Quoting the Daily Mail at meetings

by Farmer Jim1 7 Replies latest jw friends

  • Farmer Jim1
    Farmer Jim1

    I've just remembered that I attended a hall where one of the brothers consistently quoted daily mail articles to back up his answers during the meetings.

    I found it hard to keep a straight face when the inevitable daily mail article was quoted to 'prove' a bible passage at each meeting.

    No one really seemed to mind and I remember one time I spoke to an elder and said this has to stop as he is passing off tabloid tattle as hard fact.

    Elder wasn't interested. I guess as long as the answers backed up the party line no one cared.

  • blondie
    blondie

    Elders can be such cowards when it comes to counseling brothers privately, even other elders.

  • Ron.W.
    Ron.W.

    Yes! We had a similar elder who seemed to weave Peter Hitchens pronouncements into his every answer too..

    This was almost matched by his violent distaste for 'The Gallow-hair Brothers' (from Oasis) as he pronounced them at almost every meeting..

  • blondie
    blondie

    Ron W. Hard to swallow that crap!

  • Phizzy
    Phizzy

    The Daily Mail , on its Wiki page, used to have a notice on there from Wiki which warned it was not a source for factual information, that notice is probably still there !

    " I guess as long as the answers backed up the party line no one cared."

    That is the case, in the last few months before I finally walked away all those years ago, I used to give an answer that sounded like it backed the party line, but introduced a subversive idea. Most Elders did not notice, but maybe I planted a seed with someone in the audience ?

    I remember one in the old Group Study, held in a private home as they still were back then, we were doing a bit in the old "Revelation" Book about how the U.N was one of the "beasts".

    I answered and said about the Org. being "temporarily" a member of the U.N, and made the answer look a bit acceptable by saying that the Org. removed itself as a member, the Elder in charge looked a bit disturbed by what I had said, and merely said "Yes", whereas normally he would agree with an answer with alacrity..

    I doubt he, or other people there, realised they were soon cosying up to the U.N again, but I tried !

  • Gorb
    Gorb

    I quoted church bisshops in a positive way in my parts at the midweek meetings in the 90's.

    Before my fade

    G.

  • Ugot2bekiddingme1
    Ugot2bekiddingme1

    What about the super self righteous elderette quoting Watchtower Articles to you and to anyone around. You know that sh*t got old and no one wanted to hear it.

  • Vidiot
    Vidiot
    Anyone ever hear quotes from the Weekly World News?
    😏

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