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  My 71st Birthday Confessional

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  2. friends

  i was born january 15, 1947in mt.

  carmel hospital, detroit, michigan.. within six months of my birth, my mother would bundle her baby boy into a blanket and board an american airlines propeller-driven plane--in effect, leaving my father behind--to return to her hometown, ft. worth, texas.. my dad had an excellent job working for cadillac as an inspector.

  it was a union job.

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  Happy Birthday Terry. I always enjoy reading your stories. You've led a full and interesting life.
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  Tony "Tightpants" Morris Talks Of Tight Pants AGAIN!!

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  again with the pants... tony, if you can't stop looking at young men in tight pants don't take it out on the rest of us.

  https://www.facebook.com/john.cedars.5/posts/868329653345317.

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  There's something very strange about his obsession. In this video he seems to suggest that other people think he's only saying it because he doesn't have the figure to wear a skinny suit himself. In other words, he is acknowledging that this type of suit looks good on some men. He stated, "Some say you wouldn't look good in one anyway, that's why you don't want one", Tony responds "that's alright Buddy, I would never disrespect my heavenly father". Since he uses the term 'buddy' suggests this conversation is with men.
  
  Either he's being hypocritical or there's only one other possibility that I can see. It's only other men that he thinks, find this attractive.
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  The rise and rise of Paul Gillies?

  by JWB in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the rise and rise of paul gillies?.

  here are a view details about the 57-year-old paul stuart gillies.. .

  2011: appointed as a director of international bible students association (ibsa) on 2 november having resigned as a director of watch tower bible and tract society of britain on the same day.

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  Paul Gillies signed the letter that was sent to the Guardian newspaper about their registration with the United Nations.
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  Tony "Tightpants" Morris Talks Of Tight Pants AGAIN!!

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  again with the pants... tony, if you can't stop looking at young men in tight pants don't take it out on the rest of us.

  https://www.facebook.com/john.cedars.5/posts/868329653345317.

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  He's a creep.

  He says other people would make the point that he wouldn't look good in a tight suit anyway. It seems to me that he thinks young men do look good in tight suits.

  His legacy will be that he is the GB member known as having an obsession with young men in tight pants.
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  Consolidation of Bethel Big-Wigs Now?

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a reliable source has informed me that a bethel contact has informed them that paul gillies - a london branch committee heavyweight - is moving to warwick to join the legal department there.

  anyone else aware of this?.

  during the recent court case in russia, he posed for a photograph with the gb member and the rest of the wt a-team..

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  From 12 years ago IT Support on this forum wrote -

  • Paul Gilles went into London Bethel from high school. He was overseer of the Public Affairs department until the GB consigned it to the dust, although he still seems to be the Society's official spokesman in Britain. He is widely tipped as the next branch-committee-member-in-waiting. His wife Judith is Australian and used to pioneer is Papua New Guinea.

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    This link from 6 years ago provides more info
    https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/218141/rise-rise-paul-gillies
    
    
    It is interesting that the OP JWB suggested he might be moved to HQ, possibly as a GB member if he felt he might be anointed at a future time. According to the info he would be 63 years old now.
    
    Even if he was given a position as a GB helper, it sounds more like a demotion from his current position. Maybe they can come up with a new title, no doubt the GB members have plenty of time on their hands these days to come up with one.
    
    
    
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  O no!!! The HQ song

  by Gorbatchov in

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  2. friends

  never througt there would be a jw.org hq song.. they have become mad.. https://tv.jw.org/#nl/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-osg_40_video.

  g..

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  During their annual meeting they claimed that their HQ building would survive Armageddon. It shouldn't be any surprise considering their claim that some of the heavenly Kings had a hand in its building. They don't say whether it included King Rutherford or King Franz.

  A poster called De bunker on Reddit posted this

  w88 4/1 p. 16 par. 5 Christendom Exposed as the Promoter of False Worship

  "They love to exalt their cathedrals, basilicas, temples, and churches, boasting about their antiquity and their architecture, as if these gave them some special standing with God. They even say that their religious edifices were built 'to the glory of God.' "
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  COLD today

  by wasone in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's a cold 13 degrees fahrenheit in tennessee this morning where i live.

  glad i'm retired and don't have to work outside today.

  what about where you live.

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  We've had a mild summer so far in Western Australia, it's currently 83F. It usually gets hotter from here on, for a few months. We get very little rain in the summertime.
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  QFR - Posting JW publications on a personal website/social media

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the following is a qfr from the april, 2018 watchtower.

  just a couple of articles back the organization was explaining how jws need to be encouraging and even when admonishing congregations jesus would start out with encouraging words.

  we see none of this in the qfr, rather, it is heavy handed and legally incorrect.. why is it not permissible to post publications of jehovah’s witnesses on a personal website or on social media?.

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  https://www.facebook.com/AnthonymorrisIII/

  I doubt it's been set up by AMIII but the comments are pretty tame. Back in the days of Russell and Rutherford, they would have fought for the reputation of their name and identity.
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  Singing todays WT

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the jist was that we all should sing.

  then the first 6 or 8 paragraphs describe how early bible accounts have trained and set aside musicians to do the singing while everyone else listened.. the songs they have put out have no soul, rhythm, or soothing melodies as a whole.

  the old hymns are some real music, even if you don't agree with the "teachings".. there is no admission of poetry using archaic language at times for affect or to add to the rhyme, they have to have everything agree with the grey bible.. anyone speak foreign languages?

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  They're real concern should be that they are addressing/singing to Jehovah directly without going through Jesus.
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  Child abuse

  by Jrjw in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i was talking to a jdub yesterday about child abuse in the organisation and this was his response:.

  "it has been known for kids to make stuff up.

  we have to trust the society on these things, also the legal process is there.

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  Jrjw - He's deluded or he just doesn't do research

  It's possible that he is an abuser himself. An abuser will say that the child is making it up.