Less meetings= ?

by JimmyPage 30 Replies latest jw friends

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  undercover

  The ones in the family miss more meetings than they used to..It is funny, once the Tuesday, Thursday routine is broken, it is more of an effort to get up and go out..

  Good point...

  Remember how the Society used to try to impress on everyone that every single meeting was important and to not let anything get in the way of meeting attendance? They'd warn about what could happen if we allowed ourselves to miss just one meeting every couple of weeks, then once a week, then another meeting, etc. etc.

  Now, here they've gone and done the work for the lazy dubs.

  In essence, they've said, "Let's just drop this one meeting night. It's not important."

  That decades long discipline of always going to the hall every other day has been broken. Through this new arrangement they've told the dubs that you can go that long forsaking the meeting of themselves together and still be safe within mother's womb.
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  jws

  Also, as we've talked about before, cutting the BSG means they aren't under pressure to produce books.

  I thought they didn't eliminate the bookstudy altogether. It's now in a condensed form. *IF* they're still going through the material at the same pace (assuming they're limiting comments), they'd still go through the same amount of books and would still have the need to replenish them.
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  undercover

  Yea, they've combined the Book Study with the Ministry School and the Service Meeting. I think they call the Book Study the Congregation Bible Study...yet still study a WT publication and not the Bible.

  I've heard a couple of people say they didn't much care for all the meetings crammed together. One person felt like it was "dumbing" down the meetings (how could it be much dumber, I dunno). Someone else felt like the flow of the meeting was rushed.
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  Poztate

  I seriously doubt most JWs are utilizing "study night" on their free Tuesday evenings. This will help loosen the mental bond.

  My Wife is still taking to heart the idea that the "extra night" should be used for personal study. Boring.....
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  wha happened?

  I wonder what they tell the newbies about the original sell on the bookstudy? I remember it when I studied the Live Forever book. Virtually all the older publications talk about the BS arrangement as our connection to mother when all hell breaks loose.
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  willyloman

  Long ago I told a CO pal of mine that the WTS really ought to consider dropping one of the weekly meetings and institute a "family study night" in its place. I listed all the reasons I thought this was a good idea, and he seemed to be listening. But when I finished he said, "They won't study. They'll just watch TV."

  Apparently that mindset was alive and well at Bethel, too. However, in recent years the Society made the change, and for the reasons I outlined to this CO in 1994. Either they now think people won't watch TV, or they feel they had to adjust to the declining attendance, burnt out elders and shortage of new "talent" stepping up to take the lead.
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  OUTLAW

  Less meetings= More Fornication!! The WBT$ is weeding out the Weaker Single JW`s..By..Giving them more time to have Sex!! In time..There won`t be a Single F*cking JW at the Kingdom Hall!!

  ...OUTLAW
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  cameo-d

  "CO-lite".

  Are you sure it's not spelled Co-lyte?

  It would better fit their 'perceived' job description.
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  primitivegenius

  yeah i dont think there are many who actually make it through all the bulls** that they try to cram down their throats in a week. I know before my eyes were opened i was pioneering, working, trying to study for the bookstudy, and wt study, and then on meeting night i would try to read over the information but probably 80% to 90% of the time i would end up just preparing my talks and skimming the rest.

  then you gotta add preparing for service by skimming the wt and awake.......... i usually would pick one...........

  then what............. you watched a tv show or movie................. oh how evil i am for doing this and not haveing my lesson prepared.................. BULL FKIN S***

  all the damn time i wasted........................... makes you sick
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  AllTimeJeff

  It's a JW dilemma. Finally they acknowledge that 3 nights are too much.

  In my experience as an elder, we lost just as many meeting attenders from fatigue as from a lack of faith. I am betting that the GB is banking on that.

  They didn't do this just to be nice. There is always an ulterior, selfish reason. Since they are usually insidious and well thought out, I don't think one less meeting will by itself cause much of a change at all.

  They got rid of book study, a meeting that had 50-75% attendance typically in the USA. They aren't losing anyone who matters to them on this, I assure you....