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  Things Learned Along the Way

  by blondie in

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  i have collected sayings, homilies, whatever along the way that crystallize something bigger i learned.

  i will post a few every day.

  if you have one, please share it.. if you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas.. to belittle is to be little.. somewhere, i got the idea if i just took care of others, i would be taken care of.. blondie

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  If the bar you're in has human ears nailed to the walls, don't pass out there.
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  Which songs remind you or take you back to what events?

  by doodle-v in

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  there are a ton of songs i hear that take me back to certain times of my life or one event in particular: .

  pour some sugar on me- def leppard-- my sixth grade last day of school party .

  parents just dont understand-dj jazzy jeff and the fresh prince--the summer going into six grade, i remember recording the song and trying to memorize all the words .

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  Meatloaf's "Paradise By the Dashboard Light" was fresh on the radio the summer I was spending a lot of time with this girl who lived near me. I haven't seen her since high school, but I still think of her & the back seat of a Ford Pinto when I hear the song.
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  WORDS, did you understand what I typed?

  by Sassy in

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  i found this interesting and thought i would share .

  i cdnuolt blveiee taht i cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht i was rdgnieg.

  the paomnnehal pweor of the hmuan mnid.

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  Sassy...I didn't know you were lesdyxic..

  I thought she was straight?
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  What's the closest you've ever been to death? ever think "this is it?"

  by doodle-v in

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  have you had any close calls?

  what's the closest you've ever been to kissing it good-bye?

  did your outlook on life change because of it?

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  Yeah, been close a few times. The most recent was a couple of years ago, vacationing in Florida. We were somewhere in the Ft. Myers area, buzzing up I-75 at about 75 or 80 MPH. When we crested an overpass, we saw that traffic in front of us was at a near standstill because of road construction. I hit the brakes as hard as I could, because with concrete on one side of our lane and traffic blocking the other side, there was nowhere to go. I reached the end of the concrete barrier just in time, and came to a stop in the median. No damage, no injuries .. but it scared the bejesus out of us.

  The closest I've ever come was when I grabbed a pair of live wires as a small child. The resulting electrical burns cost me two fingers and about 8 weeks in the hospital for surgery, skin grafts, monitoring, recovery, etc.
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  Deism, Anyone?

  by Dan-O in

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  i've dabbled in this on & off for the past 15 or 20 years.

  and i've found that many of the central concepts of deism are well aligned with my own thinking on the nature of the supreme being.

  webster's defines a deist as "one who believes in the existence of a god or supreme being but denies revealed religion, basing his belief on the light of nature and reason.

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  Golf, you are correct. Deists believe that God basically wound us up & turned us loose here, and that He does not intervene in our lives.
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  Deism, Anyone?

  by Dan-O in

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  i've dabbled in this on & off for the past 15 or 20 years.

  and i've found that many of the central concepts of deism are well aligned with my own thinking on the nature of the supreme being.

  webster's defines a deist as "one who believes in the existence of a god or supreme being but denies revealed religion, basing his belief on the light of nature and reason.

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  I've dabbled in this on & off for the past 15 or 20 years. And I've found that many of the central concepts of Deism are well aligned with my own thinking on the nature of the Supreme Being.
  
  Webster's defines a deist as "One who believes in the existence of a God or supreme being but denies revealed religion, basing his belief on the light of nature and reason."
  
  Many of the United States' founding fathers were deists, including Thomas Jefferson, Thomas, Paine, Ethan Allen, and Benjamin Franklin. And their writings of more than two centuries ago still ring true for me today.
  
  Jefferson wrote, in a letter to John Adams:
  "It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticism that three are one and one is three, and yet, that one is not three, and the three are not one.... But this constitutes the craft, the power, and profits of the priests. Sweep away their gossamer fabrics of fictitious religion, and that would catch no more flies"
  
  Paine said, in his work The Age of Reason :
  "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
  
  "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
  
  "I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."
  
  
  
  
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  Apostate Literature

  by glitter in

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  a jw once told me apostates print their "own" version of the publications with "convincing" covers to "trick" people - apparently they used to stand outside a shop in sheffield and jws had almost taken literature from them.. has this got any truth to it at all?

  i'd have thought most self-published apostate literature would be photocopied leaflets.. other than the brilliant photoshopped spoof covers people post of course!

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  Elsewhere ... LMFAO! Thanks for the belly laugh, man!
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  Post pics of.....your desk!

  by Xander in

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  yup, we all know you have one.

  it's what you are sitting at right now reading this thread.

  desk your computer sits on.

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  The K6/2 was actually a couple of rebuilds ago. I went from that to a Duron 1100 to the current Athlon 2400+ and 1 GB of RAM in the Frankenputer. I also built Bride of Frankenputer for Mrs. O this past winter, using a 3 GHz P4 and 1 GB of RAM. (Bride of Frankenputer sits on an identical desk on the other side of the office.) Her old Dell was rebuilt & christened Child of Frankenputer, and the kids use it now. For some reason, I stored the old motherboards & processors & other assorted parts in the basement.
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  Post pics of.....your desk!

  by Xander in

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  yup, we all know you have one.

  it's what you are sitting at right now reading this thread.

  desk your computer sits on.

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  For some reason it pains me to get rid of computer equipment even if it's old.

  gimme an address, man ... I'll ship you a dot matrix printer, a 286, a 486-DX, a K-6/2, some 16 MB SIMMS ... how much junk ... umm, er ... how many of these valuable antiques would you like to purchase?
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  Post pics of.....your desk!

  by Xander in

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  yup, we all know you have one.

  it's what you are sitting at right now reading this thread.

  desk your computer sits on.

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  It's a good thing I cleaned my office this weekend!