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  Go Bag and Catastrophes

  by StephaneLaliberte in

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  i live with my parents in law and yesterday, my mother in-law was very nervous about an email she got from the brothers in her congregation.

  it was asking if she would be able to receive people over at our house should there be a catastrophe.

  so, she asked me if i would agree with this.

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  I wonder why they didn't promote go bags in 1975? Weren't those Witnesses just as important as those today? What changed?

  I became a JW (at age 22) in 1973. With oil shortages, wars etc lots of people were preparing for trouble. We all knew Mormons were supposed to have 7 years of food. But we all congratulated ourselves for being so much more faithful. We didn't need to get ready because when the time came, Jehovah would protect us.

  From my standpoint, I'd say what changed is they lost faith - in the GB, the elders, the magazines, each other, and themselves.
  
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  I'm launching a new website

  by JeffT in

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  i just launched a new website to talk about my books.

  the website has links to all three books in the alternate history trilogy i published over the last year.

  of more interest to this group there is a description of the suspense/thriller i plan to release this summer.

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  Great Teacher I will take a look tomorrow. I'm working with a website designer, who has been fantastic on the layout and graphics. Not the first time I caught a spelling problem. I will look at the setup from my cell phone, not the desktop.
  
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  I'm launching a new website

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just launched a new website to talk about my books.

  the website has links to all three books in the alternate history trilogy i published over the last year.

  of more interest to this group there is a description of the suspense/thriller i plan to release this summer.

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  Truthseeker, good for you. If you want advice or help poke me, I now know lots of ways not to do it.
  
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  Describe life as a JW.

  by Overrated in

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  2. friends

  under constant watch of other jw.

  being told how your life is run.

  everything you do under a microscope.

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  Boring.

  I had to invent my own religion for a novel I'm working on because nobody would waste their time reading a book about what JW's actually do.
  
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  I'm launching a new website

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just launched a new website to talk about my books.

  the website has links to all three books in the alternate history trilogy i published over the last year.

  of more interest to this group there is a description of the suspense/thriller i plan to release this summer.

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  JeffT

  I just launched a new website to talk about my books. The website has links to all three books in the alternate history trilogy I published over the last year.

  Of more interest to this group there is a description of the suspense/thriller I plan to release this summer. The draft is done, I'm starting the rewrite/edit process now. The website includes a blog where I will provide more information and answer questions.

  Enjoy.

  Website address www.jeffthomasbooks.net
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  What Is Truth?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just because you believe something as truth, it doesn’t make it truth.

  religious leaders may be admired and believed but they could be dead wrong.

  politicians can spout out “facts” that support their truth yet once further evidence comes through these facts are questionable.

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  Truth stays the same, whether you believe it or not.
  
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  Anyone know a link to the leaked music video the cult is so upset about?

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been hearing the cult is upset that this video leaked and is trying to remove it off the net.

  lol are they really that stupid?

  but if anyone has a link to the video i would love to see it.

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  If get what you’re saying but by that logic, if someone took a photo or video of my 1980 Chevette and posted it online, I’d still own it and it would have the same value or possibly more if so if someone saw it and just had to have it at any price.

  That picture belongs to whoever took it. The copyrights belong to the photographer and were created as soon as he took it. There maybe privacy issues, depending on where he took the picture, but that is a separate area of law. Whether or not you gained or lost money is irrelevant to who owns the copyright and what they can do with it.

  An aside to everybody on discussions like this: neither the WTBS nor the legal system is required to think and act logically.
  
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  Anyone know a link to the leaked music video the cult is so upset about?

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been hearing the cult is upset that this video leaked and is trying to remove it off the net.

  lol are they really that stupid?

  but if anyone has a link to the video i would love to see it.

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  Just for the record as a writer I made less than $3000 last year.

  Copyright infringement is not about money its about ownership. I can't steal your car just because its a 1980 Chevette and you'd have to pay somebody to haul it away. A lot of that free stuff on the net is there because either the artist/writer/singer wants it there, or the copyright has expired and its in the public domain.
  
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  Anyone know a link to the leaked music video the cult is so upset about?

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been hearing the cult is upset that this video leaked and is trying to remove it off the net.

  lol are they really that stupid?

  but if anyone has a link to the video i would love to see it.

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  2 points.

  1) I am a writer. Copyright laws insure that I get paid for my work. Bypassing the law is theft, plain and simple.

  2) That said, It's hard to copyright music. The words are easy enough to sort out, the music is harder to prove who owned what. There's a musician, Rick Beato, on you tube that does a good job of explaining why there are so many lawsuits in the music industry. He uses the Spirit/Led Zeppelin fight to illustrate the problem. Short answer: all pop music sounds the same.
  
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  Jehovah’s Witnesses That Acted Like Humans

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when you look back , did your witness associates act like normal human beings?

  did any of them ever show compassion and feelings for a disfellowshipped person?.

  any elders ever try to be kind to you, not “kind” as watchtower organization dictates, but truly kind and caring for you if you were experiencing difficulties?

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  My first congregation was full of good people. It was part of what attracted me to the Watchtower. I remember one elder who was a pain, but most were OK. The others were pretty decent, especially the elder that married wife and I. After about ten years there, I left to go back to school. A few people discouraged the idea, this elder (he actually stepped down as an elder for a while because he couldn't handle the crap level) pulled me aside and told me to go for it, wife and I needed to get away from her family.

  I sometimes wonder what the good ones are thinking now? Do they go to sleep at night, struggling with the knowledge that they wasted their lives?