The Check Engine light might be what caused it to fail smog. My car was perfectly fine for smog, but the Check Engine light was on for a completely different reason. The smog center failed me because of the Check Engine light. I reset the code, came back and passed. What does the smog report say?
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Oregon State members..NEED HELP
by badseed into make a long story short, i need a physical address in the southern part of the state (outside medford area) ex: klamath falls, etc.
it doesn't have to be the south but has to be outside portland or medford areas.. the reason is that i'm presently in bakersfield ca and my vehicle (which is fine, btw) doesn't pass the emission requirements for registration.
so i need to register my vehicle where an emissions test is not required.
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Another building sold for $ 6.6M
by TJ Curioso insee here:.
http://therealdeal.com/blog/2012/04/23/final-jehovahs-witnesses-property-sells-for-6-6m-to-be-used-for-luxury-rentals/.
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Yep, it makes little sense to be selling prime real estate right in the middle of a mortgage crisis. It's not like these properties are in some boom-and-bust cookie cutter suburb outside of Vegas. They are smack dab on the waterfront facing downtown Manhattan. It would have made more sense to try and wait this one out and try for a better deal in a few years. Properties like the ones they have in Brooklyn will always maintain their value. There's something else to this. If one of us could only be in the WT accounting office close to a copy machine right about now.
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Oregon State members..NEED HELP
by badseed into make a long story short, i need a physical address in the southern part of the state (outside medford area) ex: klamath falls, etc.
it doesn't have to be the south but has to be outside portland or medford areas.. the reason is that i'm presently in bakersfield ca and my vehicle (which is fine, btw) doesn't pass the emission requirements for registration.
so i need to register my vehicle where an emissions test is not required.
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Well then you are definitely going to not only need a permanent address, but proof that you are living there such as a utility bill, a rent contract, etc. I moved from CA to OR once and that's what I had to do. They are naturally wary of people moving up there for seemingly no good reason. What I would do is contact a homeless shelter up there once you get there. Tell them your problem, and they might have some sort of solution for you, such as a letter stating that you are living out of your van in Oregon, have no permanent address, and you need to obtain an OR license and registration in order to seek employment. But the key is getting proof of your residency. Try the OR DMV website. It tells you exactly what you need to do to get licensed there.
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The Society saying that some partakers might be mentally unbalanced or influenced by previous religious beliefs is just their peculiar way of saying that just because someone partakes, it doesn't mean that they are qualified or have been approved by the Society to do so. This issue likely came up during a GB meeting about the rising numbers of partakers, and they decided that the easiest path would be to disconnect from the practice by not directly policing it from up top. The bullying can be done much more effectively by local elders and COs. If someone partakes, they will "allow" it and count it, and let the local cops do the dirty work of placing guilt trips if need be.
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Oregon State members..NEED HELP
by badseed into make a long story short, i need a physical address in the southern part of the state (outside medford area) ex: klamath falls, etc.
it doesn't have to be the south but has to be outside portland or medford areas.. the reason is that i'm presently in bakersfield ca and my vehicle (which is fine, btw) doesn't pass the emission requirements for registration.
so i need to register my vehicle where an emissions test is not required.
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Bakersfield to Klamath Falls is 576 miles one way. That's at least four fill-ups worth of gas for the round trip, or $200 right up front, not to mention the time, motels, food, and so forth. Besides, it's CA law that you have to have your car registered there within a certain amount of time that you move there. If they pull you over with a CA driver's license, but with an OR license plate that's registered to you, you'll get a ticket. Are you sure there's not a better solution for you? Have you checked Craigslist for mechanics who will smog it for you, or are you stuck on $1500?
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Memories of Fred Franz
by Sic Semper Tyrannis ini've only met the man properly three times, and all of them through my uncle who was the district convention overseer.
however, there was another time when i ran into him by chance that was amusing.
we were all staying at the marriott.
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Rumors of Fred Franz staying up late with young men at Bethel in the sauna. They called them 'sauna parties'.
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UK convention dramas recorded by American actors - the GB's yearly gaffe
by cedars ini'm just curious as to whether any of my fellow brits ever pondered how the society can be so stupid as to insist using the us drama tapes at uk conventions rather than having them re-recorded in a british accent?.
as all of us brits know, the convention drama is a subject of subdued derision among uk publishers - and i've been to many a party or social gathering where, at some point, somebody whose had a little too much coke re-enacts a scene from a drama mockingly (typically by gesturing wildly into the air and saying "jer-ho-vah gaaard!!
" in an over-the-top american accent).. what the society clearly doesn't understand is that the dramas really lose their emotional impact with british audiences when performed in an american accent by amateurs.
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The worst voice of all was GB member Lyman Swingle on the Book of Bible Stories audio tapes. It was so nasal and whiny that I can't even detect the region he's from. I think his bio said he was from Nebraska. He almost sounded like he was angry when he gave the story number. "STORY number SEVENTY-SEVEN! They Would NOT BOW DOWN! DO YOU remember hearing about these THREE men?"
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1966 Book : Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God
by binadub insomewhat of a turning point occurred for me in 1966 when life everlasting in freedom of the sons of god book was released at the assemblies that year.
this you may know was the book that calculated 1975 would end 6000 years of humanity on earth possibly leaving the "thousand years" of revelation to complete the 7000-year "creative day.
" jehovah's witnesses jumped on this implication as "new light" with enormous enthusiasm.
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I might be of a minority here, but to concoct what Franz came up with requires a perverse and dubious sort of talent. I am college educated and have written theses before, but to come up with something like the Life Everlasting book is way out of my range.
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Do you guys think there will be a time when everyone will leave the JWs?
by FinchAndWeston inin 50 or so years when jws realize that the fds's promises were lies, would everyone just get up and leave?.
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As Nathan Knorr once said, "We have to keep these presses running". I think the news of these developments regarding the downsizing of printing has tempered down the seriousness of everything because we all (JWs and ex-JWs alike) are getting so used to changes in the last 20 or so years. If they had eliminated one Awake! magazine a month in say, 1972, people would have rightly wondered what was the matter. People still do, especially among the ex-community, but Witnesses in particular have been conditioned to accept any change as Jehovah moving things forward and organizing the preaching for the final effort. Thus the deleted magazines are because of the end is becoming so closer and I'd imagine if there are more branch closings, they might even try to imply that there are government restrictions in place that forced the decision, and that means the Great Tribulation is at hand. No one in their right mind thinks that there will be no JWs in 50 or so years. The point has been made that organization's best years are behind it, and you'll see a lot of consolidation to come. The Society wont cease to exist either, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a rump organization based out of one of the Wallkill and Patterson complexes, with PO Boxes and Private Mail Bags scattered throughout the world. It's a publishing empire, and the guts got taken out of it when they found that they can no longer count on people paying for everything they print. A publisher that has no books that people are buying goes bankrupt and out of business. Through the remaining trickle of donations and sale of properties they'll limp on. But without a steady stream of new literature to offer at doors, it's hard to see the preaching work being too effective. It already is weak enough.
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This is truly embarrassing. The numbers are moving in the wrong direction. The 144,000 is a finite number according to Witness doctrine. If this number keeps growing, they are going to have to completely eliminate the possibility of any true Christians being in full communion with Christ existing between the first century and the rise of CT Russell in the 1870s. As Ray Franz put it so delicately, true Christianity had been reduced to a handful of Americans in Pennsylvania in the late 19th century.