Ah, but that's the beauty of riding in the dirt - you can do so even when it's quite cold out - so while the street bikes are napping on the battery tender the dirt bike's out getting dirty!
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A Bittersweet Day
by TR inlast week i sold my beloved 1996 husaberg fe 501 to a guy in virginia, over 3000 miles from where i live.
he saw the ad i placed on the internet.
today i took the bike to the shipper to be loaded and sent back east.
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Friends we are too unbalanced.
by sleepy inwell sometimes we are.. look we have the knowledge and experience to help a lot of people.must of us have one time been jw's and understand how many think.so lets not put them off by being too negative.. when we were witnesses most of us were quite happy .
we tried to be good people , to put into practise principles that many people think are good.
we did this sometimes even when we didn't want to , because we thought god would hold us accountable and because we cared for people .
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Define 'good' and 'better'!
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10 REASONS WHY JWS STAY IN THE TOWER
by Victor_E inreason 1. jws use a cultic language that keeps them in a constant state of social hypnosis.
transformational grammar teaches that our language directly affects our subjective experience.
in working with some former jws i had to confiscate certain words and have them create substitutes for something that was more neutral.
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Show me a JW who was told NOT to sell their house and car and business 'in the few short remaining months' before 1975 ...
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A Bittersweet Day
by TR inlast week i sold my beloved 1996 husaberg fe 501 to a guy in virginia, over 3000 miles from where i live.
he saw the ad i placed on the internet.
today i took the bike to the shipper to be loaded and sent back east.
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When I'm not making sparks I like to ride the dirt too - mostly trail riding not moto-cross as I ride a 4 stroker <insert lame joke here> That Husaberg sounds like a REALLY sweet machine.
I don't ride on the street too much anymore as the mini-van moms are crazy! So mostly trail and track. But I think you'd enjoy a sport touring style bike, more fun and all the comfort. Crusiers tend to hurt my back after a while.
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A Bittersweet Day
by TR inlast week i sold my beloved 1996 husaberg fe 501 to a guy in virginia, over 3000 miles from where i live.
he saw the ad i placed on the internet.
today i took the bike to the shipper to be loaded and sent back east.
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Or get one of these ...
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New topic: What's Erich smokin?
by NameWithheld in'cause i want some - it's powerful stuff.
what's this about don adams opening new scrolls of technology??
huh?
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Bwaaaahaahahahaahahaaahhaaa!!!!!!
This guy has taken top fruitcake honors right out from under YK. (Booby better get crackin' if he wants the title back ... before Erich get some more of this stuff he's smoking ...)
FACT: New order is coming huh? Tell me, what's your deluded definition of the word fact? = fantasy?
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Friends we are too unbalanced.
by sleepy inwell sometimes we are.. look we have the knowledge and experience to help a lot of people.must of us have one time been jw's and understand how many think.so lets not put them off by being too negative.. when we were witnesses most of us were quite happy .
we tried to be good people , to put into practise principles that many people think are good.
we did this sometimes even when we didn't want to , because we thought god would hold us accountable and because we cared for people .
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I agree Farkle, the debate has become 'are JWs evil' which becomes impossible to discuss since the entire concept of 'evil' is so fluid. And sleepy seems to be focusing on the motivation of the average JW - are they motivated out of love or hate to do what they do. Of course, most are not motivated out of hate or malice - but does that excuse the actions?
I think we can all see the the actions of the average JW is not beneficial to mankind in general. It is not beneficial to familiy and freinds when they shun you. It is not beneficial to the average JW who is struggling to make all the meetings and satisfy the elders and their own tweaked 'bilble trained conscience' in FS hours. It is not beneficial to the JWs who are excluded from the local congo's 'power click' and made to feel like second class citizens.
So 'are they evil'? They do evil things w/ good intentions. Does that heal the pain? Nope.
Oh and as far as WHY many JWs joined, did we do this out of love or what was our motivation for being a JW? Remember that a great # of JWs had the religion beat (physically and/or mentally) into them from age 0. They had no choice. Others are snookered in via the JW love-bombing and don't see reality until it's too late - if ever.
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Friends we are too unbalanced.
by sleepy inwell sometimes we are.. look we have the knowledge and experience to help a lot of people.must of us have one time been jw's and understand how many think.so lets not put them off by being too negative.. when we were witnesses most of us were quite happy .
we tried to be good people , to put into practise principles that many people think are good.
we did this sometimes even when we didn't want to , because we thought god would hold us accountable and because we cared for people .
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Ha ha, yes I did didn't I?
I don't think I'm trying to make the point that the average JW is 'evil' (and I think that we could endlessly discuss just what exactly does 'evil' mean as well). I know that the vast majority of JWs do not feel mallous or evil intent to their fellow man, even non-JWs. They even convince themsleves that they are in fact doing the most good that they can for mankind. But that leads us back to the debate of Hitler and his army - I can assure you that there were many that felt they were doing 'good' for their country. An extreme example I know, and JWs are not performing ethnic cleansing, etc. But the same end is involved - that is that blindly following your leaders around doesn't neccessarly absolve you from the 'blame' to be assigned for the outcome. Just because a JW feels he's doing the right thing by DF'ing sister weak for her fornication, or brother weak for his smoking (or whatever), or the parents for shunning their children for failing to live up to the JW standard, doesn't make the 'evil' outcomes any easier to bear for the victims.
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DO YOU FEAR THE DEAD AND ARMAGEDDON
by beroea indo you fear to die or refuse to think of that matter.
during times the fear of dear is the deep source of the talk about armageddon and the eschatology.
to face to die is a hard one to swallow.
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Yes, I think fear of death is a major motivation behind the world's religions. That and a search for answers to explain those questions in life that are un-answerable or incomprehensable for mankind. Of course the more technology advances the less need for religion I think we will see. And the fact that many people are becoming more comfortable with the facts that some questions are not answerable (at this time anyway).
At this time in my life I do not fear death. I know it will happen, and I say, when it does it does. I try and make as much of each day as I can. For me and those close to me. Why fret over something you have no control over (in the fact that you WILL die at some point ...)
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10 REASONS WHY JWS STAY IN THE TOWER
by Victor_E inreason 1. jws use a cultic language that keeps them in a constant state of social hypnosis.
transformational grammar teaches that our language directly affects our subjective experience.
in working with some former jws i had to confiscate certain words and have them create substitutes for something that was more neutral.
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"first JW since 2000 years who would fight with the gun in my hands(!) against guys like you"
And here I thought 'ol Judge Boozey, er I mean Judge Rutherford create JW? Didn't realize they were around for over 2,000 years. Where's my back issues of the 715-857A.D. (oh sorry, "CE") bound volume sets at then?