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  "We have and awesome Judicial System" says elder during public talk

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so as usually unavoidable, i was seating at the wt meeting this sunday.

  we've got there about 15 min late.

  i don't know the title of the talk but when we got there, brother elder was talking about experiences of families that have simplified their life to support these old men, i mean, to serve the kingdom more.

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  We have and awesome Judicial System

  I guess that brother was never a recipient of it.
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  2015 Regional Convention (Cleveland, Ohio) - No accounts report read? No video about abuse?

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i went to the convention this past weekend in cleveland with my wife and son.

  most of the session was the status quo, but here are some of observations that i believe are worth noting: .

  1. i did not see a lot of jw.org advertisements and the website was not mentioned a whole lot during the session.

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  @ StarTrekAngel:

  I seem to remember accounts reports read at all conventions as well. We would always have massive "deficits". Maybe it was a regional thing?
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  2015 Regional Convention (Cleveland, Ohio) - No accounts report read? No video about abuse?

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i went to the convention this past weekend in cleveland with my wife and son.

  most of the session was the status quo, but here are some of observations that i believe are worth noting: .

  1. i did not see a lot of jw.org advertisements and the website was not mentioned a whole lot during the session.

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  @ nowwhat?

  Are we finally becoming a Christian religion?

  You are kidding right? Until they adjust their view of molestation, blood and shunning, they CANNOT be a Christian anything!
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  2015 Regional Convention (Cleveland, Ohio) - No accounts report read? No video about abuse?

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i went to the convention this past weekend in cleveland with my wife and son.

  most of the session was the status quo, but here are some of observations that i believe are worth noting: .

  1. i did not see a lot of jw.org advertisements and the website was not mentioned a whole lot during the session.

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  @ cappytan:

  Approximately how many were there on Saturday for the baptism? In Cleveland, there were about 6,500 on Saturday and only 31 were baptized. Another interesting thing that I noticed during the baptismal talk were the video interviews. That is new.
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  2015 Regional Convention (Cleveland, Ohio) - No accounts report read? No video about abuse?

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i went to the convention this past weekend in cleveland with my wife and son.

  most of the session was the status quo, but here are some of observations that i believe are worth noting: .

  1. i did not see a lot of jw.org advertisements and the website was not mentioned a whole lot during the session.

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  @ Gayle:

  31 were baptized.
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  2015 Regional Convention (Cleveland, Ohio) - No accounts report read? No video about abuse?

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i went to the convention this past weekend in cleveland with my wife and son.

  most of the session was the status quo, but here are some of observations that i believe are worth noting: .

  1. i did not see a lot of jw.org advertisements and the website was not mentioned a whole lot during the session.

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  I guess I never paid enough attention.
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  2015 Regional Convention (Cleveland, Ohio) - No accounts report read? No video about abuse?

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i went to the convention this past weekend in cleveland with my wife and son.

  most of the session was the status quo, but here are some of observations that i believe are worth noting: .

  1. i did not see a lot of jw.org advertisements and the website was not mentioned a whole lot during the session.

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  @ DesirousOfChange:

  There has never been an accounts report at Dist Conventions.

  Are you sure about that? I remember accounts reports being read for all conventions. Are they even still read at regular meetings?
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  2015 Regional Convention (Cleveland, Ohio) - No accounts report read? No video about abuse?

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i went to the convention this past weekend in cleveland with my wife and son.

  most of the session was the status quo, but here are some of observations that i believe are worth noting: .

  1. i did not see a lot of jw.org advertisements and the website was not mentioned a whole lot during the session.

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  I went to the convention this past weekend in Cleveland with my wife and son. I did not want to go, but I went. Most of the session was the status quo, but here are some of observations that I believe are worth noting:

  1. I did not see a lot of “jw.org” advertisements and the website was not mentioned a whole lot during the session. Perhaps the jw.org mania has died down a bit?

  2. On Friday, there were only about 5,500 in attendance. I remember in years past how the attendance was 7,000+ even on Friday in Cleveland. Maybe it has to do with the shuffling around of circuits. Or maybe, less people are going.

  3. There were A LOT (and I mean A LOT) of videos and very few live experiences and demos. I noticed this trend last year at the international convention in Detroit.

  4. No live action drama? C’mon.

  5. There was no accounts report read. I repeat: There was no accounts report read. This must be something new. BTW, my wife wanted to donate with a credit card during the program and the a-hole attendant told her to wait until the program concluded. Guess what? She did not wait and we left. I told her that we need that money more than the org does.

  6. I have read in pervious threads that a video geared toward children was shown at the convention. Its message had to do with keeping children safe from abuse. No such video was shown at the convention I went to.

  I would love to hear from people that were there or people that would like to comment.
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  "And what happened next was simply unbelievable!"

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i always sit in the same spot, just outside starbucks in a vestibule area with a table in the air-conditioned space.

  i say "always," but not today.. somebody with two laptops and a table filled with business ledgers was in "my" favorite spot!.

  so, i took a tiny wooden table inside the coffee shop on a long padded bench next to 3 other identical tables.. as the clickbait banner ads like to say: "and what happened next was simply unbelievable!".

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  @ Terry:

  That may have been the best (un)witness that I ever read or heard about!

  Dub #1 looked at Dub #2 and a kind of electric signal zapped from one to the other.

  Too funny!!!
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  When the WTS saw Catholic Church abuse being exposed

  by Simon in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  there was a time when the abuse issues in the catholic church were first starting to be exposed.. now, they were fully aware that they had the exact same issues that they too were covering up.. what did they choose to do?.

  they could have "learnt" and said "man, that looks bad and we know we have the same problem - but at least we can learn something and put processes in place to make sure we clean up our act".. they could have done nothing themselves but refrained from criticized the catholic church knowing that they had the same skeletons in their own closet.. what did they actually do?.

  they wen't full guns criticizing the catholics for something they knew they were completely guilty of as well, painting themselves as 'the good guys where this sort of thing would never happen' but the only processes they put in place were to tighten up how cover-ups were managed and to make sure the local elders knew how to silence any incidents.

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  The funny thing is that the org doesn't seem to be criticizing the catholic church these days when it comes to child abuse.

  I wonder why?