Posts by lawrence

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French attack on "Crisis of Conscience"

by Motema Bolingo in

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a french jw tries to disparage "crisis of conscience" (french translation).

raymond franz is giving some comments on my website.

http://users.skynet.be/jacques.luc/contradiccoc.html.

lawrence

May God bless Raymond for his courage. Few men stand up as this man did, and accepted my call once, many years ago. May God rain fire on Crooklyn. Come Lord Jesus!

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??'s for Computer Programmers

by DanTheMan in

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well at 34 years of age i'm still wondering what i'm going to do with my life, career-wise.. i have done well in college courses i've taken in math, computer programming, and logic.

also i have a fair amount of experience working as an end-user of various database programs used by my previous and current employers, and i have found that i have a good intuitive knack for understanding the underlying logic that makes them do what they do.

so, i think that i have the mental goods necessary to be a good computer programmer, in fact i feel that i could be a pretty damn good one.. but, with all the out-sourcing, i'm wondering if american computer programmers are a dying breed that will eventually be completely supplanted by indian, chinese, and russian programmers.. so to those of you americans who currently work in the field, do you think that it is foolish to pursue a degree in computer science, given current trends?

lawrence

After 25+ years of system architecure and s/w development, I agree with all of you in certain respects, but no one has mentioned ANALYSIS, because as anyone well knows, if you don't understand the 'WHAT', you can't decide 'HOW' (the difference between analysis and design). Become a business analyst and refine software language skills later, architecture, data modeling, etc. Understand the WHAT first.

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Exodus into Canada: American Liberals Sneaking Across Border

by SixofNine in

american liberals sneaking .

across border into canada .

barnett fief.

lawrence

No jokes folks! I left in February last year, had enough of fascism, got a large house knowing others would be up after 11/2 and the results. PM me, if you need/want a place to stay. I have a dog, 2 floors in a large house, and lots of space. Artists and spiritually inclined people preferred.

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Poems anyone?

by Thunder Rider in

natures way .

crimson tears drift earthward on a cold wind from the north.

boughs and branches shed them with their movements back and forth.

lawrence

The Celtic Sanctuary/who?s sick anyway?

(for R.D. Laing)

and who?s sick anyway?

the mad poet verbalizing reality in the catchy phrases

or the man on the assembly line

one rivet, a goosh, and the frame goes by

or the woman on the inspection line

good lime, good lime, acceptable blemish, BAD LIME

or the mad poet doing a day on the line,

chucking another job for unimportance

buying a couple of lines, a jug of MD 20/20, and scribbling experience on the jug?s paper bag

and tomorrow spent outside the mad whoosh

tell us R.D., who the hell is sick anyway?

mushroom parties get the poet cooking,

so why not get a factory shift looking?

looking at the mad poet scribbling on the underside of a Coors?s Lite beer carton

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SCHOLAR 'talk' to Ray about Carl Olof Jonsson

by one in

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i just received a long email from ray,

i reprint what an scholars wrote to ray

" i became aware of the work of carl olof jonsson by coming across his work posted on the net entitled "a review of rolf furuli: persian chronology and the length of the babylonian exile of the jews.

lawrence

Schism-

And BTW, what have you written lately? Please expound...

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Poems anyone?

by Thunder Rider in

natures way .

crimson tears drift earthward on a cold wind from the north.

boughs and branches shed them with their movements back and forth.

lawrence

Partook

Partook mystic emblems with less than 10,000 worldwide in 1975, composing the Mystic Remnant

Partook matzos and grape soda of Christ?s blood in shopping centre in Miami while men and women moaned, spoke in ?tongues?, and renewed their Christ vows, b ut where was God in their Christianity?

Partook ganja tea with Mystic Rasta in Jamaica, w ho spoke of Christ as man, the fall of the first couple, the judgment, and the Kingdom to come

Partook in singing 'Amazing Grace' at a church in Davie, Florida, w here guitars, tambourines, and drums left me with a haunting ache to light up a J & dance at this party

Partook in chanting for world peace in 1977 before the first Reagan Regime; wanting to go back to visit the Buddhist shrine in Hawaii

Partook of circles in New Mexico, Captain Cook, New Hampshire, and Rochester

Partook as part of the Minyan, put on tefillin, was called up for an Aliyah, then said Kaddish for a dead brother on Yom Kippur

Partook of the Ark of the Covenant, as I carried the Torah around other Partakers at Rosh Hashanah

Partook of mushroom tea with a Mystic Jew and a group of bikers; we spoke about the heavens, as they spoke of sprockets

Partook of chants in burial grounds in the White Mountains, Carlisle, Arizona, and Malden

Partook of silence in Catholic churches in Boston, Media Pa., Stoneham, Malden, Munich, and Cozumel

Partook of the rite of baptizing souls in a pool on a cold Sunday a.m. within a Mystic Ecstasy of John at the Jordan River

Partook of giving a marriage talk, a burial talk, and talks against the ISM?s of mankind

Partook, and now Partake of the poems; from the Souls of Mystics, Poets and Prophets

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Poems anyone?

by Thunder Rider in

natures way .

crimson tears drift earthward on a cold wind from the north.

boughs and branches shed them with their movements back and forth.

lawrence

Double Booked The Shaman Of Machu Pichu

The promoters double booked the shaman of Machu Pichu.

Nor were the correct emails sent, and in this light this meant -

The shaman of Machu Pichu couldn't be in two places at the same time.

Obviously unable to become divine, or align himself with the Gregorian calendar.

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Poems anyone?

by Thunder Rider in

natures way .

crimson tears drift earthward on a cold wind from the north.

boughs and branches shed them with their movements back and forth.

lawrence

RELAX

The Holy Goof is always alive

When we become beat, beautiful, and wise

Able to laugh in the face of death

Fear disappears, and we breathe deep breaths

IN AND OUT,

THE LUNGS RELAX

A smile radiates and we feel glad

IN AND OUT,

THE LUNGS RELAX

No need to sigh, or ever look back

BUT LAUGH AND SING

SMILE AT NEW THINGS

Eye contact with a million

might only bring one set of eyes

and with that one dance

prance ?bout squares

TWIRL IN MID AIR

RELAX

all worrying is done

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Has anybody seen David Reed,The publisher of "Comments from the Friends"?

by truthbeliever in

has anybody seen dave reed?i heard that he stopped publishing his newsletter and his email on his site no longer works.it is because of this man and jesus that i am free from the watchtower today.anybody seen him?

lawrence

Mouthy-

Thanks for posting the site. I really enjoyed his writings, and so did a friend I sent the link to. I thoroughly dig the way he "sees" certain things. Very heavy, and refreshing.

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The doctrine of the Tri-Part man.

by LittleToe in

recently there have been discussions about the immortal soul, v's the wts beliefs, so i thought i'd present a little heard of (in jw circles) doctrine of the soul that seeks to explain some passages of scripture that are usually avoided.. first of all, leo posted some fascination information, which gives some background on the bible's general teaching on the soul:.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/80742/1319806/post.ashx#1319806.

the doctrine itself surrounds two texts in particular, which i quote from the nwt:.

lawrence

LT-

Are there any electronic materials from the seminar that can be posted or transmitted? In reference to another post about partaking, I once as a JW partook too, but now I believe that every believer should.... But that's another thread.

Thanks