WTBTS guidance on SMALL social gatherings. (page 4)

lovelylil

How any can study this artictle without laughing their heads off is beyond me. I had a great chuckle here and almost fell off my chair. I am going to run to the local laundromat and pick up my copy to share with my hubby - as he will enjoy the laugh too!

The scary thing is: we all know some Jdubs that will take EVERY word of this literally and no one will ever want to attend their gatherings again. I would love to be a fly on the wall to see one though. If it could be taped I am sure Americas funniest videos would love a copy. LOL

Have I mentioned how GLAD I am today to be free?

Seriously - I would have had to laugh if this thing was read in the KH. Talk about control freaks! People must be leaving in droves and I hope this artictle helps to open the remainding members minds to see they are merely puppets for the WT. Lilly

MidwichCuckoo

All Dub Weddings I'm aware of, the 'guests' have contributed plates of sandwiches/vol au vents/sausage rolls for the 'Reception'. Are they THAT poor, or just 'cheap?

Gill

Thanks Mary for that very accurate translation of this article!

I must say, that I\m extremely glad that me and mine will Never be invited to a JW gathering of any description, ever again!

The gathering has to be 'small'.

Alcohol is NOT recommended.

You should play 'Kingdom Melodies'.

You should 'read aloud' to eachother.

The host must control the conversation.

Wedding gifts must be annonymous.

Music not too loud.

What the hell next are they going to give precise instructions for!

Though this article has made me laugh....a lot....it's made me think what my relatives might be up to this weekend as they do their JW socialising and made me despair for them.

And you know what, I don't think any of them are going to see through this crap.

I recently went to a worldly birthday party with my husband and kids. After a couple of hours I whispered to my husband and kids, 'Where's the drugs, wild sex and drunkeness?' They just laughed at me. These people, and there must have been over a hundred plus of them, were just sitting, chatting eating and drinking happily.

What an idiot I was to believe the WTBTS crap on worldly people.

Only JWs need to be told how to behave. Everyone else in the world knows, unless they're totally stupid!

Arthur

It sounds as if those quotes were actually taken from George Orwell's 1984

done4good

It sounds like they are just getting worse and worse! How do they keep anybody?

I don't know how long you have been out, but I can assure you, it has become much worse. People are burnt out with this kind of stuff. I've said this before, if org keeps up the way they are controlling people, it will implode on iteslf. They won't need anyone to take them down.

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JimWood

Since when have men arranged the wedding plans. I thought it was the guys job to show up, somewhat sober, and say I did, I mean do.

This is good news to me, I thought that it was custom for the bride’s dad to shell out for the ‘social gathering’, life just got cheaper because I have two daughters.

blondie

jim, it is still the custom for the father of the bride to shell out for the reception, JW or not.

blondie

katiekitten

Why just last week I was at a ~~get-together~~, whoops, old light, a social gathering, and all 12 of us spent 4 hours sitting around staring at our shoes. Then we went home.
Well, praise Jah for this latest Wathctower, I now know that next time we can talk about various subjects!

LMAO!!!

So good of them to point that out.

mkr32208

wicked worldly people have fun gatherings all the time that don't include getting drunk or having orgies!

Funny but since I've STOPPED being a witness I've not gotten invited to even one drunken orgy! I used to get invited to them fairly regularly while I was a dub! It's probably my biggest regret in leaving! LOL!

These articles are a joke, no one who you would be even remotely interested in hanging out with would pay even the slightest attention to this crap!

Virgochik

Done4good, I've been out since 1983, and we were allowed to have tiny little bits of fun, occasionally. Yeah, big wow. But that sounds permissive, compared to the grim lifestyle they are rigidly following nowadays. You may be on to something. If they keep on like this, they won't need any help going out of business! Seems like people keep insisting on enjoying life, and the old toads in Crooklyn keep insisting they stop that nonsense, and suffer!

WTBTS guidance on SMALL social gatherings.

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