last night they announced that this summers district convention will be held at an assembly hall.. this is the first time i've seen this happen.
there are a couple of congregations in the same hall here and they aren't going to the same ones.
they are having multiple dates.. the hall they are going to use can only hold 1500 people max.. just wondering if maybe they just couldnt get anything bigger this year or if the falling numbers are playing a part in this decision.
Why book a 40 thousand seater for half that number of JW delegates?
because there is a big difference in sitting for 90 minutes for a football game and sitting for three days for a convention. Once the dubs are in, with family groups , kids, grandma and all their food and bags, it would be a nightmare if the stands were full to capacity.
Nb. If they downsize the summer convention to ass. halls , it takes away the buzz, the atmosphere......I say that attendance would plummet.
there was a time we could laugh about mindless silly things.
someone using an ethnic accent, making fun of their own race, making fun of someone’s intelligent, etc.
we could laugh without feeling constantly offended , upset or disturbed.
"Nope I'm not offended. I don't recognise what you're describing either. I often watch Live at the Apollo on TV which is from a London theatre.
A Muslim man will make fun of Muslims and a gay woman will make fun of gay women. Comedians often make fun of their religious or ethnic background."
Sure, but what if a non Muslim comic told those jokes or a straight person did about gay people ?
There is a fine line between prejudice and humour but subjects should not be taboo.
To me, modern comedies are just not funny.
the current “news” on jw.borg.
https://www.jw.org/en/news/legal/.
look closely at he picture of “russian” police breaking in to what appears to be a utility shed.. first, you’d have to be a complete moron to believe anything you see.. the “police” are shown using a garden pic to open a door.
the photo did indeed appear on JW.org a year or so ago. then it accompanied reports of a litany of raids and abuse by the Russian authorities. If you look carefully at the pic , right side, it has a credit to a Russian State website.
So these are certainly not "elders playacting"... please check carefully before rushing to print with false assumptions. ... I am for fair criticism, but it has to be accurate.
i’ve struggled for some time with this question.
why would the elders, cos, branch committee, helpers to gb and the gb themselves devote their lives to progressing in the organization, if the whole thing is one big sham?
i have 3 ideas so far.. 1) money.
when i was an elder back in the day, I was certainly a sincere believer . So were the honourable, if misguided , men that I served with. How can we judge the motives of others without evidence.
Personally, I go along with Ray Franz and his "victim of victims" comment.
But they are still wrong, sincere or not.
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i have been in two congregations where someone moved in from the big city and took over with the attitude of the northerners when they go south, i come from where they do it right.
like bulls in china shops they remove people and do the house cleaning like the political org cult it is.
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Over here it would elders moving from South to North who might be thinking they knew best.
I did that once.... but not , I hope with an attitude.
what I found was that the locals kind of resented me as a newcomer .... not one of them .
In the end it was a good thing , an unhappy B of E helped me to open my eyes to the falsehood of it all.
psychological changes in the vocabulary of the wts.
i have been reading the publications of the wts since i was 6, 60 years now.
we were too poor to have more than one subscription for each magazine so i had to wait until my mother had read it (she let them pile up).
Good and necessary counsel to elders , even today...
"Do not make unnecessary rules. If elders make unnecessary rules, they will create a burden for others. Brother Juraj Kaminský recalled what took place during the ban in former Czechoslovakia: “After the responsible brothers and many elders were arrested, some of those taking the lead in congregations and circuits began prescribing rules of conduct for the publishers, making lists of dos and don’ts.” Jehovah has not given us authority to make personal decisions for others. Someone who makes needless rules is not protecting his brother’s safety—he is trying to become the master of his brother’s faith."
White shirts only, beards, their choice of music, haircuts, skirt length etc etc.
http://youtu.be/f7tepvrx4vi.
judge rutherford is introduced by the speaker saying, “his preeminence in scriptural knowledge is beyond question.
he speaks as a messenger of jehovah.”.
Bobcat's comment above intrigued me so I googled it :
"As Jehovah warned the people of
J ermmlem, so today he warns the people of good
will in "Christendom" in these words : 'lIe that
abideth in this city [ organization of "Chri sten-
dom"] shall die, but he that goeth out and fleeth
to Christ shall live.' (.Teremiah 21 : 9 ; 88 : 2)
"vVhy will ye die, thou and thy people, by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as
the Lord hath spol�en against the nation that
will not serve the king of Babylon �" --J e1'e-
miah 27 : 13.
The totaEtarian combine is going to get COll-
trol of England and America. You cann ot pre-
vent it. Do not try. Your safety is on the Lord's
side ; hut there really will be hut a short time
that the combine will hold sway, because it is
written in the Lord's vVo rd, at 1 Thessalonians
5: 3, that when this crowd says, 'vVe are now at
peace an d safety,' the Lord sends sudden de-
struction upon them, and they are at their ·wits'
eud, and they shall find no way of escape. "
Isn't the internet amazing sometimes?...........
my uber cousin and wife are going back to wallkill this weekend for the annual meeting since they have a daughter and son in law in the inner sanctum so they are always invited.
cousin said it was going to be broadcast from patterson to wallkill.
anyone hear anything else about subject matter etc?.
Am I right in saying that in recent times the AGM has formed the basis of the next 2 or 3 monthly broadcasts from JW TV ?
after all these years, it seems to me that people do not properly take note of what happened on this date in 2001. for some, it’s like nothing major happened.
for me it is a day of reflection..
Certainly on this side of the Atlantic the anniversary passed with hardly a mention. One had to look on the "USA News" section of the main media webpages to see that it was happening. On tv it was way down the list and I saw no mention in newspapers.
So yes, to Min's question. The early year's commemoration got great publicity. Now it is pushed to the background.
oh boy, the meetings lined up for december are culty.. it all starts with a 5 minute talk someone has to give on the topic "why should we not be troubled by the increase of memorial partakers in recent years?".
the next week again inserts jws into bible prophecy, first with "the earth swallowed up the river", which claims that court victories for the org are really god's doing.
there is no mention on who is responsible for the many judgements against the org.. then there's this chart to be discussed that same night:.
1260 days = 31/2 years or 42 months , they say.
I would love to raise my hand and ask the unfortunate speaker why should we view this number as literal , when the others are symbolic ("delivered in signs" ?
