by RR 10 Replies latest jw friends
Well, we were all set to leave this morning at 5 am on a nice long trip to Indiana for a week long Bible Students convention, (yes, I consider that a vacation) and my 8 month old decided to have a 103 temperature, with the runs and puking all over. So I'm home for a week stuck with you guys!!!
RR
Oooh.... poor little guy... I mean your son, of course...
I feel sorry for your son, I was sick in bed this past week
But if your with us, thats not so bad...
Gosh, RR! A week long?!!!
Now I don't feel so bad that I'll have to attend a religious convention for only 3 days. I couldn't take a week long of anything, let alone religious stuff!!!
Your "vacation" may have been saved by your baby, in my opinion of course.
DY
Bible Student conventions are much more relax than the JW convention. Although they last much longer usually 12014 hours a day ... lol and anywheree from 1 day to 9 days. There are conventions held every months somewheere in the world and they are all different. Each congregation or groups of congregations sponsor their own conventions.
They usually start around 8 or 9 am and end around 8 or 9 pm, with individuals breaking off injto study groups. Thereare talks, studies, symposiums, panel discussions, question meetings and debates. easch session is about 45 to 60 mins long, with a 1/2 intermission between session. You don't have to attend all of them,people are there because they want to be theere, not because they must.
And the food and fellowship is great. Most of the JW'sthat Iknow how have gone to either a JW meeting or convention, admit, its very different. But to each his own.
RR
RR....
Sorry your vacation was ruined due to your son's .
I find it interesting that you are a Bible Student. I've looked at their website before and know a little bit about their history. What is their take on JWs? Do they consider them the breakoffs of the origianal Russelite religion (excuse the term)?
Sorry your son is sick. Tell me more about the convention. Everyone brings their own food? What's the deal there?
Dam,. Glad I'm not your kid! He decided to have a fever?? Now THAT is creative avoidance, if you ask me! I would have loved to have avoided a convention that way..
So you think he has control over his temperature?? He must be a budding meditator.
carmel of the "why didn't I think of that one" class
I find it interesting that you are a Bible Student. I've looked at their website before and know a little bit about their history. What is their take on JWs? Do they consider them the breakoffs of the origianal Russelite religion (excuse the term)?
To be honest with you. Bible Students could care less about the JW's. I had this debate with some JW's on a forum. And the issue was "who's beating who up" THe JW's claimed that we're constantly whining about the JW's and the WTS.
I told them to go to The Herald website, a journal started by the four ousted directors in 1918. All the issues of the Herald are online. I think there were just a handful of comments about the WItnesses. ALL of them were in a historical setting. Nothing negative. Go to the Watchtower CD Rom, and there are hunfreds of references beating up on the Evil Slave Apostates.
I would ay that the Bible Students feel the JW's are an ofshoot of the Bible Students. That the Society has the Society proves nothing. The Society was one of many publishing houses used in the early days, it was the main publishing house. but that's all it was, a publishing house. It no longer published what they felt was truth and so they abandoned it for another.
RR
Sorry your son is sick. Tell me more about the convention. Everyone brings their own food? What's the deal there?
Thanks, he seems to be doing better. Conventions are paid for by the local congregation sponsoring it. Everything is free. My congregaton has a two day convention every year, t5he week before Thansgiving. We rent the hall, send out the invitations, have the speakers, have homecooked meals, and ask for nothing in return. Of course the brethren always put a little something in the contribvution to help efray expenses. We take that money pay our expenses, anything left over is put into the convention fund for next year. Some conventions are sponsored by a group of congregations. They usually rent a large hall, at a hotel, reserve rooms and have the Convention catered. In such cases, a fee is charged for the meals and hotel rooms for those wishing to stay at a hotel. Many times the congregation subsidises the rooms. Others rent universities, the General Convention is held at Johnstown, PA at their University, we have the whole place to ourselves, all 800 acres, of cwe don't use it all. Just the buildings, the auditoriums and cafeterias. The Indiana/Ohio convention is held at Depauw University in Greencastle, IN.
Dam,. Glad I'm not your kid! He decided to have a fever?? Now THAT is creative avoidance, if you ask me! I would have loved to have avoided a convention that way..
Ah, it's not that bad. There's everything for everybody. Sunday school for the kids teen studies, women studies, men studies, doctrinal studies. fellowship, vespers, devotionals, singing. Softball. RR
