just wondering how many others (when you were still in the org) would try and listen to the meeting programmes from the perspective of a newly interested person visiting for the first time?.
i know that i did this, and most times i did, i found it disturbing!
it was not just the "in-house" language and terminology that was odd, but also the actual doctrines, and method of 'teaching' that was odd!.
You might ask why they are newly interested?
Nowadays "round my way" it's generally because they are vulnerable, lonely and miserable at best - or cuckoo, vulnerable, lonely and miserable at worst.
What appeals to these people is the interest shown in them, along with the "certainty" and the "love" from outwardly normal people.
So they sit through crap and soak it up. Some see through it, some leave and some surface at every crisis only to disappear again later.
if you went to it, (or go later this week) how was it handled?
just the video or some commentary too?.
i have heard of a few negative comments from some that attended - one jw even openly said to me "not very encouraging, all they go on about is money lately" and another (a serving elder, no less) said "someone's got to pay for all those lawsuits".
K99: Firstly the premise of the video was that there a new way of donating via the website and this had raised some questions.
Hilarious and good final point in your post - what questions could it possibly raise?
Ageing Dub "Hmmm. These people told me and my generation I could live forever without dying. Now I'm gonna die and they want my estate so they can live in comfort and tell the next overlapping generation they won't die either?"
i never understood why many jehovah’s witnesses will say “the friends”.
it seems so mormon like..
Not a UK thing.
if you went to it, (or go later this week) how was it handled?
just the video or some commentary too?.
i have heard of a few negative comments from some that attended - one jw even openly said to me "not very encouraging, all they go on about is money lately" and another (a serving elder, no less) said "someone's got to pay for all those lawsuits".
Love the Freddo references!
NBD said: "Wow I wish I was in your congregation."
To be totally accurate - the elder I quoted was in another cong. that shares the hall where they had the same item - and our conversation was prompted by me asking him why we kept on having all these money items.
if you went to it, (or go later this week) how was it handled?
just the video or some commentary too?.
i have heard of a few negative comments from some that attended - one jw even openly said to me "not very encouraging, all they go on about is money lately" and another (a serving elder, no less) said "someone's got to pay for all those lawsuits".
If you went to it, (or go later this week) how was it handled? Just the video or some commentary too?
I have heard of a few negative comments from some that attended - one jw even openly said to me "not very encouraging, all they go on about is money lately" and another (a serving elder, no less) said "someone's got to pay for all those lawsuits". (He didn't say "child abuse" but I'm sure that is what he meant)
Yet another said "I haven't donated for months and I wont start now!"
Of course everyone else claps and nods their heads, but this constant money talk is causing a few ripples.
ask any jw this one question.
are there any apostles from the 1st century still walking the earth alive today ?.
100% will say there are no apostles from the 1st century alive today.
Another dub explanation was that James, John and Peter "saw Jesus in all his glory" at the transfiguration which was "representative" of his return.
january 2012, at the age of 24 i “woke up” to the truth about the truth.
march 2012, i joined this esteemed message board and was welcomed.
this forum was such a help.
Congratulations Capt. Obvious.
Please keep posting because it is great to know the possibilities even if our loved ones are not where your wife is yet.
i recently had to accompany an older family member out of state to a family reunion.
it was a big reunion and not much was overtly made of the fact that i am "misguided" and not attending meetings (lost soul that i am) which was nice.
the thing i noticed that i was most struck by was all the dietary quirks in evidence during our 3 days together.
Just quoting my earlier post (plus an edit afterwards) : "As a broadbrush comment I find the more highly strung someone is the more likely they are to be high on the special dietary curve."
Edit: Also the more highly strung someone is the more likely they will have given me a down vote for the above comment.
yup, you read right.
despite other personal turmoil that needs to be addressed, my family has decided to go nuts over halloween decorations being "too close" to our yard.
a new family just moved in next door; their kids are super young.
I think AFRIKANMAN's post "Trumps" the rest.
i've recently been at an assembly here in romania and there was an announced they were running a 10,000 euro deficit and urging all attendees to donate more money besides the already 5k has was donated during that day.
i really don't understand these things.
it's their own assembly hall.
K99 - "The reality is of course that individuals don't care even when it's pointed out."
True Dat.
