Posts by Atilla

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ANOTHER CALL TO ACTION: Newspaper ad's?

by 2escaped lifers in

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i have been thinking about this for a while, and a couple recent events here on the board have solidified my thinking.

first, seattleniceguy's triumph with the un posting a letter regarding the wts affiliation with the un.

it just shows that with a little combined effort we can accomplish alot.

Atilla

Yes, these are all very good ideas but some of them are very time consuming. I barely have enough time to surf this sight let alone any other idea that might pop into my head. I do see that there are many people of this sight devoting hours and hours to the cause and we should all be very thankful.

I think Howard Stern put it best when he was talking about the FCC shutting down his show and what should be done about it. People were calling in and saying they should march on Washington D.C., etc but he said that most of his fans do care but they simply don't have the time for such an endeavor. They are too busy just trying to make a living and survive. I think this is why you really don't see any really large demonstration anymore. I just think of the 60's and how D.C. would be packed with thousands and thousands of people protesting and demonstrating or even supporting various causes.

Not anymore. It's not that the young don't care, it's just that many of us poor folks have to work. Add that situation to an ex-dub who is already trying to play catch up financially and you can see that there is very little time for protest. However, the recent U.N. letter shows that even modest time put in added up can make a huge difference, so keep up the good work everyone.

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The UN Posts Their Letter!

by jgnat in

did our letter-writing campaign work?

http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/watchtower.pdf.

here are some lovely instructions drafted by syn, and hosted by valis, on how to navigate to the site yourself.. http://www.sassquatch.com/syn/un_ngo_letter/.

Atilla

I just wonder what the UN was thinking when it let the WT join-there doesn't seem to be any benefit for the U.N.

The WT doesn't really meet the NGO criteria

-1st-WT doesn't share the ideals of UN charter

-2nd- not for profit org-no I think the WT makes a good deal of money as a publishing organization

-3rd-the WT does reach a large captive audience-but no one main stream like educators, media representatives, policy makers for the most part

-4th-cooperation with media?-no usually the WT hides from the media, and only issues half-truths at best, and they hardly ever conduct interviews

Someone at the UN should do more research before they just let anyone join and become a NGO. Of course to R&F members who read the literature, it would be obvious that the U.N. is bad but I guess it may not be so obvious to like the rest of the world. Maybe it just goes to show how little their literature is consumed by those other than loyal dubs.

Secondly, I would think that a better way to deal with this NGO-UN issue would simply be to say that this was another example of theocratic warfare. A trojan horse as it were. We know the UN is bad but we were actually just using them to advance the cause. The library card defense seems very flimsy but theocractic warfare sounds much better. Throw in a story about dubs lying to the NAZI's about where the books were kept or about the location of other dubs, and everyone would get the idea. Makes sense right.

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Annual guilt trip - Memorial time!

by FreeWilly in

well i spoke with my mom this past week.

she made sure to remind me that the memorial was coming.

she pressed me for a promise to attend.

Atilla

Blondie

I understand that the memorial is to correspond with the time on the Jewish calendar but I just don't understand the practicality of doing so. This year on Sunday is a little better but I remember the memorial many years falling on a weekday night, hugely impractical. Also, even this year on a Sunday is very inconvenient for a lot of people I know. I just think that they should hold the memorial every year on Sunday morning just like a normal meeting or maybe even Saturday mid-day, then I think you would see much greater attendence.

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Annual guilt trip - Memorial time!

by FreeWilly in

well i spoke with my mom this past week.

she made sure to remind me that the memorial was coming.

she pressed me for a promise to attend.

Atilla

So, the memorial this year is Sunday April 4 after sundown. I understand that they like the symbolic significance of having this thing the same time of the day the world over, but don't you think that they could have many more in attendence if it was at a more convenient time. I think they really messed up with this after sundown idea, because it does prevent some people from attending. I would remember trying to get my Bible studies to attend the memorial on a Thursday night and they just looked at me like I was crazy. It just goes to show you that tradition is more important to them than the message.

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The UN Posts Their Letter!

by jgnat in

did our letter-writing campaign work?

http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/watchtower.pdf.

here are some lovely instructions drafted by syn, and hosted by valis, on how to navigate to the site yourself.. http://www.sassquatch.com/syn/un_ngo_letter/.

Atilla

Very good work indeed!

As the one juror in the Martha Stewart trial said "This is one small victory for the little guy!"

27

Circuit Assembly experience...

by No Apologies in

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friends

"and they're both getting baptised today!

no, not that kind of experience.. .

this happened this last weekend at the circuit assembly my (jw) wife attended.

Atilla

No Ap,

You should tell your wife that the next time she goes to the assembly she should try the same thing-fall in the front and just lay there, maybe cry out in agony, see how long it takes for help to arrive.

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Did You Enjoy Simply Passing The Bread & Wine At The Memorial?

by minimus in

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i remember how little kids got so excited when they got to actually touch the glass and the dish!

yet, most people seemed to (respectfully) keep their heads down and try to look morbidly serious.

was the act of "passing the emblems" a thrill for you?

Atilla

The best thing about the memorial was that is was usually less than an hour but the sad thing was that my parents would always get there two hours early. Thus, all time that was gained was lost and then some. Also, since our parking lot was small, we would park far away in a parking lot across the road, and then for a couple of years, I got stuck outside directing cars as an attendent. Although, being outside was better than being inside trying to figure out if any of the so called "new" people (actually just people who hadn't been to KH for years) were DF'd or not. I mean did we actually think that these people would come back after seeing this crazy ceremony with wine passing and everything? I actually think that our KH was so cheap that they used the same wine every year but I always did want to see what that unleaven bread tasted like.

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Congratulations Canada!

by bisous in

you won best foreign film in america's academy award celebration!.

the barbarian invasions .

canada.

Atilla

I thought this post was about the Canadian town that banned dubs from going door to door down to having a permit which you had to pay for and that you could only use for 3 months out of the year. For that, I say congratulations Canada!!!!

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How many here use Intel, AMD, dont know what the hell they have?

by pr_capone in

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just out of curiosity.... how many of you here have an intel processor in their computer.

how many have amd?

how many dont know what they are using?

Atilla

Celeron 600 home base and 1.4 Centrino in my X1000 HP notebook

I just set up my wi-fi network which was a real peace of work, had to buy two different rounters and spend several hours on the phone before I could get everything working. I'm still trying to figure out how to network my printer and exchange files though, internet sharing work good but everything else is a mystery and someone is probably hacking into my network right now!

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Where's everybody from?

by dustyb in

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there was a lot of threads that i've seen recently asking where everyone is at.

so i thought i could just make a reference thread for everyone to reference to when they're wondering.

share if you want to!.

Atilla

I would challenge you but everyone here knows that the WT has laid out clear guide lines about the evils of chess. Chess is a heathen sport that was probably invented by Satan himself. Not even the King of the North would be caught playing chess. Maybe checkers will be ok.