It was always the best when the sound guy mixed up the track. The congregation would try oh so hard to sing the lyrics to the incorrect tune... confused as to why it wouldn't work... And then about 2 min in, someone would realize it, the song would stop and we would get a new track, the correct one, and everyone would try again.
MeanMrMustard
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What Did You Think Of The Songs Sung At The Kingdom Hall?
by minimus inwhen i was younger we had song books and i recall that some of the songs were pretty catchy.
then they revised it took some of those songs out, and added more.
i have to admit some songs were pretty good.
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The bus stop analogy
by slimboyfat insuppose we were naïve observers, given the following data, and asked to draw a conclusion.
we see people gather at a busy bus stop several times a day.
at first one person, then another, and another, until they form a group.
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Watched the video. Lots of word salad there. At first I thought he was just making an argument for consciousness being an emergent property. But then, it quickly veered into everything being thought/mind. After that, the tems used are just so general and undefined, I'm sure each viewer is taking a completely different meaning from his speech.
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20 Years Occupying Afghanistan, Nothing Achieved
by Simon inso the occupation of afghanistan is coming to an end and, as predicted, they achieved absolutely nothing in that 20 years apart from:.
the death of 2,300+ service personnel and tens of thousands more seriously maimed or injured.. handing $billions or even $trillions of taxpayer dollars to defence contractors (so the military industrial complex wins, even if the military doesn't have a clear victory).. has this lengthy but short-term military occupation really changed anything in the country?
it doesn't appear so.. i said at the time that the us wouldn't have the staying power to enact real change.
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MeanMrMustard
I am more anti-war now than ever before.
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What Do You Think About The Government Going Door to Door To Get You Vaccinated?
by minimus ini hate anyone bothering me going door to door and house to house.
maybe it’s my jw background?
i dunno..
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Jehovah Witnesses lost in Court. Disfellowshipped Sister Reinstated by Court Order?
by pistolpete inimagine the "faithful" jws who are now having to talk to this person by court order or face the consequences----legally.. exjws are spreading the news and now some exjws who have been disfellowshipped for years are starting to research to see if this is an option in their country.
here are the articles, you need to translate in google.
https://www.nrk.no/norge/gry-nygard-ble-ekskludert-fra-jehovas-vitner-_-vant-i-lagmannsretten-1.15570621.
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MeanMrMustard
I could be wrong, but there is precedent for secular courts getting involved if the religion didn't follow its own internal procedures. If this is another version of that, it seems like an empty victory.
Why won't she be disfellowshipped next week for something else (like suing the WT)? They wl make sure they follow internal procedure this time.
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The bus stop analogy
by slimboyfat insuppose we were naïve observers, given the following data, and asked to draw a conclusion.
we see people gather at a busy bus stop several times a day.
at first one person, then another, and another, until they form a group.
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MeanMrMustard
So the aliens form a falsifiable hypothesis that the groups of congregating people cause the busses to arrive. Then they test the hypothesis and soon find out it fails when busses stop even when no people are there.
In this case the hypothesis is that consciousness causes brain activity, rather than brain activity causing consciousness.
Is it falsifiable?
If I choke you and restrict blood flow to your brain, you lose consciencousness. What does that imply about the hypothesis?
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What Do You Think About The Government Going Door to Door To Get You Vaccinated?
by minimus ini hate anyone bothering me going door to door and house to house.
maybe it’s my jw background?
i dunno..
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MeanMrMustard
Just keep in mind that this will spawn a new wave of identity thieves, knowing that many will be eager to respond. It might not be good to hand out any personal identifying info to someone at your door, even though they claim to be "from the government".
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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck,,,,do you care about them?
by minimus ini’m sick and tired of seeing pictures and articles about their rekindled romance.
who cares???
do you enjoy seeing news articles about celebrity daters?.
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Juneteenth
by minimus inare you ready to celebrate??
it’s such a big holiday that the local electric company will be closed in order to celebrate.
only emergencies will be dealt with on that day.. what are you doing for the holiday?.
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MeanMrMustard
I went through K-12, the college, university, and heard nothing about Juneteenth. So I ran a search with Google ngram viewer. Here is the distribution:
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What Do You Think About New York City?
by minimus ini have been to the city hundreds of times.
i’ve always loved the vitality of the city and no one could ever say that you could get bored in nyc.
i regularly went for business during the day and in the evenings go to local bars and restaurants as well as the village.
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MeanMrMustard
"Always smells like sour milk." - Tim Pool