Vancouver Island is one of the best places in the world to live. We spent part of our honeymoon in Sook and in Ucluelet. If I had a lot of money and could choose to move, Vancouver Island would be very high on the list.
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I have moved to Vancouver Island, BC
by Eric inhave yet to update my profile.
i'm right in victoria.
new job (more work, less pay, what more could i want) does not start up for a little while yet.
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If your thinking about buying a Dell computer....
by RubyTuesday inmy company recently(less than a year ago) replaced all our computers with dell and it has been nothing but a nightmare!.
within 3 months 2 of them had to have their motherboards replaced.thats just the tip of the iceberg.i can't even begin to tell you the numerous "little" problems we have had.you will spend hours on the phone with snotty sarcastic tech support agents ...if you can first figure out how to get to them.. check out this link if you don't believe me.. http://www.smorgasbord.net/blog/archive/000002.shtml.
rumor has it that they are going bankrupt..
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I use a Dell Latitude laptop for work. I have had it three years and will be replaced shortly. (IBM Stinkpads are the new company standard) I say I have had it three years but little if any of it is part of the original. Like many at work the fan was replaced after becoming excessively noisy, the mother board and hard drive were replaced. After that I had the whole thing exchaned keeping only the hard drive. Other than that it is quite a good PC, my only gripe is that you can't it turn it on without opening it, a pain when you use a docking station underneath a monitor. It does seem to have occasional problems when I switch to standby, so I can disconnect and reconnect to a network. Oh, another thing, sometimes it reboots when I plug the Ethernet cable in.
I also have a Dell desktop at home. I have not had any problems with it.
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Churchill's Comment about World State 2 years before WW1
by Thirdson ini found this quote interesting considering how much the watchtower has claimed that the events of 1914 were so unexpected.
winston churchill said this in a recently discovered letter written two years before the conflict of world war 1 began but predicting a war: .
"the european situation is far from safe and anything might happen.
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I lost some detail from the Word document I was using. The quotes are from these Watchtowers
w 5/1/92 p4
w 11/1/86 p6
w 9/15/71 p560
w 2/15/69 p1123rd
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Churchill's Comment about World State 2 years before WW1
by Thirdson ini found this quote interesting considering how much the watchtower has claimed that the events of 1914 were so unexpected.
winston churchill said this in a recently discovered letter written two years before the conflict of world war 1 began but predicting a war: .
"the european situation is far from safe and anything might happen.
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Noumenon,
Thanks for your comment. I have put together these quotes. Maybe I am wrong but I always got the sense the Watchtower has always tried to play up the unexpectedness of World War 1, trying to bolster their claim that a real change ocurred because Satan was cast down. The portions below show the Watchtower's selective quotes. I can't vouch for their accuracy, some are very vague as to their source and I don't know if they are in context. Even if early 1914 was a period of hope and peace the preceeding years were not. The prior 50 years had seen plenty of unrest, problems and war in Europe as massive political changes were happening :
Today, a small percentage of mankind can still recall the dramatic events of 1914. Will that elderly generation pass away before God saves the earth from ruin? Not according to Bible prophecy. "When you see all these things," Jesus promised, "know that he is near at the doors. Truly I say to you that this generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur."?Matthew 24:33, 34.
Suddenly, in August
"The spring and summer of 1914 were marked in by an exceptional tranquillity," wrote British statesman Winston Churchill. People were generally optimistic about the future. "The world of 1914 was full of hope and promise," said Louis Snyder in his book World War I.
True, for many years there had been intense rivalry between and . Nevertheless, as historian G. P. Gooch explains in his book Under Six Reigns: "A European conflict appeared less likely in 1914 than in 1911, 1912 or 1913 . . . The relations of the two governments were better than they had been for years." According to Winston Churchill, a member of ?s 1914 cabinet: " seemed with us, to be set on peace."
W5/1/92 p4For over three decades before 1914, Jehovah?s Witnesses called attention to the significance of this date. Interestingly, however, the book International Crisis, by Eugenia Nomikos and Robert C. North (1976), says that there was "little or no evidence of a steady rise or a ?snowballing? of conflicts and tensions leading directly to the outbreak of war." On the contrary, "by late 1913 and early 1914 . . . relations among the major powers appeared to be more settled than they had been for many years." Yet today, seven decades later, historians do indeed say that 1914 was a turning point in human history. The German reference work Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon, for example, says that "the effects of World War I were literally revolutionary and struck deep in the lives of almost all peoples, economically as well as socially and politically."
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7 In the later 1870?s the first president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society was calling attention to the year 1914 as a marked date in Bible prophecy. But was this to mark the start of an era of blessing for the world? That is what world leaders had been hoping for, even up to the "last year of normalcy" in human history, 1913. However, in 1914, there came instead?World War I! Concerning this the World of , commented: "The terrific war outbreak in has fulfilled an extraordinary prophecy. For a quarter of a century past, through preachers and through press, [Jehovah?s witnesses] have been proclaiming to the world that the Day of Wrath prophesied in the Bible would dawn in 1914. . . . And in 1914 comes war, the war which everybody dreaded but which everyone thought could not really happen." Whose forecasts proved to be truth?those of world leaders, or those of the Bible-based witnesses of Jehovah? (I like this highlighted piece)
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2 In ancient times, customs changed little from generation to generation, so that for hundreds, even thousands of years, the sons lived much like the fathers. But beginning about the time of the so-called Reformation, each successive generation wanted to build, to go beyond what had already been done, so that real progress resulted from that time forward until 1914. But from 1914 everything started to go into reverse, so much so that one news editor was forced to admit: "The last completely ?normal? year in history was 1913, the year before World War I began." Not that great strides have not been made scientifically. But the progress in development of social relations on individual as well as international levels exploded in 1914 into the worst war the world had yet known and has degenerated since then to what is commonly viewed as near anarchy at the present time.
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We should all be dead !!
by Simon inhttp://www.davesdaily.com/strange-over25_02-04.htm
according to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's probably shouldn't have survived.
our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.
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I know we all survived but many of "us" did die because of poor safety standards. How many kids had to die before some safety meausre was introduced? (reduced gaps on cribs etc, etc, etc) More than should have!!! But at times I think we have gone from one extreme to the other and I am astonished at some of the legal clauses written on products. (On a packet of toy mice I bought it said, "supervise your pet when playing with this product.")
I don't miss the home I grew up in without an indoor toilet. I don't miss the time when we had no phone, no refrigerator, no central heating. I cannot believe my parents packed themselves and six kids into a sedan (saloon) with two bench seats and no seatbelts. On one trip we had a "puncture" but I found out later that it wasn't the tire. What had happened was that the hub of the wheel sheared off the rim. What would have happened if the car had rolled over in the accident? I don't miss the brutal treatment of kids at school. I don't think it was right for the head teacher to beat a kid with his rubber soled sneaker in his office and then drag him into the classroom and beat him again in front of the class. The kid survived but I don't know if it benefitted him. It sure scared the hell out of me! Was that a good thing?
Sure, unlike when I was a kid, today's kids don't spend as much time outside as we did. But then again, I didn't have anything to do inside. Today's kids have a lot more choice and a lot more things. Is that good or bad? Despite the complaints from my son about our boring neighborhood, (lakes and beaches in walking distance, parks and trails even closer, a quaint nearby old style town a 15 minute bike ride away on a trail, not a road) our lack of every gadget available, (we have one TV and he doesn't have a cell phone) I think he has a better life now and a better start in life than I had at his age. I don't really miss the 'good ole days'.
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Churchill's Comment about World State 2 years before WW1
by Thirdson ini found this quote interesting considering how much the watchtower has claimed that the events of 1914 were so unexpected.
winston churchill said this in a recently discovered letter written two years before the conflict of world war 1 began but predicting a war: .
"the european situation is far from safe and anything might happen.
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I found this quote interesting considering how much the Watchtower has claimed that the events of 1914 were so unexpected. Winston Churchill said this in a recently discovered letter written two years before the conflict of World War 1 began but predicting a war:
"The European situation is far from safe and anything might happen. It only needs a little ill will or bad faith on the part of a great power to precipitate a far greater conflict."
As quoted in Newsweek 2/16/04
Anyone who has read up on European history at the turn of century will understand that war was inevitable. Robert K. Massie's Dreadnought is an excellent piece on the power struggle between two great powers in Europe, Great Britain and Germany. I thought the Newsweek comment was interesting.
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If JWs are still around in a hundred years, what will they be preaching?
by True North inif the jw org makes it another hundred years, what will they be preaching then?
how will their chronology and doctrines have changed?
if there are colonies on the moon or other moons, or mars, or out among the asteroids, will they still be reporting time in the house-to-house (pod-to-pod?
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Do you suffer from adhesions?
by Tinkerbell4125 inhey guys,.
was wondering if any of you suffer from adhesions?
if so, have you recieved any help for them?
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On occasion I have glued my fingers together with Super Glue. I guess that's suffering from adhesives...not the same huh?
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Did the Circut overseer ever scare you as a kid?
by Singing Man ini will tell you what used to scare me real good was the circuit overseer when he would come to my parents home to stay.
my parents would get real stressed out trying to find just the right food dishs and fix his bed real nice, and fight among them self's because of the stress of it all.
so he always looked like this to me at the young age of six:
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Growing up I wasn't scared. The worst thing I had to do as a kid was recite the books of the Christian Greek Scriptures (NT) in front of the cong during the Saturday evening meeting. I thought I was going to have to do it on my own but was relieved when I got up with a group of kids. I was about 9. The worst of it was the pressure from my parents and older brothers who got away without having to do it because they were teenagers.
During my teen years I only remember nice COs. For several terms we had ones who liked kids and gave the young ones assignments, drawing pictures to be displayed at the special meeting. The kids part would take up a large portion of the Saturday meeting. The other part was generally interesting and the worst the COs did was gently rib the elders.
Once I became an MS I saw the other side and met the likes of Alan Stokes who befriended the rich brothers and pontificated on everything he had a problem with. The DO at that time, Brother (Noble) Bower, was a piece of work too. After that, CO visits were merely a performance review of the worst kind. After I quit being an elder the CO didn't speak to me at his visit. I left the area and moved far away but my reputation must have followed, I never spoke to another CO after quitting as an elder.
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The Two Cow Theory
by Eyebrow2 inthe two cow theory
a christian democrat:
then you covet it.. a socialist:.
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Watchtower Cows
You own 2 cows. After reading the Watchtower you donate both to the Watctower Society to support the Worldwide Dairy Work. The Society milks them for all they are worth and then sells them for dog food. You don't get to drink milk anymore.