Posts by adjusted knowledge

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Toddler accidentally shoots woman dead in Idaho Walmart

by nicolaou in

a woman has been shot dead by a 2-year-old in a wal-mart store in idaho.. .

the 29-year-old was shopping with four children in the store in hayden, when the two-year-old reached into her handbag and fired the weapon, shooting her dead.. initial reports suggested the woman was the boy's mother, but the police have said that this is as yet unclear how they are related.. source; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/toddler-accidentally-shoots-woman-in-idaho-walmart-9950847.html.

i've nothing to add to my past comments on americas psychotic relationship with guns.

adjusted knowledge

Things can change if enough people will it, gun control, a tightening up of regulations can effect a public change of mood. That is a very powerful thing. It needs political courage to start the ball rolling.

Those are all valid but guns are part of America's culture. It will be very hard to change an entire countries culture. Gun ownership transcends all types of groups. Democrats, Republicans, all races, males, and females. ect. own guns in this country. A mass shooting and killing of little children is not enough to even get real gun control laws to be pass on a national level, and people still think guns will be banned.

Again, the only question I have is, "How are you going to disarm over 100 million Americans and remove around 310 million guns from this country?"

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Toddler accidentally shoots woman dead in Idaho Walmart

by nicolaou in

a woman has been shot dead by a 2-year-old in a wal-mart store in idaho.. .

the 29-year-old was shopping with four children in the store in hayden, when the two-year-old reached into her handbag and fired the weapon, shooting her dead.. initial reports suggested the woman was the boy's mother, but the police have said that this is as yet unclear how they are related.. source; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/toddler-accidentally-shoots-woman-in-idaho-walmart-9950847.html.

i've nothing to add to my past comments on americas psychotic relationship with guns.

adjusted knowledge

Those who argue that all guns should be banned will never in their life time see it happen in the USA. I know the adage of avoiding the word "never". However, there are 100's and 100's of millions of guns in the hands of over a hundred million Americans. Guns are very easy to purchase legally in this country. You can walk into a Walmart that sales gun and walk out with a rifle that holds a 30 round clip (depending on location) capable of firing a .223 round as fast as you can pull a trigger. You just have to fill out 4473 form and a background check. Most locations only have to keep the 4473 for twenty years and after that records go bye bye. Most are paper base and not kept in digital format.

So how exactly do you plan on disarming millions of people? Keep in mind there is no national gun registry.

A more realistic route is some of the suggestions Simon gave.

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A possible way for the Watch Tower to generate revenue via their website.

by adjusted knowledge in

jw
friends

earlier in the week someone posted the potential value of the jw website based on visits and if they used advertisements.

many stated they would never do that but i propose they could.. besides their real estate profit making business model, they have the conventions as cash generating machines.

they give directions to their members to which hotels/motels to use.

adjusted knowledge

insidetheKH

135 years of Watchtower magazines there was not a single advertisement in it.. there won't be any on the website too

So please explain the following link then.

http://www.jw.org/en/online-help/jw-broadcasting/roku/

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A possible way for the Watch Tower to generate revenue via their website.

by adjusted knowledge in

jw
friends

earlier in the week someone posted the potential value of the jw website based on visits and if they used advertisements.

many stated they would never do that but i propose they could.. besides their real estate profit making business model, they have the conventions as cash generating machines.

they give directions to their members to which hotels/motels to use.

adjusted knowledge

insidetheKH and Chaserious make some very good points. Never advertising in their magazines and their buildings except for themselves supports the idea they may never do so on their webpage.

insidetheKH "@runforever yes people can get usernames (but the majority does not have one)"

How would you know the amount of usernames that have been registered at jw.org?

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A possible way for the Watch Tower to generate revenue via their website.

by adjusted knowledge in

jw
friends

earlier in the week someone posted the potential value of the jw website based on visits and if they used advertisements.

many stated they would never do that but i propose they could.. besides their real estate profit making business model, they have the conventions as cash generating machines.

they give directions to their members to which hotels/motels to use.

adjusted knowledge

The proposed ADs on their website was just one suggestion. It may not happen or for a very long time. But there are other methods to generate income from their site. They could hold a special talk online and have a link attached for donations. Imagine if they only got one fourth of their active members to donate $5 during that talk.

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A possible way for the Watch Tower to generate revenue via their website.

by adjusted knowledge in

jw
friends

earlier in the week someone posted the potential value of the jw website based on visits and if they used advertisements.

many stated they would never do that but i propose they could.. besides their real estate profit making business model, they have the conventions as cash generating machines.

they give directions to their members to which hotels/motels to use.

adjusted knowledge

"Wouldn't paid ads put their "not-for-profit" status in jeopardy?"

Not necessarily. It has been a long time since I've taken tax courses and a CPA could answer this better. But the Ads would probably follow under Unrelated Business Income (UBI) and they would pay income tax on that revenue. Unless the revenue was a large percentage of their overall donation it shouldn't affect their nonprofit status.

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A possible way for the Watch Tower to generate revenue via their website.

by adjusted knowledge in

jw
friends

earlier in the week someone posted the potential value of the jw website based on visits and if they used advertisements.

many stated they would never do that but i propose they could.. besides their real estate profit making business model, they have the conventions as cash generating machines.

they give directions to their members to which hotels/motels to use.

adjusted knowledge

Any thing is possible with this new version of Witnesses. Just like it would be unthinkable of a self proclaim righteous loyal Jehovah's Witness in the old regimen to ever go against what the society stated in regards to visiting "apostate or opposed" websites in years past, but now daily active witnesses come here and lurk. Some even create an account, reply to threads, and start new threads. Never when I was active in the 90's would any member in good standing do such a thing. So we shall see in 10 years or so what changes occur in regards to their website.

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A possible way for the Watch Tower to generate revenue via their website.

by adjusted knowledge in

jw
friends

earlier in the week someone posted the potential value of the jw website based on visits and if they used advertisements.

many stated they would never do that but i propose they could.. besides their real estate profit making business model, they have the conventions as cash generating machines.

they give directions to their members to which hotels/motels to use.

adjusted knowledge

Earlier in the week someone posted the potential value of the JW website based on visits and if they used advertisements. Many stated they would never do that but I propose they could.

Besides their real estate profit making business model, they have the conventions as cash generating machines. They give directions to their members to which hotels/motels to use. Couldn't they with all the vendors they deal with incorporate ADs to their website and tell their members to use these vendors. In other words why couldn't they have ads on their site for Comfort Inn (for conventions) or Ads for Roku (to watch JW TV). Once they get the dubs to accept this they could expand.

Don't think it can never happen. I never would of thought they would stop mailing watchtowers to your home and now they embrace the internet for cost savings.

They have millions of people who for free will push the jw.org website. What other business can boast that? And not only are these people going to advertise for free but they are paying customers. It will be interesting to see what path the GB takes once they figure out the gold mine they are sitting on. Perhaps even a paid subscription to their JW TV.

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How would you respond to this defense made on behalf of The Watchtower's Child Abuse lawsuits?

by adjusted knowledge in

details of the society's child abuse policies have been published in jehovah's witnesses' publications, although more specific guidelines are only made available to elders, or on request.

press releases issued by the watch tower society's office of public information confirm that if a person accused of molestation repeatedly denies the charges of his victim, and there is no other witness to the incident, "the elders cannot take action within the congregation at that time", but would report to authorities if required by local laws.

our families jehovahs witnesses and child protection.

adjusted knowledge

Catholic religion has reacted better to this issue than the JW. The problem is the leadership of the JW is left up to mainly uneducated elderly males that feel they are demi-gods.

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Where is Everyone????

by truthlover in

jw
friends

missing a lot of the oldies and goodies -- is this site so new, no one has signed on yet?

i am confused... but then, i will have to wait and see what happens.. somehow - change is not the best option but we adjust..have most of the users gone to other locations?.

tl.

adjusted knowledge

They've been busy pioneering and studying with the evil doers.