At least half of it is not necessary, a waste, by their own perception. That's why they are dropping to 1-day circuit assembly (for twice a year) next year. Good riddance!
Posts by Gayle
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5Current 2 day assembly U.S.
by 4thgen indoes anyone have any comments on the current u.s. 2 day assembly (or whatever they are calling it now) ?
my child will be attending soon and i want to be prepared to deprogram.
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BOE Letter: We want to suck three hours out of your life
by pixel into all congregations in the united states branch territory re: branch visit in november 2014 .
dear brothers: .
on february 11, 2014, the bethel family was excited to learn that a branch visit is sched- uled for the united states.
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Gayle
So, this is all the best they could come up with for their 'Centennial;' two days, 1 1/2 hrs each day?, of which includes the common weekly WT summary. Maybe some stats of great increases in 'RVs' and "Pioneers?" Wow, I wonder what biblical symbolism will the GB conjure up about it.
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Curlwaa Congregation. Anyone remember it?
by Tiktaalik incurlwaa congregation is no more.
it went extinct.
absorbed by mildura congregation.
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Gayle
Australia - 2012 - 801 congregations..2013 - 786 congregations,,almost 2% decrease in congs.
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Special Assembly Day - tepid applause
by sir82 injust got back from a recent sad.. after most talks, the applause was, at most, tepid.. it was striking in its tepidity, if that is possible (and if that is a word).. affter most talks, applause lasted literally no more than 5 seconds.
its volume was scarcely above a whisper.. it wasn't acoustics - the bethel speaker was technically a polished speaker (although presenting the same old boring info), and his talks generated noticeably louder applause.
but even still - that applause was maybe 10 seconds, and about normal-conversation level.. but local speakers - the applause was not much more loud than the hum coming from your refrigerator.. there were 1300+ people there.. it was just so weird - my previous large-group experience was at the agm, where people were nearly apoplectic & drooling with delight over their new "silver bibles" (which very few have read, i'd wager).. these guys were just "zombified".. speaking of bibles - bethel dude called it a "platinum bible".
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Gayle
Sounds like even the two, 1-day Circuit Assemblies (starting 2015) will be in trouble soon enough, downsized to zap. Seeing how baptisms are dropping, not very inspiring to see.
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Bizarre comment about jw.org at SAD
by sir82 inrecently attended a sad.. bethel speaker was gushing about the wt's embrace of new technology, in the part of his talk warning about "apostate" web sites.. a loose summary of his comments:.
"and the brothers at headquarters have made it very safe for you to go to our website.
in fact, the brothers talked to the folks at google, and they made a special arrangement so that when you type in 'j w period' into the google search engine, it automatically shows you the jw.org website.
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Gayle
How much did the WT pay Google for that?
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ALL JW's to be at the meeting this week...
by Newly Enlightened in.
we asked this person if it could be aqbout the terminology change and they said that was already read last week...... we remember the last time they did this.
got everyone all excited thinking the big "a" was coming and all it was about, was the literature would now be donated instead of charging for it.. .
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Gayle
Circuit assemblies to be only 1 day now?
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Conti case is there a phase 2?
by bruh2012 ini seen a news report back in june 2012 that conti was awarded 28 million, however there is documentation from jwleaks that something is still pending???.
update please- thank you..
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Gayle
Still in Appeals court:
http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.cfm?dist=1&doc_id=2025979&doc_no=A136641
going on near 6 mos on 'conference' with the judge(s). The silence is anxious but still in norm.
Conti was awarded $28M originally, Conti agreed/accepted to judge to decrease amount down to about $11M+.
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No more circuit assemblies
by justmeok ini heard from a reliable source that there will be no more 2 day assemblies, but instead 2 one days each year.
anyone heard this yet?
supposed to start new service year.
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Gayle
Effective immediately, zone overseers will be called "headquarters representatives." The visit of a headquarters representative to a branch will be called a "branch visit" rather than a zone visit. Additionally, although the terms "international convention" and "special convention" will continue to be used, district conventions will now be called "regional conventions."
Furthermore, beginning with the 2015 service year, circuit assemblies will be
one day in length. Two such assemblies will be held each service year. The term "special assembly day" will no longer be used to denote a one-day circuit assembly. The district overseer will continue to serve one circuit assembly each year for each circuit
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The Judicial Committee videos in english
by confusedandalone innot sure if this has been posted but the jwsurvey site received the videos in english from someone.. this crap is pathetic to watch.
how to counsel someone who is suicidal... really.
http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/doubts-over-organizational-solidarity-as-disturbing-video-on-handling-suicide-is-leaked.
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Gayle
Suicides must be picking up among them for this demo being necessary. (An improvement, that at least they didn't tell her to go out in field service more to get over it.) Depression must be running high,,the 'end soon' is feeling very uncertain anymore, I expect. The "end time" promise produced a 'high,' is fading, the mood is dropping among them?
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It is because of amazing breakthroughs like these... Awesome to live in 2014!!
by ILoveTTATT inhttp://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/draco_(antiviral).
amazing... one drug that could potentially cure any viral disease, including hiv!!.
being developed since 2011..
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Gayle
Thankfully, the GB cannot influence most of mankind, the ones that go to college, to work with health concerns/needs, that get educated to teach. and improve many conditions. Ironically, the GB and their followers take advantage of such needs themselves. A very selfish cult.