Thank you for posting. I met Don in '69 at Bethel, visiting my brother for a week. He was the table head of my brother then. My brother made an arrangement for me to work with his fun housekeeper there for a week. I was a pioneer for 5 years then. I was happy I could count the time as a fun easy thing at the time. One day Don asked if I was considering coming to Bethel. I was surprised as I had never considered that, didn't know any single girls called in, except for my brother's housekeeper. Don and his wife (Dee) were very pleasant. Later, (as I was at Bethel 5 years) I met Don's brothers, Karl and Joel. They too were humble and pleasant.
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31Don Adams has passed away
by RubaDub ini received a call from a friend in new york city that don adams passed away late last evening (30 dec 2019).
many of you bethelites know him and he was the president of the society for a number of years after the gb got out of the corporate structure business.
from what i understand, he was generally liked by many there.. some in my family knew him.
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"Get Over It!"
by The Bethelite inthis is what my children tell me... get over the whole jehovah's witness thing!
yes, they tell me they have gotten over the whole thing and they tell me that and i need to also.
my exgirl friend who was raised as a jw also has said the same thing.. my children say they got over it, however they are quick to point out how messed up their lives are now because of no college education and other missed opportunities.
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Gayle
If someone stole from you, say maybe $1000, you get over it. If someone made you make a jump and you fell and got a broken arm, you get over it. However, if a thief stole your (and uncountable others) house and life savings and this person is responsible for the death of uncountable lives AND yet this thief unfazed runs freely throughout the world to continue with their fraud and cost of uncountable lives, I will not get over it!
However, we must try, to develop ourselves with positives for our health, and a joy to share with our loved ones. I, too, have had to make an effort to not discuss anything about this "thief" with a family member who was once a JW.
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New HuB logo
by MrHappy inso the organisation has developed a new software for the coordination of nearly everything!
i just want point out a few things i notice about the new hub icon logo.
the image contains twelve pillars with the 2 at the front being the prominent.
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Gayle
A question on this HuB, notice at timing of 6:10 ,,show how many congs. in Aruba, Canada, and U.S. ??? Shows extremely 'low' count of congs on their screen, quite low compared to formerly 'printed' stats on 2018 service yearbook. ???
(is this just reports updating as they come in- sort of 'depending on timing' thing? - )
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IS the bOrg running out of blokes to serve(tm)?
by punkofnice infrom the silly website today..... thursday, august 15god .
energizes you, giving you both the desire and the power to act.—phil.
2:13.courageous men who are willing to take on more responsibility are a blessing to a congregation.
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Gayle
Seems they may be running out of any existing "partakers" that can even replace their existing GBs as they age, and lack any impressive speaking 'television' projection ability, and sanity. Though their "remnant" numbers may be increasing, any impressive "remnant" doesn't exist. I wonder if a modern day "Rutherford" (person or group) will step up and try to take over!
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Indian Branch Office Sold!
by Eliseo infrom a whistleblower on reddit: https://testimonidigeovaconsapevoli.blogspot.com/2019/07/le-gole-profonde-ci-passano-questa.html.
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Gayle
google translate:
Deep throats pass us this tip.
Yesterday a letter would be read to the Bethel family in India.
Waiting for the letter, the information given was as follows:
It will no longer print in India (the literature will come directly from Selters, in Germany)
The contributions made for that purpose will be used for the construction and maintenance of Kingdom Halls
Part of the contributions had already been used to buy the four-story residential complex that was needed for the India Branch
The complex will be rented
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Jehovah's Witnesses Caught Showing Illegal Kids' Movies in Sweden - Russian paper quoting Sweden paper
by Gayle inhttps://sputniknews.com/europe/201907251076353864-jehovahs-witnesses-caught-showing-illegal-kids-movies-in-sweden/.
using phrase " jehovah's witnesses admittedly run a multi-million dollar film industry.. interesting, since wt was a multi-million 'printing' industry for decades.
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Gayle
using phrase " Jehovah's Witnesses admittedly run a multi-million dollar film industry.
Interesting, since WT was a multi-million 'printing' industry for decades.
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What is the longest distance you drove to attend a summer Convention?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inhere is a photo of the milwaukee brewers ( american baseball team) county stadium.
for some reason, we were assigned this outdoor stadium for our 1975 four-day summer convention.
our congregation was located 90 miles away on the north side of chicago.. some congregation members stayed at milwaukee hotels for the four-day convention.
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Gayle
'58 to Yankee Stadium from California. Nobody I knew had a/c then (that started I guess in a Cadillac out that year). Stayed on a ship from Europe docked for the week that brought over European JWs who had hotels to stay. On ship, in lower decks the air ventilation wasn't very good on it, especially first day.
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2019--June--8--Weekend Meeting--Video--WTBTS-PA
by Atlantis inwatchtower bible and tract society of pa.. weekend meeting-june--8th--2019 speaker announced song at 4 minutes 30 seconds: public talk--is the trinity a scriptural teaching?at 31 minutes 12 seconds--the holy spirit is described as a finger and not on the same plain as jesus and his father.. at 34 minutes 20 seconds--jesus is superior to the holy spirit and jehovah is superior to both.at 35 minutes 20 seconds--public talk ends.. at 35 minutes 40 seconds--song.at 38 minutes 43 seconds--watchtower study.https://we.tl/t-idbbuwjlzi atlantis!
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Gayle
What?!!! The holy spirit is like Jehovah's "finger"?, and Jehovah is giving his "finger" to all his people!!! Woop-de-doo!! (Can't resist!)
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"Educated" a memoir by Tara Westover
by Gayle ini recommend this book by a gal raised mormon.
but her father was more offshoot, more anti-government, anti-medicine, anti-institutional education ( list goes on) .
she never was in classroom till 17 years old.
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Gayle
I recommend this book by a gal raised Mormon. but her father was more offshoot, more anti-government, anti-medicine, anti-institutional education ( list goes on) . She never was in classroom till 17 years old. She went to BYU and Cambridge, awarded PhD.
Parts of her experiences, most exJWs raised in will relate.
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Gayle
Spiraling stats since last year. Greece 2018 peak pubs decreased 1.8%, decreased also in ratio pubs per population, decreased pioneers 3.4%, congs. decreased 3%.
No wonder the org not gonna publish much of their numbers anymore!!