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Toronto, Canada

by Calliope in

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recanting on a previous thread where i commented on the unlikelihood of ever meeting any of you... .

i've just been advised that i will be shipped to toronto for training in a couple weeks.

now, i'm not saying i want to meet anyone.

Tallpenguin is going down east.
I suggest we go somewhere cool and interesting. I recommend ..... well, I can think of a couple of nice-ish places depending on everyone's mood. I rather enjoy shanghai cowgirl. http://bovineclub.com/shanghaicowgirl/
Its basically a diner with some interesting twists. Good food, food drink, pretty cheap.
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Toronto, Canada

by Calliope in

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friends

recanting on a previous thread where i commented on the unlikelihood of ever meeting any of you... .

i've just been advised that i will be shipped to toronto for training in a couple weeks.

now, i'm not saying i want to meet anyone.

ackack

Hey Uzzah, what am I? Chop suey? sigh
I would consent to drinking and a great deal of carrying on and mocking of various peoples.
ackack

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Need Scan of Watchtower 1971 December 15 p.749

by ackack in

i'm looking for that wonderful organization chart.

was hoping that someone could supply a decent scan of it.

(its a cool chart anyways, would make some great t-shirts out of it) .

ackack

Thank you very much Atlantis. Indeed Nate, the illustration is .. err.. crazy, but alas, that IS life :) ackack

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Need WT cover

by ozziepost in

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g'day all,.

does anyone have a scanned copy of the wt cover that proclaimed, "salvation through jehovah's organisation"?

ackack

Its in the book, In Search of Christian Freedom.
iirc, the title is something like "Victorious through God's Organization" ... something like that.
I think it might have been "Put Faith in a Victorious Organization", 1979 March 1st.
And if you're going to scan that, could you also scan in Watchtower 1971 December 15 p.749 for me? I'm looking for that chart. :)
ackack

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Need Scan of Watchtower 1971 December 15 p.749

by ackack in

i'm looking for that wonderful organization chart.

was hoping that someone could supply a decent scan of it.

(its a cool chart anyways, would make some great t-shirts out of it) .

ackack

I'm looking for that wonderful organization chart. Was hoping that someone could supply a decent scan of it. (Its a cool chart anyways, would make some great t-shirts out of it)

Actually, I'll make some t-shirts out of it if someone sends me a scan of it :)

ackack

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Statistics for JW's in useable format?

by ackack in

does anyone have the jw stats in an excel spreadsheet or xml file or any kind of useable format?

i wanted to run some stats against it if its possible.. thanks.

ackack

Does anyone have the JW stats in an excel spreadsheet or xml file or any kind of useable format? I wanted to run some stats against it if its possible.

Thanks

ackack

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I'm sick of Atlanta, where should I move?

by joelbear in

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i've lived here 17 years.

i can't believe i have stayed put that long.. moultrie 2 years.

ft. walton beach 2 years.

ackack

I was just in Atlanta for a day. Neat place (kind of) :) You should come to Toronto where I am. Its ubercool and super-multi-cultural.

ackack

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A recent Awake that said earth's population would fit in T

by AlmostAtheist in

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i bumped into a jw at the store the other day.

he doesn't know i'm df'd (apparently) and i didn't decide to enlighten him.

he banged on for a bit about people we both knew, how service was that morning, etc.

ackack

Franz, sounds like you've read Dayworld.

ackack

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What is the meaning of Apostate?

by NiecyMe in

the dictionary defines apostate as "one who practices apostasy, to revolt".

doesn't this apply to just about anyone?

jw's wanted us to think that the word has more meaning into it then it really does.

ackack

The term apostate, as JW's use it today, did not come into Watchtower parlance until 1980, post Franz. Previously, apostate was usually paired with Christendom, as in "apostate Christendom" or "apostate Christians of Christendom" or something along those lines.

Hey... what can I say? They needed a label. :)

ackack

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reexamine.org and BitTorrents

by reexaminer in

in an effort to speed up downloads of some of our larger files, we've set up many of these files with bittorrents.

for those who don't know what bittorrents are, you can find out more about them on wikipedia.. because of the set-up, we've had to relocate some of the files to different areas in our servers, so some of the 'read online' options that we used to have won't be working the next few days, we'll get it back to the way it was soon though, but also give a couple extra download options.. the latest release is the video, "young people ask, what will i do with my life?

" for those who are interested the bittorrent file is located here:.

ackack

Poztate: I just checked, and the "easy download" option is installing the official bittorrent client and then initiating the download for you. So it will still seed the release.

But I too use Azureus as I'm on a Mac and a PC and I like having consistent software across both platforms (Azureus is java running with IBM's SWT toolkit for those interested) and as such is a very good performer.

There is also apparently an upload section too (I tested it with Cornstarch! which I suppose should really be deleted by reexam, but its cool, watch it)

Btw, check out VLC to play these movie files. Its an open-source cross-platform video, audio player which handles just about every file format you'd ever want. Its wonderful, and one of my most used apps ever.

ackack