my brother was df'd after a year of not having anything to do with jw's.
Posts by dh
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24Can inactives be D/F'd?
by tabbycat incan inactive ex-jw's be disfellowshipped?
i've always been interested but can't ask my mother (still a jw) for fear of upsetting her.
if i was d/f'd, would it really mean that even my immediate family would 'shun' me?
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Where is the safest place to be during a thunderstorm?
by hubert inwe just had the biggest thunderstorm pass over us in many years, and the "epicenter", if you can all it that, was right over my house!!!!!!!!.
any minute, i was expecting to get hit in the a$$ with a bolt of lightning, and lose whatever little hair i have left on my head, or anywhere else, for that matter.
so, i think that the safest place to be, is on the toilet.. that way, when a bolt of lightning hits right outside your bathroom window, you will be in the right place when you shit yourself !!
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above it
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How did you get the "troof"?
by dorayakii ini was assimilated at birth... .
my maternal grandparents came to england in the early 1940s, and learnt the troof here.
my grandfather opposed my grandmother for a while, but then he decided it wasn't worth the fight and studied the blue "troof book" and my grandparents got baptised at the same assembly.
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dh
when i realised my own views disagreed with what i was taught as a jw, i got the truth.
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Fav Movie
by Es inhey all, whats people favourtie movie at the moment.
im loving finding neverland and hide and seek at the moment.
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dh
this is without doubt one of them
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Were You Pressured To Get Baptized?
by minimus inmost persons, imo, are pressured to get baptized.
they are told they "should be ready".
children are made to feel that jehovah will not protect them any longer at a certain age.
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dh
i don't know if i was pressured, but it was expected.
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Do your ears "hear" things?
by LouBelle inokay okay yes we all hear - well most of us.
but do you ever hear things that you think aren't there.
like this morning i was lying in bed, fully awake and rational, just enjoying the quiet, when i heard this sound "like a rushing wind" (that is the exact thought that came into my mind) when i heard that sound & the thought crossed my mind, so did that scripture in acts where it speaks about when the holy spirit came upon the 120 in the upper room.. and the sound didn't stop - it just carried on.
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if i sleep on my back i hear screaming.
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Calling Music Industry People
by LouBelle inhi there.. i need a bit of help in the marketing of an artist.
he has got 4 amazing songs at the moment & is busy recording another 6. he is currently working on his music career in london.
this boy has got the voice & the looks & am pretty stunned by his sound.. the thing is i"m not clued up about this stuff at all & am not too sure how to approach marketing him.
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dh
We are going to be sending out a good few demos by the end of the week and are doubling that at the end of the month.
Okay so your demo's...
How many tracks are they? What have you got written on the CD? What is on the case? What does the covering letter say? How have you packaged it? Did you cold call and qualify whether the person you are sending the demo to IS the correct person to send it to at that particular label? Did you include photo's and a brief bio on the artist? Did you include anything else?
A demo should be a lot of things, but it should also not be a lot of things. There are all kinds of ways to get a demo into the hand of the right person... What tricks have you considered using?
I have a little experience in this stuff, so here are my badly organised words on the subject.
I will tell you my favourite way of getting a demo into the hand of the right person!
1- Prepare your demo properly... Meaning the demo should be no more than 3 tracks. (Less if your artists is good enough.), the tracks should grab you within 20 seconds, if they don't, it'll go in the bin. Start with your strongest track. Include your artists full contact information on the body of the CD (CD cases can get lost and you don't want that A & R guy loving the track and then not knowing how to contact the artists)... So put info on the CD body. - Also make sure the genre of all 3 tracks is the same, your artist can diversify once he is established.
2- Include a brief bio of the artist, 10 lines or so on their musical background... Keep it simple and don't rant. Also include a photo.
3- Call the labels you think might be interested in the style of music your artists is performing, and check if they release that type of music. If they do, find out exactly who it is you should send the demo to.
4- Call the person you are going to send the demo to and tell them it is coming, tell them you will call to check if they have received it.
5- Gift wrap the demo in something bright coloured so it looks like a birthday present or something, and get a girl with nice writing to write the label, you can even write all the bio and everything on a birthday card so the guy receiving it is intrigued to look and read.
6- Put your demo CD in the disguised package and send it.
Note: In my experience, the wrapping and the fact that what you are sending in does not look like a typical Demo CD (very blah blah) in an envelope, means that it WILL end up in the hands of the addressee and they will open it (because it will look personal), and maybe, just maybe they will smile and think 'if they made this much effort to get this demo into my hand, maybe it's worth a listen'. Maybe it won't make a scrap of difference, but it's better to stand out and be noticed than send in a brown envelope.
7- Anyways, once you have checked to see if your package has been signed for, because you sent it with DHL, you wait a few days and then call the person you sent it to and see if they have received it and if they have had a chance to listen to it. If they have listened to it, ask them what they thought, and even though they will probably reject the demo because it's 'not what they're looking for right now', ask them for constructive criticism, and ask them if it's okay for you to send future demo's to them.
8- Repeat steps 1-7 on another record co.
Those are my tips on getting a demo into the hands of the right person. It pays to do your homework on the label, the A & R guy, etc.
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not me
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Calling Music Industry People
by LouBelle inhi there.. i need a bit of help in the marketing of an artist.
he has got 4 amazing songs at the moment & is busy recording another 6. he is currently working on his music career in london.
this boy has got the voice & the looks & am pretty stunned by his sound.. the thing is i"m not clued up about this stuff at all & am not too sure how to approach marketing him.
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dh
No offence, but why are you marketing him if...
The thing is I"m not clued up about this stuff at all & am not too sure how to approach marketing him.
Wouldn't it be better for him if you just helped him find a manager who knows what they are doing?
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North Korean propaganda film backfires with hungry audiences
by Elsewhere inhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1438432/posts.
north korean propaganda film backfires with hungry audiences.
world tribune ^ | 7/7/05.
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dh
42 years in prison. good grief.