The Old Hippie, these "zone visits" have never been piped in to every KH in the zone and hyped for months on end as some sort of "special meeting" ever before. I have been in the JW community for DECADES too and I could not tell you one thing about what a "zone visit" entails. Why is 2014 different? I think that is the point of this thread, isn't it?
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November 8th Special Meeting
by Chris Tann inanyone have any leaks on this three hour meeting we are having early november?.
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by Chris Tann inanyone have any leaks on this three hour meeting we are having early november?.
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As far as I know all the conventions in 2014 have been called "regional" and all the uber-dubs use this proper, new "theocratic language".
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November 8th Special Meeting
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Blondie, I think "district" has been replaced by "regional" as of last year.
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November 8th Special Meeting
by Chris Tann inanyone have any leaks on this three hour meeting we are having early november?.
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This "special meeting" is a "Zone Visit". No, I have no clue what a "Zone Visit" entails (doing inventory? checking the supply rooms for paper products? reviewing the landscape maintenance records? taking all the slaves employees out to Subway for lunch?) or what its significance is. All I can picture in my mind is a bunch of old codgers who run an international real estate empire headquartered in NY and declaring one day that they will make a "Zone Visit" to the country they have already been in the last 364 days. Will the GB wear hard hats and reflective safety vests? Will they have badges like inspectors? It is sorta like someone who picks boogers from their nose 364 days a year but on one "special day" they declare to themselves that it is "Special Interior Nose Inspection Day", you know..... to make it extra special.
I won't be attending.
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WT Study 26th Oct. '14
by BluesBrother ini could find another thread so i thought i might add a few comments here - not a full critique though.
"hear jehovah's voice wherever you are".
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20140815/hear-jehovahs-voice/.
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I thought we were supposed to be concerned with Universal Sovereignty issues. But no, instead we have old men (and pathetic 50something virgins like Sanderson) in stuffy offices giving dating advice, followed by marriage advice and then sex advice.
Power hungry. That is all they are. They love to control other people.
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Using the "C-Word" With My Wife
by breakfast of champions inmonths ago, i commented on another thread about a strategy i was using to introduce my wife to the way cults work--without using the word "cult" and scaring her away.
here's my first comment on that thread:.
i pulled hassan's bite model off the internet and imported it into my word processor.
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BoC, those are some stealthy moves on your part. Brilliant approach. Tip of the hat to you!
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Slip Sliding Away :I went to a 1 day assembly-Why?
by MissFit ini have not attended anything jw related for over a year.... until last week when i went to our one day convention.. why you ask?.
i can do what i want i'm a grown adult.. ok...ok...so my jw childhood friend who i have not seen forever, came by for a visit.. i mentally went through the check list:.
is she pioneering and need extra time?.
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I can understand how MissFit felt. I may have fallen for that pressure too. But the question I have to start asking myself more and more is: Would this friend do something totally uncormfortable for me if I asked/insisted upon them? If the answer is always a "No" in your own mind, then are they really a friend? To me, being a real friend is a very committed responsibility that I take very seriously. But, as I have gotten older I have realized just how few family and friends I have define friendship and loyalty the way I do.
A friend that is always over-valuing their "theocratic schedule" over everything else is just a Jdub-zombie to me. They have their stupid schedule and YOU must work around it. That may be fine in every day life but when it carries over to important moments in life and they are still spouting off about their "time" or "preparing their Watchtower" when you actually need them for something........ that is very elucidating.
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The Present Truth is the Truth and the Old Truth is the Truth, even if they contradict.
by garyneal inthat is the conclusion you must accept if you are a jehovah's witness as my wife tries to explain to me that even if what they are teaching today contradicts what they were previously teaching, they had the truth then and they have the truth now.
the difference is, they (the witnesses and the governing body) simply believed that what they were teaching at the time was the truth but when they discovered new information they adjusted their thinking.
so since they formerly believed it to be the truth, they were in the truth.. an example she gave involved people who once believed the earth was flat.
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Thank you all. This thread has made me actually laugh outloud. ;-)
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news item...9 yr old baptised
by returnvisit ingrrrrrrrrrrrrr!.
check out website for dunedin, nzs newspaper www.odt.co.nz re the 9yr old that got baptised at the convention in dunedin this last weekend... can't you just hear everyone there gushing about it??.
as i said grrrrrrrrrrrrr .
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And the justification by zombie JW's for children getting baptized is "it is a protection from Jehovah". Of course, they cannot actually come up with any reasonable reasons why it is a "protection". They just repeat the mantra.
What baptizing children is really like is handing that child a live grenade that the pin has been pulled. If they never drop the grenade, they have "protection". If they happen to let it slip from their hands or someone knocks it out of their hands........ BOOM! Mangled life.
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CANDACE CONTI - What's the current status?
by EdenOne ini'm in a little urgency to know this, so please, if you can help:.
as far as i understand, this is the sequence of events:.
a) june 14th 2012 - on a trial by jury, cancace conti wins a civil law case involving child sexual abuse.
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EdenOne, it appears to be in a holding pattern for now. Also, minor correction...... Fremont only has one "e".