"i want hippopotamus for christmas" is strangely reminiscent of kingdom melody #72!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=i+want+a+hippopotamus+for+christmas&search=search.
coincidence???????????????.
I couldn't find my songbook here at the moment (only the CDs), so I can't tell which Kingdom Melody it is. But the childrens' song, "I bakvendtland" by Alf Prøysen , you can listen to here:
http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=cd649c1d6f0627b49c586d8c5f55c5a3
Finally, I've found it. It's song number 76.
kifoy
"i want hippopotamus for christmas" is strangely reminiscent of kingdom melody #72!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=i+want+a+hippopotamus+for+christmas&search=search.
coincidence???????????????.
In the old songbook there was a song with exactly the same melody as a christmas carol. Before the LP and cassettes with the KMs came, there cong. were accompanied by live music by some of the members that knew how to play an instrument. E.g. piano and violin. One old man, the violin player, totally refused to play this song, because _he_ would definitely not play any christmas carol
In the newest songbook there is a song which beginning is exactly the same as that of a popular Norwegian childrens' song. At least the first ten (I think) notes of the first line, and the same on the second line are the same. Only the last four notes on each line are different.
I remember more than one time, almost the whole cong. singing the first line of this song, and continue in the melody of the childrens' song So funny, and almost the whole cong. laughed though the rest of the song, trying to concentrate on singing the right melody.
I couldn't find my songbook here at the moment (only the CDs), so I can't tell which Kingdom Melody it is. But the childrens' song, "I bakvendtland" by Alf Prøysen , you can listen to here:
http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=cd649c1d6f0627b49c586d8c5f55c5a3
In English the name of the song is "in the back-to-front country" or something. Katia Cardinal from Nicaragua has done a spanish version: "En reverslandia"
kifoy
im new to your website and im very thankful i have found it.
i was born and raised a witness but managed to get myself out after highschool and havent been back for five or six years.
now that i have a family of my own im totally confused.
Hi Meg! And welcome to the forum!
He knew that I was a former and inactive member I guess. We never talked about church much, we gave presents at christmas, birthdays and such to each other. But it wasnt really a celebration or anything. LOL We have a tree this year and started buying presents, im trying to get into it but its just wierd like im forcing myself to do it. Maybe I need to find a reason to do it, other than eat lots!!!
I was born and raised a JW, and left in my early 20s, when I met my husband. The first christmas we were together, we went to his family. It was really strange, but I was not forced to do anything. And the celebration was really calm, and nothing really made me flabbergasted. I don't think that I was feeling guilt, or anything, but everything was so new to me. The next year, I bought my first christmas present.
Now, some more years have past. And little by little I find my way into these celebration stuff. It's not much, but just right.
You need to find your own way. And you really need to talk things out with your husband. When he asks, you need to think, and try to answer. It can be really hard, I know, I've been there. I could be so angry with all these questions, but it is because of them, that I am where I am today.
I think it was a good advise to also invite your husband to this forum. Here he will find others in his situation, that he can relate to.
kifoy
in about 15 minutes, newsradio 710 (am) in seattle will have a discussion of the death of 14-year-old jw dennis lindberg.. if you are local to seattle, tune in!.
you can stream the show here:.
http://www.kiro710.com/showdj.asp?djid=31726.
Found a page with podcasts:
feed://710kiro.com/sectionalRSS.aspx?id=10610
I don't know how long it takes for today's show to appear here.
kifoy
in about 15 minutes, newsradio 710 (am) in seattle will have a discussion of the death of 14-year-old jw dennis lindberg.. if you are local to seattle, tune in!.
you can stream the show here:.
http://www.kiro710.com/showdj.asp?djid=31726.
Is anyone recording this?
kifoy
this is for another poster who has ran out of topics for today.
he has encoded the video to wmv format, good quality, (roughly 13mb) file can be downloaded here.... http://www.sendspace.com/file/7esocu.
uploading video to youtube, will post the link when it is complete..
And if you prefer .mov over .wmv (I certainly do...), you can download it here:
http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=66486fffbdce5df65c9898ab540f8f3c
kifoy
a producer with nbc in new york called within the past hour to tell me that the segment i interviewed for (once in nashville, tn in august and once in washington, dc in october) is set to air tonight on nbc nightly news with brian williams, that is, if no huge calamity takes place to bump the feature.
this piece will be two minutes and 45 seconds long, the longest slot nightly news has for topics of interest, and will feature a discussion about the court documents that are found on the cd i recently produced, "secrets of pedophilia in an american religion, jehovah's witnesses in crisis.
in addition, nbc's internet site, msn, will follow with a detailed story.
You can download it yourself from the Video Podcast in a few hours:
feed://podcast.msnbc.com/audio/podcast/MSNBC-NN-NETCAST-M4V.xml
kifoy
a producer with nbc in new york called within the past hour to tell me that the segment i interviewed for (once in nashville, tn in august and once in washington, dc in october) is set to air tonight on nbc nightly news with brian williams, that is, if no huge calamity takes place to bump the feature.
this piece will be two minutes and 45 seconds long, the longest slot nightly news has for topics of interest, and will feature a discussion about the court documents that are found on the cd i recently produced, "secrets of pedophilia in an american religion, jehovah's witnesses in crisis.
in addition, nbc's internet site, msn, will follow with a detailed story.
Johnny! Good for you!
What did you tell him, exactly, to make him wanna watch?
kifoy
my dad was looking and the official watchtower website and he said it has such a truthfull and genine look about it and how i should'nt read the forums because people's opinions on there are misguided and they dont know what their talking about.
has anyone said anything similar to you?
Ppppphhh, the WT website looks like it was designed by Stevie Wonder.
ROTFLMAO
Though, I've seen it a lot worse: http://www.arngren.net/ (Norwegian Online Gadget Store)
The Watchtower site I find extremely boring! Even the «online games/quizzes» are boring.
kifoy
i remember an elder walking in the hall and it was the 1st thing he said to me as he saw me dealing with the sound dept.
"where is your jacket"!!!!
nice greeting!!
Well, sort of a jacket story...
We had a couple of young unmarried pioneer brothers in my cong. Lovely guys with a lot of humour (the whole cong was very humorous). One summer, it was a very warm day, one of the pioneer brothers took off his jacket during meeting.
And under the jacket was... a very curly shirt. All of us sitting behind this brother, burst out laughing. The two bachelors had of course only ironed the part of the shirt that was visible under the jacket!
Hilarious!
kifoy
