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  Before You Actually Stopped Meetings, How Many HATED Being There?

  by minimus in

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  when i listen to anything at the meetings, it is with a critical eye.

  i really can't stand going, especially today.

  did you feel that the meetings were grating and extremely irritating, just before you stopped going altogether?

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  berten

  I was soo bored with them that I sneaked away during the meetings to go play

  videogames in a local arcade,and sneak back just in time for the closing song & prayer...
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  How old was you when you learned to drive?

  by Brummie in

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  i've never passed my test, never needed to because i lived near the city and could get from a to b at the drop of a hat.

  now living in a village it almost impossible to get anywhere so i am about to start taking lessons, at 39 i'm embarrassed and am dreading starting lessons.

  what a wus huh.

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  I was 21 when I learned to drive and just because my family insisted on it so that I could work in

  the familybusiness.I failed two times on the tests,third time I succeeded in getting that dreaded licence...
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  Cheap airfairs??? you've got to be kidding

  by VeniceIT in

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  a friend sent me this link and i'm befuddled .

  http://www.ryanair.com/index.html.

  what on earth???

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  Ryanair is able to offer such low prices because they only fly the planes,and do not worry one bit about the infrastructure:
  The ticketing,the offices,connections to and from the airports etc,all this has to be taken care of by those who want
  to have Ryanair landing on their airports.

  Also the names of the airports that Ryanair uses are somewhat misleading,
  Example:Oostende/Brugge,Ryanair wanted to rename Ostend airport to Bruges airport to attract more people,but
  Oostende is 30 Km away from Brugge so it has nothing to do with that city.

  The Ostend airport authorities protested against this name change and reached a compromise:Ostend/Bruges airport.
  
  Same for Brussels South:There is no Brussels south,there is Charleroi which is around 40Km away from Brussels.
  Same for London/Stansted,Stansted is about 45Minutes by train from London.
  Ryanair uses these airports because of better conditions (Taxes) than the main and larger ones...
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  The Celestine Prophecy.... by James Redfield your views?

  by anti-absolutist in

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  i am just about to start the last chapter of this book, and i thought i would ask the question, then see the responses after i have finished it.. who has read it?

  (without giving away too much to those who may still read it).

  brad (p.s.

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  berten

  It's not bad,but a bit simplistic.

  I prefer the books by Robert Anton Wilson,Barbara Hand Clow,Barbara Marciniak,and David Icke.

  But since the Celestine Prophecy is a work of fiction,I would like to recommend another work of fiction

  Which IMO is a much better read:"The Oversoul Seven Trilogy" by Jane Roberts...
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  Test Your Libido

  by JH in

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  http://www.queendom.com/tests/minitests/fx/libido.html

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  berten

  I got 35
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  Whats the best internet music file sharing thingy....?

  by ScoobySnax in

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  have been using morpheus for a couple of years now, and hasn't been too bad at all, got about 400 tracks download.

  since gettiing aol broadband, the diversity seems to have diminished a bit, either i'm on the wrong dsl provider or morpheus isn't as good as it used to be.

  the one i was on previous (can't remember the name now) went totally pearshaped after it got served a writ for using copyrighted material.....anyway, know of any other good music file sharing sites?

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  Here's an interesting essay on copyright for those who swear by it:

  http://www.logosfoundation.org/copyleft/copyrigh.html

  http://www.logosfoundation.org/copyleft/public_domain_composers.html
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  Witness Cruises

  by undercover in

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  another post on another thread about a witness cruise got me to thinking about when the dubs would block whole sections of cabins on cruise ships and have "witness cruises".

  i never went on one myself, but i knew a few that did.

  i heard some pretty sordid stories.

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  Talking about Traveling Witnesses,does anyone remember that in the late 1970's the WTS organized a week-long

  trip through Israel? Or was this a local affair? (Belgium).Quite a few airplanes where chartered for this trip from

  Brussels to Tel-Aviv,was this the same in other countries?Can anyone recall this?
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  JW's in the cinema

  by berten in

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  there is this funny anecdote i remember from my jw days that i would like to tell:.

  in the mid seventies there was a french movie released over here about .

  the story of david & goliath,and some jw's of our congregation wanted to see it.. now this movie of which i forgot the title was nothing special but as is usual .

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  There is this funny anecdote I remember from my JW days that I would like to tell:
  
  In the mid seventies there was a French movie released over here about
  the story of David & Goliath,and some JW's of our congregation wanted to see it.
  Now this movie of which I forgot the title was nothing special but as is usual
  in cinemas some trailers of future releases are shown before the main movie.
  One of these trailers happened to be one for a porn-movie,(It was for one of
  those Tiroler soft porn movies which were very popular in the seventies.)
  So before the dubs could watch their bible movie they had to sit this one out
  or leave the theatre.
  Some JW's had already been to a previous showing and I can clearly remember that
  this was talked about alot at that time,and a friend of mine clearly did *not*
  walk out as he was able to recount in detail what was being shown in the
  trailer or preview.
  Maybe it was too cold outside the theatre,but I suspect many JW's chose to watch,
  I know I did :-)
  Anyone else who has stories about JW's in the cinema?
  
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  Add Singles Topic

  by Francois in

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  should we ask simon to put a singles page on here?

  like: "male seeks female with boat and motor.

  must be able to clean and cook fish and remember to keep refrigerator stocked with beer at all times.

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  Not a bad idea...
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  Apart form the JW's, has any other cult ever tried to recruit you?

  by In_between_days in

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  what are your experiences in being a target for fresh meat in a cult?

  have any other cult members besides dubs ever tried to recruit you?

  i was sucked in once, while i was working at my store that i managed years ago a middle aged man in a suit bought an outfit from me.

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  Gita on Osho:

  >...I don't know. He might be, I guess.

  Yes he is dead but it does not seem to make any difference to his followers;I heard that they still set up his empty chair in his commune in India and just enjoy the silence instead of his talks...