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Australian brother and sister country band

by under the radar in

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a while back, there were some interesting posts about an award-winning australian brother and sister country music band.

they had a music video out which showed "hot button" words from the watchtower as if cut out and pasted on a wall for a backdrop.

does anyone know the name of this band and/or the title of the song i'm thinking of?

just what am I supposed to believe now??

by purrpurr in

while i'm glad i found this site, it has also crumbled to bits everything i've believed in my whole life.

i feel like the certainty, magic and wonder has gone out of my life.

this has left a huge hole in my soul.

Crazy feeling right? I am in a similar position. But I have come to the conclusion that if I can not find God by myself without all the artificial crutches and ridiculous false trappings that a religion heaps on top of you then maybe he's just not findable at all.

I am only interested in the real God. Not the thing created by men that they call and define as God.

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Israel's Defense

by Paris in

this is interesting.

lots of posts praising and defending palestinians .

i have yet to see one post from anyone defending israel.

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Palestinian deaths exceed 1,400.

56 soldiers and 3 civilians on Israeli side.

Oh yes that really looks like self defense.

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Question : How many jehovahs Witnesses does it take to make one of their predictions come true.

by smiddy in

we are looking at something like 135 years since the magazine "zions watchtower and herald of christs presence " began in 1879 ?

despite the fact that the actual heading of their official magazine shows they had zionist sympathies , and how did that pan out ?.

heralding christs presence as beginning in 1879 ?

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This is maybe one of the most vague posts I have ever seen in here. Don't have a clue what your actually asking. Apparently 212 people don't either. (post views at the time)

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Music buffs.Here we go again. List you're all-time favorite Guitarists

by flipper in

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hello ya'll.

was just listening to great guitar music from some of my favorites.

who are your all time favorites?

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I see these musical tastes don't stretch very far. All these guitarists could easily all rotate playing in the same band and hardly anyone would notice the difference. These favs represent but a very tiny and very narrow section of the musical genre from one single era and one type of music. All from classic commercial rock bands.

This hardly scratches the surface of the guitar as in instrument and it's greatest practitioners.

But it does give away is your ages. These are the lists of middle aged white dudes.. lol

And as for Eric Clapton.. he too is just simply way overrated.

Quote:

Eric Clapton “God” himself. “Slow Hand” if you will. The slowest hand at finding exciting new guitar solos since 1970. His work in Cream, Blind Faith and “Layla” has essentially given him a pass for forty years. Any work in the 70’s is stripped down and soulless soloing expression. It’s not that he wrote bad songs in that era or anything (many are really good), it’s just that his actual guitar playing was hindered by years of drug abuse and coasting on his reputation. Through the 80’s, he just gave up any inventive musical ability and played by numbers. He almost started making a comeback with the Unplugged album (as there were a few inventive touches thrown in here and there), but over all the album seemed to become fodder for wedding reception dances. Live performances not caught on official video from the 90’s on have rumors of sloppy playing, or Clapton not even soloing anymore. Which all well and good, but coming from the guy who painted musical landscapes in the 60’s, he’s not lived to his own hype.

When Rolling Stone labelled Eric Clapton the 4 th greatest guitarist of all time David Fricke wrote:

“Just turned twenty…Clapton was already soloing with the improvisational nerve that has dazzled fans and peers for forty years…Clapton soloed with daggerlike tone and pinpoint attention to melody.”

Oddly, despite placing Clapton high on this list there is only one minor phrase that irks me in that otherwise excellent write up: “for forty years”. No one questions that on Rave It Up and Disraeli Gears the young Clapton played with both an effortless sauntering swagger and a luscious melting tone that could pierce one moment and ooze seductively the next. This, after all, is the man who put the finishing touches on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” - his calibre is unquestionable.

There is nonetheless a disconcerting theme. His glory lays in the distant, distant past. The halcyon days of youth, when his sound was a revelation, and it seemed he could take an old staple like “I’m A Man” in an unknown but brilliant direction.

Regretfully, after a spritely start to his post-supergroup career, Clapton quickly began to wane, and Slowhand set about an arduous three and half decades of meandering jams, indulgent and unspectacular live performances, and innovation free LPs. Clapton has consistently deflated fans’ expectations since the early 70s with racist outbursts (“Enoch was right”), second hand ideas, and the mind bogglingly frustrating restraint that has defined his playing in the last two thirds of his career.

A top 100 guitarist? Maybe for a week. One of the greatest ever? Now that’s pushing it.

Crap hand?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_M9zWORBuA#t=22

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God listens and RESPONDS to your prayer if you know how to log on to Him! Here is the proof.

by exWTslave in

all my family members and friends (that include some elders) advised me to divorce my wife whose only joy was to pick up fight with me for everything i do, except my grand-mother who said: when you married her, you looked for only her good pointher regular pioneering despite having an opposing family.

for being good, you will ultimately reap something far better through her.

stick on to her.

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You heard the voice of God? That's quite something seeing as no one else in human history hardly ever has. Not even the GB hear his voice but have to debate, quibble, argue, fight and finally resort to voting and the lottery to get decisions made. I guess the relationship with your misses means more to God then his 7 million or so sheep getting fed properly.

Are you also saying that God just sat there and let you suffer 18 years of abject marital misery simply because you did not know how to 'log in'. Yet he still calls you his 'son' by voice? Did it not occur to you that perhaps you just married the wrong woman? None of this occurred to you in 18 years!! Did you not pray about this during the 18 years?! Asleep at the helm anyone?

No disrespect but now that he is personally speaking to you why don't you ask him of indeed you are in the right religion? I would love to hear that response.

Someone please slap me with a wet fish..

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Do Jehovah's Witnesses actually HATE?

by clarity in

do jehovah's witnesses actually hate?.

hatred (jwfacts).

the direction given in the watchtower goes strongly against christian examples when demanding members hate an apostate.. *.

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So it would appear that Jesus and God are in massive dissagreement then. Jesus tells us to love everyone including all our enemies.. and the rest of the Bible tell us to hate them..

What a mess.

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JW teachings that have remained the same

by Splash in

teachings that have remained the samewhen you highlight the continual ebb and flow of changing teachings, a jw may refer you to the long held teachings which have never changed.

core doctrines such as the importance of using gods name, and the trinity, hellfire and immortality of the soul all being false.

but even here things are not as simple as they could be:.

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4 teachings? That's just grand. Every other religion on earth has done far better than that.

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What happens to a women that is not a virgin on her wedding night..

by jam in

deuteronomy 22;20-22 stone to death.

a little extreme don't.

come on jehovah, what changed your mind??.

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She has something to compare her new husband to.

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Could it be that Jehovah is punishing me for leaving his religion?

by Julia Orwell in

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i know it's a completely absurd thing to say, but something happened to me today that triggered the old cult reaction.

my mind instantly lapsed back into that of a jw and for a split second i thought that because i wasn't doing jehovah things that jehovah's blessing had been removed from me and this is why my life seems to be running into so many dead-ends.

as a jw i attributed anything good happening to me to being the result of my being a good jw and dutifully doing everything the borg teaches.

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Maybe he's actually blessing you..

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