Jacksonville FL? Ar.?
mann377
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Jacksonville Ar Congregation 1980s and 1990s
by eyewitness inhello.
i grew up in jacksonville and wanted to find out if there is anyone here from there.
would love to chat and catch up.
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MY Bethel Experience Part 17
by new boy inmore "odds and ends".
i liked lyman swingle (governing body member)......he was from alabama, he knew how to curse at the right time.
i think, that’s why i went to him, when i was having so much trouble with my future wife’s parents.
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mann377
Old"Lady Margret." once said to me: I'll rip your face off with a rusty trash can lid !!!!!! -
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My Bethel Experience Part 4
by new boy inblack thursday september 1972. .
knorr gathered all the bethel "heavies" and gb to the kh in the 119 building.
the three freds (circuit overseers) and about 50 brothers.....thats right only 50. the other guys chickened out, they knew it was going to be a blood bath.
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mann377
So how did you end up in the press room? The press room was much better in that you had a lot more freedom, if you were an operator. -
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My Bethel Experience Part 3
by new boy indon't get me wrong...........there was no one more self righteous, than me at 19. i moved to kansas at 18 to pioneer and even printed up cards that said............ .
"have sword, will travel"---------contact casarona salina kansas------ aaa which of course meant available after armageddon..
oh, i was full of myself!
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mann377
Sparky1......I also knew Phil Wilcox and had a lot of respect for him. He was in my opinion one of the FEW balanced individuals in position of responsibility. PS...I remember when he lost his finger to an accident in the press room. He would ask me to help him when working on his car. He gave a special talk at the assembly hall a few years back and this is one of few (or should I say rare) times I went. Only to see him again and talk old times.
Ed Kostacheck......What a piece of work. I understand he and his wife left Bethel (asked to leave) many years ago. I asked why or what happened and the only responce I got was "he died". He was not dead so I interpeted it to mean he was apostate?
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My Bethel Experience Part 3
by new boy indon't get me wrong...........there was no one more self righteous, than me at 19. i moved to kansas at 18 to pioneer and even printed up cards that said............ .
"have sword, will travel"---------contact casarona salina kansas------ aaa which of course meant available after armageddon..
oh, i was full of myself!
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mann377
OK New Boy, do you remember Virgil Stutts? He was a press operator on Hoe Row.
How about Norman Dignard of the make ready crew?
George Escobar on the Cotrell?
Joel Young? He was my first room mate.
Ed Kostacheck? Magazine press
I knew Fred Barnes. I dated Francis Philman and would double with Fred and his wife.
Reading your post brings back a lot of memories
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Chapter 1 My Bethel Experience First Posted 9 Years Ago A Walk Down Memory Lane
by new boy inpart 1. i when to bethel march 21,1970. at the time you had to be a pioneer for two years to apply, by the time i left in 1974 they were calling people in who had never pioneered..........average stay was 5 months (they had signed up for 4 years)..........the reason they left was......well, it was hell.. one of the reasons was, knorr hated bethelites, but he loved the gilead students and why?
because when they screwed up they were thousands of miles away!........just before i got there, they had kicked out over 30!
homosexuals (at one time) ....the would kick out 1-2 bethelites a week.
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mann377
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Chapter 1 My Bethel Experience First Posted 9 Years Ago A Walk Down Memory Lane
by new boy inpart 1. i when to bethel march 21,1970. at the time you had to be a pioneer for two years to apply, by the time i left in 1974 they were calling people in who had never pioneered..........average stay was 5 months (they had signed up for 4 years)..........the reason they left was......well, it was hell.. one of the reasons was, knorr hated bethelites, but he loved the gilead students and why?
because when they screwed up they were thousands of miles away!........just before i got there, they had kicked out over 30!
homosexuals (at one time) ....the would kick out 1-2 bethelites a week.
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mann377
Just one correction New Boy: The press room was hotter !!! We had to keep the presses hot for the machines to run correctly. Plus the ink and paper dust mixed in. I was at Brooklyn Bethel 72-73 and the Farm 73-76. You might have met me...Ricky Righteous. Ha Ha. Do you remeber the rant Knorr went on about bicyles? Someone left their bike in the lobby of the 117 building.
I once saved the life of sister Dechecka. I was in the lower dining room and she sat next to me. Some holier than thou km student prayed for about 20 minutes. She past out and landed in a bowel of cheerios with milk. I grabed her by the hair and pulled her to safety!
Another time in the press room (building 1) there was a brother, fellow press operator who wore overalls that were threadbare, had the press grab his clothing and rip it off. He did not wear underwear. The only thing he was wearing was his shoes! A tour was going by at the time. I grabed some of the paper cut offs to cover him. I always wondered what the tour group talked about when they got back to the congo.
I was suprised by the amount of extramarital affairs brothers and sisters would have. On a few occasions I found couples making out in the house keepers closet, yikes. There was a high profile one of a brother in dispatch running off with a gilead student. New Boy, do you remember who that was? The problem was the fact that many of the young couples were from small town USA and now they found themselves working close with some charming good looking brother/sister.
My room mate was gay, Joel Reed, I was not but he and I got along ok, he went his way and I went my way. The press operator that I was an assistant operator was very gay. Press #2 He died of AIDES two years after leaving.
New Boy I can relate to your experience and probably met you when I was there.
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No-See-ums bug bites, have you experienced these little pest?
by James Mixon inthe wife and i here lately have received little unknown bug bites, on our legs and arms.. so today in my senior class the instructor ask if anyone received any unknown bug bite.. there were 75% that raised there hand and everyone ask, what the hell is it.. these insects are ferocious biters.
they don't spread any diseases, but they will keep you indoors.. they are called valley blacks gnats, they feed on blood.
in my research i found they are active in.
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mann377
Try Avon Skin So Soft. I fish a lot and have tried this. It seems to work. I think Avon came out with one spec. for bug bites. -
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50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" -- WHAT???
by Marvin Shilmer intake a look at the linked ap photograph and tell me what you think:.
- miss black u.s., miss black georgia and miss black teen .
what would the likes of al sharpton say if the hallowed event this weekend at the edmund pettus bridge in selma, alabama had been attended by a miss white u.s., miss white georgia and miss white teen?
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mann377
I find this discussion interesting. The one fact that most people miss when talking about other groups is it is not about race but about culture. It is a cultural thing and not a race thing. The news papers don't want you to know this. They like the WTBS only tell you what they want you to know.
As far as the cultural thing what is interesting is how the blacks want inclusion into the white culture yet want an exclusion for them to have a separate standard that is accepted by all. What has been mentioned here is an example of this. Add to the fact that they have BET, NAACP, Affirmative Action to set aside jobs/education just for them yet scream when they are excluded from anything. This actually works against them (their culture) in the long run. An example is the education. It has been 50-40 years since integration of the schools, yet the drop out rate and standard is worse than when schools were segregated. True it has helped a few and I am glad of it but the big picture is that the programs designed for them have hurt and polarized them from other groups (white, Asian etc). Why would you want to polarize yourself from the people you want to have inclusion to?
One other thing that I can not figure out is if you call a black person COLORED they get mad, yet they are proud of being a member of the NAAC(colored)P???????
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JW death at Palm Coast
by mann377 inhttp://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20150305/news/150309702/1045/articles?title=man-found-dead-at-jehovah-x2019-s-witness-facility-in-palm-coast.
this is not a good start for the wtbts.
here.
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mann377
This is not a good start for the WTBTS. here.