Little girl at age 12 is an auxilary pioneer. Check, first lie.
I did it when I was 10, got all my hours. No big deal really.
Unbelievable Experience in Yearbook
by gingerbread 45 Replies latest jw friends
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Lore
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NeonMadman
Why does it currently exist online? You would think that it would not appear on the WT library. Especially by an organization that prides itself in preaching the 'Truth'.
Much as it pains me to take the side of the WTS in anything, I think they are right to leave it in the WT Library, and would be even if this were a unique example of an experience being embellished (which I'd be shocked to find that it is - I have no doubt that they enhance these stories all the time). The point of the Library is to reproduce the publications as they appeared in print, and the book did actually contain the experience in the print edition. If they were to delete it in the WT Library, they would undoubtedly come under fire from many of us for altering the digital iteration of the publication to avoid making themselves look bad.
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Jeffro
jgnat:
The Bethel fact-checkers were on lunch.
You reckon they have fact-checkers?! They must go through a lot of red ink. And get ignored a lot.
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Heaven
Was the guy's name 'Andre'?
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sd-7
Yeah, I remember that experience. Wow. So that was all made up. I just assumed that since none of us could prove or disprove that it happened, it hovered somewhere between the realm of 'true' and 'not true'. I always wondered if anyone knew the people who had the experience and would talk about it. Embarrassing, indeed. Of course, since this is thirdhand information, I'm still hovering in the unknowable realm anyway, but...I'd be more inclined to believe that than to disbelieve it.
--sd-7
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Mum
Another JW urban legend is born . . .
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Bobcat
Part of the problem with experiences at DCs (and probably the same for YBs) is that the speakers are told to get a particular experience with particular attributes. So there is pressure on the speaker to get exactly what the WT wants for that part. (This is not too disimilar to promising a certain amount of hours in FS. Human frailty and imperfection is almost certain to result in problems.)
Sometimes, as was the case for our congregation for years, we were sent to a DC apart from most of our circuit. So when we had to get up a particular experience we had a very small pool of known people to pull from.
All these factors went into the pressure to stretch an experience to somehow fit with what was wanted by the Society.
A pioneer sister in a nearby hall was aked to give an experience of how she studied with her son in the Young People's Ask book, and the benefits it provided. Unfortunately, she had never done that. The brother/speaker asked her to have a few studies with her son in it so she could speak as if she did. The sister did that, but her conscience wouldn't let her say exactly what the speaker wanted her to. The DO gave her the freedom to word it in a way that eased her conscience.
Another case that stands out in my mind is an experience of an elder given at a KM school. It was concerning the dangers of higher education. The brother had, years before, gone to college before he was a witness. The brother admitted to me privately later that, in contrast to the experience he gave, he actually enjoyed his experience in college and felt he benefitted from it.
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suavojr
In the mid 80's I recall the experience of a sister possesed by a demon after starting to study with the JW's and the demon said that he was going to make her look pregnant.
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trujw
Are you serious. You mean smurfs can't walk out of the Kingdom Hall. I am outraged had to throw away my stuffed animals, stickers and no cartoons. You are a liar sir it is all true