Doubtful's Review of Special Day Assembly

by doubtful 34 Replies latest jw friends

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  doubtful

  @jookbeard,

  He was from Brooklyn so I imagine he was of Caribbean origin..he sounded Puerto Rican or Cuban or maybe even Dominican..Those islanders are famous for their lack of enunciation and their garbled syllables and missing endings..He barely moved his mouth when he spoke..

  I remember the English brothers making up words and using horrible grammar, but I don't think anything can compare to some of the Spanish speakers who get up there and butcher the Spanish language. Some of them sound no better than their strawberry picking farm laborer parents who never had the opportunity to get as much as a primary school education.

  Also, it's often the case that Circuit and District overseers are native American born Anglophones, even in the Spanish. Some of them have been in the Spanish congregation for 30 or 40 years, and their accent and grammar is still just as bad as that of a student from Spanish 102. So much for all the "holy spirit" providing them with the words they need to speak!
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  jgnat

  I've watched the ASL interpreters on occassion, and I'd say the same about them. I have achieved ASL Level 2, not nearly fluent, but some of the interpreters - especially the men - are awful. They jerk each word out as native English speakers; not fluid at all. Very hard to watch. I must say that deaf Jehovah's Witnesses are very, very patient people.
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  Mary

  The first was the "typical" fullfillment, and the second was --- the present day fulfillment - ie. - the spiritual paradise that we all enjoy. That point was harped on ad nauseum - the idea that we are ALREADY IN PARADISE. I think the leadership is beginning to worry about the length of this system of things going on as far as the eye can see, and they are sensing a growing weariness or dissatisfaction among the rank and file.

  They're not 'beginning to worry' doubtful-----they're crapping in their spiritual drawers because The End is nowhere in sight and the thugs at the top know full well that people are leaving in droves. LOL!

  I'm not sure if they're getting wackier, or if it just appears that way the longer you are away from their nonsense. Sorry to hear you had to go, but sometimes you have to bite the bullet until your situation changes. Sounds like you've got plans to escape once you go to university.
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  punkofnice

  How happifying for you...........NOT!

  Were there comments afterward about how brilliant it all was? I'd have chucked up by that point.

  
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  paladin

  In order to save face I have to attend another assembly.
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  agonus
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  agonus
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  WTWizard

  To me, it is a complete waste of the weekend to have to listen to some crap about being in a spiritual paradise. They are not even in one. They are getting fed lies, while being denied the opportunity to look at the real world and prepare for it. College should be about counting the costs against the benefits--if the cost is excessive or you are already making plenty of money, skip it--otherwise, you should go. Rather, they keep the witlesses out for doctrinal reasons--the worst reason to not go.

  How often do they harp on reporting penny ante sins to the hounders? When they start ratting out the pedophiles and baby-eaters they find in the cancer to the police, it might make more sense to rat out the masturbaters, porn-watchers, and heavy metal/rap audiences. But as long as they maintain a no-snitch policy to pedophiles and baby eaters, I see no reason to snitch on anyone that masturbates, watches porn, or listens to "bad" music. If a spiritual paradise can harbor pedophiles and/or baby eaters I don't know of, it is not a paradise. If, for every baby-eater I hear about, there could be 500 more I don't because they don't snitch, that is not a spiritual paradise.
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  Violia

  The spiritual paradise is not new, I have not attended regularly since mid 90's and they were talking about it then. I am waiting for them to announce that Armageddon has arrived invisibly- you know like God' kingdom .
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  paladin

  Violia, if any CO or DO or other rep says the Big "A" has arrived invisibly I would leave the Borganization PDQ.