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  Whats happened to Commentary Press

  by BlindersOff1 in

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  2. bible

  is it planning to reprint rays books?.

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  I'd love to hear more re: what possible reason there would be to block an audiobook of Ray's legacy from a brother that put in hundreds and hundreds of hours of effort to make these two audiobiooks, FREE OF CHARGE.

  He offered them on a silver platter to GIVE away to the copyright holder. (which I assume is Cynthia although I do not profess to know with any certainty)

  @ Randy - Thank you for selling those books. I ordered the two from you a couple years ago when I was waking up and they helped immensely.
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  Just Sharing: I Visited Chuck Taze Russells Gravesite

  by daringhart13 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just nothing more than a 'share'..... i was in pittsburgh on business and took a day off and paid a visit to russells grave.. i haven't stopped laughing since.

  i'm worried i'm going to break ribs.. had i seen this as a young kid/adult.....i surely would have thought "wtf???".

  folks...if you ever needed confirmation this whole thing is a laughable cult......make your way to pittsburgh and see chuck's resting spot.......its worth it just get pictures with his pyramid.. lol.

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  Very weird site. It would be interesting to know if the WT corp still owns this plot for sure. I have (rumors) that Bible Student brothers maintain the site and keep it up.
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  Whats happened to Commentary Press

  by BlindersOff1 in

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  2. bible

  is it planning to reprint rays books?.

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  Excellent idea IL.
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  The website rating service WOT is being used to sandbag TTATT sites

  by RayPublisher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i recently sent an email about this to a couple dozen of my contacts.

  (it is included below) has anyone else encountered this problem with wot?.

  .. wot (web of trust) is an excellent plug-in that i have used with google chrome for quite some time, but have noticed that many of the sites run by dissidents and former jws to expose the lies and hypocrisy of the wt automatically have "dangerous" reputations according to wot, and my browser will actually pop up a warning not to visit the site when trying to go there.

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  @ Falseprophet - You are right that it can be manipulated. This is always the case with any user-based rating system. However, I will say that once a site gets large and hundreds and then thousands of votes are tallied there is a lot less gaming of the system that can be done.

  Also the site admins work very hard to minimize flakey stuff, and also monitor for bots, etc. I still think it's a worthwhile plugin for Chrome, Friefox, et al., especially when a popup or errant click tries to take you to a know malware or spyware site. WOT will stop those from getting loaded every time.
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  Celebrating Christmas?????

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am just curious, and not judging.

  if you are a christian and you know that december 25th is not jesus' birthday, and may have pagan roots, then why celebrate it?

  i was raised a dub as most of you know, and have learned the ttatt so i know how wrong they are about a lot.

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  Hello Blessed One welcome to the board.
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  Whats happened to Commentary Press

  by BlindersOff1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  is it planning to reprint rays books?.

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  Okay I got the story from him, copied from his email:

  "I took it off Pirate Bay as soon as I got word from [name witheld] that Cynthia was not in favor of an alternate format for the blind (I still can't believe she had a problem with that). However it appears that in the short time it was on there, someone had grabbed it and began to re-seed it. I guess it's out of my hands now."

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  Well I think it's awesome and no harm can come to the blind and all the rest that need this info to listen to on their ipod, car stereo, etc.
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  From a "Chance" to "Evolution"

  by Yan Bibiyan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just noticed today a monumental shift in the awake (well, not really monumental .

  in the "was it designed" section, the closing paragraph up until the april 2012 issue reads:.

  "did the (studied subject) come about by chance?

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  I think that we might be reading too much into the word swap...

  By chance it was that the writer in the Editorial Department (There is no more 'writing department' aren't you keeping up with new light?) felt like using a different word for evolution. What are the chances he will swap back to the other on the next one? We shall see.
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  What was the worst thing an "elder" ever did to you ?

  by Pitchess Co-Gen in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the worst thing an "elder" ever did to me was in 2008. i was in one congregation, but i wanted to return to my home congregation because i've been reproved there twice ( once private and the last one public ).

  when i came into this congregation in 2007 i thought i was going to move up the food chain ( this congregation was full of older people, so i thought i would move up faster ).

  but i got into some trouble in the congregation.

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  Guy Pierce once slapped me on the butt when he walked past me at Bethel- I was scarred for years!

  But seriously, some of these men have so little training and real qualifications I'm surprised there isn't worse horror stories popping up on this thread. Most are sincere but they are making it up as they go along most of the time. Many get appointed simply because their relative is an elder, or they have been around forever, etc.

  And once they are in unless they do something blatant and obviously wrong (and get caught) then they will stay in forever, despite not qualifying or being of any use sometimes, depending on the body and how liberal/wimpy they are.

  A CO we took out to eat after an assemby once said in a hushed voice to my FIL and myself (both of us elders at the time) "You know that half these guys don't qualify but we try and work with them"
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  Guy Pearce admits to Atheism!!

  by Open mind in

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  2. beliefs

  pearce does not believe in a god but believes "we're all connected.".

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/guy_pearce.

  oh, were you thinking of guy pierce?

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  He got really really thin though...awesome actor.
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  Looking for Crisis of Conscience? A shipment has been sent to Amazon.

  by blondie in

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  2. friends

  amazon lost the earlier shipment.

  a new shipment is on the way.

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  Great news for those that need the real McCoy!