video show. And that in itself ought to cover the bail
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can't wait for Halloween!
by Ravyn inmy husband and i were discussing the thread about ripostes to jws who shun you in public...and we came up with a cool idea for halloween this year!
first, find out if it is on a meeting night or if the local pizza hut will be hosting the annual jw hide-from-the-trick-or-treaters 'get together'.
then dress up like a smurf, blue body paint and all, but maybe with an axe burried in your head and fake blood....and either go knock on the kingdom hall door during the meeting and say 'trick or treat!
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Hey ladies, I got an 80. I do hope this isn't one of those tests where the real score is inversely proportional to the negative square root of the.....oh damn me! There I go thinking with that brain thingy again instead of that other thingy.
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Kingdom Increase District Convention
by hippikon inremember the kingdom increase district convention - "the increase is on" was the catch cry.
we were expecting a ten fold increase in publishers just before armagedon.
stories were being told of congregations growing so quickly they split several times, only had a ms as the po and there was standing room only at the public talks.
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I don't keep up with all things dubby but I was just curious, do you think they'll be having a Kingdom Decrease Convention or a Kingdom Stagnation Convention any time soon?
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Interesting Tidbits
by Xena inafter reading the thread about posing in the nude, i was suprised to see how many people on here had done that....made me start to wonder what other interesting tidbits (hence the title of this thread) i didn't know about my fellow posters.
so what interesting or unusual thing have you done or been or seen in your life?
posed in the nude?
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I'm just another of the uninteresting ones.
When I was about 12 I thought a planned boating trip was to a local lake (Hanson Dam) in So. Cal. Instead we (3 "adults", my ~10yo nephew and I ) are headed out to Marina Del Rey and off into the really wild blue yonder! 3 miles out (can BARELY see land) in a 14ft boat. I hear what sounds like gunshots way off in the distance. So meanwhile we're catching a mess of fish and then the "adults" start cutting the fish up and throwing them overboard. Odd, but I'm from Texas and don't know anything about this bloodletting ritual. So then the shark shows up and begins circling the boat. What do you catch a shark with.... a 3" gaff (hook) and a short length of ski rope of course. Well, that shark got away but the next one did not and since sharks do not easily drown, we (they) hadda pull the damn thing into the boat while still alive and flopping about. Remember, 14ft boat, 5 persons and 1 7ft flopping Blue shark. That was an interesting experience. The japenese neighbors had a heck of a party that night as they made shark steaks from their gift. This was a few years before Jaws.
...thinking....thinking....OH, I designed some artwork for something called an Apostafest not too long ago :) That was cool!
Played drums in an Air Guitar band many years ago. Our standard number was "My Generation" by the Who but our cardboard and balsa wood expenses were quite excessive and led directly to our early demise. Well, that and it's hard to compete against 6 scantily clad young 'ladies' singing "why don't we get drunk and screw" - you Parrotheads will remember that tune.
I know people that have many interesting stories but I'm a dullard in comparison. :)
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Theme park for JEHOVAH's WITNESSES
by pandora in.
i hope this works!
http://home.kc.rr.com/abush/ps/themepark.jpg.
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LOL at Ven's 'contributions'.
Maximum Occupancy 144,000. Great crowd stands outside the gates and watches the merriment from afar.
One thing for sure, it would have rave reviews for the cleanest theme park in existence (thanks to the great crowd being let in after hours to clean and maintain only).
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How many out here.....
by tazmaniac inhow many out here know a loved one or know of someone who suffers from depression and it is from being in the borg and never feel you are doing enough.
my ex wife would always lapse into a few month state of depression right after a visit from the c/o and getting pounded on about f/s hours or not enough studies or not enough pioneers yadda yadda yadda.
i know with my ex that the constant fear of armageddon and feeling inadequate was a depression trigger ready to be pulled at any instant.
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Not sure just where the scripture was but it went along the lines of...
"You must be perfect because your father in the heavens is perfect."
You must be...But you can't be.....But you must be....But you can't be....But you must be....But.........I just can't imagine how anyone can be depressed with that sort of logic guiding you.
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Music artists who have died, and those you missed the most.....
by ScoobySnax inok with the death of nina simone today at 70, i got to thinking about other great artists who have died.
many would say elvis, but he wouldn't feature if i had to pick just 3. mine would go something like this.
3. tammy wynette (stand by your man was a song that'll always remind me of my grandad who died 10 years ago, always makes me smile and remember him, and her collaboration with the klf circa 1992. justified and ancient.
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The one that hit me hardest was Stevie Ray Vaughan. I guess that's because unlike so many others that crashed and burned, from all accounts he actually turned his life around.
Brian Jones. So influential in the early stoneage but so messed up.
Keith 'the Loon' Moon. Ah, the stories.
Bonzo. Ah, the beats.
Keith Richard(s). Garage band riffmaster. Not quite dead yet but who can tell.
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Still do not know where I fit in the picture.....
by LyinEyes intoday is easter sunday, my younger kids went with cousins to hunt for eggs.
i saw many people out and about in their sunday finest with family going to church......... i go to the grocery store in my hooter's tshirt......... i know it takes time after leaving the borg to find your place,,,,,,,,,but i am wondering if i will ever feel differently than i do now?
i can't put my true heart into celebrating xmas, or easter,,,,,,these religious holidays mean nothing to me.
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It still amazes me to come on here and see that there are so many of us that feel so similar. What struck me was Dede's comment about things feeling so surreal. Ditto here. I feel completely disconnected from virtually everything. Even from one moment to the next there is often no continuity, just going through the motions on autopilot and feeling like I have no control over anything.
For me, unlike so many of you, I never was the perfect witness. Never wanted to be. Rather, I was forced into the acting the role but from such a young age that all the conditioning is deeply imbeded (like one of Pavlov's Witnesses as it were). So, I too can't fit in anywhere. There's simply no real connection and any 'friendships' I have are ....oh, wait, I don't HAVE any friendships anymore! Not even the superficial ones....I digress....Even at the Dallas apostafest there were many I wanted to meet but I'm not too good in social situations so I let opportunities slip away, not knowing what to say other than 'Hi'.
So I guess I just wanted to say I feel a lot of what you all feel and just hope that life gets better for you all in whatever direction you go.
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Back from the Memorial
by ScoobySnax inwell like i say, just got back from the memorial, have been going most years, but this year i went by chance (knew it was roughly at 7pm at the nearest kh) to my old congregation that i grew up in.
i didn't find the "evil" people spoke of here on this forum, or those too stupid to see.
all i did see was people i hadn't seen in years, and let me tell you, what lovely people they were.
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As this is the only memorial related topic I seen when I came on I'll post my ramblings here.
I haven't been to a memorial in some 15 years. Don't plan on going to anymore either. I doubt that the routine has changed all that much. Passed the local hall (Irving,Tx - on Rock Island Rd) on my way home from visiting a friend in the hospital. The road in front of the hall was a clogged with those leaving and a long line of cars just showing up (two memorial times? or men picking up their wives after the big shew?). Ah, the big shew. That's what memorial is you know. All love and kindness and put on a big show. That's not to say that some of the kind emotions and words are not genuine. I think they are. It's just shall we say more allowable during the big night. Recruitment night in a sense. Bring your studies and all those prodigal would-be apostates. Drag 'em all down to the hall for a yearly reunion. We'll show 'em good lovin'. (smiley go here)
As I said, I was out during the evening but when I got home I had a message from an old friend in Ohio. He went to the memorial at his old hall (his yearly due). Said they got mixed up on which song to play and after a couple or three tries had to forgo the song due to time restrictions. Must be them longer prayers I heard tell of.
ba-deeea ba-deeea that's all folks
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Scary!
by liquidsky innot that scary yet....... .
ok, this is scarier...... .
this is really really scary....
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got legs all the way up to her.......