Posts by Xander

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What kind of music do you listen to?

by Leander in

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i'm a music junkie, i like pretty much all types of music.

but in particular i would have to say jazz is my favorite, but not the watered down kenny g style of jazz.

i prefer the straight ahead, hard bop type of jazz.. lately i've been really getting into psychedelia rock.

Xander

My taste tends to follow much of the trend here - big Metallica fan (c'mon, how can anyone NOT like 'No Leaf Clover'??)

Some country ain't bad. Big fan of Allison Kraus and Emmylou Harris - mostly I like a lot of the folkier sounding country than the twangy 'pop-country'.

In fact, thanks in no small part to 'Songcatcher', we've been picking up a ton of folk/bluegrass music CDs lately, and been very impressed with what we hear (wife was a folk fan from way back - Nanci Griffith, John Prine, etc.).

Of course, Nine Inch Nails is very cool...people getting hung up on lyrics that challenge their preconceptions makes me laugh.

Ok well to be fair I think I've heard 4 Rap songs in the past

Try 'Ganstas Paradise' by Coolio. Older, to be sure (was on the soundtrack to 'Dangerous Minds'), but I don't think I've heard of anyone who didn't like it.

Elwood did a rap remake of 'Sundown', which I like a lot better than the original - many seem to think it's okay.

Eminem's 'Stan' is very good. Essex Court ft Quiz 'Standin Ground' is also pretty good cross-genre stuff.

Most rap doesn't appeal to mainstream listeners, but there is a LOT of rap that does - mostly the stuff that actually tries to be music instead of offensive - better lyrics, better vocals, better instrumentals, better resampling, etc. Again, see 'Gangstas Paradise' above.

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Today's Spiritual Junk Food At The Proper Time

by Valis in

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it looks like there are some new artists at bethel these days.... .

sincerely, .

district overbeer

Xander

Someone having fun w/ photoshop!

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Artificial blood verges on practicality

by ozziepost in

here's a report i've read in the japanese media which is of interest to those with jw connections:.

in japan, the health, labor and welfare ministry has been promoting the development of artificial blood products since 1997, supporting a project designed to address the safety issues of donor blood and the problems of supply shortages.. waseda's research.

at waseda university, a group led by professor-emeritus eishun tsuchida and associate professor shinji takeoka has developed an artificial red blood cell that has been proven safe and effective in studies with rats where half of the blood was substituted.. because hemoglobin molecules are around 1,000 times smaller than red blood cells, they cannot be simply injected into blood vessels because the molecules can slip through the gaps in the blood vessels and cause vaseconstriction.

Xander

What is it about 'red blood cells' and 'white blood cells', etc. that the society finds so holy, anyway?

I mean, they're CELLS. ??? I don't understand. Never did, really, but didn't let myself think about it when 'in'.

The 'soul' being attached to blood cells seems like something an ignorant person would write about. Kinda like the 'magic smoke' in computer chips. (Processors need the 'magic smoke', cause if you do something bad and it comes out, the processor stops working )

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A Religion worth looking into

by TweetieBird in

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religion in the news.

by patty henetz .

salt lake city (ap) - claude nowell was a 30-year-old graphics salesman and practicing mormon who says he was just trying to relax after work when the hairless, blue, otherworldly beings first came to him.. the 1975 visitation lasted about 10 minutes - enough time to transport nowell to a quiet place where an enormous pyramid stood on a green lawn under a blue sky filled with stars.. when he came to, nowell immediately suspected his druggie co-workers had spiked his late-afternoon doughnut.. but then, nowell claims, there were more visitations from the blue beings - leading him to decide that he had been chosen to propagate summum, a belief system incorporating winemaking, mummification and sexual ecstasy.

Xander

Possible rides on the mother ship

An important perk if there ever was one!

[8>]

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Ask a Witness some of these 72 questions!

by Beans in

"jehovah's witnesses", for god already.

-19. the nwt translates the greek word "kyrios" as "jehovah" more.

the word was a god".

Xander

While a very comprehensive list (and I'm sure it did good bringing people out of the bOrg in its time), it is obviously a bit dated.

Even the revelation book specifically addresses a LOT of the points mentioned there, the society DOES have an explanation (even if a crappy one) for probably....mmmm...half? the items on that list.

It'd be great if someone were to cull the list down to show only 'open' doctrinal problems.

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JWs and Chastity Belts

by Stephanus in

in this day and age, chastity devices tend to only be used by the bdsm community and it also seems to be a male kink, where a man's wife/mistress "locks him up" and only "lets him out" for her pleasure, blah, blah, blah.

however, the use of chastity belts for women still exists in many muslim countries and some strict parents in the west will lock up their daughters until they marry, in exchange for college tuition or other incentive (have you thought of this one, tr?

does it happen in the jw community?

Xander

And, a token emoticon for this thread...

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Why I was TRACKED DOWN by elder

by Derrick in

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after receiving a concerned email about a post on this board threatening to expose some participants to their employees (as being disruptive elements), i did some reading of their posts.

although i completely sympathize with simon here http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/ and have walked many miles in his shoes as an administrator for h2o from 1996 until present, i still was at a complete loss to assure this individual who sent me the email.. i get a gut feeling that simon really wouldn't carry through this threat!

perhaps h2o moderators including myself were fortunate enough not to have been driven far enough to ever post such a perceived threat to disruptive elements, which in fact was a warning and not intended as a threat.

Xander

From Simon's other posts, it looked like the only person he was threatening to 'expose' was someone who:

A) Had been kicked/banned/etc. from the board REPEATEDLY and kept coming back

B) Apparently posted excessively from a computer that didn't belong to him, anyway (his employer's)

C) Never contributed intelligent dialog to any forum, and frequently stirred up trouble ('trolled')

Any one of those would certainly be grounds to bring someone under suspicion, but this poster proceeded to do all 3.

I certainly don't blame Simon for his actions - I'd do the exact same thing.

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Yet ANOTHER JW Urban Legend

by NikL in

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got this one today.... i got this from a sister in our hall, it show's when we have that gut feeling to go back to a door we were just at to follow that feeling!

i hope you enjoy it.

we enjoyed this experience and you will probably enjoy it as well.

Xander

That's because the 99/100 people who are about to commit suicide, pray to god for guidance, and DON'T get a visitor of friendly disposition at their door (of any religion, really), commit suicide and don't live to tell the tale.

(Of course, they were simply not worthy to be saved, that's why god never answered any of their prayers. I mean, duh!)

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Yet ANOTHER JW Urban Legend

by NikL in

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got this one today.... i got this from a sister in our hall, it show's when we have that gut feeling to go back to a door we were just at to follow that feeling!

i hope you enjoy it.

we enjoyed this experience and you will probably enjoy it as well.

Xander

Now that I'm thinking about it, this tale has sweet, delicious, irony on a few different levels:

1) That she comes to accept the JWs as 'the truth' from a background of a horrible experience she had with organized religion forcing people to reject life saving medical practices. [8>]

2) The witnesses will then re-tell this tale in their cargroups and their conventions, ballooning with pride at the truth of their beliefs....and not even realize the biting irony of the whole thing.

Of course, it's sad, too. The reason they don't see it. Her mother's religion's medical restrictions were stupid and evil. But OUR medical restrictions are wise and godly. Because god told a bunch of old men in New York so. That's why. [8>][8>]

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Yet ANOTHER JW Urban Legend

by NikL in

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got this one today.... i got this from a sister in our hall, it show's when we have that gut feeling to go back to a door we were just at to follow that feeling!

i hope you enjoy it.

we enjoyed this experience and you will probably enjoy it as well.

Xander

Hmmmm...anyone else detect the terrible, terrible irony of this story?

What if, as a JW, she finds out she needs a simple blood transfusion to save her life?

How do you think she'll react to what her new 'minister' will tell her?

LOL!