it's been an emotional few weeks going through old watchtower literature, i mean old.
i have saved many things, some you have never seen.
particularly related to 1975, i have wts literature, even a big newspaper article about the 1975 prediction.. today, i started going through the reel to reel tapes.
A few years ago I got rid of 3 reel to reel players. one was state of the art, digital. I had about 350 reels, conventions going back to the late 1920s. one of them had Russell's voice on it. I didn't have time to transfer them, it would have taken me years. I gave everything away.
I sold all the photo drama and Rutherford records on eBay though. Still have every watchtower magazine from 1882 to 2010, selling them off year by year.
surprise, surprise - see the 2002 dateline program exposing jws child abuse problem at the following link:.
https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/04/23/iconic-eagle-photographer-from-1930s-to-50s-left-treasured-images-his-son-recently-discovered/.
the first photo is of the old towers hotel.
I stayed at the Tower Hotel
so, if you expect to find 'saints' with halos, you will never find real christians.. after over 30 years of being a jw, there are many things about the org that disturb me- yet no one else even acknowledges the only true god, as jesus referred to him.. not a 'they' or 'them' ('trinity')- but him!and he has always had the name jehovah (yehovah in hebrew)- even though the koine greek had no version of it when the nt was written.. so among the many things real christians have to endure- is often each other!
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<< So among the many things real Christians have to endure- is often each OTHER!>>
Amen, I gave a talk many years ago on John 17, dealing with the Lord's Gethsamane prayer in part I said the folliwng:
Jesus asks the Father for four things regarding his disciples. Look at the text with me: "Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name-the name you gave me-so that they may be one as we are one." (V.11) The word for "protect" means to guard or keep. But here's the question: What does He want them to be protected from? It's not the Devil and his powers because He gets to that in verse15.
Whatever it is that He wants them protected from will be a threat to their oneness and unity. Here's my suggestion: Jesus prays that the Father protect them from themselves. The greatest threat to unity is sinful human nature. Jesus has seen it in the disciples before. They argued over: who was the greatest; who should sit at the right and left of Jesus in glory; who should wash the feet; why they couldn't do certain miracles; whether they should let the children come to see Jesus. It's human nature.
We are naturally drawn to bitterness, jealousy, self-centeredness, pettiness, gossip, grudges, anger, prejudice and much more. Each of these things is deadly to the church and to relationships. Jesus is praying that the Father would protect them from such division. If the disciples were going to carry the message to the world, they needed to work together. So do we.
physically walked away around 30, mentally and spiritually around 25
some towns require everyone going outside to wear one.
one massachusetts city requires anyone from 5 up to wear a mask.
some cities require masks and have shut down parks and sports playing while others in a nearby town have no such restrictions.
Nope, I'm essential personnel, and I don't wear a mask, wear gloves or use sanitizer, and I work 12 hour days, picking up the slack for sick co-workers, I walk 15 miles a day on my own route, touching mailboxes, doorknobs, handrails and dirty mail.
since this virus, i have noticed that nearly all of the take out joints in my area are closed.
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I had Chinese this evening! Delicious
My last two years with the Witnesses I was actually attending Bible Student meetings. I maet with all the different types of Bible Students and I find one I was comfortable with.
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what’s your favorite covid-19 quarantine themed meal?
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today a friend sent me this dinner he made: survivor salmon.. .
White Castle
it’s cognac.
couldn’t sign-in for some reason so i created a new account.
just was wondering what’s going on with the memorial this year cause my kids father wants to have them during that time.
Don't know about the JW's, but the Bible Students used the ZOOM app, getting bread and wine was not an issue
since i've never lived in time with dire events, this virus and it's effects, has taken me by surprise.
not that i should be surprised by how people responded, but until you experience it first hand, you just don't get the scope of it all.. all the hoarding.
i've always taken things in a more rational way.
Same here, people hoarding, especially toilet paper, although yesterday after work I stopped at the supermarket to get some juice and I saw a guy walking out with toilet paper so I walked in and found a clerk stocking them, so I grabbed one. Didn't really need it, but I was running low and didn't want to be without.
Markets have been emptied for a few weeks, the last week or so have found bread and meat stocked, so things are getting better.
Personally I was never concerned, I'm considered "essential" as a Letter Carrier so I'm out delivering 12 hours a day picking up the slack for sick coworkers, touching dirty mail, mailboxes, handrails and doorknobs. I don't wear gloves, mask or use sanitizer.
