New song 136

by sir82 15 Replies latest jw friends

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  sir82

  This week's service meeting, the whole 30 minutes, is devoted to the "new songs" foisted upon JWs.

  Note this from paragraph 8 of the KM article that is to be considered:

  We will conclude our meeting today with the new song entitled “The Kingdom Is in Place—Let It Come!” This song, which was featured at the recent annual meeting, was specially composed to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Kingdom.

  Have any of you actually heard this little ditty? You can listen to it on JW.org, if you are so inclined.

  Does anyone recall the scene from the movie "Amadeus" where Salieri is pridefully showing off to Mozart, the march he composed for the emperor?

  Mozart listens, says, something like "that's not bad", then begins playing it, by ear, after one hearing, then begins improvising on it on the fly, and finally, a few minutes later he has improved it dramatically.

  Salieri's work, while technically "music", was just boring, insipid, mediocre dreck.

  THAT'S the impression I get upon listening to song 136.

  I'm thinking, "that's the best you can do? To celebrate the 100 year anniversary of what you consider to be the most important event in history, to date? This huge, fantastic, enormously important event, and you compose,,,,what? A middling mediocrity? A Salieri piece? Mr. Quarter-Note Takes a Stroll? That's all?"

  As I've said countless times on this forum, if there was a Jehovah as the WTS paints him, he be so utterly disappointed in their meager half-hearted bland attempts at "serving" him, he'd drop them in a New York minute.

  
  

  Oh,  I also enjoyed this nice little bit of passive-aggressiveness from paragraph 7:

  There is another way we can show proper appreciation for our sacred music. At assemblies and conventions, a musical interlude is played before each session begins. Twice a year, devoted brothers and sisters from the four corners of the earth travel at their own expense to Patterson, New York, in order to produce beautiful music for use in our worship. Thus, when the chairman invites us to take our seats and listen to what the orchestra has prepared,
  we should do so.

  Yes, you miserable little worms! Don't you know there are starving children in India who'd love to eat those Brussels sprouts who'd love to have the opportunity to listen to those "four corners of the earth" musicians!

  Sacred music! Oy!
  

  
  

  
  
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  DATA-DOG

  They travel at their own expense... NO SHIT,  SHERLOCK!!!! 😝

  
  

  DD
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  blondie

  The WTS is not interested in musical ability only jws who completely obey the WTS.  That's why so many KHs have flaws, serious ones.  The WTS during the NYC building phase had outside contractors do the outside of the buildings because construction ability was absolutely necessary or the building would fall on their heads.  I heard quite a few messed up problems at the "Farm" where one "spiritually qualified" Bethelite lost the WTS 400,000 mid-80 dollars.  When the WTS brought in jw construction staff because the inhouse Bethelites were totally incompetent.
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  WTWizard

  So they trump the expense they go through to gather and put out rubbish for the jokehovian witlesses to listen to.  Big deal.  If you want real music, I advise you to go to YouTube, run "All the hits of 1967" in the search box, and play the series of videos that come up.  Make a note of any songs that interest you, for later purchase or download.  Continue the series of videos that runs through 1972.  You are going to find a lot of real music in that period.  There are collections of music that run through the 1970s into the 1980s, and back into the 1960s into the 1950s that go beyond what Time/Life offers.

  Another way is to look through classic acts.  Led Zeppelin made much better music than anything the washtowel ever will.  Even their Coda album, which is their lowest quality (their last), and their Presence album (their seventh, also impaired) is better than the best of the Kingdumb maladies.  Get your hands on that Physical Graffiti or IV album, and you have masterpieces that are right up there with Mozart and Beethoven.  Michael Jackson, the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, The Bee Gees, and Stevie Wonder also have music that is worth trying.  Try Thriller, Eagles Greatest Volume 1, Fleetwood Mac Rumours, Saturday Night Fever, and Songs In the Keys of Life (and/or Talking Book) and you will find better music than anything the washtowel will put out.

  And, if you want new music, you have to look deep.  With the crap on mainstream FM these days, you will probably need the Internet.  The days of going to record stores and getting 15 or 20 different charts plus picking CDs based on the recommendations on the disc are long gone.  It does involve sifting through piles of rubbish to find the songs you like, but if you really want music that is going to move you, you can probably find it for far less than a trip to the Grand Boasting Session.  And you only pay for the songs you want--roughly a toilet paper per song.  Which will probably be far better than paying for your motel [bedbugs come free] and donations to the Worldwide Damnation Fund for rubbish.
  
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  user100

  im waiting for the day when they cut the stupid song in the middle during the weekly meetings.. jeezuz christ .. i hate wasting those 1.5 minutes on top of the 90
  
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  Jay Elle

  Judge rutherford is rolling in his grave that music was brought back to the Kingdom Halls.  
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  Splash

  blondie3 hours ago

  I heard quite a few messed up problems at the "Farm" where one "spiritually qualified" Bethelite lost the WTS 400,000 mid-80 dollars.  When the WTS brought in jw construction staff because the inhouse Bethelites were totally incompetent.

  I heard the same happened in the UK recently when one assembly hall was renovated.

  The new roof needed specialised skills to complete it, but the local wannabee's tried to do it themselves.
  After it leaked, professionals were called in.

  The whole fiasco came to around £300,000 of the local congregations kindly donated contributions.

  But who cares when it's easy come, easy go?

  Splash
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  cofty

  devoted brothers and sisters from the four corners of the earth travel at their own expense to Patterson, New York

  The earth has no corners.
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  Splash

  This commemorative song is late. It should have been available and sung in 2014 to mark 100 years.

  Sloppy and disrespectful.

  Splash
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  TTATTelder

  “The Kingdom Is in Place—Let It Come!”

  The title alone is enough to make you drink. Why the he!! would you set up a "kingdom" and then let all the earthly subjects die?

  The Bible Students were chosen in 1919 because they were so special...I'm pretty sure it says so on their tombstones!

  The lie just keeps growing... (just like we were taught in kindergarten)

  -TE