One more free night...woohoo... 

We would have clapped to if we were still in!

I talked to my mom this morning and she said "How did you know!?" I just said with a smirk, I've got my sources! JWD is the bomb! Amazing we find out things before they do!!!

mightyone:

Yes, many have been hurt by brothers behaving improperly. Many more, however, overlooked human imperfection when we were "in". Instead, we were hurt by the made up date of 607 B.C.E. All historians know that the overwhelming evidence is that the Babylonian exile began in 586-587 B.C.E. You won't find a single history book verifying the 607 date, unless it ws written by a JW apologist. This makes all of their chronology invalid, and the Governing Body has been aware of this for decades, at least since the early seventies when Carl Olof Johansson made them aware.

What really hurt many of us is that they have the power to cut you off from friends, family, and loved ones for even mentioning these facts. Personally, I lost my wife over them.

If I was still a dub, I'd be very confused. The whole point of the book study arrangement was so that loving overseers could keep loving track of those in their care in case of emergencies, persecution, etc., as well as help for those who needed "special" assistance in the field service work. All that now seems out the window, with less special attention and care from the watchful eyes of those loving overseers

I am with you on this one.

Way back years ago they talked about the benefits of small group study, how the elders could give individual attention, etc. to the publishers. And yes, how if the KHall doors were locked from the tribulation (as this was coming any minute) the locations would be our ONLY way to meet together. The book studies were VITAL. Now, they are an inconvenience to many.

Yes, CONFUSION among the rank and file.

It is all PR work. The book study was the least attended meeting, and they knew it.

I think, though, that it will backfire. People will not get to know one another as well on a personal basis. You don't just come up to someone in a KHall and say, hey, lets get together, if you don't know them as well as you would by spending time with them in a small group.

By the way, WELCOME TO ALL THE NEW ONES JOINING US.

All of you have something to contribute.

Yes, it would have been to amuse myself had I gone just to see the reactions of the audience.

I like amusement.

Some of us like to watch people's reactions to things.

It is telling if they clapped like maniacs.

It means that they might have been cheering for one less meeting.

So many are there because that is all they have, not because they want to be there.

Gossip is good, especially if it goes to show that we are right about our positions concerning meeting attendance or no meeting attendance and leaving the WTS.

I'm guessing there are a great many who want to leave but feel stuck.

They are probably the ones who cheered the loudest.

That may mean that we will have more company on the board.