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  Who have you seen in concert?

  by pontoon in

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  my short list; lynard skynard, beach boys, carole king, yes, doobie brothers, rod stewart, ringo starr.. all star band, styx, gordon lightfoot, moody blues.

  can you tell i like the older stuff?.

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  Grateful Dead (once with the Godchauxs, once with Brent Mydland)

  EmmyLou Harris (once with the Hot Band, once with the Nashville Ramblers)

  Kingfish

  Allison Krause (with Union Station)

  Ricky Skaggs (with Kentucky Thunder)

  Warren Zevon
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  Blood Transfusions - Truly a "Sin"?

  by AGuest in

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  to the household of god, israel, and those who go with... may you all have peace!.

  you may have seen where i shared this before but my understanding is that it needs to be shared again... because there are those who will benefit.

  i won't go into my usual tome... but only state: .

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  Where do JWs get the blood products they are willing to accept into their body?

  When you follow the supply line back to the source, they get their blood products from blood donors. I am one of them. Blood transfusions are as far from sin as far could be; it is virtue rather than vice.

  The holidays are often a difficult time for blood banks: people are busy, so fewer take the time to donate. If you are healthy enough and eligible to donate, please make an appointment to give the gift of life!
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  Celebrating Christmas?????

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am just curious, and not judging.

  if you are a christian and you know that december 25th is not jesus' birthday, and may have pagan roots, then why celebrate it?

  i was raised a dub as most of you know, and have learned the ttatt so i know how wrong they are about a lot.

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  If you are a Christian and you KNOW that December 25th is not Jesus' birthday, and may have pagan roots, then why celebrate it?

  Yes, I know that December 25th is not Christ's actual birthday (though researchers place his birth in autumn, which means the Annunciation would have been around that time). Besides, the dates differ slightly between Julian and Gregorian calendars. Pliny's writings place the solstice on December 25 of the Julian calendar.

  Early Christians used that date so they would not be conspicuous by not celebrating. Being a conspicuous Christian during the Roman persecutions was hazardous, so it was best to be festive--while worshipping the Christian God instead of the pagan gods.

  It is also symbolic of the coming of Christ, "the light of the world", to lead us out of darkness.

  It also aligns, more or less, with 25 Kislev: Hannukah, the Festival of Lights. This day marks the re-dedication of the temple following the victories of Judah Maccabbee. To Christians Christ is the temple of the New Covenant, another reason for celebrating Jesus' coming during the darkest days of the year.

  But mostly, as others have said, when He came is less important than the fact that He did come. That is why we celebrate; the date makes no difference.
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  Site moving really slow?

  by tec in

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  anyone else having a problem?.

  peace,.

  tammy.

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  It's working OK for me, but it's later now and traffic is lighter.
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  I like her attitude

  by Hortensia in

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  2. entertainment

  for all you gourmet cooks: "just put the fucking turkey in the oven".

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=foa0mgubyh0.

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  Pour the wine into the cook, not into the pan. (it works for me!)
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  RBC biggie divulges WTS expects disaster victims helped by RBC volunteers to fork over insurance money to the WTS

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my wife spent all morning long preparing this super thanksgiving banquet.

  with a huge turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce.

  and greenbeen salad, pie and icecream.. yummy!.

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  Does it matter, as long as I get my house repaired and it doesn't cost me a cent.

  Some of the houses he worked on, the owners had no insurance and were very low income. I don't know who paid for those materials.

  ... it was a provledge that they donate the insurance money "to help rebuild others homes".

  Putting the pieces together, from the insurance companies' point of view (including the National Flood Insurance Program, i.e. taxpayers) they are paying to restore property that was not covered by an insurance policy, for which premiums have not been paid. I'll leave it to the lawyers to opine whether or not this is legal, but it certainly is unethical!
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  Christmas tree topper

  by finally awake in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i borrowed a jerry garcia doll from my mom, and i'm making him a sparlock outfit.

  i'm going to strap him to the top of the big tree and put it in front of the living room window.

  i will post pictures when i get him finished..

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  Incidentally, Garcia was in a band called the Warlocks before the GD.

  It was the same band; somebody else was using the name "Warlocks" so they chose another.

  The origin of the name "Grateful Dead" would give a Witness fits almost as much as "Warlocks" (an immortal soul, etc.). From Wiki:

  Grateful dead (or grateful ghost) is a folktale present in many cultures throughout the world. The most common story involves a traveler who encounters a corpse of someone who never received a proper burial, typically stemming from an unpaid debt. The traveler then either pays off the dead person's debt or pays for burial. The traveler is later rewarded or has their life saved by a person or animal who is actually the soul of the dead person...
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  I do not understand... How does the theory about when Jerusalem was destroyed relate to the JW?

  by FingersCrossed in

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  can someone please tell me in the simplest ways?

  thanks.

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  You can read about this at JWFacts, among other places.

  The Watchtower uses vaguely-Bible-based dating, starting at the fall of Jerusalem, to show that Jesus returned (invisibly) in 1914 to inspect their organization and then approve it as the only True Religion in 1919. But that works only if Jerusalem fell in 607 BC (as the Watchtower claims), not 587 BC (as accepted by historians).
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  Why don't Jehovah's Witnesses Celebrate Thanksgiving?

  by God_Delusion in

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  2. beliefs

  hi guys,.

  being a brit living abroad, i never really understood the whole thanksgiving business.. i think growing up as a jw didn't help either.

  anyway, i've rid myself of those jw shackles and have decided to take an interest into the goings on over the pond, especially as my favourite place on earth is bar harbor.

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  Why don't Jehovah's Witnesses Celebrate Thanksgiving?

  Because they're too busy working the territory on a day when most people will be at home. I drove past a KH on the way to the grocery store this morning, and there were cars parked in the lot. We know they weren't there for a special Thanksgiving worship service. We know they aren't helping make dinner for the homeless shelter. We know they won't get a warm reception from many of the people they disturb today. But to show their loyalty to the WTBTS, they go out there, getting in their hours on a holiday. I pity them!
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  I just wanted to kick off this Holiday Week (USA anyway) with.....

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  .....best wishes for everyone.

  in case you (or i) get busy and don't get a chance to say it later, happy thanksgiving!.

  but seriously, no matter your situation, please remember those that care about you and enjoy their company:.

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  Remember what the holiday is about, as Licoln eloquently stated it 149 years ago:

  The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well as the iron and coal as of our precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

  No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the imposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the divine purpose, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 3d day of October, A.D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.