Ugh! I got sick just reading that. Can you say control? I honestly don't know what I was thinking all those years...I was truly braindead. There is no way in hell I could ever fit back into that box!
Axelspeed
FDS Sends Convention Delegates Packin'
by ezekiel3 76 Replies latest jw friends
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Mary
Matthew 24: 45 predicted this very thing: "..Who then is the faithless and paranoid slave, whom his master put in charge to give the rank and file their allowance of food at the summer assemblies?
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46 Blessed is that slave whom his master will find letting people eat what they frigging well want to. 47 Truly I tell you, he will put that one in charge of all his possessions. 48 But if that wicked slave says to himself, ?These people are eating out for lunch instead of eating sandwiches and pop like we told them to,? 49 and he begins to beat his fellow slaves, 50 the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know. 51 He will kick their asses clear across the continent put him with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
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MikeMusto
but im a no carb'er, i only eat meat! --wont meat turn soft and gooey?
sometimes thats good-but not in this case-ooogaaahyh
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Undaunted Danny
Excerpt from my interview witn the Maine Times. [[Q: When I was working as a visiting nurse, I took care of a guy with uncontrolled diabetes, and it was killing him. He was a Jehovah's Witness, and he told me it didn't really matter whether he controlled his disease because his religion taught him that everything's just temporary anyway. I never saw anybody living in such complete poverty, he couldn't afford the food or medicine he needed, and he refused to accept any kind of assistance. But he had this stack of new books he had bought from the church. He was a man without education or sophistication.
A: That's another part of the cult dynamic: They exploit ignorance.......]]
Above, Watchtower and dietary medical advice.
[ I bugged out right around the time the 'simplification' arangement terminated hot burritos.I sure missed em,best part of the whole convention ]
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avengers
Watchtower Approved.
Use three sheets per visit. No more!!
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Stefanie
Avengers.....
How do you get those?
They are soo cute.
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Corvin
Reportedly JWs have been banned from some convention locations because the venues want concession stand business
When did they stop selling food at the conventions? Why did they stop selling food at the conventions? I imagine it was portrayed as a spirtiual thing; it was to lift the burden of food prep work off the bros and sis' shoulders so they could enjoy the fine spiritual banquet instead, bla bla bla . . .
But what was the real reason for the WTBTS to stop selling food at the conventions? Did it have anything to do with the convention fascilities wanting to or insisting on their own vendors?
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TD
Well Corvin, first of all, (about 8 years ago or so) they had problems with the "food tickets" they used to sell to people to subsequently exchange for food being not quite legal. Not only was there no real system for refunding unused tickets, it seems that they were regarded as a blatant dodge from collecting sales tax for food sold. ---Which they actually were.
They they went to a purely volunary donation arragement. It was a disaster. People were stuffing themselves on free food and little was going into the contribution boxes This only lasted about 2 years.
Then they went to the "either bring your own or get your food elsewhere" arrangement. This also caused problems, so they reduced it to only the first part -- "bring your own food."
However entire families were packing medium sized ice chests that wouldn't fit under the seat. This also caused problems. Blocking isles like this often violates local fire codes.
Now the JW's appear to have evolved the latest incarnation of the food arrangement, described above.
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undercover
When did they stop selling food at the conventions? Why did they stop selling food at the conventions? I imagine it was portrayed as a spirtiual thing; it was to lift the burden of food prep work off the bros and sis' shoulders so they could enjoy the fine spiritual banquet instead, bla bla bla . . .
But what was the real reason for the WTBTS to stop selling food at the conventions? Did it have anything to do with the convention fascilities wanting to or insisting on their own vendors?
I don't remember dates, but after the WTS stopped "selling" food at the conventions they went to the "donation" arrangement. Food was just handed out and the friends were expected to donate accordingly. After a few years of that, they decided to get out of the concession business alltogether. "Simplifying" they said. That I believe. Why go to all that work to feed people when you don't have to?
As all of this was going on, some venues had been declining to rent to the WTS because the WTS didn't want to use the venue concessions. A lot of the bigger city venues have in the lease agreement that you must use their concessions. The WTS of course didn't want that. Ever notice that the WTS liked to use smaller cities for conventions? Easier to negotiate with. After many years of renting venues that allowed them to not use the concessions, other cities saw that they were losing out on at least some rent, so they re-thought their stance and started renting to the WTS. Now, of course, after several years of dubs having to bring their own food to the assemblies, many are tired of it and are going out for lunch. The city employees see this and get upset because they see consession dollars driving away each day at lunch. The next year, the city asks for concession sales and the WTS says "We don't need concessions" and the city says, "We watch your people drive/walk to McDonalds at all of your conventions. Don't tell us you don't need concessions". Leasing the venues without concessions becomes harder each year. Thus, the admonition to bring your lunch to the convention. That's why it's so serious. There is a method to their madness.
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Nosferatu
But what was the real reason for the WTBTS to stop selling food at the conventions?
It was the same issue as the magazines. When the magazines went to the donation system, so did the food. Then, everyone was pigging out and not donating, so they got rid of the food.
