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  Disturbing/Puzzling Skit at JW Function Last Night Plus Odd Choice of Music

  by Cadellin in

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  so i attended a fairly large jw gathering last night with my active, elder husband.

  it was a good-by party for a former special pioneer couple who have been demoted to reg pios and have now moved to a larger city to find work.

  anyway, there was music and skits.

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  millie210

  We had an awesome D.O. for a little while a few years ago.

  He recited the words to "Imagine" in his concluding talk on Sunday at our Circuit Assembly. I had fun looking at the faces in the audience. Some thought it was awesome, some of the more tight laced ones looked unsure.

  He got kicked out of the work due to the age requirements. He seemed glad to leave. He got in a tangle with some elders here and and told them they were "a bunch of assholes" lol

  He was a gem and I am sure they were glad to retire him!
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  Hello Everyone!!!

  by Christian Gutierrez in

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  2. experiences

  my name is christian and my wife is katja, and we have been out of the organization for a year and a half.

  we were both regular pioneers and i was a ministerial servant.

  we were very much happy to be witnesses and doing our best to do more for the organization.

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  millie210

  Hi and glad to have you here!

  May I ask what was it on Instagram that got you thinking? I have hopes that will happen for my siblings someday.
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  GB member in Brussels

  by tornapart in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  don't know if someone else has posted about this but apparently mark sanderson was in brussells for the memorial, someone on fb with a public profile posted some pics and said he'd turned up in brussels, that a guy who had been sent to the bethel there had just got off the metro when the bomb went off.

  don't know how true it is but there was a few ooohs ahhhs .. how wonderfuls .... photo.

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  millie210

  The fact that there is not enough divine protection to spread across more than one Continent, would not lend credence to an all powerful protection but rather a very limited one.
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  GB member in Brussels

  by tornapart in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  don't know if someone else has posted about this but apparently mark sanderson was in brussells for the memorial, someone on fb with a public profile posted some pics and said he'd turned up in brussels, that a guy who had been sent to the bethel there had just got off the metro when the bomb went off.

  don't know how true it is but there was a few ooohs ahhhs .. how wonderfuls .... photo.

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  millie210

  So there were ohhs and ahhs because a Bethelite got off the train just before the bomb went off?

  Evidence of protection from above?

  Well then! They must really be amazed at the protection given the Mormon missionary who was not only in Brussels but also in Paris when that attack happened.

  He has been all over the news. He has nine lives!

  How "spared" he is!

  (ohh....ahhh)
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  CLAM - 24th March 2016 (Video Vignette)

  by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  video - "use insight when comforting others"this was a wt contrived video of a sister who was widowed a year ago, and turns to members of the boe after a meeting in the kingdom hall in a distraught emotional state accompanied by suicidal thoughts.

  two members of the boe saw her in her own home later that day.she conveyed that she wanted her life back - that her heart had been ripped out.

  the elder acknowledges that "you and dan had a wonderful relationship".

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  Nicholaus, your review of the video was most excellent.

  I was especially struck by what you said about how the Org puts the whole context of this topic in to a morality frame.

  Grief is highly fluid and merely "shaming " a person in to thinking they have failed in an integrity test if they are overwhelmed in grief is appalling.

  Then there is the fact that this video required writers, editors and researchers to make a script. Then elders who could memorize and execute that script for filming (and the end product is sill offensive).

  It begs the question, how many overworked, stressed out elders are going to be able to do that in the real world?

  Dont even ask about the elders who dont give a flip in the first place...
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  death at the 'memorial'

  by eyeuse2badub in

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  i just got the news from our former congregation in hollister, ca regarding a tragic event following the 'memorial' wednesday night.

  we shared the kh with 2 spanish congos.. a couple from the spanish congregation were leaving the kh so that the next spanish congo could have their 'memorial'.

  they exited the parking lot in their car when hit by an oncoming car right in front of the kh.

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  millie210

  Exactly Diogenesister, It is reasoning on it like you did above that made me realize that JWs operate on a high level of superstition.

  Of course they would call it "faith" but when a person adds in reason, it fails the litmus taste and is revealed as just plain ole superstition, pure and simple.
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  death at the 'memorial'

  by eyeuse2badub in

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  i just got the news from our former congregation in hollister, ca regarding a tragic event following the 'memorial' wednesday night.

  we shared the kh with 2 spanish congos.. a couple from the spanish congregation were leaving the kh so that the next spanish congo could have their 'memorial'.

  they exited the parking lot in their car when hit by an oncoming car right in front of the kh.

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  millie210

  Hugs to you JustVisiting,

  I got what you intended. No harm done.
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  JW Vs. Mormon program

  by pixel in

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  i will like people on this forum and lurkers to see the big different between jws and other religion.

  following you will see the program from the upcoming distric/regional 2016 convention.

  look at the topics that are going to be discussed.

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  millie210

  A few of those titles (Mormon) remind me of the glory days of the Org when there was some momentum and charisma.

  That is gone now. It will take awhile to show up on local levels in a way that people can not deny. Until then they will blame "satan" the "economy"or whatever but the day is coming when there will just be too many empty seats to explain away. .
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  To those who attended, attendance up or down at your memorial?

  by Crazyguy in

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  2. friends

  interesting to see if there's a noticeable trend in memorial attendance.

  also did they talk more then usual about ones not to partake?

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  millie210

  The only people there who were not regulars were family members goaded , guilted or cajoled in to coming for the evening.

  I saw 2 "Bible studies" both elderly people sitting with a pioneer sister,
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  New Memorial Songs Were Very Good, IMO

  by RubaDub in

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  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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  millie210

  Good music played over and over homogenizes itself.

  The songs sounded like background for a movie.

  Not one single complaint about their technical

  quality.

  Unfortunately for them, that isnt what makes a person "feel" the music.

  It is being able to follow the song and sing it enjoyably. It is singing the same song for years and all the nostalgia that brings with it.

  Since this is the JWs only holiday and the Memorial songs were like their own "Silent Night" they really should have left it alone.

  Im glad they changed it however. One more reason to NOT find Memorial nostalgic.