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  Review: 2019 Regional Convention

  by neat blue dog in

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  2. beliefs

  so here's some random highlights from the convention this year:.

  in a couple of videos, they promote a very negative attitude about bettering yourself and taking career opportunities.

  for instance, in one video a boy is either getting a college offer or at a job fair, i can't remember exactly, but first he imagines getting better off financially, and then he turns around and imagines losing his money and losing his nice car.

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  Yeah, life*

  *assuming Armageddon comes within 10 years
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  Review: 2019 Regional Convention

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so here's some random highlights from the convention this year:.

  in a couple of videos, they promote a very negative attitude about bettering yourself and taking career opportunities.

  for instance, in one video a boy is either getting a college offer or at a job fair, i can't remember exactly, but first he imagines getting better off financially, and then he turns around and imagines losing his money and losing his nice car.

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  neat blue dog

  So here's some random highlights from the convention this year:

  In a couple of videos, they promote a very negative attitude about bettering yourself and taking career opportunities. For instance, in one video a boy is either getting a college offer or at a job fair, I can't remember exactly, but first he imagines getting better off financially, and then he turns around and imagines losing his money and losing his nice car. So he decides to forego it all together.

  Then a girl gets a job hosting a fashion TV show or web series or something like that, so she imagines herself being replaced during the second season, and turns it down. So basically the idea is: When opportunities come your way, be cynical and imagine a bad outcome, then you won't feel so bad turning it down for the sake of 'the kingdom'.

  In another ambition-killing move, the speaker says:

  'The world will tell you that you can be anything you want to be, to follow your dreams. Instead, let Jehovah dream for you."

  In other words, do what the org aka 'Jehovah' tells you to do. That's all you need.

  Then at another point in a talk the speaker says this:

  'Human ideas are often changed and updated. Why? Often because the advice was wrong or wasn't that great.'

  Seriously? Do they actually see the irony? JW stuff is updated literally ALL THE TIME . . . Is it for the same reason?

  During an hour+ long pre-recorded symposium, representatives from many countries were interviewed, and the whole time the Skype logo was shown onscreen. It makes me wonder if their was some sort of financial incentive.

  The Josiah movie, shown in two parts on two days, was actually pretty entertaining and had good production value, as they've been doing in recent years. After years of the GB refusing to admit the uncomfortable fact that the Prophetess Deborah was also a judge with authority even over, gulp, men, it was nice to see the Prophetess Huldah depicted onscreen, with the men going to consult her respectfully.

  Yet again, after the movie the chairman said he was 'pleased to announce the release' of the drama, everybody clapped, and not to tell anybody about it. I even heard chuckles in the audience at this point. WHEN will they realize this is a running joke by now? The drama is printed on the invitation. It isn't a surprise.

  During the last talk, as usual the cultyness is ramped up. In the pattern of recent years' videos about bunkers and the great tribulation, this year has one showing an Elder getting his house broken into by authorities, holding him at gunpoint and demanding the names of those in his congregation, and then fast forwarding past the rest of the GT showing him in the New System. Then the speaker runs through the history of the King of the North up until "Russia and its' allies".

  At my local convention, among the thousands there only less than 10 were baptized and all but one were children, one of them a boy who looked under 10. At the international convention we were tied into, tens of thousands attended, but only over a hundred were baptized.

  That's all I got, anybody else go?
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  AM3 sighting

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's not much but anthony morris the turd had what i believe is his first official post-whiskeygate sighting, in a jwdotorg article that mentioned him giving a talk at a convention.

  getting quite a paunch there!.

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  It's not much but Anthony Morris the Turd had what I believe is his first official post-whiskeygate sighting, in a JWdotORG article that mentioned him giving a talk at a convention. Getting quite a paunch there!

  
  
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  Why is it so important to them to let child molesters go out in the field ministry?

  by Eustace in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what's up with the watchtower society still letting those they know to have sexually abused children go out in the field service despite that being crucial to the ruling against them in the conti suit?

  they don't let men with beards go out in the field service in america with the justification that "beards are not the custom" and that therefore they "are not considered acceptable for christian ministers," but having sexually abused a child is somehow acceptable for a christian minister?.

  last i checked molesting children isn't considered socially acceptable according to the customs of the united states and certainly finding out that child molesters are allowed to be jehovah's witness publishers is a whole lot more alienating to potential converts than them seeing jehovah's witness publishers with beards.

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  To be fair, publishers with beards CAN go in the d2d ministry, even in congregations where beards aren't 'allowed'. It is strange though that beards and pedophilia are on the same level in a way: With both you can just do basics, but no talks, cart work, mics other privileges etc.
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  Compensation Figures

  by diamondblue1974 in

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  2. child-abuse

  without going into the details here i’ve had a renewed call to take direct action and preparing to protest at a convention very soon.. where could i find the figures paid out by the wts to survivors of abuse in their organisation?

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  Here's a meme with some figures:

  
  
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  "Well done lady!!!" parts 2 & 3

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  parts 2 & 3 of the video posted the other day about the kh crasher are now up.

  (well she wasn't a full on crasher, they escalated the situation by turning off the sound while she was giving a comment with too many facts about the child abuse situation.).

  part 2:.

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  'well done' was the title of the original post which had the link to part one, from another poster. I titled mine likewise for the sake of continuity. But if you must know, yeah, I do agree. She was articulate and full of facts.

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  Do you think that this kind of rambling meeting crasher accomplishes any real good by doing this?

  maybe one or two of them will go to Google as a result of what they heard

  You just answered your own question.
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  "Well done lady!!!" parts 2 & 3

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  parts 2 & 3 of the video posted the other day about the kh crasher are now up.

  (well she wasn't a full on crasher, they escalated the situation by turning off the sound while she was giving a comment with too many facts about the child abuse situation.).

  part 2:.

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  Parts 2 & 3 of the video posted the other day about the KH crasher are now up. (Well she wasn't a full on crasher, they escalated the situation by turning off the sound while she was giving a comment with too many facts about the child abuse situation.)

  Part 2:

  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PDmLw4pemV0

  Part 3:

  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WacuXFXzj5w
  
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  Profile BOE Arrived & Couple More!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2019-07-09-new features on jw.org.

  https://docdro.id/zrl1ojx.

  instructions for congregation secretary.

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  neat blue dog

  Saying Joe Person (I mean Joe Publisher) is deceased and to update records.
  Boom, no more being bothered.

  It says something about the religion when we would even consider faking own death to escape.
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  Profile BOE Arrived & Couple More!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2019-07-09-new features on jw.org.

  https://docdro.id/zrl1ojx.

  instructions for congregation secretary.

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  neat blue dog

  If a publisher dies and there is a congregation person record, it should be up-dated by clicking the “Deceased” button and entering the appropriate date. If you mis-takenly click the deceased button, it can be corrected by contacting the Service Depart-ment via jw.org e-mail.

  Lol 🤣
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  If You Could Invite Any 3 people

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  to dinner living or dead..... who would the be?.

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  Not that I like JFR or anything,but it would be of interest to pick the mind of a psychopath.