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  Is Peer-To-Peer Music Sharing In Danger?

  by OrbitingTheSun in

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  2. entertainment

  labels to sue users sharing songs online

  ted bridis.

  associated press .

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  Well, if nobody is sharing files then nobody is going to be able to download them.

  I think that people will even find ways around this recent tactic of the music industry. They have been pricing the consumer out of buying music for years and they had this coming to them. Like someone said, they could have harnessed this technology early on and turned it into another way to make money, but they were greedy and short-sighted. Eventually the law will step in also and protect peoples' rights. Some of this stuff goes way beyond constitutional IMO
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  When Prophecy Fails

  by refiners fire in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the scenario.

  leon festinger, a young psychiatrist, and a group of his henchmen (students) joined a flying saucer cult that predicted a catastrophe.

  they joined as observers and recorders to see whether its predictive pattern and method of dealing with post expectation disappointment fit the pattern for the cognitive dissonance theory festinger was researching.

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  MORE!
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  Is It Just My Evil Mind.....

  by Englishman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ......or do i detect the opportunity for a little harmless fun here?

  http://pub44.bravenet.com/postcard/post.php?usernum=3759674424.

  heh heh heh.. englishman.

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  That watermelon picture is just so ... Freudian, in so many ways.
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  No Food Coolers at Assemblies!

  by VM44 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you can't bring a food cooler to the assemblies!.

  wasn't there a post quite awhile ago where someone brought this up?

  i recall that someone said that for lunch they had to go out to the local mini-mart and grab a hot dog that was simmering all day on the grill!

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  I feel bad being thanked for food service because it was a hell of a lot better than sitting around and dying a slow death to "symposiums" and the like every day.
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  No Food Coolers at Assemblies!

  by VM44 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you can't bring a food cooler to the assemblies!.

  wasn't there a post quite awhile ago where someone brought this up?

  i recall that someone said that for lunch they had to go out to the local mini-mart and grab a hot dog that was simmering all day on the grill!

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  It seems to me this has more to do with local law than the Witnesses. I know that at the stadium here in San Diego, after 9/11 they posted big signs stating that absolutely no coolers were allowed in. They didn't allow them in for games before anyway, but they never had signs posted in bold letters at the entrance and I don't think they ever bothered the witnesses about it before. Maybe they are just cracking down on it now.
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  Demonizing the Watchtower

  by IslandWoman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  our 'beloved' old faith tried to teach us to hate other religions and all things that smacked of anything that was worldly.

  they demonized all things outside of their religion.. are some of us in danger of carrying that same thinking over to our new lives as former jws?

  could some here at first start out as an anti-cultist but in time allow this to become a 'religion' in itself?.

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  Is it right to demonize evil things?
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  Apologies for any hurt feelings

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  i know i probably go too far sometimes and can get a little 'determined' on some issues (my wife calls it pig headed & stubborn).

  sometimes i am too blunt.

  sometimes i won't let things go and want to prove my point.

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  Myself, I took a break from it all and now I just stay out of the heated threads, I don't see a point in arguing. I feel better now
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  Explain this to me

  by Ariell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm new here.. i would like to question those who tend to disagree with jw teachings, but still seem to believe in christianity and refer to god as jehovah.

  i always told myself that if i were to ever leave i'd stay out of religion all together, because if this isn't the truth than nothing is.

  christianity in today's society is so warped that it's not even funny.

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  Welcome.

  I don'r know about you, but it seems that all of your information and ideas on other religions come from the witnesses. Of course they are going to trash all alternatives to themselves.

  Myself, I don't believe in organized religion, but you should do yourself a favor and do some REAL research on other religions by going down to your local librarty and reading about them. This might give you a more balanced perspective of others and their beliefs.

  Good luck!
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  I put my burden on Jehovah, but he gave it back

  by Nosferatu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  remember all those times that you waited on jehovah for help?

  remember how he didn't help?

  tell some of your experiences of how jehovah didn't help you in your time of need.

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  Did your lifestyle work in harmony with what yo were praying for. If not..Can u figure out why your prayer wasn't answered.

  So in other words you answer your own prayers by you taking the effort and you changing your own life? Credit be to Jehovah then? God, what a scam artist.
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  Are you REALLY sure?

  by Dawn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i was one of jehovah's witnesses i was absolutely sure i had the truth.

  so sure i would have been willing to sacrifice anything for my beliefs.

  i worked hard at study, meetings, service - even aux.

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  Anyone can be deceived. Admitting it is the first step on the road to recovery, and an open mind.