by punkofnice 37 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
All good points folks.
Now there is the thing where they sit at their carts® being passed by because no one is interested in the slightest by this weird cult.
How do they expect Jehovah® will really look upon it (not that he exists but they think he does).
Ann,
Please get me the link to your thread regarding the error on dating this memorial. Today I expect to see the crescent for the first time again. According to my SkyX there's a lag time of 77 minutes between sunset and moonset here in California. That's plenty to be able to see the crescent. in Jerusalem there's (there was) a lag time of 50 minutes. It's close, but enough to see the crescent, at least according to empirical data.
Regarding the "speedy" preaching, I can say the same thing of Spanish speaking JW's living in the U.S. They are so, so slow. So painful to see so many young ones robbed of their personal goals, dreams and their chance at the pursuit of hapiness.
"I recall a year or so back seeing a youngish lady moving at an incredibly slow pace along our street. I felt sorry for her, assuming that she must be suffering from some terrible debilitating disease. However she was then caught by her colleague who was moving slightly faster, like a sloth under sedation"
LOL - that brings back a few memories.
It's called the "pioneer plod" in the UK.
We had a few pioneers who were past masters at it. As an elder taking the group , I knew I could assign them a street of maybe 12 doors and they would be "sorted" for the whole morning.
The method was to walk incredibly slowly between doors , chat for ages ( 10 minutes or so ) on not homes , spend ages on the street corner writing down any "interest" ( usually a tract or magazine placement ) and generally just dawdle the morning away. The advent of mobile phones made things even easier as they could just stand and text or facebook between doors as well , or wander off to see how other like minded ones were "getting on" in other streets. It was painful to observe the incredibly slow place of walking and it often reminded me of the "slow bicycle races" that I used to enjoy in my youth , where we tried to go as slowly as possible without falling off.
There of course would be a sudden transformation at coffee break time that even Lazarus would have been impressed with - the slothlike pace would turn into a virtual sprint- almost running to the car to zip off to the local Starbucks for 45 minutes or so.
I remember the pioneer plod, we used to see them going so slow and stop whilst chatting to explain something with hand gestures, all the while counting time for Jehovah. If they were working for a companany as cold callers they would all be sacked, but to the GB anytime is good time because it's all for free.
Kate xx
I remember being pretty shocked the first time I ever pioneered and found out we were all pretending that 2 hour lunch break we took in the middle of the day was only 30 minutes.
I remember being out with a pioneer once and after we'd finshed cleaning our septic knuckles he decides to do a "call" so I said where is it? he says its the other end of the entire territory about 4 or 5 miles so I say I'll get the car ready? he says no we're going to walk ! FFS!
Walking slowly always made my back hurt.
They are just being careful not to shuffle ahead of the organization.
This was what caused to give up on the door to door work. As a working mom I did not have three hours every week to waste doing virtually nothing, just so that I could "report time". I have ADD, so it had a hard enough time forcing myself to sit through the meetings, I just couldn't make myself spend my precious Saturday mornings forced into the company of people I had nothing in common with, and accomplishing nothing. If the preaching work was so important why was it being done in such an ineffective and inefficient way? I hated every mute.
