How long does it take to be an old-timer here?

by moshe 21 Replies latest jw friends

  • moshe
    moshe

    I just realized I am starting my 8th year on JWN- am I getting long in the tooth , yet?

  • Azazel
    Azazel

    Your never a true local untill the last person dies who remembers you coming!

  • finally awake
    finally awake

    I asked myself the same question in reference to my colleagues at work. I was hired in 1996, and the next new person hired was in 2004. I was assigned to train him - he has a kid older than me. Weird. After 15 years, I'm just now feeling like an old-timer there.

  • james_woods
    james_woods

    I think if you have your own avatar, rather than one of the cartoons, then you must be an old-timer.

  • mamochan13
    mamochan13

    well, given that I joined in 2004, I'm an old timer. You wouldn't know it by my post count, though.

  • moshe
    moshe

    Some old timers have regretfully drifted away- Gary Buss was a no-nonsense poster I admired- he could cut to the chase everytime.

  • Black Sheep
    Black Sheep

    You have to have a flag

    Yeah, I miss Gary too, for the same reasons.

  • Phizzy
    Phizzy

    It is a bit like an English village here, if you move in to such a village, all "old maids 'cycling off through the mist to church", you are a newcomer all your life, your children born in the village are not newcomers, but come down the pecking order from kids whose family has been there for (overlapping) generations.

    It's not quite that bad here, but I think, having read many old threads, we are conscious that we are "standing on the shoulders of Giants" , Gary Buss, Hillery Step,Little Toe, Alan F, and many many more were all so good at exposing the WT teachings and thinking as being defective and wrong, and that many of the thoughts of those just on the cusp of leaving, or just left, were muddled too, they guided a lot of people to a better place.

    Thankfully we still have some great thinkers on here, I won't mention names , except one, Leolaia, she is a great thinker and a great scholar, we are blessed that she, and the ones I have not named,(for fear of forgetting someone), still grace us with their presence.

  • mouthy
    mouthy

    Well I have bugged you all for 10 years...But I usually end all threads...

  • Bangalore
    Bangalore

    I am still a Johnny come lately.

    Bangalore

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