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  Bethelites' favourite pop song!

  by BoogerMan in

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  i'll bet the org's "watchers" on this forum will be humming this for the rest of the day!.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spgvej4ekww .

  (lyrics at 50 seconds).

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  Great seeing the Comic Relief clip from 2005. I remember being at school and our class having to dance on stage to this (1972). Timeless toe tapping tune. Nothing to do with your reason for posting it I know - but a happy digression nevertheless
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  Did anyone really enjoy assemblies?

  by SydBarrett in

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  the twickenham post made me think of this.

  i have a few jw family members on facebook and being summertime, their pics of the convention have shown up in my fb feed.

  along with their comments about "i wished it would never end" or "what a glorious weekend".

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  I liked Assemblies and Conventions. I would take notes and feel guilty if I got too tired or the speakers too boring. I enjoyed the interviews and new releases…and the dramas. Volunteering in food prep was interesting – all potatoes to be wrapped in specially sized bit of tin foil. But the best bit, of course, was socializing and catching up with folks I’d not seen for a year – that was a real high. The sad part though - is that all the highs we got from the lovey socializing was, in retrospect, as valuable and real as melting snow. C’est la vie.
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  Fw: As Bro Sydlick was saying the closing prayer

  by NikL in

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  i just had to pass this on to you.. it is an e mail that is making the rounds.. what do you think of this.... (beware!

  gagging may be expected).

  the 41,000 friends at the international convention in michigan .

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  Met him at the Berlin convention after the wall came down. I was awe struck by meeting the man in person. He was lovely. I was a young pioneer and very much 'in the zone' at the time. None of the new GB have the same aura of genuine status. There is a huge difference between the GB I grew up with and the ones of today. The org we see now is totally different. The beliefs are different. Hence a very thankful 17 years of freedom from them for me.
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  How did it come to this?

  by New day in

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  i am now in my early 60’s.

  i was baptized in 1980. i served as a ministerial servant and an elder.

  i gave my all for many years but about eight years ago i started to question many things.

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  Same age and timeline (apart from the MS and Elder bit – females not allowed!). I pioneered, travelled and opened my home to countless JW’s from all over the world. Constantly on assembly programs and on speed dial for last minute talks on the Ministry School. I had ‘friends’ everywhere and was ‘loved’.

  Now, 16 years after leaving I too am a non-entity in JW land BUT have pursued a life that is mine – without controlling men guilting me into obedience. Those men who would take me on shepherding calls, who would ask my advice on problems within the body of elders – those men who claim to be my friends (a few who were closet gays).

  Have I lost anything? Yes. I lost that same feeling of security knowing what the future held. I lost deeply loved friends – many of whom I think about often. I lost a fantastic social network.

  Have I gained anything? Yes. I have gained freedom from an organisation that does not resemble the one I grew up in. I have gained freedom from having to accept that which was obviously not true or reasonable. I have gained the relief of not being a hypocrite.

  It is not easy starting a new life with no friends around. Having grown up in the ‘Truth’ that was all I had. It is not easy when one has avoided further education because it was frowned upon (and then being perplexed by having friends in Bethel who were career lawyers – paid for by the society). It’s not east having your life’s history now viewed, personally, as an empty sham. How many hours in field serving, how many miles walked (my knees can tell you).

  I am sad that in many ways I wasted my JW life. It could have been so different if I had taken a different path and walked away sooner – but I was full ‘in’.

  However, “better late than never”
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  What Biblical message should be proclaimed now according to Jesus himself ?

  by Alex Williams in

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  this is what jesus said.

  matt 24-14.

  14 and this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.. looking at this verse what is the central theme?

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  Reading that felt like listening to a talk on the TMS. The 'dumb' HH would nod along as each point was made and then agree to a study.

  I understand why you are 'in' Alex - we were all in at one point too - most of us for a longer time and more thorough and ardent in our research and teaching than you are now. We could run rings around you if we wanted to. But we don't and won't.

  Perhaps one day you will wake up. Or perhaps you will continue to sit by your keyboard with your chest puffed out thinking you are somehow defending the 'Truth'. You are not!

  You have chosen the wrong audience.

  If your BOE knew you were on here - you would be dragged into the back room faster than you can imagine.

  Hang around - we may rub off on you
  

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  I found this by accident...

  by HOTB in

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  i found this on youtube yesterday.

  i found it a slightly over exaggerated depiction of the characters from the kh - but i recognised them!

  i guess every congregation has some just the same.. https://youtu.be/xaen6fpvcim.

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  I found this on YouTube yesterday. I found it a slightly over exaggerated depiction of the characters from the KH - but I recognised them! I guess every congregation has some just the same.

  https://youtu.be/XaEn6FPVcIM
  

  While I don't necessarily agree with the 'Born Again' aspect of the movies - I enjoyed the argumentation used - as well as the history and the comments by Raymond Franz.

  How on earth did we all get sucked in to this so completely?

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  Crazy humour.

  by zeb in

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  anyone recall the bbc-radio "goon show"?

  anyone at all?.

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  I'm too young for the original radio episodes - but very familiar with the show.

  British comedy at its best - it never ages!
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  Post Your Funniest Comedians

  by APieceOfShitNamedTate in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-i9gxbptog .

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  https://youtu.be/1f8K_EpVtaI
  
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  Post Your Funniest Comedians

  by APieceOfShitNamedTate in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-i9gxbptog .

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  https://youtu.be/A6zQekXgAwI
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  Do you remember the music in the 80's ?

  by Finkelstein in

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  recently reflecting on some of the great songs that came out of that decade.

  any favorites post them up .

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuza6qijvfu.

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  https://youtu.be/rVxcwe7EcaY