Posts by SnakesInTheTower

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Searching for names of elders?

by Truth and Justice in

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i don't know if anyone can help me on this, but my question is this- is there a website in which there is a list of kingdom halls with the names of elders from that congregation in a particular state?

i don't want anyone to go thru too much trouble for me, but i sure wonder if there is.. the reason i ask is because 2 of my brothers in the family are po and elder located in a sothern state that i know.

my curiousity is to know which hall there in, maybe it would give some sort of clues as to whether there on this site.

SnakesInTheTower

You could call Patterson (845-306-1000) and ask for Service Dept. When you get them, tell them you are a dub that will be visiting that city on vacation and want the name and maybe number of the PO for that congo or congos... tell them you already have a KH number but no answer.. This will only help if you know which city they are in. If there are a large number of congos in the city, then you might not be able to get the info you need.

If there are a large handful of congos in the city....you can randomly call KHs during meeting times and ask for Bro. So-and-So.

If there is an JW assembly hall within 3-4 hours of the city you are looking at, call the assembly hall during business hours and see if you can find out info that way. You could, if you wanted, even casually ask the brother who is the caretaker if they know Bro. So-and-so..... most assembly hall caretakers know most if not all of the POs in the area. If they want to know why you are asking, have a real good answer worked up ahead of time.

I am not beyond subterfuge. Block your number either way. Theocratic warfare and all that.

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Putting Hippos on the Titanic???????????

by Warlock in

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another fine article about "the stimulus".

http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/2009/0211.html.

warlock .

SnakesInTheTower

I took microeconomics last semester and this semester I am taking the other half..macroeconomics... timely indeed.

Quite honestly, knowledge scares the hell out of me. But better to know than to be in the dark any longer (gee, I wonder where I have heard that from before....hmmmm...can you say Jdubs?....in the dark?).

Yeah, I don't like being in the dark. How many people in the general population do you think are actually going beyond what the Great Messiah Obama is spouting. And yes, I voted for Obabma...lesser of two evils...politicians by nature are wicked...either when they start or after they get in they have to play the game (hmmmm...can you say...elders...play or get the boot?) Even the talking heads on CNN are not truly telling people what they need to hear. CNN, FoxSnooze, and all the rest just tell people enough so they won't dig any further..... Who really takes the time to dig into the basics of economics? 1 in 1000?, 10,000? I didn't before taking those classes.

Funny that article Warlock posted talks about Keynesian economics... same guy I wrote about earlier today.... hippos on the titanic? Yep...it is going to sink anyway, lets just make it happen faster.

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Best File/Disk Recovery Program

by Satanus in

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due to a series of blunders, i munched the data on my hard disk, and my backup.

gonna try and recover the stuff.

help on which is/are the best programs for this is appreciated.

SnakesInTheTower

You don't say if you are using Windows or Mac OS or what version... or what you meant by "munched" data.....

Just today I was reading a computer magazine and they recommend a free program called FreeUndelete.

http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/

A couple of things.. FIRST: quit using the computer that has the data you want to recover. Every time you use it you risk the computer overwriting the data. The data may still be there, it is just that those particular sectors of the hard drive have been flagged by the MFT (Master File Table..think of it as a table of contents for a book) as available to use for new data. This software looks for those flags and then sees where the actual data is stored (all over your hard drive). It then reassembles the data into new files...and you can see what was recoverable and what was not.

Second you will need to download the undelete software to another computer (for reasons above). You can then transfer the software to a USB jump drive. Then remove the USB drive with the undelete software from the second computer and plug it into the computer with the hard drive you want to recover data. Run the program from the USB drive and follow the instructions.

Third... BACKUP the data to yet another external hard drive (or web based storage service). I lost 10 years of Money data because my hard drive and my floppy (3.5 in) disk...both of them...were garbage.... after that I quit balancing my checkbook. I do my budget in Excel.

...the magazine that I got this from also has a Help Desk for subscribers that I have found to be very reliable...so if the publishers are recommending this software I would trust it. Haven't had need for it yet, but glad it is there. Hope this is helpful.

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If the glass is half full,

by John Doe in

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and the future holds promise and progress, why does letting the past go hurt like such a bitch?

when tape clings so tenaciously to a healing wound, why do we pull it away slowly?.

SnakesInTheTower

I am neither half full or half empty kind of person. I am more a realist...

I am just happy if I have a glass with clean water in it.

(although I caught my cat drinking out of glass on my nightstand last night lol )

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Second issue of OUR BOREDOM MINISTRY

by processor in

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here is the second issue of our boredom ministry:.

show personal interest - by offering criticism: why criticism is important to motivate people.

what are your plans for the summer?

SnakesInTheTower

Oh this parody is funny...... and the publication shorthand for Our Boredom Ministry is OBM.... so I will go meditate on the fine spiritual points of this new publication.....while taking a dump.

Snakes (:....)

ps... regarding a certain unnamed poster, I still dont understand why someone that is still obviously pro-JW posts on this board when they know damn well this is considered an apostate site by the Society.... and if they are posting that means they have to be a member of said apostate site...... lol...ah well, the irony cracks me up.

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If you know about computers put your hand up

by LouBelle in

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cos i need some help as i don't trust my it guy at all.. my email totally crashed on me today - i noticed the pee cee getting slower and slower and then it switched itself and restarted.

i rebooted after that again...just in case.

when i went into my mail everything that was in my inbox and subsequent folders opened under that had disappeared along with everything in my sent items.

SnakesInTheTower

I do not use Outlook in any form. When Microshaft tries to download "updates" for Outlook, I don't allow it.

Answer to questions 2 and 3 yes.

Answer to question 1. there are commercial and free versions of software out there that are called dbx readers that would assist you in recovering email files. The commercial version I seen was under $30 per license...but your company should buy it not you. As to the freeware versions, just be careful. Either way, it doesn't sound like you should be messing with those programs..your idiot IT guy should be... and since it is business related, all of that should have been backed up on mirror servers every night. A good security protocol is for IT to have the system take a "picture" of your hard drive (and the network drives) once a day and store it off site each day...so it can be restored if something goes awry. Apparently this is not happening at your place of employ...penny wise pound foolish indeed.

Yeah, you probably should upgrade that hard drive. 40GB is nothing these days. At the very least as someone said, back up your important files. A USB thumbdrive is cheap and easy to transfer data back and forth. (although a proper IT department would block access to USB ports for security reasons to keep business files from walking out the door).

I use an old version of JUNO email for my home and have ever since the Beta version of 1.0. I have literally thousands of emails saved...but there is a point in which the file that holds all of them does get corrupted. Then it just dumps all of the individual files into one file and then it is hell to sort. I found that problem went away when I upgraded from a 40GB hard drive to a 250GB hard drive. Hasnt crashed in 2 years....knock on wood. I back up but not often enough.

So hard drive size might be part of the problem...constantly overwriting old files... solution: pimp slap your IT guy. ...just sayin'.

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Reporting feild servie time via email

by Iwonder17 in

our hallnow allows you to report your time via email, anyone else do this?.

i kinda takes the sheparding out of the whole thing, doesn't.. not that i am complaining, but aren't the service overseers supose to talk with you so they know how you're doing?.

SnakesInTheTower

I encouraged it when I was a secretary.

I gave each book study overseer a paper copy of a list generated by my database .... they could either turn it in to me with the paper slips or some of them said they wanted it via email and they could email it back...it was great... I could always pick up the paper copies for back up at the next meeting.

fairly soon, i had the technically capable publishers emailing the overseers individually and the technically capable overseers emailing me collective lists....

either way, I only had 5 group lists not 100 individual slips to deal with. I kept he slips for a few months as back up for the CO who insisted on them. I had one elder (ironically a former secretary) that resisted the whole arrangement at first. I told him "you of all people should like this arrangement you used to be a secretary",...... he wanted me to deal with 100 people instead of him dealing with 15 or 20. I told him "go be a shepherd"...lol

soooo glad I dont deal with those children anymore. I would be a lousy manager.

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"The Elders"

by minimus in

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when i think back of how the elders were viewed, even when i was a kid, i recognize that many people were deathly afraid of the elders.

my brother had been appointed in the 70s shortly after the elder arrangement was put into effect.

so my family always had an "in" because of our theocratic connections----not that my brother was very forceful.

SnakesInTheTower

wha happened?....

u were never an elder, and u will never know what it's like to be in an elders meeting and watching the politics fly

amen. I was never good at playing in the BOE sandbox.

Snakes (of the "Been there, done that, have the t-shirt" Sheep Class)

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Would you support a 'tent' city in your town?

by sammielee24 in

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i read this comment in the sacramento news and wondered how many would support a 'tent' city for the homeless in their town?

i personally don't know how it works other than that i imagine it cloisters those homeless who wish to take of advantage of it into one large area, and provide them with toilets and tents and perhaps some form of help in the way of volunteers offering food or medical assistance.

once legal and set up, what would happen?

SnakesInTheTower

Dignity Village It should provide the basics....roof over one's head. ..and a temporary place to land. A shame is that a lot of folks that are homeless are Veterans that come back from war with TBI and mental illness..and the government lets them down....tosses them aside like a burned out Humvee.

The place shouldn't be great..or more people would want to be there. I have never understood how people in subsidized housing can afford cable (with 4 digital boxes) or satellite. Make such places safe and temporary but not a place to live for generations. Three generations in the projects is ridiculous. Public Housing for able bodied people should not be a lifestyle.

When I was in India, folks did not even have as much as the people in the picture above... I seen human beings lying in the middle of the sidewalk without any kind of covering at all...and barely any clothes...tattered and dirty. They would have loved Dignity Village.

BTS:

By the way, the JWs would love to have this as part of their Field Circus territory.

That is because JWs prey on the weak and marginalized in society. Most everyone else won't fall for it.

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artist sells entire body of work for $20 million...

by darth frosty in

and he cant read or write.

this is in_fuggin credible.. http://www.guzer.com/videos/needle-art.php.

SnakesInTheTower

wow

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