Well, Abraham and Jacob could live in a tent like in the good old days, Abraham could build an altar next to it and tie Isaac up on it, David is used to more luxurious dwellings but he'll have to suck it and squeeze into Abe and Jake's homeless shelter, and Ezekiel will simply lie in the pile of shit that the other four pile up.
Beth-sarim, my dear
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wasblind
Farkel,
did you just call me lazy ? are you trying to pick a Friday night fight?
I'm not in the mood Farkel, I have a headache tonight, maybe we can
do it later.
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OUTLAW
Well, Abraham and Jacob could live in a tent like in the good old days,
Abraham could build an altar next to it and tie Isaac up on it,
David is used to more luxurious dwellings but he'll have to suck it and squeeze into Abe and Jake's homeless shelter,
and Ezekiel will simply lie in the pile of shit that the other four pile up.....Leolaia
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Slidin Fast
*** w92 3/1 p. 27 Pursuing a Goal Set at Six Years of Age ***
Often we preached near Beth-Sarim, which was where the ailing president of the Watch Tower Society, Brother Rutherford, had spent the winters before his death in 1942. We visited regularly and had dinner with the full-time servants there. Such happy visits made me decide that this was truly the kind of life I wanted. I then made Gilead School and missionary service my goal in life.
I bet!
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Farkel
wasblind,
:I'm not in the mood Farkel, I have a headache tonight, maybe we can do it later.
You wouldn't happen to be my ex-wife, would you?
Farkel
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wasblind
LOL
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seawolf
Would be awesome if they all ended up on Judge Judy.
Abraham/Isaac/David: This was our home as proclaimed by the slave class for when we're resurrected.
Judge Judy: WTF ...short recess while they take their meds. All their sheep and goats can wait outside.
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Bonnie_Clyde
"Brother Rutherford had a severe case of pneumonia after his release from unjust imprisonment in 1919. Thereafter, he had only one good lung. In the 1920’s, under a doctor’s treatment, he went to San Diego, California, and the doctor urged him to spend as much time as possible there."
How much truth is there in this? Was his "unjust" imprisonment really the reason he had only one good lung?
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Nathan Natas
Slidin Fast cited the life experience of SANDRA COWAN (and her husband BILL) in the WATCHTOWER exerpt above.
Did she see her dream of Beth-Sarim-like luxurious living fulfilled?
She was born in 1939. She'd be 71 today. She was baptized at SIX and became a pioneer that same year.
Here's some of her wonderful experience in the full-time volunteer book-selling business (from the same article):
"...I got to see Gilead School for the first time. I remember standing in one of the classrooms and saying to myself, ‘I'm not quite 11 years old. I'll never get to come here. Armageddon will come first.' But that visit made me more determined than ever to make Gilead my goal...
How's that working out for you, Sandy?
...We wrote the Society asking for an assignment and one month before our wedding, we received one in Romney, West Virginia. We moved there on our way to the New York convention in 1958...
...We lived in a 16-foot [5 m] homemade trailer designed for California weather. We had no running water, no heat, and no refrigerator. It got so cold inside that we had to break the ice in the bucket to get water. The brothers helped us as much as they could, sharing the food they had hunted. We ate deer, raccoon, and squirrel. More than once we thought that we would have nothing to eat for the day, and then when we got home from service, we would find some apples or cheese left in front of our door.
Mmmm, just like Beth Sarim, eh Sandy?
Truly, Mom set before me a worthwhile goal! If she were still alive, I'd love to tell her again, "Thank you, Mom!" Happily, I can still say, "Thanks, Dad!"
Sorry to hear your Mom didn't live through Armageddon. Was she disappointed, Sandy? Will YOU be disappointed when YOU don't live through Armageeddon?
Thanks for selling all those books, sucker!
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Nathan Natas
Bonnie_Clyde,
Joe Rutherford told one of his buddies at Bethel that when he was a kid he worked at selling books and one time fell into a freezing cold river, nearly dying. According to his friend, his lung problems started at that time. No doubt he just mixed up some of the details of his personal experience by accident. He was chosen by God, you know.
