Posts by streets76

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Favorite Instrumental Songs

by Nosferatu in

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just finished listening to "last date" by floyd cramer.

what a great tune!

i also love music box dancer and pretty much anything by the ventures.

streets76

"Theme From Boat Weirdos" by Joe Walsh (on the 1978 LP "But Seriously Folks...").

[IMHO, Joe is the second coolest guy around.]

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SC Governor and Men in general

by Wordlygirl in

this is a question for the guys on this board.

i have seen and read so many cases where very succesful men throw their careers, relationships and reputations away over a bit of booty.

is there some tipping point in a males setup that causes the lower head to completely overrule any and all of the directions from the upper one?

streets76

Evolution explains everything -- everything!

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Did you think adults were more mature when you were a kid?

by Wordlygirl in

i am 25 years old now and work in a manufacturing and distribution facility.

when i was a kid, i always thought adults acted "old" and were usually wakled the straight and narrrow line.

but now that i have been in the workplace for a few years, i am shocked at how "high school" things still are.

streets76

That's one of the shocks of growing up -- realizing that everyone is just winging it and always has been.

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thinking of writing a book this summer

by John Doe in

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after brainstorming a couple hours, i'm thinking of writing a book about a man with a wife and two kids.

wife and possibly two kids get into accident and become permanently disabled, wife braindead.

man, who's had a crush on wife's friend, becomes torn between being faithful to his wife and moving on with her friend, and the book centers on his search for answers that are not there.

streets76

John, get yourself a copy of this book:

Structuring Your Novel: From Basic Idea to Finished Manuscript

by Robert C. Meredith and John D. Fitzgerald

Check it out on amazon. It helped me with my novel.

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Are You Surprised That Some "Intelligent" People Still Are Witnesses?

by minimus in

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i know some very sharp men and women that remain as jws and that perplexes me at times.

i even know of a jw whose daughter got molested by her jw ministerial servant uncle and she still believes this is the "truth", even though she took her family member to court and won!.

i don't get it..

streets76

I'm not very smart, and nothing exists in a vacuum.

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Atheists - Please answer this

by Nellie in

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i guess i lean more towards an agnostic point of view; though if asked, i will still identify myself as a christian.

why, i'm not really sure if i'm honest with myself.

it all boils down to how i feel about the earth and all of the inhabitants thereon.

streets76

If there has to be a creator, then it also follows that the creator has to have a creator. Don't you see where that logic leads you?

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good analogy

by jam in

iam sure many of you here have heard this comment when you were a jw..is this a good analogy to prove.

creationism?

if you have a automobile that have not been assemble how long will it take without any.

Jehovah's Witnesses and their American roots

by drew sagan in

i've thought of this for quite some time but have never posted anything about it.. .

for many of us who bought into the watchtowers ideals of a "restored christianity" the thought would never have crossed our mind that the movement was anything but nothing but just that.

even after a person leaves it still may be hard to get beyond these clouded ideas and see that many of the origins of the movement and essentially american in nature.. .

I read a good book a number of years ago called (I think) The American Religion, by (I think) Harold Bloom. There was a great section about JWs (and a good one about Mormons, too). I would highly recommend it.

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