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  Heavy metal

  by Godsendconspirator in

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  2. entertainment

  i have always loved heavy metal music (thrash metal to be more specific).

  since heavy metal is usually associated with satan and occult themes many christians and jws in particular stray away from it.

  in my teenagehood i was listened to it obsessively until i started studying and got baptized at age 18 and i started listening to other genres.

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  I always liked foreign melodic metal, favoring those having heavy guitar, some orchestra and violin, a male lead with gruff screaming/talking voice, and hot female backup (or some variation of the above). I'm not really sure what you classify it as, though. Tristania, Sirenia, early Lacuna Coil, Elis, etc. When I was learning guitar, I started playing kingdom melodies with a heavily distorted electric guitar. My mom wasn't too happy about that. lol
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  In what KM or literature were JW's told to not put the WT logo on podium or buildings?

  by Wasanelder Once in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the 80's it became a trend to put the wt logo on the front of the speakers podium where others put a cross.

  i always hated that and spoke against it to the body of elders.

  i shut up and it was put there anyway untill a km came down that said not to do it.

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  pronomono

  Thanks Blondie.
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  Did anyone else feel the Nor Cal earthquake?

  by LisaRose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i got woken up by a very strong quake at 3:30 this morning.

  it was 6.0 centered about ten miles from my house, up in napa, ca.

  we had no damage, but it definitely gets you it of bed!

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  I'm visiting SF this week. It woke me up in the hotel. It felt like a subway train approaching. I thought it was the Bart at first until I realized that it was too far away. lol.
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  Low Disk Space Persists

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my c drive is running out of space.

  and to my surprise the low disk space problem persists after i free up disk space on my computer.

  i uninstalled a lot of programs.i thought that i have free space on my c drive.

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  pronomono

  Also, since it's a hand-me-down, check to see if there are additional user profiles that you can delete. A quick and dirty way to see is look under "C:\Users" or "C:\Documents and Settings" depending on your version of Windows. If you see more profiles than Administrator, Default, and the profiles that you use, you can go to "System" under the "Control Panel", select the "Advanced" tab, click "Settings" under the "User Profiles" box, and then delete the profiles you no longer need. Be careful, because this will delete all of the user's data, including documents, favorites, settings, etc. There's a number of ways to get to this screen depending on your version of Windows, but the Control Panel method is pretty much the same across all versions after you switch from Category view to Icon view in the newer versions.
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  LDS.ORG OR JW.ORG LEADERS...

  by ADJUSTMENTS in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the similarites between the mormons ( lds.org ) and jws ( jw.org ) are startling!!!.

  here is another, both false religions have governing body's made up of predominantly white anglo men, but tout themselves as being worldwide united religions... where is the diversity???

  both groups look like board members of any top fourtune 500 company.

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  Token black guy.......like Token.... the black kid from South Park?

  Mum, Matt Parker and Trey Stone were never Mormon, although Matt Parker's first girlfriend was Mormon. See the below excerpt from their interview with Reason magazine. The entire article is a good read on their thoughts on religion.

  Dec 1, 2006, Reason Magazine Interview with Matt Parker and Trey Stone

  reason: How were each of you raised religiously?
  
  Stone: I was raised agnostic. There was no religion in my house.
  
  Parker: I was pretty much the same. My father tried to raise me Buddhist, as in Alan Watts Buddhism, which is Buddhism in a way.
  
  reason: I have Mormon friends who are convinced you guys were raised Mormon, because of some of the references in the show.
  
  Parker: Well, we grew up in Colorado. Colorado's right next to Utah--you know, Mormon Central. My first girlfriend was Mormon, and I went to experience family home evening at her house for the first time. "What are you all doing?" "We're sitting, and we're singing songs and playing games together." I was like, "Boy, that's fucked up. Families are not supposed to be doing that."
  
  reason: There are also a lot of Jewish references. There's a whole episode about going to Jewish camp, where they do silly craft projects. Did you go to a Jewish camp?
  
  Stone: No, no. I didn't even know I was Jewish until I was 16.
  
  Parker: I had to teach him the dreidel song.
  
  Stone: I'm not a very good Jew.
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  stupid statement in watchtower about appointments of elders

  by hoser in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after going through all the processes of how they appointed elders in the past they say this:.

  "the elders in turn would inform the newly appointed men of their appointment, asking them if they were willing and actually qualified to accept the assignment.

  so after qualifying the man you ask him if he is qualified.. .

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  Like JWFacts, I was too embarrassed to turn it down too. I just had gotten through looking at dial-up soft porn - Kitana Baker was so fine! Just after disconnecting, my PO called and asked if there was any reason I couldn't be appointed.

  "Ummmm, no?"

  "Okay, great. We're going to announce you this coming Tuesday night.

  At my last hall, they pulled me in right before the meeting started and asked me. Same thing. No porn this time, but my wife and I had gotten to know each other very well before we were married. I was too embarrassed to tell them that.

  And this was about the time that I realized that we weren't appointed by holy spirit. Before that, I rationalized that Jehovah saw my heart and knew that my heart was in the right place despite my shortcomings. I figured that he was appointing me to give me the support I needed to hold an upright course. But the more the GB talked about how a MS was appointed and the qualifications found in the scriptures, I realized I didn't live up to any of that, but with their blinders, they thought I did. They just needed another body to fill a job and looked past all the obvious evidence that I wasn't where the GB said I needed to be spiritually.
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  It's True: You Never Really Know What A Person Is Going Through

  by minimus in

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  people like robin williams can make you laugh.

  we might think that they have it all but we really know nothing about their demons, their problems, their issues.

  someone might be funny on the outside but be totally depressed from within..

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  It's truly sad. I had a friend a while ago in a similar frame of mind (not a JW). He was a well liked guy, loved by everyone, made everyone except himself laugh and smile. He had his demons. He kept searching for happiness, but it became too much. He planned his suicide in the Arizona dessert taking in the beauty of nature.
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  using kindle/ tablet/ iPad in meetings how to police?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've noticed about half my half are using these.

  of course there's always the potential for people to be looking at things non jw on them.

  are the society going to find a way to police this?

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  pronomono

  As Dis-Member brought out, it is entirely possible to monitor network usage. Right now for free, no additional software installed, I can view the logs on my router showing who has been connecting to it and what they have been connecting to. I do this occasionally because I don't have MAC Address filtering on and want to be somewhat sure that someone isn't stealing my internet. But as Dismember brought out, chances are your KH doesn't have someone who knows how to acess or make sense of the data.

  If you are really concerned though, keep a password on your device so that someone cannot get your MAC address if you happen to leave it unattended. Never volunteer your MAC Address. Let's expand this to never use your device on the KH's network, and place your device on airplane mode before you get to the hall so that it doesn't talk to their router. But if you do use their network, make sure that your device name could not identify you because some routers will store the device name and MAC address.

  This only really pertains to what you do over the network though. It's much more difficult to determine what you are doing locally on your device without the aid of the mic guys.
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  TUTORIAL: Proving the GB and Watch Tower is guilty

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  q: are you willing to admit the gb and the wts is wrong if the facts go against them?.

  proof text.

  proof text:.

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  pronomono

  Brilliant tutorial. As always...Thanks, Terry.
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  Disfellowed on 7/16/14 for sending a letter to my former congregation

  by spbondgirl007 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's been quite a while since i lasted posted anything on jwn.

  i was in hiding previously, but only because i wanted to avoid the shun gun until i had the opportunity to tell my former congregation what i think about the org./gb.

  i last attended a meeting over 2.5 years ago but it wasn't until june--when i earned my bachelor's degree--that i finally had the time to collect my thoughts and get them down on paper...i decided to write my letter in a style i felt would be most appealing to my target audience--jw's still under gb mind control --in the hope that at least a few would read it and actually "think".

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  pronomono

  Excellent, well thought-out letter.