I might certainly hope that my last comment a day ago didn't dead-end this thread. It had such potential.
Nickolas
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I'm starting to rethink my position on organized religion
by sabastious ini have been one to demonize organized religion because i had attached an "enemy tag" to them at some point in my life.
when i started going through the reasons why i consider it an "enemy" i figured something out.. organized religion's are just large dysfunctional groups.
my family is a smaller dysfunctional group and i worked for a business that was also just a small dysfunctional group.
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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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Nickolas
Mini Cooper S, ballistic. Very nice. And it would do the gymkhana at over .9 Gs. I never owned one but always wanted to.
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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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Nickolas
I agree with you that the E-type may have been the most beautiful car of its era - probably only a few of the Ferrari models could compete for looks.
The 275 GTB and and GTB 4 come to mind.
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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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Nickolas
I actually took a test drive back in about 1970 when I owned a 1969 Porsche 911T Targa. It overheated in city driving and did not feel as fast off the line as the Porsche.
The last 6 cylinder E-types were made in 1970. After that a V12 was shoehorned into them to get them back to the old pre-emissions controls power of the triple SU carb 6's. The E-type you drove in 1970 was gutless, about 40 bhp less than the original. But you're right about overheating. Stop and go traffic is not this car's favourite situation, even with a new rad and water pump. The 911 was a better car from an engineering standpoint, I think, but just not as beautiful.
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I'm starting to rethink my position on organized religion
by sabastious ini have been one to demonize organized religion because i had attached an "enemy tag" to them at some point in my life.
when i started going through the reasons why i consider it an "enemy" i figured something out.. organized religion's are just large dysfunctional groups.
my family is a smaller dysfunctional group and i worked for a business that was also just a small dysfunctional group.
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Nickolas
There's a common theme in spiritual things. They occur only to oneself, so it follows they exist only in oneself - said another way, they don't exist anywhere else but in your mind.
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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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All the other poncy things that were called sports cars over the years have never been as original, and raw, as a Morgan.
Harumph.
My favourite has been, and still is, my 1968 Jaguar E-type open two seater. It is also at 29 years the car I have owned the longest. In second place is my 1954 Jaguar XK120 SE OTS which I have owned for 20 years. The E-type is an open headlight variant series one (Series 1 1/2, to the great unwashed) with triple SU carburetters so is the only full powered dohc 6 cyl 285 bhp E-type safe to drive at speed at night. 4 wheel disc brakes with the rears inboard and torsion bar suspension to reduce unsprung weight, IRS and very tight rack & pinion steering. It was, like the XK120, at the time of its initial release the fasted production car in the world. There is an E-type on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The body is sleek and aerodynamic but does not do a good job of staying on the ground above 130 mph, which is near its top end with the 3.54 differential. With the 3.07 differential fitted to non-NA cars the car would do 150 mph, which is just plain scary.
Worst car I ever owned for reliability was a 1971 Toyota Celica, followed closely by my 1974 Volvo station wagon, which also was the ugliest car I have ever owned. I sold my 1976 Chevrolet Camaro to buy the used Volvo when my wife got pregnant with twins. I loved the Camaro, hated the Volvo. But I also had a 1967 MGB roadster at the time, which I sold to buy the E-type. Come to think of it, that MGB was a really nice car, too.
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I'm starting to rethink my position on organized religion
by sabastious ini have been one to demonize organized religion because i had attached an "enemy tag" to them at some point in my life.
when i started going through the reasons why i consider it an "enemy" i figured something out.. organized religion's are just large dysfunctional groups.
my family is a smaller dysfunctional group and i worked for a business that was also just a small dysfunctional group.
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Nickolas
I like it, too, but it does it not mean that spirituality can be reconised only in oneself?
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I'm starting to rethink my position on organized religion
by sabastious ini have been one to demonize organized religion because i had attached an "enemy tag" to them at some point in my life.
when i started going through the reasons why i consider it an "enemy" i figured something out.. organized religion's are just large dysfunctional groups.
my family is a smaller dysfunctional group and i worked for a business that was also just a small dysfunctional group.
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Nickolas
Saying "spirituality doesn't exist" is like saying "humor doesn't exist." Neither can be fully defined therefore do not exist within the realm of language. We all know that the realm of language is not baseline reality, but rather something that comes from reality.
I suppose it goes to how you define spirituality, Sab. Humour is manifest, spirituality is not, at least not to me. How does one recognise spirituality in someone?
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I'm starting to rethink my position on organized religion
by sabastious ini have been one to demonize organized religion because i had attached an "enemy tag" to them at some point in my life.
when i started going through the reasons why i consider it an "enemy" i figured something out.. organized religion's are just large dysfunctional groups.
my family is a smaller dysfunctional group and i worked for a business that was also just a small dysfunctional group.
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Nickolas
I believe our survival is being threatened right now from more corners of the earth than usual.
Yes, you're probably right, Sab. The earth goes in cycles like this. Some species or another dominates the planet and then there's a mass extinction and some other species gets to take over. The next one, I understand, will be the cockroaches.
The only way you can hide from your spiritual self is to choose not to grow.
An atheist might argue that since spirituality does not exist the only way to grow is to let go of your spirituality.
I know I might be crazy, but whaddyagonnado?)
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Truth - How obvious does it need to be?
by Nickolas inhey folks.
i've been on this board for just under seven months and i thank all of you who have contributed so generously to my education on things watchtower, and quite a few other things too.
not all of it was on here but it was through this board i've been directed to sites like freeminds and jwfacts.
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Nickolas
I have very little time again. My brother's coming to pick me up in 10 minutes then the rest of the day is shot.
Forgive me if I sound contentious - that is not my intention - but wasn't the purpose of such works AND the First Amendment to keep government out of religion... by preventing the establishment of a State church (although the U.S. initially did establish one), as had been done in England... thus allowing the way for FREEDOM of religion... and NOT the abolishment of it?
And here I thought it was the other way around. Maybe a bit of both. The application of religious morals within the laws of the various colonies was by no means equal. Even in the UK where the head of the church of England is also head of state secular law prevails. It was all a comparative point, anyway. A backdrop to the main point that evidence either supports or belies the truth of what someone is saying.
Have you read Franz's books, Shelby? To be honest it really doesn't matter to me where he ended up in his faith, only that he left the cancerous influence of the Watchtower when he discovered that it was not what it appeared to be. I'd be delighted if my wife went back to Anglicanism (speaking about the Church of England) or found some other organised religion to devote her life to that doesn't hurt and kill people and otherwise ruin their lives. If she was to find Christ all on her own, that would be fine, too. I admit to being perhaps a little mercenary in this conversation.