Posts by rocketman

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Serena speaking for the Red Cross?

by Fatfreek in

i'm watching the u.s. open tennis and the williams sisters are about to play each other.

then comes the commercial.

serena, in a simple plea, asking the viewers to make their contribution to the american red cross toward the katrina tragedy.. good for you, serena.

rocketman

Lately I've been rooting for Venus when the sisters play. Serena came in to the US Open not in top shape and seemed more worried about her $40,000 earrings than her match play. She seems to have lost her hunger. Venus, pretty much spanked around until her Wimbledon win earlier this summer, seems to have regained her focus.

Anyway, whenever they play other players, I always want them to lose. It's the whole jw thing. I don't care if they are baptized or not - I've seen too many regular jw kids told by their parents and/or the elders that they should not participate in organized sports. To me, it's not that the Willams girls are doing something wrong - they're just living 'normal' lives, taking advantage of the opportunities that their considerable athletic talent has afforded them. I kind of 'take it out' on them as I think about young jws with athletic talent who have to be content with an occasional pick-up game as their peak years are wasted.

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Are you satisfied with your looks?

by JH in

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is there anything you'd like to change about your appearance?.

i'd like to be 2 inches taller with the same weight proportion.. i'd like to have nicer skin.. i'd like to be a little more muscular.. other than that, i'm not too unhappy with my looks.. all things the new system would have brought me..... .

rocketman

Since I'm gorgeous, it's reaslly a matter of nitpicking to find areas to improve upon....but I'd like broader shoulders. I'd also like to look a bit younger. Some people say I look my age, others say I look younger, and some (like family members who feel no compunction in insulting me) say I look older. I think I do look about 5 yrs older than I actually am (did I just insult myself?)

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Which meetings did you hate the most?

by JH in

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out of the 5 weekly meetings, here are the ones i hated the most.. in order.

1. theocratic ministry school ( i hated speaking in public) got me so nervous.. 2. service meeting ( too much crap and statistics and presentations).

3. the book study ( just a waist of time ).

rocketman

I couldn't stand any of them, but in order of total uselessness and boredom-inducement:

1. Service Meeting

This thing totally sucked. The only slightly useful part may have been the Announcements. Sometimes. After that, it went straight down the toilet with demos that seldom if ever portrayed reality, and awful round-table discussions that left the audience brain-dead.

2. Public Talk

45 minutes (used to be an hour!) of more mind-numbing sleep-inducement. If the speaker was anything less than scintillating, this thing was a total drag. Sometimes, a really good speaker could salvage it.

3. Theocratic School

The only thing that keeps this from being worse is that at least there's a variety of speakers, and the parts are generally short, so things seem to move along a bit. But, it's the worst of all the meetings to prepare for, and conducting this thing, which I did for several years, was a nightmare.

4. Watchtower Study

The only thing that saved this is that the audience got to participate. But all too often, answers droned on and on, and conductors kept up a snail's pace. And why read the paragraphs? This thing could be done in 30 minutes every week, just like it is during the CO's visit.

5. Book Study

This is the lesser evil only because it's the shortest meeting.

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Has anybody here seen Razor Face?

by prophecor in

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has anybody here seen razor face?

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"Razor Face"Has anybody here seen Razor Face
I Heard he's back looking for a place to lay down
Must be getting on
Needs a man who's young to walk him round
Needs a man who's young to walk him round

Oh it must be hard for the likes of you to get by
In a world that you just can't see through
And it looks so cold
How does it feel to know you can't go home
How does it feel to know you can't go home

Come on Razor Face my old friend
I'll meet you down by the truck stop inn
With a bottle of booze in the back of my car
You're a song on the lips of an aging star

Razor Face, oh amazing grace
Protects you like a glove
And I'll never learn the reason why
I love your Razor Face

...I guess Elton John and Bernie Taupin have been looking for him since 1971.

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Dinosaurs On The Ark...LOL

by Valis in

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lol these guys are total morons.....they claim noah had dinos in the ark...lol....

rocketman

ABC TV's World News Tonight aired a segment on this "museum" just this evening at 6:30 EDT. Even the Watchtower Society abandoned that notion some years back...though I do remember my fascination as a kid with the dinosaur included on the inside cover map of my first grean NWT bible.

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A General Defense of AlanF

by dilaceratus in

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10 october 2005 .

the plane .

dear forum members, .

rocketman

And why is that, anyway? ; Many of the folks on this board deserve our adulation, for their courage, their honesty in discussing,,, for surviving and moving on ... not just those who have chosen to make a study of the Watchtower.
This is a non issue,,, hero worship is FLUFF.

I don't think it can be put better than the way Talesin just wrote. And I'd wager that Alan F would be among the first to agree with her assessment.

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Sep 15th WT: Christians spend weekends enjoying recreation and not service

by truthseeker in

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in a recent post, sir82 wrote that a trainee missionary attending the school of gilead emailed the following..

"it was brought out that christendom and the world smacks of .

baalism today.

rocketman

Terry mentioned:

The Watchtower is fomenting peer pressure. They seek to divide the brothers into two groups: leisure activity slackers and busy beaver door-knockers. ; One group will resent the other. One group will shame the other. ; Gossip about who does what will commence.

This is very true and I noticed it many times over the years. The more leisure group view themselves as "down to earth" while looking upon the other jws a self-righteous. Conversely, the more zealous jws view themselves as more "balanced" (a very over-used jw word that also gets flipped and used by the leisure group), "spiritually minded", and "theocratic", and look down on the leisure group. And the gossip does indeed commence.

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HOT-Russian Press Lashes Out at Jehovahs Witnesses

by DannyHaszard in

russian regional press lashes out at jehovahs witnesses

union of councils for jews in the former soviet union, dc - 1 hour ago.

a flurry of articles attacking jehovahs witnesses has been published in regional newspapers across russia over the past week, raising the question of ...

rocketman

In an act of breathtaking journalistic irresponsibility, the August 2, 2005 Vladivostok edition of the national daily Komsomolskaya Pravda passed on to its readers a rumor that Jehovah’s Witnesses were behind the recent mass murder of six homeless people (including two children) in the regional city of Artyom. This theory was presented without any supporting evidence

Breathtaking journalistic irresponsibility indeed.

Psychologists warn that Jehovists use methods of programming the conscience that are characteristic of totalitarian religious societies

I'm not sure which Psychologists, but here to do find at something at least somewhat factual.

Terms like “false Witnesses” and “strong authoritarianism” are used throughout the article to create a terrifying image of the Jehovah’s Witnesses as a ruthless, dangerous cult.

Well, they've been wrong so many times,"false Witnesses" could be a good term. And they are charactarized by "strong authoritarianism"...

...but, as already mentioned, this kind of stuff often does more harm than good to the non-jw cause.

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My thoughts on men who Body Build

by kls in

my two son's are body builders and i am wonering if they think they can take on the world .

last year my son was in a bar fight and got sucker punched in the eye which required 5 stiches ,now my 21 year old comes home with a huge black eye, the biggest i have ever seen trying to break up a fight.. .

now both these people that got a good shot at my kids where men much smaller in stature and size and seemed to land good punches.

rocketman

I've worked out since I was a teenager, but I've had too many injuries (two hernias, numerous nagging sore spots) and am limited by an average frame to really grow huge muscles and the possible huge ego that can, but doesn't necessarily have to, come with them. Without knowing your boys personally kls, I obviously can't tell what they're really thinking. It's possible that their size and interest in bodybuilding caused them to feel overconfident. Guys are a funny lot - sometimes, we've got too much ego and testosterone for our own good. I've seen guys checking themselves out in a mirror and admiring their body, and lord knows what they're really thinking - maybe something like, 'hey, I can take on the world'. If that's the case, then the guy is working out for the wrong reasons.

Bodybuilding can be a great way to stay in shape (there's lots of methods and not all are designed to create a monster physique) and so I think it's a worthwhile pursuit - when accompanied by a proper sense of self.

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CAR INSURANCE IS THE BIGGEST RIP OFF IN THE WORLD!!!

by Mary in

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i just really need to vent here.........i'm just so f**king tired of never having any extra money!!

all's i do is work to pay god damn bills......i just checked the balance on my chequing acct.

and i've got just under $900.00 to last me three weeks.

rocketman

Because I insure with the same company for home, life, and auto, my rates weren't all that bad, until...my teenager started driving.

In any case, I understand your frustration Mary. It seems we never have money to save or just enjoy for ourselves. It's always going somewhere - insurances, fuel, taxes, etc, etc.