Was there anyone in your congregation that you couldn't get to like?

by JH 18 Replies latest jw friends

  • looking_glass
    looking_glass

    There was a family that were the one-upsters. Initially, they lived on welfare, while the wife pioneered and the husband started his brick laying business. The business took off and wifey-pooh stopped pioneering and they were off welfare. They had 4 kids (one kid from wife's prior marriage, a daughter who the step dad made feel like crap all the time). Eventually they moved up the financial chain. Keep in mind these people lived in Waukegan and eventually Zion. People in this area for the most part are hard working, average income people. So the N's were constantly throwing things around to make other people feel bad, for things they had that others did not.

    What was interesting was that the middle boyz were HORRIBLE! From the time they were born they were evil kids (i.e., tried to set small animals on fire, beating the crap out of the younger kids in the hall, etc.) however, daddy who was elder always got them out of trouble. The boyz were spoiled and eventually left the religion, but they continued their reign of terror. They both have gone to jail for physical abuse, drug abuse. Of course, mommy and daddy have always blamed everyone else for the boyz problems. However, daddy was the first guy to df someone for the slightest thing.

    Recently, the youngest boy who was out jail, showed up at a kid's house that he knew from the hall. After too much alcohol, the N boy, got angry about something, he beat the crap out of my friend's son, to the point of the boy having to go to the ER. Elder N, convinced this boy's mother to convince her son not to press charges because it would bring "reproach on Jah's name." Elder N some how spined the tale to make the mom think that it was her son's fault for allowing alcohol to be at the party.

    Even though I have been out for years, this family still kills me.

  • blondie
    blondie

    I avoided the liars and backstabbers. I had found their hand on many a knife in my back.

    Blondie

  • Wasanelder Once
    Wasanelder Once

    There was a brother who was a super zealot. He got angry at me because I took the side of the householder on a complaint she made against him. He was doing street work in front of her house because the High School was across the street. He was handing out some kingdom news thing and the kids were dropping them on the ground only a few feet away from him. He didn't pick them up. He felt he was really spreading seeds of truth. Of course, the lady's bushes were filling up with these things and they were all over her property and then the wind sent them down the street. She called the Hall to complain and I took the call. I went to him to encourage him to stop and he kicked me out of his house for taking the side of the worldly person over a brother.

    What an ass he was. Karma came down on him hard, he had cancer but survived. Must have been all that self righteousness made him sick too finally.

    What a pill.

    W.Once

  • fullofdoubtnow
    fullofdoubtnow

    One of the elders sons was a really arrogant little so and so. He got away with things anyone else would be disciplined for because of his fathers position. He eventually got in trouble with the police for drug offences, and da'd before he could be df'd, and ended up in prison for a couple of years. That was on thing his father couldn't get him out of. When he was released, he came back to meetings for a while, but was never re - instated, and wasn't attending at all when I left.

  • Mysterious
    Mysterious

    There were always youths in the congregation that I couldn't stand..but they were good association right and the only ones around so of course I was forced to hang out with them. I was actually pleased that most of them ignore me now since I never wanted to talk to them anyway but only did so at the urging of my mother. Lots of them were just really boring people or the extra zealous ones that would criticize anything you did and only want to talk about service when you were together.

  • LisaRose
    LisaRose

    There was this old elder at a hall I went to. He always gave me the creeps. Wouldn't give me the time of day but always gave me the 'stink eye'. Very judgemental and critical. His wife aways sat there like a little mouse, never said a word to anybody. Turned out he was abusing her. Her health was failing and their kids made her leave him as they felt her life was in danger. He ended up killing himself. Only time I ever heard of a suicide that I didn't feel bad about it.

  • Crumpet
    Crumpet
    was probably one of the loneliest there, because after a handshake and a "Hi, how are you?" there was nothing left to say. I can't ever remember having a meaningful conversation either at the Kingdom Hall or in Service.

    Ahhh Jayhawk - that seems so sad. I hate thinking of you all alone not talking to anyone - I would have talked to you!!

    And I love your avatar by the way! Brings back good childhood memories!

  • justsomedude
    justsomedude
    I was probably one of the loneliest there, because after a handshake and a "Hi, how are you?" there was nothing left to say. I can't ever remember having a meaningful conversation either at the Kingdom Hall or in Service.

    With you all the way on this one. I didnt share a common interest with anyone in the hall, they were tremendously boring and I had no idea what to say to any of them.

    There was one particular clown that I didnt care for at all, he was one creepy SOB too. I was in the hall with this guy for about 15 years and noticed that he was always watching the latest group of 16-20 year old girls and taking special interest in them. He was probably close to 60 when I left, but was still working on being as creepy as possible.

    I had more than one friend ask me to watch to see if he approached them and them come rescue them from him.

    Years ago he really took this interest in this cute red headed girl and wouldnt leave her alone. Always asking her to come over and study with he and his wife and pretty much any other excuse to get her over to his place. During this time his wife, who had a been a blonde as long as I had known her, decided to dye her hair red too.. Except it didnt quite take and came out orange... Apparently she likes it though, because it was still orange when I left.

    Ok that doesnt read as goofy as it struck me at the time, but hopefully you get the idea.

  • BluesBrother
    BluesBrother

    Usually my fellow elders.

    Either type A personality pushy types, or "sit-on-your-backside and do what the others do" seatwarmers. My relationship with all the bodies I served on was just like going to job of work. We came together to do a job, for a cause that I then believed in, but afterward, I had no interest in their company.

    Most of the rest of them were ok, bar one or two grumpy and know-it-all females..... I always got on best with the "oddities" who were slightly eccentric but with a heart of gold

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