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  Confession Time - Music You're Embarrassed to Admit Listening To

  by Simon in

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  admit it, we all have things that we reel off when people ask what our favourite music is, just the same as if people ask what our favourite movies are.

  we're meant to say "citizen kane" and "casablanca" and not "battleship" or "pacific rim" but we know what we're going to watch if they are ever on tv at the same time (and which ones we've never actually seen).. so how about some confession time?

  what do you listen to when no one else is in the house?.

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  Schlager...

  Schlager is a genre of music half-way between modern rock and traditional folk music.

  --Simple melodies deliberately designed to get stuck in your head. It's typically (although not always) sung by an attractive woman and often sickly sweet. (Enough to make your teeth fall out.)

  English speakers might be familiar with ABBA, Aqua and A-Ha, which are all technically schlager, although not the purest examples of it.

  It's not that I don't like other, more serious forms of music. I do.

  Schlager cheers me up when I'm in a bad mood though. --A little bit like comedy that's so stupid you find yourself laughing anyway.

  Here's a good example: (Not that I've ever listened to it - LOL)

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU0aKa7PFBg
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  1975 and 1981?

  by Steel in

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  is it true that in 1975 the watchtower falsely predicted the end of the world and a great number of the membership quit and just a few years later they turned disassociation into disfellowshipping?

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  No need to leave, who cares about that one down voter? It's probably just a JW who is waking up and lurking, but still in that angry stage of denial.

  Yes.

  Like hissy feral kittens. Terrified and fascinated at the same time.
  
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  1975 and 1981?

  by Steel in

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  is it true that in 1975 the watchtower falsely predicted the end of the world and a great number of the membership quit and just a few years later they turned disassociation into disfellowshipping?

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  Is it true that in 1975 the watchtower falsely predicted the end of the world

  1975 became a prophetic focal point starting in the mid 1960's. The idea was that it marked 6000 years since Adam's creation. with the next 1000 years (give or take) being the millennium.
  

  and a great number of the membership quit..

  I'm not sure if anybody knows exact numbers. The JW faith has a core of active members as well as a fringe of people who are sympathetic, but might only attend the Memorial once a year.

  Events like the Cuban Missle Crises, for example, would result in greatly increased attendance, but this would drop off when the event passed.

  1975 was a similar event. When the year came and went and nothing happened, attendance fell. How many true believers actually left, I'm not sure.
  
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  The smug arrogance of "having the truth".

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  has anyone noticed that witnesses (from the top down) seem to have a quiet form of smug arrogance toward all non witnesses?.

  perhaps it comes from being told how "special and unique" they are but they end up looking down on all normal members of the community because they are not witnesses.. so any form of "love" they show those in the territory is also limited as long as they accept the message...otherwise they are viewed contemptuously as "worldly" and therefore of little value...after all,they will be destroyed right?.

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  Yes. I got it all the time when my wife was a true believer.

  Sometimes it was irritating enough to hand them my Novum Testamentum Graece when they offered to 'prove' something to me from my own Bible

  I don't think it's intentional as most of the JWs I've known have been basically good people.

  It's an unavoidable consequence of their belief, or more specifically the fragility of that belief.
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  As Seen On TV....Have You Ever Tried Any Of Their Products?

  by minimus in

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  if you have , was it worth what you paid?

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  Blenders are another test case - even the pricier ones would honk out quickly making fresh salsa daily - guess that's why they make food processors.

  Yes. Blender vs. Food Processor is another good example of universal (blender) vs. induction (Most food processor) motors. Induction motors do not spin as fast (Speed is limited by the line frequency) but they are work horses.
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  As Seen On TV....Have You Ever Tried Any Of Their Products?

  by minimus in

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  if you have , was it worth what you paid?

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  Yes.

  We bought a juice machine from an infomercial once. --Three easy payments, yada, yada, yada.

  It's an extremely high quality appliance. A real induction rather than a universal motor, so it's quiet, powerful and has no brushes to ever replace.

  We just don't use it. It sits up on a high shelf next to the bread machine we got from Sharper Image. (Are they still around?)
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  Did Russell come up with the no hell fire and no Trinity doctrine or did steal that belief from another religion as well?

  by nowwhat? in

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  just wondering hate to give the devil his due.

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  His [Russell's] sincerity does not preclude him being a charlatan.

  Charlatan in the sense of being a quack. Not in the sense of being a malicious trickster; a swindler; one who deceives for personal profit, etc..
  
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  CSA and letters of response

  by problemaddict 2 in

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  hi guys.

  been a while since i've poked my head in.

  i have a fairly specific question.

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  about the feasibility of Noah's Ark. It was a great read.

  Great as in entertaining?
  
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  Did Russell come up with the no hell fire and no Trinity doctrine or did steal that belief from another religion as well?

  by nowwhat? in

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  just wondering hate to give the devil his due.

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  He did not come up with either of the two ideas, but to be fair, being repulsed by the idea of a burning hell is a point in his favor.

  The reason he rejected Wendell's brand of Adventism and embraced Barbour's was because the former was about fiery judgment, while the latter was about restitution.
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  Spinoza

  by Hairtrigger in

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  did you know that when einstein attended some conferences in the numerous universities of the usa, the recurring question that the students asked him was:.

  - do you believe in god?.

  and he always answered:.

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  Spinoza's god and Einstein's belief are relatively close to modern Judaism: God exists but he doesn't need you...

  Again, Einstein rejected belief in a personal God. No personality. No volition. No he.

  Only abstract principle