"JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE?" -Growing Up A Baptist Fundamentalist-

The book is about my bizarre yet comical life growing up a Baptist Christian Fundamentalist. As an adult I became an Evangelist and a Pastor, and eventually a Secular Atheist Freethinker. To my surprise, and all my relatives, the actual transition was quite rapid and with resounding finality.

I lived my childhood, teenage, and young adult years in South Bend, Indiana during the 1940’s and 50’s, just a few miles from Notre Dame’s golden dome. We were the Christian bible thumpers and they were the infamous Pope’s Catholic "pawns". I found myself treading water in an ocean of immense emotional conflict and psychological turmoil; my teenage hormones only supercharged my dilemma.

Later, as an adult, an epiphany shattered my Fundamentalist indoctrination, forever erasing my Christian Baptist beliefs. In our post 911 world, “Justifiable Homicide?” can be a Rosetta stone to unlock the core code of religious extremism. The book is biographical, with humor throughout. I allow biblical ethos to speak for itself.
Customer Review: Entertaining. It made me laugh out loud many times... quite an expose'.
Having been raised Episcopalian,I had no idea what it might be like being a religious fundamentalist. The read truly was an adventure into the author's childhood and early adult world. I was the mesmerized fly on the wall. It was a pleasureable read that entertained and made me think about things in religion that previously never crossed my mind. I found myself feeling scared for kids in any kind of fundamentalism. Sometimes it was a roller coaster with dips leaving me somber, and then the next paragraph I was laughing. Thanks for telling your story Dean Aughinbaugh, I will recomend your book.
Customer Review: Justifiable Homicide
"Justifiable Homicide" gave me much to ponder over. It is a true story that clearly maps out the difficult mental journey made by the author. It is written with a deep understanding of the sensitive issues. The book demonstrates the difficult task of how he finally emerged into adulthood as a whole, free thinking individual. I applaud his courage and perseverance to overcome and was pleased to find out that he is finally at peace with his youthful demons. This is also a story of a talented and very intelligent individual who experiences his growing up years to the fullest and imparts his various adventures with humor. I highly recommend "Justifiable Homicide" to anyone who is trying to come to grips with their own religious beliefs.

Step 5 - Grab the loose part of the string with one hand and with the other start turning the tuning peg. As you turn the peg, hold the string tightly away from the guitar to insure that it wraps tightly, with no slack. This will stop the string from going out of tune as you're playing. When the string is getting tight against the fretboard, You can let go and continue to slowly turn the peg a little bit more and then top.

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Step 6 - Make sure as you turn the peg that the string is winding downward, and don't let it flip over itself. Your goal is tog et about 2 1/2 to 3 full winds on each string.

Many guitarist make the same mistake when stringing a guitar, they don't wind enough of the string onto the tuning peg or they wind too much.

Here is how to string your guitar.

Why is this seemingly simple thing so important? Because the greater the angle between the nut (the top part of the guitar) and the tuning peg, the better the sustaining qualities of the string. Simply put, it makes you sound better. And your strings will not go out of tune as fast. Of course you can always wind too much as well, and then the strings will tend to slip out of tune easier. You want to have just the right amount.

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PlayGuitar.com

The Secrets of Correctly Stringing Your Guitar

Step 2 - Turn the tuning peg until the hole is in line with the neck.

This is something that no fx pedal can reproduce, clean natural sustain. Of course after you have this sustain you can play with it all you want with your fx pedals.

Step 4 - Next thread the string through the hole in the tuning peg until it is tight. Now back the string up about 3 inches so that it loosens.

Why do you care about stringing your guitar you may ask. Well the reason is simple. It will make you sound better because if your guitar is properly strung, you will get longer natural sustain.

Step 3 - Starting with the thickest string - The low "e", thread the string through the bridge (bottom part of the guitar). Each guitar has different ways to do this, but it is usually very easy to see where the strings go.

Step 1 - Take all the strings out of the package and lay them out from the thickest to the thinnest. When you go to buy strings, always try and get the same gauge, as changing the gauge could mean problems with intonation, and may require truss rod adjustments.