Posts by FatFreek 2005

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What affect did the 1918 flu have on the Bible Student Movement?

by dropoffyourkeylee in

maybe someone has already brought this up, but a news article i ran across:.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/03/health/churches-covid-1918-lesson-wellness/index.html.

brings a question to my mind.

FatFreek 2005

You'd think that Watchtowers (Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence) would have something to say about such a profound happening.

Anyone?

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"John Doe wants to be your friend" (Facebook) He died 2 1/2 years ago!

by FatFreek 2005 in

i just joined a few days ago and the topic is true.

john (not his real name) is my wife's nephew and got killed in a road accident 2 1/2 years ago.. i've therefore come to the conclusion that most folks wanting me to be their friend are simply a computer algorithm, that my feeling bad by not answering their plea would hurt their feelings and risk our friendship, is not founded on reality.. on another topic, one question that i have is: if i search for a person on facebook does that person somehow learn that i did a search for him?.

my son, who is a facebook expert, of sorts, says no.. what say you?.

FatFreek 2005

Your concerns, Stan, have been my concerns as well. Sorry about that cousin of yours.

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"John Doe wants to be your friend" (Facebook) He died 2 1/2 years ago!

by FatFreek 2005 in

i just joined a few days ago and the topic is true.

john (not his real name) is my wife's nephew and got killed in a road accident 2 1/2 years ago.. i've therefore come to the conclusion that most folks wanting me to be their friend are simply a computer algorithm, that my feeling bad by not answering their plea would hurt their feelings and risk our friendship, is not founded on reality.. on another topic, one question that i have is: if i search for a person on facebook does that person somehow learn that i did a search for him?.

my son, who is a facebook expert, of sorts, says no.. what say you?.

FatFreek 2005

Thanks, Jeffro and MyName...

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"John Doe wants to be your friend" (Facebook) He died 2 1/2 years ago!

by FatFreek 2005 in

i just joined a few days ago and the topic is true.

john (not his real name) is my wife's nephew and got killed in a road accident 2 1/2 years ago.. i've therefore come to the conclusion that most folks wanting me to be their friend are simply a computer algorithm, that my feeling bad by not answering their plea would hurt their feelings and risk our friendship, is not founded on reality.. on another topic, one question that i have is: if i search for a person on facebook does that person somehow learn that i did a search for him?.

my son, who is a facebook expert, of sorts, says no.. what say you?.

FatFreek 2005

I just joined a few days ago and the topic is true. John (not his real name) is my wife's nephew and got killed in a road accident 2 1/2 years ago.

I've therefore come to the conclusion that most folks wanting me to be their friend are simply a computer algorithm, that my feeling bad by not answering their plea would hurt their feelings and risk our friendship, is not founded on reality.

On another topic, one question that I have is: if I search for a person on Facebook does that person somehow learn that I did a search for him?

My son, who is a Facebook expert, of sorts, says no.

What say you?

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So Sister Cheiky married Tom - '2020 Annual Meeting Part Two'.

by was a new boy in

if my faded memory is correct, tom cheiky was an overseer at 117 adams st. bldg 1 floor 3 or 4 back in the 70's.

i don't ever recall talking with him, but my buddy did, both of us were waking up together, he asked him about all the crazy stuff we printed over the years.

tom's reply was, 'sometimes, they just went overboard on their teachings.

FatFreek 2005

Am I missing something? Was the link to the video by the original poster removed?

If so, why?

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So Sister Cheiky married Tom - '2020 Annual Meeting Part Two'.

by was a new boy in

if my faded memory is correct, tom cheiky was an overseer at 117 adams st. bldg 1 floor 3 or 4 back in the 70's.

i don't ever recall talking with him, but my buddy did, both of us were waking up together, he asked him about all the crazy stuff we printed over the years.

tom's reply was, 'sometimes, they just went overboard on their teachings.

FatFreek 2005

Keith, you will have a PM in 10 minutes or so.

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So Sister Cheiky married Tom - '2020 Annual Meeting Part Two'.

by was a new boy in

if my faded memory is correct, tom cheiky was an overseer at 117 adams st. bldg 1 floor 3 or 4 back in the 70's.

i don't ever recall talking with him, but my buddy did, both of us were waking up together, he asked him about all the crazy stuff we printed over the years.

tom's reply was, 'sometimes, they just went overboard on their teachings.

FatFreek 2005

You're not wrong.

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So Sister Cheiky married Tom - '2020 Annual Meeting Part Two'.

by was a new boy in

if my faded memory is correct, tom cheiky was an overseer at 117 adams st. bldg 1 floor 3 or 4 back in the 70's.

i don't ever recall talking with him, but my buddy did, both of us were waking up together, he asked him about all the crazy stuff we printed over the years.

tom's reply was, 'sometimes, they just went overboard on their teachings.

FatFreek 2005

Unbelievable to watch this video of the ex-wife of one of my best friends (the apostate!). The year was 1977, Marshalltown, Iowa. And I am proud to say that he and I are still best friends, tho mostly on the telephone, distance being some 763 miles.

He and I were both elders at the time, both learning the real truth about THE TRUTH. It was a real stink in this central Iowa congregation.

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Remembering Kenneth Christensen

by FatFreek 2005 in

i remember ken back in 1959 when i was a freshly married 18 ½ year old.

according to his obit he was some 7 years older than me.

i don’t know how much earlier he had been appointed, but he was the marshalltown, ia, congregation servant (the presiding overseer) at a time when 25 year olds were rare.

FatFreek 2005

Why does he still live in your mind, but we don't live in theirs?

That is a good question. However, in looking back I then sometimes thought of several df'd folks, wishing I could wrap my arms around them. I may have thought it -- but I didn't express that thought out loud.

I'm now 80 and at times think of Barb and Richard, df'd after their daughter was born. They couldn't turn down the blood transfusion their daughter (1 month after our first son was born) needed. If still living, Shelly would have just turned 60.

We have no way of knowing the true feelings of those still in as they may reflect on those who've left the fold. On social media if a JW mentions an ex JW fondly, he probably would be chastised.

Remember the flock-thinning of the early 70's when tobacco users would be df'd if they didn't stop that addiction at the Watchtower defined date limit?

After Glen Harris's funeral, his wife came up to me and remarked how he was truly blessed to have passed away before his inevitable DF.

Len

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Remembering Kenneth Christensen

by FatFreek 2005 in

i remember ken back in 1959 when i was a freshly married 18 ½ year old.

according to his obit he was some 7 years older than me.

i don’t know how much earlier he had been appointed, but he was the marshalltown, ia, congregation servant (the presiding overseer) at a time when 25 year olds were rare.

FatFreek 2005

I remember Ken back in 1959 when I was a freshly married 18 ½ year old. According to his obit he was some 7 years older than me. I don’t know how much earlier he had been appointed, but he was the Marshalltown, Ia, Congregation Servant (the presiding overseer) at a time when 25 year olds were rare.

I had just stated door2door selling (I had no skills) a photographic album plan and believe it or not, Ken quit his full time job of meat cutting at Piggly Wiggly and began selling these plans in a remote territory near Waterloo.

It wasn’t long before Ken was a master salesman and he took me under his wing and we set out for a long weekend of training in Hutchinson, Ks, where Raymond Grey(sp) and his wife Virginia hosted the event in their large sprawling ranch home with some 8 bedrooms. Raymond was gregarious and an extreme go-getter. I believe he was the founder of that company called NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS ALBUM COMPANY, originating out of Ft. Worth, Tx.

It didn’t surprise Kenneth or me that the Greys were also Jws and for several years after, he would be a prominent speaker at our district conventions.

Ken and Crystal already had three or four children at the time and that family would increase to some 7 children by the time he later moved away from Marshalltown to Des Moines at some age 30. I told Ken I would help him in his belongings move and showed up that Sunday morning where we headed south to Des Moines, rental truck loaded. What privately surprised me was that we were the only two who were involved. His brother and all the Marshalltown brothers were oddly absent.

I never saw him again but his older brother Wayne and younger sister remained in Marshalltown.

Wayne, one of the elders, and I became somewhat close, playing an occasional round of golf together. I took wedding portraits of Wayne’s daughter and husband in 1977, just prior to my disassociation.

Wayne phoned me sometime later, asking (humbly) for the photo negatives in behalf of his daughter. I found that request bizarre in that he was requesting a favor from someone as evil as I was in their eyes.

I rose above all that and handed him the package of negatives in the parking lot of the company where I worked. He thanked me.

I never saw Wayne again.

(obit: https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/16670036/Kenneth-Lee-Christensen)