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  What Do You Like to Collect

  by Kenneson in

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  over the years i have had several collections, ranging from louisiana bottles, (this collection was stolen); books relating to la.

  which i donated to a library; books by or about jws, which i gave to another library; a stamp collection, which is at my sister's house.

  my florida related stamps are now on exhibit at the state library of florida.

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  Meteorites. I've even done trades with the Smithsonian and own of the most comprehensive collections of stony meteorites in the world.
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  Stupid drunk drivers......

  by Jesus Christ in

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  my house is at the end of a fairly busy street that dead ends in our front yard and then takes up again a few houses down.

  i was trying to set up some email stuff for a client tonight around 10:30 when i heard some police sirens.

  i stood up and looked out my window to see a pair of headlights quickly coming towards my house with the police behind them.

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  My house is at the end of a fairly busy street that dead ends in our front yard and then takes up again a few houses down. I was trying to set up some email stuff for a client tonight around 10:30 when I heard some police sirens. I stood up and looked out my window to see a pair of headlights quickly coming towards my house with the police behind them. Luckily we didn't have the Saturn parked in front of the house tonight because we parked in the driveway after going to the store to get some water for Fluffy (my pet fish) about an hour earlier. That was good because the person who was being chased by the police didn't bother slowing when she tried to turn. For a while tonight there was a late 80's sedan parked in my front yard and there are still tire tracks left. Once she got stuck she realized there was nothing left to do and gave up. The police arrested her, got the car out of my front yard, and left. Just kind of freaky and scared the crap out of me because the entire time we've lived here having a car hit our house has always been a big fear of mine.

  Now, if you'll pardon me, I have to go change my underwear.
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  I voted today for the first time

  by Gopher in

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  yes -- i shared in the mid-term american elections.

  and my polling place was a big old lutheran church -- yes, right there where babylon the great plays the whore to the politicians!!

  lol .

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  I just got back from voting for the first time as well. Most of it was just local except for congressman. Just about all my votes were just democrats except for the congressman because even though the republican is scary, he's less frightening than the democrat.
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  My First Rock Concert....

  by TheSurvivor in

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  now in my 40's i went to my first and most probably last rock concert last night.

  i took the wife and kids (if you can still call them that with the youngest taller than me) to see the "motor city madman....ted nugent.

  i guess that i am just not the rock and roll type.

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  The nightclub shows are usually the best, unless it's somebody like U2.

  The bigger the U2 show the better. I didn't get to see them on their Zoo TV tour but saw them once on the Pop Mart tour when they were playing huge football stadiums (as in around 40,000-60,000 people) and twice on the last tour. The last one was in mid sized arenas (~20,000 people) where basketball teams usually play. They had a basic stage and heart shaped walkway with around 300 people in the middle of it (I was in the middle twice, Lexington and St. Louis). It was kind of neat in that they were more into the music and that's about it. The Pop Mart tour you really felt like you got every dollar worth of your ticket though. I paid more for that concert but would gladly do it again. They had the biggest video screen in the world at the time, a huge lemmon shaped disco ball that they came out of for the encore, a long walk way out into the audience, and more lights and other effects than I've ever seen in my life. A lot of people made fun of all the excesses of that tour but even though I absolutely love U2 and their music they put on a just unbelievable show/experience if you accept is that and not just a concert. I may have had more fun at other concerts but never have I been as impressed as I was with what I saw that night, especially since I was only about 30 feet from the center of the stage and in the middle of the floor. It was just any amazing experience.

  Oh yeah, just to make things even better, I met my wife that night too! I really should have just bought a lottery ticket that night because I would have won and that's the only thing that could have made the whole experience even better.
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  Condemned halls are fun.

  by Pepper in

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  i atended a condemned kingdom hall for a long time as a child, it looked like a shack where you would raise chickens.. i was condemned at lest four times that i know of for being so unsightly in the area.

  the elders at the time would say we will have a weed digging gathering saturday can the sisters bring some food, and refreshments, so i remember going and one or two old brothers would show up and pull about fifteen weeds and go home.

  what a joke, to grow up with.

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  Hey, what can I say? I just happen to enjoy the newer magazines than the old ones! I don't even mind reading the back issues that are available now.
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  what to tell mommy

  by madison149 in

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  for any of you that faded away from jws without getting df'd or da'd, what excuse did you give your close (jw) family members for why you stopped attending meetings?

  did you let on that you were having doubts about the organization, did you pretend to be just really spiritually weak, or were you just very vague, saying you were really busy or having heath problems, etc?

  i ask because my mom is forever on my case about attending meetings.

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  Be careful what you say to your mother. A guy who I used to be good friends with and his wife expressed some doubts to his mother-in-law about the authenticity of the bible after they had started to do the fade bit. Next thing they knew elders were staking out their house to talk to them and they ended up getting DF'd for apostacy. His wife's mother then maintained the good little JW mommy position and promptly shunner her own daughter. Her brother told his small children that they couldn't see aunt Amy anymore because she doesn't love Jehovah anymore. All this because she expressed doubt about the authenticity of the bible.

  How did it all turn out?

  Wife bloomed like a flower after getting disfellowshipped. She already had a good job (massage therapist making pretty good money) and she started going to college on the side in hopes of getting an even better one than she had doing enviromental work. Her dad never was a JW and didn't really like them, now likes them even less. She's still in the same position with her brother and his kids but is much closer to her non-JW siblings than ever before. I haven't talked to her in a long time but expect only great things of her and what she's become.

  Husband didn't do so well. He had a good job as a computer tech and actually got me into it and taught me a lot about it before this all started. With all the stress he couldn't perform very well at work and lost his job. Still wanting to work but not wanting anything stressful he took up delivering pizzas and getting high with co-workers after work. Last I heard he's now living with another former JW who delivers pizzas at the same place and shares the same dealers as my old friend. Instead of going to college or doing anything else to make something of their lives they're probably still making vague plans to be musicians playing their own version of rock music. I haven't talked to him since this summer because I just got tired of always being put off so he could go get high, including when we were supposed to go to a concert in another city (which is one of the few things in life I truly enjoy) and I had already bought my non-refundable ticket. Sorry, still just really bitter about that.
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  My First Rock Concert....

  by TheSurvivor in

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  now in my 40's i went to my first and most probably last rock concert last night.

  i took the wife and kids (if you can still call them that with the youngest taller than me) to see the "motor city madman....ted nugent.

  i guess that i am just not the rock and roll type.

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  I've been to more concerts than I can count. Country, rock, rap, classical, I've been to them. Most all of them have been really great experiences and its very rare that I've had any problems with anythere. The only time I've even come close to having problems with anyone was at a 18+ Everclear show in Louisville, KY when some high school kids snuck in and were acting like they owned the place but that didn't last long and it was still one of the most enjoyable concerts I've ever been to.

  As for who some of the absolute best artists I've ever seen - Everclear (2 times and backstage 1), Smashing Pumpkins (4 times and backstage 1), U2 (3 times and met Bono before 1), Weird Al Yankovic (1 time and I've never laughed so hard in my life, backstage after the show he was really nice) and front row at a Pearl Jam concert (2 times, only one was front row, the other was 10th).

  Honorable mention goes to KISS and Elton John. I don't really like their music that much but I do have to hand it to them that they really know how to work the crowd and put on a good show.

  Absolute worst was Nelly. The stage was pathetic, I've been to country concerts with more bass, and all it the entire was was Karoke night with the original singer doing the songs. Even though I didn't pay to go to that concert I still felt ripped off because I'll never be able to get my time back that I wasted there. Just for the record, I do like his songs that you hear on the radio but seeing him live was horrible.

  Dishonorable mention goes to Tim McGraw. Decent show and everything but the night I saw him the sound was horrible. If it weren't for that it would have been a decent show.
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  ? for Nancee Park

  by Rado Vleugel in

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  you posted that the watchtower closed down the jahchristian website.

  my question is: do you really believe that the watchtower is behind this shutting down?

  or is this just sensationalism or a form of persecution mania?.

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  I just noticed something else, why do you have your email blocked Nancee? Myself, its just so I won't get any more SPAM or put on any mailing lists. Why is yours blocked? What's the matter? Don't you want to get email that you never asked to start receiving in the first place? Rather annoying getting put on mailing lists when you don't want to be (even though you do have the option to get off of them) isn't it?
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  ? for Nancee Park

  by Rado Vleugel in

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  you posted that the watchtower closed down the jahchristian website.

  my question is: do you really believe that the watchtower is behind this shutting down?

  or is this just sensationalism or a form of persecution mania?.

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  No one was one the list who could not simply click a drop link and be dropped. Those who said to the contrary never read the invitation they got. In the invitation it said they only had to click that they were not interested.

  Do you have any idea how many pieces of mail I get a day offering me herbal Viagra, refinancing on a house I don't own, offers for great insurance rates, ways to lose weight, chances to see naked women doing naughty things with horses, and other insane offers every single day?!?!?! I'm not alone in this either. Coming from someone who runs a Yahoo! group that adds members when they join a club I know it says to be very careful about adding members who don't wish to be added. You are using their service to SPAM people. Sure, you provide a way out for people but so do all the SPAM messages almost everyone on the net gets everyday. Now along with all the various other reasons why I get SPAM now I'm getting it from people who are doing it for psuedo religous reasons. The WTBTS didn't need to do anything to get your idiotic little list shut down because you do all the work for them, especially when you cross post your bile to other lists who couldn't possibly care less about what some minor fundamentalist cult is doing.

  Shit, how do we know you're not a WT mole? What better way to make your opposition look like idiots than having something like this go on? Go on and talk all about how the WT is putting me on here to make them look good but is there really anything I could possibly do to make apostate look any more silly than say I'm an apostate, SPAM people with anti-JW stuff so it would only piss them off, and then when I get shut down for not following the TOS I agreed to when I opened the account go on and on about some conspiracy theory. That seems like a pretty good idea to discredit all apostates to me and the JW's would be a fool not to take notes on how to attempt to make apostates out to be raving loons.

  edited for formatting

  Edited by - Jesus Christ on 5 November 2002 13:47:33
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  Life on other planets?

  by freedom96 in

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  as jw's, we were taught that there is no way that there is life anywhere but here on earth.. i personally never bought into that completely.

  there are billions and billions of solar systems out there.

  i do believe that absolutely there is life on other planets.

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  Yeah, dad and I made life on many planets out there and I'm suprised you haven't taken the contacts more seriously. On the other hand, most of the people that visit earth are just teenagers looking for fun in their parents IFO (identified flying objects, what, you don't think they know what they're flying?) by going and doing strange things to cows and backwoods rednecks.

  Seriously though, do some research on life on Mars. Not just the ALH84001 meteorite but Nakhla and Shergotty meteorites as well. There's the proof that simple life exists elsehwere in your own solar system.