Resolutions at Meetings

by bavman 33 Replies latest jw friends

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  blondie

  Actually, they didn't even like people to ask a question.........used to make me wonder if I really wanted to live in the new system with these guys.

  Blondie
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  inbyathread

  In the hall here, there is a yearly required meeting of the local corporation™. It is held after the service meeting and in that meeting the congregation votes for the corporation officers who happen to be the same as the service committee. At my last corporation vote, when it was asked if any were against the three, I raised my hand high for all to see. If looks could kill. I was never approached about it. My nay vote didn't upset the results of the election.
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  Elsewhere

  When they do those voting things they always have elders ready to make a motion and second a motion. It's all planted well in advance.

  I wish I could go back in time during one of those meetings and make the following motion: I move that Br. [Name] be known from this day forward as Brother Brown-nose.
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  AMNESIAN

  During my last several years as an active JW I'd become so disillusioned and disgusted with the whole crock that one of my several passive-aggressive protests was to permanently stop voting on absolutely everything---fake "resolutions," fake "q&a" (i.e., "how many of us love Jehovah and desire to please him, let's see by a show of hands?"), whatever. The sound of my not voting became deafening over the years as nearly everyone in the congregation and beyond came to notice my heresy. All of the elders' and nearly everyone else's eyes would invariably turn toward me to see if my hand was up during any "vote" being taken---as often as not by my husband, the Presiding Overseer!
  
  I told him that I was done with the charade that "publishers" have any say in matters affecting the congregation when nothing could be further from the truth.
  
  AMNESIAN
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  Highlander

  In the hall here, there is a yearly required meeting of the local corporation™. It is held after the service meeting and in that meeting the congregation votes for the corporation officers who happen to be the same as the service committee. At my last corporation vote, when it was asked if any were against the three, I raised my hand high for all to see. If looks could kill. I was never approached about it. My nay vote didn't upset the results of the election. That kind of reminds me of how voting took place in Iraq during Saddam Hussein's reign. I recall reading an article anouncing that Hussein was re-elected into power and 100 percent of the voters had voted for Hussein. What the article didn't say was that it was required by Iraqi law that the people vote and vote only for Hussein. Not to different fromt the jw democracy, err. I mean Theocracy.
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  sspo

  I remember before the hands went up a sister kept asking way too many questions about the resolution( on top of that her husband was an elder) the resolution passed but

  after that her reputation went down the toilet. Independent thinking and not showing submission
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  anewme

  Like you all we had those resolutions and show of hands thing. I was always an easy and aggreable hands up for anything everyone else wanted. What did I really care?
  But there was one sister who ALWAYS put up her hand to protest "Just where is the money going?" "What happened to the money set aside for such and such we voted on last February?" "Will there be any further discussion or open suggestions about another way the money could be spent?" "What will happen with the sale money from all the CO cars?"
  
  That sis had balls! I used to cringe during these moments but now I see her very differently. Good for her! She was the outspoken mother of six at the hall and her husbands family were well established third generation Witnesses. I like that outspokenness. Thats what the 60s and 70 were like and no doubt earlier before that! Witnesses were bold and courageous. Not the quiet silent zoloft/paxil group they are now.
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  Highlander

  Not the quiet silent zoloft/paxil group they are now.
  

  amen to that.
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  vitty

  I remember a vote on accepting some secondhand chairs. One sister didnt put her hand up, the elder stood there and tutted whilst shaking his head.

  It was really embarrassing, everyone thought she was a real rebel, till we found out she had sat on those chairs and new exactly how uncomfortable they were.

  But the gossip that followed her NOT putting her hand up was incredible

  And I remember the time when everyone stuck their hands up and so did the kids. The old miserable elder, stated "Donot include the chldren in that count" my little girl was so embarrist, the b........d.
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  SirNose586

  When they do those voting things they always have elders ready to make a motion and second a motion. It's all planted well in advance.

  I don't think they do this in my congregation. One resolution, this older ornery sister was the only one who raised her hand to second the motion. When she got the mic she said, "I second that emotion." Scattered giggles from the peanut galley. I don't think it was on purpose, but she clearly said "emotion," so we still giggle about it to this day.