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  Article "Would You Stand up to an Opressive Regime or Would Conform? Here's the Science"

  by Bill Covert in

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  there is a article on firefox "would you stand up to an oppressive regime or would you conform?

  here's the science" taken from "the conversation" by nick chater.

  10-9-2019.. perhaps someone with computer skills can copy and post this article on this forum.

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  Bill Covert

  That is the whole point of the Sept. 1 1987 Wt. article "A Time to Speak When?
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  Article "Would You Stand up to an Opressive Regime or Would Conform? Here's the Science"

  by Bill Covert in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is a article on firefox "would you stand up to an oppressive regime or would you conform?

  here's the science" taken from "the conversation" by nick chater.

  10-9-2019.. perhaps someone with computer skills can copy and post this article on this forum.

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  Bill Covert

  There is a article on FireFox "Would You Stand up to an Oppressive Regime or Would you Conform? Here's the Science" taken from "The Conversation" by Nick Chater. 10-9-2019.

  Perhaps someone with computer skills can copy and post this article on this forum. Personally in computer skills I am what political correct refer to as "challenged".

  It is put in the setting of a oppressive theocratic "Gilead" scene. I think you folks will find this interesting.
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  Meet George Floyd

  by cofty in

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  his murder was a crime and justice must be done, but it's sobering to learn more about the man who is being lionised by millions.

  thanks as always to the courageous candace owens.. ....

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  Thanks for the post. I clicked on You Tube and told her what I thought of her that she achieved the rank of HERO and that they are in short supply today.

  So thanks again for the post, it was a bright spot in a dark situation..
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  How do you feel about identifying roughly where you are from ? Country, Region,State ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  2. friends

  hi friends ,.

  is it just me or do others on this forum like to know where posters are from ?

  what country state or region you are from ?

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  Redding California

  There is a Alberta fiddler Calvin Vollrath who came to local fiddle contest several times.

  Canadians great fiddle players!
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  75th Anniversary of VE Day

  by cofty in

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  today is the 75th anniversary of the end of wii in europe.

  they were a special generation who were literally prepared to give their lives rather than submit to fascism.

  millions paid the ultimate price.

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  I should of said in recommendation of checking out "Foyles War" was that it depicted all the aspects of Rivergang's post as to how life was during the war.
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  75th Anniversary of VE Day

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  today is the 75th anniversary of the end of wii in europe.

  they were a special generation who were literally prepared to give their lives rather than submit to fascism.

  millions paid the ultimate price.

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  If any want to take a journey back in time, check out the British series "Foyles War" . About a police inspector during the war. The producers actually had period material in desk drawers that was never shown for the purpose of getting the actors mentally into the period. An actress with the name Honeysuckle Weeks, pure British.
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  75th Anniversary of VE Day

  by cofty in

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  today is the 75th anniversary of the end of wii in europe.

  they were a special generation who were literally prepared to give their lives rather than submit to fascism.

  millions paid the ultimate price.

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  Bill Covert

  Father in law's last memories that surfaced as in a coma dying from cancer was the terror of power diving in a B25 "Mitchell" . He was the radio operator in the Royal Canadian Air Force. About the only thing I ever heard him say was "that he was the last one in the plane and the first one out" . Early in the 1970's I erected a ham radio antenna in Santa Barbara so he could connect with ham radio aficionado's to go over the mornings text.

  in the 50's in the door to door he got hit by a lady with the challenge put to JW men "what did you do in the war?". He told her he bombed women and children.
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  Memories of Maryland Conventions!

  by Atlantis in

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  posting for brother x. petra!.

  if you were a child during the years of 1960 to 1970, the question isn't; do you remember these conventions?

  the question is; how could you forget?

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  Mark Twain said "the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco". Candlestick Park 1961-66, sun burn during day, tremble from cold at night. Get back to room at midnight, do it all over again next day.
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  theory of wuhan virus being created in a lab now being considered by UK and USA and others.

  by JimmyYoung in

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  i thought it was a strange coincidence that there was a weapons lab right near the supposed wet market where it started.

  china needs to pay for this one way or the other.

  https://www.foxnews.com/world/state-department-cables-coronavirus-origin-chinese-lab-bats.

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  In the Ken Burns doc on the Spanish Flu, it was said the best plausible explanation for the out break was from the US Army Calvary fort [I think Kansas] where they set afire a huge pile of horse manure. They said the main transmission avenue was though the Army personal. With the war there was a perfect storm as government was unwilling to quarantine military.
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  Looking For Documents. Please Can Anyone Help?

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does anybody have a copy of the harbeck letters 1933 or does anyone know where to get a copy of it or just to have a read of it?these are letters that brother harbeck who was the branch overseer in switzerland wrote ,.

  "a letter written by brother harbeck in august 1933 was given wide distribution among the german brothers and was used by the fearful ones in their discussions as proof of the rightness of their stand..."(yearbook of jws 1974).. i am looking for this letter in connection to a project.

  thank you for your efforts.. zing.

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  Harbeck, that is a name from the past. I attended the Book Study at his sons house in 1966 and again in 1968 when I was going through the, refusal of community service work in lieu of military induction court trial. They lived in the SF Bay Area Hayward, Calif. The son was university educated on the Watchtower dime during the war era, one of the very few. I forgot what it was he did but he was very successful. Harbeck Sr.I think his name was Charles had a house on the property.

  There was a newly wed lady named Lolly that attended that Book Study, in time I met her two sisters. One married to the District Overseer Elmer Woodley. The other to a elder in Redding Ca. About 20 years ago the Service Dept. took exception to my putting writing that "I was going to cut Elmer's fucking throat" Heb.4:12. Well next time Elmer came thru I got summonsed to the 'upper room' with the D.O. his brother in law and two influential elders. Elmer tells me that when he was in NY he went to both the legal dept and Service dept about me. He states that the legal dept said the organization was not worried about me as statute of limitations has ran out hence I can't sue. Next he said the Service dept told him that the arson investigator who wrote a letter warning the Service dept about a $2.250M unregistered securities swindle that he recanted his letter [turned out to be a blatant lie] . Evidently I was in deep shit. I used a legal precedent and Lev.5:1 from the 1987 Wt article "A Time to Speak When?" and I backed them down! I walked out of that room with Elmer telling me "to bad I wasn't going to get into the Kingdom" I retorted that there was always room in the kingdom for a man that will stand up to a swindler of widows. No disfellowshipment. True story.

  Everything I ever posted on this site centers around the article "A Time to Speak When?" paragraph 6 and how it relates to the revision of Lev.5:1 in the 2013 RNWT. I sent that Wt.Sept 1 1987 article to Trey Bundy with some supporting material two weeks after the Oxygen TV story. I suggested that he run paragraph 6 by a Rabbi. There is a very specific technical point that flew about 3 pay grades above Lloyd Evans head in his blog on the "Silver Sword" in 2013. If Trey can see that technical point then perhaps he can make some dominos fall.

  Will something like that happen, I don't know. I have only been on this project for 30 years and every time I think I got things in place then something happens and blows my thinking all apart. Which in this case the virus clears the desk.

  In this post I am not trying to prove anything or beat a old drum. Just putting it out there the possibility a Rabbi's review of the Sept. 1 1987 Wt. "A Time to Speak When?" could have a impact on Trey's work. Just something to put on a shelf. The bringing up the name Harbeck is just a part spider web of people and how they connect to my 30 year project. To me it is interesting how things intertwine as my 30 year project is more about connecting people and events with a certain objective to accomplish. So I either have a tremendous waste of time [with great losses] or something very unique that is controlled by the interest of a Rabbi.

  We will see what happens.

  Bill