How Many Here Had To Go Into "The Backroom"? (page 5)

restrangled

Back room? My brothers and myself were back there so many times...our DNA must still be lingering in that KH.

Many times the elders in our hall didin't bother with the back room......they just held a meeting at the front of the hall for all to see. For what? ...

Anything they felt needed addressing....This was just prior to 1975...with morons that had never made it in the real world so their big job was to be mini FBI investigators based on rumours, tattling, etc. It was a never ending cycle of stupidity.

r.

tenyearsafter

I made it to the backroom when I was 18...it had been reported (by a friend) that I was watching TV in my fiancee's parent's bedroom. I was told that it was inappropriate to be in a bedroom with the opposite sex...even if there were several people in the house (including her parents!). Before it was over, I felt like I had been involved in wild monkey sex with my future ex-wife...maybe I should have made it worth my while!

WTWizard

I have had trips there to discuss polishing my shoes, wearing a WHITE dress shirt, and that if I am going to pio-sneer, I am going to have to pay more attention to dry cleaning and ironing shirts. As if a single guy is going to be excellent at ironing shirts--obviously, they planned for me to never see the opposite sex (instead, they wanted me in the Value Destroyer Training School and held me to standards that such people would have had).

Additionally, I was hounded for not going out in field circus. This was because they thought I was going inactive--it was September 3, and they wanted me to go out more during that month. Labor Day at that--why are they worried that I am "slipping" for the month when it is still the first of the month?

I wonder what they are thinking now--zero boasting session attendance since the REJECT Jesus Party 2005, zero field circus since June 2005, Christmas decorations that were visible from behind the apartment, and joining a "secret" society that effectively exposed the scam of all religion (let alone the witlesses).

verystupid77

Yes for smoking which I never did and they threatened to df me with only one wittness. I have never smoked in my life. It was very hard on me I was only 18 and being threated with dfing for something I did not do was so crazy. One elder put his finger in my face and told me they would find proff they knew I did smoke. I just looked at them like they were crazy. They were so hateful. Why I did not leave than is beyond me now.

minimus

I knew a girl who was df'd for fornication because she was too drunk to drive home and slept over a male friend's house overnight. She REFUSED to admit fornication but was df'd anyway. She remained in that state for years, couldn't take being ignored by the family and finally got reinstated because she decided to lie and say she had fornicated. She soon thereafter became very inactive.

Mary

Minimus said: I knew a girl who was df'd for fornication because she was too drunk to drive home and slept over a male friend's house overnight. She REFUSED to admit fornication but was df'd anyway.

Damn it, I told you that in confidence!

Actually, I was always getting my ass hauled in the second school for "a little chat". Usually for swearing and asking the wrong questions, but once we all got in trouble for drinking underage. I was in double trouble because I was also buying the booze when I was underage.......Hey, it wasn't my fault the guy in the liquor store thought I was older than what I really was!!

wha happened?

well in the late 80's everyone had those ties that were as colorful as a bowl of fruit. I wore them but the elders quickly pointed out that we shouldn't follow the lates fashions.

OnTheWayOut

Damn it, I told you that in confidence!

Mary, why are you sharing our private secrets with Min. anyway?

I was called back when I was engaged because some of the "friends" thought
that I was too friendly with the fiancee. I thanked them for their counsel. I was
called back again about the same thing a few weeks later. I told them that I had
never even kissed the girl yet, so I was puzzled why I have been called twice for
this.

They were puzzled that I didn't mention it the first time- that I didn't even kiss the
girl. Upon re-thinking, they decided the problem was with the "friends." I was an
up-and-coming MS and they so wanted to make me an elder in the near future.
They wanted to clear up any concerns right away, so they jumped on this. I said
I thanked them for their counsel without comment and applied what I needed from
it. I didn't know that I was allowed to disagree with the counsel.
Apparently, I should have. Those "friends" were just overly busy-bodied. All they
saw was us sitting together and holding hands or my arm around her- nothing more.

As it turns out, my just "taking" the counsel probably made me a shoe-in for
elder. They love just cooperating with anything they say and no backtalk. Once they
knew that I would be like that, it was a quick time from MS to elder.

Bubblie

No, not me called into the backroom. My ex an elder had to counsel me about my mouth which has always gotten me into trouble. This time making a joke about a friends meeting attendance while she was taking training classes to work for United Airlines and had missed so many meetings I said "Oh are you and interested person when I saw her come in the door, she got really affended, so he had to get me back in line!" I bet sometimes they really enjoyed the power of it all. He had plenty of time in the backroom early in his jw time for trying to keep the magazine records straight. The elders liked to go into the closet to pass out mags for fs on Sats. They couldn't understand the correct procedures. This was when he was a MS. Oh those days were so weird, wish we had left then. We were still young.

Kit.

minimus

OTWO, You hadn't kissed your fiancee yet?? THAT's funny!

Mary, you can tell me all of your dirty little secrets, hon.

How Many Here Had To Go Into "The Backroom"?

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