"For sure the "Special Talk" is never really special!"
Didn't they used to have a "public meeting" or "public talk" which was anything but? 🤔
Special Talk just prior to the Memorial
by Acluetofindtheuser 25 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Ron.W.
Is this the 'special' talk?
Is there anything 'special' about it that has not been regurgitated ad infinitum in jw land for eons of time already??
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Ugot2bekiddingme1
Like the Special Bus that picks up the Special Kids at school. Not that I'm picking on anyone for their disability. I have my share and my own poor brother. He is still riding the Watchtower Special Bus.
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DATA-DOG
Ron W, yeah that’s it. Super special..🙄
When the Borg made every talk a manuscript talk, they really sucked the life out of any halfway decent speaker. That’s the price of conformity and controlling the content of their brand.
How much of a zombie do you need to be in order to sit through that crap, or enjoy reading a script, or actually believing you gave a speech after regurgitating it.
DD
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HereIam60
The 'Special' talk before the Memorial is usually pretty bland and generic. The gist was "Where can truth be found?...in the Bible...In the teachings of Jesus...for further information contact Jehovah's Witnesses...". Its 'Special' because (they hope) due to the invitation campaign there will be a lot of visitors.
Another thing, at least here since the post-Covid return to the Kingdom Halls is that every few months an announcement is made that a congregation is having a " Special Bethel Speaker' for the weekend to which other congregations are invited. We had one of these just after going back. A young brother said to be an assistant to the Legal Department. He seemed a bit "full of himself" .He said proudly he'd been allowed to choose his own topic. I'm not sure if that means he was really free to say anything or just given his choice of outlines. I don't even remember his theme, but during it he really hammered down on returning to attending meetings, at one point saying "....In-person MEANS In- person...What's there not to understand?!!". He seemed a bit more human giving the Sunday talk the next day.
We share a hall, and our fellow congregation hosted one of these, the speaker being Robert Hendriks, once head of the U.S. Watchtower Public Information Dept. (Does that still even exist ?). Shortly after this rumors began to surface that he'd been disfellow...I mean " removed" but I've been unable to verify that.