Posts by four candles

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Do you like unexpected visitors?

by highdose in

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i fall into the sad bracket of not likiing them.

sorry but i spend my whole working day being unrelentingly polite and charming ... when i get home i want to switch off and slob out.

i do not want the doorbell to ring and have to play host!

four candles

Sometimes........depends. If I'm sat around naked then I don't,but then again I can see folks coming up the driveway so I can be prepared.

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Best Guitar Riff Ever?

by cantleave in

legendary guitarist jimi hendrix's 'voodoo child (slight return)' has been voted as the best guitar riff ever by the users of musicians' website musicradar.com.. what do you guys and gals think?.

four candles

MM I'm impressed with your taste,you just need to go back to my era,the 70's for the really great ones. I don't know how to do you tube embeds here so check these out....

Thin Lizzy - Don't Believe a word

Queen - Now I'm here

Any Deep Purple

Into the 80's with....

Guns and Roses - Sweet Child of Mine.

Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train.

Soon as I find out how to do vids here I'll post some. Any help will be much appreciated.

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Jehovah's Witnesses halls in Manchester?

by davinaples in

hello i am david and i am italian.

january 15'm on holiday in manchester and wanted to know if there are halls of jehovah's witnesses.

if you know tell me also schedules meetings i would go there on sunday..

four candles

Like SE said there are alot of halls in Manchester....where exactly are you staying?

12

Got shunned by a disfellowshipped person today

by Mickey mouse in

how ironic!

i think she's trying to get reinstated so she blanked me.

we used to be pretty good friends.. .

four candles

Shame. Perhaps she felt she couldn't......maybe conscience kicking in.

14

Do you belive in the stars?

by highdose in

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since leaving i've started reading my horescope when ever i happen to see one, i don't belive it, i just do it because it was somthing i was always taught as bad and now i am free to do .

does anyone here pay attention to it?.

highdose of the virgo class.

This is what I did for 1.5 hours today...

by Gregor in

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sat on the deck this afternoon in some rare late fall sunshine.

sipped a nice chardonnay and listened to the birds singing...peaceful, relaxing...peeling apples for pie.... .

four candles

Sounds heavenly. Was the pie good?? I bet it was.....save me some!!!

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Are you an 'Ex Witness' or just you?

by creativhoney in

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i just wondered how people feel about this?

- do some only mix with other ex witnesses a couple of my friends, and it seems that by definition, they are 'ex witnesses' almost like a religion in itself.

- i would never define myself as an 'ex employee of xxx' as you leave it behind it doesnt define you.

I suppose I would class myself as a non practicing JW,well that's what my partner calls me. She is an athiest but is open to talk about what I was and who I am now. I'm still me,but.....I can indulge a bit more openly in things I enjoyed before but was always concious of what it may mean to being a JW. Like music for instance,I've always loved music and at one point sold a load of albums through pressure from others......

I do have them back now of course. I don't really associate with any other ex JWs,I have made a new circle of friends where I live now and non of them know I was a JW.....yet. I'd be quite happy to talk about it to them if the subject ever arose.

I like me in my skin at the moment,it feels good.

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bought my first lottery ticket today

by John Doe in

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my state now has a lottery, so i decided it was time to buy one.

i paid $2 for a powerball ticket, so now i need to figure out how to spend my winnings.

i've never even looked at lotteries before, but the woman at the counter was nice enough to explain the different ones to me.

four candles

Did you win??

20

Do you ever turn off the music?

by compound complex in

greetings fellow music lovers:.

given the numerous "name your favorite tune" threads that are posted here on jwn, it appears that none of us can live without la belle musique.

often my cd player runs through the night.

four candles

Co co,you is a late starter,but hope you enjoy your Pink Floyd journey. Try to get Pulse - the live DVD and see the power of a full live show. Songs that make my hair stand up on end with joy are 'Great gig in the sky' and Comfortably Numb'

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Hotel California - is this Eagles Album Single for Christians?

by JWoods in

it came on the car radio this morning, and reminded me that this was probably the big single of 1977 - just about the beginning of the end time for me with the jehovah's witnesses.. now, you might understand that as a doubting elder with many deep issues at hand (it was the ray franz era of disenchantment for many elders)...i never heard much from them about the lyrics.. however - listening to it today, i can see where a "good" dubbie might find it to be at least as demonized as the smurfs cartoons.. and yet, very ironically, looking at them then and now, i always viewed it to be a sort of pop-social commentary on the california celebrity scene.. stretching it a little, you could almost compare the traveler's nightmare experience to getting trapped into the jehovah's witnesses - thinking it was a safe haven but then finding out that "you can never leave".. "we haven't had that spirit here since 1959".

"in the master's chamber they gathered for the feast".... yes, i can apply a lot of this to the cult entrapment experience..

four candles

It has one of the all time guitar solos in it,but naturally all the radio stations cut it off.............................................I'm off to play it now........LOUD!!!