A Chicken Story, by Anthony Morris the Third (page 9)

BluesBrother

"Did not get deprived because he went to his convention".....What about these Bro Morris?

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_c_palm_beach_county/west_palm_beach/jehovahs-witnesses-miami-international-airport-bus-crash-worshipp

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The bus involved in a deadly crash on Saturday that killed two and injured several others was on its way to West Palm Beach for a religious convention. Packed inside the Jehovah's Witness Christian Convention Center on Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard, more than 2,500 worshippers stood next to each other praying for those impacted by Saturday's wreck.

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=56130

Tragedy struck weekend in Akwa Ibom State as a man, his wife and all their children, as well as more than 20 others, all members of the Jehovah’s Witness Church, perished in a fatal road accident which occurred, Friday, along the Utu Etim Ekpo road in Etim Ekpo Local Government Area of the state.

http://www.littlescroll.supanet.com/D25.04.86B.htm

One man was killed and 70 people were taken to hospital after a bomb exploded yesterday during a Jehovah's Witnesses service in a Kingdom Hall in the Sydney suburb of Lurnea.

Oubliette

Apparently this "experience" is in the script for the Final Talk at all DCs this year.

When I attended a DC recently, the Bethel speaker paraphrased the experience. It was interesting that he played fast and loose with the published "facts" when recounting it.

He deviated from the published account in two ways.

He said the brother ONLY had 19 chickens and lost them all the year they attended the DC in Tahan.
He also said that when the other villagers lost chickens to disease the next year, our brother generously shared some of his chickens with them.

Now while both of these things could possibly be true, neither of them are in the published account from the 2013 Yearbook. These "factoids" aren't even implied.

Granted, they are pretty minor embellishments of no particular significance, but why would the speaker add them? AM III didn't mention either of these points, so where did this Bethel Speaker get them? He apparently just made them up.

Shouldn't representatives of God be truthful in all things, particularly when speaking publicly? I certainly think so. But apparently at least some DC Speakers don't.

cedars

Oubliette

He said the brother ONLY had 19 chickens and lost them all the year they attended the DC in Tahan.
He also said that when the other villagers lost chickens to disease the next year, our brother generously shared some of his chickens with them.

Sounds like the speaker was indeed playing "fast and loose" with the facts. Point 1 is seemingly a direct contradiction of the published experience (which implies that a "small flock" of chickens survived), which leads me to assume that point 2 is also a pure fabrication.

Cedars

BluesBrother

I believe that the higher one goes in what they call "God's Organization" , the less obliged they feel to stick to the truth on the platform. We have all recounted how Assembly Overssers squeezed any little good story to make an encouraging "experience" for the Circuit Assembly.

Not too long back I was Sis Blues meeting when the C/O gave his talk. He recounted this experience of a big Canadian rock star who came into "the truth", having been shatterred by the deaths of his rock star friends. From memory he named Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Intrigued , I looked up the c/d rom . It turned out that he was big in French speaking Quebec, but unknown in the wider world. Also he said in the article that the big names who died were in fact his idols .....not friends.

So the experience was, sort of true, but embellished for dramatic effect. Does that give you confidence in the C/O? ...Would Jesus have done that?

blondie

So when the Israelites went to their 3 festivals, the males required to go, optional for women; who looked after their animals and crops? Foreign servants?

EdenOne

Millions of chicken now living may will never die!

Eden

bats in the belfry

cedars >> Just looking at your research.

As you pointed out, the place referred to as "Tahan" is actually Kalewa.

Just looking at the makeup of Kalewa Township it says:

Religion: 99% of the inhabitants of Tahan are Christian even though Burma is a Budhhist country and 90% of population are Buddhist. Only 4% of the Burmese population are Christian. There are over 50 churches in Tahan. This is the only place in Burma that a church can be seen from every street corner and where Christmas is celebrated.

Once more we can detect a WTBTS focusing on proselytizing Christians to their JW belief system.

True missionaries most likely will preach to pagans / heathens.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

A contrast just dawned on me...

During the night of the memorial, bethel office made sure that certain duties weren't left unattended. So why is Tony pointing at some poor farmer in a distant country as an example? Why doesn't he have an example in bethel and say, "On the night of the memorial, EVERY BETHELITE leaves early for last minute invitations, preparing the KH, handling the meetings, staying late to visit and clean up. At bethel we don't worry about covering the security, and maintenance duties because we are fully confident that nothing would possibly go wrong in the few hours that the facilities would be left unattended." Quite the contrary, at bethel we would get off work an hour early, but for many of us, chaos followed. Schedules had to be worked around so that a bunch of different duties at bethel weren't left unattended and everyone made an appearance at a memorial service. It was clear to us bethelites that the mundane needs of the bethel home trumped any "spiritual activities" in the congregation.

So he points at this poor farmer and his chickens as an example, when Tony himself doesn't have to worry about a thing because he has an army of slaves to prepare his meals, clean his rooms, pay for all his travel expenses, and pick him up from the airport.

A Chicken Story, by Anthony Morris the Third

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