The following is a recent JW advertisement about their upcoming Conventions. It can be found on the JW-media.org site under recent news. I will quote them in italics and then make my own observations.
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION
For Immediate Release May 18, 2001
Bible teaching and education take center stage at three-day conventions of Jehovah's Witnesses
Okay so far – I guess.
Every person on the face of the earth should have a right to an education.
Sounds good, but do they really mean what they say?
Jehovah's Witnesses will highlight opportunities for a unique education to all who attend the "Teachers of God's Word" District Conventions that begin today in the United States and work their way through cities around the globe. From May through September, Jehovah's Witnesses will hold 189 district conventions in 62 cities throughout the United States.
Ah Ha! Get that! Unique Education! Anything like their unique teachings?
Prominently and repeatedly emphasized in the scheduled program are themes involving teachers, teaching, learning and education. The nearly 1.5 million who attended the conventions held in the United States last year included people of all races and age groups, from infants to the elderly.
They sound good, but I smell a unique rat about to emerge!
The Witnesses plan to use a number of program parts to illustrate that learning from God's Word offers a unique and beneficial opportunity.
Ahhhh ... unique opportunity from God’s Word.
The process culminates with the satisfaction individuals gain when they share what they have learned with other people.
Selling (er, I mean giving away) magazines.
On Friday, the opening day of each convention, the keynote address delivered at 11:50 a.m. invites everyone to participate in that learning process: "Jesus was not interested in conferring the key of knowledge upon an elite group of Scripture scholars. He told his disciples: 'What I tell you in the darkness, say in the light; and what you hear whispered, preach from the housetops.' Jesus ardently desired to share the knowledge of God with as many people as possible. To him, knowledge of the Scriptures was to be shared, not hidden away."
But ... only as the Society tells you what the Scriptures mean. And what they mean is a hidden secret that only the Society can figure out and impart to JWs. Of course, all the things not disclosed to JWs are not mentioned, such as deceptive practices of Elders, shielding child molesters, etc.
Saturday morning's program will include the baptism and ordination at 11:50 a.m.
Okay, typical for JWs. But, I find the use of ordination a throw-back to the late 1960s. They dropped this from the early 1970s until sometime later. Now they are ordained again. I must have missed something since the early 1990s.
A highlight on Sunday morning will be a reenactment of a Bible account featuring a cast of costumed actors.
Cool. But After 25 years with the Big-O, I found the whole thing to be one big costumed act. But, I must say that the Dramas were always the most fun, even if they were poor lip-sinkers. I used to bring binoculars at the really big Conventions cause somehow I always ended up far behind center field, you know, where Babe Ruth like to hit them.
Sunday afternoon the featured lecture "Who Are Teaching All Nations the Truth?" will be delivered in each location by a qualified, experienced minister.
Good question Watch Tower Society. Surely, your organization is not doing this, so who is? And yes, please, for a change, have an experienced, educated, trained, and qualified minister and not the usual brain-dead idiots transformed by your mind-numbed robot factory in New York.
It will be followed by closing comments that will bring the three-day accelerated Bible education program to its completion.
The last time we heard about accelerated Bible education programs was back when the Truth Book was released. It was designed to cut down the time to convert a student to just 6 months. Why? Because Armageddon was so close, expected by 1975. We had so much work to do in such a short time! Could it be that the end is now close again, and you need to speed up the work?
Worldwide, Jehovah's Witnesses number over 6 million and preach their message of hope in 235 lands and islands of the sea. Their administrative center is located in Brooklyn, New York.
Administrative Center?! Oh come on Watch Tower Society, you make it sound like the world headquarters is nothing but a minor function of your religion, when in truth it is THE center of all life on earth for you.
It is Simply Amazing