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  I WANT MY MTV !!!!!

  by little witch in

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  i pay good money to get music video channels, so why is it they are no longer showing music?.

  i dont care to watch "teens gone awry".

  "one hit wonders".

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  It's all about mergers & acquisitions, Badger. TNN was purchased by CBS, which sorely needed an outlet on the cable dial to play catch-up with ABC & NBC.

  CBS's plan was to turn TNN into a top-10 cable network to compete with TBS, TNT, and USA. They began to move away from the niche market of country music, fishing/hunting/outdoors shows, and motorsports. They figured that country music fans would be just tickled pink with CMT, and that the oudoors & racing fans could get their fill on ESPN & ESPN2 & Fox Sports.

  CBS was later acquired by Viacom. Viacom also owns Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1, TV Land, and several other related networks. Before long, TNN changed from The Nashville Network to The National Network ... continuing the process started by CBS. The thing was, the audience demographics weren't what CBS originally planned. They were skewing younger, and predominently male.

  Well, before long some corporate muckity muck asked 'if Lifetime is "television for women", why not have "television for men"?' And, Voila! We now have Spike TV, which is very heavily targeted toward a younger adult male audience.
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  I WANT MY MTV !!!!!

  by little witch in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i pay good money to get music video channels, so why is it they are no longer showing music?.

  i dont care to watch "teens gone awry".

  "one hit wonders".

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  I thought they were coming out with "MTV 2" channel to play music vids.

  It's there. Well, it's on my cable lineup, anyway. Check with your cable company. It may be a part of an additional package, as mine is available only by purchasing the digital tier of service. My daughter loves it.
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  Are You a Taker Not a Giver

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  many posting here once would not accept a blood transfusion or give blood because of the wts doctrine.. having left that doctrine behind and being willing to "accept" a blood transfusion, are you willing (if able medically) to donate blood?.

  if willing to accept an organ transplant, are you willing (if medically able) to donate an organ, either as a live donor or when deceased?.

  if yes, to both questions, do you donate blood regularly?

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  I was always fine when butchering animals for dinner. And when I'm bandaging one of my kids after a cut or a scrape. But I never could stand the sight of my own blood. It gives me the heebie jeebies. Therefore, I've never donated blood.

  The organ donor thing would be a possibility, but as was said above, I'd rather they wait until I'm dead. By then, I'll probably be riddled with cancer & whatever. Who knows?

  I suppose I could wake up in a hotel bathtub packed with ice after a wild night, missing a kidney or something. Every time I turn around, I get some nonsense like that in my e-mail. *LOL*
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  If the Watchtower kept you out of college, here is a quick way back in:

  by gitasatsangha in

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  i know a lot of folks are like me and probably had to get their education mostly from experience due to the watchtower's stand on education.

  i wanted to share some things i found which were helpful to me, and might also be to others thinking of going back.

  this all refers to distance education, as i travel a great deal and don't have time to go to a regular college.. excelsior college (run by the new york board of regents), has a special system set up where you can "credit bank" previous experience, credits taken from other colleges, corporate training, etc towards a degree.

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  When I was a college student, most universities would allow you to take a fair number of courses via a CLEP exam. (I can't recall exactly what that stood for, but it was something like Comparable Life Experience Placement, or some other nonsense.) Anyway, bottom line is that you can probably get thru some classes at most universities this way. There were fees associated with the tests, but they could save you a few semesters of study.
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  What is Your purpose/point for being here?

  by ScoobySnax in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i get asked that question alot, some even ask what exactly my purpose is!

  i can live with it.. if i had to answer my own question, i'd have to say it broken down into a number of points.

  a. i like to see what the latest stuff is happening on the "apostate" side.. b. i like to watch the politics of this group.

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  Have you personally ever SEEN a baby pidgeon...?

  No.

  I figure that, much like us humans, adult pigeons mate out of fear & loneliness & then hide away their young 'uns until they're ready to boot their feathered butts out of the nest & get down to some serious non-procreative sex. I think I saw this on Wild Kingdom back in the 70s. Or maybe I read about it in Awake!.
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  Thomas Jefferson Comments

  by Farkel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in thomas jefferson's "notes on the state of virginia", query xvii, "religion", he states: .

  "the first settlers in this country were emigrants from england, of the english church, just at a point of time when it was flushed with complete victory over the religious of all other persuasions.

  possessed, as they became, of the powers of making, administering, and executing the laws, they shewed (sic) equal intolerance in this country with their presbyterian brethren... the poor quakers were flying from persecution in england.

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  I'm more of a mutt. Ancestors from England, Holland, Germany, and France, with a few strays from Scotland & Ireland plus the occasional Indian thrown in for good measure.

  Some came to America to escape persecution (as in the case of one Huguenot) and others came to make their fortunes (including those who were a part of the Dutch West India Company).
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  Thomas Jefferson Comments

  by Farkel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in thomas jefferson's "notes on the state of virginia", query xvii, "religion", he states: .

  "the first settlers in this country were emigrants from england, of the english church, just at a point of time when it was flushed with complete victory over the religious of all other persuasions.

  possessed, as they became, of the powers of making, administering, and executing the laws, they shewed (sic) equal intolerance in this country with their presbyterian brethren... the poor quakers were flying from persecution in england.

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  I find it supremely ironic that those who fled religious persecution in England, found it as bad or even worse in the early days of America.

  I was amused & surprised to learn several years ago that one of my ancestors was tried for witchcraft in Connecticutt 300+ years ago.

  But I also keep in mind that some of the colonies were settled by Quakers (Pennsylvania), and some by Puritans (Massachusets), and some by Catholics (Maryland). Religious division and persecution is nothing new here. That's one of the reasons we have Constitutional freedoms for religion (which was added as an amendment to the Constitution several years after the fact).
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  Social Skills/Dating

  by particlesnwaves5 in

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  i have a problem.

  i am lonely as can be since leaving the organization.

  my children are grown and having lives of their own.

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  Have you had problems with people wanting sexual intimacy before you were ready?

  No. Usually they had problems with me wanting it before they were ready. And that was OK. There were others.

  How have you coped with the loss of social support since leaving the witness religion?

  I met other people. And more importantly, I focused on developing myself. I could meet a ton of people, but if I was the uber-geek, would they really want to hang out?
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  What is Your purpose/point for being here?

  by ScoobySnax in

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  2. friends

  i get asked that question alot, some even ask what exactly my purpose is!

  i can live with it.. if i had to answer my own question, i'd have to say it broken down into a number of points.

  a. i like to see what the latest stuff is happening on the "apostate" side.. b. i like to watch the politics of this group.

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  I wandered into this site a couple of weeks ago & found it to be interesting. I knew that there were others who had fallen away from (or been booted out of) the org over the years, but I've met only one outside of my immediate family with whom I've been able to discuss our dysfunctional childhoods.

  I'm curious about others' experiences, and have been enjoying my visits here so far.
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  Love or Hate Field Service

  by XBEHERE in

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  how many of you went out in the field because you had to or because you wanted to?

  if because you had to, how did you feel while doing it?

  just curious.

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  Dan-O

  I didn't care for it at all when I was growing up.

  Looking back, I can see that it prepared me well for a career in sales. Cold calling on business people to talk about advertising is a breeze after going out in service.