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  Interested in seeing random papers, forms, and letters from Bethel?

  by daniel-p in

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  while sorting through old papers and files in my closet getting ready for a move, i came across a bunch of papers and forms from bethel.

  a lot of them are outlines and directions for the first few days and weeks while at bethel.

  in addition, there are some typed notes from the 2002 annual meeting (the kind you're not supposed to post in the interwebz), a few letters from the gb to bethelites (mostly telling us how to dress and so forth), and some other random junk.

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  witnessgirl

  I would definitely be interested!
  
  Before you go to the trouble of scanning "Defending and Legally Establishing the Good News" you might want to poke around some--I'm almost certain that I've seen it available somewhere. If nothing less, I know that the Marley Cole book is out there, and it contains an early draft of "Defending and Legally Establishing..." as an appendix.
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  DO GB MEMBERS AND BETHEL EMPLOYEES EVER GO ON HOLIDAY?

  by badboy in

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  any ideas?

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  witnessgirl

  There was more stuff about it in Spanish than English, but there was a big flap a few years ago when Milton Henschel and his wife went on vacation in Malta and stayed at a 5-star hotel even though there were over 500 publishers in Malta he could have stayed with. When people asked Uncle Miltie and his wife what they were doing, the anointed couple blew them off. Decent article in English (although it bungles the name of the hotel):
  http://www.freeminds.org/history/bonanno.htm
  
  Here is the hotel where they stayed:
  http://www.corinthiahotels.com/hotel.asp?h=10&l=1
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  Does "Drink the Kool-Aid" Lack Punch?

  by compound complex in

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  2. beliefs

  hey dudes and dudettes,.

  does the overuse of catchphrases make you want to throw something or someone under the bus?.

  i'm on the bubble about i just threw up a little in my .... my bad!

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  witnessgirl

  BTW, does anybody else remember the big piece that Awake! did on Jonestown shortly after the tragedy? It was better than their average quality articles. I still think that their best piece was their massive attack on the movie The Ten Commandments back when it came out in 1956, though. (I'm not old enough to have read this stuff when it was new, but have almost all the bound volumes. Awake! in the '50s was a lot more interesting.)
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  Post your Kingdom Hall Pics Thread

  by mavie in

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  cold north idaho.

  i served as a ministerial servant here for 3 years.

  not my car...but that *is* my ex-wife.

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  witnessgirl

  Okay, here's hoping I did this right. I may need to edit this post a few times.
  
  First cong: Largo West, Florida. Sorry about the quality; this is from a video from my phone:
  
  
  
  Information board:
  
  
  Second cong - I did something that I think you're not supposed to do and started going to a different hall in the same town. I liked the people a lot better, also the BOE was smaller. So here is Baypines Cong., FL (also from cell phone vid):
  
  
  
  Information board:
  
  
  Later,
  
  Heather.
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  Where does the governing body live?

  by tiffy0212 in

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  just wondering if those guys live at bethel or do they have some fancy hide away mansion?

  are any of them married?

  also would like to know if anyone out there has any pictures of the pyramids that some say are on the top of the watchtower building.

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  witnessgirl

  I read a really good piece of writing by a brother who had visited Bethel for a week to do some instruction in airbrushing to their graphic artists. He met a brother there who invited him up to his room, which really impressed the airbrush guy because it was so much bigger and more luxurious than any of the other rooms he had seen. Turned out that the Bethelite in question was (GB member) Leo Greenlees' lover and shared the room with him.
  
  Ray Franz's Crisis of Conscience has a pic of his room at Bethel. It was pretty nice.
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  Hey - is this a new web page at JW.org ????

  by 1914BS in

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  how do you log in to this??.

  http://www.jw.org/index.html?option=nryc&txthelp=downloads#login1.

  holy cow!!!.

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  witnessgirl

  I've been subscribed to the Watchtower, Awake!, and Study Watchtower podcasts for a few months now. I get them through iTunes, thus no risk of them coming bundled with spyware (they go straight from Brooklyn to my iPod without ever entering my computer). It almost makes up for not being able to subscribe to the physical magazines any more.
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  JW's and the Military

  by Evidently in

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  there would be no jehovah's witnesses were it not for the military forces of many countries around the world.

  however they smugly utilize the freedoms that military strength grants them to propagate the notion that no one should be in the military and all should remain neutral.

  if that were to happen today, we would all be members of a certain religion's more extremist side in the not to distant future.

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  witnessgirl

  In the extremely unlikely event that any JWs might be in the military, here is a shirt for them: http://www.pronto.com/mpm/Sweatshirt-Heather-Gray-Army-Jehovah-p_1010724056-PP
  
  My guess is that the seller did Army shirts proclaiming a bunch of different religions and didn't realize that members of some groups would never enlist.
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  I have a question for the elders/ex-elders

  by asilentone in

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  what would the elders do if they learned about a brother that went to the business expo at the local church?

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  Technically speaking, JWs aren't supposed to go to weddings and funerals that are in churches...even to the point that an appointed brother could lose his privileges for doing so.

  Check out page 31 of the Nov. 15 2007 Watchtower ... it is a conscience thing now. I can scan it if you don't have a copy.
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  Does "Drink the Kool-Aid" Lack Punch?

  by compound complex in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hey dudes and dudettes,.

  does the overuse of catchphrases make you want to throw something or someone under the bus?.

  i'm on the bubble about i just threw up a little in my .... my bad!

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  witnessgirl

  Hmm. There is an ad for Jim Jones ringtones on this page. How strange.
  
  Anyhow, I mostly wanted to mention that what the Jonestown people drank was Fla-Vor-Aide, not Kool-Aid. Although probably nobody would know what you were talking about if you said Fla-Vor-Aide.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor_Aid
  
  Fla-Vor-Aide is mostly a Latin American product. You could buy it in bodegas for about seven cents a packet, versus fifteen cents for Kool-Aide.
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  2008 Young People Ask Vol 2 (YPA V2) PDF, searchable, bookmarked

  by TJ - iAmCleared2Land in

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  i've got the book, starting the scan now!!

  will have it online in a bit.

  i have a manual (not sheetfed) scanner, so it's a manual process.

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  witnessgirl

  Wow; thanks so much--I've really been looking forward to this one!