I say we settle this the old-fashioned way... DIONYSIAN REVEL!
CZAR
some billboards are getting attention in
some reported seeing one or two messages, but the newspaper listed all of them.
here's a list of all variations of the "god speaks" billboards.
I say we settle this the old-fashioned way... DIONYSIAN REVEL!
CZAR
the bottom line is at the bottom:
language, better yet, communication is so important ... our human ability to use the complex and yet subtle, words and gestures, sets us apart from the animal kingdom.
language, words, can motivate goodness and love or can sets afire the terror of hate.
Ha ha!
No, I disfellowship ALL of YOU first!
CZAR
...neighbors know about you?.
1. i have two beautiful daughters whom i love dearly.. 2. i am a huge al stewart fan.
3. i drink copious amounts of diet pepsi.
1. I ain't right in the head.
2. I have a fiancee who rules my life with an iron grip.
3. I'm in theater all the time.
on a site i said the following....... "just say that they asked you to do something that you know if you did it there was a very likelyhood that you would die for doing it......and they said that it came from god....would you do it" and someone replied ......".you mean like a blood transfusion?
"that person also said that the elders reckon that all that stuff about abuse is a lie now i dont know what to say!
any ideas how i could answere that?
If people insist on being stupid, I will happily take their money.
Say you are collecting to help the relief work in Bizzo-bam-Boozle.
CZAR
this story was told by a nurse... and she swears this really happened on her ward.
a man suspected of sars is lying in the hospital bed with a mask over his mouth.
a young auxiliary nurse appears to sponge his face and hands.
ha ha ha! Good on ya, mate!
CZAR
sorry if there has already been a thread on this subject.
do you think a really big threat to the wtbts is from people like me who are still witnesses and in the organization but also post on this board and have an open mind -- or do you think there are bigger threats -and if so what would they be?
Threat? Define threat.
What is the WT in danger of losing? It's iron grip on the minds of believers? Then the internet is its biggest threat. And "moles" are a big part of helping apostates sift through information and putting it up here on the net.
But it is an institution now, it's here to stay. It will always have the money, the land, the power - if it just loosened up a bit on its bizarre dating concepts, its frantic and ineffective evangelism, and quit beating up and tearing down its staunchest supporters, it might actually stand a chance of making it through the next five centuries.
As it is, the WT's insistence on Pharisaic purity (no holidays or birthdays, for heaven's sake!) and its heavier and heavier loads that it keeps tossing onto the weak and weary are its own worst enemy.
It will implode on its own - people won't take being pushed around forever.
CZAR
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030903/d7tb04380.html
johnny depp likens u.s. to 'dumb puppy'
sep 3, 11:00 am (et) .
It's a stupid opinion, but that's why I pay to watch him act, not to think. He is an incredible actor.
CZAR
the bottom line is at the bottom:
language, better yet, communication is so important ... our human ability to use the complex and yet subtle, words and gestures, sets us apart from the animal kingdom.
language, words, can motivate goodness and love or can sets afire the terror of hate.
Speak for yourself, Euphemism. You don't speak for the whole generation. Which generation are you, anyway? I'm 25, and I concur with this analysis.
gibbering and swearing only provokes immaturity and a lack of ability to communicate about the most basic of human functions, such as the relationship between love and sex, whereas I fear that your "generation" can only talk about "liking" somebody and "f***ing" them.
As Cracker put it in their song, "I hate my generation."
CZAR
i will go for weeks, months, sometimes a year without sex.
then, if conditions are right and i am particulary attracted to a man, i will bed him.
if the lovin' is good, i might bed him again.
yeah. But for some, sex is a possession - an identifying mark of a relationship, and they can't conceive that somebody could love them and still have sex with others...
Strange concept, really, when you think about it.
CZAR
well, my disfellowshipped friend was seeking out an older, non-jw relative who he had wanted to invite to a monumental event in his life.
he wasn't able to reach her at her home so he eventually gave up and sought out his jw parents.
in doing so, he learned that the elderly relative had died a little less than a year earlier (a few months after he had been disfellowshipped).
what a bunch of stupid, snotheaded people. It's all about controlling information with them.
CZAR