Posts by gitasatsangha

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Buried the Hatchett

by Yerusalyim in

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simon and i have buried the hatchett (not in each other), i'm back.

thanks simon.

simon and i are both very passionate about what be believe.

I am no longer the only one in Knoxville

by Junction-Guy in

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bingo!!

after nearly 3 1/2 years living in this "dead zone" they call knoxville i have finally met up with someone local from the board.

her name is michelle and she is from louisiana and has just recently started posting here.

gitasatsangha

HEY NOW STOP THAT! I used to live in Knoxville and I do NOT play a banjo.

er.. I play a dulcimer.. but anyway I grew up farther up in the hills then Knoxville. We thought Knoxville was Metropolis when me and my friends were growing up.

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If I planned an Apostafest, would anybody come?

by Junction-Guy in

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i got to talking this over with my wife and she said "why dont you plan an apostafest here", to which i replied "there arent many xjw's in this state and dallas was so appropriate a location due to all the local people that attended" anyway i got to thinking we could plan a 3 day apostafest here in east tennessee, and for those that would like we could make it a camping event with all the campgrounds in the great smoky mountains im sure we could find one suitable for most people.

besides the national park we also have dollywood and gatlinburg.

for those of you not familiar with my area, the great smoky mountains is the most visited national park with 9 million visitors annually and most of these people staying in pigeon forge or gatlinburg.

gitasatsangha

Junction, as you know, them's my old stomping grounds so I think me and my girlfriend might stop by. She's not a JW, but she has an idea or two what oddities we X-dubs are.

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How many of you gave up a college scholarship?

by codeblue in

how many of you gave up a college scholarship to appear "spiritual"?

jt's thread about "homegrown lawyers" and the wtbs willingly sending certain ones to college started me thinking about that question.

i know i for one, relinquished that scholarship to show how "spiritual" i was at 18. .

gitasatsangha

At 18 I won a national writing competition. I had offers from many liberal arts schools (even without taking the SAT yet, which I never did). I received letters from President George Bush (the first), Governor Ned McWhertyer, Senator Al Gore, and several other politicians too. I never took the SAT because "college was bad", and by the time I really had thought to do something about my future, it was really too late to try and get a scholarship. I had one option I could see on that end.

I had had this plan to steal away from town and go to Merchant Marine Academy, which would have been free education as long as I did my stint in the Naval Reserve later (which I had conscientious problems with that made me feel very badly). All that was required was a letter of recommendation from my local congressman, which I already had, but after highschool I started seriously a fellow witness and we got married. Love won out, but also I knew that if I had signed up for the MMA, I would have been disfellowshipped due having to take an officer's commision in naval reserve afterwords. One year later I was stacking books onto a pallet for minimum wage, and having to come up with a new career strategy, which i did.

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"We will follow them to the US"-is this guy as moron?

by IronGland in

"the insurgents' aspirations are growing.

abdullah, a midlevel leader of kata'ib, says he's happy u.s. troops are staying in iraq: it means he can be part of the jihad.

asked what the jihadists will do if u.s. forces finally pull out, one of abdullah's comrades offers this answer: "we will follow them to the u.s." .

gitasatsangha

dolphman,

escalating violence didn't end the Cold War, escalating military expenditures did. (for instance makign the USSR devote a significant percentage of its budget for a new space booster that the launch a shuttle that cost a significant percentage of the USSR's budget to theoretically be able to combat space-based weaponry which they would also have to spend a significant portion of their budget to mimic. It was brilliant.)

It's a very important difference which Reagan and his cabinet knew and some of his neo-followers haven't quiet got the knack of.

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I'm in Tokyo

by Leolaia in

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just arrived yesterday afternoon.. this is my room.

it is the same hotel used in the movie lost in translation:.

here is the view from shibuya last night: .

gitasatsangha

Have a good time! (Is that hotel really as quiet as in the movie?)

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COUNTERPOINT:THIS BOARD NEEDS MORE POLITICAL CRAP!

by IronGland in

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discuss.

gitasatsangha

Who can disagree with Ricardo Montalban? You're Khan for cryin out loud.

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Hey! Did you ever wonder how to use a piece of plastic to cover the mags?

by joenobody in

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here's a truly weird flash animation demo of "how to use magazine covers".

this is waaaay too bizarre... if anyone is good with shockwave or flash they should do a parody (although the self-parodying nature of this is too much!)..

http://www.mckennabookcovers.com/first_page.html

gitasatsangha

SadElder,

Thanks for sheddnig some light on how that very odd record came about. I heard it once before and thought I was listening to some bizarre bethel bootleg.

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9/11(Film) - Freedom burning alright

by catchthis in

so have you seen the film yet?

what was your impression of it?

here was mine: .

gitasatsangha

double post. sorry. and now for something completely different:

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9/11(Film) - Freedom burning alright

by catchthis in

so have you seen the film yet?

what was your impression of it?

here was mine: .

gitasatsangha

But the United States would not exist... because we/it (the United States) illegally occupied Indian land and repressed them. Would you like me to contact the Pawnee, Sioux, Comanche and all the other Indian Nations to continue the fight they stopped a century ago? If not, why not? I'm sure the young braves of today would just LOVE to learn to scalp just like their great grandfathers did before them.

Sometimes karma stings a little, man.