i guess we can agree to differ, but i personally found the new memorial songs (147, 149) to be very good, at least from a musical perspective.
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rub a dub .
I thought the closing song (149) was reminiscent of the opening score from The West Wing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JivPEYjYd20
I don't know...you be the judge:
https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/sing-to-jehovah-new-songs/149-grateful-for-the-ransom/
i am wondering how much the bethel "allowance" is now?
it used to be $14!
is it true they really sign a vow of proverty now?
good morning from the east coast.
i have a question.
a friend of mine texted me and one of the things she said was that they were getting a lot of great responses with the campaign because they are showing the video.
Based on a quick search, it appears the dedicated Memorial invitation distribution campaign started 9 years ago:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/130927/help-locating-some-info
Given the effort, time, and expense involved in this global annual month-long campaign, one would expect to see -- starting in 2007-- a marked jump in the incremental year-over-year increase.
(Memorial Attendance chart courtesy of JWFacts.com)
Call me stupid, but I don't see any evidence that the invitation campaigns have done a single thing to increase attendance.
good morning from the east coast.
i have a question.
a friend of mine texted me and one of the things she said was that they were getting a lot of great responses with the campaign because they are showing the video.
In all the years of handing out memorial invitations, I can think of zero people that ever just showed up off the street because of the invite. The other people attending were always family members of JWs or inactive ones.
As with all "new" forms of activity, it is for the purpose of keeping those IN occupied and distracted...NOT about those outside....
I'd love to see the data. I suspect if you looked at a bar chart of memorial attendance over the last 30 years, I suspect you'd see ZERO impact on that chart since the invitation work started.
when you found out all the sins of fellow witnesses did it effect how you treated them?
it was shocking when i found out the range of bs these people did to each other.
i don't mean sexual abuse, i mean fraud, theft, infidelity and more.
good morning from the east coast.
i have a question.
a friend of mine texted me and one of the things she said was that they were getting a lot of great responses with the campaign because they are showing the video.
Video showing is now part of what we HAVE to report monthly.
Thanks for the reminder! I'll be sure to include the views from this thread on my report for March!
good morning from the east coast.
i have a question.
a friend of mine texted me and one of the things she said was that they were getting a lot of great responses with the campaign because they are showing the video.
Guessing this is the video:
https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/memorial/remember-jesus-death/
have you ever been to a circus and seen a "clown car"?.
the little "bug" volkswagon drives out and clowns get out.
lots and lots and lots and lots of clowns!.
Why have TWO ARMAGEDDONS?
Don't forget the third one...after the end of the 1,000 year reign in the "Paradise". Gotta take care of those headband-wearing hippies once and for all.
i read on here that the society teaches that the seven trumpets of revelation are representative of seven conventions held in america in the 1920. is this actually true?
is it old light?
i asked some witnesses but they all gave me a look like i was weird and said it couldn't be right, and i can't check the watchtower library as i can't get it on my computer (apparently the society doesn't think mac users are worthy of the 'good news') i mean... it would be a bit...odd, wouldn't it?
The 7 trumpets being the 7 conventions were originally interpreted by Rutherford as the 7 books released, which all could purchase for the right price. But when I had in my teens read that in the revelation book, at 14 years old, I knew something was fishy there.
I too recall thinking how improbable it was that one of prophecies in Revelation was fulfilled by a single talk/resolution at a single convention in the 1920s. That same question came back into my mind back in 2003 at the DC when they read off that very awkward 10 point resolution:
I still remember sitting at the desk of the Cleaning Department while the thousands in the arena answered back with a verbal "aye", thinking 2 things:
1. The (non-JW) convention center employees who are hearing this must think we're a bat shit crazy cult, and
2. 10 years from now are they going to try to claim that this resolution fulfilled some Bible prophecy?
saw this on reddit it was posted by user morgan_sparlock .
to me honestly this would of been prohibited 10 years ago, but now every dub is obsessed with this website, it's everywhere even a damn iphone cover... ooh they don't approve of idolatry ooh no they don't accept cross veneration thats bullshit to me!!!
its getting to a point that they are venerating this website (company logo) it's their version of the cross.
Well they've already mandated that Kingdom Halls slap the logo on the exterior. Maybe next they'll "recommend" that all J-dubs do the same to their homes. It would be the JW-version of the mezuzah!
