by roflcopter 22 Replies latest jw friends
free2beme,
It's early here. Just sat down with my first cup of joe. Thanks for making me spit it out my nose. Not sure why your post was so funny... but it was to me. I'm not even sure, after re-reading, that you meant it to be. Thanks for the laugh and clean-up.
What a kookie religion. We'll kill ya' and let the birds eat your eyes but we won't share a ride to work with you.
What century do these neanderthals live in again?
What a bunch of rubbish!
- Wing Commander
That really sucks! My extra 20 min. in the morning is precious to me!
Ahhhh..gotta love those witness rules. He must be die hard cause I remember some who didn't really care one way or another esp. about a ride to work. I feel for ya.
My daughter 16 at the time and a JW. Occasionally would be given a lift home from work by a married JW brother who lived nearby, if he saw her walking along the road home.
One day she gets a call from the Elders would like to meet her and the brother at the Kingdom Hall. It turns out they had been spotted in the car together, on a couple of times when the brother had given her a lift. What followed was what amounted to accusations that they were having an affair. My daughter told them they were being stupid and it was just a lift home and no more than about 10 minutes in the car with him. The brother told them that he had seen her walking in the rain one time and stopped to take her home. Then if he was coming home that way, he didn't always come home the same way depending on were he had been working, and saw her he would give her a lift. But the Elders were not having it and couldn't accept it as a simple act of kindness. But they couldn't prove anything. So they just privately reproved them.
The next part was told to me later on.
About two weeks later the brother calls the Elders concerned to comes to his house. Probably thinking he is going to confess, they turned up. He tells them to sit down and shut up. He then lays into them over their suspicious petty minded attitude over it. Based on what "ONE" person had told them. He goes on about how JW's are supposed to show love to each other and asks its it love to see a fellow JW walking in the pouring rain and not offer a lift. By the Elders view its ok to give a lift, if it was a brother, but not a sister. I believe he went on for quite a while at them, using scripture as well.
Then he told that they had just compounded in his mind what he had felt for a long time. amongst other things. That JW's were a totally unloving religion. With that he gives them his Letter of Disassociation and tells then to get out.
This brother was married to the daughter of an Elder. So you can imagine what problems his DA caused. I heard later on that they had divorced, on what grounds I don't know. Didn't involve my daughter though. But the brothers wife still blames my daughter for it all because oif she hadn't accepted the lift none of it would have happened.
Their dirty minds turn the kindest gesture into something sexual.
How about public transportation? The Witness woman would be commuting to work with lots of lecherous men (maybe even lesbians) who could be chatting her up at the bus top, or sitting next to her on the train. What then? Orgies?
Seems they are saying women are safer riding with a variety of worldlies, than with just one dedicated servant of Jah. A young girl (I was one once) walking home alone is in a FAR more dangerous situation than accepting a ride with one of the brothers. It's revealing that a young girl's personal safety, her very life, is worth nothing to those elders.
roflcopter: You could inform the elders that you must now deduct $$$ from your regular donations to the Kingdom Hall/Wordwide Work to cover this burdensome extra fuel expense, wear-and-tear on tires, increased frequency of oil changes, etc.
Also, your car insurance premium may increase with added commuting mileage/time on the road. Would they kindly write a letter to your insurance carrier that it's necessary to prevent your wife from engaging in extramarital sex to and from her place of employment?
Oh, and now that you must get to sleep extra-early, to get up extra-early, and the both of you get home so very late now, you will no longer be able to attend evening meetings.
Is this the "yoke that is light" that Jesus spoke of?
~Sue
They really are so stupid! It seems that they can't act like decent human beings if doing so means breaking one of their idiotic rules.
That story from aniron was even more ridiculous, and I am glad that brother gave them what for over it.
Yes, my husband suddenly realized that the new congregation is not at all eager to help him get to meetings on nights we share the car. Single sisters can't pick him up, and nearly everyone else refused because he's "out of territory". We are literally, blocks away from the "territory" border.
Also, I just wanted to add a compliment to ROFLCOPTER for editing his own gaffe and his quick recovery.
Dear Rolf,
Our last CO told a middle-aged brother that it would be inappropriate to work out in service with female in-laws unless he were accompanied by his wife. Apparently, the neighborhood would be scandalized by such flagrant and outrageous flouting of social mores! Twaddle!
Ridiculously yours,
CoCo
haha all your posts made me laugh. I love this community
It really is freaking halarious that a bunch of horny sexually repressed geezers in new york think that the only thing we think about doing when we get alone is acting like a bunch of rabbits. I mean come on! Not even "worldly" people are that bad!
