tidbits from recent C.O. visit (page 2)

pale.emperor

"All people in the world are currently considered enemies of God"

Which God? Thor? Wotan? Ba'el? Quetzalcoatl? Allah? Jesus? Or maybe the one in the old testament who says it's ok to stone people to death, ok to own slaves, ok to kill children when you invade a town that you want to steal from them. He sounds like quite a devil this "god" of yours.

"Jehovah's chariot is moving forward at blazing speed!"

Really? Any evidence to support this? You're hemorrhaging members, memorial partakers are going up and you're selling property to pay off child abuse victims.

"It used to be that if a congregation reached 150 publishers we would split into 2 congregations now if we have 2 congs. At 75 pubs.we now merge them into one!! Again in what reality is that a good thing?"

How can that possibly be a good thing? If this happened to a local church you'd laugh at them for losing members and take it as proof that God is not there.

"Don't believe negative media reports!"

What, all of them? There's no terrorism? There's no famine? There's no war? Ok. Everything is fine, everything is fine, everything is fine...

Bungi Bill

It has been nearly 25 years since I last attended a kingdom hall during a CO's visit. It sure does not sound like I have missed much!

ScenicViewer

"Don't believe negative media reports!"

Unless, of course, they are about child abuse in the Catholic Church (or elsewhere), NO NO NO, NOT within Jehober's bOrganization!!

Exactly! If media reports are negative to any other religion you not only can believe it, but Watchtower will quote the media report in the Watchtower and Awake magazines to show how bad that religion is.

But when the same media makes the same report about Jehovah's Witnesses you can't believe it because, to quote Anthony Morris III, the media is controlled by "you know who!" As he is in the habit of doing he didn't finish his thought in that quote, but I suppose he meant Satan.

Okie dokie then.

Room 215

It used to be that if a congregation reached 150 publishers we would split into 2 congregations now if we have 2 congs."

That's because in the years of double-digit increases they could count on growth..... now contraction is the order of the day.

Bobcat

[The CO] made a blanket statement: " don't believe negative media reports!"

We had ours just a few weeks ago and he said the same thing, pretty much word for word. He presented it as a matter of faith. That is, 'if you have faith, this is how you will respond.'

I suspect they are told this, as a sort of policy statement, from further up the chain of command.

tiki

Wouldn't God be the one to decide who his enemies are, and not some guy talking to a roomful of people?

tidbits from recent C.O. visit