Cowboy Junkies have made several albums. I have some of them, so I don't think they could be considered a one hit wonder. But I'm not here to argue. My favorite songs are
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqCxS3_XqQ8
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84Another MUSIC thread - One-Hit Wonders
by sizemik inthere's been plenty over the last five decades .
artists that have come and gone .
and left a single musical legacy behind them.. but a lot of them were great songs .
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What Actually Made You Leave The Organization?
by minimus inmany of us needed time to get away from this religion.
i took the course of fading and it's worked pretty well for me.
after i saw sooooo many silly rules being enforced, i needed to get out!.
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@ Nickolas. Yeah too much time. Thought about college but with so many college graduates out of work or not being able to get work it seems a waste of time and money.
Thinking about volunteering with these people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSnoM3iqNdY&feature=channel_video_title
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Perhaps you're using Internet Explorer 9? Use Google Chrome or Firefox.
I had one case of infidelity, didn't get me disfellowshipped as it wasn't on purpose. Wrong place, wrong time said the Elders.
I still felt guilty. So what to do? I apologized to the boyfriend of the woman involved (we're still friends) and I forgave myself. Took a while but I did it. Oh and I'm still friends with the woman as well.
I also apologized to God for my weakness.
Forgave myself and moved on.
I hope that is what you were asking..
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What Actually Made You Leave The Organization?
by minimus inmany of us needed time to get away from this religion.
i took the course of fading and it's worked pretty well for me.
after i saw sooooo many silly rules being enforced, i needed to get out!.
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@ Nickolas I must have screwed up my age at baptism.
I was 18 (in high school) when I first met the JW's ( I asked a JW to the prom), and got baptized on July 18, 1991 "Lovers of Freedom" District Convention, Columbia, SC., so I would have been 22 I think. I'm 41 now.
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JW's week after week trying to convert me
by HBJ inthis is my first post.
i have been a protestant christian my entire life, but over the past few months ive been conversing with two jehovahs witnesses on a weekly basis.
as they quickly learned that i was biblically versed, they replaced what i would call a trainee, with someone i believe to be an elder.
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@ HBJ Some information regarding the New World Translation Committee.
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Make a post that isn't blank perhaps?
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What Actually Made You Leave The Organization?
by minimus inmany of us needed time to get away from this religion.
i took the course of fading and it's worked pretty well for me.
after i saw sooooo many silly rules being enforced, i needed to get out!.
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The LACK of Love.
Unless you were "popular" you didn't get any help.
If you missed a few meetings due to work or sickness, you were considered spiritually weak.
Before I was baptized in 1991, (I was 19 years old) I was surrounded with JW's who wanted to go out to eat, hang out, etc. After I was baptized it all stopped. I asked a friend about this who had also come into the "truth" at the same time, getting baptized on the same day and his opinion was that "The witnesses were withdrawing so as to see if you were really serious or not, a testing perhaps?" My reply was "If we weren't ready, then God wouldn't have allowed us to be baptized." He agreed. Years later I found out that by spending time with an unbaptized publisher any JW could count it as FS time. I thought they wanted to be friends and was greatly hurt to learn all I was to them was some time counted on their FS slip.
I barely had any "friends" my age, although there were plenty in the KH my age. I wasn't pioneering (my family had turned me out for becoming a JW) and I was learning to live on my own for the first time. I was devastated but I stuck it out. I hoped that eventually I could pioneer and support myself, but it was very hard being single and having no support from my family or the "friends".
Most of my associates ended up being "older ones" or one particular Elder. He wasn't born in and had a pool table in his attic, where we often shot pool and talked until late at night. If I hadn't had him as a friend I would most likely have left sooner.
People being judgemental of others. If you weren't a pioneer or a MS, you were garbage. I recall hearing two young brothers (born-ins) who were collecting FS slips and one of them remarked about the time on one of the slips. He said "This person has less than 10 hours this month. Why do they even bother?" That pissed me off considering the two brothers Dads were Elders and supported them so that they could pioneer. They were both under 21 and quite arrogant. I wanted to wring their necks and point out that not everyone had their situations and they were doing the best they could.
I recall being interested in one particular sister and I spoke to her Father. He said I needed to go out in FS more, comment more (I commented at every WT study at least 3 times in a meeting, I gave talks in the 2nd school, handled the mics and led the FS group when there wasn't an Elder or MS present). I also had gotten on my feet financially. I just wasn't pioneering and that's what he wanted as his daughter was a pioneer and had her own cleaning business (but she lived at home, whereas I did not).
I finally realized it didn't matter what I did. No matter how hard I worked if I wasn't a pioneer, I was no better than something a JW would scrape off their shoes.
Those things, more than scripture was why I left.
Peace,
Awen
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Another MUSIC thread - One-Hit Wonders
by sizemik inthere's been plenty over the last five decades .
artists that have come and gone .
and left a single musical legacy behind them.. but a lot of them were great songs .
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@ mummatron Yes Madness was only successful with that one song here in the U.S., much like this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8Oe_XA&ob=av2e
and After The Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guvo7gUdUnE
and Gary Neuman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXEu1odjKZM
New Order
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyoDbX1EkPQ&feature=related
Aqua (didn't do so well in the U.S.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V95dNAMx1aw&feature=related
To my knowledge Eiffel 65 had one hit, this one (more anime)
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Another MUSIC thread - One-Hit Wonders
by sizemik inthere's been plenty over the last five decades .
artists that have come and gone .
and left a single musical legacy behind them.. but a lot of them were great songs .
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Oh, you are a born-in. You had it easy!
by TotallyADD inafter reading sabastious post on when did you lose your confidence.
i started thinking about what it was like in the early 70's when large groups of people were coming into the wt cult because of the 1975 teaching.
talking with these people they whould tell me how hard it was for them to become a jw.
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The only advantage a convert had over a born-in was knowing what life was like outside of the Organization.
It makes it easier to leave.
The Born-ins however would have much more to lose and fear because of never having those experiences. It would be like setting foot in a new country with strange customs and ideas. I still have problems socially.
I used to think the born-ins had it easier because they had family to support them when in a crisis. Reading these posts I realized it's actually worse. Being a born-in (I was a convert) meant if you screwed up you'd have your entire family coming down on your head. I kept my non-JW friends and that made my exit easier.
I feel really sorry for the Born-Ins.
Awen