Posts by Thirdson

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Remember the 1961 green Bible?

by outbutnotdown in

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i know there are numerous examples of crazy, whacked out stuff that the wtbts taught that most of here now realize were just that...... crazy and whacked......... but do you know how insane some of the stuff in that original 1961 bible was?.

Thirdson

I remember that in the appendix it had the time period for the book of Genesis as 46,000 BCE to 1,600 BCE (or something close to that.)

I argued with an elder that after the Creation book came out and was vague about the length of creative days that the WTS had dropped the 7000 year notion. As further proof I asked him to check the Black and Green NWTs and compare what each stated about the time period covered in Genesis. (In actuality, I don't think the WTS writers, or at least some, haven't really given up on the 7,000 year length.)

For most meetings you needed at least a green Bible and a pink song book. (Even the song book was green up until about 1966)

3rd

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Fudging on "Field Service Report"

by Clinton in

when i was a jdub i used to write down whatever hours i wanted to write down.

when i was pioneering for 7 years i would add a few hours to my time each month so that i wouldn?t fall too far behind.

even when i wasn?t pioneering though i would inflate my hours a bit sometimes so i wouldn?t have the elders hounding me about my time and also so i could hold a ?position?.

Thirdson

I always rounded up. 1 hr 35 mins was usually counted as 2 hours. When i started to fade I quit FS altogether. I still counted 4 hours per month, my WTS sanctioned hour of weekly Bible study plus the BS. It didn't take long before I stopped reading the book of Bible Stories and didn't bother with a FS report. The PO talked to me about my lack of hours but I never said how I really felt... which was, FS in my locality is a joke, it's riding around in car or van calling on at best 10 homes in 2 hours. Secondly, I couldn't and wouldn't defend the WTS blood and end time doctrines.

3rd

25

Memory Lane

by exjdub in

mrs. exjdub and i were talking about the jwd board the other night and, after discussing many of the topics that are on the board, we started reminiscing.

pretty soon we started laughing until we had tears in our eyes remembering the "joy" of conventions in the old days.

mrs. exj remembers camping in scarborough, maine during the convention and waking up in the morning to damp sleeping bags from the moisture in the air, trying to run to the community showers before the session, feeling dirty all of the time because of the dust, sitting in the blazing sun at the racetrack, getting rained on, etc.

Thirdson

Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1971.

http://www.ballarat.com/

Dad couldn't get time off for the weekdays of our local DC so we drove 500 miles to Ballarat. There were eight of us in a pop-up camper designed for 7. That wasn't the worst...it was the site. A windswept disused airfield with jerry-rigged showers and washrooms made out of black plastic sheeting and no hot water. I don't think we showered for the 3 days we were there and it was so cold we wore our normal clothes over our pajamas.

On Saturday two family members caught the train home while the rest of us took a week's vacation. That was the cool part and the time at the beach was warm and almost totally free of other people. We drove back via the Great Ocean Road and the Coorong.

I suffered (S&M, I guess) 30 years of miserable conventions in cold dirty soccer stadiums. Most of the misery was local. Ballarat was the furthest and most primitive.

3rd

25

Pioneer School Book

by Eyebrow in

ever since i was a kid i wanted to be a pioneer and go to pioneer school.

i remember how every summer a crop of pioneers would come back all excited from the school with a "pioneer book" that no one was allowed to read except pioneers that had gone to school.

seriously, even as an adult a good friend of mine would not even let me take a peak, as it was taboo.

Thirdson

It's all about elitism. A special reward for those that are pioneers.

As for being better than everyone else, this is my experience. It was customary for aux pioneers of the month to attend the pioneer meeting with the CO during his visit. One time, being very guilty about not being a pioneer, I aux pioneered the month of the CO's visit. I took a week's vacation during the visit to get most of my time in and attended the pioneer meeting with a couple of other auxs and the lone cong' pioneer. When the CO asked who we were and what we were doing the auxs were all put down for not being "real" pioneers. I felt so low I never bothered to auxillary pioneer again.

3rd

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2004 Walk With God District Convention Program

by TweetieBird in

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for those of you interested in attending the convention this year, this program was emailed to me.. .

3:15 song no.77 and announcements.

2:45 song no.15 and announcements.

Thirdson

Friday: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Saturday: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Sunday: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Nothing changes does it?

3rd

21

One of the stupider laws I've encountered.

by logansrun in

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Thirdson

This is a problem with language. How can you know someone's age when you have to check their age to know their age? Adding the word "look" may help but then again age assessment is up to the person cheking. I have been carded even though I am twice the legal age. Some stores card everyone regardless of how decrepid they appear but at least they are safely complying with the law. Theses store always ask for a driving licence and one swipe gets your ID and date of birth.

The worst thing I have encountered was when I ordered wine with a meal and the waiter asked for my wife's ID and DOB!

3rd

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Lost In Translation

by Nosferatu in

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Thirdson

Before:

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After:

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29

wasted life

by littlemike in

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left 2 years ago and surf nearly every night.

i was an elder for 11 years did circuit assembly items etc.

in fact i did everything the society said.

Thirdson

Hi LittleMike,

I have a very similar background to you. You have to look at the positive things you have gained even if few. Life is isn't over, there is still a lot more to do, acheive and enjoy.

I will send a PM with some more personal stuff. Welcome to the board.

THirdson

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Did you give your children 'Bible names'?

by nicolaou in

i have to admit that we gave our first two kids 'hebrew' names.

i don't want to identify my children online but suffice to say that we had at least some sense in that we opted for safe names of the samuel and daniel type - no melchizedeks!.

however, in our city we had a javan a samson [gen 10:2] and even a zechariah!

Thirdson

No. Even as a JW I didn't feel compelled to use Biblical names. Neither of my son's name are found in the Bible. I just liked them.

My siblings and I all have Biblical names except for one brother who was named before our parents became JWs. All are common names even my sister's which is actually the Spanish form of a Biblical name.

3rd

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What's your ethnic background?

by Joker10 in

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it seems that light skinned ex-ws speak out more against watchtower than people of a darker skin color.

what is your ethnic origin?

Thirdson

Anglo-Irish.

I have a French/Norman derived last name but the Normans were Viking descendants. The rest is a mix Celtic Irish, Angles and Saxons, I guess. My son is part Anglo-Irish from me and Anglo-Afro-Caribbean from his mother. His heritage is the product of British colonialism from both Jamaica and Ireland. Part of my Irish ancestry is a result of British soldier (my grandfather) who married an Irish-Catholic (my grandmother) prior to the 1922 Irish free state (actually before WW1).

3rd