i've mentioned it in a few threads, but i'd like to make it a thread of it's own.. i'm going to make the prediction the gb will schedule a new meeting once a month, starting in jan 2016, for watching the jw broadcasting program.
at the moment it's up to each cong to organize a viewing, but soon the gb will take over the arrangements.. i make this assumption based on the fact that they know that a substantial quantity of pubs are not tuning in every month.. by scheduling a meeting once a month, it's easier for the gb/elders/organisation to gauge how many people are watching, and to make sure everyone is fully indoctrinated with what the gb are saying.
it will also keep the rank and file busy busy busy.. if i was a cult leader, that's what i would do.
I agree with _Morpheus,
I think the only ones they want watching the Broadcasts are the heavy koolaid drinkers. They have to know anyone waking up will be snapped out by that crap.
Also I think the trend has been less meetings and days at assemblies slowly for a while. So I think they use this as a card in their deck t appease the masses. They wont add another weekly meeting ever. The thing that gets witnesses rocks off now is "special" meetings and programs.
since becoming atheist i have been paying more attention to world events and issues.
this is giving me some worry's when i see what's going on.
as a jw i could just dismiss stuff saying "armageddon is coming, jehovah will look after us" etc etc now of course i can't do that.
Sorry I'm probably not gonna think this one through and spew out a ton of things.
One thing I remember is the universe is indifferent. Witnesses in their world preach non-stop persecution complex and how evil satan is (good vs evil). But really the universe is not good vs evil. It's just indifferent.
Sometimes it's hard to see from our perspective, but we do live in a very peaceful time. Part of this problem is the digesting world events are piped in clearer and faster than ever. I just watched a world war 2 documentary the other day. You can't even imagine the shit mess and on the brink the world was. Not to mention how man people died was stagering with a huge proportion being civilians.
So I guess you need to find peace in how you have no control. And yet at the same time you by being the change you want to see can improve things.
The home grown terror attacks thay happen here in America always get my anger up, partly because I find islam disgusting like most religion. But did you know that homegrown terrorist have killed many many more than any Muslim nut job in america? It's true. Like the kid who shot up the church, Timothy McVey and on and on. But the way the media feeds us ISIS is going to kill all of us. Yes they are horrible and treating full of bad ideas and so on. But what we see of "world events" is groomed and edited and fed to us in a way to condition us just like advertising. It's not a giant conspiracy just human nature
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i really enjoy hearing about other people's lives.
feeling a little lonely this evening so please tell me if you have plans for the summer months.
i may go to some outdoor theatre with my daughter who's home from uni; with a picnic and a bottle of wine.
oh no... you never watched Seinfeld????
Thats a greater sin than apostasy!
hi folks... i was playing a tiny online ipad multiplayer war game last night and one started a dialogue with a another player i was attacking.
in it he quoted a scripture.. and it turns out he he is a 25 year serving jw.
possibly an elder... well.. i spent 6 hours tapping away with one finger in the chat box until 8am this morning with him about all the issues on sex abuse, the money grab and most importantly the subject of jesus turning his attention to the earth and selecting the then bibles students as his one and only people based on what they were teaching (spiritual food) back then.. he knows nothing about any of the current and historic child sex abuse cases (never heard of candice conti etc) and even less about the insane early teachings or russell etc.. i completely blew his mind in our 6 hour text chat not to mention my index finger nearly falling off!.
i really enjoy hearing about other people's lives.
feeling a little lonely this evening so please tell me if you have plans for the summer months.
i may go to some outdoor theatre with my daughter who's home from uni; with a picnic and a bottle of wine.
hi folks... i was playing a tiny online ipad multiplayer war game last night and one started a dialogue with a another player i was attacking.
in it he quoted a scripture.. and it turns out he he is a 25 year serving jw.
possibly an elder... well.. i spent 6 hours tapping away with one finger in the chat box until 8am this morning with him about all the issues on sex abuse, the money grab and most importantly the subject of jesus turning his attention to the earth and selecting the then bibles students as his one and only people based on what they were teaching (spiritual food) back then.. he knows nothing about any of the current and historic child sex abuse cases (never heard of candice conti etc) and even less about the insane early teachings or russell etc.. i completely blew his mind in our 6 hour text chat not to mention my index finger nearly falling off!.
when i was in school, you never heard about critical thinking skills...not till you started taking college level courses.. i work closely with the public education community.
now, the big rage in public education is instilling critical thinking skills from kindergarten on up.. and i'm in texas!
imagine what it's like in more liberal areas.. i would not be surprised if the watchtower started denigrating and discouraging public education (k-12).. it would likely start like this: .
Adding my comments from the second post:
This may be something real on their horizon, but who knows, I prophecy they will be doing this some day. As an extension of their new electronic presence, and online education program to keep kids out of satans schools.
What if they were planning something like this and it got out in prank/hoax form? They would $hit bricks.
We should make a top secret viral prank campaign to distribute the rumor this is coming down the pike until all the dubs who can't resist forwarding idiotic inaccurate emails get caught up in their own mess.
"A friend from walkill emailed me this announcement from morning worship..."
jw.edu could be just a prank, or maybe its real, but getting people talking about it would be hilarious.
