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  What Are Some Musical Groups And/Or Songs That Everybody Liked But You?

  by minimus in

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  i never loved the beatles.

  i especially didn't care all that much for john lennon.. bob dylan, i never got his appeal!.

  any songs that just didn't do anything for you?.

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  I certainly like the Beatles, but I actually think they're somewhat overrated. I'd catch a lot of flack for that if I said so publicly. I'm not saying they're bad - something can be very good, even great, and still be overrated.

  Bruce Springsteen is another one. Again, I like his songs, but I don't quite understand the attraction his fans seem to have.

  Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon is, to my ears, an album with one great song (Money) and a bunch of strange stuff. Again, I just never bought into the mystique.

  However, one of the great things about music is exactly that - it is very subjective. We each feel its pull in different ways.
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  The tanning mom

  by Frozenout in

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  nice tan.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtwz1qz-ofo.

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  Maybe she's the woman that George Costanza dated so that he could get Mora (the gf who refused to break up with him) to suspect he was cheating (Episode "The Strongbox"). George: "she looks like an orange".
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  Symbols of death!

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  symbols of death!.

  today i added a new article to my blog addressing symbols of death.

  watchtowers has wasted no expense to document and use one of these symbols to advance its own interests.

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  It could be argued that the policy of not possessing political party cards in Malawi (an encircled card with a slash through it, let's say) would be yet another "symbol" of a botched WTS policy that led to suffering and death.
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  My son was murdered today

  by truman in

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  i have been on this site daily, almost from its beginning, since i left the jws in 2001, but i have been more of a reader than a poster, as you can see from my post count.

  i know few here know me, although i know many of you through reading your posts.

  maybe it is not right to ask for support, when i generally stay quietly in the background of this forum, but i want only to speak a human misery of the deepest kind.

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  I hope you can somehow find comfort during this extremely difficult time Truman.
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  "Wondrous expansion is now taking place!" - the reality...

  by cedars in

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  i've uploaded a new article to my blog on jwsurvey.org.

  it can be found at the following link:.

  http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/under-the-microscope-the-watch-tower-societys-claims-to-divine-direction-part-1.

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  Good points Blondie...

  The average jw, as well as a good number of elders (like myself at one time) didn't really want to be tied down to s Bible Study. Unless the study was held on a weekend morning, it was one more night of getting dressed and going out. Few Witnesses want to make that effort, and with good reason. Pioneers on the other hand are usually looking for studies, so the expedient thing to do is simply hand them over, hoping a pioneer will accept the offer.
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  Dark Matter's take on Job

  by cantleave in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qvgzqnsytji#!

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  Hilarious, but at the same time makes some interesting points.
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  What is the worst date you've ever had???

  by the_raisin in

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  hey guys, just wanted to hear your stories about the worst dates you have been in or have heard about.. .

  let's see... worst date... hmm.... .

  okay so this didn't happen to me, but i was there lol.

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  Compound Complex - you just won my Favorite Post of The Year Award!
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  This is making the witness email rounds...Anyone believe them?

  by Botzwana in

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  does jehovah know what is going on, and does he help?.

  (as told by bro.

  spangenberg, c.o.

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  RE that Bulldozer story: How would a worldly bulldozer driver inadvertantly go to a Kingdom "Hall" under construction because the word sounds like "Mall"? The building was under construction, so it would be highly unlikely they'd have a sign up. That's usually a final touch. Also, this would require the driver to have at least some familiarity with the word 'Hall' as short for Kingdom Hall, otherwise he'd never make such an association.

  These stories bring up the question as to how closely God (assuming there is one for a moment) would be in human affairs. As many comments have already pointed out, it means God picks and chooses whom to assist and whom to seemingly ignore.

  And also as mentioned, such stories are not the sole domain of JWs. I'm reminded of news of plane crashes where survivors will say stuff like 'God must have some purpose for me' while people died all around them. Makes no sense.
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  The Tower of Babel - Languages: Isn't this story unhinged?

  by james_woods in

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  besides the obvious fact that it is historically ridiculous - can anybody make any sense out of this story?.

  god was somehow afraid that man was developing too much technology?

  just because they were building a tower?.

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  God appears to see this Tower building as an arrogant affront, as an effort on the part of men (traditionally thought to be spearheaded by Nimrod) to direct worhip toward themselves.

  According to Josephus: "It was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God; he was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah."

  Flavius Josephus, Life and Works of, translated by William Whiston (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston), p. 39.
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 04-22-2012 WT Study (POSITIVE)

  by blondie in

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  a loving spirit in the congregation.

  be zealous in the ministry.

  9. how does our attitude toward the field ministry.

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  A few days ago I attended a small church meeting at a school. They had two keyboards and a guitar and live playing during the songs. This small group of maybe 25 people, with two of them leading the singing on microphones, blew away anything thing I'd ever heard at a jw meeting in 30 years of attending. The spirit imbued by live instrumentation far outdoes any of the canned, pre-recorded sound at the KH. It promotes a spontaneity that I had never heard during jw worship.

  Two decades ago at the KH, we had a sister who played piano and we sang to that. A CO came through, instructed the elders to remove her from playing, and instituted singing only to cassette tapes. One more evidence at that time of the complete squashing of anything spontaneous in favor of strict, top-down control.