The Menlo Park Hall faced the old Veterans Administration Psychiatric Hospital and VA Golf course (used to shoot the movie "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" with Jack Nicholson). The Hall Backed to US 101 and was a few blocks from Facebook-Meta and an easy walk to Stanford University. Yes, it was valuable real estate.

Most of the publishers were working class minorities, with a couple of Attorneys, and Stanford Employees. That hall had a fat bank account Watchtower seized first, followed by seizing the Hall.

Last I looked, few changes had been made to the building.

Most of the key players are now dead.

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That famous 117 Adams St address

by BONEZZ in

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friends

...is now owned by etsy.

just happened across this.

(maybe you all knew it but it was newz to me) finally made it to 1000 posts...whew..

Balaamsass2

Wait! There is more! The famous Menlo Park Kingdom Hall in California is now a Spanish Pentecostal Church! ( I wonder how all the old widows in that congregation feel about the new signage after they donated their meager lifes' savings for the remodel....and bank account Watchtower seized. They get to drive by the place going to other halls and cities to attend meetings...if they can stomach going any longer.)

At least Etsy actually helps crafters and artists to put food on their tables by providing actual tangible goods!! :)

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Not on JW.com. Hebrides Islanders finally get refreshment! JW Kingdom Hall is turned into a juice bar!

by Balaamsass2 in

plans to turn former jehovah's witness meeting hall into juice bar lodged.

the upper floor space of the former meeting hall in stornoway would be transformed into a cafe under the proposals.. plans to convert a former jehovah’s witness meeting hall to a juice bar and cafe in stornoway are among recent planning applications made to comhairle nan eilean siar.. the application would change the use of the former jehovah’s witnesses meeting hall at 30 church street into a juice bar and cafe.. the proposal would see the upper floor space of the former meeting hall being converted to designs by dbm design and engineering for the applicant, joanna morrison.

details of the proposals can be found on comhairle nan eilean siar’s online planning portal, with a deadline for comments on monday june 2.. meanwhile plans for a new house to be built at 3a horgabost, isle of harris, have been submitted to the comhairle by local resident, johnathon mackay.

Balaamsass2

5/22/25

Plans to turn former Jehovah's Witness meeting hall into juice bar lodged

The upper floor space of the former meeting hall in Stornoway would be transformed into a cafe under the proposals.

Plans to convert a former Jehovah’s Witness meeting hall to a juice bar and cafe in Stornoway are among recent planning applications made to Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.

The application would change the use of the former Jehovah’s Witnesses meeting hall at 30 Church Street into a juice bar and cafe.

The proposal would see the upper floor space of the former meeting hall being converted to designs by DBM Design and Engineering for the applicant, Joanna Morrison.

Details of the proposals can be found on Comhairle nan Eilean Siar’s online planning portal, with a deadline for comments on Monday June 2.

Meanwhile plans for a new house to be built at 3a Horgabost, Isle of Harris, have been submitted to the Comhairle by local resident, Johnathon MacKay.

The project proposed is a single storey, four-bedroomed family home with a domestic garage in the village, located to the east of the village, and documents submitted with the application state the proposed site is within croft land currently owned (tenant) by a relative of the applicant on the opposite side of the road from the original croft house, and situated approximately 70m off the village road.

Designs for the house, by MacIver Consultancy Services, detail that the development is located in a National Scenic Area and state that “the position of the site has been carefully chosen in order to be low-lying in the topography of the area to reduce its visual impact.”

Details of the proposals can be found on Comhairle nan Eilean Siar’s online planning portal.

An application for planning permission in principle has been submitted to the Comhairle for the erection of a dwelling house at 17c Valtos, Uig, Isle of Lewis, on croft land at 16-17 Valtos, by Malcolm MacDonald of Valtos.

Design drawings, by Total Design (Lighthill) Ltd, submitted with the application outline that the proposed house would have an ‘indicative footprint’ of 12ms x 8ms.

An application to change the use of a storage shed and “ancillary residential cabin” to form two units of holiday accommodation at Cuithir House, Grean, Isle of Barra, has been submitted to the Comhairle by Phillip Harvey of Barradise Ltd."

https://news.stv.tv/highlands-islands/plans-to-turn-former-jehovahs-witness-meeting-hall-into-juice-bar-lodged-with-western-isles-council

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NOT on JW.org, If butt naked Adam and Eve were created 6,000 yrs ago....Explain this.

by Balaamsass2 in

4/24 archeology magazine.

"the taş tepeler, or stone mounds, in southeastern turkey’s şanlıurfa province arc roughly 125 miles along the foothills of the taurus mountains, overlooking the harran plain and the balikh river, a tributary of the euphrates.

the region features plateaus amid modest mountains.

Balaamsass2

When you build with a faulty foundation....what do you expect?

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NOT on JW.org, If butt naked Adam and Eve were created 6,000 yrs ago....Explain this.

by Balaamsass2 in

4/24 archeology magazine.

"the taş tepeler, or stone mounds, in southeastern turkey’s şanlıurfa province arc roughly 125 miles along the foothills of the taurus mountains, overlooking the harran plain and the balikh river, a tributary of the euphrates.

the region features plateaus amid modest mountains.

Balaamsass2

4/24 Archeology Magazine. "The Taş Tepeler, or Stone Mounds, in southeastern Turkey’s Şanlıurfa Province arc roughly 125 miles along the foothills of the Taurus Mountains, overlooking the Harran Plain and the Balikh River, a tributary of the Euphrates. The region features plateaus amid modest mountains. Scorching summers and mild winters with little rain barely sustain wild lentils, wheat, barley, and chickpeas, alongside other plant species adapted to the semiarid steppe environment. Farmers cultivate crops of pistachios, which are known locally as “green gold.” The plain’s few native animals, including several species of gazelle, are legally protected, but conservationists struggle to safeguard them from poaching, climate change, and urban expansion. In villages dotted across the plain, residents face challenges, too, their lives intertwined with seasonal agricultural rhythms and subject to the vagaries of swiftly changing weather patterns.

More than 11,000 years ago, during the early Neolithic period, this was a lush expanse of mighty forests teeming with wild animals including cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys, gazelles, boars, leopards, and snakes and other reptiles. Its rivers and lakes were home to numerous species of fish and birds. This fertile environment drew groups of mobile hunter-gatherers who, freed from the need to move seasonally in search of food, built semipermanent and permanent dwellings on the plain and in the hills. “This part of Anatolia had a significantly richer and more productive natural environment than arid regions to the south,” says archaeologist Mehmet Özdoğan of Istanbul University. “This encouraged people to establish permanent settlements and liberated them from mere dietary concerns. Their newfound freedom allowed them to focus on endeavors beyond sustenance and shelter and on what we might define as true artistic pursuits.”

Archaeologists working across the region over the last several decades have uncovered more than 20 sites dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period (ca. 12,000 to 10,200 years ago). These sites share characteristics such as monumental architecture, often in the form of T-shaped or rounded pillars and large decorated stone benches. They also feature stone carvings of humans with skeletal features, as well as of human heads, masks, phalluses, and predatory mammals, including raptors and snakes. Between 1983 and 1991, at the site of Nevalı Çori, which is now covered by the waters of the Atatürk Reservoir, researchers discovered a series of large T-shaped standing stones that are acknowledged to be the first known examples of monumental architecture in the region. Inspired by those finds, later in the 1990s, archaeologists returned to the site of Göbeklitepe, some 35 miles away, which had been discovered in 1963. There they unearthed structures similar to those at Nevalı Çori. (See "Last Stand of the Hunter-Gatherers?") While digging at Sayburç, another of the Taş Tepeler sites, in 2021, archaeologist Eylem Özdoğan of Istanbul University unearthed a stone bench with a carved relief showing two humans, two leopards and a bull—a scene, she says, that represents the most detailed depiction of a Neolithic story found to date.

Taken together, the known Taş Tepeler sites—and perhaps others yet to be discovered—suggest something revolutionary was happening in the area at this time. “These excavations have altered people’s perspectives on the Neolithic period,” says archaeologist Douglas Baird of the University of Liverpool, who is now working at Mendik, a newly discovered Taş Tepeler site. “We know that many Neolithic areas, from Jordan to Cappadocia in Anatolia, have public buildings, but in the Taş Tepeler region, there are numerous structures designated for specific public or ritual purposes. I believe the most important aspect of public buildings is that they represent new social institutions in these communities—for which other evidence is lacking—because they brought together different families and different segments of the community for a common purpose.” These large gathering spaces underscore the significance of such communal activities. During this period, buildings became something other than just spaces to live in, and “special structures” began to be built for non-domestic purposes, an indicator of new spiritual practices. “Considering the labor and time required for the construction of these structures, they must have held great meaning for Neolithic societies,” Baird says. “The goal shouldn’t be to understand one settlement, but to understand the entire region and the story that is specific to this region. When you look at the plateau surrounding the Harran Plain, you find a lot of these types of sites, but as you go a bit farther, they disappear. This region has a unique coherence.”

https://archaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Karahantepe-Neolithic-Turkey-Tas-Tepeler-Skeletal-Man.jpg

https://archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2024/features/discovering-a-new-neolithic-world/

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I AM THAT I AM - The Birth of The Kingdom of God

by EisMe in

my history.

a childhood vision: the first sign.

the first glimpse into my divine path came when i was just a child.

Balaamsass2

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/23350-hallucinations

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Remember Hour Quotas?

by blondie in

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friends

hour quotas timeline.

back in the old days long before 1952.

“after staying in our ‘home’ for two days we decided that if we were going to meet our quota of 140 hours for the month.

Balaamsass2

I remember well the huge chart dragged out onto an easel every month on the platform during the 60s. Average hours. Bible studies. Subscriptions. Mags. Books. RV/backcalls. Stern warnings for slackers who could be guilty of bloodguilt!

100 hrs a month for pioneers. Timed coffee breaks.

One CO (Andy Laguna) told me in the 90s he wouldn't even consider appointing new servants who didn't average 15 hrs per month with at least one study.

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How many times did they say armagedon was coming?

by Witness 007 in

1914 1918 1925 1940s 1975 1914 generation what did i miss?.

Balaamsass2

Keeping track of Watchtowers' failed "Armageddon" prophecies is way too taxing!

It is easier to remember that broken clocks are correct twice every day, but Watchtower has never been right. :)

JWfacts.com covers the subject as well as anyone,

in my opinion. https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/1800s.php

Balaamsass2

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