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  At 5$ a gallon for gas, will you modify your driving habits?

  by JH in

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  http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-gas17.html

  5 bucks a gallon for gas?

  expert sees it in 2006 .

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  Cygnus

  : Around here it's very common for people to live 60-100 miles from the city they actually work in. The city I live in has a population of around 250,000 yet it anchors an area of more than a million. The majority living at least 40 miles from the town they work in.

  Not too dissimilar to the metro Buffalo-Niagara region where I live. Public transportation or carpooling is suggested here all the time just because of pollution. I've cut down on my driving a lot, one 'cause it's tough to drive with hands that don't work, and two, 'cause I have a 1976 Buick Skylark with 58,000 miles on it. Runs great but I just know I'm killing a baby seal every time I turn the ignition key.
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  At 5$ a gallon for gas, will you modify your driving habits?

  by JH in

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  http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-gas17.html

  5 bucks a gallon for gas?

  expert sees it in 2006 .

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  Cygnus

  It is absolutely retarded that by the year 2005 we haven't found a decent way to keep the economists happy and manufacture decent hybrid or fully electric or even hydrogen-based fueled cars. I love a 1972 Monte Carlo big block as much as the next motorhead, but - It's scary, but I'm becoming a lot more liberal in my advanced age. Edited to add: Whenever our family business buys a new truck, it always has a V-8. Not much choice. We'd drive a V-6 into the ground in less than 2 years. Our normal gasoline/fuel bill is about $1300.00 a month, much of it taxes thanks to good old New York State.
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  What Belief or Teaching Do You Think The Watchtower Will Next Abandon?

  by minimus in

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  do you believe the society will just stay on automatic pilot or do you think some "new lite" is in store for witnesses?

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  Cygnus

  I'd love to see women allowed to give #2 and #4 talks. Those fake "talks" they'd give just always seemed so demeaning. If they can comment at the WT study, why can't they talk for 5 minutes from the platform?

  As far as abandoning, I think the precedent has already been set and maybe they will sooner than later say something more to the effect that unbelievers or unbaptised persons that lead moral lives and live in the household of at least one good JW can survive Armageddon.
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  Wonderful Whimsical Sayings Said To You After You Left The Borg...

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  my favorite one was my father's statement to me after i enrolled in college: .

  we can't drag your carcass into armageddon!

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  Cygnus

  It makes me sad to see how you guys were treated - by family, no less. The day I got DF'd my JW mom told me, "Nothing will change, we love you more than ever."

  As I've mentioned before, a certain elder at my judicial hearing said to me, "It'll be a real hardship for your parents not to be able to talk to you." To which I essentially said, If you think they're going to follow that bullshit rule you've got another thing coming.
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  The Fanatics Who Founded America.

  by Englishman in

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  take a peek at an excerpt from this book that is in the course of being written by simon worrall.

  the fanatics who founded america.

  fundamentalist zealots dreaming of a new world order, sexual repression, scary old blokes with beards.

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  Cygnus

  Megadude, I couldn't agree more.

  : In their fundamentalist theocracy pubs would be closed

  I'd rather see their churches burned to the ground.
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  Why did the WTBTS not sue Ray Franz?

  by Gill in

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  if ray franz had been lying in anything he said in both of his books, c of c and in search of christian freedom, surely the wtbts would have sued him.

  why did they take no legal action against him?.

  could it be that this legalistic corportion realised he had lied about nothing?

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  Cygnus

  My own personal tribute to Ray: I used to have a yahoo msg. name, "RayFranzIsGOD"
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  Who here gives to the homeless?

  by JW83 in

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  i'm interested in how many here give to the homeless, or any kind of charity, since that was not a part of the witness experience.

  i have to admit that my heart is hard ...

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  Cygnus

  Nah Talesin, I looked him right in the eye. I guess it's just my nature, but I believe in pleases and thank-yous, and to exceed people's expectations. But I'm not one to allow one letdown affect my outlook.
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  Who here gives to the homeless?

  by JW83 in

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  i'm interested in how many here give to the homeless, or any kind of charity, since that was not a part of the witness experience.

  i have to admit that my heart is hard ...

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  Cygnus

  It depends. In January of 2003 I went to Toronto with a buddy of mine to catch a Sabres/Leafs game. Since we ended up with about ten dollars each of Canadian funny money we gave it to a homeless dude sitting by himself. You shoulda seen his eyes light up and he kept yelling THANK YOU as we walked away. When in downtown Minneanapolis earlier this year I gave a dude a dollar when he just asked for a quarter and when I saw him again about an hour later he looked right through me. Unappreciative bastard. Hopefully I won't be homeless myself by the end of the year.
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  THE LOST ARK--History Channel--tomorrow night (8-20-05)

  by sf in

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  for those interested, be sure to tune in.. skally

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  Cygnus

  My comment had nothing to do with you personally. It was in reference to this History Channel crap program. Quit being so paranoid.
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  THE LOST ARK--History Channel--tomorrow night (8-20-05)

  by sf in

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  for those interested, be sure to tune in.. skally

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  Cygnus

  I'd rather watch the WNBA.