Posts by FFGhost

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Parking Attendant Training Videos

by Jofi_Wofo in

i know that all of the assembly/convention attendant training videos have been leaked publicly, but has anyone gotten a hold of the parking training videos?.

i saw these about a year and a half ago, when i was still pimo.

as bizarre and manipulative as the attendant video series is, the parking videos put them to shame.

FFGhost

I used to do parking at every circuit assembly, and once I did it at a district assembly.

It was in the bottom half of the "enjoyable" scale for assembly / convention volunteer assignments. Mainly due to the weather (we somehow managed to get the circuit assemblies that fell on the coldest & snowiest days of the year). At the DC, it was the opposite problem - you'd be drenched in sweat by the end of the morning, then have to go into the air-conditioned facility and hope you didn't get pneumonia.

I can't for the life of me imagine why a training video would be needed. How long does it take to explain "wave and point, don't get run over, say 'watch your doors' and 'good morning brothers' as they park".

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Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

by nowwhat? in

https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

hope link works.

FFGhost

a person could simply log into the Zoom meeting and walk away without watching or even listening to the meeting.

In any given Zoom meeting, typically less than half of the devices signed on have the camera turned on.

I'd wager that 25-35% of "attendees" at meetings just have the device signed on in the background while the person watches TV, posts on Facebook, etc.

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Name an Amazing or Unexpected Fact

by Simon in

jw
friends

i saw this on twitter the other day and it blew my mind.. tyrannosaurus is closer to us than to stegosaurus.

that is, when tyrannosaurus lived, stegosaurus were already fossilized and those fossils were older than tyrannosaurus fossils are today to us, by a good 20 million years!.

in a similar vein, the star wars prequel movies are now older than the original star wars movies were when those prequels were released.. how about that we're closer in time to cleopatra than she was to the pyramids being built.. what 'ya got?.

FFGhost

It is speculated that Shakespeare assisted with the translation work, or at least the English phrasing, of some of the King James Bible.

Of course spelling was inconsistent in the 16th & 17th centuries. One of the ways Shakespeare wrote his name -was Shakspeare. Break it in syllables, and you have 4 letters (shak), then 6 letters (speare).

Work on the KJV began in 1610, when Shakespeare was 46 years old.

(JW voice) Now turn in your King James bible to Psalm 46. From the beginning, count the words. What is the 46th word? "Shake". Now go to the end of the chapter, and count backward, from the end, 46 words. What word do you find? "Spear".

It's either a 17th century "easter egg" or it's one of the most remarkable coincidences in the history of English literature.

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Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

by nowwhat? in

https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

hope link works.

FFGhost

The d2d work was abandoned long before the pandemic.

It was?

The 8 million+ JWs obligated to do it might disagree with you.

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Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

by nowwhat? in

https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

hope link works.

FFGhost

invariably they were fakes / people putting in their friends' details for a laugh / "opposed" people or local crazies wanting us to call on them etc.

Yep, my experience too. Mainly lonely old folks who wanted someone to talk to, or semi-nuts who wanted to tell you about fake moon landings or the hormones added to cow's milk.

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Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

by nowwhat? in

https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

hope link works.

FFGhost

I agree cart witnessing will be first, probably will go on for many months before door to door resumes. We may see cart witnessing (masked up) begin in late summer or early fall. I expect door to door won't happen until 2022.

Maybe they'll use the 2022 Memorial campaign as a springboard to restart D2D? JWs will be rusty after 2 years, so start with an easy "here is your copy of this invitation, goodbye" presentation.

I think maybe KH meetings will resume in some areas around the same timeframe (6 months or so from now), but with reduced capacity. Maybe 1 or 2 field service groups meeting in person at the KH at one time, seated far apart from each other, and the rest of the congregation tied in by Zoom. Then rotate the groups.

100% normal, all KH meetings at full capacity and usual unrestricted D2D, maybe some time in 2023.

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Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

by nowwhat? in

https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

hope link works.

FFGhost

I don't understand the conclusion of the OP.

The WT spokesman said that regarding JWs going door to door "in masks, in the next few months? It might happen, but probably won't".

How does "we probably won't be going door to door in the next few months" get transmogrified into "DOOR TO DOOR PREACHING NOT COMING BACK!!! !!! !!!"

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Questions I have about the "Ministry School".

by Pallbearer in

i remember that jehovah's witnesses used to have a 2-hour, 2-part mid-week meeting which included a 1-hour "ministry school" followed by a 1-hour "service meeting".

please correct me if i am wrong in any respect but to the best of my memory the ministry school was composed of 4 parts, as follows:.

part 1: an "instruction talk".

FFGhost

That's OLD light.

For the past 5 - 6 years there is a "Christian Life and Ministry" meeting.

About 45 minutes that roughly corresponds to the old "ministry school", about 15 minutes that corresponds to the old "service meeting", and 30 minutes for the "Congregation Bible Study" (what used to be called the "book study").

There's lots of other little changes that are too boring to relate.

Most meetings have short pre-recorded video presentations, typically 3-4 minutes in length. There's anywhere from 1 to 4 per week.

Oh, and the "Our Kingdom Ministry" has been replaced by a "Christian Life and Ministry Workbook".

And of course, for the past year all meetings have been conducted via Zoom videoconference.

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Memorial Prep question

by ExCircuitOverseer in

so are individual witnesses being told to prepare bread and have wine on hand for the zoom memorial?

are they saying it’s “vital” or is it just a “suggestion?” .

FFGhost

Interesting article.

Seems likely, then, that there were spices or other additives in the wine that Jesus used.

So why all the hyperventilation by the WTS on "pure" and "unfortified" wine?

Oh, that's right. The (uneducated) opinions of the GB are far more important than Bible research, by actual, you know, scholars & $#!+.

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Just invited to a zoom memorial.

by Overrated in

jw
friends

walked away from the trooth years ago(over 20) my older sister sends me an invite to the memorial via zoom.

i have no interest in jwism at all.

should i ignore or respond?.

FFGhost

If there's one thing I've learned from this forum, it's that it takes an enormous amount of time and effort to convince someone of "X" when they are entrenched in their belief in "Y", no matter how logical or reasonable "X" is or how wackadoodle "Y" is..

I'm not saying it's pointless, or it can't be done - it can be.

But you can't do it with 100 or 200 word posts on an internet forum, and you can't do it in 4 minutes on Zoom.

Unless you have the will and the opportunity to engage over a long period of time, best course is just to "save your ammunition" for cases where you might be able to reason effectively with someone.

So I say just ignore it.