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  In person attendance

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we got the inevitable letter today.. meet, associate and "encourage" in person unless sick or infirm.

  also dress up for zoom if you must use it.

  locally over half are on zoom, 3/4 no picture.

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  Well done. That is an effective tactic to disable the JW elder playbook... do not let them mobilise on you!
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  2022-07-29-Announcement!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2022-07-29-announcements--english.

  2022-07-29-announcements-spanishpage 2, par.

  3. on the other hand, some brothers and sisters—younger and in good health—have more favorable circumstances that may allow them to attend christian meetings regularly at the kingdom hall.

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  also... WT big bellies are probably getting stuck with handling all the petty chores at the KH, such as sprinting microphones and post-meeting sanitising.

  After four months (April-July) getting stuck with all the KH grunt work, the elites want the younger/fit ones back at the KH to perform those chores.
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  "New Boy Life and Death at the World Headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses'

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my book was removed from kindle on amazon books for over a year.

  i wondered who had the power to do that?

  anyway it is back up after paying thousands of dollars in extra fees.

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  "Description

  Enjoy a fifty year odyssey of one person’s journey into the bowels of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, otherwise known as the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Living at the world headquarters of this organization became so surreal and crazy that many there could only leave the insanity by way suicide. How has this same organization, been instrumental in the death, suicides and insanity of thousands of people, many of whom are not even Jehovah’s Witnesses? Find out what devastating tool this organization uses, to keep over eight million of their followers in line with their teachings and policies. Why do millions of their drone-like followers knock on doors every week looking for new converts? Find out why these people want you to join them in their soon to be paradise Earth. A paradise that can only take place after their god Jehovah kills off the vast majority of the Earth’s population. This end of the World carnage they are in anticipation of will of course kill off all nonbelievers but will even include many of their own family members! Find out what devastating problem could be the complete demise of the Jehovah’s Witness organization and is costing their organization millions of dollars every year. Keith Casarona has written a telling account of his life, in and out of the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization. Alternately humorous and painful, it is and intriguing educational read. —Jack Sutton"
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  Assembly Dramas:They were so bad.... but.... you waited for them to break away from the monotony!

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  you do remember the four day assemblies... sitting outdoors being fried in the sweltering heat,getting heat stroke in the middle of july in an outdoor baseball stadium.sitting outdoors from 9:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. was so much fun while you wore a suit,long sleeve shirt and a tie while your brain fried.

  mom's who had children to take care of,lug strollers,feed all the kids,take them for bathroom breaks and try to not faint from the heat.. the sound and audio was always breaking and barely audible from the wind,airplanes flying over and (if you attended the cicero,illinois circuit )you would smell horse manure from the horse stables next door.. you know that you are a jehovah's witness.... when the only excitement waiting for the drama... where brothers and sisters dress up in ancient cloths,fake beards,fake rocks and fake soldier uniforms and wave their hands incessantly to pretend that they are acting out a drama.the excitement was unbearable!.

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  Sir Carpenter... in sanctimonious tights?
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  Assembly Dramas:They were so bad.... but.... you waited for them to break away from the monotony!

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  you do remember the four day assemblies... sitting outdoors being fried in the sweltering heat,getting heat stroke in the middle of july in an outdoor baseball stadium.sitting outdoors from 9:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. was so much fun while you wore a suit,long sleeve shirt and a tie while your brain fried.

  mom's who had children to take care of,lug strollers,feed all the kids,take them for bathroom breaks and try to not faint from the heat.. the sound and audio was always breaking and barely audible from the wind,airplanes flying over and (if you attended the cicero,illinois circuit )you would smell horse manure from the horse stables next door.. you know that you are a jehovah's witness.... when the only excitement waiting for the drama... where brothers and sisters dress up in ancient cloths,fake beards,fake rocks and fake soldier uniforms and wave their hands incessantly to pretend that they are acting out a drama.the excitement was unbearable!.

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  a master carpenter? 🏚🔨
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  2022-07-29-Announcement!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2022-07-29-announcements--english.

  2022-07-29-announcements-spanishpage 2, par.

  3. on the other hand, some brothers and sisters—younger and in good health—have more favorable circumstances that may allow them to attend christian meetings regularly at the kingdom hall.

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  • it has been observed that some have developed a tendency to...

  WT here revealing it uses informants within congregations to "observe" publishers.
  

  Instead of observing all his commandments and paying attention to the meeting program, these informants are busy observing, and apparently documenting:

  • which publishers have connected to the meetings via Zoom video conferencing

  • which publishers are visible on camera, and their personal choice of attire

  • presumptuously judging the physical fitness/age of said publishers, and whether they are fit enough to walk their butt into a KH and sit there wearing a atuffy mask for two hours

  • then slyly report these covert 'observations' (complaints) to the branch office

  • branch then issues a letter scolding all congregations, and giving marching orders for elders to enforce while "shepherding"

  Reminds us of a scripture... "By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have informants among yourselves."
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  Assembly Dramas:They were so bad.... but.... you waited for them to break away from the monotony!

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  you do remember the four day assemblies... sitting outdoors being fried in the sweltering heat,getting heat stroke in the middle of july in an outdoor baseball stadium.sitting outdoors from 9:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. was so much fun while you wore a suit,long sleeve shirt and a tie while your brain fried.

  mom's who had children to take care of,lug strollers,feed all the kids,take them for bathroom breaks and try to not faint from the heat.. the sound and audio was always breaking and barely audible from the wind,airplanes flying over and (if you attended the cicero,illinois circuit )you would smell horse manure from the horse stables next door.. you know that you are a jehovah's witness.... when the only excitement waiting for the drama... where brothers and sisters dress up in ancient cloths,fake beards,fake rocks and fake soldier uniforms and wave their hands incessantly to pretend that they are acting out a drama.the excitement was unbearable!.

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  What that bearded brother Jesus of Nazareth?
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  In person attendance

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we got the inevitable letter today.. meet, associate and "encourage" in person unless sick or infirm.

  also dress up for zoom if you must use it.

  locally over half are on zoom, 3/4 no picture.

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  Expect "shepherding" from local elders as stated in the document. Also the circuit overseers this service year will be inspecting results.
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  Assembly Dramas:They were so bad.... but.... you waited for them to break away from the monotony!

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  you do remember the four day assemblies... sitting outdoors being fried in the sweltering heat,getting heat stroke in the middle of july in an outdoor baseball stadium.sitting outdoors from 9:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. was so much fun while you wore a suit,long sleeve shirt and a tie while your brain fried.

  mom's who had children to take care of,lug strollers,feed all the kids,take them for bathroom breaks and try to not faint from the heat.. the sound and audio was always breaking and barely audible from the wind,airplanes flying over and (if you attended the cicero,illinois circuit )you would smell horse manure from the horse stables next door.. you know that you are a jehovah's witness.... when the only excitement waiting for the drama... where brothers and sisters dress up in ancient cloths,fake beards,fake rocks and fake soldier uniforms and wave their hands incessantly to pretend that they are acting out a drama.the excitement was unbearable!.

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  Now in 2022 still seeing JW productions with awkward scripts, mediocre acting, and stubborn WT insistency for fake beards.
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  Watched 1st WT Video in 30 years!

  by Wonderment in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  today i watched my 1st wt drama video since 30 years ago when i quit as a jw member.

  the strange thing is that i did not choose to start watching this video.

  it was my wife who's never been a witness, who started going over the jw.org site, and came across the new videos.

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  WT theatre productions may have improved since the days of convention stage lip-sync dramas, but...

  Still those laughably fakes beards!

  along with dull awkward dialogue that is unconvining because the "actors" are just an in-house collection of favored JW good ol' boys that are not even allowed to grow a real beard for the sake of biblical reenactment realism

  There are better cosmetics and better dramatising performances to be seen in low grade B movies and cancelled Hallmark Channel stories.

  The only redeeming quality of WT videography might be some of the digital special effects (for example: the fiery angel scene in the Hezekiah/Assyria feature) but WT sanitizes their portrayals of graphic biblical passages, so even the WT special effects fall short of its potential.

  Even children notice what lacks in WT stuff.