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  A World so different to the one I grew up in.

  by fulltimestudent in

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  in the early 1950's i changed my life.

  i started to study the bible with a jw.

  big mistake!

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  Let’s hope that Africa can achieve victory against poverty as well. Some of the countries there ( Congo DR for example) are abysmal.
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  Mr. Dropoff goes to Warwick!

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

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  made a visit to warwick recently.

  i’ll try to get some pics posted..

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  We saw one room where a couple lived. Looked like a large suite hotel room. Nothing remarkable, pleasant enough I guess. Didn’t see any dining area. The food for lunch and dinner is prepared and the bethelites go get it and take it to their rooms to eat. I think breakfast is the only meal served in a dining area, and some of the bethelites eat breakfast in their rooms too and watch the morning worship on tv.

  The experience of visiting bethel ( and living there) is very different than it used to be.
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  Jehovah's Witness Books in Guinness Book of World Records

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  http://ed5015.tripod.com/jwbookscirculation.htm.

  new light.

  predicting world events--yet--containing not even 1 successfully completed prophecy.how is any of it "food"?

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  I find it funny that, although the blue Truth book was ubiquitous at one time, it’s hard to even find one now. There should be a list of books ‘most copies thrown in the garbage’.
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  Mr. Dropoff goes to Warwick!

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

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  made a visit to warwick recently.

  i’ll try to get some pics posted..

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  Diog, you are correct, there was no singing or music for a number of years under Rutherford. Knorr brought it back very soon afterwards. The display at Warwick doesn’t mention that.
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  Mr. Dropoff goes to Warwick!

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

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  made a visit to warwick recently.

  i’ll try to get some pics posted..

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  Actually, we did get a family photo with Caleb and Sophia, but my still-in daughter and son-in-law are in it and I didn't want to post it here. Another thing that I saw that I didn't get a photo of was the 'watchtower'. Yep, they have a watchtower there, an observation tower that you can go up and get a view of the entire campus and surrounding hills. It's not on the regular tour, but if you know someone there they can take you up it.
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  Mr. Dropoff goes to Warwick!

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

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  made a visit to warwick recently.

  i’ll try to get some pics posted..

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  One thing that struck me was was the drab, institutional appearance of the buildings at Warwick. Besides gray, I don’t think they have any colors on the exterior. Admittedly, winter in that area is bare and drab anyway, but the Warwick campus is especially dull.
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  When did Watchtower writings start becoming anonymous?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  i think most people know that authorship was credited in the old watchtower literature, but at some point everything became anonymous.

  i still do not know exactly when this started, but i found this in charles taze russell's last will and testament.

  his will was not honored in other respects, so i doubt they would have honored this request.

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  I think the Seventh Day Adventist literature is anonymous.
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  Calling All Watchtower Historians ... What was the V.F.V.?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  in the may 27, 1942 edition of the consolation, the watchtower society devoted several pages to the controversy surrounding the burial of joseph rutherford.

  in several sections, they write about "the opposition" in vague terms without much specificity as to who these other groups of people were who were supposedly persecuting them.

  one section refers to a group called v.f.v.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  The VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and American Legion are specifically mentioned in Part 8 of the linked documents, so it is likely that Tara is correct.
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  When did Watchtower writings start becoming anonymous?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  i think most people know that authorship was credited in the old watchtower literature, but at some point everything became anonymous.

  i still do not know exactly when this started, but i found this in charles taze russell's last will and testament.

  his will was not honored in other respects, so i doubt they would have honored this request.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  There is a common belief that FW Franz was ghost writer for some of Rutherfords later books anyway.
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  The Red Headed League

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

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  i am sitting here watching my pioneering wife get service time ‘writing letters’ to not-at-homes.

  she has a long list of names and addressees where the jws in field service never got anyone home.

  the letter is simply a word for word copy, handwritten on note paper, then sent in the usmail.

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  I think they get all the names to match to addresses off the internet, in public domain. I think there are a fair number of letters returned with the incorrect name or address. The letter writer puts his or her name, first and last, on the return address, but the address is a PO Box for the KH.