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  When Our Calendars Were Something Else

  by compound complex in

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  remember this?

  it was one of my first assignments, at bethel:.

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  Diogenesister:

  Compound Where else have I seen that picture it is so familiar. Not on a calendar wasn't around in those days CC

  The thought I recall -- legit or not -- was the woman descending into the water was supposedly Damaris; the man baptized, Dionysius; the baptizer, the Apostle Paul.

  The image very well could have been used in any one, or several, of the publications. I believe the calendar is circa '70/'71, remembering back to when I worked in the hand bindery.

  Damaris was a convert of Paul; the hill in the background is Mars Hill.
  
  
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  Observations from an Ex-Elder Part 2 - Cart Work

  by doubtfull1799 in

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  up until i left recently i was participating in the cart work.

  in the location where we used to set up near our local mall we never had one person stop and take literature or stop and chat - other than fellow brothers.

  i thought maybe it was just a bad location or something.

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  When out in the ministry, decades ago, and we had no apparent success, we comforted ourselves with "At least we got to say Jehovah's name!"

  We just knew that someday those uncooperative householders would finally have that "Aha!" moment. Of course, by then it was too late.
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  When Our Calendars Were Something Else

  by compound complex in

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  remember this?

  it was one of my first assignments, at bethel:.

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  Lostandfound:

  Did you come across Alan Boyle, in the Art department?

  I was in Brokklyn, late '60s/early '70s and was not in the Art Dept., per se, although I applied. The name, Alan Boyle, is not familiar to me, but it never hurts to ask!

  THANKS!
  
  
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  When Our Calendars Were Something Else

  by compound complex in

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  it was one of my first assignments, at bethel:.

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  Thanks, Phizzy and kpop, for your replies. I can relate.

  I have the actual calendar pictures of both the above and that of the Christians fleeing Jerusalem. If memory serves, the artist was Sister Mann, and the original oils were on display at Brooklyn Bethel.

  My job was quality control. Often, the images were "off register," i.e., the three colors and black were misaligned and the picture was distorted.

  Those were tossed . . .
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  When Our Calendars Were Something Else

  by compound complex in

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  remember this?

  it was one of my first assignments, at bethel:.

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  compound complex

  Remember this? It was one of my first assignments, at Bethel:

  
  
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  More evidence beards are being eased in . . .

  by neat blue dog in

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  the june 2017 watchtower tells the experience of a bible student who was homeless and unkempt, but improved his appearance after being preached to.. peter began to change.

  he bathed, neatlytrimmed his beard, and put on the betterclothes that don offered him.

  peter continued to maintain a clean appearance.. so here we see that with a neatly trimmed beard the watchtower's writers view him as having "a clean appearance".

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  Hard to believe, but the blackguard in the previous post was asked to comment at meetings, looking just as you see him. And comment he did. Well, of course, he was nattily attired in requisite suit and cravat.
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  More evidence beards are being eased in . . .

  by neat blue dog in

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  the june 2017 watchtower tells the experience of a bible student who was homeless and unkempt, but improved his appearance after being preached to.. peter began to change.

  he bathed, neatlytrimmed his beard, and put on the betterclothes that don offered him.

  peter continued to maintain a clean appearance.. so here we see that with a neatly trimmed beard the watchtower's writers view him as having "a clean appearance".

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  I Saw 2 JWs Doing Nothing With Their Cart Today

  by minimus in

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  my girlfriend and i were walking along a seaside boulevard and lo and behold!

  2 jws were standing by the pathway.

  they made eye contact and said hello.

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  Maybe it was youth and enthusiasm on our side back in the '60s. We tore up the streets in town and the roads in the rurals with our full days in service. And we were thin and healthy.

  I can't see the benefits -- physical or spiritual -- to sitting all day and not honing your craft. Sure, the beliefs have always been crazy, but, back then, there was some measure of dignity and seriousness to the message. We were kids, but THE TRUTH was our everything.

  What a difference five decades makes.
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  More evidence beards are being eased in . . .

  by neat blue dog in

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  the june 2017 watchtower tells the experience of a bible student who was homeless and unkempt, but improved his appearance after being preached to.. peter began to change.

  he bathed, neatlytrimmed his beard, and put on the betterclothes that don offered him.

  peter continued to maintain a clean appearance.. so here we see that with a neatly trimmed beard the watchtower's writers view him as having "a clean appearance".

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  zeb:

  Yes, your point is well taken re little JW kids, although I was Episcopalian then.

  There's got to be something there to work with . . .

  
  
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  Sister at Kingdom Hall visibly upset "they took jehovahs name out of song"

  by hoser in

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  i went to meeting today and the sister in front of me was upset song 134 now song 139 no longer contains jehovahs name.

  they took it out.

  i never even noticed .

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  1) “We thank you, our God, for all you have done."

  
  2) “Jehovah our God, how well you have done!"

  
  

  Regarding the rhythmic flow of words in a sequence, my opinion is that the revised version (#1) is a marked improvement. However important the retention of "Jehovah" might be to dear true believers, the lyrics here -- and elsewhere in Kingdom Melodies -- are clunky and cause my ears to bleed.

  It's claimed that scriptural correctness, as continually touted by JWs, is of utmost importance. Couldn't they clandestinely hire an apostate poet and an apostate composer, paying them adequately, to come up with truly beautiful lyrics and tunes?

  Money talks . . .