at the portland maine district convention that was held this past weekend, brother buck from brooklyn bethel gave the last talk on sunday.
in this talk he mentioned the "millions of people that have left" in the recent past.
he also mentioned them in the concluding prayer.
Brother Buck from Brooklyn Bethel gave the last talk on Sunday.
Sam Buck?? I am surprised he is alive yet. When I went to bethel in 70's he was my entrants school instructor and table head for awhile. Remember going to his room to see vacation slides which was a dry run for an Awake article that appeared shortly after. From a few things I recall he wasnt one to sugarcoat the realities of life.
which albums did you throw out after that landmark talk at an assembly round about the mid 80's?.
i got rid of:.
elo (widely regarded as having back tracking on one song).
I remember being shown several typed pages of groups/albums that didn't meet approval by a sister I was dating at the time. I laughed. A lot of the albums listed I had and roomates had while we were at Bethel years earlier. Especially all the Led Zepplin albums.
well, the guy hasn't contributed to awake for some years, but from what i understand, he died recently, and his wife too!
he had been in charge of awake!
magazines for decades!
I briefly lived next door to Harry and his wife while at Bethel. For the most part a nice couple. If I recall, Harry was in the Navy during WWII. He was on one of the first ships that had radar. One night they spotted a Japanese convey, the first salvo was a direct hit. One of his other neighbors used to play their stereo to loud, evil rock music, and the excessive bass would set him off. Apparent flashbacks to those big guns from the ship he served on.
and asked do you accept the faithful and distreet slave as jehovahs channel on earth (or something similar to that) what would you say/do?.
i would laugh my ass off and slam the door in their face.
this really happened to a friend of mine a long time ago.
Funny... I got asked that same question at Bethel
...gave the "correct' response
.....then was told to leave
go figure...
As if they didn't have enough items already......
i think so.
very few couples got divorced, even after they were caught with another person.i know that most that got df'd for straying still didn't get divorced----they tried to work it out.
have you seen this too?
I've known a number of couples in various congregations that should not be married, they should get divorced and move on. But they will not so they remain miserable and struggle to put on a front. When I was at Bethel I knew 3 couples that got divorced, two of these, husband of couple X ran off with wife of couple Y. At the table across from me there was a recently married couple. One morning at breakfast i noticed that one eye was a lot darker than the other eye--the husband was known to be a bit short tempered.
mine was when my mom signed me up to sit at a table at our local university.
we had to sit there and talk to students as they passed by our table.
a few people came up to start a conversation and i didn't even know what they were talking about.
I know of a similiar story where a guy(jw) got picked on in school quite a bit. He was not small or weak but a turn the cheek kind of brother until one day he had enough. By the time he was done kicking his tormentors ass he left the school via ambulance with a broken arm, numerous broken ribs and a fractured skull.
was it being able to join the theocratic ministry school?
being a regular pioneer?
"handling microphones"?
Pioneering(hated), Bethel(fired), TMS talks, Service Parts, Public talk, Book Study Conductor, Sound/mic, Accounts, Territory, etc
did the watchtower society ban jw's from owning handguns for self defence?.
if they did, when did they issue the ban?.
didn't some of jesus's apostles carry a sword when the group traveled, to protect agains wild animals and human thieves?
I knew quite a few JW's who owned guns for hunting and target practice. I knew an elder who had a shooting range in his back yard. As mentioned by a few, I knew of some congregations in midwest that would be nearly empty of brothers during deer season. In some cases this was how some put food on the table for brothers that had seasonal jobs and money was tight. I know of one time after a Sunday meeting a brother goes out to his car, spots a deer in a nearby field. Pulls his rifle out of his vehicle and drops the deer from the parking lot.
which is the 1st exjw site you posted on?.
i didnt get on until 1999 and posted on randys wt world and h20 occasionally.
also larry ingmans chat.... any of you used to post or chat there?
I signed up for Internet access through Compuserve in 1988 and been addicted ever since. How things have changed since then.
my son made a point to tell me that they had what was to him a very interesting, different talk on the service meeting this week.
the presiding overseer gave a talk on the society's changed view of getting a college education.. he used the scripture which admonishes the reader to "acquire a heart of wisdom" and applied it to getting a 4 year college education for the sake of being able to support oneself at double the rate of pay with one's degree upon graduation.
this of course is only for the purpose of being able to then pioneer, only having to work a few days a week, thereby having the time for the field ministry.. such an annoying change - finally!
Higher education was never looked down upon in the congregation I attended. Most of the elders and MS's had college degrees. The PO had a Phd and was a professor at the University. This was in the early 1980's.
