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originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: evc1shop
Ha!
I take it you didn't see the chains they have, sold by the foot so you can get just enough.
No, I didn't. Those evil ropes triggered me to the point where I ran across the parking lot and kicked in a nail salon's front window.
In regard to the Salem witch trials, however, it was Mather's interest in the craft and actions of Satan that won him an audience with the most powerful figures involved in the trial proceedings, several of the judges and the local ministers in Salem. Before the outbreak of accusations in Salem Village, Mather had already published his account, Remarkable Providences (1684), describing in detail he possession of the children of the Goodwin family of Boston. Mather actually took the eldest of the children, 13-year-old Martha, into his home to make a more intense study of the phenomenon. Later scholars have suggested that this book in fact outlined the symptoms of clinical hysteria. It was this same hysteria that provided the behavioral model for the circle of "afflicted" girls during the trials in Salem. Mather, however, used his experience with Goodwins to further his notion that New England was in fact a battleground with Satan.
originally posted by: UnBreakable
Thank God I'm 57 and will be dead, hopefully, within a few years, before this country completely goes to hell, thanks to these snowflakes. The generation of 18-25 year olds are the biggest bunch of wusses ever. They wouldn't know a real tragedy if it smacked them in the face with a two-by-four.
"Hobby Lobby’s ‘offensive’ decoration has gone bonkers viral — 33k Facebook reactions and counting"
Daniell Rider, a Hobby Lobby consumer, found a decoration at one of their stores so offensive, she shared the image on Facebook requesting that they remove the decor from their shelves. What was it? Rider on Thursday shared a photo of a shelf with glass bottles containing what appear to be replicas of raw cotton plants.
She captioned the photo, “This decor is WRONG on SO many levels. There is nothing decorative about raw cotton… A commodity which was gained at the expense of African-American slaves.” “A little sensitivity goes a long way,” she added. “PLEASE REMOVE THIS ‘decor.'”
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Gonna jump down
Turn around
Pick a bale of cotton
Gonna jump down
Turn around
Pick a bale a day
Gonna jump down
Turn around
Pick a bale of cotton
Gonna jump down
Turn around
Pick a bale a day
Oh, lordy
Pick a bale of cotton
Oh, lordy
Pick a bale a day
Oh, lordy
Pick a bale of cotton
Oh, lordy
Pick a bale a day
I said
Me and my buddy gonna pick a bale of cotton
Now
Me and my buddy gonna pick a bale a day
I said
Me and my buddy gonna pick a bale of cotton
Now
Me and my buddy gonna pick a bale a day
Oh, lordy
Pick a bale of cotton
Oh, lordy
Pick a bale a day
Oh, lordy
Pick a bale of cotton
Oh, lordy
Pick a bale a day
Gonna jump down
Turn around
Pick a bale of cotton
Gonna jump down
Turn around
Pick a bale a day
originally posted by: soberbacchus
originally posted by: UnBreakable
Thank God I'm 57 and will be dead, hopefully, within a few years
First off-- What the hell are you doing to yourself where you plan on dying by 60.
originally posted by: UnBreakable
originally posted by: soberbacchus
originally posted by: UnBreakable
Thank God I'm 57 and will be dead, hopefully, within a few years
First off-- What the hell are you doing to yourself where you plan on dying by 60.
I smoke two packs of Lucky Strikes and drink a fifth of JD per day.
originally posted by: Deaf Alien
a reply to: UnBreakable
Interesting to see this thread grow more and more with people being triggered by a Facebook post. People post pictures of their dinners on Facebook all the time. Why give them any credibility?
originally posted by: soberbacchus
originally posted by: UnBreakable
originally posted by: soberbacchus
originally posted by: UnBreakable
Thank God I'm 57 and will be dead, hopefully, within a few years
First off-- What the hell are you doing to yourself where you plan on dying by 60.
I smoke two packs of Lucky Strikes and drink a fifth of JD per day.
My dad was a JD guy before he quit. I remember it at the breakfast table.
I had a father-in-law the same age as you and same exact habits. Except he opted for rum and cokes. His cellar was lined with gallon jugs of the cheapest rum he could buy at Costco.
He was a "I am going to live how I like and die how I want" kind of guy.
First his lung collapsed at 60. Trouble breathing in the shower and didn't know why, they got it going again, but it collapsed a couple more times in the following year if I recall. Then his liver went..and they don't give livers to active alcoholics. That took maybe 6 to 8 months for him to die. It was effen horrific. Without a liver, everything you eat and drink literally poisons you. He bloated up, was throwing up all the time and died a slow death over months. Spent his last month with Hospice visits in his easy chair, immobile and delirious. I dragged that chair to the curb after he passed. Horrible scent.
His wife was a wreck and I didn't know what to tell his grandkids.
He had this defiant fantasy of living his way and dying fast and happy. But honestly he just couldn't quit drinking and he went out suffering horribly over a long period of time and he very much wanted a do-over before he died.
Take care of yourself now. Please.
No one deserves to live or die that way.
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
I wasn't sure....so I checked... Oh My GOD!!! My underwear is cotton!!! My junk is racist!!!!!
originally posted by: Krakatoa
a reply to: Deaf Alien
No, it's hilariously funny that someone could actually make that sort of leap in thought. Thought, I may add, that stopped at that leap at which point pseudo-outrage took over.