Did you have a collection of talks on tape? Which ones?

BonaFide

I had a great collection. I used to listen to the good ones, and make copies for friends. Here are my all-time bests. Well, according to the way I used to think:

J.R. Brown - Are you Cultivating Fleshy Desires? Brother Brown was a circuit overseer before he got called to Bethel. A lot of speakers imitated his style. He breaks up syllables and has long pauses. "Are you cul-ti-va-ting flesh-ly de-sires? The Sin is not the Act. The Sin is the De-sire to Do Wrong." I met him in person, to me a very humble person.

Ulysses Glass - Are We in the Time of the End? He talked about being stuck in the desert with no water, and how to get water. He said that he knows when Armageddon will come. Its coming tomorrow. Thats the way he thinks each day, then the next day, he starts over. Keep the sense of urgency.

Kin Suen - Ability or Dependabilty - Which? - Everyone loves his accent. Very kind and sincere brother. So strange to me now, he encouraged me to reach out. I saw him at the last elders school, I didn't know what to say to him. Anyway, his talk was great, what does Jehovah prefer, someone who has ability, or someone who is dependable.

Colin Quackenbush - Are you an Effective Teacher? - He used a lot of illustrations, and he said people come into the truth based on how they feel. So make them FEEL the truth, the hope, the brotherhood, the peace, the comfort.

I have some in a box in the garage now. I don't know anyone who listens to talks on tape anymore. Used to be a big thing.

Well, what about you?

BF

blondie

It was hard enough to listen to them the first time to bother saving them to listen to again. I was told by several older jws that if it wasn't in the publications, it was just that man's opinion. GB members have speculated and left a record of how the WTS speaks out of both sides of their mouth.

Talks worth listening to?

http://www.freeminds.org/mp3.htm

stillajwexelder

every public talk I have ever given

Awakened at Gilead

An elder in my last hall, seeing my "discouragement", gave me a CD of a Dan Sydlik talk...

It busted in my knapsack... oh well, I must have missed something important... NOT

WTWizard

I took a tape recorder to a Grand Boasting Session one year. Of course, all the tapes are now in the landfill, busted.

SnakesInTheTower

I had a bunch..got rid of them... I think there are 1 or 2 of mine hanging around at my moms house.

I still have one cassette...it was given by an older, very humble MS .... he died a few years ago. I have kept it because maybe his wife or his two biological sisters (all dubs) might want them... dunno... dont know if they would or not..or if it would make them sad or happy.....someone would have to transfer it to CD for them... its just in a box right now..

there used to be a sister years ago at the local assembly hall who had tons and tons of them...until a CO or DO said something... it wasnt as if she was making money or anything....part of all of those rules....

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yknot

Ummm they can be quite helpful to the ExJW community........

Often a talk is discussed on JWD and if one of us has a MP3 of the talk it proves to be very interesting........(Losch 2008 zone, Herd 2005, Stay Alive until '75.... gobsmacked a newbie reaching-out MS!)

My stepdad got custody of the massive collection from the late 50's, trading tapes was like baseball cards in my Halls. I have a small collection of MP3s too....

We didn't get to listen to the radio very often, theocratic tapes were the standard along Kingdom Melodies.

Also you when we were all hauled into camps for being JWs during Armageddon we could remember them and be strengthen to keep our resolve and perhaps upbuild others suffering.

You would be surprised how useful those tapes can be.... so please consider converting them from cassette to MP3 and uploading them on to a site like 4shared........... Please