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  Do Circuit Overseers Give Up Their Lives For Jehovah?

  by minimus in

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  i've heard for years how we should really appreciate the circuit overseers and their wives for all that they give up to enter the circuit work... do you think that's true?

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  berylblue

  Minimus, you're from North Dakota?

  Oh, my.

  You have just totally blown my entire image of you.

  First off, I didn't think anyone actually LIVED there.

  And second....

  NORTH DAKOTA?

  Rosemarie
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  If you could have one date with anyone, who would it be?

  by obiwan in

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  i've thought about this, the problem is there are so many wonderful choice's, i don't know where to start!

  i always had a thing for tiffany, the singer, when i was younger!

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  berylblue

  Yo, Tex, I thought you had much, much better taste.

  Rosemarie
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  What's the most hypocritical thing(s) you've ever seen a JW do?

  by Steve Lowry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  up high on my list has to be when a jw co-worker named john fitzgerald tore into me one morning (when i was coming in late for work) for grabbing a quick piece of cake from the lunch room.

  turns out, someone in this small little office had brought in the remainder of their birthday cake for folks at work to finish up eating.

  john was older than i and a ministerial servant (ooh) and felt it his responsibility to keep me on the straight and narrow.

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  berylblue

  Some of these are heartbreaking, esp Big Tex. That is a lot more than hyporicital, BT. That was a downright vile performance on his part. I dont know how he pulled it off.

  For those reading this who don't think the WTS shelters pedophiles, think again.

  That, I think, is the biggest WT society "hypocricy" going.
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  Do Circuit Overseers Give Up Their Lives For Jehovah?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've heard for years how we should really appreciate the circuit overseers and their wives for all that they give up to enter the circuit work... do you think that's true?

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  berylblue

  I've heard for years how we should really appreciate the Circuit Overseers and their wives for all that they give up to enter the Circuit work... Do you think that's true??

  While I respect your views, yesidid, I fail to see where the above question, as well as the thread title question, is offensive.

  It was an obvious rabble rousing ploy, and it worked.

  From some it elicited the usual response “down with the stupid, rich, pampered CO’s”.

  I was delighted to see that some of the thinking ones among us replied in a more reasoned manner.

  It that is how they feel, are they not permitted to post that???? So any who have some issues with COs are not "thinking persons"? Give me a break.
  
  I truly don't understand your animosity. Unless.... (feel free to finish the elipsis yourselves, readers.)
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  Do Circuit Overseers Give Up Their Lives For Jehovah?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've heard for years how we should really appreciate the circuit overseers and their wives for all that they give up to enter the circuit work... do you think that's true?

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  berylblue

  Just remembered another one. Wish I could remember his name. His big thing was that he had been from big money, and had given it all up, counted it as a lot of refuse, to be part of Jehovah's people while his brother remained "with the world".

  In light of what's happened recently, I have to wonder who is having the last laugh?
  
  Damn what was his name. ???

  Either Italian or Greek, I'm pretty sure.
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  Do Circuit Overseers Give Up Their Lives For Jehovah?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've heard for years how we should really appreciate the circuit overseers and their wives for all that they give up to enter the circuit work... do you think that's true?

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  berylblue

  For a C.O. to qualify to become a C.O. he had already given up his life long before that. He probably didn't go to college, he probably was a cleaner, he had already given himself wholly to the organization.

  That's not always true. The one CO whom I actually liked had come in to the "truth" later in life, leaving his career as a stockbroker behind. I really liked him.

  His wife was an adorable woman; when they met, she wasn't even baptized (though he was). They were married later on in life (maybe mid 30s? My memory is failing.)

  I think ours was the first congregation (or one of the first) he hit right after being appointed. He was like a breath of fresh air. He could be very frank at times, but it was a tactful kind of frank. He wasn't syrupy or fawning. You knew he wouldn't lie to you. At least, I didn't think so.

  They didn't last very long. Last I heard, they were removed from the Circuit work very soon after being appointed. I am not surprised. This was not your average yes-man.

  They were re-assigned to Bethel. I did run into the wife at a meeting after they'd been removed (I was visiting my old cong) and had brought with her a cake to bring to someone up at Bethel in the writing dept. (Long story, won't bore you.)

  Anyway, she looked at the initials and said, "This is one of the few decent ones up there."

  She made a few comments about things "not being what they seemed" at Bethel.

  At the time, I was surprised.

  I am no longer surprised.
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  If you could have one date with anyone, who would it be?

  by obiwan in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i've thought about this, the problem is there are so many wonderful choice's, i don't know where to start!

  i always had a thing for tiffany, the singer, when i was younger!

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  berylblue

  Hamas, is that in northern or southern England?

  Much is riding on your response.

  Rosemarie
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  Did the Watchtower Society Construction Crews in Brooklyn Bury Some Bodies?

  by Gamaliel in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well this isn't exactly what you might think, but i have the following information based on what i consider good authority.

  still, it's without a shred of hard evidence.

  i am bringing it up now before the watchtower society tries to sell off the particular building in question.

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  berylblue

  Let's make sure we don't say anything that might stand in the way of the work Jehovah wants us to accomplish. We all know how important this work is in our day."

  I don't know about the rest of the story, but this statement certainly has the ring of truth to it. Meaning JW idiocy and hypocrisy.
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  Poor JW dies from heat stroke

  by reubenfine in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i woman in mesa, arizona whom i've known for over 30 years recently died in her mobile home.

  83 years old and too poor to afford the added electricity of air conditioning on her $500/month social security check, she was found dead in her chair with a fan blowing on her.

  the elders said they didn't know.

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  berylblue

  I am so sorry, reuben
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  A welcome to all the new ones

  by berylblue in

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  gosh, there are so many new persons here; i feel terrible that i simply don't have the time to write to all of you.

  i'm really glad you're here, and appreciate all the questions/insights/smiles you bring to the board.. rosemarie

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  berylblue

  I know, Jes, me too. Just can't keep up with all the "newly interested" ones.