a friend of mine has contacts to a family with several circuit overseers and special pioneers.
they have good connections to bethel.. he told me that the latest rumor from bethel states that the cos should be abolished in their present form.
they have also recently begun to take cos back to bethel.. over the same channel i have already heard of the car fleet program and that the dos should be abolished.. has anyone else already heard of it?
So many congregations have dissolved, making circuits smaller.
C.O.s come a knockin' more often as far as I see.
Two advantages if there are no more C.O.s:
1. These smaller circuits would be easier for super special elders to manage, hence easier to sell the new program.
2. They would not have to start merging circuits (I was wondering when that would happen).
If this happens: Bye bye scripture about prophet not being honored in his home town!
due to watchtower flagging the mike & kim videos on youtube for copyright, youtube is giving them 6 days before they are shutting down their entire youtube channel.
can you help with a mass downloading program and then reuploading them on a mirror ?
would hate to lose all those good videos!
how do we know that the wts is behind this?
A little research before you talk please:
http://www.watchtower.exposed/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/wt-of-PA-video-strike-youtube-9-12-2017.jpg
tired of listening to your local elders giving the "special" talk ever year after the memorial?
well don't worry, as of next year we will be spicing things up for your enjoyment.. not only will we be having the talk before the memorial (i know, wild huh), but we will be treating you to the talk via video starring our famous speakers from bethel so you can see how a talk should be given (after all bethel does boast the best speakers in any country, right?!).
here's a copy of the text from our latest letter as i'm sure that with so much excitement you won't believe it at first!.
Dub, your right. It is right in the letter:
To generate enthusiasm for the Memorial,
revision date: 8/17.
the talk outline “jesus christ—earth’s new ruler” has been discontinued and should no longer be used.
it has been replaced by “who really is jesus christ?”note: this is the special public talk outline for 2018. the talk will be given in most congregations the week of monday, march 19, 2018.. .
Paul spoke some excellent smack useful for cults today.
HA! Yes.
tired of listening to your local elders giving the "special" talk ever year after the memorial?
well don't worry, as of next year we will be spicing things up for your enjoyment.. not only will we be having the talk before the memorial (i know, wild huh), but we will be treating you to the talk via video starring our famous speakers from bethel so you can see how a talk should be given (after all bethel does boast the best speakers in any country, right?!).
here's a copy of the text from our latest letter as i'm sure that with so much excitement you won't believe it at first!.
I can see your thinking Dub. If it is also the GB's, my bet is it will fail IF they are trying to get people to come to the especial talk too.
I get the "will you do a little favor for me?" again and again, seems to work to lure people into sales, etc. If that is even related to what you are saying. Anyway, it made me think about that little trick.
Who knows, maybe they are reading our posts and changing the invite to only have the Memorial, if I can be so pompous.
Whatever. We'll see, I just wanted to give my two cents.
I bet attendance went down this year worldwide, as it did in every congregation I heard about... and it hopefully will continue to go down.
2 earthquakes in less than a month.... witnesses are going to have a field day with this... bounce back from that decline.....
Time to send flyers to churches and community centers in Mexico City (spanish jwfacts).
That's how I get my placements up! ;)
tired of listening to your local elders giving the "special" talk ever year after the memorial?
well don't worry, as of next year we will be spicing things up for your enjoyment.. not only will we be having the talk before the memorial (i know, wild huh), but we will be treating you to the talk via video starring our famous speakers from bethel so you can see how a talk should be given (after all bethel does boast the best speakers in any country, right?!).
here's a copy of the text from our latest letter as i'm sure that with so much excitement you won't believe it at first!.
I don't know about the effectiveness of ramping up attendance before the Memorial. Seems like lots of people get there fill of Bible stuff and take a meeting off... like after C.O. visit, Memorial, Assemblies, etc. It has been that way in my area for over five years, didn't used to be like that. Attendance dips lower than normal low.
If that is their plan, it will backfire. YES!
We had dismal attendance for the "special" talk this year.
We haven't heard Memorial attendance for 2017 yet have we? Didn't we usually hear in the summer? At least rumors (oral tradition crap, but we don't do oral tradition, yeah right).
I don't know what the h~}} they are thinking. Maybe they are giving up on inviting people to the "special talk" and instead telling JWs how to behave for the Memorial?
august 11, 2017 to all bodies of elders re: 2018 memorial invitations and date of special talk .
fyi:.
the 2018 memorial will be held on saturday, march 31, 2018.. the 2019 memorial will be held on friday, april 19, 2019..
Special video especially made for the special talk before the special memorial!
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Thanks Wifi.
due to watchtower flagging the mike & kim videos on youtube for copyright, youtube is giving them 6 days before they are shutting down their entire youtube channel.
can you help with a mass downloading program and then reuploading them on a mirror ?
would hate to lose all those good videos!
This might help you understand the copyright strike issue on youtube:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2814000?hl=en
Three strikes shuts down a channel, and deleting a video that has a copyright strike does not resolve the issue. On Mike and Kim's latest video they said that four of the eight have been resolved. That leaves two more to keep the channel. Anyway, hope that clears things up a bit.
I agree with you in a way, because when they load complete wt videos with a little commentary or no commentary it is asking for trouble. People have left comments for Mike and Kim, warning them, but I do not think they get to read all the comments.
due to watchtower flagging the mike & kim videos on youtube for copyright, youtube is giving them 6 days before they are shutting down their entire youtube channel.
can you help with a mass downloading program and then reuploading them on a mirror ?
would hate to lose all those good videos!
It took awhile to get over Mike always saying "you jehovah witnesses", in such an angry tone. Still is not pleasant to hear.
I do like them, but sometimes I disagree. At 10:03 ish in the following video they say CT Russell was found to be childish (puerile) compared to the other charlatans of the day (p38 of Apostles of Denial). Actually, the interviewer referred to in the book found the other snake oil salesmen to be puerile, not CT Russell. They looked up the word, but still pronounced it as pearl... sigh. Here it is: we'll see how long...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_sgEOVC4wE
The interviewer, W.T. Ellis found him to be the cleverest propagandist of the age. Indeed.
Sometimes they make a mountain out a molehill, like when a C.O. asks a question that most would not know the answer due to the wt changing it so often. They thought that he was probably on a witch hunt. Actually, the C.O. is just using another form of guilt. (See, you need to study more!!!)
