Posts by Peppermint

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What are yer favorite song lyrics???

by missy04 in

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what's everybodys' favorite songs/song lyrics??.

"boulevard of broken dreams" by greenday.

"my shadow's the only one that walks beside me.

King of Rome

In the West End of Derby lives a working man He says "I can't fly but me pigeons can And when I set them free It's just like part of me Gets lifted up on shining wings" Charlie Edson's pigeon loft was down the yard Of a rented house in Brook Street where life was hard But Charlie had a dream And in nineteenthirteen Charlie bred a pigeon that made his dream come true There was gonna be a champions' race from Italy "Look at the maps, all that land and sea Charlie, you'll lose that bird" But Charlie never heard He put it in a basket and sent it off to Rome On the day o' the big race a storm blew in A thousand birds were swept away and never seen again "Charlie we told you so Surely by now you know When you're living in te West End there ain't many dreams come true" "Yeah, I know, but I had to try A man can crawl around or he can learn to fly And if you live 'round here The ground seems awful near Sometimes I need a lift from victory" I was off with me mates for a pint or two When I saw a wing flash up in the blue "Charlie, it's the King of Rome Come back to his West End home Come outside quick, he's perched up on your roof" "Come on down, your majesty I knew you'd make it back to me Come on down, you lovely one You made me dream come true" In the West End of Derby lives a working man He says "I can't fly but me pigeons can And when I set them free It's just like part of me Gets lifted up on shining wings" recorded by June Tabor on "Aqaba" (1989)

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Songs which remind you of J Dubs....

by missy04 in

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i was just sitting here listening to a song by breaking benjamin called "rain" and it reminded me of the witnesses.. ""rain".

take a photograph, .

not a dollar or a crowd could ever keep me here, .

Peppermint

This song by Alanis Morissette always makes me think of being a witness. For catholic please read JW.

You know how us Catholic girls can be
We make up for so much time a little too late
I never forgot it, confusing as it was
No fun with no guilt feelings
The sinners, the saviors, the loverless priests
I'll see you next Sunday
Chorus:
We all had our reasons to be there
We all had a thing or two to learn
We all needed something to cling to
So we did
I sang Alleluia in the choir
I confessed my darkest deeds to an envious man
My brothers they never went blind for what they did
But I may as well have
In the name of the Father, the Skeptic and the Son
I had one more stupid question
Repeat Chorus
What I learned I rejected but I believe again
I will suffer the consequence of this inquisition
If I jump in this fountain, will I be forgiven
Repeat Chorus
We all had delusions in our head
We all had our minds made up for us
We had to believe in something
So we did

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Getting around London..For Newbie Visitors..

by Englishman in

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this is fun.

http://tube.tfl.gov.uk/content/tubemap/realunderground/realunderground.html.

now use the buttons at the bottom, especially the street map, and all becomes clear!.

Peppermint

I used to spend 2 hours each day travelling the underground when I worked in London.

Its true, the map they give you is very misleading. I have sometimes found that routes that may seem direct on the map take you round the houses, and back again. You could probably walk it in quarter the time.

I used to get on the tube that led from Heathrow airport to the city, it was always full of American, Japanese, Canadian and various other tourists, in total confusion most of the time trying to work out where they were going, boy did they look lost.

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Not Too Bad A Cult.... In Comparison To Others. Let's Talk About Cults.

by Doubtfully Yours in

i saw an episode of a day talk show the other day in which they interviewed these two women that were part of a polygamous cult in utah.

the cult was referred to as 'the order'.. men married many young wives, and these were expected/forced to breed in large numbers.

these women worked for the cult.

Peppermint

Not sure how dangerous they are, but they sure are the maddest, yet strangly compelling.

http://www.rael.org/english/index.html

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Hey Britain...who's got Snow?

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being a jehovah?s witness caused me mental anguish.

lack of love in the congregation, feelings of not doing enough or doing the wrong things.

all this made me sad.

Peppermint

Being a Jehovah?s Witness caused me mental anguish.

Lack of love in the congregation, feelings of not doing enough or doing the wrong things. All this made me sad. These are the things that made me leave. Not the teachings.

To be quite honest I enjoyed the certainties of the truth, it gave me a solution for everything I saw around me.

Now that I have left all has changed, I no longer see the truth as ?the truth? and the issues of feeling unworthy have gone.

Trouble is, I now have a big hole where the truth used to be. I miss some of the people (not all for sure) but there are friendships developed over years that have now just gone. I miss the feeling of having a supernatural being looking out for me. I miss feeling innocent. I miss the answers to everything.

I sometimes think would I be happier to have stayed as I was? It?s like being offered that pill in the Matrix, how would I or you choose now? This feeling also makes me question, should I expose falsehoods in the society to my family who are still in?

I hope things get easier as time passes, I?m sure they will.