Posts by James Brown

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Is it selfish to enjoy life?
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i mean there are some great debates running on this forum :-.

what is spirit exactly?.

what is love?.
James Brown

You should enjoy yourself, every minute of your life.

And when you figure out how to do it.

Watch out because you will piss off a lot of people around you.
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What would be your favorite job if you could do anything.?
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on the basis that most of us realise the w.t wasnt really the best " job" or way to spend our days, it would be fun to find out what people would really have liked to have done with there lifes and if this is still possible.

or maybe its not even a very realistic ambition just a dream.

in my dreams i stay at home all day and make a living from being a professional artist.maybe i need a phycholgist?.
James Brown

I'm 62 and retired now for 2 years.

It was rough but I made it. And then again compared to some it was a cake walk.

When I was young, I had ambition and energy.

Now that I am retired, I don't have any ambition and it is hard to muster the energy.

I retired as a detention officer in the county jail.

I got a retirement and had good benefits while I worked but it was a demandng job

requiring a lot of hours and stifled my avocation, my extracuricular activities.

I would say for the amount of energy 2 years of college, I put into it. Being a civil servant

for the state was a good job.

But I wish I would have gotten a 4 year degree out of high school and become a school

teacher.

I would have had more time to pursue my avocation of music.

School teachers get the summer off and are home at nights and on the weekends.

All time I could have pursued music.

During my life, I was a rock star of sorts.

I played music in bars and festivities on the weekends.

I had people ask me and my band mates for our autographs

I had lots of girls women flash us in front of the stage.

To just have been a straight rock star,

is a risky proposition.

You have to have a lot of luck and some talent.

If your not the top bannana, the head honcho, the Robert Plant, Jimmy Page of

the group, you don't necessarily end up all that well at the end.

I know a rock star with a national hit from the 70's who lives in his car.

I know because I replaced him in a band. And his car was falling apart.

Florida is home to many, many rock stars and most of them don't live any better than I.

I know where they live, I have seen their homes.

It is kind of anticlimatic.

I'm talking about 2nd teir rockstars.

2nd tier is every body below the Beatles and the Stones.

Then again maybe I live pretty well here in Florida.

I had a good life.

If I could have tweaked it, I would have been a school teacher and

made just a little more music.

But I get to make music every day.

Now that I am retired and I do.

I started my life wanting to be a fireman.

I took a lot of test and went all the way through

the process with St Petersburgh.

And at the last minute they said we have budget restrictions

with the fire department.

We are going to make you a policeman.

So I spent my life in law enforcement.

Being a fireman would have given me more time off to play music.

At least I thought so.

Firemen work 1 day and are off 2 So every other day you have a weekend.

Plus they get paid to sleep.

When I was young and applied for the fire department.

Firemen fought fires, so there wasnt much to do.

Nowadays, firemen are heart attack specialist and emergency responders to health crisis

in big trucks with ladders.

The job doesnt seem so appealing today.

I still pursue music and hopefully someday, I will find the lost chord.

Or make another Dark side of the moon album.

Every day, I try to write one song.

Everyday I turn on the recorder and record.

I wish I could make paragraphs on this site.
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Books that changed your life-
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i am not much of a reader as i have two many distractions, but i fancy a challenging read, so please list any book that has changed your entire world view on everything.

i remember as a teenager buying at a yard sale, norman vincent peales " the power of positive thinking" and at the time that had a big impact on me.

but i am a little bit more in to " realistic positive thinking" now..
James Brown

On the Way out are you saying that you are Alan Miller who wrote Fade From the Truth on Amzon?

Fade From the Truth: A Tale of Learning then Unlearning the Beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses by Alan Miller (Apr 23, 2012)
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Books that changed your life-
by new hope and happiness in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i am not much of a reader as i have two many distractions, but i fancy a challenging read, so please list any book that has changed your entire world view on everything.

i remember as a teenager buying at a yard sale, norman vincent peales " the power of positive thinking" and at the time that had a big impact on me.

but i am a little bit more in to " realistic positive thinking" now..
James Brown

"Slave Species of God" by Michael Tillinger.

Of All the 100's of books on my shelf that is the second most precious.

It has been about 6 years since I read it.

I will have to go back and re read it and see if it still has it.

Oh yeah, For better or for worse I will have to say the Bible is number 1.

It is a mixed bag but it has some gems. It got me this far for better or for worse.

The books of Proverbs, Ecclesiasses and Psalm are full of gems and wisdom.
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IS Science Absolute Truth
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if we have faith in science and scientific claims about the universe, origins of life etc.

is that absolute truth.

if so then if they declare that god exists with evidence then do all those who believe in science then believe in god or a creator.
James Brown

Thank you, Cofty.
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IS Science Absolute Truth
by seekchristonly in
1. watchtower
2. bible
if we have faith in science and scientific claims about the universe, origins of life etc.

is that absolute truth.

if so then if they declare that god exists with evidence then do all those who believe in science then believe in god or a creator.
James Brown

My original post was not trolling.

I have been reeling Shrley in though.

Sorry.
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IS Science Absolute Truth
by seekchristonly in
1. watchtower
2. bible
if we have faith in science and scientific claims about the universe, origins of life etc.

is that absolute truth.

if so then if they declare that god exists with evidence then do all those who believe in science then believe in god or a creator.
James Brown

"Is science absolute truth" is not rocket science, you can look that up.

I am posting facts like every body else and giving my opinon of the facts, like everybody else.

As far as the humor, you wouldnt get it anyway Shirley.

So any ways how old are you shirley.

12 or 13?
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IS Science Absolute Truth
by seekchristonly in
1. watchtower
2. bible
if we have faith in science and scientific claims about the universe, origins of life etc.

is that absolute truth.

if so then if they declare that god exists with evidence then do all those who believe in science then believe in god or a creator.
James Brown

What's a "dry sense of humor?"?

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070625210157AABIvfj

Dry humor is not bad and it most definetly is funny. It's not for people without enough brain power like the other answerer though. It's Bevis and Butthead for those guys. Most humor that adults enjoy, the ones that score over a thousand on their SAT's like dry homor. Most political humor is dry. Jerry Seinfeld used mostly dry humor in his stand up routiens.

Dry Humor sample:
A Cowboy And His Bible
The devout cowboy lost his favorite Bible while he was mending fences out on the range.

Three weeks later, a cow walked up to him carrying the Bible in its mouth. The cowboy couldn't believe his eyes. He took the precious book out of the cow's mouth, raised his eyes heavenward and exclaimed, "It's a miracle!"

"Not really," said the cow. "Your name is written inside the cover."

It's hard to define. But the best way I found is this:

Dry humor: marked by matter-of-fact (or indifferent in manner), ironic, sarcastic, or terse manner of expression.

It could be a bad thing for some. Personally, I like that kind of humor.
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IS Science Absolute Truth
by seekchristonly in
1. watchtower
2. bible
if we have faith in science and scientific claims about the universe, origins of life etc.

is that absolute truth.

if so then if they declare that god exists with evidence then do all those who believe in science then believe in god or a creator.
James Brown

James Brown - I have just re-read DCMS last post and I can't understand why you would respond that way. He makes a very reasonable point

He is assuming I have an agenda.

He is assuming that I am trying to ridicule science.

I am not.

I am just posting facts.

I responded to the heading topic.

Is science absolute truth.

I say, said it is until it isnt, an absolute truth.

Its not rocket science.

The fact that science corrects itself is an obvious given.

and is also reflected in my saying it is an absolute truth until it is not.

And anyways its just my opinion.

Some days science says milk is good, some days they say milk is bad.

Some days they say beef/meat is good, some days they say it is bad.

Some days butter is good some days, butter is bad.

Some days vitamins are good some days they are bad.

Some days cholesterol is good some days it is bad.

Some days the atkinson diet is good some days it is bad.
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IS Science Absolute Truth
by seekchristonly in
1. watchtower
2. bible
if we have faith in science and scientific claims about the universe, origins of life etc.

is that absolute truth.

if so then if they declare that god exists with evidence then do all those who believe in science then believe in god or a creator.
James Brown

Shirley I'm not knocking science.

Something is good until it is not, is a common life phrase in the working world.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

It sounds like you have an agenda.

I am just posting to the topic.

Your comment and observation is so obvious and painful about my comment that it is obvious that you have

some sort of agenda.

I am not defending religion.

How old are you shriley. 12, 13

James Brown

Posts by James Brown

Fade From the Truth: A Tale of Learning then Unlearning the Beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses by Alan Miller (Apr 23, 2012)