PS i realise now it would have been hard to march with my head stuck up my ars
Remember this old timers?
by ScottyRex 39 Replies latest jw friends
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Old Goat
Finkelstein,
First edition was 1944, revised in 1948, the year I was baptized.
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LoisLane looking for Superman
OldGoat. Two hours ago... I remember singing that song but not that song book.
...Praise the Lord less He be angry and you do perish in His Day...
Something about Warriors.
I have been going to the KHall since diapers. I keenly remember the soft moss green one that was after this red one.
How old are you OldGoat???
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Old Goat
I turn 90 this fall.
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Old Goat
At 90 I'm dependent, which I hate. I'm diabetic, with all that comes with it. I sleep in two hour bursts. I've developed seizures. I forget everything, then remember everything, even things I'd rather forget. I was a Company Servant when we had those, then Congregation Servant. You may have heard me at District Conventions.
A long train of things finally led me to resign as an elder, citing declining health. I keep my opinions to myself for the sake of my wife and kids and grand and great grand children who are firmly committed to the Watchtower. I met, though I did not know well, many of the historical figures: Knorr, Franz [a repulsive little man], Miller [who never got over being a Marine.] and others. Macmillan was a guest in our home a time or two. Liked him.
Now, I believe some of the basic doctrines, but reject the self-elected governing body as a scriptural institution. There's a stout list of things I do not believe. But I most object to the self-entitled, un-scriptural views of those in authority. They browbeat their fellows. Okay enough of an old man's complaints.
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Old Goat
Oh and that song, Lois, first appeared in Songs of Praise, the 1928 songbook.
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LevelThePlayingField
Those songs are much longer than the one sang now. About 2 or 3 times as long and a lot better. The religion surely has changed and after listening to those songs it seems like the heart is taken out of the new songs. Just a bunch of flub to me, just words with no substance.
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pale.emperor
"hey now all you thirsty ones... come and drink lifes water free, yes come drink you thirsty ones... Gods loving kindness see"
I always HATED the childlike way the bOrg tried to get a rhyme in. Mixing up word order like a bitch.
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snugglebunny
My own favourite bit of JW plagiarism. With apologies to Beethoven.
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jookbeard
I still whistle them to this day