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  How many remember the 1969 8 day convention?

  by seek2find in

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  anybody remember the 8 day 1969 international convention.

  i was at the braves stadium in atlanta all 8 days with a sunburn and then wet clothes after the rain storms.

  if you were there (not necessarily in atlanta) do you remember anything about it?

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  Mulan

  Aha! I was right. It was 1:40. http://tvgonline.bravepages.com/ConventionPrograms/1969.htm

  Sundays did have a full day program. I concede that one.
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  How many remember the 1969 8 day convention?

  by seek2find in

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  anybody remember the 8 day 1969 international convention.

  i was at the braves stadium in atlanta all 8 days with a sunburn and then wet clothes after the rain storms.

  if you were there (not necessarily in atlanta) do you remember anything about it?

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  Mulan

  Okay, as I recall, they did have a very short consideration of the text and "off to the field", starting with song and ending with prayer, totally about 20 minutes. The general sessions started at 1:30 or for some reason I am remembering 1:40.

  Your right of course it was 1966 for the first drama.......the older you get your mind starts to go.

  The only reason I remember that exact year was that I had a new baby at that convention, and had to go back to the hotel because it was too cold and windy to have him out in the open. I found out that night about the first costume drama and was devastated that I missed it.
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  How many remember the 1969 8 day convention?

  by seek2find in

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  anybody remember the 8 day 1969 international convention.

  i was at the braves stadium in atlanta all 8 days with a sunburn and then wet clothes after the rain storms.

  if you were there (not necessarily in atlanta) do you remember anything about it?

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  Mulan

  Mulan, do you remember the woman getting killed on the roller coaster tracks? Or is that a figment of our collective imagination?

  I do not remember hearing about that at the time. Later I heard the story but it wasn't at Vancouver. I suspect it is an urban legend.

  For one thing, you could not have crossed the tracks, as a shortcut to anywhere. If she fell out, that's another subject, but I can't see how she could have done that either. I'm sure they would have closed the ride if that happened, and they didn't.
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  How many remember the 1969 8 day convention?

  by seek2find in

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  anybody remember the 8 day 1969 international convention.

  i was at the braves stadium in atlanta all 8 days with a sunburn and then wet clothes after the rain storms.

  if you were there (not necessarily in atlanta) do you remember anything about it?

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  Mulan

  We attending the Vancouver, B.C. convention. Not only was it 8 days, but it started early and ended very late...like around 8:00 p.m. if I remember correctly.

  Actually they started each day about 1:30 or 1:40 and went to about 9 at night. Everyone got there early for seats. We went to the Vancouver one too. I was 6 months pregnant with Princess at the time, and the boys were 3 and 5. My strongest memory was getting there just before the program started one day, no time for lunch, and I was in line to get food for us while Dave looked for seats, and kept getting pushed to the back. Just as I got to the front, they closed the line. "sorry"

  Dave walked across the street to a store and I made sandwiches on my lap, to lots of dirty looks from the other conventioneers.

  I'm pretty sure it was a six day convention like another poster said, not 8 day.

  Nope, definitely and 8 day one. Sunday to Sunday.

  Oh, and the Bible dramas were first at the 1966 convention.
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  BUT I HAVEN'T EXPERIENCED IT......................

  by Dansk in

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  you can go on and on but the fact is you can't prove it!

  i only have your word for it that you had your experience.. and the books you cite don't help, either, because i've only got the author's word that he's telling the truth.

  how can i believe him if i haven't experienced it myself?.

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  Mulan

  He's an extremely smart boy with a genius IQ.

  He is pretty amazing. Unusually good reasoning abilities for a 10 year old. As Princess said, when he was 5 years old, he reasoned out the Adam and Eve story as "just silly".

  I was there when his aunt's mom talked to him (well.......right afterwards) and was a bit alarmed. Rachel (Princess) handled it very well. He was under the impression that he wasn't allowed to believe in Jesus because no one else in the family believes he is god, and that we are not religious. Of course whatever he believes is his own belief system. No one tries to tell him what he can and cannot believe in.

  Last Winter we (Dave and I) listened to a great CD set by Julia Sweeny, a comedienne, who is an atheist, former Catholic. It was hilarious, but also very thought provoking. I lean towards being an atheist anyway, but her reasonings are very sound..........and entertaining. I think it was called "A Life Without God".

  Thanks Ian. I totally agree with you. When I asked my atheist brother how he explains the universe and our planet, he simply said "It just is". Made more sense than anything else I have ever been taught.
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  Percentage of JW's that are undercover?

  by flipper in

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  what do you think?

  it seems like a lot are there so they won't lose family and friends - are in good standing but don't actually believe.

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  Mulan

  I know one for sure, and a few others who hang on the fringes for family, but rarely attend.
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  2007 District Convention to hammer apostates?

  by yaddayadda in

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  this years "follow the christ" dc looks like it is going to be focused on avoiding all those evil apostates and their falsehoods, judging by some of the dc talks listed on the back of the june 2007 awake!

  do not follow false teachers .

  do not follow false stories .

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  Mulan

  Thanks yaddayaddayaddayaddayadda!

  Sure sounds familiar.
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  I need a good book to read...

  by liquidsky in

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  it's cold and rainy and i'm out of reading material.

  i need a good book to read.

  any suggestions?

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  Mulan

  Anything by Nora Roberts, a very prolific writer. Fluff stuff, but good reading. Better than Danielle Steele.
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  Has anyone been in one of the dramas while a JW?

  by Nowman in

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  it probably was one of my few happy moments of being a jw.

  my mom, dad, and i were asked to be in the modern day drama, think it was in 1988-1990 (not sure exactly).

  i played a worldly girl named "dolly winters" who was considered a bold and brazon girl who eventually studied to become one of jws because of a good example jw that she went to school with.

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  Mulan

  We were in two dramas. One was 1987 or 88. Dave was Joshua (the Rahab drama) and I was an Israelite woman. All I did was mourn Moses' death.

  In 1995 we were in one about helping the elderly. I played a woman with an elderly mother and they gave me a different husband. Dave was one of the elders discussing how to help the elderly in their cong. He was in the January 1996 WT on that drama. I think it was the January 15. Our son (16) was also in it, playing a boy who helped a couple with their yard work. Funny because we were well on our way out by the time we had to perform the drama.

  Dave was in another one the year before I think, about Jezebel. He was Jehu.
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  HELP with baby boy names! Contest!

  by Jez in

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  we are having a boy and can't decide on names.

  we want something a little different, not in 'the top 10'.

  it also has to be english or german orgin.

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  Mulan

  Gunter or Gunther

  Peter

  Louis

  Karl

  I also LOVE Maximiliian