So, I guess that with the light getting brighter, we've been doing it all wrong these times. :P
Oh, and if the society wants to use that scripture, why don't they add the part that it was Jesus who provided for them. They didn't have to bring their own lunch. So, where's the friggin' food then? HUH? HUH????
FDS Sends Convention Delegates Packin'
by ezekiel3 76 Replies latest jw friends
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Agent 1 of 1
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Farkel
agent 1 of 1,
: The DC of 2003 announced that brothers should report if they've rented from a hotel that was not on the list.
But of course. The WTS gets a kickback from every hotel THEY recommend. They want to know who the traitors are who deprived them of their kickback. They can punish the guys who don't check into Theocratically Approved(tm) hotels in a big-time way: they can take away your "privilege" of running around the Kingdumb Hall with a microphone and looking like the stooge and utter drone fool for them you really are.
Farkel
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Agent 1 of 1
Farkel, Is that true? Do they really do this? Or is that an assumption? Cause I'm really curious now, lol. I mean, I don't doubt you. Its just that's pretty extreme. I wonder.
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run dont walk
Apostates will be identified by bringing their prepared lunch in a MacDonalds bag
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exjdub
The following year they post brothers with compound bows and machine guns at all of the doors of the convention to enforce the no lunch/no break rule.
The following year upon hearing that a news team and senator will visit the conventions to investigate rumors of mass abuse, they bring back the armed brothers and the sisters are instructed to mix up some koolaid laced with cyanide.....
Where is the control going to stop? Does it not get more ludicrous with each passing day?
Flyin'...bwahahahahahahahahha! I thought the same thing. Instead of Jonestown it will be 'hovahtown, and they will be providing the liquid "refreshments". Stay away form the Kool-Aid if you go! What scriptural reference would they provide to drink the Kool-Aid? How about a reference to the land flowing with Kool Aid and Honey?
exjdub
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orangefatcat
Wow I just finished reading every post and it was quite interesting to say the least. Being from a time when the Society saw to it that everyone had three meals at the convention to bring your own has been a tremendous change.
I recall at the summer convention in the 1990s at the Sky Dome in Toronto. During the lunch period my son took off, which was okay as I thought he was going to go outside the stadium to have a bite to eat, but instead he went to the Hard Rock Cafe in the Sky Dome Hotel as we were staying there for the assembly. Anyway the afternoon sessions were beginning and my son was no where to be seen. I knew he didn't want to go to the assembly because he didn't believe in the JW teachings. So he said. After an hour or so into the talks he comes and sits beside me and I am sitting beside my mother and sister and her family. As my son sat down I could smell beer all over him. He had gone to the bar to eat and drink and decided he would come down to his seat after. I was angry at first. but then I laughted it off. Frankly because I wish I had done the same thing. I was so fed up with the stupid rules the Society had for eating at conventions.
Yes as Minimus said at the outset of this thread its called C-O-N-T-R-O-L !!!! in every sense.
Yes I too see the day the Society is going to say, okay brothers you do your own hotels and stay inside the assembly for you meals that were made at home and if you disobeyed then you could be disfellowshipped or reproved for disobedience. I really see that coming.
For sure its a form of dictatorship in my opinion. Like how they have for years been putting newpaper on the mirrors at stadiums so as discourage sisters putting on fresh makeup on or doing their hair. I mean that is terrible.
At the last assembly I attended in July of 1999 at Hamilton's Copps Coliseum I was dismayed by so much. People I am convinced didn't want to listen to the speakers all they wanted to do was walk the hall ways and talk to old friends. In all the 28 year s of my marriage to my ex, he never sat down for sessions ever, he was the type that wander up and down the hall ways of the stadium talking to everyone and anyone who would listen. I use to say to him why do you bother to come to the assembly if your not going to sit and listened. Yes he always had his own agenda.
Well those were the days and oh yes at that assembly in 99 it was asked by the speaker at the convention if they were staying at the Sheraton Inn Hotel to report to such and such an area and to any other hotel/motel not on the society's list. My aunt said many showed up and they were rather severely counselled for disobey a directive from the Governing Body. And yes they did intimate that this kind of disobedience could lead to reproof.
I am so glad I am out and FREE.
Orangefatcat.
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Agent 1 of 1
Wow, Orange. I wish I could have gone and reported then. I would have loved to have seen what they would have told me. I'd probably ask them if they're joking. Man, that's just a bunch of @%^#%.
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PeaNUT
Newspapers on the mirrors? I have never heard of this. That is so far over the top I can't even begin to fathom... I, for one, would remove said newspaper and gleefully re-apply all of my makeup from start to finish.
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Stephanus
For sure its a form of dictatorship in my opinion. Like how they have for years been putting newpaper on the mirrors at stadiums so as discourage sisters putting on fresh makeup on or doing their hair. I mean that is terrible.
Do they have (female) attendants patrolling the bogs (toilets)? If not, what's to stop the newspaper from being ripped down in the first five minutes?