Novel twist on why the meeting format has changed...

by sir82 8 Replies latest jw friends

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  sir82

  ...per the elder giving the local needs part last night on the importance of family study & not "wasting" our newly found free time:

  (Paraphrase) "We are being trained to cover our weekly assigned material in a shorter period of time. Prior to this change, it took nearly 5 hours to cover a week's worth of material from the FDS. Now it is done in 3 and a half hours. So, when the persecution comes, and we're having our underground meetings in private homes, we'll be together for much less time, and there's that much less chance of our being caught and thrown into prison."

  You just can't make this stuff up!

  If that's the reason, why not cut the meetings down to 1 hour a week? Think of the safety we'll experience in that "imminent" persecution!

  Hey, why not just eliminate the meetings altogether!

  Idiots.
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  ex-nj-jw

  It's amazing how people believe this crap. Just make up something and put it out there, they'll believe it no matter how stupid it sounds.

  nj
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  darth frosty

  WOW Nothing like that supreme persecution complex.

  Here's a good Question...If they did indeed start banning all religions where do you think the dubs would fall? I bet they would'nt even be in the top 5.
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  undercover

  So, when the persecution comes, and we're having our underground meetings in private homes, we'll be together for much less time, and there's that much less chance of our being caught and thrown into prison."

  Er, um, lessee...if that's the case, shouldn't they just be meeting in private homes now for a couple of hours a week? This way they can have the system already in place when the persecution hits. All the dubbies will already know where and when to go without having to reinvent another system of meetings. Go underground now, if you're expecting trouble.
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  Finally-Free

  Yeah. Right. I'm sure that the governments have nothing better to do with their time and resources then to spend it on persecuting a small group of the most insignificant people on earth. I can hear them now. "Fuck the economy! Fuck the environment! Fuck the wars, poverty, terrorists and cholera! We've got JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES to worry about!!! THEY are the real threat!!!" If I wasn't so nauseous I'd laugh.
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  WTWizard

  They can get just about all of them done in under a minute--they just repeat themselves anyways. The most absurd example was a Great Boasting Session that could have been done in about 10 seconds.
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  Quandry

  Paraphrase) "We are being trained to cover our weekly assigned material in a shorter period of time. Prior to this change, it took nearly 5 hours to cover a week's worth of material from the FDS. Now it is done in 3 and a half hours. So, when the persecution comes, and we're having our underground meetings in private homes, we'll be together for much less time, and there's that much less chance of our being caught and thrown into prison."

  Let's see now----there will be less time for spiritual instruction, instead of meeting "all the more so as the end draws near."

  Also, as the authorities close down the Khalls so that the only place to meet will be in private homes, the WTS takes away the meetings in private homes.

  It appears this man is a master of twisting this information into good news, repackaging it all into something encouraging. He obviously sweated over this; he could get a job in public relations!!!
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  shamus100

  Twist and turn things to fit your agenda, Jehovahs Witnesses.

  First it was "don't ever miss a book study when 'persecution ' comes, because it will change houses from week to week and you won't know where the next one will be and you will be SCREWED!". You will never see a dub again... BOOOHAAHAHAHAHAH!

  To now: Get the meeting over and done with ASAP so we don't get thrown into prison.

  Wow. What a gigantic step backwards.
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  NewYork44M

  Sounds like fast food religion, neither appetizing nor nutritious.