by badboy 35 Replies latest jw friends
Chairman of our JC inadvertently mentioned someones name to me on the phone ( a friend of ours, elder PO in a nearby cong) who he had been gossiping with about our apostasy. Then corrected himself really obviously - I let it slide as I was pissing myself laughing at the time with one hand over the mouthpiece as I couldn't find the mute button.
I knew he had been talking to this other PO about us as the PO's wife told us.
thats one thing i found hilarious......... its all about the BODYS OPINION........... one elder i knew who was honestly brainwashed and did his best....... he went out to give a public talk and he had 3 sons........... so being the cheap guy he was about haircuts......... he cut both his own hair and the hair of his children.............well the boys anyway............ all....... can you guess it........... millitary style buzz cuts.
he goes to the cong........ gives the talk...... notices somethings up...... he got invited to eat with the PO........ he was supposed to eat with someone else....... but the PO traded with them........ PO took them out and took him to the side........... THIS IS ANOTHER ELDER MIND YOU......... told him that they had been haveing problems with the young men in their hall wearing buzz cuts and told them they couldnt be used if they had them..... blamed it all on the fact that the military is what those haircuts were associated with.
so 6 months later he was rescheduleded to give the public talk and by this time he had grown out his hair and his sons hair................... so guess problem solved.............
personally tho my BOE always hated LONG hair and you could shave your head and it would be OK but if you had it an inch below your collar.......... your done
TTRP - You sure do know them... Actually, I believe I met you for the first time at their house. Can you say: "Jam, blues-man'? ;p
Back before there was a WTS building corporation...my dad was on the team that built a Hall in California. It's main feature was a series of exposed, natural wood beams, these massive exposed ladder-like constructions down the ceiling inside of the Hall. Carefully taped off and protexted during the sheetrock and texturing and painting of the interior. It was beautiful - these off white walls that blended into the cieling, with these natural timber structures dropping down, varnished.
The next day everyone shows up to install seating, and there's Dork the elder, paintbruch in his hand, having just finished whitewashing all the natural wood that everyone else had "forgot" to paint.
This is the same guy who was having such a hard time financially that he wouldn't allow his wife to buy milk - an extravagant expense. But he would spend $1.50 every month on Mad magazine for himself.
The JC that actually tried to apply Onan to my masturbation case? Would that count?
many
We should right a book about this.... cult mentality, controlling fools...and to think I was part of that stupidity.... ::sigh:::
RF:
Where do I begin? Oh...I forgot....I don't have all day.
ditto that...ok, here is one:
A black brother, MS, who was in his late 40s or early 50s, I believe, completely shaved all of his hair off....shiny chrome dome....because his hair was starting to turn gray.
He looked infinitely better bald. The (mostly white) BOE wouldnt appoint him an elder because he had a "gangsta" look about him and it was a bad influence on the young black men in the congo.
So he had to grow it out, and he looked like an old man and about 60.
I think it took a new CO showing up before he was appointed...and he was able to shave his head again.
Snakes ()
I had an elder tell me that the amount of time a single male study and I were spending together would lead to trouble. He told me that we could both be in a room and say, a pencil falls to the floor and we both go to reach for it.
::cue romantic music::
Apparently there is something erotic about picking a pencil up off of the floor when done in tandem.
The two that came to mind happened in restaurants.
Me & my husband (who I was just dating at the time, after leaving my ex) were eating in a restaurant and a huge group of JW's, probably about 20 of them, came in and sat down. Some were from a neighboring cong & were waving at me. I was trying to be polite, and ignore them at the same time for thier sake since they evidently didn't know I was df'd at that point. One the of asshole elders on my JC was there and he spoke up saying, she's df'd don't talk to her. Then the whole table turned and looked my way. My now hubbie was so mad, that when we were leaving he walked by their table and screamed out "You fine Christians, have a nice day" and threw his hand up to them....hillarious!!
The other time, we were at a restaurant and saw some JW's so asked to be sitted at the other side of the restaurant, but that didn't stop one of the elders from walking by every so often and starring our way!!
Aww geez. Umm, An elder told my newly JW stepdad that Superman was a "God", causing my stepdad to throw out a large comic collection of mine + sheets, posters, comforter, etc.. Both my JW mom and I were pissed. Same elder said JW's could'nt be cremated because how would God resurrect them. When I pointed out that say, noah was most likely dirt by now, he did'nt know what to say.
