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  JFK Assasination

  by Big Tex in

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  i am now a reformed conspiracy theorist.

  i have been wrong, i see it clearly now.. lee harvey oswald, acting alone, fired 3 bullets on november 22, 1963 wounding gov.

  connally and killing president kennedy.

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  Uh oh....I think Mary's opened it up....here we go!
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  Warren Schroeder from Bethel on Freddy, Kline and the apostate books!

  by Dogpatch in

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  Tom~

  Good story! Petrie's van was a classic! We would take it out to Fire Island back in 70's and watch all the Brooklyn girls wear high heels to the beach (that "disco look" was so big in Brooklyn then, everybody looked like they were in Saturday Night Fever).

  Some regulars in the van on meeting night were.....Harold Dies, Judy Martin, Mark Quazell (sp?), Rueben Barraza and his sister Anita, Peter Coconis, Buster Hicks (yes, that was his real name), Tim Smith, John Hill, John Shirey.

  The first time I ever got drunk was in that van!

  We were helping a guy in our cong. move named Nick Tramentano, with that van. We were drinking beer all day long, and after we finally get the last box in the house Nick puts out this bottle of Whiskey like he's going to toast his new house or something...well we all took a couple shots. The next thing I remember, i'm outside in the snow blowing chunks on the back of that van!

  Jim put me in the van and we headed back to bethel. This was on a Saturday night. The next thing I remember, I'm waking up in my bed on Sunday afternoon about 3pm and I haven't got a clue how or when I got there. BB
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  JFK Assasination

  by Big Tex in

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  i am now a reformed conspiracy theorist.

  i have been wrong, i see it clearly now.. lee harvey oswald, acting alone, fired 3 bullets on november 22, 1963 wounding gov.

  connally and killing president kennedy.

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  Tex~

  I agree with Hillbilly....

  However I just find it unbelievable that the President of the United States can be shot in public, in front of thousands of people, ON FILM, and decades later it's still considered a unsolved murder! Don't you think it's kinda' weird?
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  Warren Schroeder from Bethel on Freddy, Kline and the apostate books!

  by Dogpatch in

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  I was in Kings County Cong. with Harold Dies and Jim Petrie back in the 70's. We would take Peach's old chevy van to the meetings out in Bay Ridge Brooklyn (that's where they sent the cong. after it no longer met at the bethel hall) and he would get a buck from everybody who was riding along since that's what the round trip subway fare was back then, and nobody wanted to take the train if you could just hitch a ride. I swear that guy would pile as many bethelites as he could in that van and come away with some serious $$ for each meeting!

  Bob
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  Warren Schroeder from Bethel on Freddy, Kline and the apostate books!

  by Dogpatch in

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  Biff McFly~ (Love the handle)

  Who the heck are you???

  Trading some skiis for a pistol sounds familiar..... Yes, I'm Bob Gearhart!

  So Biff send me a PM and let me know who you are! Bob
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  Warren Schroeder from Bethel on Freddy, Kline and the apostate books!

  by Dogpatch in

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  Greg~

  Peter Coconis was raised a SoCal boy like me (by way of Kentucky) we came to bethel together and eventually roomed together. After I left Brooklyn, he married a girl from NJ. Then a few years went by and they got pregnant (they know what causes that now too!) so they headed to North Carolina where his family ended up waiting for the paradise to come. The last I heard, he was, what else, doing janitorial work.
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  Warren Schroeder from Bethel on Freddy, Kline and the apostate books!

  by Dogpatch in

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  I started out on 2/7 working on a Smyth sig stitcher back in 76', me and a guy named Dave Straud from Tennessee used to have production battles to see who could sew the most sigs in a day. Then I inspected books for about a year. Floor overseer was Dave Ersland. Other names on that floor were Phil Harding from PA, Richard Chambers who worked in cardcutting, and Dave Ashley who thought he was the best basketball player on the floor until I took him to the proverbial hoop one day!

  We played basketball down at the Squibb bldg. on most Wednesday nights, the floor of course was not wood but thick concrete and most of us paid for that later in life with bad knees, but whatever, the world was coming to an end anytime soon, right everybody?!

  Then I was assigned to the Ink Room on 1/5 and spent the rest of my days at bethel there working with guys like John Parham, Peter Coconis (best man at my wedding), Gilbert Cyriacs from Marysville, KS, and of course our floor overseer Norman Brekke.

  We would see alot of tours come through the Ink Room, most really thought it smelled bad, but we were so use to it. I remember one day a bucket of pastel blue ink fell from a top shelf right on my head.....it took weeks to get it all out. For those of you who worked the presses it was the color code 14P.

  Before I came to Brooklyn I worked at Mammoth Onyx Cave in Kentucky as a tour guide, so I was assigned once a week as a factory tour guide and got to meet many witnesses from around the world. Most were very friendly and just wanted to "know" somebody at bethel. So, many of the tours would offer to take the tour guides out to dinner or give tips, it was great!

  Many tours were made up of parents trying to marry off their daughters. I met many young beautiful pioneer girls this way. The only problem was, I was too stupid to know what was going on, really! Being a born-and-raised dub I was sooo naive! Gymbob
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  Warren Schroeder from Bethel on Freddy, Kline and the apostate books!

  by Dogpatch in

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  Hey everyone!

  I've been away for awhile but this thread is great and I just had to post something!

  First, Jim Petrie was a good friend, and we were in the same cong. in Brooklyn for 4+ years back in the mid-late 70's. I saw him several years ago at a DC in central Calif., didn't have too much time to speak but he looked good. He should be here now......

  Judy Martin was also in that same cong., a sweet, humble, prettier young single bethel sister you would not have found back then. Also in our Bay Ridge Cong. was another single bethel girl named Anita Berazza, she and Judy hung around together alot (safety in numbers!) she was also a sweetie but had a few more pounds than Judy and didn't get the same attention her way. Anita had a younger brother at bethel named Rueben (pressroom I think?), also in the same Bay Ridge Congregation in Brooklyn

  One of my favorite bethel stories involved the lunchtime softball games next to the factory...anyone here play on one of those teams? Back in the 70's almost every factory dept. had a softball team and we would skip lunch and play fastpitch softball on the blacktop baseball fields next to the factory bldgs. I played for the Ink room team, also Dispatch and also umpired a game or two a week (Hey, I liked softball!).

  Anyway, one game I was umpiring behind the plate and Dan Sydlik was pitching. Yes the GB Sydlik! He was a pretty good pitcher but let others bat for him, he wouldn't do any running.

  So the count is 3 balls and 1 strike, Dan's pitch comes in high and inside and I yell out, "ball 4, take your base!" About that time I get a look from Sydlik that to this day I will never forget! He looks at me and says (in that deep Jehovah drama voice)....."BROTHER??!!"

  What could I do? so without even hesitating I yell out, "STRIKE TWO!!" Made the batter mad as hell.... Gymbob
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  Why did Death not stop as soon as the RANSOM was paid?

  by jwfacts in

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  terry's recent thread about god's love made me start wondering the above question.

  normally a ransom is done as a swap, the payment is made on exchange.

  2000 years ago jesus made payment by dieing.

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  You can have whatever perspective you want, but it's still based on nothing but NOTHING....feelings....thoughts....wonders and HOPES!

  Ancient Jewish writings are not something to base your LIFE on. Bye!
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  VERY BAD NEWS...my son is going to Bethel............

  by oompa in

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  i can not describe the sadness of hearing him tell me, i asked him to think about what a great part time job he has, with free schooling.

  he says they will probably take him back.

  his abilities are suitable for closing down brooklyn, so at least he will be there (i love nyc).

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  Oompa,

  Both of us being former bethelites, I agree with New boy....it's probably the best thing you could hope for at this point (if he really wants to stay a JW that is).

  It's important to plant some seeds.....tell him that when he gets there he will see some things that are not suppose to be at bethel....drinking, girls, partying, etc.(Hey why did I leave exactly? Just kidding). So every time he sees stuff like that going on, he will be reminded of what YOU told him.

  I've seen ALOT of guys show up at bethel thinking that bethelites are nearly perfect and poop out little pink twinkies when they go....when he sees what the real bethel is like, his whole view of the organization will change....MAKE SURE HE HAS SOMEONE TO TURN TO AND TALK ABOUT THIS WITH. Gymbob