Posts by monophonic

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growing emotionally :)

by Missanna in

i've been thinking a lot lately about how much i've changed over the last year.

i've only been out of the borg for a year but i've changed so much.

my father called me the other day and told me that he found out that my husband has been going on these xjw boards and wanted to know how i felt about it.

monophonic

congrads....i wish i was as smart as you @ 19.

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Have you self-published through Lulu.com?

by alias in

jw
friends

i am working on a book project (non-jw) that will have both illustrations and text and i am interested in self-publishing.

i checked out lulu.com and it looks extremely easy to do it once the manuscript is ready to go.

have you used a pod like lulu?

personally, i would consider self publishing as a last resort. while a book can be produced and look good, there's nothing like getting a publishing company behind your book which will tackle one of the main problems of self publishing, publicity, getting blurbs, shelf space at bookstores, etc..

or, if you have the money, hire a publicist, though they can get up to $15k to represent a book.

unfortunately, many journalists won't give a second look to review a lulu.com book b/c of the stigma of 'vanity' publishing...i'm not saying i agree with it, but i have yet to find a self published book reviewed in publishers weekly, etc. And getting reviews means getting into libraries, libraries for the most part won't bother with a lulu.com book either.

a non-fiction book also doesn't need to be completed in order to get bought, think about submitting proposals to agents and trying to find someone who wants to rep you. look at who repped joy castro's book or other memoirs that have been published re: the jws through large and small publishing houses.

it could take 18+ months after the book is purchased and complete for it to hit market, but there's behind the scenes hype happening during that time to book sellers, journalists, etc.

i guess i would love to see more books on jws on the market and getting the attention they deserve, that's why i hope you give other options a try.

any sales figures for those who have published through lulu.com or a similar site on jws?

another idea is lightningsource.com. i've seen small presses use them with decent results, they're transparent as the printer, but promise a quick POD turn around for amazon, etc. the set up fees might be higher than lulu, but setting up a small press dedicated to jw books, or doing an anthology of jw writing as the first release, then following that up with you book will really up credibility....but credibility w/o publicity....there's lots to think about.

i'd love to be able to read any excerpts from your book if you chose to post them here.

best of luck!

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Resurrection or Truth

by XJWNB in

not sure if this has ever been brought up.

but because of thsi forum and the realization that things said in the jw empire are not true.

do you still believe in the resurrection hope?

monophonic

bigdreaux, your post ROCKS, thanks for the LOL.

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The things that are Wrong with being a JW

by jwfacts in

i have been working on this article for quite some time as it kept getting longer and longer.

if you do not have time to read it all can you please just scan the headings and tell me if there is anything that i have missed.. .

monophonic

i did a read of the shunning section and another point that you might want to bring up is the difference socially of disfellowshipping someone who has been raised a jw, works w/ jws and is told not to associate w/ worldly people, thus cutting off any type of socialization, usually at a time when the person may need it the most.

to contrast, someone who is converted to become a witness at age 30, gets baptized, and decides to give the jws the middle finger @ 32 will not have the same socialization consequences.

i did like that you focused on teens and you may have brought up the whole, 'us and them' attitude later, i just didn't have time to read that far tonite.

again, thanks.

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Did any of you have a microphone fear/phobia?

by eclipse in

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friends

i did.

i hated commenting because of it...i hated giving talks on the main school, .

i hated hearing my own voice...,my voice always sounded like i was scared shitless lol.. anyone else?

monophonic

i wish i had a microphone phobia, but i can get up in front of a crowd of people and speak about anything, do standup comedy, etc.

yet, i can't cross a bridge or go under a tunnel or fly w/o having panic attacks.

i'd trade in the microphone phobia in a second.

it's so funny that people fear public speaking more than death....i wish i could trade up.

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Did anyone here ever really like field service?

by exwitless in

as i have stated in previous posts, i absolutely hated field service.

hated it.

i dreaded it with a passion and couldn't wait to be done.

monophonic

it was a necessary evil for years...but for about a year before fading i didn't push the magazines too hard and would just read scriptures and discussions w/ people first...with no reasoning book type objection stoppers and treated 'worldly' people with respect....when i did that, i actually liked service and it felt rewarding and i did it on my own terms and people were really cool to me...i think they sensed i wasn't judging them.

but that's all back when i was under the impression that i was in the truth and just slacking off.

field service sucked most of my life....BUT, there were some excellent times when all us teens would be smooshed together in the back seat of a car while our parents drove us around on return visits and i'd sit next to a sister i was hot for, right up against her, it was pubescent heaven and got me through the rough spots....adjusting my leg has much as possible to rub up against hers, accidentally touching hands. yummy!

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info request.*Does wtbts have stock in phillip morris?

by aquagirl in

and if it does,can you tell us where we could find that info?

if this is true,i might not even be able to "fake it" for love ,ya know?

monophonic

so, bethelites and governing body, smoke 'em if ya got 'em b/c you're furthering the work of the witnesses financially.

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Religions similar to JWs.

by LtCmd.Lore in

does anyone know of any religions that are very similar to jehovahs witnesses?.

it tends to come up in discussions with them a lot, they like to think that they are the only ones that don't believe in hell, the trinity, that jesus died on a stake, that they won't go to heaven, or stuff like that.

i could probaby just prove them wrong, but that would take forever and it would be a lot easier to just say: "you're not as unique as you think...".

monophonic

i refer to seventh day adventists as jehovah's witness-lite.

but my knowledge of the adventists is limited, that's only from knowledge of my psycho grandfather's widow who is one...and from third hand knowledge, women can hold prominent positions and i think they're a bit looser when it comes to holidays, not sure about the trinity, but she used to address her letters as 'may jehovah bless you', type stuff.

also, my wife's friend was in something, i think it was the church of christ, or very similar wording, where the member numbers were similar and the shunning seemed spot on as well as the shaming of sexuality. if someone knows what i'm talking about and has the correct name of the church...i'd be interested.

in COC, didn't franz discuss a church that published a magazine similar to the Watchtower and they had the same date as 1914, but when they realized they were wrong, they apologized to their members....that might have been his other book....

as you can see i'm going through the memory of my fried brain, so hopefully someone can make sense out of one of the above better than i can.

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The things that are Wrong with being a JW

by jwfacts in

i have been working on this article for quite some time as it kept getting longer and longer.

if you do not have time to read it all can you please just scan the headings and tell me if there is anything that i have missed.. .

monophonic

thanks for bringing up the issue of graphic inappropo images for children...slide shows of holocaust victims w/ experiences and talks suggesting the same torment was right around the corner at any moment in the usa was very normal when i was a kid in the jws. they can freak out over a little sexual content in r-rated movies, but some of those images we were subjected to as children w/ the propaganda was worse than showing pornography to children.

i still suffer from panic attacks b/c of them, and since i was four years old i always 'knew' i was going to prison and i knew the definition of tarred and feathered while my peers were playing tag i was writhing with anxiety that i was going to die a horrible death at any moment.

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"Crisis of Conscious" question

by monophonic in

since my copy of the book, eh hum, found its way into the garbage and i need to purchase another copy i can't reference it at the moment.. .

can someone clarify for me, in the malawi and mexico chapter(s), 1) the jws were a cultural institution in order for the society to be able to own real estate and if they were a religion, then they wouldn't own the property, or something close to that, right?

2) most importantly, were there some big real estate transactions happening in mexico during the malawi massacre where the society didn't want to do anything to rock the boat on those?

monophonic

thank you for the clarification, and the extra info that wasn't in COC. time to order both his books again and give 'em a read.

truly amazing what goes on.