Bottom Line: What Does This New Meeting Arrangement Really Mean?

by minimus 73 Replies latest jw friends

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  yknot

  Good one Journey-on !
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  BurnTheShips

  Hehe.

  Very good J-O!
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  NewYork44M

  One complained to us that some of the friends use the toilet and never flush it. One wants us to pay for plumbing repairs and bathroom repairs due to someone overfilling the toilet with God knows what and causing it to overflow.

  What is it about bathroom etiquette at a bookstudy. I remember my parents complaining about this very issue when the book study was in our house in the early 60s.
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  minimus

  "Is There Pornography On Your PC?" is the ad on the bottom.

  Perhaps this subject really is about spiritual pornography.
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  undercover

  One complained to us that some of the friends use the toilet and never flush it. One wants us to pay for plumbing repairs and bathroom repairs due to someone overfilling the toilet with God knows what and causing it to overflow.

  What is it about bathroom etiquette at a bookstudy. I remember my parents complaining about this very issue when the book study was in our house in the early 60s.

  Well, ya don't wanna clog your own toilet after eating that super-sized chili cheese burrito for lunch... And you can use up their TP instead of your own...
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  OnTheWayOut

  Let me know if someone posted this thought somewhere on the
  more than 2 dozen threads.

  It could mean a huge crackdown on elders. WTS is tired of those
  independent-minded elders that don't stick to the outline or dare to
  sleep in off-list hotels. They want to get rid of the elders that don't
  sacrifice a week's vacation to go to NY and get filled with spiritual
  knowledge. They are tired of the little bookstudy group overseers
  who put in some of their own research or actually think before
  answering.

  The WTS might be ready to swing the axe at the elders, sparing
  only the totally obedient ones who promote their doctrines, sell their
  magazines, disfellowship the lazy slackers. This means there will
  be many less to go around. They need to consolidate the meetings
  to cover this loss of elders.

  Either that, or they are reducing publications again and have moved
  all the old books out of warehouses already, so they figure it's time
  to cover the new books at a slower pace, and try to act like they are
  concerned for the members.

  Edited to add: I was right in this comment. That's why the thread died.
  Everyone was in awe of that answer, knowing it had to be truth.
  "OTWO could be the new oracle, if he only still believed."
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  minimus

  OTWO, I think you're full of sh*t on this one.
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  OnTheWayOut

  OTWO, I think you're full of sh*t on this one.

  And a good day to you too, Minimus.

  (OTWO storms offstage, vowing "I will show them all.
  They'll be sorry. I WILL BE THE ORACLE! I WILL!
  And then, I will predict their own destruction. HA HA HA")
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  minimus

  If the Society wanted to crackdown on elders, here's what they easily could do: Review ALL elder's qualifications and then filter out those that do not measure up. This would purge thousands of elders who don't go out in service when they should, work too much, are lacking elder qualities, who go on too many vacations, etc. Then they could have just a few elders that are loyalists to work with. They did something similar in Rutherford's day. They always would rather have just a few good men than a lot of numbers that proved useless in the long run.
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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  The 'simplification' to 2 meetings, along with shortening the Pubic Talk, will mean more congregations can use one KH. Fewer KHs mean mo' money for the WTBTS. Also, since the 'friends' no longer need to drive that extra night, they can donate mo' money to the WTBTS. Yep, Bethelites and GB members will have to drive less, too... mo' money saved.

  In conclusion, this new meeting arrangement really means that the organization is functioning as poorly as a clogged crapper at a Home Book Study location bathroom. The Holy Spirit is helpless to assist the R&F to afford gasoline. The book studies are so poorly attended, poorly conducted, and the books so poorly written, that they're trying to get rid of the Book Study arrangement without actually getting rid of the Book Study. Also, it means that they realise that the Theocraptic Misery Stool sucks and the Serve Us Meating blows.

  B the X