Posts by terafera

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
Graham and meetings attracting thousands of men belonging to the Promise Keepers
organization.
But no faith or religious group has had more gatherings under the Teflon-coated fiberglass
roof of the Silverdome than the Jehovah's Witnesses, who have been transforming the stadium
into one of the world's largest Kingdom Halls every year since 1978.
More than 100,000 Bible-carrying Jehovah's Witnesses from 233 congregations scattered
throughout the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and northern Ohio are expected to attend the
2002 Zealous Kingdom Proclaimers District Convention, which began Friday and continues
through today.
It's a religious pilgrimage that meant a lot for 75-year-old Howard Anderson of Detroit. He was
the oldest of the 169 convention delegates who was baptized into the faith Saturday, a total
that included 73 men and 96 women ranging in age from 10 to 75 years old.
"This is what I want," Anderson said. "I want to show God how much I love him. After many
years of opposing my wife, who has been one of Jehovah's Witnesses for 33 years, I'm ready to
do God's will."
Al McCarty of Waterford Township has been at every Silverdome convention since 1978. He
told of the effort made by 3,000 volunteers to prepare the Silverdome for the faithful.
"In the Jehovah's Witnesses, there is no paid clergy and no paid staff," said McCarty, who works
as an engineer at the Chrysler Group headquarters of the DaimlerChrysler AG in Auburn Hills.
"This type of convention is important because it allows people to worship with people who are
like us with the same problems and same successes. Worshiping with a large group raises the
consciousness of your own faith."
On the day before the convention, the Silverdome was a beehive of activity. "We're probably
one of the only groups who come into the Silverdome and vacuum every inch of the stadium's
artificial turf," McCarty said. "We also wash every seat with soap and water and personally clean
each restroom and suite that we use." One hundred volunteers even spent much of Thursday setting up an elaborate sound system
to conquer the Silverdome's notoriously bad acoustics that on occasion have frustrated some
of the biggest musical acts in the world.
The fact that every Jehovah's Witness was carrying a Bible is integral to the faith. "In my
library at home, I have 16 translations of the Bible," McCarty said. "Each of those translations
can help you understand because Jehovah's Witnesses believe precisely what the Bible says and
try to mold our lives around it."
While the Detroit Lions may have left the Silverdome for Ford Field, now under construction in
downtown Detroit, the Jehovah's Witnesses plan to be back again in 2003. "Pontiac and the
Silverdome have been very good to us over the years," McCarty said. "The Silverdome is a
wonderful place to worship."

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This got me to thinking...how many times have you heard, at the meetings and assemblies, that jw's are the cleanest people to use assembly halls. But I've been to many other functions in the same buildings that seemed to be very clean too. Isnt it a little presumptuous to imply they're the only group that cleans up before and after their events?

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one day in service

by happy man in

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today i was out in service, met sveral nice peopel who like to here about god news from the bibel,i was reding from luk 21, and showing them what will happend, and that jehova can solve our problems.i think here in matrealistik sweden we have a bigg los of spirutal sings, evrything here is about money, and young peopel dont like this so much, they want a new order, some have gone to this proclaim the streets movment, it is a anarkistic movment.. so i must say the messege from bibel is radher the same, a bigg dissaster, and then a new order.. but i dont think as the gov body that only jw are saved,i am more i touch widh rutherfords talk,million who now live will never die.. never forget that the bibel say, we are not judges,it is jesus who have this power,think gb has forgett this thing.. greatings from the north.

terafera

joeshmoe, I used to asked my mother how Rutherford could say 'millions now living will never die'... she said it was a metaphoric... as in they are spiritually strong so in a spiritual sense they will never die, they are always in Jehovah's memory.

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savagery in christianity

by singsongboi in

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been reading some of john boswell's - "the kindness of strangers" , in which he re-constructs the laws and social attitudes, to "getting rid" of unwanted (live) children from roman times to medieval times... .

just wanted to share this story... "the story of the nun of watton".

maybe some of us will relate to the girl in the story..... a 4 y.o.

terafera

I bet that guy regretted messing with her...

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Ozzie's Weekend Poll #7

by ozziepost in

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i'm sorry that due to "technical difficulties', last weekend's poll did not appear, but thanks to all those who enquired about why it was not posted.

glad you're enjoying them!

so, time to put your feet up, so to speak, and have some fun with this weekend's poll.

terafera

how about

11. 'oh god'..another changing of the rules....

really, i wasnt that surprised. I had told my mom for years that I thought they had the generation thing way off base. When I heard they changed it, it seemed like something they'd have to do, considering almost everyone in that generation is dead.

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Support forum for those abused in WTS

by Lady Lee in

over the last few weeks a lot of people have come forward and posted stories of abuse while they were jws.

these often were experiences as a child victim or a wife at the hands of an abusive husband.

the forums are open to active jws and those who have left.

terafera

Lady Lee, I think that is a great thing you are offering...I am sure many suffer from it (probably me, in many areas). It's hard to know whats normal and whats not when you live the Society.

I'm very interested in it....I am sure it will bring relief and common ground for many here.

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Name some must have rock records

by Leander in

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i've spent a lot of time on allmusic.com and it amazes me how much nirvana is mentioned when the reviewers rate other albums.

so its a no brainer that nirvana's work should probably have a place in every rock collection, but what are some other albums every rock fan should listen to if not own.

.

terafera

Yeah I forgtot to mention Bush. Ooo that Gavin Rosdale...

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Update on my 'Bad Night' post

by Bendrr in

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the original post was here:.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=29897&site=3.

it was about my car getting broken into and losing some car stereo equipment.. anyways!.

terafera

Dang Red... crazy world!! Thats what I always worry about..what if someone attacks me and I go to jail??

GrRrRr

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JWD is officially an Apostate site!

by Elders_Kid in

so just for grins i thought that i would try to take a peek at jwzone and pln (pure language network, it took the place of greatcrowd.net), two dub forums.

i thought i would a friendly ambassador from jwd.

well since i went directly from this site to jwzone and applied, i recieved this nice little e-mail from their admin: from: "daniel glick" <dg371@***.

terafera

hey..what im wondering is...if there are aposto's at pln, how do they let each other know? someone email me.

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Happy Father's Day

by obiefernandez in

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happy father's day!!!

at least in the usa today (i don't know about elsewhere) we are celebrating dad's day.

i wish a great day to all you great dad's out there.

terafera

Yes, I think dads are very underrated...they freak out over mothers day and you hardly hear anything about fathers day!! Fathers are cool!

Mine was... only after he died (5 years ago) that I realized not to take him for granted..

Happy Father's Day!