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  What was the purpose having Eight Day assembly?

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  running man has posted his account of an eight day assembly from the 1960s.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/109297/1.ashx.

  what i would like to know is, what was the purpose in having eight days for the assembly?.

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  TresHappy

  I remember the last assembly I went to I almost gagged through every session of the 4 days. Can you imagine double that with longer hours? Eight days of gagging!
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  I want a refund . . .

  by cruzanheart in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  after reading all those threads and articles about how much money the wtbts has squirreled away and invested and after volunteering to serve birthday cupcakes and punch at a homeless shelter run by the combined efforts of first presbyterian church and first methodist in downtown dallas, i have decided that i want my money back.. i want back every single cent that i ever contributed to that jabba the hut of an organization that just sits on its money and never uses a penny of it to benefit its members or the rest of humanity.

  i want back the $10,000 that my dad "loaned" the society in the 1970's that they -- 10 years later -- strongly suggested he just give to them to save them the trouble of writing a check.. i want to be paid for the 13 years of regular pioneer service that i wasted on that organization.

  let's see, at roughly 100 hours a month (that's what the requirement was back then), 1200 hours a year times 13 + 15,600. hmmm, okay, i'll take minimum wage for it -- isn't that $6.50 an hour now?

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  That conductor, was that Brother Savoy...? He's still around; he's got to be 90 now...

  Let's face it; what we believed was a load of crap.
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  Anybody study Nostradamus Or His...

  by Legolas in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  prophesies?

  i have been looking into them lately especially the third antichrist!

  so what do you think about him or his prophesies?

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  TresHappy

  It sells a lot of books - and it's a load of crap.
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  I want a refund . . .

  by cruzanheart in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  after reading all those threads and articles about how much money the wtbts has squirreled away and invested and after volunteering to serve birthday cupcakes and punch at a homeless shelter run by the combined efforts of first presbyterian church and first methodist in downtown dallas, i have decided that i want my money back.. i want back every single cent that i ever contributed to that jabba the hut of an organization that just sits on its money and never uses a penny of it to benefit its members or the rest of humanity.

  i want back the $10,000 that my dad "loaned" the society in the 1970's that they -- 10 years later -- strongly suggested he just give to them to save them the trouble of writing a check.. i want to be paid for the 13 years of regular pioneer service that i wasted on that organization.

  let's see, at roughly 100 hours a month (that's what the requirement was back then), 1200 hours a year times 13 + 15,600. hmmm, okay, i'll take minimum wage for it -- isn't that $6.50 an hour now?

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  TresHappy

  How about all those Sundays you played the piano at the Arlington congregation? Isn't that worth something? And all those great comments you used to make...charge them per sentence...you'd be living in Mark Cuban's house by now!
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  Baseball great Kirby Puckett has died...

  by TresHappy in

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  2. physical

  i loved watching him when the texas rangers would play the twins...he was only 44.

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  TresHappy

  I loved watching him when the Texas Rangers would play the Twins...he was only 44.
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  Just how hyped was 1975?

  by MuadDib in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  aight.

  i was raised in the jws, but i'm still young (22) and all my life what i've been told is that the society never really promoted 1975 as the definitive year for the coming of armageddon.

  what i was always told is that some overzealous witnesses took certain things out of context and developed a very extreme reaction - ie selling their houses, quitting their jobs, dropping out of school, etc.

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  TresHappy

  Wasn't "stay alive until '75" the battlecry of die hard JW's...

  Oh course the GB turned around and said that Jehovah did it because he was sifting his organization...
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  How to reply to the inevitable invitation to Memorial this year...

  by nsrn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm anticipating a series of visitis from the witnesses to invite me to memorial.

  every year i get a few with the preprinted invitation, a couple slightly old magazines, and big smiles.

  these are people who i grew up with, who were kind to me, who honestly think my fade out will cost my eternal soul at the big a. these are the same people who pick up my elderly parents for meetings, bring them food when they are sick, and change their rusted out water heater for them in the dead of winter.

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  TresHappy

  Here's what I wrote to someone one year,

  Dear _____,

  I will not be able to attend the Watch the Bread and Wine Go By Festival this year.
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  RACISM Behind 1909 Watch Tower Magazine Name Change

  by West70 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  from 1879 through 1908, the magazine owned, operated, and edited by charles taze russell (not the zion's watch tower tract society) was offically named "zion's watch tower and herald of christ's presence".

  with several changes caused by the move from pittsburgh to brooklyn to escape maria russell, her lawyers, and the pennsylvania courts, it was decided that the official name of the magazine be changed to "the watch tower and herald of christ's presence".

  here are the official reasons for dropping the word "zion's", as stated in the december 15, 1908 issue: .

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  TresHappy

  That was the prevailing thought of the time. I have an old deed from my great great grandfather's cemetery plot and that forbids the burying of colored people of any time. It was a horrible time in our history. Just visit the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis and you'll leave a different person.
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  Things I love about Texas

  by IP_SEC in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  being that it's such an auspicious day for the great state.. things i love about texas.. 1. shiner bock.

  2. san antonio.

  3. corpus christi.

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  TresHappy

  I am sort of biased, I was born here!
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  New Catch Word "ADMINISTRATION"

  by Balsam in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ok i have the february 15th 2006 watchtower and starting on page 17 para 7 the gb are cashing in on a new catchword for this article and the next following ones.

  wt study "an administration" for fulfilling god's purpose .

  take from ephesians 1:9,10. nwt quote .

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  TresHappy

  Sounds like they're coloring the old meat to make it more sellable.