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Was There Ever A Circuit Overseer That You Couldn't Stand?

by minimus in

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i know this has been discussed before but i think a fresh thread on this will be enjoyable.

gitasatsangha

Neon,

I met Da Cinti. I think he was a DO by then. He was an arrogant, irritable, and unlikeable person.

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Was There Ever A Circuit Overseer That You Couldn't Stand?

by minimus in

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i know this has been discussed before but i think a fresh thread on this will be enjoyable.

gitasatsangha

Nowisee..

Couch sounds vaguely familiar, but I don't know if I met him.

When the CO Homolka died, a some CO's came to his funeral, and one or two DO's. Couch might have been there, not sure. I do remember Cantwell being there. He was pretty old and put out to pasture by then. Last time I saw him.

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AMAZING SECRET ANCIENT WATCHTOWER FOUND!

by gitasatsangha in

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clearly this goes deeper then we thought!.

gitasatsangha

Pritheee, you were correct, sire.

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AMAZING SECRET ANCIENT WATCHTOWER FOUND!

by gitasatsangha in

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clearly this goes deeper then we thought!.

gitasatsangha

Clearly this goes deeper then we thought!

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Was There Ever A Circuit Overseer That You Couldn't Stand?

by minimus in

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i know this has been discussed before but i think a fresh thread on this will be enjoyable.

gitasatsangha

I can't say I could'nt stand any of them. Some that stood out were Steelman, who was something of a charicature, but not realy unlikable to a small child anyway. Homolka was just old and tired, but everyone seemed to especially like him. We had this one CO The elders actually did not like, because he towed this gigantic RV with him. He didn't like staying in the friends homes (who can blame him), and so he took his home with him. It took up a lot of space in the parking lot, and that bothered some. I cant remember his name, but his wife was named Virginia. Odd what you will remember. Rex Carny was just a long winded career beurocrat.

But by far the most controversial CO we had was Jesse Cantwell. No one knew what to think of him. He was apparently pretty well placed because he could basically do what he wanted. There was no manuscript or outline for this guy, it was from the hip. He openly called a previous CO a "Hatchet Man" for closing down a congregation that was having some internal squabbles. He did this from the platform, which was extremely cool, really. At the same time he was brusk and down to earth.

I still think with a critical mass of Jesse Cantwell's something positive could have happened to the JW's. Not that its worth saving, IMHO.

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tKingdom Melodies I remember/liked.

by ScoobySnax in

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ok bucking the trend here, but there was some kms i liked, alot of stick has been given to "gods loyal love"....well i liked that one.

nice melody.. i think song 4 "gods promise of a paradise" too.

and song number 15 "life without end at last".....remember this was in the brown book....still like that one, especially at conventions, always guaranteed to be on the sunday programme, still get teary eyed at that one.. what i want to know is what happened to "keep your eyes on the prize"....i can remember writing those words out on a sheet and hanging it in my room, surely the classic jw kingdom melody of all time...guaranteed at conventions circa 70's/80/s......still miss it, and hum it even now occasionaly.

gitasatsangha

Victory Song was kinda cool cause it was different from the others (Came from the Egypt drama). The problem was it made my conscisnce feel bad, because secretly I sided with the egyptians. They seemed like the underdogs. I just wanted those wheelless chariots to get a bit closer so the egpytians could get midieval on those Red Sea pedestrians.

If only they'd invented the amphibious assault vehicle, we might be on a "Ex-Ra's Witnesses" board right now.

Amen to that

Amen Ra!

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I went to Church today

by Trauma_Hound in

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... and donated a bunch of adult and baby food for the homeless.

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gitasatsangha

The problem is that all too often, esp with Protestant Churches, being a pastor is just seen as a regular professional career move by some, almost like being an MD, a journolist, or a psychologist. The burgeoning divinity school (and I am not speaking for all, I have known some very sincere theology students) student wants to one day lead a large church and make a good career, and get a pretty wife. The proffit margins are being maximized lately by buildign much larger centers (often built in a manner similar to modern warehouses) with names that typically occlude the religious organization to which they are affiliated with (in other words.. "Life Eternal Center" sounds better then Route 42 Southern Baptist Church.). Some of them seat 5000 people. I am not automatically faulting the pastors themselves. My cousin is a paster of such a church and I believe he cares for his parishoners. But at the end of the day he is living the American dream.

The African-American churches are a similar matter I guess, but I'm not going to discus them because it's really not my culture. It IS strange though, to see the richest man in a poor neighborhood be the preacher.

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