Posts by sir82

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Confession Time - Music You're Embarrassed to Admit Listening To

by Simon in

jw
friends

admit it, we all have things that we reel off when people ask what our favourite music is, just the same as if people ask what our favourite movies are.

we're meant to say "citizen kane" and "casablanca" and not "battleship" or "pacific rim" but we know what we're going to watch if they are ever on tv at the same time (and which ones we've never actually seen).. so how about some confession time?

what do you listen to when no one else is in the house?.

sir82

Roger Whittaker

Marty Robbins

Pretty much anything that was ever on the US TV show "Hee Haw"

Basically, anything my parents listened to when I was a kid, which made me roll my eyes. Now, 40+ years later, it brings up powerful feelings of nostalgia.

I don't think I particularly "like" it now, per se, but to hear things that you used to hear 20 million times a week 40 years ago, that you haven't heard for 30-40 years, kind of brings back the whole experience of being a kid again, at least for the 3-4 minutes the song lasts. It's a bit of a rush.

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Where are the funds going to come from? Warwick Expansion

by HiddenPimo in

so with the news that they are remodeling patterson and expanding warwick, where are the funds going to come from?.

could this be a ruse like the need for thousands of kingdom halls proclaimed a few years back only to be replaced with the we realized the halls were not at capacity and the great sell-off began?.

maybe the hope is going to be that the sheep will give give give and then all of the sudden, after prayerful consideration the gb have determined that the current resources are sufficient to create the needed media and content.. my bet is that in 10 years it will all be consolidated to warwick and walkill and patterson will be sold to who i have no idea, but they own a ton of property in upstate ny..

sir82

If we assume that WT has a billion in investable assets, (they have much more in total assets), and we assume
a realistic average return of 5% (they DO invest) that means they get at least $5 million in earned interest
every year

1,000,000,000 X 0.05 = $50 million per year

And if you've got $1 billion, and you're only getting 5%, it's time to look for a new investment manager.

21

New building

by asp59 in

you think the new building addition to warwick ,that will house 1000 audiovisual and art production volunteers is a push to go online with the meetings?

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sir82

Meetings and assemblies serve only one purpose that is to keep the rank and file in line.

Two purposes.

You forgot, that's where the contribution boxes are.

Old timers prefer dropping physical money in a slot, vs. contributing online. And old timers are pretty much the only ones who contribute nowadays.

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1975 and 1981?

by Steel in

is it true that in 1975 the watchtower falsely predicted the end of the world and a great number of the membership quit and just a few years later they turned disassociation into disfellowshipping?

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sir82

Yes on all counts.

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Removing Mr. Trump from office.....

by mikeflood in

former fbi deputy director mccabe confirms: there were discussions within the department of justice about invoking 25 th amendment to remove trump from office.... .

i mean the us democracy isn't a third world country, a least the people involved should be reprimanded, they acted like trying a coup d'etat..

sir82

I remember this! Back when the silver bullet was Cohen.

All in due time

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/08/politics/michael-cohen-new-york-interview/index.html

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Thirty years a tower slave

by rickroll in

i was with my brother in law when we were in service and given this book.

i have posted on this before but it got me to thinking.

it was taken from us by the local elder we talk to about it.

sir82

There's tons of reviews of it on Amazon - that should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=thirty+years+a+watchtower+slave&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

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Our Spiritual Heritage of Failed Expectations

by neat blue dog in

last sunday's watchtower tells the story of a man who:.

was baptized in 1908 at the age of 20. he was very confident that he would soon receive his reward.

in fact, when he proposed marriage in 1911, he told his prospective bride, pearl: “you know what is going to happen in 1914. if we are going to get married, we better do it soon!” did this christian couple give up the race for life when they did not receive their heavenly reward in 1914?

sir82

What Half Banana said.

It's really quite sad - I'm on the far end of middle age, and I think of all the JW adults that I knew as a kid, hundreds of them, all believing they would literally "never grow old".

Now, they're all dead, or dying, or suffering from dementia. It's probably worse for the handful still mentally aware - imagine that you literally believed you'd never grow old - and here you are, 80 or 90, broken body, pain, grief, knowing you've got at most a year or 2 of misery & pain left before you too die....

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U.S. Supreme Court Denies Watchtower’s Certiorari Plea

by Jerome56 in

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/19-40.html.

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sir82

Another anti-WT precedent.

Betcha this one doesn't make "Proclaimers Vol. 2".

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With these 2 long term building projects will it FINALLY wake up some jdub's?

by nowwhat? in

with the ramped up rhetoric the last few years many were totally convinced the end would be here by 2019-20 .

and instead of making due, the org.

has burdened the brothers once again to donate and volunteer for the new and improved patterson and video production center to be completed by 2026!

sir82

Not too far from 40 years for me....

Oh, and not only was I not supposed to graduate from high school, I wasn't ever supposed to finish elementary school (1975 & all).

Sir82 of the "old codger" class.

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Mercury, (the Messanger) on Monday.

by waton in

in 5 weeks, it will be monday the 11 st of november, armistice day.

during the ceremonies around 11 o'clock, am, there will be a transit of mercury in progress., a mini eclipse.

a sign in the sky for war- or peace makers.

sir82

Yeah, I don't think even "eclipse glasses" would be of much help if you try to watch the "Mercury Eclipse".