have the bethelites started cooking and doing their own washing yet?
how are they coping?.
paul.
I wonder if the fruit bill is because he took it from the commissary. If I remember correctly, the Bethelites have to pay for things from the commissary anyhow. It's not like the buffet food that they can get for free.
But still it takes a lot of nerve to invoice an out-going bethelite over such a trivial thing.
He has had some harsh treatment, and there's undoubtedly more to the story.
probably everyone here knows something about the photo drama of creation.
but i wonder how many know anything about other early watch tower films.. https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/.
if anyone knows where we can find the cedar point films, please let me know.
Thanks snug for the memories, both good and bad. To think that my dear old mom bought into this load of BS.... sad but true. I guess she found some meaning in it. <sigh>
chapter 31. murder suicide and death at the big house.
the people at bethel were killing us spiritually and sometimes they killed us physically too.. many of the old timers were in the infirmary laying there just waiting to die of natural causes.
some had served there for over fifty years.
I remember meeting Wilbur Ruth when I visited my brother there in the '70s. But I remember his name being pronounced more like Wilmer or Wilmur, rather than Wilbur. Can't say for sure, though.
unfortunately i had to zoom out to put all of the family tree in one picture.russell had 2 full brothers, 2 full sisters, and a half-sister.
it's interesting that margaret went on to be a jw (i.e.
stayed with the watchtower organization), whereas mabel, his half-sister, went on to stay with the bible students.it would be very interesting to find the descendants of both margaret and mabel... wondering how many still are bible students / jw's.... .
I think Russell's success was his writing ability. Maybe he didn't have much of an education, but he could write and write clearly in a way that made sense to people. It was all BS, but it read well.
a newspaper reports that in bornem, belgium, a jw volunteer was critically injured after being electrocuted:.
bornem - a man was electrocuted while performing maintenance on a high voltage installation in the assembly hall of jw in bornem friday afternoon.
the man was critically injured.. possibly the man, who is a volunteer with the jw, tried to clean the installation with a vacuum cleaner.
In the states they allow pioneers to volunteer to clean or do maintenance at assemby halls, and count their time towards their required hours. It seems likely this guy was doing that too.
september 6th, 2017: a just released research survey shows once again that jehovah's witnesses are among the least educated people in the united states: .
america’s changing religious identity.
it is also interesting to note how jws rank in the categories of: income, insurance coverage and homeownership.
The anti-college stance goes back to the earliest days. I remember somewhere reading Russell's comments about college and they were all negative.
back in the nineteen seventies hundreds of cars were stolen, in the city every day!
the new york post said "the average life span of a corvette stingray (sports car) parked on the street in new york was only 24 hours!".
one time driving back from rhode island at 2:00 a.m. i took a wrong turn in the south bronx’s.
Lol, this is hilarious
i agree that being photogenic is not given to every ordinary mortal.
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but when at the beginning of every new month i am confronted with the various faces of those males showing off as a priority on tv-jw (see jw broadcating september 2017), i am asking myself if i honestly am faced with normal people, or with people who went mental already since ages ago.. is it maybe due to the fact that the majority of them already do not feel anymore like belonging to ordinary mortals ?
just finished a 7-day cruise from nyc on norwegian cruise line (ncl- gem).
this is my first cruise in 30 years, so my past experience does not count.. overall, a great experience.
ncl does a great job.
We've been on several, all but one in the Caribbean. My thoughts:
3 days is too short, two weeks too long, 7-10 days about right.
Enjoy the main dining area.
Seek out where the musicians are and at what times. It's surprising how good some of them are.
Spend the money and effort to take excursions in the daytime to see some things in each port. It's cool so get to see so many different things in such a short time.
We haven't been on one in about 5 years, its about time.
Edited to add, Get a balcony room.
now that she has announced that she is 20 weeks pregnant and not married, what is her status in the cult?
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I read that Serena Williams had a baby girl this week:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/02/sport/serena-williams-baby/index.html
