Posts by oppostate

do any of you recall seeing a photograph in one of the society's publications of fred franz where he is giving a public talk at an assembly and has his left arm stretched out and on his left hand is a masonic ring.

it may have been in one of the special international assembly brochures.. with this great group of sleuths i thought some may have come across it..

oppostate

this photo from 1958 doesn't quite fit the description above

but it does show him wearing some rings.

http://www.centralprint.net/jwtalks/DC/1958.HTM

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When Did You Stop Saying Amen

by BroMac in

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for prayers from the platform.. i've "said my own" for a few years now if i find i cant agree with what the brother is praying about.

i'm constantly amazed by the same old repetitive ramblings and just nonsense that some brothers feel is an acceptable way to pray for a congregation.. once i've finished saying my own i'll listen again to what they are going on about, and round and round they go.

the worse ones are those who can hardly speak english and i cant understand a word thats said apart from the "...feffull slive... bless bruders sis not here..." blah blah.. and everyone has gone through the public talk prayer.

oppostate

I stopped saying Amen to prayers at the KH when just about every brother who came back from the Patterson's Schools, or sat through the latest CO talks seemed to always remember to mention the Governing Body in the prayers. It's almost spooky how mentally washed some expressions sound after waking up and seeing the WTS for what it really is, a high control religious group that doesn't much care about the individuals it draws it's own livelihood from.

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Land SELL-OFF DREAMING BIG

by Refriedtruth in

jehovah's witnesses' land sell-off has brooklyn dreaming bigcrain's new york business - amanda fung-1 hour ago.

at stake are 34 mint-condition properties in brooklyn heights and dumbo that the jehovah's witnesses spent decades accumulating and now are considering ...it's always has been about the money...they talk about pristine real estate and the excellent pool of skilled craftsmen/women .

hey what about the paradise for my family 4 generations that slaved?.

oppostate

"—and is worth well over $1 billion."

Wow! That's an awful lot of profitting for a non-profit organization.

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Celebrating Ignorance

by breakfast of champions in

ughhh!!!!

our recent circuit assy really cranked up the anti-education rhetoric.

in the experiences portion, the do and his wife were interviewed.

oppostate

How true, BoC!

With the language of the WT and G getting more and more watered down to Simple English it reminds me of the book 1984 where through the simplification of English the thoughts that the people could express were simplified to the point where nothing could be said against the government. Eventually even thinking against was considered a "thought crime" and a form of mental disease. They're after people's thoughts, so as to make them work for them willingly and without too much trouble.

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Original Carl Oof Johnsson Correspondence with Governing Body

by besty in

there was a thread recently where someone said they were helped a lot by seeing letters to and forth between active jws and the bethel.. with that in mind we've put the correspondence between co johnsson and brooklyn on freeminds as downloadable pdf's.

these are available elsewhere on the internet but this might help newbies to find them a bit more easily.. johnsson letters to bethel and their replies.

also as a reminder mary's project is also available for download - all 154 pages :-) :.

oppostate

edited to add that Cyril Chain was the Writing Dept person who replied to Johnsson on the 22nd Feb 1980

So, that's who started the "Chain letters", eh?

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