i was looking at reviews on www.tripadvisor.com and saw that the harvest inn near patterson is highly rated (though clearly a lower end mo-tel).
one writer even commented at how nice it is to wake up to kingdom melodies in the morning there.. .
comments lead me to believe that the place is jw owned and primarily caters to visitors of the farms and bus tours of same.. .
"We feel it is part of our service to God," and John Roth, Jr., a contractor from Albany, Ga., interrupting his carpentry work on frames for one building.
When I was at Bethel I knew a guy with that same name from Georgia (worked in the pressroom)... must be his kid... I find that almost unbelievable recalling stories and escapades...
just want to celebrate one of my favorite eating haunts from my brooklyn days.... fascati's pizza on henry st.. here's a review online:.
http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/fascati-pizza/.
it was just a few blocks from bethel and a favorite of most everyone.
I also remember Fascati's very well. You can see the store front via Google Earth. Actually the whole Brooklyn Heights area via Google Earth.
When I was there Fascati's was called dining room x (I forget how many dining rooms were at Bethel during my time, so x was 1-plus Bethel dining rooms)
I remember that Mexican restaurant on Montague. A number of us had a taco and beer party one night. Went to the restaurant and got 12 dozen taco shells. What a feast. Oh to be that young again to eat and drink mass quantities and not worry about weight....
i seem to recall that facebook was a recent discussion and came across this article, "10 privacy settings every facebook user should know" located here: http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/.
good information that might be of use..
I seem to recall that Facebook was a recent discussion and came across this article, "10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know" located here: http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/
Good information that might be of use.
the experience that follows contains some details that some might find graphic.
so be warned.. the body of elders received word that an unmarried ministerial servant, age 20, had been seen fondling a younger male bible student, age 14. the ministerial servant himself had been studying with the boy.
the ministerial servant was a quiet, timid brother.
Question: Why is head office so worried about if you're phoning from a cell phone or a land line phone?
They think others may listen it. Cordless phones, the older analog, units could be monitored if you were close enough with a scanner. Under ideal conditions these units might transmit up to a mile. The newer digital phones are digital, which makes it far more difficult to eavesdrop. If your cordless phone has spread spectrum or frequency hopping technology it is virtually impossible for the conversation to be monitored. This applies to cell phone technology also.
i was baptized at 15 years old.
a brother toutjian gave the talk.
it was the circuit assembly.
I'm not sure what exact age I was, definitely teens. Think it was a district assembly. What I do remember is that the baptism was at someones private resisdence. They had a pool and we all went there.
i cannot believe i will admit this!.
i have spent past memorial days.
in the cemetary, skulking around.
I knew a few people that did this, and as one person stated, "tacky". A cemetary on any day, but on memorial day... Though, of the few that did this, one brother was a WWII fighter pilot and had seen his share of action, so I think he deserved the right to be there, but still, there is a time and place and a cemetary isn't quite it...
on may 19th, theodore jaracz had a stroke.
he's in very serious condition in the hospital.. that's all the information i have for now.. barb.
Here's something about Sydlik. This is what I was told. Dan was a writer in the Writing Dept. when it was called Editorial Dept. He wrote an article about baseball that went into the Awake! Later it was found out that he plagiarized the article from Reader's Digest. He was transferred to the Factory, the Bindary maybe. I could be wrong about that.
As Metatron correctly pointed out, it was linotype/composing where Dan was placed in exile. (Depending when Metratron was there, we probably knew mutual people). Sydlik did like baseball though. During the summer the factory had a good number of teams and Sydlik was there playing with the guys. Another story about Sydlik, A coworker of mine was at his table and WWII was a discussion. He said he was very surprised when Dan rattled off fire power statistics of WWII tanks, the last thing he thought a GB member would ever know about.
this thread was inspired by my listening to the band mastodon lately.
i just find their drummer brann dailor amazing.
other drummers who have impressed me in the past have been jimmy chamberlin of smashing pumpkins and dave grohl of nirvana.
a letter was read at tonight's meeting announcing that the governing body has decided to stop work on saturdays at all bethels worldwide.
bethel workers are encouraged to now spend saturdays with their local congregation in field service.
the new arrangement goes into effect june, 2009.. what do you think are the motives for such a change?.
Same here B. Bethelites bout to wild out up there. When I was there we got one saturday off a month and we used that to the fullest. We used to do kamaazi runs back home and to other locals, normally looking for sister's. We would get off work fri evening at 5 and hit the road out of town. One time we came back from detroit an waited till the last possible minute. I could make the trip from detroit to NY in 10hrs. We left at 11pm sunday night and pulled up in front of our bldg at 7:15 and head to work.
Same thing when I was there. We would get back to Bethel btn 5-7am, then off to work. I still have a picture of me sound asleep under a machine that one of my coworkers took. Mondays were rough after a full weekend traveling and partying....
a letter was read at tonight's meeting announcing that the governing body has decided to stop work on saturdays at all bethels worldwide.
bethel workers are encouraged to now spend saturdays with their local congregation in field service.
the new arrangement goes into effect june, 2009.. what do you think are the motives for such a change?.
Not sure if this is true or recalled correctly but apparently Bethel did not always work on Saturdays. Alledgedly in the 60's(?) a group of Bethelites were in a car accident causing serious injury/death, which prompted Saturday work. I do not really buy this, as when I was there we hit the road at quitting time and just drove faster to make up lost time... Another reason I heard that is more plausible was for tour groups. Towards the end of my time there they did allow you to have one Saturday a month off, which seemed that most took off the last Saturday every month, which made it pretty unproductive.
