Posts by Abaddon

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Semi-Fluff - What is your favourite Science Fiction Book?

by Clam in

for those of you who like science fiction - what is your favourite science fiction book, or indeed film?

Abaddon

Speaking of Gor... there are massive online communities that use the Gor novels as their basis... well, actually, they added 'free companions' as a possible identity - not all women want to be slaves quivering at the feet of their Master (quite why I can't imagine ), but other than that is is the full-blown Dominant/submissive thang (down to the use of H/he and S/she to refer to mixed groups of slaves and Masters and full-blown elaborate descriptions of the dances and services rendered by the slaves...

Great fun if it's your thing I suppose, but idea of someone 'typing' me a coffee fails to excite...

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Has anyone done this before??? READ THIS!

by schne_belly in

jw
friends

so last night, my lovely wife and i were about to sit down to dinner, and the doorbell rings.

guess who?.

two elders to inform me that i am disfellowshipped!!.

Abaddon

Can you get it from a camera to a PC?

I can help if not.

Is it a camera with a Firewire or USB socket so you can capture footage on the tape on to your hard-drive?

Does your PC or laptop have Firewire or USB sockets?

If you have no Firewire on your PC and both the PC and the camera have USB sockets, can you find out if your PC has USB 2 (fast) or USB 1.2?

If you don't have the software you need I can easily get stuff as it's related to one of my client's businesses.

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'Disciplining' Children during meetings

by theredhead in

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once at our local kh, the families were told if they needed to 'spank' their children they needed to do it inside the hall for now on and not take the child outside.

apparently, some neighbors reported one of the mothers for child abuse and called up the hall and told the elders that if they see it again they will call the police.. .

by no shocker the mother was still able to keep her baby...

Abaddon

I was fortunate. Apart from a few slaps on my leg for being cheeky as a teenager, and at the same point my father once almost punching me out for being disrespectful to my mom, I can't recall being spanked. Youngest kid maybe?

I regret that I spanked my stepson. Including the awful offensive ineffectual haulings-out and swatting of asses that garnish any feast of spiritual food laid on by the Fetid and Deoderent Salve. I would have prefered giving him a damn good talking to, but his mum loathed the fact this really hit home and would rather I psank him. Never spanked my daughters.

I think cold, calculated physical disciple of a child is just wrong and ineffective.

A good hard slap when called for seems only human.

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Semi-Fluff - What is your favourite Science Fiction Book?

by Clam in

for those of you who like science fiction - what is your favourite science fiction book, or indeed film?

Abaddon

Oh don't get me started!

In no particular order, Asimov, in general, but Foundation series and Caves of Steel trilogy the most. Harrison, Stainless Steel Rat and Deathworld, Clarke, Heinlein (just read 'Doors of Summer', really good book... I suppose one potential 'fave' Sci-Fi book is 'Stranger in a Stranger Land', but I want to be Lazarus Long. Julian May, Many Coloured Land and Galactic Mellieu series. McCaffery - Pern, 'Ship Who Sang'. Real hard Sci-Fi like 'Mote in a God Eye' by Niven and Pournelle. 'Lucifer's Hammer' was good too. Herbert, Dune.

Love it... of course, my parents loathed it, but go figure...

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SOME GENUINE QUESTIONS FOR PMJ

by diamondblue1974 in

i have some genuine questions for you pmj which i hope you will take the time to answer;

i was brought up as a witness and left over a decade ago; i have always struggled with these points and hope you can provide an explanation.

the main answer to the questions in relation to wickedness being permitted is that jehovah is proving satan to be a liar (in other words to prove a point).

Abaddon

I've always found this one;

The explanation is to demonstrate once and for all Jehovah's right to rule. Man has been given time to demonstrate the ability to rule. How good of a job has he done?

.. to be a bit suspect.

God; "Okay Mr. Smarty Human, you think you can rule yourself. Go on then, see what happens!"
Man; "Okay."
God; "Oh, but you're gonna be suseptable to disease and will die."
Man; "How's that fair?"
God; "Fair? What's fair got to do with it?"
Man; "Well, I was perfect, and decided to rule myself, now you're gonna let me prove it BUT without perfection - you're setting me up to fail!"

A few generations later and God, having siad he'd let man rule themselves to show how incapable they are, interferes and kills off everyone but Noah and his family. Despite this terrorism against and destabilisation of man rule, a few generations later men get their act together and build Babel.

Man One; "Hah, well, despite the fact we now age and die and catch diseases we're still co-operating together succesfully".
God "Little sods - no telling what they might do - "abracadabra"!"
Man One; "Mag ik de hammer alstublijf?"
Man Two; "Eh, what did you say?"
Man Three; " ? ? "

Essentially the Borg's view of man's fall makes god a cheat; he takes man's actions as a challange, accepts the challenge, and then changes the rules the challange was made under so as to prevent the challange being succesful, and then, when it looks like his first lot of cheating wasn;t enough to win the game, cheats again.

If man were still 'perfect', then the ability to govern themselves would be vastly enhanced. Monkies with an 80 year life span make poorer decisons than humans with infinate lifespans; they learn less, achieve less, cannot build on their achievements as they die.

If god had played fair, Adam and his descendents would be giving god the finger from more than one solar system by now.

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Michael Moore is the Christ

by Star Moore in

i have been researching "michael" for the past 9 months very heavily.

i don't have to work and was a reg.

pioneer who quit.

Abaddon

Of course he is Jesus. So are you, so am I, so is everyone. We are god. Even the idiots, which explains loads.

Mark you, I'm sure there are a few Pharasees who would like to nail him to a tree.

I like him because he plays dirty with people who play dirty.

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Wow LittleToe!

by IP_SEC in

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friends

dang man, your site has seen a lot of traffic over the past few years .

nice.

http://www.angelfire.com/trek/littletoe/profile.html.

Abaddon

Ross...

Of course billy didn't listen. He'd already judged you and found you guilty, why should little things like the FACTS actually effect what he thinks?

This was especialy funny;

Personally I feel it is a betrayal of trust.

Someone can only talk about a "betrayal of trust" without gross hypocracy in this situation if they are totally ignorant about the organisation. Doctrinal incompetrence aside it has betrayed the trust of sincere JW's over issues like Bulgaria, Malawi and Mexico, the UN etc..

Those I know who endured LTs talk feel he was abusing his position & speak of it in very negative terms - they would be disappointed (but not surprised) to learn that it is available in MP3 format online.

As you correctly gauge Ross, this guy's not even followed the links...

How would he feel about a speaker in his church doing the same thing?

Oh, I think if a speaker was able to demonstrate with scripture that the doctrines being taught in that church (especially if it was impossible to disagree with those doctrines without explusion) were false, LT would be quite happy about someone doing that. Because Ross cares about truth as he sees it, and is willing to upset men to speak that sincere belief, rather than living and speaking a lie.

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Guys and flowers, whadda ya think??

by Super_Becka in

jw
friends

alright, i'm looking for some opinions from the male portion of our jwd audience.. i'm in a long-distance relationship, like i've said here a million times before, so doing special things for my guy is kinda hard.

not only is it long-distance, it's international, too.

we're 3500 miles apart and i'm a starving student, so i can't just swing by for a visit to do something special for him on the fly.. last semester, i sent him a bunch of flowers in his favourite colour, a special "i miss you" bouquet from a local florist that i found online.

Abaddon

I've been given flowers by girls. The first time I was in some dumb student production, and a friend came to see it and gave me flowers. The fact she'd stolen them from the front garden of the local Magistrates Court (right next door to the Police Station) made it all that more special. American woman too, but I've had flowers from English girls and Dutch girls too.

I quite like it, but I suppose I don't mind flowers and it's the thought that counts. I'm not like "Oooo! LIllies!!!!", and will not pause and adjust them slightly in the vase and smell them each time I pass them. My girlfriend does this with flowers I get her, and I enjoy that, but it's not my thing.

Funniest thing I heard of in a LDR was the woman sending her guy a bouquet of porn. He loved it.

I think thinking on what he'd think was really cool and sweet is a good idea; all the best.

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Help. I need advice with my 12 year old daughter.

by nicolaou in

i got home from work yesterday and my wife tells me there is a letter from my daughter's school - this is it;.

can you imagine how proud and thrilled i was!!

but.... at the mere mention of it my daughter burst into tears.

Abaddon

First, congratulations.

As for 'selling' it to her, in your shoes I'd try to. Both my girls are mad keen on animals, always have been. When younger they always wanted to be 'animal rescuers' (like the TV program), or a more general 'looking after animals'. I've always taken a, 'well, have you thought about being a vet?', line. I've validated their interest, but told them they need to think about what they want in life. Looking after animals at the front line is long hours, low pay. This is fine if you accept making a choice like that will have concequences in how comfortable your life is, your house, your holidays, being able to afford nice things. It's important to do something you like, but if you can do that AND make money, maybe that's the way to go.

At first, to at least some extent, this was probably way over their heads. My older daughter's alway 'got it' enough to express why she might not want to be a vet (she'd not want to put animals down... she was young... ) But it is, I hope, the right approach.

It sucks, but what you do when you are a kid will impact on what you can do when you are an adult. Making that real to her now, i ways that are relevent to her, might help.

To put it into hyperbole, 'do you want to not afford a holiday and live in a nasty house because some kids might be a little mean if you get put into this pragram?' I think of it as the 'do you want fries with that' approach.

My fiance says to ask her if she thinks it is nice for her friends to be mean to her because she has a really cool opportunity, and if they are, are they real friends?

All the best.

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What would Muhammad do?

by Rabbit in

i really enjoyed reading a moderate muslim opinion.

i mean we've heard they are there and all...they are just too quiet.

they cannot be heard over the banshee screaming, burning and murderous radical fundamentalist brand of islam.. i hope to see more and more muslims who will be willing to express publically their dismay & embarrassment over what's being done in their religions name.. what do y'all think ?.

Abaddon

Nice to see one of our own spittle-flecked Christian Fundy (that's you Rex) is as clueless as ever.

You're just like the worst of the Muslims except that you are not so far removed from reason as to kill people yourself for god - although your gloating enjoyment of predicting hellfire for those who disagree with you make this not as great a difference as you'd like to think.

Haven't you got some vomit waiting for you to return to it?

Of course, a lot of people ignore the cultural factor. This is the 15th C as far as many Muslims are concerned, not only in terms of their calander but in terms of their cultural development. In the 15th C anyone making a satrical cartoon of Jesus would have been dead in days, burnt by Priests.

Now, despite the fact hating people is easier than understanding why some can be backward and stupid, understanding the backwardness and stupidity is a better way of ending it than hating it.

Not that that has stopped people having a good hate in the past, as even though the West is in the 21st C, it still doesn't stop some being backward and stupid.