[James Dewitt]

Re: Have You started collecting stones?

The Widow Sharon is really anxious to reserve some of the Holy™ Mt. Sinai stones. She doesn't know if she should sign her house over in the names of Mr. DeWitt, Brother Alex and Pastor Zeke jointly (since they'll be splitting the profits) or just put it in the name of the church.

Can someone please call her and arrange that, because she's bothering me at all hours. (She has the old Putnam farm by, ironically, Stone Bridge. You might know her from selling apples outside the QuickStop.)
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All taken care of, she signed the deed over to LBC, I promised her the best rocks of the shipment. She agreed with one requirement, she can stay in her home until Jesus calls her to Heaven. I would think that wont be to much longer, she is all ready older than dirt.

[Phebe Carlyle]

Re: Have You started collecting stones?

I know. She's a dear old thing, but a bit of an "odd duck" as the kids today say (and I do say that with love). For a while she was insisting up and down she'd never remarry. Why? Because she likes to spend a lot of time in her "Fairie Tree" (which she got hollowed out, and even wallpapered inside). She says there's only room for her in it.

Oh yes....and her "little friends".
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Oh dear! Seems she has caught something sinister! Like paganism?

Is that why she wants the stones? To make her own "Faerie ring?"



She seemed so "normal" when I phoned her for an apple order, but come to think of it, she did mention that she was now also harvesting Mushrooms and selling off the excess.

Perhaps this is a lot worse than first thought.

YIC,

Mrs.P.Wintersnow.

[Mistress Cookie]

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I am a tad befuddled why Widow Sharon has not re-wed. One would think that she would have suiters lining up around the block!

I know. She's a dear old thing, but a bit of an "odd duck" as the kids today say (and I do say that with love). For a while she was insisting up and down she'd never remarry. Why? Because she likes to spend a lot of time in her "Fairie Tree" (which she got hollowed out, and even wallpapered inside). She says there's only room for her in it.

Oh yes....and her "little friends".
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[Phebe Carlyle]

Re: Have You started collecting stones?

The Widow Sharon is really anxious to reserve some of the Holy™ Mt. Sinai stones. She doesn't know if she should sign her house over in the names of Mr. DeWitt, Brother Alex and Pastor Zeke jointly (since they'll be splitting the profits) or just put it in the name of the church.

Can someone please call her and arrange that, because she's bothering me at all hours. (She has the old Putnam farm by, ironically, Stone Bridge. You might know her from selling apples outside the QuickStop.)
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Gosh and a little digression from the thread but Mistress Cookie, I am a tad befuddled why Widow Sharon has not re-wed. One would think that she would have suiters lining up around the block!

YIC,

Mrs.P.Wintersnow.

[its_faith]

Re: Have You started collecting stones?

I always have a good supply of pointed stones on hand just in case. One never knows when the village will be rounded up to stone a sinner.

[James Hutchins]

Re: Have You started collecting stones?

Glad to hear the first load arrived. I suggest using respirators designed for Plutonium and have some of those film badges handy. Apparently a few of the chinese drums (damn slants sent wood and leather, not steel) leaked a bit. I dumped the leaking drums at


But some of the other cargo got a little wet.

Pastor Zeke, I was more than happy to bring your new bathroom attendenant. Sorry about the burns the child suffered. I'll be more than happy to bring another from the port next trip.

[Mistress Cookie]

Re: Have You started collecting stones?

Or I can pay you for your asking price, and then give you 10% of the profit after resale mark up(YOU get paid twice)

The Widow Sharon is really anxious to reserve some of the Holy(tm) Mt. Sinai stones. She doesn't know if she should sign her house over in the names of Mr. DeWitt, Brother Alex and Pastor Zeke jointly (since they'll be splitting the profits) or just put it in the name of the church.

Can someone please call her and arrange that, because she's bothering me at all hours. (She has the old Putnam farm by, ironically, Stone Bridge. You might know her from selling apples outside the QuickStop.)
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[Johny Joe Hold]

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Agreed. But at the end of the day, sinner must be punnished and by stoning dolls is not the way forward IMHO. I would suggest stoning cats as I find them repulsive and full of sin.

Please read the thread. I don't see any reference in KJV 1611 to stoning cats.

The practical aspect is that there are so many humans to stone, we would be out of stones before getting to the cats.

[Addie the Jambo]

Re: Have You started collecting stones?

Just a suggestion. Would it be possible to perhaps use ventriloquist dolls to represent the children? As you can see this one come already clothed.

Like this one



Mrs.P.Wintersnow

IMO it would serve two purposes. I don't like ventriloquist dolls... they scare me and destroying as many of them as possible would be a good thing.

Agreed. But at the end of the day, sinner must be punnished and by stoning dolls is not the way forward IMHO. I would suggest stoning cats as I find them repulsive and full of sin.

[Phebe Carlyle]

Re: Have You started collecting stones?

Yes, the Bible delivers forcefully the message the children must be obediate or be stoned to death. Now, we will not actually be stoning children at the Festival but the teaching opportunity must be seized upon.

I've ordered some small dummies and perhaps some staff can come up with children's clothing to make them look real. Then, we can placard them with something like, CHILDREN WHO DO NOT OBEY. Participants could stone them.

We could do the same placard in the stocks area.

Just a suggestion. Would it be possible to perhaps use ventriloquist dolls to represent the children? As you can see this one come already clothed.

Like this one



Mrs.P.Wintersnow

IMO it would serve two purposes. I don't like ventriloquist dolls... they scare me and destroying as many of them as possible would be a good thing.

[Johny Joe Hold]

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Well Mayor I would consider this for a placard in proximity of the stocks.

Titus 3:1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates........

Yes, the Bible delivers forcefully the message the children must be obediate or be stoned to death. Now, we will not actually be stoning children at the Festival but the teaching opportunity must be seized upon.

I've ordered some small dummies and perhaps some staff can come up with children's clothing to make them look real. Then, we can placard them with something like, CHILDREN WHO DO NOT OBEY. Participants could stone them.

We could do the same placard in the stocks area.

[James Dewitt]

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I am truly impressed with your dedication to this project. Will the ballistics gel just repel the rocks? You might need some projectiles with sharp edges to penetrate that stuff.

Thanks Brother the guys at the R&D and I had a load of fun. The gel will not be any different than human flesh and mussel. The rocks will not bounce of the dummy any more than they would of a real sinner. As for the sharp projectiles lets just say they are on the way from Iceland. Last week I traveled to California to a special mountain. It was littered with a rock that is call obsidian. Some of those rocks are as sharp as a knife. I had 15000 lbs shipped back home. They arrived today via Hutchins Trucking. One of the dummies will be ready for testing Sunday right after Church. I plan on a little testing and a steak cook out. You are more than welcome to stop by, I have plenty of steaks and barley pop. They boys from the R&D lab and I are testing the rock cannon under full power, it should be a blast.
PS, to all my Brothers stop by fun kicks off around noon

[Benedict A. Davis]

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Aim--This seems to me quite in keeping with the theme of the event. We would want children who succumbed to temptation, or, were careless in their choices, to be punished.

Perhaps you could post up the scripture you were thinking about as part of this contribution to the Freehold Summer Stoning Festival.

Well Mayor I would consider this for a placard in proximity of the stocks.

Titus 3:1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates........

[Johny Joe Hold]

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I would like to make a special presentation to the youth group in reference to Deuteronomy 21:18-21.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Great idea, Brother Levi. There can be nothing more important to teach children than that the Bible tells us to stone them to death if they disobey.

If only the children and parents in every "Christian" Church could see your presentation. Of course, that is the purpose of our Festival, to point out that stoning is an important part of the Christian life.

[Levi Jones]

Re: Have You started collecting stones?

I would like to make a special presentation to the youth group in reference to Deuteronomy 21:18-21.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.