A pretty dated sound now but it was good back in the day.
exwhyzee
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What's your favorite Canadian band?
by lepermessiah insince we have a lot of canadian friends on this board, i have to ask - who are your favorite canadian bands?.
mine is rush.
they have been one of my favorite bands ever since i can remember.. they totally rule........the music and lyrics are all top notch.. the other one is the tea party - jeff martin is a genius.
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Ooops left food out last night...
by sinis inand my spouse is pissed... anyways, we slow boiled chicken to make soup and it was finished last night.
i could not find room in thr frig so i left it out... the good news is our house was around 55-60 degrees all day and night.
is it safe to eat if reheated?
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Elders refuse to give evidence of a molester and the molester gets away with it!
by punkofnice inthis is the first part where the eldubs refuse to do the honourable thing.
http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsid=109303.
...and here is the even sadder conclusion........ http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsid=109359.
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exwhyzee
She advised me to do the same, only this time, I should dismiss what the society says that doesn't agree with my own conscience and my own understanding of the Bible
I told her that this might work for awhile, but sooner or later you'd need to be prepared for them to try and enforce some rule or other. It seems like this religion, rather than being a way to seek Bible Knowledge and guidence and apply it as you see fit, is enabling imperfect men to monitor your personal life, intervene in your relationship with God and punish you for not doing things their way. How could I be expected to go in Service and honestly recommend something to the public that I don't agree with?
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Elders refuse to give evidence of a molester and the molester gets away with it!
by punkofnice inthis is the first part where the eldubs refuse to do the honourable thing.
http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsid=109303.
...and here is the even sadder conclusion........ http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsid=109359.
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exwhyzee
I had never heard of any of these unreported molestations/domestic violence issues until I left the Org and read all about it on here. Last weekend on of my "still in" siblings was visiting from out of town. Not having their own car, I was asked to drop them off at a JW gathering. Everyone I knew there, wanted to know what Hall I was attending now. I finally had to just tell them outright that I'm not going anymore ,and you could have heard a pin drop. Later, a very nice older Sister who had been raised a JW, told me that she had left also for about 10 years but had returned after she realized how out of place she was in the "World" and because of the recent world conditions. She encouraged me to do the same. I told her my "leaving" story and she was very sympathetic. Apparently she had been married to and Elder for 21 years and he beat her regularly. The other elders wouldn't believe her or do anything about it even though her children backed her up. Then her pre teen daughter was raped by a teenaged Elders Son. They wouldn't let her go to the Police saying she would be disfellowshipped for slander and reproach, if she did. She went along with their counsil but warned them that it would be on their heads if this kid offended again. He did offend again a few years later and this time wound up in jail. She divorced her husband and it came out later that he too had been guilty of violent behavior. She had been vindicated, but she was so angry that she had been let down by J's organization that she left altogether until she returned a few years ago. She advised me to do the same, only this time, I should dismiss what the society says that doesn't agree with my own conscience and my own understanding of the Bible, saying "this is no time to take any chances because the end is so near".
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Things have changed since I last went from door to door !
by exwhyzee ingood point moshe....didn't even think of that !
i figured those two were all about publicity...but better not take any chances !.
there's a differencce between privacy while on a public street and in being an imposter in someone's car group while they are engaging in what they consider part of their worship to god.. .
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exwhyzee
Good point Moshe....didn't even think of that ! I figured those two were all about publicity...but better not take any chances !
P.S. There's a differencce between privacy while on a public street and in being an imposter in someone's car group while they are engaging in what they consider part of their worship to God.
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Of All of The Automobils You Have Ever Owned Which One Was Your Favorite?
by Was New Boy inthey say the average person will own about 25 cars in their life time.. from 1982 to 1988 i owned a 1971 dodge challenger convertible.
it had a 340 with a 4 speed stick.
i loved that car.. i didnt cry when my wife left me....i did cry when that car drove out of my life!.
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exwhyzee
Here is my current favorite. A 1983 Fiat Pininfarina Spider. It was in top shape but I restored it all to like new condition. Rebuilt engine and transmission, new suspension and exhaust etc. The photo below was at the All Italian Car show, here in my area.
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Where to JWs park their cars when going door-to-door?
by bradp ini am a christian and have handed out tracts all over my neighborhood,.
i'm ready to go to a new neighborhood and am trying to determine where to park my car without it getting towed.. is there a jw publication available that covers this kind of info?
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exwhyzee
The Pioneers usually park their Covered Wagons in a circle.
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Did anyone try to go to the high school prom ?
by Pitchess Co-Gen ini remember being a high school senior and wanting to go to prom ( i graduated from high school in 2003 ), but prom was forbidden when your a jw teen.
i even said to my parents if i took a witness girl would it be ok; they actually said yes.
i found a girl ( yes she's a witness ) to go with me, but here's the kicker she agreed to go.
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exwhyzee
Wanting our Sons to have as balanced and normal as life as possible, and yet be JW's we allowed them to be on the wrestling and track teams and join Lacrosse. They were good guys...never any trouble...(other than being terribly untidy). They each went to their Prom and the youngest one was homecomming king but we couldn't tell anyone about any of their activities at school or that we privately acknowledged their birth dates by doing something special for them. Our out of town Witness reletives found out about the wrestling team and this news was met with much tut-tutting and dire warnings about bad association. They were both relatively quiet boys but being on a team or wrestling an opponent in front of a whole auditiorium of people was a real confidence builder for them and they enjoyed it so much.
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Did anyone try to go to the high school prom ?
by Pitchess Co-Gen ini remember being a high school senior and wanting to go to prom ( i graduated from high school in 2003 ), but prom was forbidden when your a jw teen.
i even said to my parents if i took a witness girl would it be ok; they actually said yes.
i found a girl ( yes she's a witness ) to go with me, but here's the kicker she agreed to go.
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exwhyzee
My wife was an Elder's daughter and her Mom a regular pioneer. She was asked to go to the prom by a popular guy in school and she accepted but it meant that in order to go she had to sneak out of the house somehow. Her Dad was giving a Sunday talk in another town so it worked out that her parents and younger siblings wouldn't be home. After the Dance her date took her out to dinner with a group or other popular kids, to a place they could afford. While they were eating, the booth they were sitting in collapsed and they all wound up sitting down inside the wood box/frame that was holding up the booths seat cushion. The girls got up and went to the bathroom together to fix their cloths etc and when they came out to the lobby, the guys grabbed them and rushed toward the door saying " run....run ! The whole group ran out of the place without paying for their meal. When her date brought her home, she realized she didn't have her house key. Her older sister, who she ran into at the prom, had also snuck out to the dance and hadn't gotten home yet. There she was locked out of house so the guy, wanting to be the hero, pried open the little bathroom window and crawled in. On his way in, he slipped and grabbed onto the shower curtain to stabalize himself but it came loose from the rod. On the way down he grabbed the towel bar and ripped it out of the wall. The guy had to stumble through the dark house to find the front door and let her in. (probably tripped over her Dads Giant Elder book bag ) He opened the front door...she stepped inside...he stepped outside and just sort of stood there expecting a good night kiss and couldn't figure out why everything was such a big secret. At this point she was so worried about the damaged bathroom and flustered and embarrased by all that happened that she just said" Well....I guess I'll see ya at school" and shut the door. She still blushes at the thought of this today.
She and her sister managed to get the bathroom all put back together before the parents returned the next evening. The two girls thought they were in the clear until her Dad got home from work Monday night. At the dinner table he casually asked "so....how did you girls enjoy the dance on Saturday night hmmmm? " Apparently one of the women he worked with was a Chaperone at the dance and had said she was surprised to see his girls there, being Witnesses and all but said how pretty his they looked. Her Dad was pretty cool about it and fortunately he was a pretty cool guy and was able to see the humor in it which in a way made them feel even worse about not only embarrasing him in front of his coworkers but having deceived him.
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most depressing song ever
by will_the_apostate inwhats the most depressing song you have ever heard?
i would go with either johnny cash - hurt or gary jules-mad world.
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exwhyzee
Having grown up as a Witness I expected to live forever...never grow old. In my 40's I began to realize that this wasn't going to happen. I tried to cling to my old indoctrinations but they no longer made any sense. I was coming to grips with my own mortality....all at once instead of a gradually over the years like most people. I went through the most terrible period of anxiety you could imagine. Although I loved Bonnie Raitt's song "Nick of time" it was very difficult if not impossible to listen to. The line "scared to run out of time" was the whole basis and theme of what I was going through.
This next song covers a time period when I was in elementary school riding my bicycle, trying to be a kid during the turbulent 1960's and was taught to view the world scene as pangs of distress that would culminate in a cataclysmic event that I realized would kill my non Witness father. I was supposed to graduate from school in 1975 but was convinced it would never happen. For me "Stones in the road" captures what it was like trying to enjoy being a kid, but having the glitter of ones young life, rubbed off by adults who had convinced me that I shouldn't enjoy life too much....my real life was going to happen, some other time. Time went on and I had to make my way in a world I was totaly unprepared to even exist in.
I ran into a neighbor girl I knew at that time period. She said "remember all those serious discussions we used to have....why were we such serious little kids?" she said "I guess it was because of the 60's and the Vietnam war " I knew it was because she was Catholic and I was trying to save both myself and her from Armegeddon. I believed I would be held responsible for her life if I didn't warn her about it.