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pronomono
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TTATT in a Can... Now on Google Sites
by ILoveTTATT ini found a way to get the entire spreadsheet into google so that people can take a look at it.... i also made a spreadsheet that shows the doctrines with most # of changes, ranked from most to least:.
https://sites.google.com/site/laverdadtj2/number-of-changes.
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Hi! I'm new here
by Powermetal4ever inthought i am gonna introduce myself.
i am a girl from a country in europe, and not an english speaking one, so if i am writing strange or something, you know why.
anyway, have been reading here for a while now, the other day i thought it was time to register as a member.
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pronomono
Welcome, PowerMetal. Glad to see a girl who rocks!
I grew up listening to metal, hard rock, etc. with bands like Nightwish, Sirenia, Tristania, Korn and any other band on the hard rock and above spectrum of music. They're the only reason I made it through high school. I had a lot of problems with being a JW around that time. My mom and I got into some pretty intense arguments over it. But in the end, I sucked it up and became the perfect little Ministerial Servant everyone wanted me to be. I hated myself for it. And now at 29 years old, it's causing problems for me, especially with communication in my marriage. If I knew then what I know now, eh? Anyways, hard rock and heavy metal got me this far in life, expressing feelings I didn't quite know how to express myself.
As far as mainstream rock, it is more accepted. I think it's because there isn't as much substance that could be offensive. Mainstream rock tries to provide something for everyone. To me, it's more like pop with slightly distorted electric guitars. It's not necessarily all bad, but it's so generic. Keep on rocking. You can learn a lot from everyone here and from JWFacts.
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Heavy metal
by Godsendconspirator ini 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 inin 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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Thanks Blondie.
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Did anyone else feel the Nor Cal earthquake?
by LisaRose ini 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 inmy 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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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 inthe 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.
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stupid statement in watchtower about appointments of elders
by hoser inafter 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 inpeople 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 ini'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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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.