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  Floor buffing mishaps?

  by JimmyPage in

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  ever slipped on the stripper?

  had someone track through your wax?

  lost control of your buffer?

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  Do you think on an ex-mormon thread this thread would get any responses? Only on a ex-JW website. LMAO at the tiger by the tail comment.
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  The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness- No need for religion in spirituality

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  reading tmj4477's thread about religion after jw's and reading perry trying to counter ak-jeff on a thread about god and suffering, both of these made me want to post some eastern thought that doesn't fall into the category of "religious" but might help nonetheless.. .

  excerpt from the wisdom of no escape (with subtitle: and the path of loving-kindness).

  chapter 8: no such thing as a true storyin taoism there's a famous saying that goes, "the tao that can be spoken is not the ultimate tao.

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  Good stuff! Thanks for the posts everyone.
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  I love pioneering

  by startingover in

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  one little girl.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybrtccemsoc&feature=related.

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  I love pioneering, NOT!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGRZKnjkZt4&feature=related
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  I love pioneering

  by startingover in

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  one little girl.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybrtccemsoc&feature=related.

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  One little girl...

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBrTccemsOc&feature=related
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  God and Suffering

  by AK - Jeff in

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  a few weeks back, in the midst of the haiti tragedy, much discussion took place in cyberland about the tolerance [or indeed the insistence on] suffering by a loving god.

  the furor over haiti has settled a bit [as unfortunately most tragedy is wont to do far too quickly in the human mind], but this persistent matter continues to chew at my subconscience.

  today i came across this:.

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  I've seen discussions like this go on and on. Bottom line, everyone on this thread is going to get old and die and cease to exist, like it or not. I know it's hard for some to accept, but that's reality.
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  "Does the Christian God Exist?"

  by leavingwt in

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  last night, author and ex-christian, john w. loftus debated dinesh d'souza on the topic, "does the christian god exist?".

  below is loftus' opening statement.. .

  in every single case dineshs response will be pretty much the same.

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  Thanks for posting LeavingWT. Very well written argument IMO.

  Trouble is, as a believer in a Christian god, my eyes would have glazed over after the first paragraph. Did you really read the whole thing Snowbird?
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  Music of 1960's and Early 1970's

  by Farkel in

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  thanks shamus.

  i forgot i needed to load ie to put up a youtube video.. there was such great music in the 1960's and early 1970's it's hard to remember them all.

  here are two great ones from that era.. in my lifetime there has been no period of less than a decade that has produced anywhere near the amount of great music that was produced in those years.. farkel.

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  Black Oak and Jim Dandy! Classic! I had heard he was David Lee Roth's inspiration, but I had never seen him live. Looks like it could be true.

  My offering, great modern version by George himself:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xRNJmgPO9M
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  Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk

  by Rabbit in

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  now...this guy has the ring of truth in his words, as i remember it.

  i wonder, too, is tony 'present' here ?.

  http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-02-03/culture/awkward-armageddon-confessions-of-a-teenage-jesus-jerk.

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  I can sure relate to that!
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  DISHONEST debates and discussions are everywhere!

  by Terry in

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  people don't listen when you talk to them.

  ever notice that?.

  the silence while you are speaking isn't listening.

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  TD, your comment about knowing a position you are arguning against so well you could argue for it really hit home with me. Any time I have a discussion with my JW wife, what you say is true, and it ticks her off when I mention that I know what she's going to say. It's just really hard to sit there and listen to a long explanation when I already know that position.

  Thanks for the link, going to take a look at it later.
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  An announcement from the Watchtower?

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  to be read by the co-ordinator of the body of elders at the earliest opportunity to the whole congregation, a copy of which is to be posted on the kingdom hall noticeboard and preferably local and national newspapers.. to the worldwide brotherhood of jehovah's witnesses;.

  dear brothers and sisters,.

  it is with a heavy 'heart of wisdom' that we address you all today.. we have thought long and hard, and some of us even prayerfully, of how to bring out this latest 'new light'.. for many years now we have taught what we thought were delightful words of truth.

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  The Worldwide Church of God did it so it is possible.