freddo- Thanks. That's a good one to use.
Even in the US.
Captain Schmideo2
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I just don't have the lies to give...
by Captain Schmideo2 ina friend of mine (a jw) delivered a premature baby, and the outlook is grim.. she is posting updates on facebook, and where everyone else is offering prayers for them both, and how "jehovah loves them both very much", and i got...nothing.
nothing that would be comforting.
big man in the sky has zero to do with this, only medical science and chance will have any bearing on this.i wish i could lie convincingly to her and to myself and have something nice to say.
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I just don't have the lies to give...
by Captain Schmideo2 ina friend of mine (a jw) delivered a premature baby, and the outlook is grim.. she is posting updates on facebook, and where everyone else is offering prayers for them both, and how "jehovah loves them both very much", and i got...nothing.
nothing that would be comforting.
big man in the sky has zero to do with this, only medical science and chance will have any bearing on this.i wish i could lie convincingly to her and to myself and have something nice to say.
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Captain Schmideo2
A friend of mine (a JW) delivered a premature baby, and the outlook is grim.
She is posting updates on Facebook, and where everyone else is offering prayers for them both, and how "Jehovah loves them both very much", and I got...nothing. Nothing that would be comforting. Big man in the sky has zero to do with this, only medical science and chance will have any bearing on this.
I wish I could lie convincingly to her and to myself and have something nice to say.
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Fun with anagrams!
by Captain Schmideo2 inafter running the name "reince priebus" through an anagram creator (my favorite?
be prices urine),i wondered what appropriate anagrams could i get out of certain names or terms associated with jw'shere are a few good ones:watchtower society - theocratic stew yow.
charles taze russel - research zeal sluts.
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Captain Schmideo2
After running the name "Reince Priebus" through an anagram creator (my favorite? Be Prices Urine),
I wondered what appropriate anagrams could I get out of certain names or terms associated with JW's
Here are a few good ones:
Watchtower Society - Theocratic Stew YowCharles Taze Russel - Research Zeal Sluts
Anthony Morris The Third - A Hemorrhoid Nth Snit Try
Mark Stephen Lett - Hamster Kept Lent
Babylon the Great - Lengthy Bore (tab a)
Invisible Presence - Believes Nicer Spin
and, my personal favorite
Paradise Earth - Diarrhea's Pate
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What are some of the best movies ,musical catergory you have seen .
by smiddy insome that come to mind for me.. seven brides for seven brothers.
brigadoon.
carmen.
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Captain Schmideo2
If you like throwback type musicals with a bit more modern sensibility, check out "LaLa Land"
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So, I watched "The Founder" today, and had a minor Revelation
by Captain Schmideo2 inin the movie's story, ray kroc, the man who is in charge of franchising mcdonalds restaurants, is finding himself in a situation where he is doing gangbusters at creating the stores, but is going broke on his contract.
he gets help from another fast food executive who examines his books.one aspect of the business jumps out.
the stores need land to operate on, and that money is going to the land-owners who lease the land to the stores.
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Captain Schmideo2
There is another company in town, real estate of a different religion (and you get to use really cool swords!)
http://www.yellowpages.com/mustang-ok/mip/jedi-realty-463683284 -
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So, I watched "The Founder" today, and had a minor Revelation
by Captain Schmideo2 inin the movie's story, ray kroc, the man who is in charge of franchising mcdonalds restaurants, is finding himself in a situation where he is doing gangbusters at creating the stores, but is going broke on his contract.
he gets help from another fast food executive who examines his books.one aspect of the business jumps out.
the stores need land to operate on, and that money is going to the land-owners who lease the land to the stores.
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Captain Schmideo2
The is NOT a WTS related company, but, no lie, this is a real estate company in the South Central US...
http://jahrealty.net/
(The JAH stands for John A Henry, but still, kind of unnerving to see the signs around town...) -
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So, I watched "The Founder" today, and had a minor Revelation
by Captain Schmideo2 inin the movie's story, ray kroc, the man who is in charge of franchising mcdonalds restaurants, is finding himself in a situation where he is doing gangbusters at creating the stores, but is going broke on his contract.
he gets help from another fast food executive who examines his books.one aspect of the business jumps out.
the stores need land to operate on, and that money is going to the land-owners who lease the land to the stores.
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Captain Schmideo2
In the movie's story, Ray Kroc, the man who is in charge of franchising McDonalds restaurants, is finding himself in a situation where he is doing gangbusters at creating the stores, but is going broke on his contract. He gets help from another fast food executive who examines his books.
One aspect of the business jumps out. The stores need land to operate on, and that money is going to the land-owners who lease the land to the stores. The executive points out to Kroc "You are not in the restaurant business, your are in the real-estate business" and proceeds to show him how he should be the one owning the land, and leasing it to the franchisee, thereby collecting the money direct, and not basing income on a tiny percentage of burgers sold."And", he is told, "since you own the property, you have control over how the operation is run, and if things aren't done the way you want, you can revoke the lease and find someone who will do it the way you want."
And, like a bolt of lightning, it hits me that this is EXACTLY what the WTS did in the past few years. They forgave all the loans to the individual congregations, and instead took total ownership of the buildings and the plots of land they sit on. And, in doing this, they gained better control over the individual congregations. Play it their way, or lose "the lease" As owners of the property, they can tell the "franchisees" how things are done, how the hall must look, the size and look of the sign on the hall, and if it's deemed that a hall "needs" renovation, then, by golly, start those renovation, and pay the increased rent with those contributions you are squeezing out of "the sheep."
So, the WTS has applied the McDonald's approach to their religion, and got out of the nickel and dimes of "hamburgers sold/magazines placed" method, and into the real money making business of real estate.
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Has anyone out here read Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason"?
by Captain Schmideo2 ini wish i had read this back when i was 18. it's an amazing take down of religious beliefs, the bible, and religion in general.
) a "reason"-able manner.take this quote, from near the beginning:.
when also i am told that a woman, called the virgin mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without any cohabitation with a man, and that her betrothed husband, joseph, said that an angel told him so, i have a right to believe them or not: such a circumstance required a much stronger evidence than their bare word for it: but we have not even this; for neither joseph nor mary wrote any such matter themselves.
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Captain Schmideo2
Diogenesister:
The amount of ignorance that most Americans today have of their founding fathers could fill "enough scrolls that the world itself could not contain them."
The one constant refrain is that the US of America was founded on Bible principles. And that the Founding Fathers were all Fundamentalist Christians. Who were against abortion,for tax breaks for large corporations, and believed that (Fundie) Christianity is the one true religion (no matter what is actually written in the Constitution...) -
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Has anyone out here read Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason"?
by Captain Schmideo2 ini wish i had read this back when i was 18. it's an amazing take down of religious beliefs, the bible, and religion in general.
) a "reason"-able manner.take this quote, from near the beginning:.
when also i am told that a woman, called the virgin mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without any cohabitation with a man, and that her betrothed husband, joseph, said that an angel told him so, i have a right to believe them or not: such a circumstance required a much stronger evidence than their bare word for it: but we have not even this; for neither joseph nor mary wrote any such matter themselves.
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I wish I had read this back when I was 18. It's an amazing take down of religious beliefs, the Bible, and religion in general. But it does this in (can I say this?) a "Reason"-able manner.
Take this quote, from near the beginning:When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without any cohabitation with a man, and that her betrothed husband, Joseph, said that an angel told him so, I have a right to believe them or not: such a circumstance required a much stronger evidence than their bare word for it: but we have not even this; for neither Joseph nor Mary wrote any such matter themselves. It is only reported by others that they said so. It is hearsay upon hearsay, and I do not chose to rest my belief upon such evidence. It is, however, not difficult to account for the credit that was given to the story of Jesus Christ being the Son of God. He was born when the heathen mythology had still some fashion and repute in the world, and that mythology had prepared the people for the belief of such a story. Almost all the extraordinary men that lived under the heathen mythology were reputed to be the sons of some of their gods. It was not a new thing at that time to believe a man to have been celestially begotten; the intercourse of gods with women was then a matter of familiar opinion. Their Jupiter, according to their accounts, had cohabited with hundreds; the story therefore had nothing in it either new, wonderful, or obscene; it was conformable to the opinions that then prevailed among the people called Gentiles, or mythologists, and it was those people only that believed it. The Jews, who had kept strictly to the belief of one God, and no more, and who had always rejected the heathen mythology, never credited the story. It is curious to observe how the theory of what is called the Christian Church, sprung out of the tail of the heathen mythology. A direct incorporation took place in the first instance, by making the reputed founder to be celestially begotten. The trinity of gods that then followed was no other than a reduction of the former plurality, which was about twenty or thirty thousand. The statue of Mary succeeded the statue of Diana of Ephesus. The deification of heroes changed into the canonization of saints. The Mythologists had gods for everything; the Christian Mythologists had saints for everything. The church became as crowded with the one, as the pantheon had been with the other; and Rome was the place of both. The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and it yet remains to reason and philosophy to abolish the amphibious fraud.
Pretty ballsy stuff to be written 213 years ago.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/manybooks_pdflrg_new/painethoetext03twtp410pdfLRG.pdf -
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Wills - A disgruntled father making a final point
by Listener inan unusual and amusing will was contested in an australian court a few years ago.the deceased man separated from his wife in 1959 and shortly after the wife was baptized as a jw.
in the following years their four children also got baptized.
apparently this enraged the deceased for the remainder of his life, who was himself a catholic.his will included two conditions that his four children were required to fulfill before they would qualify to receive their share of the inheritance.
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