this from an e_mail site.. governing body member john (jack) barr has died (or, "completed his earthly course") on saturday, december 4, 2010.. bro barr died at walkill aged 97 after 71 years of full time service - 23 years as a member of the governing body in new york ..
This from an e_mail site.
Governing Body member John (Jack) Barr has died (or, "completed his earthly course") on Saturday, December 4, 2010.
Bro Barr died at Walkill aged 97 after 71 years of full time service - 23 years as a member of the Governing Body in New York .
does anyone know when the watchtower held the last 7-day convention?.
these conventions lasted from 9am to 9pm every day for a whole week, except perhaps for sunday.. they were mostly held in open-air stadiums and people had to endure the burning heat during the day, and the cold at night.. it took endurance to sit throughout the whole thing.. making people attend those things really was an expression of love from the watchtower!
did the watchtower drop right away to the 3-day program, or were 5 day conventions held for awhile?.
I have been thinking about this in conjunction with what was the purpose and I believe it was simply to draw attention to themselves. Look at us, we must be special. Who else has huge followings like this. Must mean we have the truth.
does anyone know when the watchtower held the last 7-day convention?.
these conventions lasted from 9am to 9pm every day for a whole week, except perhaps for sunday.. they were mostly held in open-air stadiums and people had to endure the burning heat during the day, and the cold at night.. it took endurance to sit throughout the whole thing.. making people attend those things really was an expression of love from the watchtower!
did the watchtower drop right away to the 3-day program, or were 5 day conventions held for awhile?.
NewYork44M - Man landed on the moon one night. Was that the first ever jw drama. Never new they had them way back then.
does anyone know when the watchtower held the last 7-day convention?.
these conventions lasted from 9am to 9pm every day for a whole week, except perhaps for sunday.. they were mostly held in open-air stadiums and people had to endure the burning heat during the day, and the cold at night.. it took endurance to sit throughout the whole thing.. making people attend those things really was an expression of love from the watchtower!
did the watchtower drop right away to the 3-day program, or were 5 day conventions held for awhile?.
I realize these reminisces are a bit off topic. But another thing that the wife and I were remembering just the other day. And this goes to their hypocrisy with so many things like this example of creature worship. The assembly for us was in Seattle, by choice not assignment (You know traveling to a different city because that had to be your holiday as well as your assembly). Anyway they had a talk that was transmitted to a number of assembly as a phone hook-up?. We can't remember the name of the speaker but he must have been near death at the time. His croaking voice was basically unintelligible. We are surmising he must have been a gb member but can't remember the name. The thing we realize now is that he must have wanted to mumble out a life saving message that no one else could deliver but him. True humility to subject thousands of attendees to this garble to pet your ego.
does anyone know when the watchtower held the last 7-day convention?.
these conventions lasted from 9am to 9pm every day for a whole week, except perhaps for sunday.. they were mostly held in open-air stadiums and people had to endure the burning heat during the day, and the cold at night.. it took endurance to sit throughout the whole thing.. making people attend those things really was an expression of love from the watchtower!
did the watchtower drop right away to the 3-day program, or were 5 day conventions held for awhile?.
Horrible, horrible, horrible. For one of them I could not get the time off without quitting my job and at the time thankfully did not have the "faith/balls" to do that. So we (me, wife and two children, one still nursing) drove 245 miles to the host city. I tried unsuccessfully to coerce the boss into giving me the week off by phoning late sunday night. His refusal meant that I drove home getting no sleep and arriving at home in the wee hours, and getting to work a few hours late. Anyway it meant that my young wife was left fending for herself for the week. Thankfully she was staying at the home of witnesses and I believe that provided the ride to the assembly site and she had a bit of help with the kids because there were some relatives there. God I realize why I shut that bullshit from my mind. It makes me feel like such an idiot when I recall some of that stuff. To many assemblies sitting in stifling heat with sweat running down your back as you sat there in suit and tie. And for what. Those conditions were simply not conducive to grasping and retaining information. Plus back then so many of the Franz inspired talks were so deep that 99% didn't know what the hell the speaker was talking about. Thanks for making me go there )not(
has anyone heard that at the end of the theocratic service meeting last night the organisation asked for money, pensions, properties, shares, insurance policies in fact anything of any financial value?.
it upset some people attending the meeting.. .
go here to hear the heartfelt plea that is totally different than that made by church's of christendom (not)
http://www.jw.org/index.html?option=QrYQZRQVNZNT
It should be totally embarrassing for any witness to trot out the warn out criticism of the collection plate or other forms of collecting money to keep the wheels turning in the churches of Christendom. They are exactly the same if not worse.
has anyone heard that at the end of the theocratic service meeting last night the organisation asked for money, pensions, properties, shares, insurance policies in fact anything of any financial value?.
it upset some people attending the meeting.. .
From :"their kingdom ministry"
10 min: 'Let Us Present Jehovah's Offering.'
Talk by an elder based on the November 15,
2010, Watchtower, pages 20-21.
all of us at one time or another have owned a automobile that was a real lemon!.
the car may have been shiny, stylish and totally cool-looking....the only problem was it was a piece of crap.. repair after repair after repair in a never ending spiral of maintenance kept it in the shop more than it was on the road!.
you may have really loved that car--it might have been a classic---but--it proved to be totally useless for basic transportation because:.
This totally explains the overlapping generation. The car starts out with a gererator but by now has been replaced by an alternator. the overlapping power supply to keep the lights getting brighter.
Loved your illustration. It both fit the material and your audience. You get two g's and move to the next counsel point.
are anyone here excited about what they are going to report today at the astro-biological announcement?
i keep checking my local-time-zone to est converter :-)..
It is to notify that they have intercepted the stream of spirit inspired info flowing to the gb and that now you no longer will have to go to a kingdom hall and follow all the rules and regulations from the gb to gain everlasting life. just tune into the NASA tv transmissions for the needed info.
i attended the todays wt study and got notice of the illustration of jesus doing away capitol hill and barack obama.. i think the illustration passed the juridical advisors of the wts, having a blackout!
of are they trying to reach the anti government people like the tea party idiots with this kind of propaganda illustrations?.
is this a signal that the wts is anti democrats, anti obama?.
A few months ago I was talking to a witless and he with great anxiousness in his voice cautioned to be on the alert for "this fall". Well this fall and nothin. I keep hoping to run into him and ask what I missed.
