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  Watchtower purchases CoC copyright for undisclosed amount!

  by the girl next door in

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  now what is your stance?

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  Landy

  WBTS can't charge for stuff but they do get heavily subsidised by my taxes. I'm more than happy to help spread things under their copyright already, and oops if it means they don't get website hits, so it's just more of the same. In any case, I really don't have an issue with making something available if the sole purpose of someone obtaining rights is to suppress it.

  So the copyright law only applies if we agree with the organistion the copyright belongs to? If we don't agree with them or don't like them then all bets are off?

  If we take that principle a bit further and extend itt to other laws, what's acceptable? Murder, for example. Is murder ok if the murdee (new word!) is a bit of a twat? Taking the point to extremes perhaps but it is the logical conclusion.
  
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  People keep sending me messages saying "what happened?"

  by slimboyfat in

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  i am sorry i haven't replied and if it seems rude.

  but people keep asking me what happened and i am not sure what to say.

  thanks for writing anyway.

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  So..............what happened?

  
  
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  My dilemma

  by Saltheart Foamfollower in

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  2. experiences

  i have a bit of a dilemma that i would welcome advice on from the forum.. a brother in my congregation is giving evidence of having woken up - his comments and talks are usually slanted towards topics discussed here.

  he is a former elder and is part of a group of other former elders and ministerial servants who i regularly overhear using terms i would expect to hear from ones knowing ttat.

  he is a quite an effective teacher and will probably influence some.. however, in the past he has caused lots of problems for myself and others who i like (including another poster to this site who i have identified) and continues to be someone who i dislike intensely on a personal level.. his comments have been noticed by the body of elders and he is being watched.

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  Not a dilemma at all - you don't seem to like him, having a shared skeptiscm is hardly likely to make you bosom budddies. let him get on with his life and you do your own thng.

  Confiding in him or trying to help him is only going to cause you problems.
  
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  Peace and security

  by The freewheeling in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i wold love to see all the worlds leader proclaim "peace and security" soon, loud and clear.

  that wold make all jws go totaly nuts.

  they would all run around and yell "now it's coming, now it's coming!".

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  I remeber being at Edinburgh assembly when 1986 was declared international year of peace and security.

  They could hardly contain themselves!
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  Wish me good luck...

  by FadeToBlack in

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  2. friends

  omg.

  i have the entire service group coming over for dinner on sunday.

  i don't mind when my wife has a couple over that are cool, but with more than 2 or 3 extra people in my house i get nervous.

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  Get some Mezuzahs screwed to the door frames and don yourself in a kippah - that should wind them up :)
  
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  Best Christmas Song?

  by snugglebunny in

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  2. friends

  a catchy little number this one!

  curiously, this little known christmas song by perry como was actually the theme tune to the odessa file movie back in the 70's.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l1uddoh-yu.

  so what have you got?.

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  Bollocks - there's only one best xmas song!

  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q
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  Wire-Rim Glasses

  by berrygerry in

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  stumbled upon www.towerwatch.com.

  a ministry of misery.

  depression.

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  Landy

  I think it may have been any glasses they were opposed to, not just wire rimmed ones.

  They probably thought that the person who needed them was indulging in too much wanking.

  * adjusts glasses to see the screen better*
  
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  The Watchtower is not invincible

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  despite claims to the contrary, there's no guarantee the watchtower will be around in a few decades time.

  and it seems to me there's ever mounting evidence that the opposite may well be true.

  but it's not just that recruitment is down and their defectors are up.

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  Landy

  I'm not current at all, I have no idea how many now go to the hall I used to go to, but I get the impression it's less than it used to be.

  I think JWs fall in to several categories

  1) People that are born in - I reckon at least 60% of these will stop going once they realise what it's about (out of three kids my mother had - none of us go now).
  

  2) Vulnerable people, people who have lost someone and cling to the resurrection hope like a comfort blanket, or people who have been abused or are emotionally fragile; people who 'feel the love'; people who 'need' something in their life.
  

  3) Elderly people, people who have always gone because, well, they've always gone.

  The number of born ins who stop going will increase due to being members of the google generation - no matter how hard the elders condemn the internet, the kids are gonna google and a brain worm will get in.

  In developed countries the numbers will fall due to the information on the interweb. If there will be an increase it will be in undeveloped countries where the internet isn't readily accessible, but this causes an issue as their ability to contribute is waaaay less than those from developed countries.

  I think we'll see a lot of the printing stop, it's an anachorism in this day and age. The WTS will send the info out in PDFs and get the publishers to print it out themselves, or use the ipads and offer to email a copy to the householder.

  In essence the WTS will downsize its operation due to its dwindling cashflow.
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  Imagine

  by Doug Mason in

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  2. beliefs

  mary gives birth to a girl..

  jesus shares the lead in his ministry with a woman..

  half of jesus leading disciples and half of his apostles are women..

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  Mary gives birth to a girl.

  Jesus shares the lead in his ministry with a woman.

  Half of Jesus’ leading disciples and half of his Apostles are women.

  Jesus addresses God as “Heavenly Mother”.

  A few of the other events would have been different, there would have been no baptism in the Jordan for a start, think of what that would have done to her hair!
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  Is going into a church really THAT bad?

  by Zana in

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  family background: my wife ("liberal" jw), me (ubm), two children aged 5 and 2.

  (want more details?

  -> http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/279456/raising-kids-jw-mother-agnostic-father).

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  Landy

  didn't even try to ask her, to come with us, because I knew she would decline. But obviously she hated the idea of me taking our son there. So why does going into a chuch seem to be the worst sin ever?

  Tell her it's ok - you did ten hail marys and five our fathers while you were there.