Sounds like the JW rumor mill is working full tilt...

The Society is going to have a new teaching program for all elders.  From what I understand, these schools were going to be at Bethel for all US elders.  That's probably the "special meeting" that your contact was talking about.

As far as JWs are concerned, they've been teaching that they've been living in the "Time of the End" since 1914 for decades.  That's nothing new.  As for the "End of the End", the leadership has always tried to instill a sense of urgency in the rank and file to keep them busy and distracted from reality.  It's ironic...and frustrating...how the WTS will use the rumor mill to promote that the "End" is so close, but in writing they'll hedge their bets by saying that no one knows the hour.

The UN banning religions has been a JW urban myth since I was a little...and that was a few decades ago.  Other fundamentalists have rumored the same thing.  No basis in fact or logic.

I doubt that the UN will successfully ban religion.  There are many countries with official religions these days, and they would start a riot if they banned religion.  And I doubt, with all the legal doubletalk by the Watchtower Society, that they will be banned either.

Instead of banning religion, they should expose it.  When people see the fully integrated facts, they see how much of religion is a smokescreen.  And that goes double for the Watchtower Society, since they not only are based on a Bible that glorifies a value-destroying God, but they don't even follow it as they claim.

It's so obvious what they are up to with their fear mongering tactics to keep JW's in a state of anticipation. It's a tried and tested formula that has kept on working since the WT began.

Maddie

When members of a group wake up every day praying for a miracle that will justify what they've been falsely teaching and forecasting for decades, they will grasp at any straw. That's what this dub is doing.

All U.S. elders (English language only) will be required to "go to school" at Blondie points out, above. This is on a staggered schedule with some complicated priority forumula. They've done this before. In 1976 or '77 they brought elders in from all over the country for two weeks of "training." The elder in our old congo returned with no visible evidence of having learned anything new, although his dub cred went way up.

The U.N. does not have the power to ban religion, it would have to be done by the various country governments. I doubt if you will ever see it happen.

Woody