Breakfastofchampions wrote:
"My FS report for last month includes:
2 hours
1 rv
2 Grande Bold Starbucks
1 scone
And that's the truth!"
This one had me cracking up! I can only imagine what the secretary thought of this report.
rocketman
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To All Elders/MS's/ Publishers Who Come Here
by metatron inin the past, you were told that you have the opportunity to prove the devil a liar.
this is a nonsensical claim, given that about 2000 years of martyrdom by christians has already passed.
there's nothing left to prove or disprove.. however, you have the opportunity to prove that the watchtower society is lying: that their organization is unclean and overrun with corruption - as proven by an endless stream of elders/ms's and publishers who come here, wishing that they could leave.. you also have the opportunity to prove that their published statistics are false - by reporting fake hours and placements.. if they don't like it, too bad.
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rocketman
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What's Your Favorite Internet Site?
by minimus insince my homepage is drudge report, i'd have to say that the drudge report is what i often check during the day.. of course, this site is clearly one of my favs..
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rocketman
Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, as of now...Facebook is boring at times though.
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A few Dawkins quotes to think about.
by AK - Jeff in"faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.
faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.".
"my last vestige of "hands off religion" respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of september 11th 2001, followed by the "national day of prayer," when prelates and pastors did their tremulous martin luther king impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place.".
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rocketman
"In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference"
This portion of the quote especially does it for me.
I was watching the news last night, about the tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo. One guy who survived said he did so because of his "faith in God". So while others around him perished, he credited his faith.
But did this man display more faith than his less fortunate neighbors? Seriously, such a comment is as deluded as they come. As Dawkins said, this was clearly as case of randomness, with no rhyme, reason, or justice. It was simply nature at its most brutal.
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The Book of Revelation and the Endtimes
by whereami inis the book of revelation a prediction of things yet to come or is it a critique of issues in the author's own time?.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpfuhfbb3ja&sns=em.
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rocketman
After the 5th chapter, it starts getting really, really weird.
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I've Decided That It'll Be Best For Me To Return To The Kingdom Hall.
by Philadelphia Ponos inafter carefully evaluating the my current life situation, i've come to the conclusion that returning to the hall will be best for me.
i simply just don't fit in with the rest of the world.
i don't drink, smoke, have sex, go to clubs, listen to worldly music, watch movies, or gamble.
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rocketman
You're thinking of buying a gun and using it? You've got more problems than the Kingdom Hall can solve, bud.
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Sunday Drama-"Young Ones-Be Discreet and Wise"
by CaptainSchmideo ini briefly touched on the drama in another post, but i felt i needed to share in greater detail this latest masterpiece.. .
this was the drama on sunday.
the story alternates between the story of joseph, son of jacob, and a witness kid (forgot his name;billy?
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rocketman
Great description. The actual drama is so contrived as to be ridiculously laughable (as most dramas are), but your description is not only funny but adds some realism to it.
I seriously doubt the drama's premise that some hot slutty chick at school would ever want to seduce a jw. The jw would have to be very handsome, and that's just for starters. Jw boys are usually viewed as losers, not as slightly nerdy potential studs.
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Camping ''bewildered'' and ''mystyfied'', but check who is taking blame...
by Aussie Oz inhttp://www.670kboi.com/rssitem.asp?feedid=118&itemid=29671679.
new york) -- harold camping is "mystified" and "a little bewildered" that the rapture did not go as he predicted, an associate of the california preacher told abc news.. .
tom evans, a board member of camping's family radio international, said that camping's wife told him her husband is at their home in oakland and has no intention to speak or issue any statement on sunday or monday.. .
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rocketman
This whole Camping thing could hurt the jw effort to recruit new members. This thing was given such wide publicity and its failure now draws attention to all such Doomsday predictions. Individual jws may chuckle, but this thing could really hinder their efforts.
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Men are Adorable!
by Robdar inthis afternoon i had the pleasure of listening to my dad, husband and son discuss timing belts, the teeth they rest on, camshafts, and other car parts that i cant recall at such a late hour.
they were totally engrossed in the conversation and it was fun listening to them talk.
the air was thick with testosterone and they were so manly that i just had to smile about it.
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rocketman
Robdar, what you wrote confirms what I've often felt - that whether we want to admit it or not, women need men and men need women. And I'll add that most women need the men in their lives to be men. That doesn't necessarily mean they need to be mechanically inclined, but I think they need men to act like men. On the man's part, that means, mainly, being responsible and reasonably attentive. I say "reasonably" attentive because some men, like myself, are just naturally distracted by other things. Sometimes we're not always in tune to a woman's thinking. But that doesn't mean we don't care - nor does it excuse us from making an effort.
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Life after death
by truthseeker ineveryone has different views about life after death and whether or not it is a possibility.. as jehovah's witnesses, we were always taught that there is no life after death, that this is the only life we have now and that the wages of sin is death.. .
what are your views on life after death?.
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rocketman
I tend to believe, at least for now, that there is no life after death. One thing that compels me to view the matter this way is what happens when trauma occurs to the brain. Various trauma, depending on which part of the brain affected, can alter the function of the person to such a degree that, in some instances (such as Alzheimer's disease) it seems as if it's not even the same person.
If we had some kind of Soul or Spirit that lives on, then wouldn't that somehow act to compensate for the lack of brain function? If brain trauma causes memory loss, why doesn't the Soul kick in and restore that function? The fact is that unless that part of the brain heals and begins to function again, the memories will likely not be retrieved. Clearly, even seemingly ethereal things such as memory are the result of chemical function of a physical entity - the brain.
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Genius cosmologist Kirk Cameron takes down Hawking & Lennon
by unshackled inall hail the genius of kirk cameron...he hath spoken.
if you missed it, stephen hawking did an interview with the guardian the other day in which he said the following:.
"i regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail.
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rocketman
You should have seen the posts on Twitter. Hawking was trending, with his statement quoted. So-called Christians were not afraid to ridicule him, and that included his physical handicap. It was truly sad.