yup, we all know you have one.
it's what you are sitting at right now reading this thread.
desk your computer sits on.
Yup, we all know you have one. It's what you are sitting at right now reading this thread. Desk your computer sits on. So, turn that web cam around (or take a digicam picture) and show us what your desk looks like!
(No fair cleaning it up, by the way, gotta post it as-is)!
Mine:
(And no, I didn't clean it up any for the pic - I'm a neat freak, this is how it always looks)
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and i got to view them first hand...not from my bedroom child like i did as a child-longing to join and see them up close.... enjoy!.
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C'mon, you GOTTA tell us what kinda of digital camera takes pics like that! Those are some impressive shots!
Anyway, my contribution:
We watched it this year from the canal path by our housing association. Actually, the 'place to be' - about a dozen and a half people were there, and someone had thought to bring a radio. The local radio station simulcast the program, so we could listen and watch. Pilot Butte is located in the center of town, and rises about 500 ft above the surrounding landscape, so when setting off the fireworks from there, EVERYONE could see it. Not much point in getting closer, as all you'd be seeing was the side of the mountain...errr...'butte'....above you from next to it, so..... Pic of the sky at sunset (you can see the butte with the little red lights at top - that's *just* about 1 mile from our home):
does anyone else remember this booklet?
if you do remember studying it as a child, what were the affects of this study on your imaginations?
how did this booklet play your fears?
When I was 20 I was laying on my couch trying to go to sleep. As I was laying there I started to see several midget like people sitting on the chair accross from my couch where I was lying looking back at me. Then there was this very strong and large being on top of me. I tried to turn my head to see who my attacker was but the strength was beyond human, holding my face in the direction of the stupid midget like people. There is no doubt in my mind that this thing was trying to spread my legs apart. I just kept struggling and saying to myself get up, get up and they all dissappeared. I jumped to my feet.
Just FYI, what you've just described sounds like the classic symptoms of "sleep paralysis".
Do a google search on it, I'm sure you'll find many tales very similar to your own.
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<Tarrier> how
<Casey8> fell while climbing in South Africa or something
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<Locke|Away> Except I couldn't remember what I was supposed to get revenge for.
<Locke|Away> But I trusted my own judgment, so I went with it.
<Valvados> ...
<Valvados> o.o
<Valvados> hmm
<Valvados> i dunno what you were supposed to get revenge for, either
<Locke|Away> I can only assume you got what was coming to you. Not 100 percent sure, though.
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<Zenith> When the FedEx guy walks in with a package of his own.
<Zenith> And at that EXACT moment, a customer changes the channel to TBS and the Mortal Kombat movie is on, right when the fight theme music starts.
<Nigma> Did they break out into a delivery duel to the death?
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<tom_0369> im never moving to seatle washington
<tom_0369> i flew over it and it was raining and gray as f***
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<sammich> when was this?
<tom_0369> flight simluator 2004
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the recent superstition thread got me to thinking.
growing up i was terrified of "demons".
sometimes when we would have witness gatherings they would start in to "demon" stories.
the weird thing is why so many JWs? if you went into a room of people who had never been JWs, you might not even find one person who had any experiences.. so why so many JWs??
Because they WANT to believe. If you spend all day, every day, constantly on the lookout for demon attacks...you'll find things that you can CALL demon attacks!
As for me, I've related it before here, but we've only had the 1 'odd' occurance. Obviously back when good j-dubs.
My wife had bought a book from work that had been on display with a few mannequins. It was a cute, old, book - she collected antiques, and they would otherwise have thrown it out with the displays.
Well, anyway, that night as we are getting ready for bed, we go around the house shutting all the lights off. As soon as the last light (living room) is shut off....one of her music boxes starts playing. Kinda creeped us out, but I was still standing right by the light switch, so I flicked it back on....and the music stopped. Took a bit to find the music box in question - it had been one she'd had for years, and was CERTAIN it did not have any 'problems' (obviously, 'demons' were the first thing we thought of). Okay, so turned the light back off....and the music started again! (Not slow, either, like a music box that had wound down or just had a little 'juice' on the wheel, it was going full blast!). Flipped the light back on...it stopped!
"Okay", I say, "What DID you buy today?" She mentions the book, we find it, toss it outside. Shut the lights off again....nothing!
So, yeah, that was weird.
When I was a kid, my mom was a real demon FREAK. She saw them EVERYWHERE. She claimed it was because she was a witch before becoming a witness, and they hated her for leaving them. Boy, did she have stories.
Anyway, one day I remember she got it in her head that one of the brothers we were having stay with us had demon problems (we'd finished the garage into a bedroom so he could rent with us since his family...well, 'had problems' - in reality, 'were mostly normal, but leaving the org'). I guess it had to do with 'his bad family' that she had 'things' happen. She wanted to talk with me and my brother, first, though, to explain what she felt....but she couldn't in the house! Oh, no, the demons would hear, then! We had to go out to the car to talk about it.
Creeped the hell of out me how she did it, though. Like how a mother would react if she got a phone call by a killer saying "I'm about to break into your house." or something....she just suddenly came up to us and was like "Quickly, we have to get out to the car...shhh, don't say anything. No, you don't have time to put that away, just, quickly, get outside..."
Bizarr-o.
here is mine and my hubby's.
i might take it down latter so my crazy ex dont find it.
feel free to post pics of you, your kids, your pets plants anything will be grrreat!
Yup, that's the Portland Rose Garden during Rose Festival week. You would not BELIEVE how many Roses that are in Portland for that. It's...something!
Interesting story behind that pic. We had some friends coming out from back East. They were flying into Portland, we'd drive them up to the coast, spend a few days, hit the wine country, and back to Bend.
Funny thing is....they picked the week of the Rose Festival. We hadn't even realized! Which is an interesting coincedence, because the trip that made us fall in love with Oregon we flew into Portland...went up to the beach for a few days...then inland (although only to Sisters). And we were in Portland? The week of the Rose Festival exactly 3 years ago!
I have a picture of us (still good j-dubs ) standing underneath that exact same arbor at this exact time of year 3 years prior. Obviously, we HAD to take the same shot again.
i've faded, but i still would like to have faith in a creator/god.
but i am really not sure if my belief in god is the result of being brought up a jw and being stuck with a particular world-view.
the best thing i can do is challenge myself by reading some material that explains proof of the evolution, but i have not seen anything that does this yet, i've only seen explanations of the theory, not the proof.
First of all Hawking radiation is postulated to come from a quantum energy field which is technically not nothing. and second for hawking radiation to exist a black hole must already exist which is not nothing either
No, you miss the point.
Hawking radiation does not come FROM the black hole. It exists DUE to the black hole, but nothing (repeat: NOTHING) is *drawn* from the singularity - not energy, not mass (indeed, it would be impossible to do so) in order to create this form of radiation.
Hawking radiation is a form of particle that is spontaneously created simultaneously with a negative particle of the same 'size', hence not violating the laws of physics. However, the 'opposite' particle is immediately lost into the singularity, and the resulting Hawking radiation escapes into our universe.
The net effect is that matter is added to *our universe* without any energy or mass lost - it is not converted from something else, it just appears.
It is, in fact, 'something' coming from 'nothing'. All without any form of divine intervention!
here is mine and my hubby's.
i might take it down latter so my crazy ex dont find it.
feel free to post pics of you, your kids, your pets plants anything will be grrreat!
My wife and me:
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and more important to you than the bible.. ok, for some of us most books are better than the bible, for others the choice is more difficult.. a book that i feel has more value and wisdom than the bible is:.
the hitchhiker guide to the galaxy by douglas adams (all 5 book in the trilogy actually).
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The books, folks, not the movies.
At least as epic, but with more believable characters.
'The works of Shakespeare' is a little hard to argue for, as they are not a single volume or story or theme. Still, they are very, very good reading. Possibly overrated somewhat, I fear - a LOT of incredible literature is pre-20th/21st century, and concentrating on one author causes you to lose perspective on the volume of quality works.
i dont get it.
but... i am doing our budget (my s/o and i put our finances together) and well, we make about $3k a month.
which for just 2 people living in a cheap (but nice!
Most people let money slip right through their fingers without giving a second thought to the small regular daily purchases they make. Bach refers to this kind of mindless spending as the "Latté Factor".
See, the problem with this advice is that it takes what is worth living for away.
I'm sure I could handle two jobs, eating nothing but bread and water all day, and live in a 600 sq ft apartment with just a bed and a shower. I'd be retired by the time I'm 40 with what I'd save!
But, at what cost? 20 years of living like THAT? No thanks!
I get extremely depressed if we are having a rough month and I *can't* just impulse buy things. If I can't buy a latte on a whim or go out to eat instead of cooking...it makes it near impossible to get up for work the next morning. The feeling you can't shake is "Why am I doing this? I can't afford what I want, what's the point in working at all?"
I think that's pretty common, and probably why just about *everyone* has expenses damn near 100% of their income.
