The CO Wants Everyone In Hall To Get A Bible Study
What a coincidence, everyone in the hall wants the CO to study a bible....
The CO Wants Everyone In Hall To Get A Bible Study
by minimus 24 Replies latest jw friends
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Abandoned
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skeeter1
Meet Floyd. He is my new bible study. He's in a band, called Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. He will get along great with Prince & the Jacksons. Just give it 6 months, CO, and he'll have a clean haircut & shaven face & nice clothes & be singing from the Praise book.
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Black Sheep
My wife will be right behind that.
The last Bible study she had, that I am aware of, tried to burn her house down to get rid of the demons in it.
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WTWizard
That is a sure way to make people not want to be in field circus. Everyone is supposed to bring in someone. Now, I have a little math to show that eventually this must break down, even if everyone on the planet was interested.
Start with one person. There is the study, who gets baptized. Now, that person gets a study and you get another. At the end of one year, you now have 4 people. In two years, it is 4X2X2=16 people in. Another year it's 16X4=64. So far it doesn't seem like much. But, in 20 years, you are going to have 2^40=about 110 billion people in. Since the world population then will be around 7 billion, there will be no one left to witness to.
Besides the mathematics, there is practical issues. Many, if not most, have heard about the pedophile problem within the Witlesses. Most of them are going to be justifiably turned off about even taking the litter-ature, knowing that a portion of everything they give will support defense of pedophiles, and even having the litter-ature is a way to support pedophilia without doing it yourself. That alone is going to make it just about impossible for many to even get good calls, let alone starting studies.
All this is going to do is get people all the more desperate. If the hounder-hounder says that everyone has to start a study, the hounders are going to start hounding everyone that doesn't have one. No matter if they are putting in 300 hours of field circus and doing everything just the way the Witchtower Society wants, they are still not going to start studies if the public doesn't want them. Hopefully a lot of them are going to refuse a study, or research online and land on many an apostate Web site in doing so, ruining those studies for good.
Does that guy think he can control reality? What if I was the manager of a store that sold Christmas decorations and told all my salespeople that they are each to have sold one set of Christmas decorations to a Kingdumb Hell or A$$embly Hell of Je-CockroacHovah's Witlesses? That would likely not happen. People commit, time or money, only if the perceived value exceeds the perceived cost (and if the perceived value is inflated or there are hidden costs, it is by definition a scam). If people do not perceive the value of the study to exceed the total cost, they are not going to study. And no hounder-hounder is going to undo that basic law of economics.
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chickpea
my old CO should talk to that CO and remind him that the borg lovingly provided us with the correction, thru the channel of revelation and the chain of command, that they are to be referred to as "bible STUDENTS, not studies"..... something about humanizing the concept..... perhaps a move away from an obsession with numbers?..... NAH!!!!!!
