The writing on the wall. The end is coming!

by easyreader1970 8 Replies latest jw friends

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  easyreader1970

  My lovely wife is planning for the end of the world now. As I said in a previous topic, she is in a fever over the announcement.

  This is a sort of paraphrasing of her commentary:

  "Remember when they encouraged us to really get to know the people in our book study and to humbly submit to the arrangement when they were rotating families in book studies to promote fellowship? Now I see why! It was so that we could all get to know each other! Now that they are ending the arrangement, there was wisdom in that since you can't effectively get to know people at the Kingdom Hall! Now it makes sense about the Israelites being given directions though they might not have understood them at the time!"

  I was berated, of course, for not doing my part in hanging around after Thursday book study. "You should have been getting to know the friends instead of going to the car!" So now, because I have put the family at risk for not socializing enough, she is gung ho about trying to get to know people at our meeting that we don't already. Wonderful.

  Her disfellowshipped and wayward younger sister was at a meeting yesterday as well (not our meeting but one where she lives). She normally goes to a "church of Christendom" but, for some odd reason, she decided to go to the Kingdom Hall. I suspect that she heard about the announcement, but that's just my opinion. My wife, of course, is certain that it was divine inspiration of some kind because now her sister wants to try to "get back in." So her sister is going to start meeting with the elders.

  Where is Morpheus when I need him?
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  WTWizard

  I guess they don't want people to have a chance to be drawn to anyone. Every time anyone draws close to someone else, they will bust it up and expect the witlesses to go along with it. And now they are going to bust it up altogether.

  Oh well, at least they will be able to work with each other out in field circus on Book Study night.
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  heathen

  OMG that is so circular without any actual similarities even. When I went to book studies most people just left as quick as they could anyway since most had jobs to work the next day. Then I'd sit around trying to think up some conversation with the guy who's home it was at ,about as mundane as it could get ..... It's probly more about having people beat their kids at the hall where as at somebodies home they would be less likely to.
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  golf2

  What a phony excuse. I've heard this since I was a kid and that goes back to the late 40's.
  
  
  Golf
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  Homerovah the Almighty

  Sorry guy but your wife sounds like she experiencing hysteria from delusion, deliberately brought on by mind control tactics, you might call it the fear factor.
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  Tired of the Hypocrisy

  GODDAMN the governing body.
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  Mickey mouse

  A lot of dubs I am speaking to believe that the change is being made so that when the religion is banned, we can then start meeting in smaller groups and people in the community will not know where the meetings are happening because it hasn't been a regular longstanding arrangement. People really can read whatever they like into this thing, and are doing.
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  cameo-d

  Now it makes sense about the Israelites being given directions though they might not have understood them at the time!"

  Yeah, and if the Israelites had been smart enough to stop and think about it and ask a few questions....they would not have wasted their entire lives wandering around in a damn desert for 40 years. From what I gather, they just walked in circles.

  Yeah. Rash decisions can leave you stranded in the desert and waste your whole life.
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  mustang

  Now that they are ending the arrangement, there was wisdom in that since you can't effectively get to know people at the Kingdom Hall!

  Huh??!!! I never had any problem meeting who I wanted at the KH; or avoiding them, for that matter.

  When I went to book studies most people just left as quick as they could anyway since most had jobs to work the next day.

  This could slow down things, but done properly, I could say hi and arrange to get together for whatever reason later. I still say , HUH???!!

  I guess they don't want people to have a chance to be drawn to anyone. Every time anyone draws close to someone else, they will bust it up and expect the witnesses to go along with it.

  I suppose that in the 30+ years I've been gone, the Association Police could have gotten tougher. I'd like to hear more about this: is this a noticeable trend? Any policy or announcements about such?

  Mustang