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  The Watchtower vs. the Internet. (This is Spaaarlock!)

  by donuthole in

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  within days of the release of the watchtower's new children's dvd, some video clips from the animated movie were uploaded to youtube.

  the watchtower quickly rallied to remove some videos from youtube under copyright claims.

  that is their legal right, no matter how counter to their stated goals of spreading their unique version of the good news world wide.

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  Within days of the release of the Watchtower's new children's DVD, some video clips from the animated movie were uploaded to YouTube. The Watchtower quickly rallied to remove some videos from YouTube under copyright claims. That is their legal right, no matter how counter to their stated goals of spreading their unique version of the good news world wide. The Watchtower is about information control and they are determined that on the Internet there should be only one channel of information about Jehovah's Witnesses, there official website www.jw.org. The Governing Body expressely prohibits individiual Jehovah's Witnesses from actively promoting their faith online on social media, Intenet forums, and personal blogs.

  Unfortnately for the Watchtower that is just not how the Internet works. Go on Google or YouTube and search "Sparlock" and you'll be greeted with an expanding flood of content from ex-JW's championing the Watchtower's warrior wizard and speaking against the crippling cult-like control the Watchtower has over JW families. Within a week of the release of the new DVD the character has gone viral promoting a message that is opposite the Watchtower's intentions. Unlike JW's so-called "opposers" have no restrictions on their freedom of speech. Like the mythical hydra, for every video Watchtower legal removes, two more can be uploaded to takes its place.

  Imagine a convention center where one Governing Body member is giving the Watchtower's message while the other five thousand in attendence are speaking the opposite. That is the Internet. The "large apostate army" can overshadow the Watcthower's singular shrill voice by sheer unfettered numbers. The Watchtower cannot compete with this unless they want to empower individual JW's to spread their faith online.

  What is the Watchtower's response to this? In their new brochure "Who Are Doing Jehovah's Will Today?", the Watchtower warns potential converts: "Some Internet sites have been set up by opposers to spread false information about our organization. Their intent is to draw people away from serving Jehovah. We should avoid those site." The delusion of the Governing Body is believing that the public will be obedient to their calls to tune out the thousands of contrary messages on the Internet and just focus on the Watchtower's version.
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  Has the WTB&TS broken copyright/Trade-mark laws with their use of sparlock ?

  by smiddy in

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  when i googled sparlock,i was directed to some companies that traded under that name , so i`m just curious if they have infringed on some laws here.. any legal eagles here that can to shed some light on this ?.

  i`m just curious.. smiddy.

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  donuthole

  You can't copyright a name. You can trademark it.

  Example: The movie Troll contained a character named Harry Potter. The name was later used by a British author for a book series which lead to some movie adaptations. That version of Harry Potter was trademarked. The troll remake comes out and uses the name Harry Potter (now made famous by the book/movie series). Is it trademark infringement? Not necessarily unless the audience would confuse Troll's Harry Potter with the trademarked Harry Potter.

  The Watchtower's Sparlock is nothing like the minor Pokemon character that barely registers as a blip on the Internet compared to the Watchtower's Warrior Wizard. We don't even know how the Watchtower spells the name. Maybe it is Sparlokkk? It really doesn't matter, because neither the Watchtower's Sparlock nor the Pokemon Sparlock are trademarked. I could make a movie tomorrow about a Hungarian short order cook named Sparlock and neither Nintendo or the Watchtower can do anything about it.

  Will the Watchtower trademark Sparlock in view of his growing success? It would be funny if they did.

  What would be even funnier is if someone here registered the trademark for use for action figures, animated films, dolls, t-shirts, lunchboxes, Bible covers, etc.
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  You have to admit, Watchtower Productions have come a long way...

  by exwhyzee in

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  but they still present their message in a very one sided, unrealistic and propaganda like manner.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzfu_vcwqso.

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  Just when I thought I knew everything about JW history! I can't believe I haven't seen (or even heard of) this until now.
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  JW Origins in New Brochures

  by donuthole in

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  one of the things i noticed in the two new brochures for the public is how the couch the modern day origins of jehovah's witnesses.

  "in the 1870's a small group of bible students began rediscovering long-lost bible truths.

  " - good news from god.

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  One of the things I noticed in the two new brochures for the public is how the couch the modern day origins of Jehovah's Witnesses.

  "In the 1870's a small group of Bible students began rediscovering long-lost Bible truths." - Good News From God

  "In 1870 a small group of truth-seekers regonized that many church doctrines were not Scriptural." - Who Are Doing Jehovah's Will Today

  There is no mention of Charles Russell. Has this been going on for a while?
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  Child Baptism and Disfelowshipping

  by + in

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  child baptim by jw .

  child disfellowshipping by jw.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msqgdas_ska.

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  stastically speaking 2/3rds of those children will be completely cut out from their friends and family at some point in their life.
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  SPARLOCK T-shirts!

  by sacolton in

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  grab 'em here .... http://www.cafepress.com/xjwtees.

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  donuthole

  Great work on the shirts. Awesome design!
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  The new kids DVD - was it deliberate? What are we missing?

  by cedars in

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  normally i don't go in for these conspiracy theory ideas, but a comment by kurtbethel on another thread got me to thinking.

  might this latest dvd actually be proof that there are operatives inside watchtower hq who are deliberately sabotaging the society's material?

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  donuthole

  A death in the family this weekend prompted the rare opportunity to spend time with some JW family members. As I watched them engage with the our "wordly" relatives it occured to me just how delusional they are. Because they are sequestered within their closed, inbred community they have no capacity to understand just how weird they are to outsiders. For example, my sister-in-law boasted about how she had to go retrieve her child from outside playing with the neighbors on family worship night, and how she had to reprimand him for throwing a fit about it, lest he bring reproach on Jehovah. If you 3D animated her she could have been Sparlock 2. I really think that is how it is for this video -- within the cult, all will nod and say what a "godsend" this is, not knowing just how creepy it is to non-JW's.
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  SPARLOCK has been banned on YOutube!!!!!

  by usualusername in

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  all the videos have been taken down by the watchtower!.

  yikes.

  uun .

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  donuthole

  It is standard action for copyright holders to file a cease and desist to YouTube for copyright infringement. They jerk the videos down to cover their butt. If the user persists, they are banned. More videos can be upload. More cease and desist letters can be issued. Welcome to the 21st century. Rally on compadres!
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  Sparlock has a Facebook Fan page!!!

  by discreetslave in

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  for those of you on facebook there is a fan page for the wizard https://www.facebook.com/sparlockthewizard.

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  I wish I had the skills to do 1994 computer animation. Imagine an episode with Caleb on his death bed. Elasti-Girl Mom leans over the bed. "Do you want to take a blood transfusion from Satan and make Jehovah sad?" Her eyes turn to flames and her tongue into a serpent. "Or do you want to refuse and make Jehovah glad?" Her eyes go big and bright. Sparlock (alive Toy Story style) visits Caleb in the hospital and comes to the rescue ...
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  Sparlock has a Facebook Fan page!!!

  by discreetslave in

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  for those of you on facebook there is a fan page for the wizard https://www.facebook.com/sparlockthewizard.

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  Sparlock is going to be making a cameo in my novel Paradise Earth published by Curiosity Quills later this summer. For real.