I will admit that I am not a big fan of much of the music that came out of the counterculture. However, I am a huge fan of The Doors. I find their music to be so far above the other music of that time.
My favorite album of The Doors is L.A. Woman, and my favorite song is Love Her Madly, with The End a very close second.
I would be interested in your thoughts.
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Any Fans of The Doors?
by XJW4EVR ini will admit that i am not a big fan of much of the music that came out of the counterculture.
however, i am a huge fan of the doors.
i find their music to be so far above the other music of that time.
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The Rolling Stones - Your Favorite Songs or Albums from them
by flipper inso, i figured i'd throw another biggie in the music world out there for you to chew on !
the rolling stones - the polar opposite of the beatles but just as good in their " bad boy " image way !
so i look forward to hearing your picks !
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Of the classic rock bands, The Rolling Stones are my second favorite band (The Doors are number one), and my favorite Stones tune is Sympathy for the Devil.
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Why don't I see any pastors or clergy on this forum?
by moshe init just occurred to me that i have never seen a member on jwd who was a minister/priest/rabbi/monk,friar,shamman, etc.
maybe i have just missed their posts and then again, maybe they don't come here for some reason.
i know they must come in contact with jw's and ex-jw's all the time.
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Most pastor's just do not have the time. Regardless of any preconceived notions you may be carrying around from the Watchtower, most of these men are deeply involved with their congregations and the communities that the church they pastor are a part of. Many pastors are involved in food distribution to the less fortunate in their communities. Others are involved in other community agencies and issues. Plus the standard studying and preparation for their weekly sermons. Something that is not very easy when you are not expected to parrot what someone else had already researched for you.
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Super Bowl XLII 2/3/2008 Official prediction / comment thread
by Gopher inso the new york - boston rivalry will now play out in the nfl's 42nd super bowl on february 3, in the game between the new york giants and the new england patriots.. will new england be able to keep its perfect winning record?
they have won every game thrown at them, even a few games where they looked vulnerable (such as against the baltimore ravens and even against the n.y. giants).
will their talent and will to win prevail?.
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I make two picks for the Super Bowl; straight-up winner and ATS winner.
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Favorite Fast Food
by El Kabong ini am jonesing for some white castles!
but, sadly, they are not in this area.
those little burgers with the onions fresh off the grill, oh!!
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Magoo, I completely forgot about Blake's.
Guess I have been in L.A. for far too long. However, I will say that when my parents owned the Burrito Wagon in Taos, that was my favorite fast food. A No. 6 with red chili & extra cheese. Yummy. It was made with shredded brisket. Man the saliva is flowing. -
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Favorite Fast Food
by El Kabong ini am jonesing for some white castles!
but, sadly, they are not in this area.
those little burgers with the onions fresh off the grill, oh!!
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Double Double from In-n-Out
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Darin's Tijuana Mexico JW experience
by Junction-Guy indarin is on a business trip in san diego california.
on monday, he and his friend josh went to tijuana mexico.
he said that was the crudest places he has ever seen.
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JG,
You should thank your lucky stars that they weren't picked up by the local police, driven to an ATM, and robbed...or worse. That sort of thing has been happening at a greater frequency than in the past lately.
From the Jan. 16, 2008 New York Times:
" NOT so long ago, Mexico seemed a reasonably safe place, especially when compared with Latin American societies in the throes of civil war or paramilitary violence. But that's changed. Now virtually every day, terrifying new crimes dramatize the country's public security crisis.
Just in recent weeks, a Vermont artist was knifed to death on a Pacific Coast beach. A kidnapper called a Mexico City newspaper to boast about hacking off the ears of his hostages and to jeer at the authorities' inability to stop him. Military police officers ordered to investigate the disappearance of scores of people in a city on the Texas border were themselves arrested collecting a kidnapping ransom. The State Department has cautioned visiting Americans about the rising crime rates.
Mexican criminologists, sociologists and others are debating what's gone wrong. How did one of the safest countries in the hemisphere become a place where tourists are panicking and millions fear criminal attack whenever they leave home?
Some blame the economy, which for 15 years has seen real wages fall and the breach between rich and poor widen. Some cite sociology, saying that an entire generation of police officers are now using their violent skills as participants in organized crime. Others trace the crisis to the justice system, which is so discredited that most crimes go unreported, fewer are investigated, and only a tiny fraction of the perpetrators are ever punished. Some even blame the growth of democracy, which by stripping Mexico's ruling party of many of its authoritarian powers has also diminished its ability to repress crime.
One thing is common to all these explanations. There is a sense that Mexico's top civilian authorities have lost control of the country's criminals, who now see lucrative opportunities on all sides.
''In practical terms, the Mexican state simply doesn't respond to most crimes,'' said Ernesto Lopez Portillo, co-author of a 1994 study of public security issues. ''The authorities refuse to recognize the severity of the public security crisis, partly because it's so frightening.''
The facts are sobering. Although record-keeping is chaotic, and fear of the police keeps many victims from reporting crimes, government statistics for Mexico City show that reported murders rose by 50 percent from 1990 to 1995 and that robbery incidents have multiplied six-fold in 15 years. Experts estimate that kidnappings in Mexico, once rare, now number at least 1,500 a year.
Rafael Ruiz Harrell, a professor who is one of Mexico's most meticulous crime statisticians, has charted annual figures for all reported crimes since 1930 and concluded: ''There's a clear association between economic crisis and crime.''
For 50 years after 1930, Mexican workers enjoyed an almost uninterrupted rise in their standard of living, and in those years, he says, crime declined with equal constancy, even though Mexican wages remained far below the standard in the United States. But beginning in 1983, the first year after an economic crisis sent wages into free-fall, crime rates took off, and they have yet to level out. In 1995, the year following a disastrous peso devaluation, reported crimes in Mexico surged 35 percent, he said.
''Never before in our history has crime grown this rapidly,'' Mr. Ruiz said. ''The figures speak for themselves.''
Economic determinism has its critics, however, including President Ernesto Zedillo. In an appearance this month in New York, Mr. Zedillo said that attributing street crime to economic factors amounts to blaming the poor. Instead, he said, the problem lies with the ''inefficiency'' of Mexico's crime-fighting institutions.
How do inefficient police and prosecutors translate into more crime? ''Potential criminals act rationally and base their decision to commit a crime on an analysis of costs and benefits,'' said a recent World Bank study of crime in Latin America. Potential criminals, it said, estimate the payoff of a crime, the costs associated with committing it, and the probability of punishment.
Those who apply this calculus in Mexico see that crimes like kidnapping and drug trafficking have proven extremely lucrative in recent years, and punishment is rare.
Career Opportunities
''In Mexico as elsewhere, crime is a career option that competes with others,'' said Mr. Lopez. Many Mexicans are turning to crime because punishment is remote. The criminal justice system is chaotic; the country has had seven attorneys general in nine years, and turnover among lower officials is higher. Given the disorder, Mr. Lopez estimated that of each 100 crimes reported to authorities, only five are investigated.
But Mexico's justice system has never worked efficiently, so why is crime surging now? Until recently, Mr. Lopez said, government officials from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the P.R.I., controlled the criminal class, often favoring one mafia in exchange for kickbacks while suppressing rival groups and never allowing crime to surpass certain bounds. But as the P.R.I. has begun to share power it has lost control of the criminals, he said.
''The old rules no longer apply and new ones haven't emerged,'' he said.
Lucio Mendoza, a former analyst at the national security agency who now runs a research organization, said the authorities have not only lost control but that members of the police are now the main organizers of crime. Starting in the late 1960's, he said, successive presidents gave the police, especially members of an elite corps known as the Federal Security Directorate, license to eliminate accused subversives by whatever means they felt necessary. By the early 1980's guerrillas had been suppressed, and the police turned their extralegal skills to organized crime. ''It was like a cancer that expanded,'' Mr. Mendoza said. ''They went into drugs, car theft, kidnaps, piracy, truck hijackings. This is the cause of the crime rates we see today.''
In a recent newsletter, Mr. Mendoza cited 39 articles published in major Mexican newspapers between May 22 and June 9, each detailing spectacular police criminality. One said Mexico City police officers, using a government computer, were identifying and then threatening citizens who report crime. Another reported the arrest of 11 police officers who were trafficking in migrant workers in the state of Veracruz. Another said a federal agent had organized a prison break in the state of Tamaulipas, which borders Texas.
If the hypotheses put forward to explain the crime surge are tidy, criminality is complex, and what seems to make sense in one place may not in another.
Homicide, for instance, has jumped dramatically in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, cities that are the main border drug corridors; organized crime is clearly at work there. Murder is also rampant in the Mexico City suburbs, where the newly rich are building luxury residences alongside slums. There, some believe that growing economic inequality is the cause, since, as the criminologist Lawrence Sherman of the University of Maryland says, ''Inequality is a major predictor of homicide.''
Some crimes and the investigations of them become so byzantine that they support various hypotheses. One such case was the murder of a senior banking executive, found dead in his car last August. Because his watch was missing, the authorities said he had been killed during a robbery; the economic crisis seemed to blame.
But then, as the case dragged on, new factors seemed to be at play. No arrests were made in this prominent case for 10 months; this demonstrated anew to millions of Mexicans that crime does indeed pay and added weight to the theory that lawlessness is surging because few crimes are punished. Then developments supported those who put police depradations at center stage.
Early this month, the police charged a 28-year-old laborer, Sergio Diaz, with the murder. But then chagrined prosecutors released him, based on his bizarre story. He said the police officers who arrested him had kidnapped him last year, holding him until his family paid a $9,000 ransom. But Mr. Diaz had dared to file kidnapping charges, and several officers were eventually arrested, though quickly released. They set about getting even, and eventually framed him on the murder charges. Prosecutors concluded that Mr. Diaz had nothing to do with the murder. The police have not been punished.
Citizen protests over many similar outrages appear to have gotten the Government's attention. On June 12, Interior Minister Francisco Labastida announced a bigger crime budget.
But critics say anti-crime efforts are still moving slowly. One example: In the mid-1980's, the Government promised to compile a single, computerized file of information on all Mexican police officers, thus helping the authorities to avoid hiring criminals. Three presidencies and nearly 15 years later, the list is still incomplete; now Mr. Zedillo's aides are promising to finish it.
When will the registry be done, an Interior Ministry official was asked.
''I wouldn't want to give a date,'' he said."
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speaking of L Ron Hubbard
by dogisgod inhere's a take on the tom cruise/scientology thing.
tc was married to 2 women and could not concieve.
word was he was shooting blanks.
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The Co$ is everything the WT$ wishes it could be.
Nothing that that psuedo-religion does surprises me.
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The Gift of Speaking in Tongues?
by Maddie inwith the increase in evangelical churches there seems to be a lot more emphasis on the practise of "speaking in tongues".
i quite like the way these churches conduct services, with live music and great singing.
it is so different to the kh meetings and like fresh air.
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My interpretation of your post was based on the tone you wrote in. Your tone came across as sarcastic and condescending.
Onacruse said: So, then, would it be improper for me to anticipate that any "speaking in tongues" would be in Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic?
Yes, you could expect that, however according to Acts 2 the 120 followers of Christ preached the word of God in known languages of the world at that time. The primary purpose of tongues is the promotion of the gospel.
Secondly, you are misunderstanding subjective and objective. It is not the language that the New Testament was written is is what is objective, but the meaning and concepts of the words and terms used in the New Testament that is objective. These words and the concepts that they represent had meaning to the writers and recipients. This is the objectivity of the word that supersedes any word of knowledge or prophecy (whether uttered in tongues or not).
Thirdly, no charismatic or Pentecostal that I am aware of believes that tongues are "inspired." I would refer you to two of the leading Pentecostal theologians, Gordon Fee and Stanley Horton for verify this statement. Also Myer Pearlman, who was a leading Pentecostal theologian in the early to mid 1900s held the same view. This is why any word of prophecy or wisdom as well as interpretations of a tongues manifestation are subject to the New Testament. -
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The Gift of Speaking in Tongues?
by Maddie inwith the increase in evangelical churches there seems to be a lot more emphasis on the practise of "speaking in tongues".
i quite like the way these churches conduct services, with live music and great singing.
it is so different to the kh meetings and like fresh air.
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Yes, the definitive test is the Bible. The reason is that the Bible is objective and the utterance of the tongue is subjective, that is why the utterance is subject to the word.
Second, the "church" does not have a "pre-approved interpretation of the Bible." The Bible is interpreted according to methods that are applied to all works of antiquity (unless you are Greek Orthodox, but that is another topic). Unless the utterances are subject to something that is objective then we Mormonism, JWs, and all the cults. That is why the utterances are subject to the Bible.
Based on your responses you hold the Bible in low esteem, and you are certainly entitled to that view, especially if you came out of the JWs. However, your response is one of the reasons why I do not post on religious issues on this forum.