The final morning talk will introduce a convention highlight, the full-costume drama based on Chpter 13 of the Bible book of First Kings.
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reading that sentence makes me sleepy
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Unofficial 2006 "Deliverance at Hand" District Convention Program
by truthseeker inthis program was taken from a news article about the upcoming deliverance at hand district convention.
link to article is here
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/113549/1.ashx .
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Judah Ben Schroeder NOT finishing law school
by Seeker4 ina few weeks ago there were a couple of threads about the wts and higher education, and some stated that judah ben schroeder (son of the late governing body member al schroeder) was attending law school at columbia university.
i got an e-mail from a very reliable source today about some inaccuracies in those threads.
here are some quotes from the e-mail, which the writer asked me to share anonymously on jwd:
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this young, genius child
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not if he only went to Columbia. :-) Well, at least it wasn't Brown or Dartmouth. :-) sorry, Ivy League humor...
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Da Vinci Disappointment?
by Oroborus21 inso the news today is that the "critics" are panning the code.. screw em.
sometimes they are right, but a lot of time they are wrong too.
i am still planning on seeing it early friday.. the book was good (not great) but entertaining (frankly i liked angels & demons better) and it will be a shame if the movie doesn't turn out well.
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please, jesus being married with children is only the THIRD most controversial thing possible:
Number 2: Jesus being a black man.
Number 1: Jesus being gay.
I'm waiting for Di Vinci code parodies that have "the secret" being Numbers 1 or 2. (Number 2 would be a boffo Chapelle's show skit) -
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someone should digitize the recording and stick it up on the Net.
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Hedging your bets to everlasting life!!!!!!!!!
by Spectrum inthe mentality of some jws which keeps them in the org is one of hedging their position and not one of love for the org or anyone else for that matter.
basically they rationalise their situation by saying, "if i'm right, then i get everlasting life.
if i'm wrong what's the problem?
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rebel8,
You just described what is formally called Pascal's Wager (in both cases)...
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Special Field Service Campaign at DA
by limbogirl ini have this memory of going to a da back in the mid to late seventies -- i was about 8 years old -- and there was a special field service campaign.
seems to me that one of the assembly days was shortened and everyone was given a service kit -- some tracts in a plastic bag -- and everyone was to go out and preach for the remainder of the afternoon.
i remember going with my dad to get in line to pick up the bag of tracts and then going into the neighborhood around the stadium to witness.
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blondie --
What galls me about the whole WT structure is that it is not designed for busy / productive people. If they were concerned about "spriritual food", make the sessions longer but over 2 days only. Really, you blow a whole day for only 4 - 5 hrs hours (9:30 - noon; 2 - 4 or 5pm) of feeding.
Also, never understood the WT study either. We read the bloody paragraphs already ourselves. Why read them A-G-A-I-N. When I have meetings with people, we assume we have all seperately read / digested the material we have exchanged ahead of time. Ugh. Such a waste.
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Did anyone experience that feeling at the end of assemblies, or C/O visits?
by dido ini`m new on here so don`t know if this subject has been covered, but i was wondering if anyone else experienced that overwhelming feeling at the end of assemblies, or when the c/o visited and gave his talk, there was a different feeling in the air, and i always thought it was `jehovah`s spirit`.
now i`m out and have learnt a lot about the borg, and know all their dastardly deeds, i can`t understand what that feeling was.
it can`t have been his spirit, as i don`t believe now that the borg is the `truth`.
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Can anyone explain what it is?
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candidlynuts pretty much hit the nail on the head. It's part of the indoctrination process. Think about it. The last talk at an Assembly / Convention / CO visit is full of ancedotes, and is usually not structured at all. There is lots of laughter / breaks for applause and the like. It hits the emotional triggers for most people, and people tend to remember things that set off emotional triggers. Also, it is the last talk, and the "experience" you most likely remember. It makes you feel like coming again next time, maybe dropping a $20 in the contribution box on the way out, etc.
At least these talks always made me feel warm and fuzzy, and were actually semi-enjoyable. As for "anything in the air", blame it on the jeh-hoggie from lunch :-)
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What are your reasons for not joining another religion?
by MARTINLEYSHON ini am going to start this debate of by saying that those of us who were raised in the so called truth, and i being one of them, can only come to terms with our past by accepting that our parents infected our minds like a virus infects a computer.
we wouldn't categorise children according to their parents' political stance, since they are too young to make up their minds about such matters.
but they (jw) segregate them from the world.
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actually Ruther-fraud was right: "ALL religion is a SNARE and a RACKET".
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Special Field Service Campaign at DA
by limbogirl ini have this memory of going to a da back in the mid to late seventies -- i was about 8 years old -- and there was a special field service campaign.
seems to me that one of the assembly days was shortened and everyone was given a service kit -- some tracts in a plastic bag -- and everyone was to go out and preach for the remainder of the afternoon.
i remember going with my dad to get in line to pick up the bag of tracts and then going into the neighborhood around the stadium to witness.
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his was done again in 1981-1986, then it abruptly ended.
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I vaguely remember doing something like this in the mid-80's. I was only 6 - 7 at the time, and have sucessfully repressed the memory. I vaguely remember the 4 day conventions too! Basically, the 4 day convention was really 3 days (thursday was 1/2 a day, and friday afternoon was spent out in "service").
I'd be shocked if the District Conventions don't drop to 2 days in the near future.
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Armageddon, Inc (1940) - The last critical article there was on JWs!
by VM44 in"armageddon, inc" was an article published in the september 14, 1940 issue of the saturday evening post.. it was written by stanley high and was a critical review of the jehovah's witness religion as it was then.. this was 65 years ago, and i do not know of _any_ articles since then that have been published in a major magazine that attempt to analyze or examine the jehovah's witnesses!.
there have been many articles published over the years about jws, particularly when conventions are being held in a town.
the local papers will usually do stories about them.
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gary and vm44 --
guys much thanks. I always find stuff like this interesting, and kind of sad at the same time. It goes to show the WT is as much a publishing company as a cult. Also, it re-iterates something else: I have heard more about Rutherford from APOSTATES (7 years) than I ever did from the platform at the Kingdom Hall (21 years). And, it seems to have started even as early as 1940.
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