is it true that a group of brothers clubbed together to buy the then president of the watchtower society a cadillac?
apparently so.. back in the early 60's, my father was the po of a london congregation.
he was a frequent visitor to the newly opened bethel in mill hill.
I recall going to London one evening to hear Knorr give a talk at a football stadium. It was not part of an assembly..just a one-off talk. It was in the 60s.
His key phrase was "you must not forget". He kept repeating it.
I've forgotten what the talk was about.
i posted this thread sometime last year but thought i would revive it due to the new ones on the board, and to change things up a bit.
my favorite?
bro murikami, from hawaii, very humble, kind bro.
are these hateful men chosen to becone CO's-? -or do CO's end up that way ?
shortly before i left the "troof" a co had given a talk during his visit.
at the time there was a scandal going on in the congregation where 2 couples basically swapped spouses with each other.
it was quite the scandal.
I think it was DO Turnbull from the UK who was df'd for something like that and given a 10 year sentence."
the rumour mill went into overdive about that...such as " knorr came over to the UK to d/f Doug Turnbull personally!!
but according to Bevan Vigo ( London HQ now )---he was our CO back then----Doug was by then just a publisher in the Tamworth congregation at the time.
just curious how we all think.. what prompted or influenced your choice of username for this forum?.
there are some really amazing names, and it would be great to hear the stories behind them.... mine was nothing fancy.
i just felt "stuck in a rut too" along with so many others.
Satan the devil rearranged.
can anyone compile a list of as many as possible past and present co/do's from the uk?
i missed this thread five years back, i see the names of now absent friends posting on here. i wish them well as they have moved on.
a name from 10 years ago--CO Michael Ganderton. i had heard he went as a CO many years ago. i knew him from the i o wight ( UK ) in the early 70's. he tried to get me to come back into the cult as 1975 was getting very close !
jesus in hebrew means "savior' and christ in greek means "messiah".
these are identifiers --not names in jesus case.. where did the name christ come from, his parents???
?i can see the name jesus (first name) but christ.
Cheese arse grice.
i've been on this board for years.
99% of the posters here i do not personally know.
a few, maybe not so much...lol..... do posters here get you upset to the point that you really don't like them?
the only person i dislike on here is myself.
i am thinking about buying coffee mug(s).
maybe i will get my coffee mug personalized.
any suggestions on what should be on my coffee mug?
theresa may the british p.m. has called for an election.. the house of commons has to vote tomorrow and have a two-thirds majority to agree and the main opposition parties want it to happen too so it looks pretty certain to go ahead..
gonna be an interesting night !
mrs phizzy voted for the first time today !
we have been out for nearly a decade now, but this is the first time mrs phizzy has been persuaded to vote.. she was always afraid that jw's would see her, and then df her for it, i explained (again, we have been over this before) that they would not do so, and my son had a word in her ear too, which did the trick.. she came out of the polling station and said to me "i voted for someone called teresa may, who is she ?".
trying to wind me up, but i knew the wicked witch of westminster was not on our ballot sheet.
i havent voted for years--simply because where i live is true blue tory--whereas i'm a born-in labour oik---so no point.
but today--i voted. a protest tactical vote. still a waste of time--but at least i can justify saying i told you so in months to come.
