after increased pressure from friends and family (many less than spiritual) to get back to the meetings recently, i started wondering how many of them are just plain pissed every time they're sitting in the kh thinking about you siting at home watching csi.. was just wondering about that angle.. 5th.
Spot on, WC
The meetings have no value to them. It is the same regurgitated drivel thats given at every meeting night. No new material is presented (other then the convoluted generation change) and the message is not of any real appeal to the youth. Go enough times and you can pretty much predict the lessons that are going to be covered. It is no wonder why there is a shortage in meeting attendance.
okay, something that has always been a side point but still a rather ridiculous rule is that brothers cannot "serve" if they have a beard/goatee/anything more than just a moustache.
at least in the states, i've heard of some congregations in some countries allow this, but they are the exception?
your experience?.
There is no scripture or any watchtower/awake article I have ever read to support this rule. From what I was told, it depends on the social norms of the land you live in.
something i've been meaning to ask for a while since coming here, is wsup with the writing department's use of exclamation points?
i'm no literature buff or anything, but to me personally, the exclamation points cheapen whatever they're trying to get across.
here's some examples from the new jeremiah book.. how thankful we can be for the teaching done by christian shepherds!.
Well, it works on the majority of the R & F. It just tugs at the heart strings!!!!
food was passed from one side and if you were #10 you may not get too much to eat!
when i finally did, she was not at all interested.
but i was lucky it didnt work out, for she never would have left the watchtower.
Thanks for sharing this story, Randy. I anxiously await the 2nd installment.
despite growing up a jw i was always curious where this corny plays came from?
my best memories of them were when they used to turn the lights out in the convention center - cause that meant i could sleep!!!
but seriously, who writes them?
LOL @ this post.
All the comments are spot-on about the dramas.
Bugs
this week for the service meeting is a local needs part.
i just wondered, for those that are fading, what was your congregations local needs for this week?
and for those who have been out awhile, what were some of the problems uncovered during local needs?.
Local needs change like underwear in my congregation. Most of them were worthless and shouldn't have even had 15 minutes of mic time to begin with.
just wondering how much good that does when ex-jws hold up signs at conventions.
do you know of anybody that saw something on a sign and did research and subsequently left the organization?.
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At last year's convention, a guy was by himself with a picket sign. A couple of jws approached him and made him lower the sign and talked with him. Despite that, I hope he said something to them to cause them to think. The majority paid him no mind.
remember, the topic in the reasoning book, conversation stoppers.
well, did they actually work against you or for you?.
are there conversation stoppers that you use now at your place of work or the bar, or with your significance other, that you use?.
They only work on the platform of a KH or any other JW endorsed meeting.
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LMAO!!!!
