Food at the Assembly was better but everyone ate standing up. Fresh squeezed orange juice was made to order.
Some brothers, like me, collected older literature but that was frowned upon.
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What was it like being a JW in the 1960's and 1970's
by UnshackleTheChains inthis is obviously a question for the older generation.
i'm really curious what it was like to be a witness in the 60's and 70's?.
was the society as strict as it is today?.
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What do You Think About Hybrid and Electric Cars?
by Village Idiot inbattery technology has been making leaps and bounds in affordability and energy output throughout the past decade.
while pure electric cars currently have limited range, the near future holds prospects for longer ranges.
hybrids, and recently plug in hybrids, have a mileage of up to 50 mpg* giving them a range of 500 miles from a ten gallon gas tank.
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Simon, I thought you were talking about the manufacturing of the car which requires the melting of metal, an energy intensive process. My mistake.
As for the energy used for driving that takes us into the issue of alternative energy. With electricity coming from windmills, photovoltaic and concentrated solar power all electrical needs including driving will be met using clean technology.
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What do You Think About Hybrid and Electric Cars?
by Village Idiot inbattery technology has been making leaps and bounds in affordability and energy output throughout the past decade.
while pure electric cars currently have limited range, the near future holds prospects for longer ranges.
hybrids, and recently plug in hybrids, have a mileage of up to 50 mpg* giving them a range of 500 miles from a ten gallon gas tank.
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I think they are interesting but not the nirvana people assume. The electricity still has to be produced which often means burning fossil fuels and transmitted which means power loss. Yes, it can save fuel being burned where the car is, but it's still burned.
For every hybrid car produced there will be a conventional car that will not be bought or produced. That means that the amount of electricity needed to make them will cancel each other out.
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Good Morning!
by snowbird ingood morning, all.. it is good to be here.. thanks to all for your contributions.. love and blessings.
sylvia.
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Don't be so cheerful snowbird.
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What do You Think About Hybrid and Electric Cars?
by Village Idiot inbattery technology has been making leaps and bounds in affordability and energy output throughout the past decade.
while pure electric cars currently have limited range, the near future holds prospects for longer ranges.
hybrids, and recently plug in hybrids, have a mileage of up to 50 mpg* giving them a range of 500 miles from a ten gallon gas tank.
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Battery technology has been making leaps and bounds in affordability and energy output throughout the past decade. While pure electric cars currently have limited range, the near future holds prospects for longer ranges.
Hybrids, and recently plug in hybrids, have a mileage of up to 50 mpg* giving them a range of 500 miles from a ten gallon gas tank. That cuts the price of a fill up in half.
Plug in hybrids allow you to run the car on pure electric or regular hybrid mode. Currently their batteries will only allow a range of up to 20 miles before the gas/electric mode kicks in. That’s not sufficient for most use but when they get to the point that they’ll have a range of 100 miles it will revolutionize the auto industry and our driving habits.
With a range upwards of 600 miles (500 in hybrid mode plus 100 in pure electric mode) no one will have to worry about having to recharge their car very often. The 100 mile range would allow the driver to recharge his car when convenient and/or use the gas/electric mode for longer trips. This can happen in as little as 5 years from now.
Over 1.5 million Priuses have been sold in the U.S. and 6 million worldwide and this does not include other hybrids. Saudi Arabia, look out!
Opinions anyone?
*These are EPA figures which are based on strict driving conditions. Real life mileage comes out to about 10% less.
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My 89 year old father will be standing by a cart tomorrow.
by longgone inyes, that's what he just told me.
unbelievable.
this cult had no shame.. 😞😞😞 .
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Maybe she can accompany your father and hand out literature.
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What was it like being a JW in the 1960's and 1970's
by UnshackleTheChains inthis is obviously a question for the older generation.
i'm really curious what it was like to be a witness in the 60's and 70's?.
was the society as strict as it is today?.
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Compound complex,
Very serious, deep stuff! BTW, the older brothers and sisters I knew were not kooky but had a deep knowledge of the Bible...
Same here but I think that they were more zealous in the 1950s than when I grew up in the 1970s. I remember having get togethers and conversing with brothers on doctrines. One of whom had an IQ of 170 and had a lot of non-JW literature that would have branded him a borderline apostate.
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What was it like being a JW in the 1960's and 1970's
by UnshackleTheChains inthis is obviously a question for the older generation.
i'm really curious what it was like to be a witness in the 60's and 70's?.
was the society as strict as it is today?.
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Was the society as strict as it is today?
Can't make a comparison because I was physically and mentally out since 1980.
Did you feel proud to be a JW back then?
Yes, but I started having doubts in the late 1970s.
Were the brothers more loving in those days?
Would not know about now but they were pretty decent back then A few of them helped me out when I needed it. It was the elder hatchet man and the Circuit Overseer who were the pricks.
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UC Berkeley orders cancellation of Ann Coulter speech
by freemindfade inuc berkeley administrators canceled a scheduled speech by right-wing pundit ann coulter, saying they can’t protect participants from rioting if it goes ahead.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/uc-berkeley-orders-cancellation-of-ann-coulter-11084299.php.
now i am no ann coulter fan (although the sjw police on here will accuse me of being a fan shortly after posting this), but i am a fan of free speech!
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But at the end of the day, these white nationalists, they just make a lot of irritating noise.
Irritating noise? Like the man who punched an anti-Trump protestor at a Trump speech who was being escorted out? Like the hundreds of hate crimes carried out by them before any of this. As I've said and continue to repeat, The right-wing started this fight.
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UC Berkeley orders cancellation of Ann Coulter speech
by freemindfade inuc berkeley administrators canceled a scheduled speech by right-wing pundit ann coulter, saying they can’t protect participants from rioting if it goes ahead.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/uc-berkeley-orders-cancellation-of-ann-coulter-11084299.php.
now i am no ann coulter fan (although the sjw police on here will accuse me of being a fan shortly after posting this), but i am a fan of free speech!
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Freemindfade,
In walks VI and bohm, and all they can do is complain about right wingers, and how awful they are.
As I've said before, it is the right wing media and Republican/conservative/alt-right groups that initiated all this hate-monger. I shouldn't have to define the word "initiated" so I'll use a simpler one. They started it. As I've said before, 30 years of conservative hatemongery on right wing radio and 20 years on right wing television has created this situation.
As I've also said before conservatives are like the bully that punches and punches his victim and then, when his victim punches back the bully shouts: "You see, you see! That is why he deserves to be punched!