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  Letter to the pioneers

  by DAWUD in

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  hey!.

  is it true that the pioneers used to get letter each year?

  does anyone have any?.

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  Slidin Fast

  Here's how it was for older ex pios. The requirement was 1200 hours per year. The letter back in the day had the hours you had reported at the top of the letter. If it was 1150, not good. Unlike the rest of the congregation, you reported direct to Bethel.

  You could be de-listed, struck off from this unpaid "privilege". Serious illness was not a valid excuse. If you wanted a vacation you had to do 100 hours plus per month to build up a surplus of hours, otherwise, don't even think about it.

  Don't forget, most of us had to work for a minimum of 2 days a week to maintain even a subsistence living.

  So, yes in answer to your question we got a letter each year.

  Edit to add. The slogan of the day was "Early in the day, Early in the Month, Early in the Year"
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  What’s your favorite food/drink?

  by Iamallcool in

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  for me, it is beef gyros and water!

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  jhine, you forgot the Yorkshire pudding
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  Butchered pronunciation

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  since it is my turn (wife) to have the assembly streamed they start with the music.. i have never in 70 years heard it called a "pree-lood".

  twice, morning and afternoon..

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  Slidin Fast

  Warwick pronounced War-wick. Every one knows it should be Worrick.
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  How can you have a deficit for a Circuit Assembly on Zoom??

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  remember when after a circuit assembly the assembly overseer would come out right before the end of the assembly and make a special announcement;.

  "brothers, we have a financial deficit of $5,000 dollars for our circuit assembly.

  keep in mind that we have utilities and other expenses that need to be met.

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  Don't forget that they have taken ownership of many of the assembly halls directly.

  Previously they were built using the money and skills sacrificed by well meaning sheep. They were maintained and paid for as separate entities by fleecing the same people that built them. It's like buying and owning your house, selling it to a landlord for nothing. then paying to rent it.

  Now, we don't even get to visit it, we just pay rent to keep it empty.
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  Butchered pronunciation

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  since it is my turn (wife) to have the assembly streamed they start with the music.. i have never in 70 years heard it called a "pree-lood".

  twice, morning and afternoon..

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  Slidin Fast

  Some I remember.

  One lovely brother, now dead reflecting about the eee=light (elite) he had read about in the WT.

  Reading organism as orgasm.

  I heard a recording of a convention talk where the bro used octopus features in an illustration. He repeatedly said "testicles" instead of "tentacles". After a few examples you could hear the penny drop. He had to decide whether he should continue his mistake or change to the correct word and admit his blunder.

  I think I would have just said "aww bollocks" and moved on.
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  Follow The Truth

  by Slidin Fast in

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  2. friends

  so it seems that donald is set to launch a social media platform called "truth social".

  if you start the sign up to go on the wait list you are asked to "follow the truth".

  uncomfortable.. maybe it directs you to wt.borg.

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  I may be joking but this is not a joke.
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  Follow The Truth

  by Slidin Fast in

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  so it seems that donald is set to launch a social media platform called "truth social".

  if you start the sign up to go on the wait list you are asked to "follow the truth".

  uncomfortable.. maybe it directs you to wt.borg.

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  So it seems that Donald is set to launch a social media platform called "Truth Social". If you start the sign up to go on the wait list you are asked to "Follow The Truth". Uncomfortable.

  Maybe it directs you to WT.Borg. The GB's big media centre push seems to have missed a trick.
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  How did you feel after writing a Disassociation letter?

  by Iamallcool in

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  i might do it one day.

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  Slidin Fast

  Don't see the point. You are just living or leaving by their rules. What (outside the Borg) is a disassociation letter?

  If you want to leave, at least make it difficult for them.
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  The 2020 Census of American Religion 07.08.2021

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  https://www.prri.org/research/2020-census-of-american-religion/.

  more than one-third of muslims (39%), white mainline protestants (37%), buddhists (37%), and the religiously unaffiliated (36%) have at least a four-year college degree.

  another 19% are catholic, 2% are latter-day saint, and less than 1% each are jehovah’s witnesses or orthodox christians.

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  JWs, woefully short of education. Poor obedient shmucks.
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  2021-October-S-147-English-Announcements And Reminders!

  by Atlantis in

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  https://www.filemail.com/d/mfuzldydyicjoyg.

  https://we.tl/t-s3ggseysgf.

  atlantis!.

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  Slidin Fast

  Once again a double espresso and a fine Armagnac with a Montecristo cigar from me. Don't know whether I can stomach 4 hours of AGM though.