i don't know if this topic has been covered before - it might 've been.. i also recommend flipper's excellent music thread ('what songs have you been listening to?
', or similar).. but, i'd just like to start a thread about certain songs giving me goosebumps.
y'know, when you hear a song that profoundly effects you in some difficult-to-describe way and the hairs on your arm stand on end even though the room temperature's comfortably warm.. so, which songs give you goosebumps?.
Robert Miles' song Children. If you have never heard it, you HAVE to listen to it for the goose bump thing.
He died of cancer at a relatively young age (early 40's) but the music and his face in the clouds just does it for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC5ca6Hsb2Q
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good move or bad?
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Can you blame the military industry? If Coca Cola needed a war to move inventory, they would lobby for a war too.
redvip2000 ...
Excellent point. Bombing people and countries certainly does keep more people in the military industry employed.
Once your warehouses are full of laser-guided missiles, you might as well find a target or two to free up some space.
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good move or bad?
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In the famous words of General Colin Powell to George W. Bush when Bush was contemplating invading Iraq: "You break it, you bought it."
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i am actually not a 'sky is falling' guy, but i wanted to comment on the australian bushfires.. you may or may not believe the science behind global warming, however i personally put more faith in verified, scientific data than the words of fat cat, self-serving politicians.
climate science has predicted, based on data, that we will see more prolonged, extreme weather events, higher average temperatures, rising sea levels due to ocean expansion and glacial melting.
and this is exactly whats happening.
I have lived here in South Florida for over 30 years and when the iconic South Beach flooded, it was a major, and I mean major news event.
Now it happens 3 or 4 times year. The water keeps rising. There is even debate over whether to just buy some areas out and move them to higher ground (at taxpayer expense of course).
For whatever reason, man or otherwise, things are getting warmer. We keep breaking all-time temperature records regularly here. In 2019, we had about 150 days of temperature over 90 F (32 C). Nearly 150 days at or above that temperature when the average is typically about 85 days.
Forecasted high today at the beginning of winter (4 Jan 2020) is 86 F (30 C) which would tie an all time record. Another degree and it is broken.
There may be multiple factors involved, but you can't just keep dumping shit into the air, which retains heat when sunlight hits it, and expect to keep a "normal" environment.
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he has been “impeached “.
will he be convicted in the senate?
is he so “damaged goods” that he is ineffectual?
Don't count Uncle Joe out.
When the democrats start bombarding the airwaves with political ads next summer/fall with Trump's own profanity-laced, bat-shit crazy conspiracy stuff, I think he will lose most of the independents.
At every political event he attends and his twitter stuff, he creates enough fodder for a dozen democratic commercials.
I can just see a rural family sitting around the TV, and Trump coming on the air screaming his sons-of-bitches and bastards lines. The parents get up and change the channel and tell the young children you shouldn't be listening to this. "We taught you be better than that." ..... and the picture fades away and the Biden 2020 thing appears on the screen.
Just wait.
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i received a call from a friend in new york city that don adams passed away late last evening (30 dec 2019).
many of you bethelites know him and he was the president of the society for a number of years after the gb got out of the corporate structure business.
from what i understand, he was generally liked by many there.. some in my family knew him.
We look forward to the day very soon where Br. Adams can take up his service here on Earth
respectful ...
My money is on exactly what you mention.
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so i am trying to understand if i am the only pomo that experiences the situation where the pimi spouse comes back from a meeting a different personanlity.
it may not be obivious to the untrained eye, but i notice it and i know my sons notice it.
this last round after all the loyalty bs and armagedon bs it's like she has stayed stuck in it.
They could be reading the phone book and she wouldn’t know the difference.
Steel ...
I remember the older sisters in the "car-group" say "Wasn't that a wonderful Tower today!" And I would ask them what specifically they learned. They went into the deer in the headlights mode.
About the most you would get out of anybody was "it was encouraging."
I quit asking.
As you mention, in the meeting they could read the phone book or the Iliad in Greek backwards and you would get the same response.
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this is from a recent article about malawi, and the caption calls the man "brother welosi mbendera".. .
If their KH has a "library" or "back room", he will likely be brought in after the meeting and encouraged to shave it so as not to stumble the other people in the neighborhood. They might think he rides a Harley, has a Satanic tattoo on his back and does drugs.
Also, the sister has a "green" hat that may be too worldly in their opinion. It may bring too much attention to her.
Note: I bet he got that tooth knocked out in a bar fight with a rival group.
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probably not new to many of you but i'm gonna post it anyway!.
i went to a circuit assembly last week at the fremont, ca assembly hall in fremont, ca to be with my wife so she could be there to 'witness' the baptism of a person she "studied" with about 2 decades ago!.
at the main entry to the assembly hall there are 3 or 4 large double door entrances.
Now I better understand when I entered the assembly hall the last time, instead of some kingdom songs, they were playing the old song by the O'Jays 'Money, money, money, money"
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i'm not really sure where to put this post or "thread", so i'll just put it in the physical activities area.
i just want to know if anyone on the forum has any experience with having a hip replacement surgery done on them, or perhaps a friend or relative.
what was your experience, if it was you?
titch ...
Just don't don't try the "hips don't lie" thing by Shikira anytime soon ... lol.
Seriously, I know several people that have had it done and overall are very pleased. Nothing is perfect, but they all say it is a definite improvement.
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