Pete Zahut

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  Did Ray Franz manage to live out a comfortable retirement from the proceeds of his books.

  by joe134cd in

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  i'm just curious if anybody knows.

  firstly i don't take issue with the man making money from his books and if he was able to live comfortably from it then i say power to him.

  but what i'm wanting to know was just how successful was it and did it allow him to live out the remainder of his years in comfort e.g buy a house, eat good food etc.

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  I doubt he would have made much. The reality of book publishing is that only people who have huge bestsellers or multiple good-selling books make a lot - right at the top you have the J,K.Rowlings etc... who are selling hundreds of millions of copies.

  This is why college textbooks cost so much. Too specific of a readership to make a profit from, without charging an arm and a leg.

  P.S. Ray was a lovely man, I knew him for a little over a year shortly before everything that went down at Bethel. The tone of his books reflect his disappointment with the Watchtower Society rather than any resentment and dissent and they are a testament to his character and provide even more credibility to his situation.
  
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  This takes the cake

  by Sour Grapes in

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  today during the public talk the speaker said that satan was behind the new modern phones, which are like mini computers, so that the world would have easy access to pornography..

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  Oh Pete.

  The camera had been around for a loooong time before the 1700s. The earliest recorded account of a camera obscura dates back to c.400 BC. The camera itself was used long before the knowledge to develop and fix a photographic print came about in 1830s.

  Photographic prints were not in existence in the 1700s.

  Ok...scratch everything I said before about camera's, printing presses and pornography, It was a bad illustration. More importantly scratch the feeble point I thought I was trying to covey which was, Satan was not behind the design of smart phones for the purpose of pornography any more than he was behind the invention of the printing press (or camera) for that purpose as well. For all I know, the Brother giving the talk was correct, Satan did see to it that these things were invented for the purpose of purveying porn. LOL !
  

  ( note to self....make sure to google every topic and minute detail before making an offhand comment even though those minute details make no difference to the point you're trying to make)
  
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  This takes the cake

  by Sour Grapes in

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  today during the public talk the speaker said that satan was behind the new modern phones, which are like mini computers, so that the world would have easy access to pornography..

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  Or, you know, the 1500's seeing as how the printing press was invented around 1440.

  Good point Viv but I was thinking in terms of the camera not being in use until the 1700's but I suppose naughty drawings could have been printed before that. Either way, it's the same kind of logic that came up with the notion that Birthdays should be banned because someone got their head cut of at one back in Bible times. Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
  
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  This takes the cake

  by Sour Grapes in

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  today during the public talk the speaker said that satan was behind the new modern phones, which are like mini computers, so that the world would have easy access to pornography..

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  If he'd have been living in the 1700's he'd have been among those who said that Satan was behind the invention of the printing press because he wanted everyone to have access to printed pornography.
  

  Somebody should have texted him during his talk "Having problems with porn, you naughty boy? "
  
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  How bad do the JWs need to be doing financially

  by cognac in

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  before they just go ahead and file chapter 7 or 11?

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  With 8 million members there's no way they're going bankrupt. Each member could donate $1 each month and it would tide them over.

  All I want is for my family and former friends to see things for what they are. I don't care if they still want to be JW's....just admit that it's a hoax or at least that God's not going to kill everyone who's not a JW.

  It's hard to imagine that anyone seeing the things that are going on lately wouldn't feel at least a little freer to entertain their own doubts and check into things more than they have in the past. Especially since so much information is available to them these days.
  
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  Hello everyone!

  by Planetsmashers in

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  ive been lurking for a while and finally got around to registering.

  about me: i was essentially born in & indoctrinated from youth.

  i was always a borderline "bad association" type because i always did the minimum and always disagreed with much of what was taught; even when i was a child.. luckily for me my father was never a jw so i never had to endure the male head pressure.

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  "I voluntarily df'd and left it all behind. Started a new life and COULD NOT BE HAPPIER! Suicidal thoughts and depression are now gone but anxiety still plagues me. I have always had social anxiety issues thanks to being raised as a dub."

  Funny how it is that after you stop attending weekly funeral services (ie meetings), suddenly life seems a whole lot brighter. As for the residual anxiety, remember you've been systematically trained since childhood to see things through doom and gloom - end of world filters. It will take time to undo that nasty habit but it can be done if you work at it. Read up, on retraining your thinking patterns with positive thoughts and affirmations. Like a lot of guys, I thought it was a lot of hooey at first, until it worked !

  I know of quite a few JW's who have left but still carried around for decades their JW induced guilt and worry because they still think it could somehow be the truth. Glad you got out early and have discovered this place. The more you learn about the other side of the JW story, the courage of your own conviction on the matter will be a comfort to you.
  
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  What is Your Favorite JW YouTube Video?

  by cognac in

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  maybe it's shocking, funny, a good story, etc.. i was just watching the one below... i was shocked!

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  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7qmypu7mxo.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfL8Q9TCo4I
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  Pioneer Service School Videos

  by wifibandit in

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  first, i'd like to give a big thank you to the anonymous person who provided me the files.

  second, if you have the rest of the english videos, or anything else you would like to leak, please pm me.. download links in the descriptions and here.

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  In the first video with Tony Morris at 0:58 he says he wouldn't be surprised if Brother Knorr looked in on the pioneer school classes from his heavenly position.

  So Brother Knorr spent his entire adult life at Bethel. Does this mean that even after he died of Cancer back around 1977, he still has to keep an eye on things at Bethel?

  If he can look in on the Pioneer School classes, what's to stop him from checking to see who's gettin' frisky in their rooms?
  
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  What would you do if the Society Declares Bankruptcy

  by Quarterback in

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  special pioneers let go.

  bethel workers laid off.

  construction halts, what's next?

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  I'd call my Witness relatives on meeting night and say "Sooo....whatcha' doin' tonight ?"
  
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  INSPIRED ERROR: new phrase among JW CO

  by wannaexit in

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  there is no end to their madness.

  the co gave a talk on inspired error.

  i have never heard of it.

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  1. The MEDIA: articles in the newspaper about Jw's are not truth, what they say on the internet about jw is not the truth. These are inspired expressions of error. Stay away from newspapers and news on the internet. Unless you read something flattering about JW's .....then what the media says, is true.
  

  2. HIGHER EDUCATION: Some associated to congregations feel that if you want to be successful you need higher education-Inspired error because you are not putting the kingdom first. You will have to study and miss meetings therefore this is an inspired error to be avoided at all cost. However, if you have a higher education, you will be more likely to be given a special assignment at Bethel instead of cleaning toilets.
  

  3. IF YOU SAY: the end is coming but not in my lifetime---inspired error. Can't say that because the end can come at any moment. Yes, the end could come one day but the rest of the time, it doesn't.