since it is the convention season (and i am not attending this year or ever again), and i have been seeing other posts about some of the goings on at the various ic's and rc's, i am reminded of some of the truly embarrassing behavior i have "witnessed" (pun intended) over my lifetime of being a jdub at the various conventions and assemblies.
probably the most disillusioning experience at a convention that i have ever had was one year when i volunteered to be an attendant.
all of the volunteers were asked to attend a special meeting a few months beforehand to get instructions for our duties as attendants.
InquiryMan- I imagine it is just an American JW phenomena. It would not surprise me. We are a strange lot.
There is another component to "the 8am stampede" that I have observed and it is racial and/or class based. However, if we talk about this component I am sure all we will do is piss off other members of this forum. So I will just leave it at that.
omg.
would you have your kids do this activity?
so messed up.. .
Thanks, Mum. ;-) I should have been more obvious in my tongue-in-cheek remarks. Yes, there is so very little that adds up to any version of reality when it comes to the story of the flood.
Billy's points about the marsupials of the Australian continent are good ones. There are many others. For instance, how did giant Galapagos tortoises manage to crawl down Mt. Ararat and venture on over to some of the most remote islands in the world that happen to reside in the middle of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Ecuador? Tortoises. Creatures the size of an ATV knew to migrate halfway around the world through oceans and continents to arrive in their paradise islands in the Pacific?
Or, how about the Tapirs. Large pig x rhino x hippo-like jungle animals that exited the ark and made a bee line trek through Mongolia, Russia, Siberia, the Aleutian Island, Alaska, Canada, United States, most of Mexico to arrive in their idilic jungle in central and south America? Oh! But wait!!! Some of those same Tapirs decided to not make the long journey with their families and so they detoured to Malaysia to settle in. But Tapirs are found in no other places on earth than the areas I already mentioned.
I could go on for days........
not sure if this bothered other people, but it absolutely drove me crazy!!!!.
ok, typical annual memorial.
the emblems are being passed around.
Apognophos- if "we" are supposed to be imitating what happened the night that jesus did this with the apostles, doesn't it seem reasonable to think that the only reason the emblems were passed around the table as described in the bible was exactly because it was a table they were sitting around and all in attendance, the apostles, were told to partake?
If the speaker giving the Memorial talk is a partaker, how easy would it be for him to take two steps sideways and do the deed? No ritual needed. (I do like your "emblem bandit" comment).
not sure if this bothered other people, but it absolutely drove me crazy!!!!.
ok, typical annual memorial.
the emblems are being passed around.
You got it, Magnum. Creepy, goofy, weirdness. No other way to say it.
omg.
would you have your kids do this activity?
so messed up.. .
Maybe I am the dumb one here (totally within the realm of possibility) but,............. I just noticed in the photo above from the My Book of Bible Stories (flood scene) that there are Mastodons on the last piece of dry ground about to drown in the flood? Sooooooo............ Mastodons were not worthy animals to have been saved on Noah's Ark? Only regular elephants, not the really big hairy ones?
Wait, um, err, am I to believe that humans and Mastodons lived together on earth at the same time?
Totally confused.
did anybody else get an announcement at their meeting about the branch approved jw.org business cards?.
apparantly, they're real slick and fit into your wallet (making it easier to informal witness).
the logic was, some people don't want to be handed a big tract and would prefer something smaller.. so strange considering how little there is to those tracts!
All we have to do is think "corporately". Just think if IBM or McDonald's or Google were handling things. If we think corporately then it is easy to understand what the WTBT$ is doing with this rash of new policies and re-branding.
did anybody else get an announcement at their meeting about the branch approved jw.org business cards?.
apparantly, they're real slick and fit into your wallet (making it easier to informal witness).
the logic was, some people don't want to be handed a big tract and would prefer something smaller.. so strange considering how little there is to those tracts!
LisaRose- BINGO!!!!! That is certainly a main reason for this shift and re-branding campaign.
not sure if this bothered other people, but it absolutely drove me crazy!!!!.
ok, typical annual memorial.
the emblems are being passed around.
A brother I have known my entire life and I am very fond of must have given the Memorial talk 15 times that I was there for. Great guy. I loved his move when he was up on stage and the dopey brother passing the emblems invariably made the move to walk up and ritualistically hand the speaker the emblem........... he would just put his hand up at arm's length, mouth the words "No, thank you" and gesture for the brother to put it back on the table. Very cool move. I have always respected him for that.
did anybody else get an announcement at their meeting about the branch approved jw.org business cards?.
apparantly, they're real slick and fit into your wallet (making it easier to informal witness).
the logic was, some people don't want to be handed a big tract and would prefer something smaller.. so strange considering how little there is to those tracts!
The card is sure to have the QR on it that links back to JW.ORG......... the new Temple.
ok.. you 70 plus bethelite members.... this is your chance to share stories!
inquiring minds want to know !no full names please..follow t.o.s.
to avoid borg libel lawsuits).. i will start the ball rolling with week one.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
