Posts by jukief

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bad songs

by freedom96 in

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i was reading a post that reminded me of the songs that were popular but was wrong to listen to for various reasons.. we all remember puff the magic dragon being about drugs, which i hear was just a rumour.. another i remember was let it be by the beatles, which was " catholic based about mary the mother of jesus" when apparently it was written about paul mccartney's own mother.

shows what they know.. which songs do you remember that were "bad" that we were not supposed to listen to?

jukief

I was already out when these two songs were popular, but I knew at the time they would have been taboo, so I took great delight in them:

I Don't Wanna Be a Witness by Cindi Lauper :-) That song was my anthem when I quit the dubs.

and how about

I Touch Myself--one of my favorite nasty songs.

When I was young, I would stop singing along to Simon and Garfunkle's Cecelia when it got to the part "when I come back to bed someone's taken my place." I just couldn't bring myself to say those adulterous words. :-)

Ah, so much has changed!

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six degrees of separation..claim to fame!

by asortafairytale in

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everyone is somehow connected to a celebrity, with that wondeful six degrees of separation.. for me, my aunt's(by marriage), first cousin is ally sheedy.. how are you related?

jukief

I'm related to the famous Alan Feuerbacher.

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Do You Think The Society Will Ever Go Broke?

by minimus in

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if the local congregations have no money to pay their own bills and the numbers of witnesses continue to drop off, how will the society last?

we've heard about down sizing and layoffs.

we've seen congregations merge because the bills aren't getting paid.

jukief

If someone has already posted this information, I apologize. I don't read most of the threads--just pop in once in a while to take a quick look.

My nephew is a Bethel boy, and every once in a while I get a bit of news through my parents (my nephew's father--my brother--hasn't talked to me in 12 years, so I don't know my nephew at all). Anyway, he was home visiting a couple of weeks ago and he told my parents that the society is getting new presses and is moving everything upstate. He said that the guys who ran the old presses will be "out of a job." I couldn't get any more information, because my parents told me this after he went back home.

Has anyone heard anything about this?

As an aside, my mom asked my nephew what the society would do with all that Brooklyn property is the move the printing business upstate. She told him that all that property had to be worth millions and millions of dollars. I don't think he had a reply for that. :-)

Julie F

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I'M GETTIN' NERVOUS!

by Mary in

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my surgery (hysterectomy) is scheduled for this friday and i'm getting really nervous.........nervous that the cancer may have spread, nervous about the pain, nervous about what i'm going to go through mentally, physically and emotionally afterwards (i guess i'll be going through the change of life real quick).

i've done pretty good so far: am trying to keep positive, eating right, exercising (i've lost 15 lbs!

), meditating, and i'm going on tuesday to someone who does reiki (i think that's how you spell it).

jukief

Hi Mary.

I had a hysterectomy in June and I feel fabulous. Surgery is amazing these days; I had very little pain (took pain meds less than a week), only stayed overnight, and started walking again in a week. I healed very quickly and am very glad I had the surgery. I just turned 48.

Good look. Attitude is everything; stay positive.

Julie F.

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QUESTIONS: NY March-Dress for Dinner & Weat...

by abbagail in

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helloooooo -- is anyone still out there online who is going to the march in ny on friday?.

two quick questions, please, if anyone knows:.

weather in new york - thursday/friday/saturday:.

jukief

My experience from living in NY and visiting the city many times on busines is that dress doesn't really matter. Only the most posh restaurants require that you dress up. You can wear jeans and a t-shirt just about everywhere. I don't think Bill or anyone else will want to go to an expensive restaurant after the cost of flying to and staying in the city, so you're safe. :-)

Have fun. My hubby will be there to represent both of us.

Julie Feuerbacher

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Download panorama video

by caballoSentado in

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dear friends,.

can anyone tell me where can i download the panorama program about child abuse?..

thanks & have a nice day.

jukief

Simon, if you could make the files available somewhere where we can FTP them, it would be a great help. I've tried to show the streaming video files to several people, including my parents, but using a dial-up connection, the feed freezes and it's hard to follow. (At home I have cable modem, so don't have that problem.) If I could download the files to my laptop, I could carry it around and show it to the people who'd like to view it and don't have computers or decent connections.

Thanks so much!

Julie

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Broadband internet what does it cost you?

by haujobbz in

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hello chums!!!

i recently subscribed for broadband internet 512kbsec which "b.t" provides at 29.99 ( roughly about 50 dollars a month) is that expensive for the uk i think it is,what i want to know is which of you have broadband internet and how much does it cost monthly for your country mmmm im wondering if yours is cheaper.

" later"

jukief

We have AT&T cable modem here in Colorado--for about $55 a month. We haven't had any problems at all. We have a home network (CAT5) and have a router set up as a firewall. All our household computers (five of them!) have 24x7 access. It's incredibly fast and has been very dependable. I work at home 75% of the time and count on having dependable access; I've been very happy with it. We have two phone lines and haven't had to tie any of them up with computers. Thank goodness, because Alan keeps one line occupied with his phone calls most of the time. LOL The kids and I use the other line. :-)

Julie

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Denver Post picks up NY Times article

by jukief in

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today's sunday denver post includes a shortened version of the ny times article.

it's in the first section of the paper.. congrats, bill.

i read the article online early, early this morning, and then went to the newsstand to pick up a copy of the paper this morning.

jukief

Today's Sunday Denver Post includes a shortened version of the NY Times article. It's in the first section of the paper.

Congrats, Bill. I read the article online early, early this morning, and then went to the newsstand to pick up a copy of the paper this morning. It's nice to see it get such prominent placement in the paper.

Julie Feuerbacher

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Canada and Child Abuse - Need a Program There

by Gedanken in

dateline was aired in the us, panorama in the uk - the missing link seems to be canada.

a segment on as it happens, which is broadcast in much of the us would be terrific.

any thoughts on how to accomplish this?.

jukief

Several years ago, CBC produced an excellent documentary called "Children of Jehovah." Maybe we can tell them how impressed we were with that program and encourage them to follow up with the issue of pedophiles.

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The end of Watchtower Observer?

by Wendy in

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i was so saddened yesterday when i read this post by kent.

http://kent.steinhaug.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=603.

there is so much information on wo that have helped thousands of people.

jukief

I've known Kent for a long time (back before the Web began, when we were limited to email and posting on Usenet News) and I know how much time he's given to this cause. I also know how patient and understanding May Britt has been (she's much better at this than I am--I complain a lot, and publicly sometimes). I'm really glad to see that Kent is finally getting back to the business of living. It's long overdue, in my opinion, and Kent and I have had several discussions about this very thing.

Just because Kent is "retiring" doesn't mean that the information on his Web site needs to be lost. A lot of people have come out of the organization in the past few years. Why can't some of these folks take up the slack? The older-timers, people like Kent and Randy, have devoted YEARS to this. At one time, I know Alan felt obligated to continue because there just weren't that many ex-JWs out there. But that's no longer the case. There are so many very competent ex-JWs now who can take some of the pressure off the old-timers (and many of them are doing so). I was so pleased to see how many people came forward when Alan asked for help with a project recently. It's nice to know that others who have benefited from all the hard work people like Kent have done are willing to invest some of their own time and effort.

Kudos to Kent and all those who are willing to give of their time to help others. Simon, that surely includes YOU!

Julie