whatever you do, are you always the exception to the rule?
does it ever happen that you see a doctor and he can't understand your problem, that you are a unique case that he never seen before?
or if you go to the garage with your car, and have a problem that no one ever had?.
yes, regularly i got used to it,.
Being a jw in the past, combined with other uncommon factor has contributed greatly to it.
Besides murphy's laws are alway at work
In that regard i got tentative titles for a couple of books i should be wrriting, I mean there is alwasys a positive side to every situation...
i did radio broadcast for about 20 years.
whereas i am thinking of doing it again, i hope that it doesn't come down to it.
unless i can do morning drive again.
If you think radio has changed wait for the new digital transmission standard to be widely used. The same as digital tv transmission, they will be able to pump more through the same pipe. (More than one program channel). so if you think there are too many tv and radio station on the air... wait. TV stations will have at least four program channel capacity or just one very high difinition, hdtv.
The present standard is still the same as the first standard of many decades ago, it hasn't change. In the case of TV it was invented by a Russian who then went to work for RCA, By the way I studied at the RCA Institutes when it was something, Yes i did get to use the slide rule, Studiyng there was considered a "a pain in the neck". Then I went for Capitol Radio Engineering Institute and so on.
In a very few emergencies i did get to sit behind a radio or tv station mic. Even a 50kw radio station, max power allowed.
Do they still full around with equalizers to make their voice sound great?
But you should know that you can have your own radio station, dirt cheap, over the internet, the whole world is your audience. You can do whatever you like, so don't complaint. The play field is leveling off.
Futuristic radio stations are all on the internet, they know that is the future.
Hey Simon what's next? can you play that kingdom melody again?
btw
I had the FCC First Class, Radar endorsed license.
1975. the end of 6000 years of man's existence, and logically, therefore, the start of the 1000 year reign, which meant that armageddon had to be done and dusted before that.. i remember it well!
the hype at assemblies, my dad giving up his job and selling his home to move where the "need was great", now minimised by mother with her "oh so you're another seventy-fiver are you" comments.. now it's just something that occasionally embarrasses jw's, some of them deny it ever happened, others think that it was all too long ago to be relevent.. maybe we need to put 1975 into a slot where we can all relate to it.
maybe those of us who remember that year could chip in as well.. so, what did happen in 1975?
Gary,
did you say warnings in 1974?, can you elaborate?
As far as i know they were stronger than ever.
I concluded in 1974 that at least 1975 was a bit too early, judging by the state of affairs in the org itself.
1975. the end of 6000 years of man's existence, and logically, therefore, the start of the 1000 year reign, which meant that armageddon had to be done and dusted before that.. i remember it well!
the hype at assemblies, my dad giving up his job and selling his home to move where the "need was great", now minimised by mother with her "oh so you're another seventy-fiver are you" comments.. now it's just something that occasionally embarrasses jw's, some of them deny it ever happened, others think that it was all too long ago to be relevent.. maybe we need to put 1975 into a slot where we can all relate to it.
maybe those of us who remember that year could chip in as well.. so, what did happen in 1975?
Incidentally thing happened that scared many around that time.
WT implied they knew the “day and hour.”, so ‘don’t toy’ with contradictory argument, they said..
OIL EMBARGO, even some scared head of state said there was no way out of the crisis, fyi then came 911, 30 years later.
President Nixon resigned, “I am not a crook”
President Gerald Ford went to Helsinki for a “WORLD PEACE” conference.
Some jw stored food to survive…
My parents practically gave away everything, abandoned rights and property, so I ended up helping them "survive", the one out of the religion but the one more stable economically, i wonder why... I had to play catch up of course.
Some resigned good jobs. Forget about any needed surgery etc etc
They were acts that showed real faith, you know.
The “last” big international convention “before big A” took place in 1973, missionaries were given the “last chance” to see their relatives.
Two scary “kingdom news” pamphlets were distributed to “1/7” of earth population. I wish i can get one of those. They were really insulting to church and politicians. BTW the WT have no respect for the separation of religion and state. No wonder they have been "persecuted", banned. Some times you get what you deserve.
Then, around 1977, the infamous wt magazine issue blaming the R&F, for believing in fantasy. After that I lost confidence in the old boys in Brooklyn. CoC only confirmed everything I don’t know why I got the book so late, lack of advertising I guess.
i've struggled with wanting to be 'something' mostly probably to fill that hole that was left and to try and belong somewhere, anywhere really.
so i've tried penecostal, presbyterian, united churches but they all seem fake.
i always compared everything to the jw's, and didn't even realize it.
As far as I have seen, religion is about money, leaders who know reality (how to make a living from other people’s need) and for people who can’t face reality (those who ‘need’ to hang on something).
There are other more practical nonprofit org
alright, i need a question answered, if possible with bible versicles.
do demons flee when someone pronounces god's name, jehovah?
i know this is a belief from the jws, but i don't know on what it is founded, or if it is.
Turn the light on please, where is the switch? I can't read.
Uninformed or misinformed people can be easily programmed. They (we) usually do not have an antivirus to protect their head from accepting stupid concepts.
Been in the dark, is any sense of the word, is scary as you don t see, or have any control of what is going on.
Have you seen how hesitant is a real blind person trying to walk around without the stick and no training?
The more I ignore the more insecure I am. We may ignore that some stuff we believe is nonsense.
When insecure people get the jitter they turn the light on to get some relief. Or they get near where more people are 'congregated' to get the feeling that help is near by, insecurity.
BTW
The preservation instinct, present in animals too, keep me away from potential danger, uncontrolled or perceived as uncontrolled situations, such as dark spots.
many years ago people seemed more polite to woman, by tipping their hats or holding a door open to let them in.
even in busses, men gave their places if a woman was standing.
does a person look stupid if he is too polite today compared to years ago?.
lack of proper education
they are a product of the "system"
look deeper and they are not too happy intenally either
limit your contact with them, jw style, it can make you sick.
An space, (country?) should be set up for people who want to move away from...
Who wants to write "Declaration of Indepence", constitution laws etc, history may repeat itself somehow.
Those who can do it just "built" their own paradise....
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recently i asked:have you experienced god?and many of you responded.the question was not intended to prove that god exists,or,doesn't.rather, what each persons own experience meant for them.. now,i thought that it would be only fair to ask:have you experienced satan?again not to prove that satan exists or dosen't.rather what each persons own experience meant for them.. maybe some have experienced both,god and satan at different times,or can you tell the difference?.
blueblades
A person I now tried to sell his soul to him/her but they did not agree on the price.
Then I got to know a demon (female), at least that is how my lawyer described a young beautiful girl that i dated. .
Actually I think that Satan should step down and let this demon take his/her place… believe me. She has more credentials being visible to begin with.
by nature, are you a person that typically makes a judgment on your gut feeling or do you feel that you don't have all the facts to judge against someone?
On most hurting, controversial, fraud situations I give the benefit of the doubt, but i should change actitude, for decades evidence later available have proven the suspected but rejected (hunch?) "feeling" to be the right one.
It is more in line with practice, that they are guilty untl proven otherwise rahter than the other way around. For personal consumtion there is no need for the rule "behind any reasonable doubt".
WT has been a classical exambple.
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if all goes like you plan, where and what do you expect to be doing in 10 years from now?.
what do you expect to accomplish here to then?.
Traveling with a grandson/girl on in a fuel cell zero pollution/emission fuel cell powered van. Probably with more than 100 thousand miles on the electric "engine". Online at broadband speed.at 80 mph.
Hope not to need any passport, even ID, to cross any country border, wishfull thinking. (A very educated/powerful world wide civil movement is required), maybe 75 years later a new world order will arrive. A more realistic jw version.
