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  Orange County NY friends, you there?

  by FMonroe in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my name is frieda.

  i grew up next door to the jehovah's witnesses kingdom hall in monroe ny, which is now the village of kiryas joel.

  i am doing research for a family history and i'm trying to get a picture of the kh before it was destroyed.

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  Bumping so someone in the are might see it. Sorry I am in another part of the US.
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  Upcoming Surgery and Blood

  by HeyThere in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i am a newly unbaptised publisher.

  recently i found out i need to have major surgery and the jw's tried to rush a blood card in my hand.

  i was so relieved when the elders said i could not have one until i was baptised.. but they rushed to get me copies of the blood videos.

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  I hope you heal quickly and are feeling stronger soon!
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  My Story

  by XJW4EVR in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was adopted into a jw family in southern california.

  my birth mother gave me up after 6 months (the terms mom & dad refer to my adoptive/real parents).

  she gave me up due to the fact that she already had a three year old boy, and back in the late sixties it was not as socially acceptable to be a single mother.

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  Lovely compelling story; if you are still around how are you doing these days?
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  Brooklyn Bethel in the 1940 census

  by dissonance_resolved in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  prompted by another post, i looked up 124 columbia heights in the 1940 census.

  a few interesting things: all occupants are listed as having the profession of "sell- religious books," except rutherford who is listed as an "editor.

  " odd that they aren't listed as ministers.. also, all the educational levels of the occupants were provided- many had not even graduated high school and some not even grammar school.

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  I understand you could become an attorney with on the job training and an exam. So several years working under a lawyer and some kind of certification. Correct me if I am wrong.
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  An Astonishing Gap In My Knowledge.

  by Englishman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  parents converted to dubdom 1954.. commenced door knocking 1956.. baptised yankee stadium assembly 1958.. running 3 bible studies 1965.. giving public talks in many different congregations 1966.. ministerial servant, 2 jobs, 1966.. disfellowshipped 1972.. learned, via friday on h20, that the faithful and discrete slave class is the term used for the 144, 000 on earth, 2002.. during my entire witness life, commencing in 1954, right though until 2002, a time span of 38 years, i had always thought that the faithful and discrete slave term applied to the watchtower bible and tract society.. either i wasn't a very good student who's heart was never in the ways of jw's, or i was just picking up the general gist of things, i have no idea.

  but, how could i have remained so uninformed and so undetected for all of those years?.

  weird.. did you ever get it wrong about anything?.

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  So the Englishman ran ahead of the brothers, new light has proved him right! Well technicly they are saying it is the governing body these days.
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  Some Light Chopin

  by Farkel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  legend has it that this waltz was inspired when chopin saw a cat chasing its tail.

  waltz in d-flat major opus 64 no.

  1 (minute waltz).

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  Bump!

  Does anyone have his music on their computer? Nothing available on Google as far as I can tell. I'd love to hear his work again I saved it on my old computer and it is no more.
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  Has Anybody Seen Any Good Movies Lately?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i'm thinking of going to a movie this week.

  i hear red dragon is good.

  any suggestions on a movie??

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  So I want to see a movie.... Tell me what you have seen lately, and if it was worth it.
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  Microphone "Handling"

  by SYN in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is all the fuss about?

  when i was still assimilated (i.e.

  still in the borg, but wanting out every second of that time), there was so much emphasis put on microphone handling that it was almost unreal.

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  I left long before there was more than one mic in the hall (on the podium) but thought that these stories need a new audience. Good stuff!
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  My turn for fluff

  by shera in

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  whats your favorite t.v show(s).

  heheh mine is buffy the vampire slayer and angel..lol yep i'm 32. in contrast i like touched by an angel as well.oh...aaaand i like watching the learning channel anything on science

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  Person of Interest, anything on the Science Channel, Big Bang Theory...
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  Is this new donation arrangement for real?

  by nugget in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.

  congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.

  congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.

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  I recall my dad speaking of a neighbor having someone from their church come to "help" them decide how much to pledge. This was in the 50's or 60's. I know this is not done now because it didn't work.

  Do you think an oldtimer will remember those days before they became a witness and make the connection?