Posts by Village Idiot

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Did Ray Franz manage to live out a comfortable retirement from the proceeds of his books.

by joe134cd in

i'm just curious if anybody knows.

firstly i don't take issue with the man making money from his books and if he was able to live comfortably from it then i say power to him.

but what i'm wanting to know was just how successful was it and did it allow him to live out the remainder of his years in comfort e.g buy a house, eat good food etc.

Village Idiot

A poster mentioned that only the big and well known authors can make money and, as a published author, I can tell you that it's damn near impossible just to get your book noticed let alone bought. Amazon must have a literal million books which simply swamp any one book in particular no matter how ingenious you try to get with search words and other tactics.

I still have my first royalty check which I want to frame instead of cashing it. It's for $32.

For the sake of vanity and self glorification here it is.

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Did Ray Franz manage to live out a comfortable retirement from the proceeds of his books.

by joe134cd in

i'm just curious if anybody knows.

firstly i don't take issue with the man making money from his books and if he was able to live comfortably from it then i say power to him.

but what i'm wanting to know was just how successful was it and did it allow him to live out the remainder of his years in comfort e.g buy a house, eat good food etc.

Village Idiot

slimboyat: "Who owns the copyright?"

I wish I knew. There will always be a niche market for that book although I think that only a few thousand per year would be the maximum sales. Also, royalties on paperback books are usually less than 10%.

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Did Ray Franz manage to live out a comfortable retirement from the proceeds of his books.

by joe134cd in

i'm just curious if anybody knows.

firstly i don't take issue with the man making money from his books and if he was able to live comfortably from it then i say power to him.

but what i'm wanting to know was just how successful was it and did it allow him to live out the remainder of his years in comfort e.g buy a house, eat good food etc.

Village Idiot

Vidiot

"@ slimboyfat...

"How much would you have cut Ray in for?"

I think slimboyfat was referring to the time after Ray passed away. I believe that was when the books skyrocketed in price. I doubt though that anyone could sell more than a thousand nowadays without lowering the market price dramatically.

I remember getting mine for $10.

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Who are these men? Would you follow them?

by James Mixon in

1)he ran around and wandered for 3 years naked.. 2) he hid his underwear in a rock but then went back to retrieve it after a "long time".. apparently he didn't mind parting with his draws, but he couldn't be separated from the.

cattle yoke he had fastened to his shoulders until someone broke it off.. 3)he married a prostitute and named their daughter lo-ruhama, which means 'unloved.. 4) we have the guy that preached in in town and the entire city repented.

for any preacher this.

Village Idiot

Sounds more interesting than your local elders or even the GB.

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This takes the cake

by Sour Grapes in

jw
friends

today during the public talk the speaker said that satan was behind the new modern phones, which are like mini computers, so that the world would have easy access to pornography..

Village Idiot

So how many in the KH had smart phones? Or 20/10 vision?

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Scale of 1 to 10. How did/do you rate the meetings!

by Truthexplorer in

1. boring as s***e 2. extremely boring 3. boring as hell 4. boring.

5. slightly boring 6. not bad.

7. fair.

Village Idiot

ohnightdivine: "I'm still afraid my face says it all that all other people can notice lol."

Just sit in the back row.

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Paranoia after today's Watchtower

by Truthexplorer in

boy oh boy did i feel paranoid at today's wt.

not only are we to watch our associations outside of the congregation, but also watch our associations 'within' the congregation.

this was emphasised by the wt study conductor.

Village Idiot

The Searcher:

"Org-style McCarthy witch-hunts to kick off in all Branches &K.H.s!"

I was part of the 1980 witch hunt and I wonder when the next one will be.

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Scale of 1 to 10. How did/do you rate the meetings!

by Truthexplorer in

1. boring as s***e 2. extremely boring 3. boring as hell 4. boring.

5. slightly boring 6. not bad.

7. fair.

Village Idiot

onightdivine, how many in your congregation suffer from Bitchy Resting Face or its male equivalent? You might find them to be fellow apostates.

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Scale of 1 to 10. How did/do you rate the meetings!

by Truthexplorer in

1. boring as s***e 2. extremely boring 3. boring as hell 4. boring.

5. slightly boring 6. not bad.

7. fair.

Village Idiot

Truthexplorer: "Each congregation needs a Jimmy Swaggart to shake things up a bit"

There was one talk in my congregation where the speaker was very animated and he actually tried (failed) to get responses from the audience to his points. In fact the audience reacted in an embarrassed way. I heard that he had been a Baptist minister before becoming a JW (I remember - 1970s - that he got exuberant about Christendom allowing pedophilia within its clergy).

Then, on the opposite side of the spectrum, there was a speaker who spoke in monotone. You get a sense of something very wrong with him within seconds. Within a short minute you are crying out to Jehovah for this meeting to be done.

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I figured out how Animals ended up on different continents.

by James Mixon in

animals made rafts out of logs that were knocked down by the great flood, i'm not.

sure about the kangaroo it's possible his pouch could have filled up with water and he sinked and.

how the crossed the ocean, that's something i'm working on.. then we have "if you don't believe in god you don't know right from wrong".

Village Idiot

"OK, I couldn't sleep last night so my mind went nuts..."

I know what it's like to write when I'm sleepless. Try some Melatonin in the early evening.