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  Godfather Rutherford (Photoshop-fun)

  by Rado Vleugel in

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  not marlon brando, but rutherford is the original godfather!.

  rado vleugel.

  http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/

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  Xander

  Hmmm....how many are there?

  I would probably start with something like:

  

  EDIT: Don't have photoshop at work, so you'll all have to wait to see my take on this thread. Thinking of something clever....

  Edited by - Xander on 30 August 2002 13:30:3
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  Hope you can think fast!!!

  by Xander in

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  The underground route to the new system

  by RunningMan in

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  i heard a rather disturbing phrase recently.. i know a jw who is suffering from bi-polar disorder.

  he is periodically institutionalized, and has tried suicide on at least one occasion.

  although i cant personally begin to fully comprehend what he is going through, he made a statement that i found strangely disturbing.

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  Xander

  Yeah, except they consider suicide a non-resurrectable sin.
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  JW Refuses Blood. JW Dies. JW's Sue.

  by Mister 8iggs in

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  i guess the family needs the money so that they can quit their jobs and pioneer.

  http://www.canada.com/halifax/news/story.asp?id={49cb73c1-27a2-48f8-a3fb-6127fcc41a9e}.

  family of jehovah's witness gives up lawsuit against doctors over her death.

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  Xander

  Why isn't the WTS involved in and bankrolling this case the way they did with Shunned Father's daughter's case???

  Well, duh - the women in question is already dead for her faith, so their mission is already accomplished.

  Hmmm...new motto of the Watchtower legal department:

  "We shall not rest until all Witnesses have died for their faith"
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  Early UT2003 demo! (Gamers only....)

  by mindfield in

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  wow... i was stunned when i saw this.

  if you're a unreal tournament fan, you'll love ut2003!

  early demo!.

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  Xander

  (In my defense - the demo IS supposed to be out any day now - Epic has implied it will be out before the game is - and that's due out next month or so).

  To be honest, I'm not really that interested in UT2K3. It's kinda...I dunno...pointless. Deus Ex II (same engine), sure, but I dunno bout this - I never really got into UT, either.

  What I'd REALLY like to see (and I'd pay booku-bucks for) is a MMORPG with no levelling and combat as compelling as, say, UT and mercantile elements as compelling as, say, hmmmm...can't think of any good examples....a really good trade system! No levelling you say? What will keep gamers paying each month?

  Well, I envision new adventures/modules released bi-monthly. COMPLETELY new stuff - like, say, how sequential chapters or levels are in single player games. A thriving player economy - lots of different classes. And no worry for n00bs starting out or infrequent players being hopelessly outmatched by die-hard RPGs who level-level-level-level-level 24/7 (or it damn near seems!), since the only skill you have to worry about is your own abilities - IE. YOU get better by practicing something, not your in-game persona. (This means that 'building' things to sell to other players - like making bows and arrows and such, or armor, etc - would actually have to be modelled as something that is challenging to actually do IRL, so players who do it a lot actually get better at it)
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  Early UT2003 demo! (Gamers only....)

  by mindfield in

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  wow... i was stunned when i saw this.

  if you're a unreal tournament fan, you'll love ut2003!

  early demo!.

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  Oh, you suck ass so badly....and I was on the speaker doing tech support with a client, too.

  Goddamn, man, teach me to come here during the work day....
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  My car's working again!!!

  by SYN in

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  it's so cool to be able to drive around again.

  after spending ludicrous amounts of money on it, i finally got my little 1979 ford escort running again.

  of course, it can't go faster than 60 kilometers/hour without wobbling and losing paint, but then, the car is older than i am!!!.

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  Xander

  I'll organize you some hot maidens that you can charm with your American accent

  Sadly, I think the wife would object to that. Sounds fun, though.

  American guys here are viewed as novelties....*jealousy*

  YOU'RE jealous?!?!

  Oh, c'mon, the fellow who's wooed MrMoe is jealous of ME?!? I'm telling her you said that.
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  MATRIX fans, I need your help fast!!!

  by Lin in

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  i'm working with bill bowen on a couple things and he and i .

  are discussing through emails some points in the movie, matrix.

  watched it again the other day, and still i'm stumped.

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  Xander

  I think Counterstrike sucks

  Thank you for bringing some sense to this thread! This has to be the most logical, well-reasoned comment therein....

  No, really though...

  Using humans to generate electricity is about as efficient as popping paper bags to make yourself fly forwards on a wheelchair

  Quite so. We're very terrible 'batteries' - more akin to fusion power today. Sure, we have fusion reactors today. Only problem is that they take more energy to operate than they produce. Same w/ humans - sure, you can use us as a source of power. We just take more energy to keep alive than we produce.

  Of course, as has been pointed out in other places - it is only Morpheus's (and, presumably, those at Zion who taught HIM about the world) assumption that people were being used as batteries. There could be other reasons for the situation in that movie.

  She was not up to the task on her own, nor strong enough on her own, but rose to the occasion with
  Neo

  ????

  I never got that impression - she seemed to do fine on her own.

  At the end of the movie, Neo was able to fly and was invincible. Why were the others not able to do that too?

  I was under the impression he was something like the reincarnation of the original programmer of the matrix.

  Edited by - Xander on 26 August 2002 16:5:40
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  Part 3 --- What the heck happened?

  by Jourles in

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  ....was the question i kept asking myself while flying home from seattle.

  i swear i must have been suspicious looking to other people around me as i was quite skiddish and nervous while on the flight.

  ball asked me how i felt about that.

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  Xander

  Adding:

  Not sure if it is true in your case. But, in retrospect, my wife probably wanted 'out' farther back than her spirituality waning was obvious.

  (I was a fairly strong JW, and when I decided to go, it was a fairly quick process - I don't like being lied to.)

  IOW, she was feeling something missing, but was always taught from infancy onward that any problem could be solved by 'being more spiritual-minded'. So any arguments we had were because we didn't pray enough. Any doubts she might have had were because we weren't studying enough, etc.

  Sort of, a programmed reaction due to their brainwashing. She was having what she was taught were 'wrong thoughts' and was having the programmed reaction to try and be more spiritual. The end result, of course, was a person who LOOKED like they were trying to be an uber-witness while, to themselves, they were dying to be free of it (although I know she would not even admit that to herself at the time).

  In the end, the programming just broke down (as it tends to do when you miss too many of their little brainwashing sessions - and they know it, hence the emphasis on always making the meetings!), and her decision to leave came before mine. Although, still carrying a lot of JW baggage, she wouldn't express that directly to me.
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  Part 3 --- What the heck happened?

  by Jourles in

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  ....was the question i kept asking myself while flying home from seattle.

  i swear i must have been suspicious looking to other people around me as i was quite skiddish and nervous while on the flight.

  ball asked me how i felt about that.

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  Xander

  Wow - interesting reading.

  So many of the tales like this read as if an espionage thriller - it's really interesting to read. Sadly, I have little to contribute. My entering the borg (born into) and leaving (pretty swift drift-away) are rather uneventful.

  she vigilantly reaffirmed her stance within the org

  That's hard.

  I was lucky - my wife was just as interested in leaving as I was. It kind of made for an interesting few months, though. When we both (obviously) felt the need to leave, but couldn't risk telling each other or asking each other what we REALLY thought about the org (we left for different reasons, which made it interesting - she found faults with the org I had not even noticed/cared about, and I was finding conspiracies that she didn't know about/care about).