Posts by done4good

With the right equipment, (and if you have the patience for vinyl care), it is still a better sounding format. By "right", I specifically mean a $500 or better direct drive table with a good cartridge (better than $100),and phono "preamp", (this can get expensive for a good one these days). You could spend a hell of a lot more than that, but it the laws of diminishing returns tends to kick in around $2000. See the link below.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/16/ces.luxury.turntable/index.html

Some of the more "valuable" LPs in my collection:

Introducing the Beatles

The White Album, (with orginal poster).

ELO Live at Long Beach, (an early live recording of the band).

Sgt Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band (with run on groove after "A Day In the Life"

A really good ANALOG remaster of Queen's A Day At The Races.

Stereo copy of Surrealistic Pillow by the Airplane.

About 1000 other less valuable, but awsome records!

j

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Do you collect vinyl records?

by JimmyPage in

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what treasures are in your collection?

what album artwork do you like, inside and out, on the sleeves, and in the booklets?.

done4good

Big Time!

Everything on my best albums list thread that Flip started, and about 1000 others.

I ONLY play Vinyl at home.

j

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Jehovah's Witnesses and their Elders

by AllTimeJeff in

i wonder if the governing body (gb) knows the trouble the whole thing started..... to be sure, when the gb put into effect that all congregations of jehovah's witnesses were to have a body of elders that is in existence today, their goal was to meet their own ends.

under a sub heading "gearing up for explosive growth" in their history book "jehovah's witnesses - proclaimers of god's kingdom" they stated..... ***.

jehovahs servants were determined to continue to yield to divine direction.

done4good

The Verona situation was a far cry from what was discussed with Perth above, but here is what happened:

1. PO and two of his cronies removed. Only three elders remained from the orginal BOE. All "company men".

2. Bethel Elders brought in.

3. PO's clique in cong now severly splintered.

Some thought this was the best thing that could happen, other felt the cong was never the same. I personally felt this cong always sucked.

j

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Jehovah's Witnesses and their Elders

by AllTimeJeff in

i wonder if the governing body (gb) knows the trouble the whole thing started..... to be sure, when the gb put into effect that all congregations of jehovah's witnesses were to have a body of elders that is in existence today, their goal was to meet their own ends.

under a sub heading "gearing up for explosive growth" in their history book "jehovah's witnesses - proclaimers of god's kingdom" they stated..... ***.

jehovahs servants were determined to continue to yield to divine direction.

done4good

"verona, NJ in the ealy 90's was sent special bethel people to cleanse it from materialism"

I was there. I remember 'ol Skip and Hop very well!

j

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Sin

by AllTimeJeff in

the subject of sin is one that is at the core of judeo/christian thought.

jw's and ex jw's alike deal with many levels of guilt that is associated with believing that certain actions and thoughts are "sinful" or offensive to god.. jw's define sin as "a missing of the mark...... god himself sets the mark..... missing that mark is sin.

sin is anything not in harmony with god's personality, standards, ways and will.

done4good

Great thread. I, myself have come to the same conclusion. Sin is little more than a definition of "badness" or "evil" within a religious context, and most certainly is used as a control mechanism.

We learn what real "good" and "bad" is through social development. I believe this is the very reason we all have left the jws, to begin with. We saw through the thinly disguised definitions of sin, as the control mechanism that it is. The greater good was almost never accomplished because of this human definition. Eventually, we figured out the the definition of "sin" that we were taught to believe and real principles of good and bad were not in fact, the same thing.

j

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Witness Wife Seeks Divorce Because JW Husband Hits Her & Mentally Abuses

by minimus in

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so she went into the refuge of her elder grandfather who has taken care of her and the 2 kids.

but the other elders told him that because she was getting an unscriptural divorce and the husband was in denial about being abusive, he had to kick her and the grand kids out or else lose his eldership.

(he has taught elder's school and is highly regarded).. so grandpa gave them the news that they have to get out!

done4good

"The above is what the rules are with one exception: A person's OWN fornication is not grounds for Scriptural divorce as per the WT. This is to close a loophole that would allow anyone to go have sex to get out of a marriage easily. Of course this tends to get communicated verbally at CO meetings with elders and KM schools since no Scripture explicitly states this."

As far as I know, that is incorrect, (unless something changed in the last four years). I know of many who used that exact loophole.

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Forbidden fields of higher education for JW?

by Shazard in

which are they?

besides christian theology?

which fields are higly not reccomended for jws?

done4good

Daniel basically has it right. Anything non-vocational is typically what is discouraged, even if they don't explain it that plainly. It's not the career, (or the matieral wealth that may come from it), it's what you learn during those years of higher-ed that concerns them. In my case, I didn't leave the WTS right after college, but it certainly was a contributing factor in "waking me up". I left about 10 years later.

j

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Your All-Time Favorite Record/CD Albums by Musicians - Any Category ?

by flipper in

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was looking through my collection and thought it would be cool to see what some of our favorite record albums of all-time are ?!

i like a variety of music - mostly rock n' roll, blues , reggae, and jazz but look forward to seeing some of your favorites !

here are my top 10 approximately .

done4good

21. Selling England By the Pound-Genesis

22. A Trick of the Tail-Genesis

23. Throwing Copper-Live (Thanks FHN, I forgot that one).

24. Duke-Genesis

25. White Album-Beatles

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Your All-Time Favorite Record/CD Albums by Musicians - Any Category ?

by flipper in

jw
friends

was looking through my collection and thought it would be cool to see what some of our favorite record albums of all-time are ?!

i like a variety of music - mostly rock n' roll, blues , reggae, and jazz but look forward to seeing some of your favorites !

here are my top 10 approximately .

done4good

No particular order, but these would be on my list:

1. Making Movies -Dire Straights

2. OK Computer-Radiohead.

3. Physical Graffiti-Led Zeppelin

4. Nevermind-Nirvana

5. Out of Time-REM

6. Chicago Transit Authority

7. Chicago II

8. American Idiot-Green Day

9. Countdown To Ecstasy-Steely Dan

10. Ziggy Stardust-Bowie

11. Katy Lied-Steely Dan

12. Can't Buy a Thrill-Steely Dan

13. Out of The Blue-ELO

14. Harvest-Neil Young

15. Talking Heads 77

16. My Aim Is True-Elvis Costello

17. Face The Music-ELO

18. Axis Bold As Love-Jimi Hendrix

19. Running on Empty-Jackson Browne

20. London Calling-The Clash