Making lots of RVs that were scattered around our congregation's territory. Regarding hours, I always rounded up. If I put in one hour and 10 minutes, I would round it up to two hours. I worked with several pioneers who did the same.
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How did you "expand" your Field Service time
by donny ini remember when a brother named donis and i used to go out in field service on the weekends we took advantage of our congregations large territory.
we each had about nine return visits and we would pick one on the southern end of the territory and afterwards drive to one in the northern part and then back again.
along the way we would throw in laundry mat to dump a lot of the magazines that were given to us by other brothers/sisters who needed room in their garage.
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Do YOU Look Like YOUR Avatar/JWD mini-pic
by RAYZORBLADE indo you look like your jwd profile pic?.
just curious.. that stupid pic of me in a columbia rain jacket is real.
it's 2 yrs.
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Athanasius
Yep, thats me. The photo was taken the year after Armageddon. So thats me in the new world where nobody grows old.
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Athanasius
Hi Dan, Sorry that you got chewed out for using the American Standard Bible. I started using other Bible translations in my talks in 1970 when I got a copy of the New English Bible. However, I always made it a point to introduce which translation I was using before reading the Scripture. Interestingly there were a number of JWs who would come up after the talk and ask about which Bible translations I was using. Some of them would comment that the verses which I read from the other Bibles were so much easier to understand when compared to the NWT. The NWT's wording is so wooden. I hated it when the NWT uses the term "system of things" when the original Greek word "eon" actually means "age" or "era." I forget the Scripture, but where most Bibles say "the end of the ages," the NWT says "the end of the systems of things." That must have been a term Freddy Franz invented.
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poll/ survey on what you "were" (rank in your hall)
by burningbridges ini wasjust really curious to see what the average of everyone's "history" is here, and also how many "higer ups" we have that have abandoned the ways.
so what were you, an elder?
a pioneer?
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Athanasius
At 18 I was appointed Magazine-Territory Servant under the old Congregation Servant arrangement. Then at 24 was appointed Theocratic School Servant. I also pioneered for two years.
When the elder arrangement came in in 1972 I was appointed an elder. Was Watchtower Study conductor, Bible Study Overseer, Field Overseer, Presiding Overseer, and Congregation Book Study conductor. But the position that I enjoyed the most was Theocratic School Overseer. When the rotation of elders stopped I requested the Theocratic School, an unpopular responsiblity in our congregation, and quickly got the appointment. I served as School Overseer until 1984 when I resigned as an elder so that I could return to college and finish my education. -
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Bibles to read???
by Troggle incan anyone please give me a little advice on a good bible to use?
after looking around my house i realized that i only have one bible and it is the nwt.
i have tried using the kjv but would like a good one in regular english rather than old english and i have been brainwashed into distrusting all of them.
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Athanasius
I like the Revised English Bible. It includes the Deuterocanonical books. However, for the Old Testament I found the Stone Edition Tanach to be very helpful.
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Athanasius
Hi Dan,
I probably met you back in the 70s. I was the brother who used all the different Bible Translations in my talks. Also used non-Watchtower books to prove a point or two. But that was the 70s during Watchtower Vatican II. Things changed in 1980 and I left in 84.
I knew the Nazaroffs. Gil was always prominent at all the Circuit Assemblies. Jim gave a talk in our congregation about his travels in Chile. I also knew Joe Souza, we worked together in construction one summer. He was always reading the Watchtower during the lunch break. It seems he was an elder in Healdsburg for a while.
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I never attended the congregation in Clearlake, but in the 1970s and early 1980s I gave several Public Talks in the KH there. Wasn't there also a Clearlake Highlands congregation?
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I think I made "The List"
by RR inso jehovah's witnesses came to our door, this is about the fifth time, i always miss them, but they talk to my wife, this time i was home due to the holiday season, the man was an elder, he came with a newbie, thought he would show her "how's its done"), the young women sat there with mouth wide open, as she watched me beat up her elder with his own bible.
well after discussing the scriptures for about 2 hours, (subjects included: salvation, ransom, permission of evil, god's organization), she looked at me and said "amazing, i've never heard it explained quite that way before.".
the elder asked me what religious affiliations i had, i told him, "i am with the associated bible students.
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Athanasius
It doesn't surprise me that the elder used the term anti-Christ. I remember a number of the older JWs would use similar terms for the Bible Students. The most common term they liked to use was "Evil Slave." Some of these long time JWs had lived through the Watchtower's civil war of 1917-1919 and could say only hateful things about their former brothers and sisters the Bible Students.
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I think I made "The List"
by RR inso jehovah's witnesses came to our door, this is about the fifth time, i always miss them, but they talk to my wife, this time i was home due to the holiday season, the man was an elder, he came with a newbie, thought he would show her "how's its done"), the young women sat there with mouth wide open, as she watched me beat up her elder with his own bible.
well after discussing the scriptures for about 2 hours, (subjects included: salvation, ransom, permission of evil, god's organization), she looked at me and said "amazing, i've never heard it explained quite that way before.".
the elder asked me what religious affiliations i had, i told him, "i am with the associated bible students.
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Athanasius
The elder's angry reaction was probably due to the fact the JWs have been losing members to the Bible Student associations since the 1960s. Since the JWs are a break-away from the Bible Students the Witnesses are the real apostates and anti-Christ by their own definition.
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I think I made "The List"
by RR inso jehovah's witnesses came to our door, this is about the fifth time, i always miss them, but they talk to my wife, this time i was home due to the holiday season, the man was an elder, he came with a newbie, thought he would show her "how's its done"), the young women sat there with mouth wide open, as she watched me beat up her elder with his own bible.
well after discussing the scriptures for about 2 hours, (subjects included: salvation, ransom, permission of evil, god's organization), she looked at me and said "amazing, i've never heard it explained quite that way before.".
the elder asked me what religious affiliations i had, i told him, "i am with the associated bible students.
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I always thought that the JWs called the Bible Students "Evil Slave." In fact back in 1983 I purchased several of Russell's books from the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement. Later I told this older sister, who was looking for Russell's books to complete her theocratic library, that Divine Plan of The Ages had been reprinted and that I had an extra copy if she wanted it. She accepted and when I gave the book to her, the first thing she asked was is this published by the "Evil Slave?" I fibbed and told her it was done by a republishing house and that she could compare it with the Watchtower edition that was in the congregation library. She accepted it and thanked me for the book.