I picketed street corners in strange big cities with sandwich signs tied to me, front and back, that advertised the Jehovah's Witness district convention.
Me too!
Mrs Ozzie got her picture in the paper one time, leading the group out placarding.
Just returned from the 2006 (Armageddon's here) "Deliverance At Hand" DO
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ozziepost
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Jim_TX
Hmmm... shouldn't watching television, or listening to the radio also be added to that 'list'?
...what about the use of cell phones? pagers? surely, these too could be used by 'apostates' who might phone the JWs... must get rid of them, too ya know.
Heck... why not go back to horse-and-buggys... the family car might be used to drive over to the nearest porn shop.
Hmmm... what else?
Regards,
Jim TX
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proplog2
Blondie:
Our JW histories appear to be somewhat similar. I went by myself from door to door at age 5. My father worked one side of the street and I worked the other. I used to be scared because a lot of the homes had quarantine signs for polio. I told my dad I was afraid and he told me that whoever tries to save his life will lose it.
In 1958 at the International Assembly in NY my parents left me with my 80 year old grandmother in the Warwick Hotel. It was too hard for her to make it to all the sessions. But every day they left me with a stack of leaflets and a sandwich board sign and they expected me to walk around Manhattan handing them out. I finally got so tired of this I one day and through the placard in a street garbage can along with all the leaflets and decided to spend the morning in the Museum of Modern Art.
THATS WHEN I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN OUT Age 13
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Poztate
Gary...Just noticed that handbill said "IT IS later than you think". If they gave the same talk today it's title would be "IS IT later than you think??" A little bit of back peddling no doubt. 1949 HAH
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garybuss
They had a banner all the way across Main street (where the Coliseum) is located that had the "later than you think" talk title printed in bold letters. Local people were still talking about it in 1964 (and still laughing). -
Poztate
They had a banner all the way across Main street (where the Coliseum) is located that had the "later than you think" talk title printed in bold letters. Local people were still talking about it in 1964 (and still laughing).
And we here are still laughing about it today.. Thanks Gary..
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BizzyBee
Hmmm... shouldn't watching television, or listening to the radio also be added to that 'list'?
...what about the use of cell phones? pagers? surely, these too could be used by 'apostates' who might phone the JWs... must get rid of them, too ya know.
Heck... why not go back to horse-and-buggys... the family car might be used to drive over to the nearest porn shop.
Hmmm... what else?
How about lobotomies and genital dismemberment?
Whatever happened to free will and choosing to serve Jehoobie?
It is clear that the WTS is desperate - it is an attempt to stem the hemorraging of R & F because of the Great Satan - the World Wide Web!
The WTS is demonizing the Internet - and their assault on the Internet will accelerate - because it is clearly a losing battle. Basically, the Internet is a rapid transmission of huge volumes of information - the kiss of death to the WTS!
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reneeisorym
They will have to demonize the internet soon or they will fall apart! ( I hope so!) What about the release? What was it?
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VM44
For Grant Suiter it REALLY is much later than he thought! --VM44
GRANT SUITER
Published: November 26, 1983, The New York Times
Grant Suiter, secretary-treasurer of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the corporate name of the Jehovah's Witnesses relgious sect, died Tuesday at the group's world headquarters in Brooklyn.
He was 75 years old and lived at the society's residence on Columbia Heights.
Mr. Suiter joined the administrative office there in 1928, became a Watch Tower director in 1938 and secretary- treasurer in 1947. He traveled widely in this country and abroad to lecture at conventions and advise many of the organization's branches.
Mr. Suiter is survived by his wife, Edith, and a sister, Grace Kraker, also of Brooklyn.
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VM44
Does anything that they say really mean anything?
These representatives give talks throughout their lives, then they die.
Then the essentially same talks are given by other Watchtower representatives who also die.
The cycle repeats
One would think that people would start to get tired of hearing the same old recycled unfullfilled messages given decade after decade.
I predict that when the year 2014 arrives, people will indeed start to become fed up with 100 years of The Watchtower saying that "Armageddon is just around the corner".
Just a comment/question though, Did Grant Suiter have a good life proclaiming this nonesense?
--VM44