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  Speech Counsel Point - TIMING

  by Mister Biggs in

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  theocratic ministry school (tms) pet peeve of mine is found below.

  please feel free to add any that you find as annoying and hypocritical as mine.... last night, brother gramaton* delivered the # 2 talk (bible reading).

  he received all of this "wonderful, upbuilding" counsel from brother hank*, the school overseer.

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  NotBlind

  Do you all remember, maybe it was just my hall, when they really pushed the sisters to have informal witnessing as a setting? (I got told-from the platform-that next time I should use that for my setting) YEAH RIGHT! Do you know how hard that is?Your topic is: "The signifgance of the bride class for modern day christians" Setting; Informal witnessing at a Bus Stop. ...PUH-LEEZE!

  How true! It just goes to show how much fakery is introduced into the TMS. Very few of the talks were realistic. And why can't the Botch-tower Society come up with more reasonable talks for #3 and #4. The last couple of years, the talks have been out of the Reasoning book, and they are always over the dumbest things! I feel sorry for the girls who have to do those talks!
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  Speech Counsel Point - TIMING

  by Mister Biggs in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  theocratic ministry school (tms) pet peeve of mine is found below.

  please feel free to add any that you find as annoying and hypocritical as mine.... last night, brother gramaton* delivered the # 2 talk (bible reading).

  he received all of this "wonderful, upbuilding" counsel from brother hank*, the school overseer.

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  NotBlind

  I always would envision the brother speaking in mid-sentence and then....DoooDOdoooo....dooodoodooo

  That actually happened to me once! I was giving a Number 4 talk in the 2nd School. In our hall it was customary to wait until the 2nd school was done to start the Service Meeting. But not this time!

  The dope giving the instruction talk went over, so when I was about 3 1/2 minutes into my Number Four, the song started....and my talk? Well, it always helps to be in the Front School, doesn't it?
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  Sweed midsummer day

  by happy man in

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  i gone a give you some exotic thing, today is the midsummer day in sweden, this is one of the most important days in our country, when peopel go out celebrate the day when the sun is upp almost evry our, in some places 24 our sun.. we use to putt upp a long woodstock , and then dance around it , this is ofcourse not anything for us as jw, something widh fallows symbols,as the gb say, but we look in stealthily...... greatings froom the land in north, where the sun always are shining.

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  NotBlind

  On this day, you can pick 7 sorts of flowers, and putt them under your pilloow, and inn the night you have a dream who tel you who you gone to married.

  Hmmm, this sounds a little like superstition to me, happy man. I thought JW's didn't believe in superstitions like that, unless there's been some NEW LIGHT on the matter in recent months. SOMEBODY CALL THE ELLLL-DERZZZZ !!!

  Edited by - NotBlind on 21 June 2002 15:56:30
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  Speech Counsel Point - TIMING

  by Mister Biggs in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  theocratic ministry school (tms) pet peeve of mine is found below.

  please feel free to add any that you find as annoying and hypocritical as mine.... last night, brother gramaton* delivered the # 2 talk (bible reading).

  he received all of this "wonderful, upbuilding" counsel from brother hank*, the school overseer.

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  NotBlind

  Hi, Mister Biggs. Nice to meet you too. I pop in here every now and then. I want to start posting a little more regularly.... Call it a belated New Year's Resolution!

  Anyway, I would love it when an elderly person would go overtime and wouldn't hear the overseer call TIME. They would just go on and on and on and on. I bet it really flustered the overseer. I think the world record is NINE MINUTES, 18 SECONDS, which I personally timed for an 80-something brother named Arthur.

  GO ARTHUR!!
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  Why the watchtower will fall.

  by sleepy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  because every thing made by jehovahs witnesses is so shoddily made its bound to collapse.

  our kingdom hall was falling apart all the time.

  thats what happens when you use the untrained witness slaves to build everything in order to save money.they build a pile of crap.edited by - sleepy on 16 june 2002 7:7:51.

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  Because every thing made by Jehovahs witnesses is so shoddily made its bound to collapse. Our kingdom hall was falling apart all the time.

  Wow, this really made me think of the Kingdom Hell I attended back in the early 90's when I was a teenager. The hall was built in 1974, just one year before Armageddon came. Heck, I don't think a year went by when something structurally significant wasn't happening to that building. Just shows what can happen when you put your faith in a bunch of false prophecies.

  BTW, that building ended up lasting the congregation over 20 years, until it was condemned by the city...
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  Earthquake Shakes Silentlambs Country

  by mikepence in

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  clearly, jehovah is displeased with the handling of abuse.. http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/cus/.

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  Yeah, I felt this earthquake Tuesday. It was 5.0 on the Richter scale, which is pretty strong for this part of the country. No major damage, though, except for 3 Kingdom Hells which were completely destroyed by the quake.
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  Top 10 articles we'd never see in the WT or Awake.

  by dustrabbit in

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  as the title says..... 10. the last days: our miscalculations.. 9. love thy nieghbor (in your bedroom...).

  8. satan -- he's not so bad after all!

  exclusive interview.

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  The Watchtower, January 1, 2003:

  Jehovah's Witnesses and the United Nations: Gettin' in Bed With the Harlot
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  Speech Counsel Point - TIMING

  by Mister Biggs in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  theocratic ministry school (tms) pet peeve of mine is found below.

  please feel free to add any that you find as annoying and hypocritical as mine.... last night, brother gramaton* delivered the # 2 talk (bible reading).

  he received all of this "wonderful, upbuilding" counsel from brother hank*, the school overseer.

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  NotBlind

  I was in a congregation where they used to call TIME at the end of the 5 minutes. Then the poor speaker had to get off the stage. Why don't they call time of some of those long-winded service meeting parts, if timing is so important to them?? It sounds like a double standard to me: members of the JW clergy get to talk as long as they please....

  OH WAIT!!! JW's don't have a clergy!! LOL
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  Cleaning for Assemblies

  by terafera in

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  by hank schaller, of the oakland press june 09, 2002 .

  when it comes to being a house of worship, the pontiac silverdome has a long history.

  it has served as a site of a papal mass by pope john paul ii, a crusade by evangelist billy .

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  NotBlind

  Well, considering the fact that possibly hundreds of thousands (even a million?) of JW's are janitors, window-washers, and cleaners, it would be a disgrace if they DIDN'T leave the place super-clean! Of course, I too shied away from the cleaning section; I was too busy peeling out of the parking lot to get to the hotel...
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  Memorable Prayers meetings / assemblies???

  by invisible in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any outstanding prayers that you can remember / recall?.

  we had one brother here who was renowned for his very long prayers, sometimes running to as much as 15 minutes in length.

  congregational members would have to leave halfway through to catch taxi's etc, he was a dear old soul though, in his younger days before he kicked the bucket, he was a wheelwright, probaly one of the last of his particular craft, repairing horse drawn carriages.. another brother at the convention was known for the shortest prayer, he just said thankyou 3 times and that was it.. once we had the co visiting, george hilton his name was, cheerful old sod from yorkshire, it was the aux pio and reg pio meeting.

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  NotBlind

  Clapping on the last talk at a DC, oh yes....

  One year the audience was doing the clap-a-thon thing, practically after every sentence the guy said. Then, the speaker stated something to the effect that "300 JW's have been imprisoned in such-and-such a country". And, like robots on command, the audience applauded that...

  Makes me want to jump up and SCREAM