Peace out, valis. You have my sympathy. and I'm a republican, so my sympathy don't come easy...
CZAR
if htere were anything i ever wanted it was to be like all the other kids i saw in my life...free to accept gifts, love and unconditional reasoning from adults...even as an adult this is all i rarely ask for...where is your family when it would be nice to have them?
would something please just take me home?.
sincerely,.
Peace out, valis. You have my sympathy. and I'm a republican, so my sympathy don't come easy...
CZAR
when you know that so many things are untrue,whether it be doctrines, policies or history, and these bethelites still hang on, you've got to wonder why.
is it fear?
is it the fact they have no real skills?
Interested in aiding my spiritual development, dear sister?
CZAR
I found my old bookbag the other day and damn near crapped myself. It was like finding your old 'Nam uniform, or something....
CZAR
wednesday, march 5, 2003. why the french behave as they do.
posted: march 5, 2003.
1:00 a.m. eastern.
Wait a minute, Pat Buchanan thinks we should fight Iraq? Maybe I should switch sides!
Jeez, the guy needs an enema, a course in natural philosophy, and then six weeks in a hippie pot commune before he would even become a decent conservative.
CZAR
http://www.devo.com/mideastlog/
they shoot children, don't they?
[iraq]
I'm not afraid of a Jew killing me in the street. Maybe charging me too much for a bagel, but not killing me. Arabs, well, I have to look twice. sorry. The cause might have been just, once, but the methods of the Palestinian struggle have ruined any chances that I'd support them.
The Arabian world has been harassing Europe since before the Crusades. In fact, Saracen raiding parties were the reason the Crusades were first launched! They've hated us from the beginning, and use methods that go beyond basic struggle. Screw 'em.
CZAR
did any of you hear any of the urban legends that jw's used to scare people into being deathly afraid of demons?
for example i remeber hearing that a child brough a smurf doll to a meeting and upon hearing the name jehovah uttered it got up and walked out.
got any j-dub urban legends?
I have a bag that tells me not to go into service - and we're getting married next month! (apologizes to the future Mrs. Czar)
There was one about a Bible study that had a picture of the crucifixion, with one onlooker staring out of the picture with eyes that would follow you around the room. The bible study cuts up the picture and puts it in a garbage bag. She leaves the room and hears a bang. She goes back into the kitchen and sees that the garbage bag is ripped open and there are two pieces of the picture on the floor - you guessed it, the eyes.
CZAR
a brief presentation of brother fred franz revelatory understanding of the lamb and the lion snuggling up to each other in isaiah 11. all quotes are from:
mans salvation out of world distress at hand (1975).
indeed, this prophecy cannot be talking about literal animals because:
I remember thinking that this prophecy was never fulfilled in ancient Judaea. Hmm.
CZAR
he's not doing very well with a very small group asking questions (itv) .
dodging questions ... doing that "rabbit in the headlights" lost look.
tv interviewer is p*** poor (much too respectful) ... where is paxman when you need him!
blair is the only reason that Iraq's regime is not a puddle of smoking flesh by now.
Death to Saddam!
CZAR
i have been talking to a coworker of mine about religion and it's been rather interesting; it involves accepting christ into your heart as your saviour.
another thing is the trinity.. is there anything that any of you have found in the bible based on these beliefs.
i keep reading scriptures about god being one, and christ his son but then my coworker insists they are one in the same.. how, if anyway.
The trinity simply isn't in the Bible. However, if you choose to believe in it, that's your business. I'm with Francois on this one (surprisingly). The Trinity makes no difference on how humans are to live their lives. The Two Greatest Commandments do! Was Jesus God? Who knows? Who cares, really, believe as you like. Remember, it's not what we believe that gets us our eternal reward, it is "doing the will of the Father". Which is to take care of widows and orphans and whatnot.
CZAR
when you know that so many things are untrue,whether it be doctrines, policies or history, and these bethelites still hang on, you've got to wonder why.
is it fear?
is it the fact they have no real skills?
I remember, with a chill down my spine, how one old dude came up to me and said, "Well, doesn't he have the Bethel look!" I was 17, and I remember how I trembled inside at the thought of being enslaved. I resented the implication that I was "born" to go to Bethel, although many might have expected it since my dad was kinda somebody back then, on convention committees and whatnot.
I have my Unholy Trinity to thank for my freedom: Wicked Women, Heavy Metal, and the Holy Tequila. The Unholy Trinity is God's gift to those who are the children of the leaders of this bastardo cult.
To think I might have gone to Bethel instead of college. Now, I wonder if my parents actually believe, and in fact I wonder if ANYONE besides me actually believed in it??? Because I believed, but I thought my inner conflicts were due to my sinful nature. Now I know that my sinful nature is due to my humanity, and my inner conflicts were due to the actions of the Theocratic Reptilian Commune.
All Hail the Unholy Trinity!
Now I know. Now I know. Would I have had the courage to act had I known the truth back then? I don't know if they are idiots, Farkel, I know my own nature too well to call them that. I say pray for the Unholy Trinity to come to all the Bethelites, en masse. Once they're out, then we can educate them, but something needs to break up the comfortable lifestyle they have first.
CZAR