Kingdom Halls online

by GinnyTosken 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  GinnyTosken

  Up late and feeling a little silly, I decided to do a search online for "Kingdom Hall." Given the Society's stance about the dangers of the evil internet, I was a bit surprised to find so many online.

  At my favorite site, a kingdom melody in midi format plays when you enter. If you click on "Kingdom Hall Picture," a seductive, jazzy song plays. I think it's a kingdom song, too, but I can't place it.

  http://members.tripod.com/~MarionKYKingdomHall/KingdomHall.html

  I love the caption, too: "Usually we're knocking on your door. Thanks for "knocking" on ours."

  Below is the site for the Kingdom Hall in Judge Rutherford's old hometown. The picture of the Kingdom Hall cracks me up:

  http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocooper/Churches/Jehovahs_Witnesses.htm

  Here's one that displays with a nice little cross twirling overhead:

  http://www.ellis-jones.com/kingdom.html

  And, if you haven't already seen them, please check out Van Morrison's lyrics to his song, "Kingdom Hall":

  http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/lyrics/wavelength.html#track1

  Hey, liley, liley, low
  Do do, do do, do do, do do,

  Ginny
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  Prisca

  Interesting bit of trivia about Van Morrison was given on the site :

  The Morrisons were a fairly secular household, Protestant only insomuch as they were not Roman Catholic. Van could go to Sunday school at the Brethern Gospel Hall in the street, or to the slightly more middle-class St. Donard's, which was Church of Ireland. Then suddenly his mother became a Jehovah's Witness.
  No one seems sure exactly how her conversion began or how long it lasted, but what is certain is that she became an ardent member of the local Kingdom Hall sometime during the 1950s. Some of the older members can still remember Van attending morning services with her, but George Morrison never made an appearance.

  Her sudden conversion must have had an effect on her son, because if she was sincere in her beliefs she would have read the Bible to him regularly, and issued stern warnings about the dangers of leading a life outside the Lord. It also compounded his feelings of being an outsider: who else in Belfast had a father who played Jelly Roll Morton records, and a mother who indulged in doorstep evangelism?

  "I was just on the periphery", he says of his contact with the local Kingdom Hall. "My mother went for a few years. We didn't go to church all the time, but it was a very churchy atmosphere in the sense that that's the way it is in Northern Ireland".

  * http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/glossary/kingdom.html
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  Stephanus

  GT:Below is the site for the Kingdom Hall in Judge Rutherford's old hometown. The picture of the Kingdom Hall cracks me up:

  It appears to be on a bit of a lean; was it designed by da Judge himself after he'd been on a drinking binge?
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  crossroads

  No Teacher No Method No Guru words to live
  by, by the Irish folk singer.
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  joelbear

  The meeting times indicate the meetings are shorter now? HEY, what gives. If I had to sit still for 2 hours so should they.

  pouting huts

  Joel
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  slipnslidemaster

  TMS, Service meeting, WT Study and Public talks are 45 minutes each now right?

  Have you been out for a while Joelbear? I thought they changed the lengths 10-15 years ago?

  Slipnslidemaster: I thought you said your dog doesn't bite? That isn't my dog!