Since most Circuit Assemblies tend showcase similar themes and speaker programs, its possible others on this JWN site will be able to post what they heard. I think some of posters here might have attended for sure.
Scott77
More "sex texting" on Facebook...Circuit Assembly
by dudeson 20 Replies latest jw friends
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cantleave
I attended the circuit assembly in October - the last time I will ever attend a JW assembly of any kind! They did not condemn FB or Bebo in the same way as described above although they did say the great caution was needed.
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awildflower
I think it depends on where you live but I certainly think they are going to crack down hard on FB and other sites. Just yesterday on FB a jw friend of mine joined some "JW's for Memorial 2010" something like that and I kindly commented that I don't understand how jw's can use a forum like FB for their agenda and yet in the same breath condemn jw's who use it. She wrote back and said she didn't get it either and that in her sister's cong in Colorado, they said from the platform that if you were on FB you couldn't be a pioneer! I just told her it all sounded confusing and to be careful because the org is about to get stricter and if she wanted to be considered a "good jw" then she wouldn't be on FB.
So it may be somewhat sporatic as to what the "rules" are to FB and other sites, but as the years go by I'm sure they will make themselves VERY clear as to what is "ok" for them and the followers.
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dissed
I've got a DF'd niece trying to get back who was on FB but quit recently at the Elders recomendation as a 'condition' of her re-instatement.
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WTWizard
I don't know where they come up with this stupid definition of "fornication". I would like to make it clear to them that, in order to commit fornication, there has to be two parties physically present in the same area. You have to physically handle the private parts of the other party in order to commit fornication, and such has to be done on purpose and with the goal of stimulating one or both parties. One has to be a human; the other can be another human of either sex or a beast.
However, there is no room in this definition for virtual sex. If you are hooked up to a machine and stimulated to virtual images of another person of either sex or a beast, you are NOT committing fornication because the other person is not physically present. Additionally, sending sexually explicit text or pictures or sexually explicit discussion on the phone is not sex, even if one or both parties is masturbating. You are not physically contacting each other; hence, sex is not actually happening and fornication should not be charged. I even question if one should classify accepting sperm from a sperm donor, or donating sperm, as fornication--because no sexual stimulation was derived from this practice.
What I would like to see a disfellowshipping offense is the twisting of definitions of words. This is lying, plain and simple. And the lying is not done in an attempt to prevent you from doing something even worse, or to protect your life or the lives of someone you care about. The lying is done in an attempt to force people away from sexually explicit phone calls, texts, and web sites and out in field circus.
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Bonnie_Clyde
The WT always has to be against something. I remember a long time ago when they spoke against TV (Satan's eyeball), then it was color TV, then VCR's, computers, cell phones, and I forget what else.
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Quirky1
Dammit..just when I was getting a woody..
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Hecklerboy
Hmmm, so that's why my sister was all crazy on the phone the other night.
She kept going on about having to get off Facebook and the internet. She said she was addicted to Facebook and need to spend her time more wisely.
That was 2 weeks ago, funny I just got 3 Facebook notices from her.
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ziddina
Urk! The hypocrisy of 'good little' Jehovah's Witnesses on FaceBook, even after the WTBTS has declared the evils of socializing in the internet, the possibilities of rubbing shoulders with apostates, the temptations to indulge in online sex, pornography, and so on....
Same sh*t, different generation... I saw such hypocrisy in my parents' case - they were raised celebrating Christmas and CONTINUED to celebrate it while they were "good little" Jehovah's Witnesses - using we children as their excuse!! WE children didn't need "pseudo-Christmas" presents in December; WE children didn't need to go out "looking at all the pretty Christmas lights" - that was all for my PARENTS' benefit!!!
Now I see a similar hypocrisy in the Jehovah's Witnesses socializing on the Internet - "oh, WE'RE doing it for 'a WITNESS work'!!" "But we're ONLY associating with good, CLEAN Jehovah's Witnesses while online!!" Hence, the hypersensitivity of the moderators on FaceBook places like "Watchtower" and "JW C@fe"... But still HYPOCRITICAL, no matter how they slice it...
By the way, I HATE FaceBook.... It's clumsy, frequently collapses while one is using it, NOT user-friendly, and so on... Too fitting that it - as inept as it is - would be one favorite location for online JW activity...
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Magwitch
" they said from the platform that if you were on FB you couldn't be a pioneer"
A very compelling reason to join FB