Posts by molybdenum

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The Pit of Despair, or going to the DC

by dissonance_resolved in

so our dc is coming up and my level of anxiety and depression is through the roof.

i've been fading and have noticed that when i don't go the meetings, i'm happy, calm and positive, but when i do go, it takes at least a week to recover.

so the prospect of three straight days has me in an absolute panic.

molybdenum

I try to use the DC as a chance to sow some seeds of TTATT.

First I look for a Brother who I don't know and strike up a conversation.

After all we are encouraged to do that as the gap between the sessions is

roughly an hour and a half.

After the initial greetings , where are you from, when did you come into datroof etc

I say isn't the assembly the most appropriate place to have a spiritual discussion.

They can't deny that.

I try to suss out how they feel about the noolight and so on.

Depending on the response I can usually tell if there is an opportunity to go

a bit further and test out the water so to speak.

There are usually two kind of reactions

1. Total blankness and by the book responses like " well we have to follow what the FDS

tell us don't we....blah, blah.

Time to say well nice meeting you, enjoy the rest of the assembly

OR

2. Some glimmer of ...well I was thinking that too ...kind of look.

Time to spread TTATT...

I usually use the session time to think how can I do this and what I could say

to others. I make notes to myself as it looks like I am diligently following the speaker.

In this way I find that I can endure the three days of "joy" and avoid getting angry, depressed, or

any other negative feeling that comes up.

Try it.

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Mic issues

by msconcerned in

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so on friday all day, the mic guy did a bang up job.....until david splane got to the podium.

it looked like he discussed how the mic should be set up for him, then finally when the mic guy was walking away david says " well im glad we got that settled".

then today same thing, he got the mic guy to readjust the mic for him again.

molybdenum

I'm sure that there must be a Brother somewhere called " Mike Test"

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Who has had their District Convention seats stolen by other Witnesses?

by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

over the years i have had to deal with this problem personally and as a attendant covering my section at various convention centers.

i had people who were suppose to be decent jehovah witnesses pick up all the books, bags and coolers belonging to brothers and sisters who arrived at the appropriate time and picked them up and dumped them all at the end of the seating row.

so here is what goes down, the sister runs up to me panicking and saying "dear brother, i had all those seats reserved for my family and now look!

molybdenum

I guess this little story is not exactly related to stealing seats but seats are involved.

My father was a district convention coordinator and one duty he had was oveerseeing the guarding of the entrance

to what was called " Administration". Only those who had special permission could enter this area.

Being part of his family we were allowed to enter this " Most Holy". I remember the first time I did so,

I was quite shocked. Unlike the R& F, those allowed in this section had comfy armchairs, bone china tea cups

and access to toilets that were plush and clean, and food that was prepared especially for them.

Those using these facilities were of course the speakers

or visiting " big wigs" from Brooklyn.

From this comfy elevated area you could look out on the R&F walking about in the pouring rain, eating from plastic cups

lining up at the food tents eating from metal trays ( This was when food was provided at assemblies)

Looking back I realise this was one of the experiences that made me question the so called equality of brothers

Talk about differences of treatment. "We are all brothers" I thought to myself,

but just like animal farm, some Brothers are more equal than others.

I saw the smug satisfied look on the faces of those allowed the priviledge of using these facilites and actually made me

quite angry.

Needless to say I never wanted to enter that " administration" section again.

But it is true you can see such kind of "me first" attitudes

among witnesses when it comes to seat saving.

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Who has had their District Convention seats stolen by other Witnesses?

by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

over the years i have had to deal with this problem personally and as a attendant covering my section at various convention centers.

i had people who were suppose to be decent jehovah witnesses pick up all the books, bags and coolers belonging to brothers and sisters who arrived at the appropriate time and picked them up and dumped them all at the end of the seating row.

so here is what goes down, the sister runs up to me panicking and saying "dear brother, i had all those seats reserved for my family and now look!

molybdenum

I got a good seat in an assembly, one that I could easily get up and go out for

a break when it all got too much.

I left my books, a Bible and a songbook + notebook on the seat, as was the custom.

Marking my place.

When I came back just few minutes later I found a sister not only sitting in the seat

but sitting ON the books.

I said to her... this is my seat..... but she didn't budge and I told her ....you are sitting on my books.

She reluctantly fished them out from under her but there was no move to give me back the seat.

So I said ...this is my seat, you know, the one I want to sit in to listen to the talks that's why my books were on it.

No budging.

Gave up... went off saying good grief..and tried to find another seat to my liking.

Couldn't, so I sat somewhere else muttering death threats under my breath.

Shouldn't have worried, I don't even remember what the assembly was about now.

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Too sick or injured but still made it to the meeting!

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

i once attended a two day special assembly with my gums bleeding after having 4 widom teeth pulled the day before.

i managed the two days by rinsing out my mouth all day long and placing cotton in my mouth.. one brother had back surgery the week before but attended a two day assembly by laying on a matress in the back of the assembly hall.

why he needed to be there i'll never understand!.

molybdenum

I know of a congregation that uses skype to allow those

too sick to attend to get the meeting in real time.

I hope this idea catches on.

But I can still see this conversation between two Elders using skype.........

( cue music...)

Hey, Bro lowtech didn't skype for the meeting last night

Really, I wonder if he is OK?

Hmm, this is the third time that he hasn't skyped this month

and when he does he never skypecomments.

I think we need to have a skypemitte meeting about this.

Me too, we can't have Brothers skyping just willy nilly

Perhaps we should give him a skypeshepherding call first.

Well, I guess you are right,we need to show love to our Brothers

Maybe good for an assembly demo...

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Too sick or injured but still made it to the meeting!

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

i once attended a two day special assembly with my gums bleeding after having 4 widom teeth pulled the day before.

i managed the two days by rinsing out my mouth all day long and placing cotton in my mouth.. one brother had back surgery the week before but attended a two day assembly by laying on a matress in the back of the assembly hall.

why he needed to be there i'll never understand!.

molybdenum

Even if you are dead you have to be at the meeting

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Is the Universe Conscious?

by still thinking in

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does the universe have a collective consciousness?.

at the sub nuclear level of reality...we are all one.

at the core basis of the universe is a single universal field of intelligence.

molybdenum

I think a good question is to ask

"Is the Brother taking the WT study conscious"

Read para 1/ question/ answer( directly from the paragraph)

Read Para 2/ question/ answer ( directly from the paragraph)

Read para 3& 4 / questions / answer ( directly from the paragraph)

continue to end of study article........

How can someone be conscious and do this?

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New Rumor - Watchtower and Awake in one magazine only?

by TJ Curioso in

hi folks!.

someone told me that there is a rumor that soon the watchtower and awake's magazines will be only one (fusion).. anybody knows something concrete about that, or is only rumor instead?.

tj curioso.

molybdenum

In my congrgation the Brother explaining this "nesting" took about 5 mins

putting it in and pulling it out to show us exactly what it means.

I was thinking that the magazines have shrunk in size so when you hold it,

it feels like a pamphlet. So by "nesting" the AW inside the WT it feels thicker

and therefore gives some " weight" to the message.

Maybe they have been eating too many Domino's pizza at Bethel.

"Take one get one free"( But don't forget to ask for a contribution)

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Is the Universe Conscious?

by still thinking in

jw
friends

does the universe have a collective consciousness?.

at the sub nuclear level of reality...we are all one.

at the core basis of the universe is a single universal field of intelligence.

molybdenum

Isn't this the same as what John Lennon wrote in 1967

I am the walrus

I am he as you are he as you are me

And we are all together

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Gerrit Loesch was at our DC today!

by goatshapeddemon in

so, unexpectedly, the final talk was announced today and to my surprise and evil glee, they announced gerrit loesch as the speaker!

first off, at the beginning of his talk, he interrupted himself in the middle of his sentence to scold the microphone brother to lower my mike it's right in my face.. anyway, it was the talk on inspired truth, vs. inspired falsehoods.

he went through 6 expressions inspired by the demons.

molybdenum

If you say Gerrit Loesch quickly it sound like Get Lost.....