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  Dueling Guitars: Steve Vai and Ralph Macchio

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, lovers of both the sacred and the profane!.

  i posted on the gilead song thread, where a tune of unimpeachable wholesomeness was wafting through the fetid air of my chamber.

  if you can get through the annoying vehicle ad, the famous scene from the film crossroads will turn you off forever to saccharine, gagacious music.. happy listening .

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  Thanks much, JK! Will give it a listen.

  It was the the mock virtuoso but tepid guitar playing (which sent the fake audience into raptures) of the "brother" that, strangely, made me recall Crossroads.
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  Difficult to internalize that all the connections are gone

  by truthseeker in

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  i was in my old stomping ground a couple of months ago and happened to be walking past the home of an old family friend.

  word is in the hall that i used to go to is that "i am one of them" meaning apostate.

  no one from my old hall has contacted me to find out what happened.

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  I started reaching out to my mom JW family and it has been great getting to know them after all this time. -- truthseeker

  What's ironic, truthseeker, is that for many of us the non-JW family welcomes us back, and this despite many years with little or no contact. Apart from the typical dysfunction of any family, the unreasonable control over your associates as a JW just doesn't exist in "normal" families.
  

  Continue reaching out. Family matters, even if it's long-lost or "new" family.
  
  
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  Dueling Guitars: Steve Vai and Ralph Macchio

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  greetings, lovers of both the sacred and the profane!.

  i posted on the gilead song thread, where a tune of unimpeachable wholesomeness was wafting through the fetid air of my chamber.

  if you can get through the annoying vehicle ad, the famous scene from the film crossroads will turn you off forever to saccharine, gagacious music.. happy listening .

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  Greetings, lovers of both the sacred and the profane!

  I posted on the Gilead song thread, where a tune of unimpeachable wholesomeness was wafting through the fetid air of my chamber. If you can get through the annoying vehicle ad, the famous scene from the film Crossroads will turn you off forever to saccharine, gagacious music.

  Happy listening . . .

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqdL36VKbMQ
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  143rd Gilead Graduates cRiNGeWoRThY Song

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. humour

  quite possibly the most cringeworthy thing i've seen them do yet.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tk88rstv6o.

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  I desperately want to put up the dueling guitars of Ralph Macchio and Steve Vai -- Crossroads -- but I would be highjacking this thread, as well as profaning the sacred with ol' Scratch, who has no place here . . .

  Or, does he?
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  Pull the Plug Already...

  by megaboy in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  after reading and seeing so many detailings of the dealings with people in this religion, i have to wonder how to get people who are just extremely asleep.

  reasoning doesn't seem like it works, there needs to be some kind of plug pull event, like the leaders doing something so uterly stupid that it causes the immediate downfall of the entire religion.

  but because i am naturally curious i want to know from people who have more experience with jw structure why they seem to have a resistance to an event like this?

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  As to the original meaning of "cult":

  The term "cult" first appeared in English in 1617, derived from the French culte, meaning "worship" which in turn originated from the Latin word cultus meaning "care, cultivation, worship". The meaning "devotion to a person or thing" is from 1829. Starting about 1920, "cult" acquired an additional six or more positive and negative definitions. [bold added]

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_(religious_practice)
  
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  JW's Dancing at a Special Convention in Indonesia

  by disfellowshipped1 in

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  2. friends

  video: jw's dance at the jakarta, indonesia special convention.

  things have really changed over there in jw land...... holding up phones like lighters now?.

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  I could not access link w/o signing up,
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  Need to know the source of a piece of information

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  i am translating the article of the "last days" in jwfacts.. there is a statement i cannot verify.. between 310 and 312 a.d. plague killed up to 99% of people in the northwestern provinces of china.. it seems to have come from the following book:.

  end time visions: the road to armageddon.i cannot read that book, it seems to be on scribd, but i can´t download it.. https://www.scribd.com/document/287995996/armageddon.

  could someone find that piece of information in the book and let me know in what source i can confirm the information?i cannot find anywhere that states such a thing....

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  The Black Death is usually associated with Europe and the period 1346-1350 but it neither began nor ended then. The earliest records of this pestilence are in China. In 46 AD an epidemic in Mongolia killed two-thirds of the population. In 312 northern and central China became a wasteland and in the province of Shensi, only one or two out of 100 taxpayers survived. In 468, 140,000 people died in the Chinese cities of Honan, Hopei, Shantung and others. During the next 900 years this pestilence traveled slowly throughout China and the Middle East though major outbreaks were not common.

  Bibliography

  The New Encyclopedia Brittanica. Robert McHenry, editor., vol 2. (Chicago; Brittanica Inc, 1992).
  

  Collier's Encyclopedia. Lauren Bahr, Bernard Johnston, editors. (New York; P.F.Collier, Inc., 1993).
  Lecture by Lynn Harry Nelson,Emeritus Professor of Medieval History,The University of Kansas
  Philip Ziegler The Black Death (1969)
  HG Koeningsberger Medieval Europe 400-1500 ( 1987)
  C Warren Hollister Medieval Europe:A short history sixth edition (1990 )
  Maurice Keen The Pelican History of Medieval Europe (1968)

  http://www.allempires.com/article/index.php?q=the_black_plague
  
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  Those of you who can explain mathematical concepts, please reply.

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know who you are; you posted, rather eloquently, on venus' thread regarding a teacher making a mistake in mathematics.. my brain is not wired to explain concepts that come to you naturally.

  certainly, it is a combination of both your innate ability as well as training in a field in which you excel.

  my question centers on those of us who did well in mathematics but cannot explain what we are doing.

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  Thanks, SF!

  Will have to look up those ten people . . .
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  Those of you who can explain mathematical concepts, please reply.

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know who you are; you posted, rather eloquently, on venus' thread regarding a teacher making a mistake in mathematics.. my brain is not wired to explain concepts that come to you naturally.

  certainly, it is a combination of both your innate ability as well as training in a field in which you excel.

  my question centers on those of us who did well in mathematics but cannot explain what we are doing.

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  compound complex

  I knew I could "count" on you, jp!

  THANKS!
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  Those of you who can explain mathematical concepts, please reply.

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know who you are; you posted, rather eloquently, on venus' thread regarding a teacher making a mistake in mathematics.. my brain is not wired to explain concepts that come to you naturally.

  certainly, it is a combination of both your innate ability as well as training in a field in which you excel.

  my question centers on those of us who did well in mathematics but cannot explain what we are doing.

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  I appreciate these comments and would be grateful for more. There are more mathematicians out there, yes?

  THANKS!