So you work your way through this odd memorial thing, in which you feel extremely bored and very unenlightened and soon you have this "excitement" about something called the Special Talk. So you attend and it is just like every other talk you heard time and time again, with nothing new and nothing all that special. Yet each year, you still titled it the special talk, knowing that it was really just the normal talk, with more hype. Anyone else notice this?
The Special Talk, that never seemed very special.
by free2beme 6 Replies latest jw friends
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Smiles
Yes, I have also noticed that the annual Special Talk never felt "special". Especially when you consider that after the Special Talk is given, the talk outline is just absorbed into the long list of regular public talks that you hear over and over again for years.
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Dismembered
Greetings free2beme,
The snow has melted. The trees & flowers are beginning to bloom, and the speech writers at watchtower have an inordinate amount of testosterone. In an attempt to shake the winter doldrums. Watchtower uses the "special talk" as a marketing ploy to try to rejuvenate KH attendance. Unfortunatley sometimes it works, and people don't stay home. It's the same ole broken record. Reheated bunk.
Dismembered
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blondie
"special pioneer"
"special assembly day"
"special talk"
Order of Special Full-Time Servants
special needs room request
special magazine day
school a special territory
special target of Satan
special issues (of the magazines, more special than the regular ones)
special field ministry days
*** w85 2/15 p. 13 Nisan 14—A Day for Remembering ***
What, then, is implied on the part of those who partake of the bread and the wine during the Memorial celebration? The act itself demonstrates to the partakers, and to onlookers, that they have already benefited from the ransom sacrifice of Christ Jesus, but in a special way and for a special purpose
Isn't that special?
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SixofNine
So true.
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willyloman
Special, special, special. There's always something "special" coming up in the Watchtower world. And the events are always anticlimactic.
This is a group of promoters who believe a series of "resolutions" read and "approved" at seven consecutive conventions in the 1920's fulfilled the Bible prophecy of 7 trumpets of Revelation. How many dubs can tell you what those resolutions were and why they were important (without looking it up)? As someone once wrote on this forum: If those resolutions really were that significant, every school child would be able to recite them verbatim.
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Bumble Bee
Oh, and don't forget those "special" special assembly days.
You know, where only certain congregations are "invited" and you have to wear a "special" badge. I went to one with my mom (wore my sisters "special" name badge). It was the most boring afternoon imaginable. One speaker was a member of the GB (sorry can't remember his name) and I could not hear a word he was saying (mumbled most of the talk). The other was a brother from Brooklyn Bethel, was travelling CO/DO for several years and talked about the generosity of the brothers when he was travelling, how they'd let him stay in their million dollar homes, donate expensive cars etc. ( I never knew cleaners and window washers made so much money!)
This was a few years ago at Copps in Hamilton - anybody here remember it?
BB