INTEG,
Please continue to take your thorazine.....
Thanks,
(integs evil twin).
INFILTRATE...
by integ 13 Replies latest jw friends
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TD
Actually the JW organization is far less trusting in the selective power of the 'Holy Spirit' than is Swan. Every JW convention has a Society man in place, manuscript in hand, ready to immediately pull the pull the plug if the speaker significatly deviates from a word for word oral presentation of that material. Unless he was a member of the JW governing body, a rogue speaker would be lucky to get two sentences of his own out.
This doesn't seem to be any big secret either. I accompanied my JW wife to her convention last year and noticed this individual following along with the speaker. My father-in-law, who is a JW of some note in this neck of the woods explained this individual's function when I inquired and seemed quite proud of the whole thing.
I suspect this "arrangement" may have been put into place in the early 80's, but am not positive on that point.
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MrsQ
I'd considered joining the BORG for just that reason...I don't think I could pull of the lie that long.
If you do, please, PLEASE let us know when you are scheduled to give your convention talk. I would travel across the country just to see it! In fact, we could all caravan to whatever location the convention was at. Then, at the pivitol moment when you bust out with your message, the whole section of us could stand up and light our lighters! Heh. That would be cool.
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dannyboy
Fun to muse about, but really would be a waste of time, IMHO.
The dub mindset would be to blame Satan for such a departure, and as TD mentioned, the Chairman's Office at the District Convention watches over what's presented (not many talks are "Manuscripts" by the way (word for word)....most are outlines).
"Getting through" to a sincere but mis-guided witness is a tough propostion, is it not?
I know of no external method that is sure-fire...seems to me that many of us around here had to experience something that gave us pause long enough to sit back and say "...wait a minute!!" And there-in lies the problem.
---Dan