I've never downloaded full movies, but I have downloaded songs. I used to use Napster, then Kazaa, but I don't do much song downloading anymore. My question is, what exactly is the difference between downloading songs you like from someone else over the net and what I did when I was a kid when I used to record songs off the radio onto a cassette tapes. Would it be wrong if I heard a song I liked off of a CD that my friend owned and decided to upload it onto my computer so I could just have the song that I liked and maybe I could burn it onto a CD later? Was it wrong to record songs onto tape off the radio back in the day?
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Honesty. Is This Stealing?
by Country Girl inmy husband and i had a heated debate over this issue one day.
he made the point (at another time) that god views one sin as bad as another.
i said i thought god viewed certain crimes as more despicable: that a man stealing food for his family probably wasn't as bad as a murderer.
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The Young Witness Exodus Continues
by metatron ini just found out that , on my wife's side of the family, the last witness kid has given up!.
he was the very last one in that half of our extended witness family.
ten years ago, i never would have.
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The ones that don't become pimps, strippers, or drug dealers usually end up becoming white supremacists or self proclaimed witches and warlocks. Many of them are diagnosed with mental illnesses later on.
Hmm, I don't think I fit any of the above. I'm more of an agnostic. I do have a decent job, my own house, two dogs and a cat, and some pretty good non-witness friends. Am I the exception to the rule here because if I can have cool magical powers I might like to try being a warlock.
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Funny Mardi Gras Picture
by kaykay_mp inadd a caption to this picture (this was taken at a mardi gras parade in jackson, tennessee, where my mother lives, and, no, my mother is not in this picture!
here's mine: smiling lady: "they gave me beads to pull my shirt down!
" bucktooth lady: (a la slingblade) "i shore do like dem beads, mmm-hmm!
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Ok
Smiling Lady: Fetch Lassie, fetch.
Buck tooth lady: (slobbering) ruff ruff bark bark (as she plunges out the third story window after the beads)
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Dog food for lunch
by onacruse inso, i'm getting ready to head out the door this morning, and kate says that my lunch is ready and sitting on the kitchen countertop.. i take my vitamins, and right next to them is a can of purina alpo "prime cuts (in gravy!
)"...and what's even better, they've been flame broiled.
i'm thinking that the honeymoon is over.. .
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Ewww, Alpo was the brand that I opened and found a full chicken beak and an eyeball looking at me. I'm not much of an Alpo guy, there are better dog foods that are much tastier.
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Did you notice that they were a lot of "rich Witnesses" in the organization
by inquirer ini remember this guy once, after the book study (the one where you go to someone's house to study a book) boasting on this house he wanted to buy!
it made me feel sick!
he was showing off so much!
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I married into a very well off family (not for that reason), but I was disfellowshipped the majority of that time. Most witnesses in my area were very poor and actually seemed a bit scared and stand-offish of anyone in the congregation that had money. There were a lot of talks about not pursuing worldly riches and the evils of having too much money. I think they basically ran off all of the rich families with their prejudices because now my ex-in-laws no longer attend meetings and the few other families that were well off are almost totally inactive.
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JW girls and me
by Dustin ini think i still might have a complex.
so i'm gonna tell my story so you can all laugh at me.
dustin
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JW girls were very easy to pick up, much easier than most "worldly" girls. They would usually pursue even if I wasn't interested and my mom was always annoyed at the JW girls calling me at all times of the night. And I wasn't even that good of a witness, I went to college, and I wasn't really interested in going to bethel or being an elder. But I was still a bit self-righteous and vain when I was a JW teen and turned down most girls interests if they didn't have good reputations or if they weren't very attractive (I know, I know). My JW morals wouldn't allow me to sleep with them. Now I could kiss and fondle as much as I wanted.
From my experiences, there were a lot of wild sex-crazed JW girls. I dated super pioneer girls to fence sitters that had mildly bad reputations. Those were some of the horniest girls I've ever met. I remember two twins from another congregation telling me that they didn't mind sharing, they were very persistant, but I stood my (good witness) ground. Plenty of girls, including upstanding pioneers felt me up in private, or under the table at resturants after field service or an assembly. I went skinny dipping with witness girls a few times, and after a wedding my best friend brought a bunch of girls, that were down from Kansas City, back to his apostate brothers house where we all stripped down to our underwear and sat in the hot tub. Then all of us good witnesses (3 of the girls were pioneers) ended up sleeping with multiple partners, although no sex actually transpired.
Those were strange times. The district conventions were definitely a time to find girls. My friend and I would search out the ones that we thought were most attractive and he'd always introduce us because I was never really that forward. But there were plenty of girls that weren't interested in us once they found out we were baptised. I guess they figured baptised boys wouldn't put out as easily or we might tell on ourselves if we got a conscience tinge. I ended up marrying a bad witness girl, most were. But that didn't end so well either. I advise dating "worldly girls" because they don't have as many pent up issues like a lot of witnesses do.
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Who was told that the New order would be here before......................
by avishai inthey finished high school?
college?
etc and what year were you told?.
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I was told, like everyone else that I wouldn't get through Junior High before Armageddon hit, then High School, but after I graduated High School in 93' my mom never really told me anything else about when the end was coming. Though plenty of people in the hall told me it was a big mistake when I started college because Armageddon was just around the corner and I should be pioneering.
Another instance was in 1996, right before I was disfellowshipped the first time. I was out in service with my best friend and some of my other good friends and a ministerial servant. We were talking about how we'd been told that armageddon would be here at different stages of time throughout our school years by various people and how it hadn't transpired yet. The ministerial servant, who was in his early 40's at the time, was getting uncomfortable and stated that he knew for a fact that the new system would be here by 2000 and if it weren't then he'd be convinced it wasn't the truth. But what really happened is that after 2000 came and went and there was no armageddon, he decided that he was annointed and started partaking at the memorial and now he's treated like royalty wherever he goes. It's quite funny.
On a slight off topic, when I started college and everyone was telling me that it was a bad idea because the end was near I was interested in archeology, and one of the ministerial brothers I was working with told me not be interested in such a thing because it promoted evolution and and the fallacy of dinosaurs, which he said was a government conspiracy to brainwash society to believe evolution because in reality the world was only 7000 years old and there was never such a thing as dinosaurs. It sounded pretty retarded to me at the time, I didn't think that such ignorance still existed in this age.
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Do Jehovah's Witnesses keep records on people?
by inquirer ini have known some people (i dont' know if it's true or not) [and i am the kind of person that doesn't like to cause trouble] who have said that jehovah's witnesses keep tabs/records on people.
all the things they have done like if they got babtized, personal problems/experiences, arguments they may had with people, and just their general conduct as well.
have any people here found out about a "black book" where they keep records on you?
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I was told the details on the files are very graphic ...if for example it's a case dealing with fornication...they make a note of what positions the act was in, how many orgasms...was it one or were they multiple...how long the act took place...
I wonder if those files are all sticky and stuck together.
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Shunning via US Postal Service
by Thechickennest inin today's mail came a envelope from ms. b[edit] c[edit] of rawlins, wyoming.
betty and her family were our longtime associates while were in the cult of jehovah's witnesses.
enclosed were photographs of my wife, daughter, myself and my wife's sister.
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You should write them back thanking them for showing what true christian love they have, you can say that because of their petty actions they disuaded you from making the comeback that you'd been thinking of because you wanted to get reinstated, but now you won't because you've been stumbled and they'll be blood-guilty come armageddon.
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What's next for the Watchtower in 2005?
by truthseeker inafter all the events of 2004 regarding the botchtower, what do you think will happen next year?.
i can think of a few events.. first of all, 70 years will have passed since rutherflawed took on the name "jehovah's witnesses" - a gross misapplication of that scripture in isaiah.. all the new man presses will be operational - already, the wt have increased their watchtower circulation.. "godly obedience" district convention next summer - we all know what that will be about; and don't forget the layman's km article on how to book a hotel, and not just any hotel at that either.. a new book to replace "organised to accomplish our ministry".
bro barr of the governing body turns 100 (i think this is correct).
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JR Bob Dobbs said:
I love you all... May Jehovah Rebuke You!
Hahahahahahahah. I don't know what to say, it just struck me as really funny. Thanks for the judgement. We'll all try to follow the loving example you've showed so far.