Dist Conv in Portland Maine

by proandcon 11 Replies latest jw friends

  • proandcon
    proandcon

    I attended on Sat afternoon. Points of note mentioed several times in talks:

    Pornography...still a big issue in dubdum...must be an epidemic the way they harp on it...especially porno on the web...so dubs are on the web in spite of the WT...no doubt on xJW sites also.

    Divorce...continues unabated by JW's all over. Huge problem ...almost every area cong has some issue with it. Couples are not committed to each other...not allowing Jah in the marriage...getting married to young...big problem, for sure. Destroying familes in God's spirit directed organization (tm)

    "Higher education"...a "waste of time"...too many pursue "excess education" ...Jah's education is perfect and complete...higher education is "empty and self gratifying (yeah, especailly if you like to eat and stay dry)...

    real sad "experience"...20 yr old MS and pioneer worked 3 days a week testing robots for an engineering company near Boston...company wanted him to work full time plus they would then send him to MIT (top school in the US) to pursue an engineering degree.. He is held in very high regard...the company was founded by MIT grads and professors...he prayed about it and decided he only wanted to work 3 days a week and forego the "higher education" (which he felt was "useless" in this system soon to end (tm)...so they moved him from the engineering dept to shipping / receiving...but becasue he was to "touch" some material going to the military...he QUIT the job...now he's unemployed...but "happily" pioneering" my guess is when he ultimately wakes up re the WT and begins to post here eventually, he is going to be one Pissed off cowboy...what a horrific decision...his parents (one a JW) are incredulous...I'm going to get them some info re the WT (UN and sending some to college when they need to)...maybe it own't be too late for him to rectify the situation at the job.

    Unbelievable...and 5000 people at the convention here this stuff and applaud? WTF...

  • FlyingHighNow
    FlyingHighNow

    How sad. Education is everything in today's world. The governing body commits evil when they encourage this kind of pressure on people. They will mess up this young boy's life. Life is fleeting and it passes so quickly. He'll likely struggle to support a wife he doesn't really love and oppress two or three children and wake up at forty and end up divorced, broke and alone.

  • serendipity
    serendipity

    Hi proandcon,

    Thanks for the writeup. Were there any new releases at this session? How about Friday?

    I will skip Sat. afternoon. My daughter doesn't need to hear the comments on advanced education, especially since she's considering an engineering degree.

  • 95stormfront
    95stormfront

    Any new releases.....

  • Severus
    Severus

    No comment about the release?? Please tell me you stayed to the end of the Saturday session...

  • Cellist
    Cellist

    ProandCon must be attending the Sunday sessions.

    Cellist

  • fullofdoubtnow
    fullofdoubtnow

    Thanks for the write up. It sounds like the usual crap I got used to hearing at all the dc's I attended.

    As for that young ms, I fear for people like him, so totally brainwashed that he throws his career away, so sad.

  • proandcon
    proandcon

    Thank God...I only went to Sat afternoon..."thrilling" new release...Live with Jehovahs Day in Mind"...sneak preview...the end is real close (tm)...so be good...all the bs that fits in 192 pages...softcover thought to save $$$$...JW's there seemed very apathetic...saw many asleep...when I wasnn't sleeping...noise in the halls during the convention was pretty loud...these conventions are turning into just big social gatherings..."spiritual" value is very limited...same old stuff regurgitated constantly...agenda the same always...

    proandcon

  • serendipity
    serendipity

    Hi pro,

    Did you get a copy of the book? Is this book based on any particular book of the Bible?

  • Soledad
    Soledad

    Oh Christ. This kid passed over MIT to be a Watchtowerâ„¢ slave.

    Unreal

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