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  vaguelyinteresting - catholic youth festival -spain

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  visiting madrid this week, heard an intersiting bit of "theocratic warfare" that'll be going on this summer during the popes visit for the youth festival.. .

  witnesses from various halls, both english and spanish are being trained to infultrate the youth conventions to ask "what's going on" and then offer watchtowers/awakes about jesus.. .

  there are training sessions at the bethel in torrejon - i have heard this first hand.

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  Madrid Zone talk

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  ok - so we were visiting friends in madrid this weekend, and went to the zone talk.

  around 13500 in attendance at an old bull ring and the talk was given by david splane.

  improvements for the field were to make sure that everyone is preached to - there is a tendency just to preach to south americans and ignore spanish people - also magazine placements are down, they have to be improved.

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  stupid hypocritical thinking

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  so with the watchtower on sunday, and the no3 talk last night - it got me thinking.

  both the watchtower and by default the talk last night spoke about how "christians" view life on earth as transitory, and waiting for their reward in heaven.

  the tone was "how stupid are they".

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  Some things really ticked me off at the meeting last night...

  by wantarevolution in

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  ...aside from the snooze fest that was the "bible study", taken by a brother who was 5 minutes late - went 10 minutes over and obiously hadn't prepared shit for the meeting (this is the same brother that "encouraged" me to be 15 minutes early for all meetings to welcome people).

  1) i had the no3 talk, about "christians helping the poor", no source material or anything.

  i played it good, spoke about our duty to be good christians, and charitable to everyone, and how it is a conscience matter as to how we donate our money or charitable deeds.i even used a quote by mother theresa.

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  Sigh

  by wantarevolution in

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  i'm tired, i'm tired of feeling guilty all the time, tired of feeling manipulated into doing something that i am sure that i do not want to do anymore.. i am just back from a few days in madrid at our assembly.

  despite myself i found myself enjoying some of the talks - particulary some on saturday.

  but probably not the right reasons.

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  some help needed with my wife

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  i need some help anti witnessing.

  she is "on the fence" as it were, i am well on the side , at least mentally.

  how do i slowly but surely nudge her off the fence?.

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  Long Time Reader

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  where do i start?

  i suppose with "me".

  i am mid 20's, born in and live abroad with my wife, "serving" in a foreign language congregation.

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