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  Awake 1976 - Should a Pocket Calculator Be in Your Pocket?

  by Ron.W. in

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  2. bible

  awake 1976 - should a pocket calculator be in your pocket?.

  somehow this totally zany 'bible based' article passed me by first time around!.

  anyone remember it?.

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  Balaamsass2

  I remember some of the first Calculators from HP. EXPENSIVE!

  Wiki:" The first American-made pocket-sized calculator, the Bowmar 901B (popularly termed The Bowmar Brain), measuring 5.2 by 3.0 by 1.5 inches (132 mm × 76 mm × 38 mm), came out in the Autumn of 1971, with four functions and an eight-digit red LED display, for US$240, while in August 1972 the four-function Sinclair Executive became the first slimline pocket calculator measuring 5.4 by 2.2 by 0.35 inches (137.2 mm × 55.9 mm × 8.9 mm) and weighing 2.5 ounces (71 g). It retailed for around £79 (US$194 at the time)."

  Blondie- you are right! "$240 in 1971 equals $1,849.72 in 2024." Wow!
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  Ages of each user here?

  by ukpimo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm interested to know the age demographics here.

  it must be significantly different to other exjw forums.

  it would be a damning report for watchtower if most of us appear to have left for decades.. you don't have to mention your exact age, you could always say "in my 50s".. i am in my 70s.

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  Late 60s.
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  The Book Study Group - Reminiscing

  by ukpimo in

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  2. beliefs

  any fond memories or funny stories relating to the old book study arrangement?.

  i remember a time when a new sister turned up with very smart jacket and shirt.

  yet she was wearing trousers and when questioned by everyone she said "blimey, i think geoff (her husband) is wearing my skirt!".

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  I do have one very fond book study memory. About 26 years ago a cute 3rd Gen moved into town one block from the book study I conducted....she showed up and I was smitten. She never turned in her time on time, so I had to call her every month...for months. lol The rest is history. :)
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  Not going to say a word

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-0p-5x2g4w.

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  ThomasMoore,

  lol. I don't remember the sink peeing admonishment. The rooms in the old 124 building didn't have bathrooms.... There were communal bathrooms like a college dorm. I shared the bathroom with GB member Dan Sidlick. (Somehow he felt it was ok to walk a few more feet and just randomly wander in and out of my room. (Strange).

  I remember my 2-3rd day at Bethel at breakfast. GB/President Knorr gave a 10-minute announcement that 30+ Bethelites had just been summarily disfellowshipped and evicted for homosexuality after having a "massage party" !#!# WTH!!!???

  Soon after I heard about the bestiality issues at the farm!?!?! Evidently, some fellows were using/misusing baby animals.... ugh

  Having grown up adjacent to San Francisco I thought I had heard it all....NOPE.
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  2024--Become a Circuit Overseer in Your Mid-to-Late 20's!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  become a circuit overseer in your mid to late 20's.

  you would have had to qualify as an elder previously.

  this would mean the male would have had to have been an elder in his early 20's.

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  Perhaps the older guys with some assets have wised up to the incredible personal liability of being an Elder now in Watchtower land.
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  2024--Become a Circuit Overseer in Your Mid-to-Late 20's!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  become a circuit overseer in your mid to late 20's.

  you would have had to qualify as an elder previously.

  this would mean the male would have had to have been an elder in his early 20's.

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  Joe134.

  Per what he told me, or what was rumored at Bethel?? I really will really never know. I am going to go with "Insubordination".
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  Not going to say a word

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-0p-5x2g4w.

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  lol!

  Imagine listening to this with your first cup of coffee and breakfast!

  There was just a lot of creepiness at Bethel. Imagine the thrill of being a "new boy" at Bethel and being able to meet Watchtower guru Fred Franz and ask him bible questions in person any wed evening after dinner!! The one big caveat is...You need to meet in the sauna in the basement....ah..em... I passed. I like to keep my clothes on for meetings..... :)
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  Remember the sex talks?

  by KerryKing in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i remember sitting through public talks where the speaker spent the hour discussing in great detail anal sex, masturbation (of yourself and others), sex during menstruation and so on.

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  i was a child, looking back now, i realise that they systematically stripped away our childhood innocence, we knew and heard things no 'worldly' child would have heard.. the child abuse and grooming happened to every single one of us, the feelings of guilt and shame was in all of us even if we didn't actually do anything bad, the mental images caused by these filthy men hung around in our innocent minds till there was no room for that innocence.. it has taken me 44 years to realise that what was done to us, even those of us not physically abused, is a crime.. do they still have talks like that nowadays i wonder?

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  Tenyears..Thanks for the needed laugh!!!
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  2024--Become a Circuit Overseer in Your Mid-to-Late 20's!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  become a circuit overseer in your mid to late 20's.

  you would have had to qualify as an elder previously.

  this would mean the male would have had to have been an elder in his early 20's.

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  Balaamsass2

  Incredible.

  I had a relative who became a CO and Branch Overseer very young in his late 20s after graduating from Gilead.

  He was removed in his mid-30s.

  It warped his personality. He became an overbearing ass, which he remained until the day of his death.
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  Reddit thread re Oct 2024 WT with picture of window washer - Theme knocking people who Planned

  by LongHairGal in

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  2. friends

  this thread currently has over 300 comments.. it shows a picture of an older man washing a window looking wistfully… then it talks all about how some may have doubts about not having planned and the situation they are in now that they are older, etc.

  it refers to others who did plan and who supposedly have ‘apparent’ financial security.

  in my opinion, the whole gist of this article is to make older witnesses feel better who did not pursue a career or plan well for retirement.. it tries to imply that those others who planned only have ‘apparent’ financial security - which is to say they don’t (?).

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  Balaamsass2

  Standard Watchtower hogwash.

  I was googling the disfellowshipped Elders from the Menlo Park Congregation kingdom hall takeover/sale fiasco a few weeks ago. I saw the death notice of one of the Elders who spoke out against the Congregation bank account seizure and hall sale. (If you remember everyone who spoke out was summarily disfellowshiped in absentia about 10 years ago. There are a few threads here about it.)

  The brother, Arlen St Clair, a gentle, humble man who worked as a widow washer was broken by Watchtower. (His son was severely injured in Arlen's car when it was forced off the road by an employee of one of the local elders investigating for Watchtower).

  The obituary stated former Elder Arlen St Clair, fell to his death from a customer's roof while washing skylights. Arlen died while washing windows in his mid-70s. Lost his life, lost his shot at a "retirement", and lost his religion. The sad and rotten fruitage of Watchtower.

  Actually, the bible encourages thrift, saving, knowledge, and hard work.