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Quotes update: Free to publicly comment on the action

by Quotes in

for the newbies, this post is a follow up on my situation regarding the watch tower's law suit against my due to my watch tower quotes web site.

for the background on the story so far, see these threads:

quotes website receives "cease & desist"

Quotes

D.E.,

If these keys could type "blush" I would express how you are making me feel! :)

~Q (the artist formerly known as Quotes)

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Quotes update: Free to publicly comment on the action

by Quotes in

for the newbies, this post is a follow up on my situation regarding the watch tower's law suit against my due to my watch tower quotes web site.

for the background on the story so far, see these threads:

quotes website receives "cease & desist"

Quotes

Just wanted to add:

Before I gave up the site, my montly unique visitors was about 10,000 to 15,000 per month.

After the law suit, it climbed to about 50,000 unique visitors per month.

At least I went out with a bang. And the Witness(tm)! Think of the Fine Witness(tm) to all those people!!!

~Q

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Wikipedia needs your help with Eschatology & History of JW's

by joshbuddy in

there are a number of wikipedia articles which are crappy, and some good writers who care about good neutral articles about jw's could certainly help.. i'll mention three that could really use some help.. history of jehovah's witnesses.

eschatology of jehovah's witnesses.

olin r. moyle.

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Ezra:

I tried to collect quotes from Watch Tower publications (including the ones you mentioned) and make them available to all interested persons via the internet.

The Watch Tower rewarded me for my efforts by suing me in Ontario Superior Court.

My question for you is: do you feel that my telling my story to the public is "saying terrible things about Jehovah's Witnesses"?

Another question for you: Watchtower and Awake! magazines frequently contain historical information about other religions. How would you react if someone told you, while in field service, "No, I don't want to look at that. Many people say terrible things about the Catholic Church. The people that say these things are controlled by Satan. If you really want to know about Catholicism, you should talk to a priest, or at least, a Catholic, not read in some thin and poorly researched magazine!" Seriously, put the shoe on the other foot and see how it fits.

~Quotes, of the "answer, when mild..." class

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Quotes update: Free to publicly comment on the action

by Quotes in

for the newbies, this post is a follow up on my situation regarding the watch tower's law suit against my due to my watch tower quotes web site.

for the background on the story so far, see these threads:

quotes website receives "cease & desist"

Quotes

For the newbies, this post is a follow up on my situation regarding the Watch Tower's law suit against my due to my Watch Tower Quotes web site. For the background on the story so far, see these threads:

Now, the update:

This afternoon, I finally received notice from my lawyer(s) that I am free to talk about Watch Tower's law suit against me:

We recently received word from Bereskin & Parr [the law firm hired by Watch Tower] that the Notice of Discontinuance had been filed with the Court on January 19, 2006. As such, you are now free to publicly comment on the action (and have been permitted to do so since January 19th). Unfortunately, despite our repeated follow-ups with Bereskin & Parr, they did not confirm the date of filing of the discontinuance with us until late last Friday. We will be sending you our account for services rendered shortly. The total value for fees, disbursements, and GST is $2,823.74. In accordance with the agreement between yourself and our firm, however, we will be reducing the total amount to $500.00, and will be closing our file once the account is rendered.

[Note: I included the dollar amounts only to give people an idea of the costs involved. Now you can see what it might have cost -- if my lawyer had charged the full amount she could have -- for a "quick and simple" resolution, within 4 months, with little more than routine law firm paperwork. Can you imagine what the costs would have been if I decided to fight this, over the next several years?] Let me say this clearly for the record: my legal counsel did a great job and have mercifully chosen to reduce their expenses. I can't begin to express how thankful I am for this. In the hopes of sending them some business, or at least increasing their Google ranking, let me add this: in my opinion, J ohnston Wassenaar LLP is the best IP law firm in Canada. My wife and I are working on ways we can thank them (dinner? bottles of wine?), although I fear we will never be able to fully express our thanks. So, I am now free to comment (to the press, or whomever) on "the action". The Drew Marshall show has been asking me to make another appearance, and now I can -- and will. I will be contacting Drew ASAP and also contacting the other journalists I've spoken with over the past months. I will let you know if/when I'll be on the air or in print again. One remaining question: What do you think: So far, it appears that the "DNS" (Domain Name Server) entry for watchtower.ca has not been updated, so if you try the quotes web site URL, you still get my old server (with no files on it). This is not my fault. I no longer have any control over Watchtower.ca. Watch Tower Canada now owns watchtower.ca, and as the owners it is up to them to decide which web server you see when you type the URL into your web browser. They have been in control of watchtower.ca for about four weeks now. They could have made the DNS changes on the first day, and the change would have propagated through the internet by the second or third day. Obviously, they have not. Why have they not updated the DNS entry? Let me assume it is not simply gross incompetence (of the sort that left the domain available for me to register in November 2000 in the first place ). But what is their plan? Is this the internet equivalent of leaving my body impaled on a pike by the city gates? ~Quotes, of the "Free at last, free at last! Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last" class

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JWs on MySpace are Freaking Out

by Saoirse in

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the dubs are freaking out and listing every potential apostate on myspace.

i even got mentioned even though i have never posted or joined a jw group.

bunch of stalkers.

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This shows the importance of JW groups to be placed in hidden and private. If they are not hidden and private we are placing ourselves in the hands of Satan to attack us.
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Yup, because Satan may be a SSC (Supernatural Spirit Creature) but that doesn't mean he can hack web servers! Oh, and if demons taunt you at night while you are in bed, just hide under the covers! Blankets are as effective as the "hidden" tag in MySpace accounts: they TOTALLY stop the devil!!!!

:)

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Quotes News:Web site in England exposes the writings of Jehovahs Witnesses

by Elsewhere in

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http://www.cultnews.com/index.php/2006/01/21/web-site-in-england-exposes-the-writings-of-jehovahs-witnesses/.

web site in england exposes the writings of jehovahs witnesses.

posted in jehovah's witnesses at 11:10 am by rick ross.

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I am now, Mouthy.

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Part of necessary convention business is handling large sums of money.

by garybuss in

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part of necessary convention business is handling large sums of money.. page 4-1 district convention operations wtb&t$ 1997. .

counting money.

the accounts overseer is personally to prenumber in ink all the receipt forms (co-40) in duplicate (an original and a carbon copy bearing the same number).

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Blondie, you read my mind.

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Thought I Was Out Of The Woods

by DocHayes in

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well today i was having lunch with my mother, who is inactive, and hasn't been to the hall in a couple of years.

recently she's been hounded by the elders, because of all of the christmas decorations.

even though she hasn't disassociated herself, and she won't because she doesn't want to alienate herself from her family, she attends another church.

Quotes

Watchtowerism is not a cult...

.... and this stack of Sexy Adult Magazines here is not pornography....

...it's educational art. ;)

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JW video about Katrina relief

by zagor in

i've just discovered google's video engine so i've treid it by finding something about jws

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Rebel, I was wondering the same thing: they sure are taking a lot of precious time to "organize and categorize the water bottles".

I don't want to ignore that an effort was made here, but...

According to this video, the first relief trucks left Denton (Texas?) on September 26 after four days of work.

Hurricane Katrina struck Florida on August 25, and the Gulf Coast on August 29 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina for reference).

I wonder, if I was waiting for food and water, I would have "meekly and happily" awaited on Jehovah's swift chariot for almost one entire month while bottles were sorted and organized, and detailed per-crate inventories were prepared. (Wow! Per Crate!!!???!!! Amazing!!! I'm glad I waited for extra days for THAT!!!!)

As I typed the above, I figured something out: I was wondering why they didn't just shove everything together as fast as possible into trucks and start shipping the same day? (i.e. as soon as one truck is filled, send it, and start filling the 2nd with whatever supplies arrive)? Why did they delay, with 4 days of "organization and categorization" of bottle and can size?

I suspect the reason is because they would deliver a crate or two to each afflicted Kingdom Hall only, and bypass the normal emergency supply channels. I mean, think about it. If you just want to get your relief supplies into the system, you hand them over to the Red Cross, or FEMA, and it goes to the normal distribution points. You don't need to pre-sort. But if you plan to create your own distribution points, and you want to make sure that location/congregation "A" doesn't just get a truck full of water, and location/congregation "B" doesn't just get a truck full of creamed corn, you have to pre-sort before you ship. That way, everyone receieves a crate with a wide assortment of necessities.

In other words, this video contains circumstantial proof of the "Only Take Care of our Brothers & Sisters" policy. Oh, and hopefully Caesar can take care of our Bros and Sis for the first four weeks while we try organize relief for a disaster which everyone had known about a week before it arrived, 'cause Jehovah's Swift Chariot is 3 weeks slower than Caesar's already sluggish FEMA.

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Kingdom Hall Diary, an Outsider's Perspective (WARNING - LONG)

by jgnat in

this is the next phase of my coming-out.

here, described in detail, is all the drama of my involvement with the local kingdom hall.. kingdom hall diary, an outsider's perspective.

this is a diary of my experiences with a local kingdom hall that my husband, art, attends.

Quotes

Thank you so much writing this, and thanks for posting it.

I too read every word. My own recent tussle with "Goliath" suddenly seems so trivial in comparison to your struggles. You have to deal with Watchtowerism's damaga on a personal level, every day.

I don't know how you do it, let alone why -- strike that, you do it out of love -- but your patience is an example for all of us.

Sounds like WTS's special brand of "love" has, once again, worked against them. They are like a magnet repelling Art, while your true love is the opposite magnetic field, pulling him closer.

My best wishes for your family for the New Year!

~Quotes