hey-i'm just starting this somewhat cheesy thread on favorite bands.
here is my list:.
phish.
OK Seven,
Which two people sang this and who wrote it?
All along the Watchtower princes kept the view, while all the women came and went, they're foot servants too. Outside in the cold distance a wild cat did growl, two riders where approaching, the wind began to howl.
Well, I've been up for quite awhile, and my head is to fuzzy for more quizes, so I'll see ya later.
hey-i'm just starting this somewhat cheesy thread on favorite bands.
here is my list:.
phish.
Seven,
That was a wonderful time for me. I used to turn on the AM radio and listen to a guy from Cleveland Ohio called moondog play that original black rock and roll before it was in vogue.
Now I am going to answer the rest of the questions.
#3. The day the music died was about Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Richy Valance, when they died in a plane crash in the winter trying to leave Clear Lake Iowa.
#4. Elvis's back up was called The Jordonaires, a Christian group from his home town.
#5. Why the Crickets. This is in the movie The Buddy Holly Story, when they were practicing in a garage, there was a cricket that kept chirping while they were playing. So they took the name.
#6. The term rock and roll: came from a man named Allan Freed. He worked on radio in my home town, then moved to Cleveland and got on TV, and then moved to New York and promoted Rock and Roll. They made a movie about his life called "American Hotwax." The rock and roll hall of fame is in Cleveland because of him and his son in law,
Dick Libratiur who kept his name alive.
#9 The double hit was Hound Dog and Don't Be Cruel.
Well, I enjoyed that. I think you did too.
hi everyone, this is my first post here.
first of all, let me explain a bit of my background.
i was raised as a jw from the age of 4 years old.
My last comment was directed to mgm, but another comment go up before mine.
hi everyone, this is my first post here.
first of all, let me explain a bit of my background.
i was raised as a jw from the age of 4 years old.
Yes, you say what you want them to hear, and yes you say a nice prayer. I did just that and it bought me several years with my family. One time my cousin asked me why I was inactive and I told her that I didn't want to go into it because it was not my intention to "stumble her". It bought me time and it allowed her to drop the subject. To confront her would only produce anger and defensiveness from her, so why do it?
hey-i'm just starting this somewhat cheesy thread on favorite bands.
here is my list:.
phish.
Seven,
I am so impressed that you knew Gene Vincent and Be Bop a Lulla. I had the record and on the other side was a song called Women Love, and it goes like this here.... Well, I went to the doctor not so long ago, walkin circles and a monnen low, he looked at me and said good Lord above, you need a vacination of that womem love.
Pretty dumb words and it never made it to the to one thousand.
By the way, I thought you would know the double blast from Elvis. We had a joke about Elvis. I don't know if it got passed down or not. Please tell if it did or not. In my time, he was called Elvis the pelvis, and he had a twin brother called Enis the .....?
hey-i'm just starting this somewhat cheesy thread on favorite bands.
here is my list:.
phish.
Seven,
Yes, yes, yes, and on who wants to be a millionare, you are up to 250,000 with all you life lines left.
hi everyone, this is my first post here.
first of all, let me explain a bit of my background.
i was raised as a jw from the age of 4 years old.
Tell them as little as possible.
Your main objective is to maintain your relationship with your freinds and family. You can only do that by using "Tact" that is be evasive and lie if you have to. Use the skill of using "tact" they taught you to your advantage. Does that sound wrong? Well, be truthful and lose your family or lie your butt off so you can still talk to people. Don't play by their rules, play by yours.
whassup guys.
i've spent most of my web time over the last 2 years at another site full of ex-jdubs...i'd say about 50 people post there on occasion...many of that number regularly.. what struck me from the beginning, as i got to know the people posting there was...how many were now atheists...non-believers in god...the bible...pretty much anything they once held sacred as jw's!.
i dare say...90 some % do not consider themselves christian now!.
If you were God,
Would you want people to pray and tell you how wonderful you are and how pitiful they are? I would think, "Hey knock it off already, I know I'm wonderful and I know you're pitiful, that's how I made you." Would you want people to pray to you for special favors? Not me. I would ignore those prayers. I would simply think that you are better off to figure out how to get things done on your own. Now, that would mean that the majority of prayers are stupid and futile.
Now, if you want to pray for strength during a bad time, I think that's OK. Whether the strength comes from within you or from outside you doesn't matter. It's a good thing.
whassup guys.
i've spent most of my web time over the last 2 years at another site full of ex-jdubs...i'd say about 50 people post there on occasion...many of that number regularly.. what struck me from the beginning, as i got to know the people posting there was...how many were now atheists...non-believers in god...the bible...pretty much anything they once held sacred as jw's!.
i dare say...90 some % do not consider themselves christian now!.
It is time to state my opinion,
Well, I read many thoughts before I decided to jump into the fray, because what I believe is very personal, but similiar to MGM's so I guess it is a good time to try to explain myself. I am an agnotic, which simply means "I don't know", and I don't think is possible to know. The idea of a God and the idea of no God are both incomprensable. Now, if there is God does he really care and why should he? Maybe this is just one of God's terariums that he set up just to see what would happen. Do I believe in special creation? No. Perhaps there was a God that created but used evolution to do it. That makes sense to me. Do I believe that all of the Bible is inspired? No. Mathematicaly, there is no way, for example, that the Noah story is true. Go back and read the demensions and the time they spent on the boat and then explain to me how it could be true. Was Israel God's choosen people? Go read the book of Joshua and tell me why any people could be more destrucive than Hitler and Stalin. Explain to me why Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt for looking around, yet Lot and his two daughters lived and on a trip the daughters got their father drunk and f..K'd him and they are blessed people? David raped his step sister and he was called the apple of God's eye. And this is inspirational? If this is the good part, what did they throw away and not include in the inspired word.
Why would God choose one nation, the Israelites to the disadvantage of the Chinese, the people of India, Europe, and North and South America. What kind of egocentric BS is that? God has a whole globe to look at and he picks out this one tiny tribe and favors them? If you were God, is that what you would do? I think that is a very good question to ask. "If I was God. what would I do?" Would you create imperfect people and then kill them for being imperfect. Would you allow them pockets of ignorance and kill them for their ignorance? Would you ask them to tell you how wonderful you are and require that they pray to you for forgiveness day in and day out? I wouldn't ask that of my children. Why would God? Yes, you can tell me that Jesus died for our imperfections, but it seems to me that most God fearing people are just that, in a perpetual state of fear. That is no way to live and I refue to live that way. When I die, and if I wake up somewhere that will be a wonderful surprise, but for people to think, and here is were the JWs come into play, that you can work your butt off to curry God's favor, and you need the threat of destruction in order to force you to do it is both an insult to God and to human intelligence.
The Jw's need the threat of Armageddon to keep people faithful. If you were God, wouldn't you find that insulting? I think goodness is its own reward, and it gives a better life here and now, and if our goodness translates into something beyond this life, that would be nice, but don't be good for pie in the sky some day. Goodness is its own reward.
hi-i have a question for everyone.
i was just wondering if your life has improved since you've left the org?
for me i left when i was 17, went to college, met a great guy who i live with now and have a ton of great friends.
Thank you Neyank,
I might be crazy, but I ain't real dumb.
