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  Not training speakers/teachers any more?

  by eyeslice2 in

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  not having attended any meetings since about 2001, for reasons of safety (sounds a bit dramatic but i don't like my wife being out on her own late at night where we live now), i have started accompanying her to the mid-week meeting.. when i was young, the ministry school and service meeting were central to training brothers to take the lead.

  you were assigned instruction talks, then if you cut it, you moved pretty rapidly to public talks - a full 55 mins at the time.

  i was just 18 years old when i gave my first public talk and this was a first step to moving rapidly through the ranks.

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  Agree with you Tech49, reading a few verses from the Bible with no introduction, no application and no conclusion hardly counts as a privilege.
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  'Experiences(tm)'! Made up or totally true??

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at one assembly(tm), i was asked to relate an 'experience(tm)' which i did.

  however, during rehearsals, the geezer in charge elder or co or some such title, told me that i shouldn't tell it the way it was.

  i did a 're-enactment(tm)' with another 'brother(tm)'.

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  The other way they get round no new experiences, is to re-tell old ones.

  I've often seen 'brother and sister old timers' being interviewed on the platform relating experiences from 30 plus years back, especially if they were ex-missionaries or had served overseas.
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  3 New Letters Arrived!--2019-December!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  2019 december brd newsletter.

  https://docdro.id/odvxhqr.

  2019-s-1-e-congregation field service and meeting attendance report.

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  How times have changed.

  When I was really young, about 12 years old, I had the job of preparing the the invitations for the public talk every week. I can't remember exactly how the job went but I think the title of the talk and the back of the tract where pre-printed by Bethel and I had a small printing kit (Jon Bull rubber print set) and I used to set up the address of the KH, and the date and time of the talk and then stamp hundreds of the things in a space on the front. In those days, I didn't even count my time for this rather soul-destroying task.
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  Not training speakers/teachers any more?

  by eyeslice2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not having attended any meetings since about 2001, for reasons of safety (sounds a bit dramatic but i don't like my wife being out on her own late at night where we live now), i have started accompanying her to the mid-week meeting.. when i was young, the ministry school and service meeting were central to training brothers to take the lead.

  you were assigned instruction talks, then if you cut it, you moved pretty rapidly to public talks - a full 55 mins at the time.

  i was just 18 years old when i gave my first public talk and this was a first step to moving rapidly through the ranks.

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  eyeslice2

  Not having attended any meetings since about 2001, for reasons of safety (sounds a bit dramatic but I don't like my wife being out on her own late at night where we live now), I have started accompanying her to the mid-week meeting.

  When I was young, the ministry school and service meeting were central to training brothers to take the lead. You were assigned instruction talks, then if you cut it, you moved pretty rapidly to public talks - a full 55 mins at the time. I was just 18 years old when I gave my first public talk and this was a first step to moving rapidly through the ranks. I was only 19 years old when I was appointed group study conductor, in those days a key teaching role as you had the opportunity to interact with a relatively small group of publishers.

  I was so surprised to find how different they are nowadays to when I was 'in'. No instruction talk, all the parts carefully orchestrated by head office, no room for any of the elders to put a personal or local spin on things. So, it is very apparent to me that the GB are not particularly interested in training speakers and teachers any more. Whilst I don't expect they will become a totally internet based religion with no meetings, I do suspect that in future all parts will done as pre-recorded items from head office. Elders will no longer be primarily teachers as such but merely 'enforcers' tasked with making sure the flock keep in line with whatever is dished down from above.
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  Kenneth Richmond - Wrestler and former Circuit Overseer Dies

  by eyeslice in

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  i was only young but i do remember ken and his wife (valentina) being our co. he was a mountain of a man but it would appear from the bbc obituary he was a man of peace.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/lastword.shtml .

  olympic wrestler and actor who became the last of the men who struck the symbolic j. arthur rank movie gong has died aged 80. .

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  Not sure why this thread was dumped up after all this time!

  We were in Birmingham too Stan - I think it was called Mosley congregation then but encompassed Balsall Heath and the Mosley area. Which cong were you in Stan?
  
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  Trump explains this generation

  by eyeslice2 in

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  glad to see the president making good use of visual aids again after his hurricane debacle.. .

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  Glad to see the President making good use of visual aids again after his hurricane debacle.

  
  
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  Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Alive and Well

  by minimus in

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  i was on facebook and a person i have known for a long time posted how trump is mentally ill and is truly a psychopath.

  a couple of her friends chimed in when i suggested that perhaps the fb friend was really the psychopath.

  a couple of her friends began to defend her but i was surprised by how many people defended the president!

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  Yes, but you can't argue that Trump is a good president. He can't even admit he got it wrong about the hurricane and shows an incorrect mapped trajectory. IMHO he is not worthy of the office.
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  GB’s WIGGLE

  by Hairtrigger in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://youtu.be/gpd453rzdzu.

  if this has been posted before i apologize.

  this about sums up what the grovelling body is looking to do!

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  I am certainly no lawyer, but my guess would unless the document explicitly stated somewhere else something to the effect of "The Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, hereafter referred to as 'Watchtower'", it wouldn't have any legal weight.
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  Museums growing at the branches especially Warwick

  by benny in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am not sure if this has been discussed but last night mid week meeting about organisational accomplishments really got my goat as the example of the temple was used.

  people contributed to the building of the jewish temple and now the museum and bethel in warwick.

  this supposed .be evidence of god s guidance.

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  What on earth are they putting in this museum? Presumably, not all the old books and the mad ideas they contained.
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  GB’s WIGGLE

  by Hairtrigger in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://youtu.be/gpd453rzdzu.

  if this has been posted before i apologize.

  this about sums up what the grovelling body is looking to do!

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  Maybe it is just me, but I am confused by the term 'Watchtower'.

  There was a post here a while back listing nearly a 100 different legal entities. Is there a legal entity simply called 'Watchtower' as opposed to, for example, Watchtower Bible and Tract of Pennsylvania, or Watchtower Bible and Tract of Great Britain, etc. 'Watchtower' alone just doesn't sound right.