Posts by 3rdgen

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Begging for accomodations

by road to nowhere in

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local announcement has even pimis amused.

wanting rooms for some event or refugees-not clear.

private room with private bath.

When I was a teenager the District Convention was going to be held in my city. This was in the 1960s when JWs could go through the Rooming Department" and ask for a room in a private home which was cheaper than a Motel/Hotel.

About a month before the convention all of the pubs. did "Rooming Work" instead of the normal Minestry, myself included. We went from house to house asking people if they would be willing to offer a bedroom and bath to PERFECT STRANGERS for 3 DAYS and NIGHTS for FREE!!!

I went house to house with another teenage girl and was astonished that in less than 2 hours 3 householders AGREED!! The rooming Dept collected money for those rooms but the householder got ZILCH.

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Questions about WT illustrations

by Beck_Melbourne in

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when i was a kid....i used to look at the wt illustrations of paradise conditions and would day dream about life in the new system....i later used this same technique (shame on me) to brain wash bible students.

however...as i grew up lol (apparently!

) the illustrations changed....and became more modern.

3rdgen

Ron. W

Wow, I have never seen that tract. The gruesome picture on the back explains a lot to me about both my parents. They were baptized in the 1930's

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Questions about WT illustrations

by Beck_Melbourne in

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friends

when i was a kid....i used to look at the wt illustrations of paradise conditions and would day dream about life in the new system....i later used this same technique (shame on me) to brain wash bible students.

however...as i grew up lol (apparently!

) the illustrations changed....and became more modern.

3rdgen

NO ALCOHOL?

Forget it, I'm not going.

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Is 1st Century advice on marriage still relevant in today’s modern world?

by liam in

republicans want to make a law that forbids ‘uncontested divorce”.

they based this on this scripture.. matthew 19. is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”.

4 “haven’t you read,” jesus replied, “that at the beginning the creator ‘made them male and female,’and said, ‘for this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ so they are no longer two, but one flesh.

3rdgen

Liam,

Have you forgotten that in the 2016 election Hillary Clinton decisively won the popular vote over Donald Trump? He won only because of the Electoral Collage.

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Voting, why make it easier to vote??

by moomanchu in

democrats are always harping on and on about voting rights and how the ability to vote should be easier and access unrestricted.

the most progressive ones want to allow prisoners, and illegals with no voter id the ability to vote along with the criminals, drug addicts, and uneducated low lives who already can vote.. .

after they push for everyone and anyone to be able to vote they then tell us it is a sacred privilege, a duty and honor, and a big responsibility blah, blah ect..... if it is all those grandiose things are true i think it should be harder to vote not easier.

3rdgen

An Independent voter does not affiliate with Either Political party platform for various reasons. However, In my case, I have always voted for either the Democrat or the Republican candidate, Never the Independent. Same goes for Baalamsass. We vote for a person who has a chance of winning, who more closely represents our ideas and values and IOP is more suited for the job.

The vast majority of voters in the area we live are full on Red Hat Republicans. So voting in local elections means we will be voting for the Republican who is more moderate, Not the one who allowed a speaker to address someone else attending the Board of supervisors meeting as "That N*****".

We have probably voted each party about equally, We no longer want to belong to a political cult or any other. For us, it's time to think for ourselves.

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Watchtowers billion$

by lastmanstanding in

serena williams was baptised as a jehovah's witness last year.

photo: pa. .

john mulligan.

3rdgen

LastManStanding: "Did Serena object?" (to the picture of her)

My answer: Of course she did. It makes her hips look big.

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Questions about WT illustrations

by Beck_Melbourne in

jw
friends

when i was a kid....i used to look at the wt illustrations of paradise conditions and would day dream about life in the new system....i later used this same technique (shame on me) to brain wash bible students.

however...as i grew up lol (apparently!

) the illustrations changed....and became more modern.

3rdgen

The black brother in the last picture is clearly safety conscious with his hard hat and NECKTIE????? Suit pants too. Great choice to wear at a construction site. Really???

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The Watchtower's Depiction of 'paradise'..

by Ron.W. in

perhaps we could post the pictures the wt have presented in their literature that depict their version of paradise here for comment/discussion:.

from: spirits of the dead—can they help you or harm you?

do they really exist?.

3rdgen

Apparently, in 1958 men at an outdoor gathering could wear T shirts and shorts or go around shirtless with a towel around their waist.

Decades later they wear nothing but button down shirts and chinos like they are visiting Bethel, even the little boys! Who, prey tell, does all that washing and ironing??

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Would you be able to survive a three day Assembly?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the last assembly i attended was over 10 years ago.

the monotone speakers, boring talks, uncomfortable seats, long prayers and nodding off after the lunch break did me in.

i survived the morning sessions, but the afternoon sessions were brutal.

3rdgen

My parents and I were also at the 1963 Pasadena Convention. It was also Huge

I have to agree with the poster who asked why they needed 8 days to get their points across. I'm beginning to think WTC got some kind of kickback from the hotels/motels per day. The longer the "friends" had to stay, the more $$$ came back to WTBT$.

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Would you be able to survive a three day Assembly?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the last assembly i attended was over 10 years ago.

the monotone speakers, boring talks, uncomfortable seats, long prayers and nodding off after the lunch break did me in.

i survived the morning sessions, but the afternoon sessions were brutal.

3rdgen

Oh Dagney! Are you cute or what? Somewhere I have a picture of my mother and 6yo me at the same "Devine Will" International convention. It was the ONLY one held that year in the entire US.

My father was the Assistant Cafeteria Servant to Nickolas Kovalak at the Polo Grounds which held the slightly smaller group than Yankee Stadium. (over 250,000 total) No wonder I remember being terrified of becoming separated from my mother and smothered by the enormous crowds.

My parents and I had to arrive 2 weeks early so Dad and Kovalak could direct the set up preparations to feed hundreds of thousands of people! Dad had to arrive Each day before they served breakfast and stay very late into each night-8 days. He was in the cafeteria area the whole time, never sat with us and never heard a word of the program. So over a 6,000 mile drive and a 3 week stay to work 15+hrs a day for free.

He bought clip on backs for the bleachers and a couple of umbrellas but No cooler or water. And don't get me started about the line to the ladies room with the size of that crowd. I still remember almost wetting my pants.