The GB already have all the power in the organization.
It doesn't matter to them if 4,000 or 24,000 individuals partake.
They can allow 144,000 to become figurative and still make no organizational adjustments whatsoever.
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How the new "generation" study went down in the meeting today
by slimboyfat ini made a big effort to get to the watchtower study today.
i have not been to the meetings much for months, but i figured this was a pretty historic "study" and i wanted to see reactions and how it would go down locally.
well a few things struck me as a bit odd in the study itself, and in the audience response as well.
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Interested in seeing random papers, forms, and letters from Bethel?
by daniel-p inwhile sorting through old papers and files in my closet getting ready for a move, i came across a bunch of papers and forms from bethel.
a lot of them are outlines and directions for the first few days and weeks while at bethel.
in addition, there are some typed notes from the 2002 annual meeting (the kind you're not supposed to post in the interwebz), a few letters from the gb to bethelites (mostly telling us how to dress and so forth), and some other random junk.
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TheListener
I believe I even have my old phone bills. I'd have to black out some numbers but it could be a good thing to have online somewhere.
I'll spend some time over the next several days looking over my crap and see what's postable.
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Interested in seeing random papers, forms, and letters from Bethel?
by daniel-p inwhile sorting through old papers and files in my closet getting ready for a move, i came across a bunch of papers and forms from bethel.
a lot of them are outlines and directions for the first few days and weeks while at bethel.
in addition, there are some typed notes from the 2002 annual meeting (the kind you're not supposed to post in the interwebz), a few letters from the gb to bethelites (mostly telling us how to dress and so forth), and some other random junk.
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TheListener
I believe I have a lot of my old forms as well.
Stuff like dish duty assignments, night watchman stuff, even a couple copies of Dwelling Together in Unity, the pre and post 1990 versions. I even saved my old bethel phone directory - it's hopelessly out of date by now. I also have some GB letters to bethelites
I'll think about blacking some stuff out and scanning it as well.
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Warren Schroeder from Bethel on Freddy, Kline and the apostate books!
by Dogpatch inhaving problem pasting this...
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TheListener
This is one of the single best threads I have ever read and participated in.
I will suffer no guilt for reminiscing with others about our shared history.
I have read each page of the thread and have seen no posters make light of how much importance brothers and sisters out in the congregations placed upon Bethel and how that did affect the lives of millions. It is certainly disgusting that the WTS directs individuals lives to such a high degree. But, that doesn't preclude those who have escaped the machine from reliving shared experiences.
The simple fact is these things happened, and by retelling these true tales the mystique that Bethel is a spiritually magical place can be exposed as a falsehood.
For any of us who grew up with Witness parents who thought beating the crap out of us was scripturally acceptable or who cajoled us into joining the school at very young ages and guilted us into being different at school over the holiday issues and used our family vacations to visit bethel and work where the need was greater and used any available extra money to grease the palms of bethel heavies this thread can be as liberating as it can be enlightening and frightening.
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TheListener
Oh yeah, Bethelites are always finding deals on airfare and such. Plus friends from their congregations will offer to fly them out or at least help them out so they can do an extended trip to attend their home congregations District Convention.
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TheListener
I went on vacations as often as I could. Officially you get one day off for each calendar month you work (12 days in a year). But, you usually seem to find more time off than that. I always did.
Lots of times we would do an all night weekend driving trip. Leaving just after work on Friday and returning in time for work on Monday morning. Yes, we weren't too productive on that Monday. You can't do that all the time because you only get one Saturday a month off if you're a brother.
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Warren Schroeder from Bethel on Freddy, Kline and the apostate books!
by Dogpatch inhaving problem pasting this...
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TheListener
Tom,
Can you provide some stories on what being friends with Sydlik was like?
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Warren Schroeder from Bethel on Freddy, Kline and the apostate books!
by Dogpatch inhaving problem pasting this...
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TheListener
Can anyone provide an update on Tim Pappas?
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Why JW's don't vote. (found on msn.com)
by Mulan inhttp://www.slate.com/id/2194321/>1=39001.
just turned on my internet, and this was on the front page..
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TheListener
Exactly Mulan. My first thought when reading the article was how bad an example the Williams' are for the witnesses. Did you ever see their reality show? Oh man that was really bad. If they're not marked I would simply be amazed.
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Apparently I don't love my family
by JimmyPage inbecause i didn't go out in service today the wife tells me i don't love our family.
she's only going because she has no time in this month.
so off she goes into the rain.
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TheListener
Hang in there.
Tell her that your love for your family is evident in the fact that she has the necessary things to go in service (like a car, gas, nice clothing, etc) and the freedom to spend the family's money on her cause.