Trenton NJ Convention... Some Brief mpressions

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  Room 215

  Peak attendance (Sunday): 5,645; 26 baptized. General impression: "Convention Light"-- i.e. entertainment value:(previously nil) now enhanced by leavening the boring talks with interspersed video. Shameless, maudlin appeal to emotions of the crowd (not a few tears shed during final video). Total abandonment of intellectual appeal (first-ever convention with no literature release).

  Otherwise a traditional JW gathering... ethnically diverse, preponderantly black (by a small but distinct margin)... the usual smattering of grotesquely obese and pretty-to-beautiful young girls, trophy wives-in-waiting, dressed to the hilt;

  No Bethel biggies in evidence (they're holding out for an all-expense trip in Business Class to an exotic international destination).
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  konceptual99

  0.46% baptism rate. That's the best part of twice as good as some other results we've seen. NJ must be bathing in the light of extraordinary JW growth.
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  keinlezard

  Hello,

  And In France ( Villepinte ) more than 22,000 en round 200 baptized !!!

  We had pleasure to see Stephen Lett ... that promise "tribulation" very near :). When he talks , I wonder if he was not prepare the futur "trial" with Australia and all problems with pedophilia around the world ...

  And a strange new borg ... "Kenneth Flodin" .. He said, he lost his sister now .. but no "emotions" on his face !

  No tears on his eyes,neither in his voice !

  Very very strange :(

  Is he human ?

  Greetings
  
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  sir82

  Total abandonment of intellectual appeal

  LOL - you used "intellectual appeal" in a post about a JW convention.

  "Intellectual appeal" has pretty much been gone for, well, since forever.

  Although, I will admit, the posture of giving the appearance of an intellectual appeal used to be there. But even that has been gone for at least the past 20-25 years.
  
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  DesirousOfChange

  Although, I will admit, the posture of giving the appearance of an intellectual appeal used to be there. But even that has been gone for at least the past 20-25 years.

  In more recent years it's all about about "monetary appeal".

  JEHOVAH NEEDS YOUR MONEY!

  Doc
  
  
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  JWdaughter

  Less than 1/2 of 1%. Works for me.
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  smiddy

  It wouldnt have anything to do with Harrison Ford , Han Solo , moving their would it ?

  just saying

  smiddy
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  breakfast of champions

  It wouldnt have anything to do with Harrison Ford , Han Solo , moving their would it ?

  I thought you were kidding when you said this -- and I live in NJ!

  Just googled it and it seems to be 100% true (although I doubt Ford is moving within Trenton city limits .. . . very nice farmland and houses not far from there though).

  Further googling revealed his moving to Trenton was a phony news story. . . . but there are other rumors about Ford having a house in NJ, which really isn't that far-fetched.

  
  

  
  
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  steve2

  "And a strange new borg ... "Kenneth Flodin" .. He said, he lost his sister now .. but no "emotions" on his face !"

  When I hear people say they have "lost" a member of their family or relative, I feel tempted to ask, "How thoroughly did you search for them? Perhaps they are simply hiding around the corner?"
  
  
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  Jse

  0.46% baptism rate. That's the best part of twice as good as some other results we've seen. NJ must be bathing in the light of extraordinary JW growth.

  I find that number deplorable for a group that boasts about there preaching. About 2 weeks ago our church had a baptism. They have about 3500 people in attendance. We had 135 people get baptized. That means about 4% of the attendance got baptized. Our church DOESN'T GO FROM DOOR TO DOOR. The people just come. They have on average 30 new people join the church a month.

  The JW's have nothing to brag about.