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  Bob Dylan: The Basement Tapes Complete (the Bootleg Series Vol. 11)

  by Simon in

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  bob dylan is an artist like no other.

  while some spend months or even years working on and crafting an album, some of his have been cut over a long weekend.. some have been great, some are near misses - some seem awful at the time and then come into their own a decade later.. the mistique around the man has always driven demand for his music especially the unrelease stuff.

  the original bootleg album was "the basement tapes" recorded with the band after his motorcycle accident of the late 60's.

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  I got mine from Amazon a few days ago, and I'm enjoying listening through it. Some of the stuff on the first disc was sort of bland, with a similar sound to all the tracks. I suspect a lot of that was covers of old folk songs, not Dylan's own material. But moving on through, there are some fascinating alternate versions of the songs that are already well-known, either from earlier releases or cover versions (including a version of "Tears of Rage" in slow waltz time). Well worth the investment, but Dylan always is.

  Dylan has been my favorite musician since the 60s; my friends used to kid me that if Dylan made an album of himself burping and farting, I'd buy it. They were probably right, and he's come close once or twice. But, heck, I even like Christmas in the Heart - Christmas carols croaked out by an old Jewish guy. The guy's a genius, that's all.
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  Do you remember the 15 minute break at the Sun. meeting?

  by 3rdgen in

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  a poster on another thread reminded me of when there was a 15 min.

  break between the talk and the wt study on sundays.

  the break was supposed to be to allow jw's time to drive their bible studys home from the talk.

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  They had them when I first started going to the meetings in 1967. I believe that by the time I got baptized in 1969, they had already gone away. Of course, congregations in other areas may have done it differently.
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  Does ANYONE use RSS anymore?

  by nicolaou in

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  just wondering .

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  NeonMadman

  When Google Reader went away, I switched to Feedly, which took a bit of adjustment, but now that I'm used to it, works just as well. I use it to keep track of posts on this site, among others.
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  I'm tired of the org misquoting scholars to support there heretical NWT

  by yogosans14 in

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  day after day jws are constantly fighting with me over the internet that the nwt is the most accurate translation and then they prove it by quoting scholars from the watchtower magazines.

  they tell me i'm biased and there rendering of john 1:1 as "a god" is approved by scholars but i have researched there so called "supporters" and i have found they have tooken what they said out of context to twist the scriptures to there liking.. .

  dr. julius r. mantey (who is even recognized by the watchtower as a greek scholar since they quote his book on page 1158 of their kingdom interlinear translation): calls the watchtower translation of john 1:1 "a grossly misleading translation.

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  According to Walter Martin, Mantey carried the KIT with him as he traveled. This brings up a question. Why would a scholar of his caliber bother to take the WT KIT with him if it was so badly translated? Me thinks, he found a lot of good in it which he did not want to admit publicly. If that wasn't the case, and his motive was to criticise it at every oportunity he got, it would show that Mantey was emotionally obsessed in proving the WT wrong, which would indicate he wasn't much different from WT and Evangelical fanatics.

  I can think of a couple of reasons why Mantey might have done that (if, indeed, he did - I'd be interested in seeing the quotation from Dr. Martin).

  First, it may have been something about which he was confronted frequently, therefore felt he should have the book with him in case it came up.

  Second (and more likely, imho), the KIT contained a perfectly good reproduction of the Westcott and Hort critical text of the NT. The Watchtower had nothing to do with producing that Greek text; they simply lifted it in toto as the "original Greek" in the KIT. If I recall correctly, the KIT sold for $2.00 when it was first issued - probably a whole lot cheaper (and hence more replaceable, if something happened to it while traveling) than other critical text editions available at the time. The only part of the KIT that was actually the work of the WTS was the NWT rendering in the margins. The interlinear English renderings were probably simply taken from various lexicons. So the KIT could have just been an inexpensive means of carrying the W&H Greek text while traveling.
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  TMS schedule for 2015?

  by PlatinumFix in

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  just a question - has anyone seen the tms schedule for 2015 yet?.

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  It always used to come in the October Kingdom Ministry, back in the day. But it isn't in the one that's online at jw.org.
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  Rowan and Martin Laugh-in prophecy comes true but ---- WT?

  by LogCon in

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  in 1969 rowan and martins laugh-in prophecied the fall of the berlin wall in 1989.. 20 years later in 1989, november, the berlin wall started to come down.. weird?.

  rowan and martin get it right but the wt consistently wrong?

  go to 4:14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ompr9dalspg.

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  Awesome chick from The Avengers = Diana Rigg.
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  New method of appointing Regular Pioneers!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  a new arrangement for appointing regular pioneers has been announced.. in the past, a person would have to fill in a form from the society, this would have to be approved by the local elders, then this would be sent to the branch for final approval and appointment.. now it is just the local elders that approve it.

  it doesn't need the branch approval any more.. they are selling it as a way to "speed up the process in order to be more effective in the ministry during these urgent times blah blah".

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  Watch for MS and elder appointments to be made by the acting CO's. That was another CYA move by the GB when they began using local elders as CO's.

  No need to watch; it's already here. It was announced in a BOE letter back in April, and as of Sept 1, MS and elders are now appointed directly by the CO.
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  A rose by any other name..............

  by sparrowdown in

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  i'm curious, why and how did you choose your username?.

  does it hold any special significance for you, is there a share-able back story?.

  for me sparrowdown is a playful reference to matt 10:29 and the title of the movie black hawk down.. matt 10:29 was my go-to scrip to "prove" that god cares about us as individuals.

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  NeonMadman

  Now the bricks lay on Grand Street
  Where the neon madmen climb
  They all fall there so perfectly
  It all seems so well timed
  An’ here I sit so patiently
  Waiting to find out what price
  You have to pay to get out of
  Going through all these things twice
  Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
  To be stuck inside of Mobile
  With the Memphis blues again -Bob Dylan
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  pioneer book

  by itisme in

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  does anyone have the pioneer book?

  the new one: fully accomplish your ministry.

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  NeonMadman

  Shouldn't be too long before a pdf of it turns up somewhere on the internet.
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  My Husband Confesses His Sole Regret for My Exit....

  by humbled in

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  2. humour

  ( important note: my husband hated that i became a jw.

  hated everything about it.).

  he is the one who every morning makes our coffee in his beat-up metal perculator.

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  NeonMadman

  It would be interesting to do a study as to the protective effectiveness of the new 16-page magazines for use as trivets vs. the old 32-pagers.