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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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  "Well, yeah, I did, to some extent. When I was young, I was able to work at a Refreshment Stand. One of the brothers would manage the stand"
  
  I remember getting to work food service one year at a circuit assembly as a teenager. (1980's) Being able to move boxes and push food carts around and chat with others felt like heaven compared to sitting for hours while your butt went numb.
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  @ that entire twitter exchange:
  
  
  
  
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  "He has a unnatural obsession with sex."
  
  I think 1056 pages indicates an unnatural obsession with Lloyd.
  
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  Did anyone really enjoy assemblies?

  by SydBarrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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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  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".
  
  JW's were saying that stuff when I was in too. But did anyone here really ever feel that way. To me it was a dreaded part of my summer vacation from school. There were peripheral aspects I liked. I liked seeing people during lunch intermission that I hadn't seen in a while. Usually a large group would go to dinner on Friday or Saturday night. That was fun I suppose.
  
  But the actual session itself? It was a torture to be endured. The most fun part was that feeling on Sunday afternoon when the most long winded human being they could find in the region finally finished the closing prayer and we could go home. The feeling of it being over was a huge adrenaline rush.
  
  Did most of you feel this way or did you truly feel you got something out of it at the time?
  
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  Getting Fed at Assemblies and Camping Around the Stadium

  by mikronboy in

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  this was the 1963 assembly at twickenham.

  i recall the wt deciding no more camping after this due to "immorality" having taken place.. https://youtu.be/lhcl-13dyne.

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  "for all 8 days"
  

  "slept in a large tent with a lot of others actually in the grounds of the stadium."
  
  "Happy days , when conventions were fun!"
  
  
  Holy Hell. It sounds like something out of a nightmare.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Watching the show

  by Teddnzo in

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  2. beliefs

  i’m new to apostate stuff but have gone deep down a few rabbit holes of late so want to see both sides to everything .

  im going to a congregation but am viewed as a bit of a black sheep because i question lots of things but not enough to cause too much trouble.. i’m intrigued watching the show.

  in my heart i’m pretty sure the governing body are fakes and charlatans.. the entire thing is a big con game.

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  "By this reasoning, since I have never died before, that means I'll live forever, right?"
  
  Dumb example. We've all been to a funeral.
  
  
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  Do You Remember This Speaker?

  by Atlantis in

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  do you remember this speaker?.

  https://imgbox.com/no37wjiy.

  how many people remember the old laurel race track where we had conventions back in the 60's?

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  Anyone know who would have been making the final decision on which font's to use back then. They made some really odd choices in the 60's and 70's. It's like they purchased new equipment and they went nuts for a few years wanting to use everything it was capable of. I'm sure they would have tried comic sans at some point had it been available. Then it all got toned down and more business like in the 80s.
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  If You Can Remember When This Was Displayed in the KH - You Ain't No Spring Chicken!

  by mikronboy in

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  "I believe the food service stopped here in the UK in the early '90s, and charging for literature shortly after that."
  
  Interesting. So what was lunch like at 90's conventions? Did most people pack a lunch for the family each day, or did the local restaurants gets flooded with thousands of hungry JW's?
  
  I remember at the end of the Sunday session, most people had purchased more food tickets than they needed, so people would line up to buy whatever concessions were left. You'd always end up going home with 2 weeks worth of breakfast pastries or cases of Shasta cola and whatnot.
  
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  The G.B. are now going to be EQUAL with Christ in heaven!!!!

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  they are not just going to be "joint kings and priests," oh no, because the latest washtowel is sneakily implying that they will be "joint kings and high priests.

  october 2023 study watchtower p. 28, par.

  13 - "after jesus was resurrected, he entered the most holy of the spiritual temple, where all the anointed eventually join him.".

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  I have news for them. There is not going to be a temple in heaven. When Revelation refers to the sanctuary in heaven, it points to a symbolic tabernacle (cf. Rev. 15:5). Funny. One would have thought that the anointed would know this:

  22 And I did not see a temple in it, for Jehovah God the Almighty is its temple, also the Lamb [is].
  
  
  There is also the fact that arguing over such bible minutia always put me to sleep and was probably my first step in leaving. It's like nerds debating if Star Wars blasters are lasers vs. ion cannons or some nonsense. Dude. It aint real.
  
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  If You Can Remember When This Was Displayed in the KH - You Ain't No Spring Chicken!

  by mikronboy in

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  "or food tickets for the convention"
  
  Is this no longer a thing? How is it done now? My last convention was summer 1991 or maybe even '90.
  
  My memories are the food ticket, Shasta, frozen solid OJ and pre-packaged sandwich 1980's era. Although I have some very vague early childhood memories of when they still prepared meals cafeteria style. That would have been late 70's.