Hey, truthsetonefree, if you're a native New Yorker like me, do "egg creams" ring a bell?
No eggs, no cream. Chocolate syrup, plain milk, seltzer water (not exactly sure of the order).
Back in "thee old nayba-hood" in the Bronx where I was "bawn", there was a fountain shop where my mom and my dad used to get them as kids. My mother took me there when I was about ten, to sit at the counter and soak up the history. Yay!
Some of the older diners here in North Jersey have egg creams on the menu, but I have yet to see someone order one, excepting myself. Growing up JW, we have so few family traditions, and this is one even Jehovah could approve of. ;–)
~Sue
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Ye Olde Soda Fountain
by cameo-d inbefore fast food...there was the soda fountain.
anyone here remember them?.
once in a while on a special saturday, my grandmother would take me to town.
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“This comforting blend begins with eleuthero, an Asian herb popular for centuries because of the sense of calm and well being it imparts.We’ve added cooling peppermint, spicy ginger and tangy lemons to create a remarkably uplifting herbal blend. Bring harmony to your hectic day with a cup of this flavorful and restorative tea.” — Charlie Baden, Celestial Seasonings Blendmaster Since 1975.
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Foxnews today = 13 people have been sole survivors in major Plane crashes...why? Prayer?
by Witness 007 inover the last few decades 13 people have been sole survivors of some horror plane crashes....one was a co-pilot, a toddler, a nine year old who's seat was blown out into a swamp.....a lady who's dinner tray acted as a seat belt.
so.....religious folks, why did jehovah save just one?
does praying help save you?
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French Teen Joins 12 Other Lone Survivors of Major Plane Crashes
Saturday, July 04, 2009
AFP
Bahia Bakari lies in a hospital bed at the El Maaruf Hospital in Moroni, Comoros.Thirteen is a lucky number for Baya Bakari, the 14-year-old girl who survived when a Yemenia Airlines plane crashed into the Indian Ocean Tuesday morning.
Bakari, who returned to France Thursday, is believed to be the world's 13th sole survivor of major plane crash, according to airsafe.com.
Some of the survivors relished the spotlight and used their sudden celebrity status to lobby for political changes, while others shunned the media and tried to live a normal a life as possible. Others disappeared off the media radar, and a handful of others were never publically identified.
1. A 22-year-old flight attendant was the lone survivor on Jan. 27, 1972, when a DC-9 Yugoslav Airlines plane plummeted 33,300 feet into the snow near Hermsdorf, Czechoslovakia, after a bomb on board an hour into the flight. Vesna Vulovic was reportedly in the tail portion of the plane as it fell, and a food tray - acting like a seatbelt - held her against it.
The crash left her temporarily paralyzed and in a coma for 27 days. All 22 passengers and five of the six crew members were killed.
A man said to be a member of a Croatian terrorist group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
Vulovic instantly became a national hero and made the Guinness Book of World Records in 1985 for the highest fall survived without a parachute.
She is a frequent guest on television shows and uses her status to promote political change. In 2008 she campaigned for the Democratic Party of President Boris Tadic, and told the New York Times: "My mission is to prevent Serbia from falling into the same hands that destroyed Serbia in the 1990s."
2. In January of 1985 a Lockheed L-188 Electra 4-engine turboprop plane operated by Galaxy Airlines crashed shortly after takeoff in Reno, Nev., instantly killing all but three of the 71 passengers. Two of them later died, leaving 17-year-old George Lamson Jr. as the lone survivor.
Lamson was reportedly thrown from the aircraft and landed upright, still in his seat.
"I ran away and the plane blew up and it knocked me down," Lamson told Time Magazine shortly after the crash.
According to a National Transportation Safety Board report, the crash was caused by the captain's failure to control and the co-pilot's familure to property monitor the speed of the aircraft and to monitor the flight path.
3. An engine problem that occurred shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, caused a Varig Airlines Boeing 707 to crash 11 miles from the airport on Jan. 3, 1987.
The 12-person crew was killed. At least two of the 39 passengers were pulled from the wreckage alive, but only one survived -- Neuba Tessoh, an Ivory Coast University professor.
The plane reportedly had an unknown problem with the left engine as it departed for Rio de Janeiro, and it crashed into a forest while attempting to return to the airport.
4. Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed on Aug. 16, 1987, leaving 4-year-old Cecelia Cichan as the lone survivor.
The plane had immediate problems during takoeff and hit a light pole near the end of the runway at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Mich. It then hit the roof of a building before slamming into several cars and light poles on a busy highway.
All six crew members and 148 of the passengers were killed, as well as two people on the ground. The NTSB attributed cause to the flight crew's failure to correctly set the flaps for takeoff.
Cecelia's parents and bother were killed in the crash. She was raised by relatives in Alabama, who kept her out of the public spotlight. Cichan reportedly graduated from the University of Alabama in 2006 with a degree in psychology.
5. Annette Herfkens, 31, was the only survivor when the Vietnam Airlines plane she was on crashed into a mountain near Nha Trang on Nov. 14, 1992.
It took eight days for rescue crews to reach the wreckage. By then all six crew members and 24 of the 25 passengers were dead. Some reports say Herfkens told authorities that other survivors died while waiting to be rescued.
6. A charter Avioimpex Yak 42D traveling from Geneva to Skopje crashed into Mount Trojani on Nov. 20, 1993.
Eight crew members died and 115 of the 116 passengers were killed.
7 . Erika Delgado, 9, survived the mid-air explosion of an Intercontinental Airlines DC-9 in March 17, 1995, near Cartegena, Colombia. She was reportedly thrown from the plane as it was making an emergency landing, and was found in a swamp by a farmer.
Five crew members and 46 passengers were killed in the crash.
8. In September of 1997 a Vietnam Airlines Tu-134B crashed a half mile short of the runway in Ho Chi Minh City as it was landing in heavy rain.
A toddler was the only survivor. The crew of six, along with 59 of the passengers were killed.
9. A chartered plane from Tajikistan to Sharja crashed in the United Arab Emirates on Dec. 15, 1997, killing eight of the nine crew members and all 77 passengers.
The Tajikistan Airlines Tupolev 154B went off the radar right before it crashed. An explosion reportedly followed.
A man and a woman survived the impact, but the woman died at a local hospital. Sergei Petrov, 37, the co-pilot, was the only survivor.
10. One person survived a March 2003 Air Algerie plane crash in Tamanrasset, Algeria, that killed 97 passengers and six crew members.
One of the Boeing 737-200 plane's engines reported caught fire during takeoff.
Most reports identify the survivor as an Algerian soldier on his way back to his barracks, but a handful say the survivor was a crew member.
11. Mohammed el-Fateh Osman, 3, was the lone survivor in July 2003 when a Sudan Airways plane crashed into a hillside near the Port of Sudan while trying to make an emergency landing.
The boy lost his right leg and suffered burns in the 737-200C crash, which occurred shortly after takeoff and killed 105 passengers and all 11 crew members.
12. In August 2006, Comair Flight 191, operating as Delta Connection Flight 5191, crashed just past the end of the runway at Blue Grass Airport in Kentucky, killing everyone but First Officer James M. Polehimke.
The commuter jet was cleared to take off from one runway, but departed from a shorter one, causing the plane to overrun it before it could become airborne.
All 47 passengers and 2 crew members were killed.
Polehimke suffered multiple broken bones, severe bleeding and a collapsed lung. His left leg was amputated.
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Most Detested WT Publication
by Nosferatu inwhat is the wt publication you hated the most (i mean besides all of them?).
mine was that faggy pink "listening to the great teacher" book.
my mother tried to teach both me and the neighbor's worldly kid lessons from that book, and you know how embarrasing it is for a boy to be put straight by a pink book?.
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The blue book, that hooked my mother in.... The Truth that Leads to Everlasting Life.
Yes, we probably would have been a violent and dysfunctional alcoholic family anyway.
Being Jehovah's Witness added a shiny veneer over the madness.
I was baptized Roman Catholic, BTW. Just before the Witnesses knocked.
The Watchtower cult was all we kids ever knew. Estranged from normal Catholic relatives pretty much since diaper-hood.
All due to a knock on the door, and a blue covered book... My family unit is still reeling, and still healing, from its effects.
~Sue
P.S.: Paradise Lost / Regained was the first "children's" book available to us. Effing nighmares galore.
Pink Listening to the Great Teacher later, when we had been "ripened for the Truth", around 6 or 7 yrs. old.You never forget the pictures.
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It's not OK to blast music in your driveway if you are in a neighborhood.
by restrangled injuly 4th is ramping up....several neighbors feel its ok to blast their radios.
by blast, i mean i can hear the music from a block over.
i have rock coming from the back of my house, spanish music coming from either side of me, and christian rock filling in front.
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Kingdom Melodies.
Cranked up to 11.
j/k
~Sue
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A "My Book of Bible Stories" tale that I've always hated
by JimmyPage ini've always hated story #53: "jepthah's promise".
i always felt sorry for the daughter who had to spend the rest of her days at the tabernacle because her father made a numb-nuts promise to god.
who did he think he was, making promises for other people?
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Judges 11
30 Then Jeph´thah made a vow to Jehovah and said: “If you without fail give the sons of Am´mon into my hand,
31 it must also occur that the one coming out, who comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Am´mon,
must also become Jehovah’s, and I must offer that one up as a burnt offering . ”
39 And it came about at the end of two months that she made her return to her father, after which he carried out his vow that he had made toward her. -
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Hello my name is Olga
by JimmyPage inhello my name is olga.
i first learned the truth from c.t.
russell.
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cameo, you're scaring the living you-know-what outta me.
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Hello my name is Olga
by JimmyPage inhello my name is olga.
i first learned the truth from c.t.
russell.
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Welcome, Sister Olga!
See, all you Opposers, how Jehovah lovingly cares for his 19th century colporteurs?You of little faith, maybe he'll do similar for Michael Jackson in the New System of Things! *
~Sue
* resurrect him as a creepy old white lady. Oh wait...
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Question for JW Lurkers: Did Jesus Pray Using the Name "Jehovah"?
by cabasilas ina listing of prayers by jesus in the new testament can be found at this site:.
http://www.praylikethis.org.uk/theprayersofjesus.html.
(i can't say that the list is exhaustive, but i think it is at least representative.).
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Since Jesus did not utter "Jehovah" when referring to God's "name," doesn't it make more sense that Jesus is referring to God's character, authority or reputation?
Yes. Jesus always spoke of the Father, NEVER the bloodthirsty Hebrew war diety YHWH / Jehovah. His "name" means the Father's reputation. Period.
This is why the "God is love" concept can never fit with YHWH / Jehovah "god" of the Hebrews, no matter how much Christians try to conflate or superimpose characters.
Jesus rejected that ancient hateful diety, as well as his contemporary Jews, especially the Pharisees and their spiritual slaves, who worshipped and were bound to YHWH.
YHWH was never the same as the Father. Jesus rejected YHWH worship, rebelled against the YHWH worshippers, and for that he was put to death.
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Maps of War: History of Religion
by betterdaze inhow has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars?
map gives us a brief history of the world's most well-known religions: christianity, islam, hinduism, .
buddhism, and judaism.
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