??? hmmm how very odd they still all are. Those WT writers should do what most people do before the get their work published, and have someone else look over it first to check the text makes sense. Shouldn't come as a surprise that they're still churning out sh*t I spose...
Sep 15th WT: Christians spend weekends enjoying recreation and not service
by truthseeker 53 Replies latest jw friends
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Apathy
Of course, Frog.
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Gill
Yup! I also saw this article, with 'lovely' JW family out in field service, the parents ignoring the family driving by, off for a 'Baalistic' weekend, all sitting smiling and happy in their car! The children, forced out in sellling WTBTS books, were waving at the happy family driving by!
What a load of ****!
It made me laugh anyway.
Why could you possibly want to go out to the seaside for the weekend when you could be selling WTBTS books or listening to boring **** at the KH!
Makes NO sense to me! ; )
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diamondblue1974
Quick! Sound the alarms! Someone somewhere might be having fun instead of selling their bloody books!
Even worse someone somewhere might be getting a university education! Someone somewhere might be getting wise to the WTBTS.
I am sorry but this is pathetic and smacks of cult mentality.
DB74
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ezekiel3
Picture from the article quoted (WT 9/15/05 pg 18)
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Honesty
What pleases Jehovah more?
Enjoying a weekend with friends and family or dispensing deep spiritual food such as the 9/15/05 WatchTower while dresssed up like a salesman..
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Terry
These minds in Brooklyn are anti-family and anti-mental health.
Somebody ask the elders what good ever came from spreading the JW virus door to door? The magazines are filled with opinions that expire like clabbered milk. The converts won from placing magazines are so few and so hard to hold on to once baptised that there are more disaffected ex-JW's roaming the Internet than are singing off key at the Kingdom Hall on weekends.
It is the oldest trick in the book.
Divide and conquer.
The Watchtower is fomenting peer pressure. They seek to divide the brothers into two groups: leisure activity slackers and busy beaver door-knockers. One group will resent the other. One group will shame the other. Gossip about who does what will commence.
The entire strategy is insidious.
The pathetic attempt to associate through flabby metaphor (maybe the worst yet!) pagan Baal worship with relaxing with your family after a full week's work is nothing short of criminal.
Elder to slacker: "We didn't see you out in service this weekend Brother Slacker; where were you and your family? No illness I pray?"
Brother Slacker to Elder: "Oh, no sir. We all went to the lake for a picnic to relax."
Elder to slacker: "Did you happen to see the Watchtower article on leisure activity?"
Brother Slacker to Elder: "Sure did. We all did. Just about cracked a rib while reading it. Where do those old farts in Brooklyn come up with this shit? Baal-like activity? Ha ha ha ha. That's a good one!"
Elder to Slacker: "Brother Slacker we need to set up a meeting with the Elders about this attitude of yours."
Slacker to Elder: "Oh, no we don't. This is just petty jealousy on your part. You have no life and wouldn't know leisure activity if it crawled up your butt and tickled your adenoids. My family and I deserve some recreation after a full week of work and those ass-numbing Kingdom Hall meetings."
Elder to Slacker: "We have nothing more to say to each other. I'll see you at the Judicial Committee meeting soon!"
Slacker to Elder: "Nah, I think not. This is a private conversation between two people with no third part witness to corroborate you. I'll deny deny deny. You'll end up looking like a moron. I mean, more so than usual. I'll spread the rumor among the brothers that you've been acting strange lately and I'm worried about you. Good luck with your committee. You'd do better to spend your time walking in the park and feeding pigeons than stuffing horseshit down the throats of fellow citizens about Baal-like orgies of kite-flying on the playground. See ya later Brother numb-nuts."
Elder to himself: "Why, I haven't flown a kite since I was a child....before my parents joined the Truth. Back a long time ago when we had fun and mom and dad weren't depressed all the time......(begins to weep) Oh Jehovah! I miss those days.....I really miss them....."
Second Elder walking up to join first Elder: "What is this? What is going on? I heard what you were saying. Haven't you read the Watchtower article about Baal-like recreation??"
First Edler to Second: "Oh go blow it out your sphincter. I'm taking my little nephew to the zoo. What don't YOU get a life instead of trying to run mine!"
Second Elder (stunned): "Well. I'll see you at the Elder's meeting. You won't be an elder much longer from what I hear!"
First Elder (walking away): "You can't prove anything. This conversation never took place. No witnessess! See ya later....oh..and....eat shit and die." Walks away smiling and whistling showtunes.
The End.
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truthseeker
Ezekiel3, uhmm, I didn't realize that the "two pictures" I mentioned from the beginning was really ONE picutre, and that the families were different.
Anyway, with 5 meetings a week plus field service, and the fact that most people in the USA only get about 2 weeks vacation, why shouldn't witnesses enjoy themselves?
For crying out loud, it's enough for them to cope with all that endless study and magazine reading.
Watchtower, leave them alone.
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luna2
LMAO, Terry! What a riot! We had one elder in particular in the congregation who'd make it a point to try to guilt as many people as he possibly could about what they did with their weekend. When he publically prayed, he would even include admonitions not to forsake "sacred service" for selfish recreation. Man, I hated that guy!
I love the picture from the article too...the happy family in their jeep driving off for fun in the sun, while the poker-faced drone JW parents stare straight ahead and continue marching down the street, their children waving wistfully at their friends.
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truthseeker
Luna2, can say the same thing for our hall. I sometimes get these looks from the friends, when we go day tripping.
At the bookstudy last week, we had the service overseer give his mini 15 min talk on, "What goals are we setting for ourselves?"
He made the point that if we are doing 5 hours a week (which is 4 weeks at an 1 1/4), maybe we could set a goal for 15 hours, in increments of 5 hours.
Do you realize that if you worked full time, had kids, meetings and study to do AND increased your hours in "Jehovah's Service" (TM), you would be out on Saturdays and Sunday's for a WHOLE month!!!!
The Watchtower is counterproductive to family happiness.
