Quick, the elders are coming to the house! Hide that!

by bronzefist 26 Replies latest jw friends

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  King Solomon

  Blondie's story reminds me of an incident that happened at our house when we hosted book-study. We had a smallish painting (maybe 6" by 8") hanging in the bathroom which depicted two young Italian fair maidens giggling and whispering to each other as they looked at the artist, ie they looked at you. It wasn't anything you'd notice, if you casually looked at the picture; you'd just think it was a protrait.

  So a little boy of about 6 went into the bath-room to do his business, but after meeting my Mom realized someone had gouged the eyes out of the girls in the painting. Of course, we asked the boy about it privately, and he admitted doing it; his Mom was soooo embarrassed. He was nonplussed, and was forced to apologize (no apparent remorse; he seemed cold).

  Dunno whatever happened to the little fella, but I'm guessing he's a serial killer now....
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  Balaamsass

  They finally boobytrapped the medicine cabinet with marbles....haha, it was the conductor's 16 year old son and he said he was looking for some aspirin...he and family transferred to another congregation.

  LOL!! Great story. Same thing happened in an old hall...ended up being the elders wife...she had a pill addiction..and would stop at everyones home in the hall while in service "to use the restroom". !! :)

  I had to hide C.O.C. from 3rd gen...she found my copy and tossed it!!! Boy was she mad !!
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  rather be in hades

  well i've never had this happen, but if i did, i'd have to clear the internet browser history and an ashtray/assorted accessories
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  nugget

  When we were fading the only thing we had to hide were our opinions. We were used to elders visiting and making themselves at home and wandering around the downstairs as we had always made an effort to make them feel welcome. It was the absence of literature that we had to explain since the pictures freaked out our son and gave him nightmares.
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  PrincessCynic

  I had an elder rudely sit and go through all my CDs and it wasn't because he was a music fan. He was one of those self-righteous elders who loved to tell the story of how he threw away all his music in the 70s when he learned the troof, even if it was just the cover that was bad

  I was daring him to say something but he didn't, just quietly judged me.
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  respectful_observer

  nugget: It was the absence of literature that we had to explain

  .............

  My spouse and I both have certain self-righteous relatives that love to visit someone's home, then afterward will start verbally speculating on how "spiritual" the person is based on how much or little WT literature is in plain view.

  Them: "Oh, it was dissappointing to see how your cousin/brother/etc is doing spiritually."

  Me: "Really, what makes you say that?"

  Them: "Well I was over their house yesterday for a visit and I didn't see a single WT or even the Daily Text anywhere!"

  Me:

  We used to tuck our R-rated movies out of sight when certain people came over. Since most of the JWs I know now watch them regularly we really don't even worry about that anymore.
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  undercover

  I never hid anything. I let it all hang loose, er, figuretively speaking anyway.

  And even though there was debasing music laying around and violent paperback books and questionable VCR tapes (and later DVDs), no one ever questioned them.

  I've read some pretty good stories here how elders snooped once in someone's house...kinda like cops. Watch a cop if he's ever in your house, even at your beck and call. Even as he's listening to you complain about the meth house next door, he'll be sneaking peeks around your place looking for contraband. Anyway, I digress... I don't doubt that happened with elders, the snooping around. A friend of mine got in trouble for having R-rated movies...and they were in a bag, under a table. But the elders that visited us never seemed to look for anything, or care if there was something out in the open.
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  WTWizard

  They want to find out? A place full of Christmas decorations, bookmarks for several apostate web sites and Devil worship sites, a Ouija board, every Michael Jackson CD and Janet Jackson CD I could get my hands on, filthy rap, heavy metal including Led Zeppelin, a few porn videos thrown in for good measure, some silver, a flashlight that is worth 150 toilet papers, a headlamp for just-in-case at work that is around 100 toilet papers, clothing that is on the expensive but durable side, Crisis of Conscience, several books bashing Christi-SCAM-ity, and the complete lack of washtowel littera-trash. And by the way, I have some nice LED light bulbs for them to search by.

  And I am sure they would be running out of the place by their fear of Demons. Even with all the filthy angels around me keeping the opposite sex out and making people order me to just leave them alone, that is still not enough to stop them from running scared of Demons. And I will do nothing to allay that fear--they want a few Demon sigils posted prominently around? My Ouija board? Do I need to order Tarot cards as well? Whether they get it on the spot or once they get in the territory, any hounder that visits my place is certain to be visited by bad luck--even if it's his own making.
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  zeroday*

  What elders visits...28 years one visit and they told me they were coming it was like a mini public talk...
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  EntirelyPossible

  How sad is it that grown adults felt the need to hide things from people coming over for an impromptu "inspection"?

  This was at my house, but I used to work at Microsoft and there were about 10 other JW's I knew of that worked there that loved to stop by, couple times caught them going through the things on my desk, one of them found a copy of the Matrix and commented "Hmmm... isn't this rated R?". I commented back to him that it was rated "none of your business and why are going through my desk? Isn't that violation of corporate ethics?"