Posts by MorpheuzX

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HAPPY 4TH ANNIVERSARY JWD!

by Seven in

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happy 4th anniversary jwd!

simon and angharad,.

love we have wasted on the way.. so much water moving underneath the bridge, let the water come and carry us away.. let the water come and carry us away.~csny .

Do you have a favorite piece of music?

by MorpheuzX in

i don't know if this thread has been covered before; do you have a favorite song or piece of music or performer?

i know the question seems juvenile.

but, i'm curious.. mine, i think, is a tie between wladyslaw szpilman's performance of chopin's nocturne in c-sharp minor and angela hewitt's version of bach's goldberg variations -- the aria is divine!.

MorpheuzX

Might have to add another song to this list: If You C Jordan by Something Corporate, just totally kicks @ss.

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Politics - What to think of them.....

by desib77 in

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i was raised as a jw.

didn't leave until i was around 19 years old.

i've found that i know nothing about politics because of my upbringing.

MorpheuzX

It's nice to finally agree with you on something blacksheep, lol.

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Cost of ad in New York Times for NGO letter??

by pc in

any idea what the cost for newspaper ad would be displaying the letter?

pc

MorpheuzX

By way of follow up, I thought that 50,000 USD figure sounded very low. So, I called the NYT and spoke to one of their ad reps. Now, for a full, black and white, inside page the price per column inch is 990 USD for a weekday and 1,120 USD for a Sunday. A full page in the NYT has 126 column inches. So doing the math, a week day, black and white, full page ad in the NYT would cost 124,740 USD. The cost of a Sunday full page, black and white, inside page is 141,120 USD.

These rates are variable, for example, color is a whole lot more. But if you could establish yourself as a non-profit organization you might be able to get a special, decreased rate.

Like I said in the previous post, there's a chance the editors of the NYT would look at the ad, decide it could yield defamation or invasion of privacry lawsuits and kill it before it'd ever got past production.

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Cost of ad in New York Times for NGO letter??

by pc in

any idea what the cost for newspaper ad would be displaying the letter?

pc

MorpheuzX

How many JW's do you think read the NYT? If you really wanted to reach them, barrage them with billboards around their Brooklyn headquarters.

BTW: If you're looking to reach the most people, I'd suggest placing the advertisement in USA Today; its circulation is much, much higher than he NYT and is also national, as opposed to the NYT which is largely regional.

That being said, if there is a legitimate, legal fund established to do this, I'll help contribute to it.

As a digression, I work in the newspaper business. And I can tell you advertising departments won't run inflammatory ads, even if they're true. Defamation lawsuits and invasion of privacy lawsuits are far too expensive to defend.

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jw's living next door

by orbison11 in

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well early yesterday am i rented the cutest house, i am going to make it look like an adorable english cottage.

so later in the am i went back, aroun 10:30 to view again.

and i noticed a man in a suit walking out of the house next door with a big brown book that immediately to me looked like the nwt in large print.

MorpheuzX

Well if you spent much time out in field service I'm sure you can remember numerous occasions when you'd leave a copy of the Awake or Watchtower in the door of a return call if they weren't home. So, my suggestion to you is wait until your neighbors aren't home and leave a copy of Crisis of Conscious in their door.

Either that or ignore them completely.

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HATRED.

by Blueblades in

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hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents.it pulls and whirls the individual away from his own self, makes him oblivious of his well-being and future, frees him of jealousies and self-seeking.he becomes an anonymous particle quivering with a craving to fuse and coalesce with his like into one flaming mass.. the history of such men as, hitler, chiang kai-sheck, stalin, etc.demonstrates that this is true.. it is understandable that we should look for others to side with us when we have a just grievance and crave to retaliate against those who have wronged us.the puzzling thing is that when our hatred does not spring from a visible grievance and does not seem justified, the desire for allies becomes more pressing.it is chiefly the unreasonable hatreds that drive us to merge with those who hate as we do, and it is this kind of hatred that serves as one of the most effective cementing agents.. passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.a mass movement offers them unlimited opportunies for both.. from eric hoffer, the true believer.. i'm trying to make sense out of all this hatred going on around the world, where the innocent ones are trapped in the middle and suffering great pain and loss of lives because of hatred.. can you make any sense out of all this hatred?.

blueblades

MorpheuzX

I think I largly argee with SS here. We're a species that evolved quicker than any other and has thought up all these "fantastically horrible" ways of dispatching each other for land or oil or some other resource.

Maybe if our species can survive a few hundred years more we'll have moved past all this idiocy; but I doubt it.

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Why Did Israel Choose to Ignite the Flames Now?

by Greenpalmtreestillmine in

israel has long been able to arrest or kill the leader of hamas, why now?

especially with the u.s. being at this time more politically cripled and hated in the middle east than ever?

the u.s. has little good will in the middle east to help broker a peace or to politically come to the defense of israel.

MorpheuzX

Let's get this out of the way right up front, Sheik Ahmed Yassin was a piece of human vermin, a low-life, death dealing scum bag. I personally think he got exactly what he deserved.

As that guy Newton taught us, however, every action has a reaction. And the reaction to this is going to be horrific. I can't think of a better way to inflame hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and derail the peace process than to do what Israel has done in killing this man.

Hezbollah is already shelling the Israeli-Lebanese front and the Israelis are doing air raides. The killing of this Sheik is going to result in nothing but more deaths, more murders, more suicide bombers, more bombings, more shellings -- more death.

It's time for the Israeli's and Palestinians to figure out the killing each other is not the way to bring peace to the region! This makes me so angry.

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GoodBye Veterans Stadium, you smelly convention site!

by WingCommander in

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forum:.

wanted to pop in and say hi, and also to ask if anyone is saddened by "the vet"'s dimise?

it was nothing more than a sweltering cesspool in which the jw's had their yearly conventions.

MorpheuzX

I couldn't agree more! I attended the 1994 District Convention at Veterans' Stadium and let me tell you it was awful! I was up in the second deck. The temp was easily 110F. I hear down on the field the temp was somewhere around 135F. I believe one of the older brothers actually collapsed on the platform from the heat while giving a talk. It was an awful three days.

Digression time: The next year, 1995, I went up to the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY, and it was much better: no insane heat, no sweating through your clothes, no brothers collapsing on the platform. I was also baptized at that convention. (Why did I ever do that?)

Anyway...my thoughts on the demolishing of the Vet is good riddance!

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Politics - What to think of them.....

by desib77 in

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i was raised as a jw.

didn't leave until i was around 19 years old.

i've found that i know nothing about politics because of my upbringing.

MorpheuzX

I had a professor when I was in college tell me in much more eloquent terms than I can presently relate that the government we have is the government we allow -- that in essence the people are the government.

I was raised as a JW and hence and had an unhealthy skepticism of all things "worldly." (I left the witnesses at 18; unbeknownst to me this attitude didn't leave me for many years until I finally became cognizant of it and worked to bring it from my subconscious mind into my conscious realm of thought or view of the world.)

That being said, I have been very politically active since leaving the JW's. I left in 1996 and have voted in ever election since then. I've contributed to election campaigns, local and national, both with time and money. I too opposed the war in Iraq and took part in organizing and carrying out quite a few anti-war protests.

This is a bit off subject but this discussion reminds me of an old Beatles song the words to which are: "in the end the love you give is equal to the love you get." I think that same principle applies to politics. The political system or change that you try to work to get is the political system or change you'll eventually get -- but change is usually incremental and I think that's all we can really hope for. I know I'm not trying to save the word, just make it a little better.