by D wiltshire 21 Replies latest jw friends
OMG, Ranchette, did you live in South Carolina???? LOL
I had dogs "sicced" on me, a gun pulled on me. I was spit on, kicked at, called names of course I'd never heard before. Many days I left someone's porch in tears! And they expect their kids to start going door to door saying in essence, "YOU ARE TOAST!!!"???????????
April
"Love never dies." Voivodul Vlad Draculea (from Bram Stoker's Dracula-1992)
Tatiana,
No, it was rural southern Missouri and I’m proud to say that I’m not originally from there.
We would drive for miles down dirt roads and come across a pig trail that we would not dare drive down because we learned early on that our cars couldn’t take it. Even if there was not a mail box we would still hike in because there would be people living back there in the woods in old buses, wooden boxes and so on. No electricity or plumbing either. These were hippie like people from big cities who would claim to be sick of society and moved there to live off the land. They stunk soooo bad! Those types were usually harmless.
There was more than one community in our territory that was made up of a couple of families. Incest was rampant in them and there were many mentally handicapped, and flat out crazies as a result of all the birth defects. We sisters were not allowed to go to these places without a brother in the car group. Like, he could really protect us.[8>]
There were also lots of Church of God and Pentecostal. Very charismatic .The demons were every- where!
There was also lots of Church of Christ who loved to tell us we were going to hell.
Then you had angry Veterans with flashbacks and the love of guns!
Also a ton of paranoid schizophrenics. I’ve lived in a lot of places but this was the scariest and most entertaining.
Ranchette
YEP,
It's known as THE JUDGEMENT MESSAGE. Its in the 'by-laws'.
Dubs signed up for it, yuou just quoted it.
Mustang
Do you also remember being told that we had to attend all the meetings because when Armageddon came we would probably have to meet secretly. If you weren't there then you would miss the announcement and would not know where to go. (I guess it would not be allowed for anyone to tell you) So yes, brothers and sisters attend each and every meeting. And remember the contribution box is by the door.
noidea,
Yes,they just loved to use this one when bookstudy attendence got low!
They would say it would be through the bookstudy groups that we would have to meet during persecution, so it was as important or more so than the other meetings.
Ranchette
Hey, Ranchette, you can call me April. That's my real name.
I'm proud to say I wasn't born in SC either. Portland, Maine here. Not saying most of SC is not okay, (Charleston is beautiful, and Myrtle Beach rocks---but dig down deeper into Lane, Trio, Nesmith and Spring Gulley, where Chubby Checker is from, and you're in for a treat!) but we went to the backwoods parts also. And it was pure hell. I, too, had to walk up to a school bus and knock on the "door"! We had one family in town (pop. 2900)who had very deformed kids because of inbreeding. The house looked like that farmhouse in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It was down a long dirt road and the grass was knee high. I was 11 and terrified out of my mind.
Plus we had lots of KKK in town. I feel so sorry for all the kids who will have to "preach" destruction and no resurrection to all these weirdos.
April
"Love never dies." Voivodul Vlad Draculea (from Bram Stoker's Dracula-1992)
April,
Thanks, your real nane is much easier to spell and is pretty too.
Looks like we had simular experiences.I used to keep a note book with those crazy experiences in it.
I just quit going to meetings about 8 months ago.I haven't heard that judgement message talked about since all those years back.
I guess that teaching still stands since they never took it back that I'm aware of.?
Maybe the silence shows just how excited they really are about it.
I've often thought about what would happen if they did finally change over to this message.Then when the end doesn't come I wonder If they'll start all over again with good news?
Ranchette
No, Ranchette, I don't think they will be able to go "back" to the original message. How can they go from door to door preaching "too late", then backtrack when it doesn't happen?
I don't know, though, they are so good at new light techniques, it wouldn't surprise me what they do to get around it.
April
"Love never dies." Voivodul Vlad Draculea (from Bram Stoker's Dracula-1992)
April,
That's why I don't really think they'll ever start preaching that message of doom.They risk going out of business if they do.
The rest of the world won't be as gullible and forgiving as JW's.
But like you pointed out,there's no telling what they'll end up doing.
Ranchette
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