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RE: Did You Know That.... - Tiamat - 01-06-2013 Very creepy looking guy. RE: Did You Know That.... - PonderThis - 01-07-2013 (01-06-2013, 10:17 PM)Valuesize Wrote: They say everyone has a look alike? There was also a Bride of Christ commune in the late '80's in Azalea, Oregon. They made the news in 1988 when they invited notorious criminal Lawrence Singleton to live at their commune (who had recently been released from prison for chopping a girls arms off and raping her, leaving her for dead in a ditch), totally infuriating the neighborhood he'd previously coexisted with, and he was later forced out. Here's a couple bits on the story, I'm having trouble finding a better compilation of it: "Bride of Christ Church The Bride of Christ Church began in 1980 in Las Vegas, Nevada, following the ordination of Thomas Clyde Smith, Jr. by Dr. G.J. Soriano, founder of the Faith Restoration Center, a Philippine Islands Christian organization. According to Smith, in 1965 he was convicted of molesting his nine-year-old daughter. Following his jail sentence he spent a year in a mental hospital. While there he had a conversion experience and became a Christian. He later decided to become a minister and start the church. Smith advocated a form of what he termed Christian socialism, which included communal living. After four years in Nevada, he moved with the members of the church to rural Oregon. The Bride of Christ Church existed quietly until 1987 when there was an attempt to kidnap and deprogram a church member. The attempt was foiled when the deprogrammers were caught breaking into property at the church headquarters and arrested. A year later Smith invited Lawrence Singleton to join the group on its farm near Azalea. Singleton had been convicted in California for a particularly heinous crime, raping a 15-year-old girl and severing both her arms. Smith said he identified with Singleton, who reportedly had repented for his crime and become religious during his years in prison. However, public outrage prevented Singleton's moving in with the church. The Church is organized communally. Men work in two groupowned businesses to support the members. Women work at the center in Azalea." Sources: Tims, Dana. "Azalea Sect Riles Region."Oregonian(April 7, 1988). http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3402400127/communal-after-1960.html Another link: http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1988/Convicted-Rapist-Says-He-ll-Settle-In-Commune/id-4a60b4a2fe58d4cc720f5a1d72ed3ee7 RE: Did You Know That.... - cletus1 - 01-07-2013 And that is why I don't repent. Finding Jesus causes insanity. RE: Did You Know That.... - Valuesize - 01-07-2013 To me, it looks like this guy just said.... "Lucy you got some splaining to do!" RE: Did You Know That.... - Scrapper - 01-07-2013 (01-07-2013, 09:13 AM)Valuesize Wrote: BwaHaHaHaHa!!! Oh my... RE: Did You Know That.... - Tiamat - 01-08-2013 http://jezebel.com/5917477/the-swiss-army-tampon-a-life+saving-wilderness-survival-tool?fb_action_ids=10151182611882116&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map={%2210151182611882116%22%3A10150913145938171}&action_type_map={%2210151182611882116%22%3A%22og.likes%22}&action_ref_map=[] RE: Did You Know That.... - Tiamat - 01-09-2013 There are more chickens than people in the world. Kangaroos outnumber people in Australia? You don't sneeze when you are sleeping? I can't prove any of the above. Just saying. RE: Did You Know That.... - Tiamat - 01-19-2013 did you know that: The reason capital letters and small letters are called upper case and lower case letters is because back in the earliest days of printing, the capital letters lived in the case boxes in the upper case. And the small letters were stored in the .....lower cases. RE: Did You Know That.... - Clone - 01-19-2013 (01-19-2013, 11:44 PM)Tiamat Wrote: did you know that: The reason capital letters and small letters are called upper case and lower case letters is because back in the earliest days of printing, the capital letters lived in the case boxes in the upper case. And the small letters were stored in the .....lower cases. No! I didn't know that! Now I do! Do you know the difference between concrete and cement? Cement is made with all sand..concrete has added aggregate i.e. rock RE: Did You Know That.... - PonderThis - 01-19-2013 I don't think that's right though. Concrete is cement plus rock and sand (and, water). Cement is just cement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement RE: Did You Know That.... - Tiamat - 01-19-2013 (01-19-2013, 11:48 PM)Clone Wrote:(01-19-2013, 11:44 PM)Tiamat Wrote: did you know that: The reason capital letters and small letters are called upper case and lower case letters is because back in the earliest days of printing, the capital letters lived in the case boxes in the upper case. And the small letters were stored in the .....lower cases. Aye, that I did! RE: Did You Know That.... - Clone - 01-20-2013 (01-19-2013, 11:51 PM)PonderThis Wrote: I don't think that's right though. Concrete is cement plus rock and sand (and, water). Cement is just cement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement Now, that's interesting. I was a field office manager with Granite Construction Company and that's how it was always explained to me by project engineers. Weird!!! RE: Did You Know That.... - PonderThis - 01-20-2013 Maybe they were watering down their cement with sand? RE: Did You Know That.... - Clone - 01-20-2013 (01-20-2013, 12:41 AM)PonderThis Wrote: Maybe they were watering down their cement with sand? Who knows... All those Haliburton red and gray trucks were hauling something! |