I went with my wife to a one day CA the other day. I haven’t been to a meeting in
probably 8 or 9 months. Haven’t been in FS in a couple of years. But I went with
her since it was about 50 miles away and I didn’t want her to be alone and thought
I’d see if I could tolerate the experience since I’ve pretty well faded. I was surprised
that I could sit there with relative ease and not be tensed up. One thing I did notice
was that Jesus was mentioned at the end of each prayer and I didn’t hear a single
mention of him besides that. During the baptismal talk and the prayer for that I’m
guessing that the brother said Jehovah about 30 times. I understand that it is
the name used in the Bible to represent the Almighty God but I’ve got to say that
the repeatative saying of that name somehow takes away from the importance of
that name. For lack of a better word it somehow cheapens the strength of that name.
It’s almost like a chant. You can tell by the speakers choice of words and how he
constructs his sentence that the name Jehovah is coming up. Just saying his name
so many times in a single talk diminishes the power that the name should have. Just
my opinion. One other thing. The CO gave a talk that was a real downer. He talked
about sexual morality vs sexual immorality and pornography. I knew that topic would
be talked about I just didn’t know when. But he said if you watch porn on any electron-
ic device ( he didn’t mention printed page since that would be outdated) you are
mocking God. I didn’t hear any mention of joining the UN as mocking God or never
ending change of doctrine as mocking God. I wonder if an obese elder or rank and
file member eats an extra slice of pie and puts more stress on body ( temple), is he
mocking God? Your suppose care for the body God gave you. Well anyway, view-
ing porn on any electronic device is mocking God for sure. My wife I and left early
and so did my son and his family. One last thing. Those personal experience demos
never did anything for me. It was always some people that were handpicked to give
some mundane experience that really wasn’t that interesting to begin with. Man says
I sold my nice house and bought a condo. I sold that condo and got a less expensive
place and saved even more so I could quit my job and full time pioneer with his wife.
He said Jehovah would provide. My question would be what if you or your wife had
money problems down the road or sickness and your part time job couldn’t sustain
you anymore? Would you have been mocking God thinking all your worries and cares
would just not happen because you pioneered and and that Jehovah would just
take care of any problems? I watched people in the audience just nod in approval
and just eat every word.up. I really just felt sad for all the ones that just sit there like
drones and don’t seem to care that this is really drivel. They say you have to get into
the meat and deeper things. That’s a joke. All I heard was what you can’t do as laid
out by the FDS. Well anyway you can’t use that electronic device for sinfull reasons.
At least that was meat in due season.