Posts by Aztec

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I"M BACK!!!!

by pr_capone in

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spent the week down in florida because work sent me down there.

from sunday to wed i stayed in orlando and partied it up with email!

(pictures soon to come).

I WAN'T TO COME BACK TO THE TRUTH.....!

by rich_1961 in

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hello everyone.my name is richard and i would like to come back to the truth.i never did get baptized so im not disfellowshiped.my family are still all in the truth,and there lives are so much better than mine.satan has taked over my life completly.and ive had enough.i want to turn my life around and ask jehovah to come back into my heart.i have a very serious drug and alcohol problem.and do not want to live my life like this anymore.i know my life will get better if i let jehovah back in.im just scarred right now.i sill have a little deamon that keeps telling me not to do this.but i really want to.i sure could use some words of encouragement if anyone would like to help i sure would apriciate it.and does anyone know if i can get publcations online...?

my e-mail addy is [email protected] if anyne would like to e-mail me

Aztec

Okay rich when we talked in chat you seemed really nice. Either you really are a troll or you are under the influence of something and not thinking rationally. I hope you take the very kind advice of these people and sober up. Please get some help.

~Aztec

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new kid on the site

by yecats in

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i have been reading everyones comments, this is all pretty new to me, but i posted on the topic related to family and being shunned.

i was raised a jw but left at age 15, i am the only one in my family to reject the "family" religion.

so, as you probably already guessed i am not the favorite daughter!.

Aztec

Yecats,

I'm sorry to hear about your father. JW memorials or funerals are not fun if you are no longer a dub. I went to my grandfathers a few years ago and sat right up front with the rest of my family. Fortunatly I was not alone as my sister and 2 of my aunts no longer attend either. I suggest you go and pay respect and do what feels comfortable for you.

Welcome and you have mail.

~Aztec

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Live on CNN; mad Muslims with knives!!

by Abaddon in

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one has to be very careful about the way things are presented.. we should know this better than most.. i saw a wonderful comic on tv last night; here's his routine, more or less;.

(in reporter character); ... and now on cnn we're going to a mad islamic fanatic with a hook to see how the muslims feel about the west; how do you feel about the usa sir?

(in islamic fanatic character); !!death!!

Aztec

I totally agree! There is a huge Arabic population where I live. A surprisingly large percent are Catholic. The media can always slant things to support their story. I don't trust the mASS media at all!

~Aztec

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My story...

by christopherceo in

okay, i've chatted with several of you and i thought it was time to tell my story.

it all began during the gulf war early in january 1991. i was concerned about the war becoming the end of the world and naturally, because of my lifestyle, i began asking myself what i intended to do with my life.

a pioneer sister worked in the office where i worked, i knew she was a witness and studied the bible so i asked her opinion on what was happening.

Aztec

((((Chris))))

Wow! That sounds rough. Speaking as someone who's been out a while, I can say it will get better. As far as the situation with your wife, I don't even know what to say. That's awful. Please stick around and share as much as you want.

~Aztec

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UN FINDS WMD...OK saddam lovers, what now?

by dolphman in

ok lets hear your pathetic excuses.

c'mon now don't be shy.

let's hear what you have to say.

Aztec

Freeman thank you! I am going to work harder tomorrow, okay?

Do I have the burden of proof now?

AYYA!!!!

~Aztec

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In the hospital with Meningococcal....

by Lost Diamond in

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this last week has been very freaky for me.

last saturday i went to bed feeling just fine.

i woke up sunday morning with a very high fever, chills, headache, sick to my stomach, and i couldn't really stand up.

Aztec

Lost Diamond I am so glad you are okay now. That's a scary thing to go through!

I'm so sorry you had to go through a spinal tap. My son had one when he was 3 and it nearly broke my heart. He just screamed cause it was so painful.

Please take care of yourself!

~Aztec

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Peace March around the World

by JH in

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i watched the news on tv, and i saw reports of thousands of people all around the world asking for peace instead of war.

do you think that these peace rallies will really make a difference?.

do you think that these peace rallies will influence the president of the united states?

Aztec

Also did anyone notice George W. Bush's popularity is dipping quite fast? LOL

Good point ISP

~Aztec

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Peace March around the World

by JH in

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i watched the news on tv, and i saw reports of thousands of people all around the world asking for peace instead of war.

do you think that these peace rallies will really make a difference?.

do you think that these peace rallies will influence the president of the united states?

Aztec

I am reposting this for anyone who did not read it. It describes how I feel exactly! Sorry but I am one of those annoying peaceniks...

The ones who will suffer the most will be innocent ones...

Understanding Oil
By Serj Tankian
9/13/2001

The brutal attacks/bombings this week in New York, and Washington D.C., along with threats of attacks there and elsewhere in the country have changed our times forever. While the mass media concentrates on the details of the destruction, and the blanketed words of politicians, I will attempt to understand and explain the events from the fence. BOMBING AND BEING BOMBED ARE THE SAME THINGS ON DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE FENCE.

Terror is not a spontaneous human action without credence. People just dont hijack planes and commit harikari (suicide) without any weight of thought to the action. No one in the media seems to ask WHY DID THESE PEOPLE DO THIS HORRIFIC ACT OF VIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION?

To be able to understand the answer to this, we must first look at our U.S. Mideast Policy. During most of the 20th century, U.S. businesses have worked on attaining oil rights and concessions from countries in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. After WWI, secret back door deals by our State Dept. yielded oil rights from then defeated Turkey to fields in what is now Iraq and Saudi Arabia, in return for looking the other way at a crime against humanity, the Genocide of the Armenians by the Turks. Oil profits have been the motivating factors behind many attempts at counterinsurgency of democratic regimes by the CIA and the U.S in the Middle East (such as Iran in the 1950s, where the Shah replaced the Prime Minister who refused to give up oil rights to the U.S., and since the people couldnt deal with the Shah, an extremist government headed by the Ayatollah Khomeini ultimately prevailed). During the Iran-Iraq war, America supplied both sides with weapons and advice. These are not the actions of a rich superpower wanting peace. Lets not forget that Saddam Hussein, before being Americas vision of the Anti-Christ, was a close ally of the U.S., and the CIA. So what was the firm belief system of consecutive American administrations that caused all this to occur ? PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST WILL LEAD TO HIGHER OIL AND GASOLINE PRICES. Lets not also forget the power of the Arms industry, disguised as defense, that still sells billions of dollars of weapons to the area. Therefore it has not been in the short-term economic interest of the U.S. to foster Peace in the Middle East. Using the above reasoning, the U.S. has encouraged extremist governments, toppled democracies, as in the case of Iran to replace it with a monarchy, rigged elections, and many more unspeakable political crimes for U.S. businesses abroad. Lets not also forget the Red Scare. During the war between the then Soviet Union and Afghanistan, the U.S. armed and supported the Taliban, a fundamentalist Muslim organization, and allowed them to export opium and heroin out of their country to pay for those weapons. Therefore the Taliban rose to power and control with the help of the U.S.A. Today, the bombing of Iraq still continues, no longer covered by the media, the economic embargo still remains, killing millions of children, and recently, while the world and the U.N. General Assembly have cried out to bring in peacekeeping forces into Israel and Palestine, to end the escalated war and recent assassinations, the U.S. has vetoed the rest of the Security Council and has halted the possibility of peace, there, in the most volatile place in the world.

People in Serbia, Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, and Afghanistan to name a few have seen bombs fall, not always at military targets and kill innocent civilians, as the scene in New York city yesterday. The wars waged by our government in our names has landed smack in the middle of our living room. The half hour of destruction closed down all world financial markets, struck the central headquarters of our military, and had our leaders running into bunkers, and our citizens into fear and frenzy. What scares me more than what has occurred is what our reactions to the occurrences may cause. President Bush belongs to a long generation of Republican Presidents who love war economies. The media has only concentrated on the bombings, if you will, and what type of retaliations are looming for the perpetrators. What everyone fails to realize is that the bombings are a reaction to existing injustices around the world, generally unseen to most Americans. To react to a reaction would be to further sponsor the reaction. In other words, my belief is that the terror will multiply if concrete steps are not taken to sponsor peace in the middle east, NOW. This does not mean that we should not find the guilty party(s), Bin Laden, or whoever they may be, and not try them. Put simply, as long as a major injustice remains, violence precipitates to the surface of life.

Native American folklore, the Bible, Nostradamus, and many other major religious beliefs point to this era with the visuals of yesterdays disasters, and conditions of ecological disasters we experience daily in our lives today. War, rumors of war, famine, long burning fires, etc., are at our doorstep. We can prevail over this possible vision with the power of the human spirit, understanding, compassion, and peace. ITS TIME TO PUT OUR NEEDS FOR SECURITY AND SURVIVAL, ACHIEVED ONLY THROUGH PEACE, ABOVE AND BEYOND PROFITS, ESPECIALLY IN THESE TIMES.

SOLUTION:

The U.S. should stop sidestepping the U.N. Security Council, and allow U.N. Peacekeeping troops and missions to the Middle East. Stop the violence first.

Stop the bombing and patrol of Iraq.

With todays gains in the use of alternative fuels, develop them to full usage with autos and other utilities, to make the country less dependant on an already depleting natural reserve, oil.

By initiating peace, we would have already shaken the foundations of support for Bin Laden, and/or all those that sponsor activities like those we saw yesterday, and break the stronghold of extremists on the world of Islam. On the other hand, if we carry out bombings on Afghanistan or elsewhere to appease public demand, and very likely kill innocent civilians along the way, wed be creating many more martyrs going to their deaths in retaliation against the retaliation. As shown from yesterdays events, you cannot stop a person whos ready to die.

This was originally posted 2 days after Sept. 11th but it still applies..

Hey there all you bloodthirsty ones tell me we did NOTHING to cause people to hate us again please....

~Aztec

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UN FINDS WMD...OK saddam lovers, what now?

by dolphman in

ok lets hear your pathetic excuses.

c'mon now don't be shy.

let's hear what you have to say.

Aztec

Freeman thank you for your kind words. However, they will profit. Anyone who believes the media is painting a WHOLE picture is wrong. We receive propaganda as surely as the Germans did during the Nazi regime. Anyone who believes otherwise is blind!

Back2dafront, it is nice to converse with someone with a brain and an open mind. Thank you!

I am too tired to argue with the rest of you.

~Aztec