The Governing Body never said this:
- simply because back then, there was no such thing as the Governing Body!
Bill
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THE QUOTE THE WBATS DENIES MAKING OF 1975!!!
by ADJUSTMENTS inthe wtbats like to state "we never stated when the end will come" when they blatantly have:.
1969 "if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.
because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years.
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JWs took off from work in 1975?
by skeeter1 ina friend of mine is an electrician supervisor.
back in 1975, one of his employees was a jw.
the jw was so convinced that 1975 would bring the end of the world, that the jw took off from work (like, the first week in january) and sat on the top of a north carolina mountain waiting for armegheddon.
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Bungi Bill
Dubs did really crazy things in that year.
That they did. In fact, my overpowering memories of those years 1972 - 1975 are of mad people and mad times.
Our congregation was then deemed to be in an area "where the need is great." As a consequence, we had so many families arrive from elsewhere:
- ones who had sold their homes and invested everything in a large caravan, there to live for the "few remaining months of this system."
The novelty seemed to wear off rather quickly, though - particularly when the local council's health inspector discovered some of these families living in rather insanitary conditions, and ordered them to be evicted. (Things wouldn't have been too comfortable, either, once the southern winter set in!)
As for people going crazy with their credit card etc. :
- to be honest, I never knew of one single instance of that happening.
Selling ones home and going pioneering for the "few remaining months of this system" was certainly typical, though.
Bill
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THE QUOTE THE WBATS DENIES MAKING OF 1975!!!
by ADJUSTMENTS inthe wtbats like to state "we never stated when the end will come" when they blatantly have:.
1969 "if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.
because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years.
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Bungi Bill
This (close to) 60 year old , who was a high school student back in 1969, is currently studying for the Advanced Diploma in engineering:
- because he once believed that crap cited above.
(SFPW, stick that in your pipe and smoke it!)
Bill.
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WHAT THE D.O SAID THE BIBLE SAYS... ABOUT SALVATION.
by DATA-DOG inone more highlight from the ca...for now... how to survive the end.
the bible says:.
1) prayer.
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Bungi Bill
Salvation by Report Card is what he really meant!
Bill
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C,O's,D,O's from down under...who remembers??
by karter inwolford and betty john,nice loveing couple,always loved children.. arther and tinnie roderson, nice couple he passed away some years ago too young from cancer.. wiakato and hine gray couldn't ask for better people.. jack teesie ..single guy would never go to a single sisters place for dinner even if she had children apperantly a bad look.. joe sleighman and wife nice couple were d.o's leaft and joined our side.. sandy pannell and wife...he reminded me of bill clinton always love to look down from the stage and wave his left finger at the congro....never liked him.. han's hubler,nuff said has been a few threads started about him.. there is many more.. karter..
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Bungi Bill
jwfacts,
Cyclone Rex had a thing against banana lounges - and also pencil pines. He used to make frequent reference to both of them!
Bill.
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I'm Returing To Become A Jehovah's Witness Again
by Space Madness ina little background, i faded in 2007 and have been out ever since.
i started studying at 18 and have no jw realitives.
i'm returing because my life is heading in the wrong direction.
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Bungi Bill
They do say "any port in a storm", but this would have to be a typhoon of Haiyan magnitude, surely!
Bill
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More WT Propaganda: Low Paying Jobs are OK for Family Heads. Just "Don't Miss the Meetings!"
by Oubliette ingod, evidently, wants you to be poor: .
a newly baptized brother is married, and he and his wife have three small children.
one day, a workmate suggested that he and the brother move to another company that paid a higher wage and provided more benefits.
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Bungi Bill
Billy the Bethelite,
Regular reading of the Awake & Watchtower magazines would qualify you for at least one university degree:
- a BS from Tasmania's University of Lower Crackpot.
(Except in this case, "BS" means "Bachelor of Stupidity"!)
Bill.
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C,O's,D,O's from down under...who remembers??
by karter inwolford and betty john,nice loveing couple,always loved children.. arther and tinnie roderson, nice couple he passed away some years ago too young from cancer.. wiakato and hine gray couldn't ask for better people.. jack teesie ..single guy would never go to a single sisters place for dinner even if she had children apperantly a bad look.. joe sleighman and wife nice couple were d.o's leaft and joined our side.. sandy pannell and wife...he reminded me of bill clinton always love to look down from the stage and wave his left finger at the congro....never liked him.. han's hubler,nuff said has been a few threads started about him.. there is many more.. karter..
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Bungi Bill
Of all the COs, how could anybody fail to remember "Cyclone Rex" Manwaring!
He struck our congregation (Newmarket, in Brisbane) in mid-1976, when the disappointment of 1975 had caused the "unthinkable"
i.e. the congregation's average hours had fallen well below the magical figure of ten per month.
From him, we certainly heard a lot about "hours", and his favorite expression was that if we were not, in effect "persecuting" ourselves in our service, we were not doing our job properly!
With "Cyclone Rex" weilding the horsewhip, the congregation's hours did improve. However, in the process, he made himself extremely unpopular - to the point that nobody would invite he or his wife for a meal. The then Service Overseer had to have that "priviledge" all on his own!
Others here have noted Manwaring's rudeness of manner. I certainly second that one!
By contrast, the previous CO to thast circuit was a Geoff Slarke, who was of a totally different cut to "Cyclone Rex."
Talking of contrasts, do any in NZ still remember Don Malpasse (Gilead Graduate of 1973 - then CO, DO and finally Branch Overseer in New Zealand )? He, too, was cut out of the completly opposite material to Rex Manwaring!
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Why do Jehovah's Witnesses keep track of field service hours?
by Faithful Witness ini understand that they claim to have the responsibility to preach to every corner of the earth, so they can encourage armageddon to come quickly.
(matthew 24:14 "and this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
what rationale do they have, for keeping track of their hours and literature placements?
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Bungi Bill
Why do Jehovah's Witnesses keep track of field service hours?
-because they cop it if they do not, nothing more, nothing less.
(In other words, field service reports are a stick with which to bash the Rank & File with).
Bill.
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Do you miss the sense of superiority?
by Diest inthis is and odd topic but there is a part of me that really misses feeling that i knew more about the world than 99.9% of the people.
i spent so many years in school being the odd person because of religion.
i embraced it to some extent.
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Bungi Bill
In answer to your question - no.
i.e. I never ever felt a sense of superiority about what I knew / what I thought I knew.
Bill