Stay with the Asian market vehicles and you may favor much better. Timing belt replacement, O2 Sensors, and periodic tune-ups should cover you for at least another 100K miles or better.
prophecor
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A rude reminder...buying a car
by Gregor inwe have been considering a new auto.
we have one with 125,000 mi and one with 145,000. they are both doing fine but i must admit i have been tempted by the deep discounts and rebates on new models.
so i take my car to the dealer.
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Will you have a bag of popcorn ...
by compound complex in1) at the movies?.
2) at home in tele's company?.
3) in the park to share with the birds (unbuttered).. 4) anywhere at anytime?.
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Love to feed the pigeons in Washington Square. The geese and ducks at Wissahickon Creek and Fairmount Park. At the movies, as well. However, the last time I purchased the large box, it cost a whopping $7.00 dollars.
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Getting Married Today!
by alamb incourthouse.
3:30. thought i'd tell my "family" here.
thanks for being the friends you are.
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Wish you well.
Kiss & Tell.
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Need dishes for top of stove for Christmas....any ideas?
by restrangled inhere is the deal, and some of you probably already know my oven conked 2 days ago.
the top works but the interior does not.. i have ordered a spiral ham, i have great bean recipe for stove top, and coleslaw......but i need other side dishes that can be heated or cooked either on the grill or stove top...... i'm desperate.....do you have anything?
i can't bake/broil.
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http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/recipes/recipedetail.htm?recipe_id=50744
No-Bake banana pudding.
I've tried it, It's to die for.
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A message from Samuel Barber and Max Ehrmann
by Brother Apostate in.
ba- i approve this message.
ps- learn it.. .
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Thank You
Fellow Apostate Brother
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Is Your Adulthood Authentic?
by prophecor ini've been training with some uniquely gifted folks at my place of employment.
life has done some seemingly impressive things with them.
one who's spent numerous years in the marine corps is an excellent asset to the company as are others who've likewise spent time in the military.
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prop: are you still suffering adult-child issues?
Absolutely!!!
Much of my battle consist of the missing father syndrome. In search of that "Father Figure" being raised by a "Mother" reminiscent of the character in Pink Floyd's, The Wall, and not having any real valuable male role models to temper, tame and refine my upbringing, I had the makings of a potentially loose cannon once puberty, or as was so quaintly described in the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, "The Bloom of Youth" would have its' way with me. Should've been more properly defined as an explosion.
Add on the issues of being, not raised "In The Truth" but having it subtly introduced into your life by that same missing father. He was never a Witness, but was very pro-JW. I was going to the Kingdom Hall even before knowing what one truly was. Then once having the opportunity to " Make The Truth My Own", It took on even greater meaning for me. Cutting to the chase, I feel I've been chasing after my missing father, who's always been very supportive of Jehovah's Witnesses as a religion, as well as a people.
He was no diciplinarian, at least not until he had to become the police officer for the family. A lot of unsettled, undisciplined children, we were. He was a hen pecked husband. A wife who gave her children way too much leeway and placed them above her husband, and you have a societally sabotaged children who grow up to become emotionally and mentally deranged adults. Looking for the "Captain of the Ship", there was none and so the crew begins to take over. The prisoners would reign and rule in the prison. The ship was certain to capsize, sinking with every one aboard, including our missing Captain.
Honestly, I feel like I'm living on the inside of his (Pink Floyd's) album, "The Wall" I unfortunately relate to more than 90 percent of that album. Not only is my adulthood in question but even my imagined "Possible Past."
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What if God IS a farce?
by LouBelle inthat would really rock my world as i know it.
after i initially left the jws' i did question the whole "is there a god"" especially when you look around and see all the atrocities - the sick sick things happening in your own back yard.then i put it out of my mind and carried on believing in a god.. right now i choose to believe in a god, whether that god be jesus, jehovah, buddha, allah, shiva, it doesn't matter - i'm happy with the idea that there is a spiritual & powerful someone running things.however lately i've been questioning again - so many posters on here that are atheists really make good arguments & i can't reason my way out of it.. why does god keep so quiet?
why not just let us know - tadaaaa i'm here.
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If there is no God, then all of the human suffering that exist here was for naught. If there was no creator, though we exist in a really crazy and crippled world, right now, then any amount of good or bad done in one's life is irrelevant and it doesn't matter whether you live or die tommorrow or 1,000 years from now. We are the most to be pittied if that is the case. Might as well just live your life any way you choose. No rules, no rights, no boundaries. What's the point?
As bad as things are, however, I know its always been bad for every generation that has come upon the planet before me. Bad things have gone on and existed from nearly the begining of time. Just because I would like to see a epochal change in the direction of the entire planet in my day and time, doesn't mean I need to see it. Gods' ways are surely higher than mines' and I must come to recognise that, every day of my life.
My timetable does not and never will revolve around him, but the other way around. As bad as I percieve things that have gone down in this life, Hitler, Sunami's, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Sadaam Hussein and September the 11, 2001, they still may require things getting a Hell of a lot worse, before God steps in to clear the planet of all the evil that has existed in the world, and does. These are strange days indeed, but only from our most limited of perspective.
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SPEEDING UP THEIR OWN DEMISE?
by Dansk inwe all know the majority of the society's elders are absolutely useless when it comes to dealing with family matters and as i was sat here reading a number of posts it suddenly occurred to me that watchtower may have started to speed up its own demise.. before i exited my old congregation a young elder was appointed.
he was married without children (they don't want any).
after i exited i heard of another young elder who was appointed (they, too, have no children and i don't think they want any either).. the service overseer was a young elder (a right big head and son of the p.o.).
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Certainly a new way of looking at things there, Ian. The ones who attain to eldership are in a particularly delicate position if they do have children. They have to go thru out life with thier lives under the microscope of the congo. Then they have to be unwitting combatants ( The Elders ) in the excercise of child rearing. So many examples of lives lost to "The World" as the children of elders who've become witnesses at too young an age, wind up leaving the truth.
They can't handle societal pressure from the outside world, become ingrossed in thier often chaotic course of "The Bloom of Youth", hormones, emotional onslaughts of ups and downs. Before you know it, (usually between the ages of 13 to17) you've got a runaway train, full of anger and absolutely no true understanding of what the real world is like. You see little Johnny, son of Brother so and so, the P.O. go down in a blaze of glory as he's extracted from the Kingdom Hall, and is transplanted into the loving arms of the world. It will surely be a lot easier to be an Elder in the Kingdom Hall, W/O children, than with. They become like albatrosses around thier necks.
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Ive' Lost You.
by Blueblades inive' lost you, yes ive' lost.
i don't hear you laugh, i don't see you smile, i see the face so sad, it's because i am so bad.. your eyes use to sparkle and shine, now they are dull.
your smile is not there, it's gone.
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Is Your Adulthood Authentic?
by prophecor ini've been training with some uniquely gifted folks at my place of employment.
life has done some seemingly impressive things with them.
one who's spent numerous years in the marine corps is an excellent asset to the company as are others who've likewise spent time in the military.
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...................Jesus told his followers to be like children.
Adults lose that gift that children offer. Your body may get old, but your spirit can always be childlike.
Farkel
The children have it very much togther, I'll have to admit, Farkel. Especially as it relates to how and where we have been raised in the stream of time. We baby boomers had very little reality mirrored to us. It was like living in the age of the Flintstones, literally from 1945 to 1985. They now are light years ahead of us as it relates to knowledge, intellegence.
With the advent of the internet, they will have at thier disposal, almost limitless possibilities. Can you remember, not so long ago, there was no real easy access to modern technology, such as cell phones? Everyone who was even close to being anyone had a pager, (Beeper) Now within less than a twenty year time spanse, everyone has video phones, IPODs and not Walkmans. "Daddy,whats a Walkman?" and motor vehicles that can park themselves without your asisstance.
Then I feel like a child in comparisson to them, as well. Sometimes, I swear they can see me, behind my veneer wall of denial. "Are you really what our parents are? We must do everything in our power possible to never be like you people." The times they are a changeing' but boy, are they changeing with the speed of light years as opposed to stop signs.