A very talented friend and I recently recorded a (non-religious) song that I wrote back in my days as a young JW. Thought some of you might enjoy listening. You can hear it at http://www.macjams.com/song/74898. Let me know what you think (Be gentle).
NeonMadman
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A Song I Wrote in my JW Days...
by NeonMadman ina very talented friend and i recently recorded a (non-religious) song that i wrote back in my days as a young jw.
thought some of you might enjoy listening.
you can hear it at http://www.macjams.com/song/74898.
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Now that the Storm is over in the Northeast,
by ldrnomo incan we hear from any of you that went through it?.
do you have power yet?.
are you staying with friends?.
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NeonMadman
We are in northern NJ, and we were without power (and thus without heat and running water) for 5 days after the storm. Electricity came back on early last Sunday morning, but we just got internet access back this morning. We still have no landline phone, only our cell phones. We are not nearly as bad off as many, friends elsewhere in town only got power back within the last day or so. The second storm was no issue; we got about 2" of snow from it, which has already melted. Things are slowly getting back to normal, and it wasn't as bad for us as for those in coastal areas.
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Anyone else in the path of Hurricane Sandy?
by ShirleyW inso far here in nyc nothing but light rain and wind, i wish it would stay that way for the duration, but they say so far it's gonna hit hard.. .
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NeonMadman
We're across the river in New Jersey, and so far it's just raining with (mostly) light wind. But both do seem to be slowly increasing in intensity. We've hunkered in the house and have no intention of going anywhere till at least Wednesday.
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Another Music Topic - Best of Album of the Last 12 months?
by cantleave infor me nothing comes close to muse's "the second law" - imo muse are up there with the greatest rock bands of all time and this album is near perfect.. .
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NeonMadman
Personally, I'll go with Bob Dylan's Tempest.
Speaking of music, I recently recorded a song that I wrote way back in the 70s. You can hear it at http://www.macjams.com/song/74898.
Nothing like a bit of self-promotion...
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I just watched 3 days
by mouthy inof the witnesses for jesus convention....pennsylvania .
it was great.
did anyone else watch it????
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NeonMadman
Awesome!
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There is something that has always bothered me...
by braincleaned init always bothers me that the society boasts unity, as jehovah's witnesses don't have other branches and groups stemming from them, like the amish for example.
the wts is justified to brag unity of belief; to the point where the same program is taught in the whole world.. i blame those who leave and yet continue to believe in jehovah and jesus (i'm an atheist).
it seems a schism is above those who dissent from the org.
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NeonMadman
If you were an atheist who started to believe in God, would you form a group called "Atheist Believers in God"? Once you have seen that the WTS is wrong, why would you continue to follow their structure or identify with them, regardless of what direction your new beliefs led you in? Ex-JWs who become atheists tend to hang with other atheists, not set up a special breakaway branch of JW-ism for atheists. Ex-JWs who become orthodox (small o) Christians tend to join churches, not set up new groups as breakaways. Anyone who starts a breakaway group really hasn't broken away, in my opinion.
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I just watched 3 days
by mouthy inof the witnesses for jesus convention....pennsylvania .
it was great.
did anyone else watch it????
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NeonMadman
Doc Bob was faithfully in the back of the room running the sound booth. It was a great time. Wish you had been there, Grace! We miss you lots.
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Teenage son's last WT comment. Major sphincter puckering on my part.
by Open mind ini thought maybe some of us might enjoy something light-hearted to start the week off.
at dinner last night my teenage son reminded me of the last kh meeting he attended with me about a year ago.
he is a big fan of christopher hitchins and self-identifies as an atheist.
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NeonMadman
I like this kid already.
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New tactic by the Watchtower?
by Christ Alone ini have noticed that lately everything that the watchtower "reports" is spoken of in the third person.
they take the role of "reporter" and use terms such as "they" "them" and "the witnesses".. notice this "official" report about their massive nwt braille bible:.
http://www.jw.org/en/news/by-region/world/six-foot-bible/.
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NeonMadman
Nothing new about their using the third person in reference to themselves. I can remember them doing that as far back as the 1960s. Makes it seem as if the material is being written by an impartial third party.
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Creepy Facebook friend requests but no message or even just a hello
by yadda yadda 2 indoes anyone else think its a bit rude and creepy for people from your way distant past or having only the tenuous of social connection with you to request being your friend on facebook but then totally ignore you, not even say a simple hello?.
this annoys me and i have a policy of deleting them after a month if they don't make communicative contact because by not even sending a message to say "hi, how are ya after all these years" they are not being friendly just apparently nosey bastards who wanna see my photos and what i've been up to in my life and then basically ignore me.
ive had this experience with a lot of jw's from my past.
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NeonMadman
Someone from my past I wouldn't have such a problem with; it's the total strangers who have no mutual friends with me that make me scratch my head.