diana

Words fail me.

I thought, from the quotes y'all brought over, that this must be a spoof of some sort. Fodder for The Onion.

But these people are serious.......ly in need of mental help.

d

Edited to add: that's a work of art, Michael. I rarely do this, but I think you deserve a <img src="graemlins/notworthy.gif" border="0" alt="[Not Worthy]" />

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lpetrich

They not only reject celebrating birthdays, they also reject celebrating essentially all other holidays, including most Xian ones, as "pagan" or "worldly". They only celebrate a "Memorial of Christ's Death" around Passover, at least according to <a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org" target="_blank">http://www.religioustolerance.org</a>

One famous Jehovah's Witness, the well-known pop singer Michael Jackson, had been a rather bad JW; the JW hierarchy had compelled him to recant his famous "Thriller" music video as "spiritism", yet another JW no-no.

bonduca

Well, now I know how to drive them away. Just give them a bit of cake to celebrate my cat's birthday.

ebolamonger

Remember, all you Jehovah's Witnesses: Every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten.

Please, think of your Christian duty.

Cipher Girl

A couple of years ago, about a week before Halloween, I answered a knock at my door. There stood a couple of JWs looking at my Halloween decorations. I was holding my cat, Kitty, BTW who is solid black with yellow green eyes, when I answered the door. Kitty took one look at the JWs and had a hissy fit, all fluffed up and hissing. I asked "What do you want?".

"We see that you're busy, we'll come back later." said the older one (a woman). They then left my door as fast as they could without running. I must of laughed for a half hour. They never came back. I fixed salmon that night and gave Kitty a nice treat. He's a great cat.

wade-w

Cipher Girl;

Sounds like Kitty is a great judge of character!

lpetrich

That guy's linguistics is all mixed up; "bestia" is a Latin rather than a Greek word. And it's a bit interesting to try to track down the history of the word "cat":
English: cat
Dutch: kat
German: Katze
French: chat
Spanish: gato
Italian: gatto
Modern Greek: ghata
Medieval/Modern Latin: catus

These words look suspiciously similar -- too much alike to be native Indo-European; a "native" word would look more different, like

English: who
German: wo
French: que
Spanish: que
Italian: che
Latin: quis
Greek: tis
Russian: kto

But when was that word borrowed? It was clearly borrowed after the common-Germanic sound shifts (k &gt; h, etc.), and before such shifts as French ka &gt; sha and German t &gt; ts -- and dropping the final sound in French.

However, Classical Latin has "feles" or "felis", and Classical Greek had "ailouros" (literally "wavy tail"), which was also a word for "weasel".

This suggests that *katt- spread in Europe in the late Roman Empre / the early Middle Ages; did cats become much more popular pets at that time?

Adamantia

This brings to mind some recent words from a certain prominent 'xtian apologist'... Near the end of question time after his first debate with Phillip Adams, Phillip stated that he didn’t want to go to heaven if his dog couldn’t come with him. How did slick W....,ahem, the apologist answer? He said that well actually, his wife thinks that their cat Muff is coming along. (Unless Satan created false memories for both myself and the person I was discussing this with after the meeting, he did indeed say they have a cat called Muff...)

Gregg

My kitty is, at this moment, lying on its side on the floor near me, half-curled up, with a paw over her nose and one eye slightly open. Right now I'm inclined to call her "angel baby." On the other hand, I have also been known to call her, "demon cat from the blackest pits of hell."

Oh geez. She just stretched out her widdle hind wegs while pwessing both paws to her widdle nose. My widdle angel baby!

Gregg

DMB

Let us not forget that good muslims hold the dog to be an unclean animal. Soon after Musharaff took power in Pakistan, a photo of him holding his pet dog appeared in the press. This was proof to the fundies that he was a bad muslim.