Posts by Magwitch

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Could you eat breakfast after watching this at Bethel?

by Dogpatch in

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this is a partial video of the morning breakfast table in brooklyn bethel in the late 80s, with lyman swingle hosting... the governing body member who at first tried to shelter ray franz from disfellowshipping, but then within a year or two his spirit was broken and he was a bitter man.. randy (i was there and it was death-dealing, like the death eaters from harry potter!).

address of windows media file if you don't see anything:.

http://www.randytv.com/swinglebreakfast.wmv.

Magwitch

How awful to be talking about blowing your nose and using the toilet at the breakfast table.

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"I can live with doubt and uncertainty, and not knowing."

by leavingwt in

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richard feynman on god .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylteym9h0x4.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/richard_feynman.

Magwitch

Loved this statement....

I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong

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Watchtower and Pets a Picture

by Marvin Shilmer in

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watchtower and pets a picture.

watchtower and pets, an illustration that caused lots of heartache: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2011/07/watchtower-pets.html.

marvin shilmer.

Magwitch

Breakfast at my home X 3.

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Fred Rusk life experience Oct 15 WT

by dozy in

formerly prominent jw gives his life experience here.. he is mentioned a few times in franz's book & used to be a gilead instructor with ed dunlap , so clearly is aware of apostate issues.

his exceptionally rude letter on page 612 of "in search of christian freedom" to a man whose wife committed suicide betrays a lack of love & understanding for rank & file jws.. .

Magwitch

His exceptionally rude letter on page 612 of "In Search Of Christian Freedom

Dozy, can you post that letter? I would love to read it.

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I wish JW's would stay home when they are sick!

by life is to short in

as some of you know my husband got pneumonia on the way down to lake tahoe and wound up in the hospital.

we have not been around anyone that was sick nor did he seem to have a cold he just got pneumonia.

i had, had surgery for hernias amost three weeks ago but i doubt that gave him exposure to pneumonia.. well out of the blue while i was in tahoe a older sister called me and told me one of the elders had bronchitis really bad.

Magwitch

An assembly interview went something like this....

Speaker asking Elder: How is it that you and your family make it to every meeting?

Elder: We do not stay at home unless we are throwing up.

So all the times they are coughing, hacking, high fever and who is to say what else, they are in the front row!

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What was your experience of working at an assembly hall build?

by Heartofaboy in

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i volunteered to help out at an assembly hall build about an hour away from where i live.. i thought it would be an amazing experience & was looking forward to it very much.. when i went to reception i was asked if i had any trade skills, it was just about then i began to realise because i had no 'blue collar' trade skills i would be treated as a lesser person.........maybe even a slight nuisance.. as all the 'brothers' busily carried out their 'manly' tasks it became quite a discouraging experience because i found other 'unskilled' jw's guarded their jobs very closely & said they did not need any help.. if it was a place of christian joy i did not find.. .

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Magwitch

During the 70's and 80's when there was a KH built or a remodel, all the sisters felt they were the most qualified to be the Interior Decorator. Many good friendships were forever lost over the arguments of who was better qualified to choose the curtains, the plastic plants, shag carpet and of course the home made bible-themed quilt on the wall. It was a race to see who would be chosen to paint a mural of the paradise on the wall, which strangely always included children that strongly resembled their own brats.

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some more of my story THE PREQUEL

by hellenback in

my father became a witness in 1973 , so just before the 1975 thing.

my sister and i always say that the only reason he became a jw was because he's as tight as a knats chuff and didnt want to buy presents at birthdays or christmas.

i was 6 ys old and my sis was 7 my younger brother was 2 ys old .