The sister was young, about 30...she was a little looney , but i also think she thought she had special privileges, SHE was annointed...we are LOWLY!!!
During Your IN Years If You Had Anointed At Your Hall, What Were They Like?
by LoisLane looking for Superman 93 Replies latest jw experiences
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
I've known plenty, from the GB members all the way down to some 20-something brother that started partaking just months after he was reinstated. They all needed a healthy dose of this:
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LoisLane looking for Superman
Billy the X, Thank you for your link.
Your "solution" for "anointed" is too, funny.
Just Lois
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flipper
They were all bat $hit crazy . Pretty much covers it
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Mum
There was a sweet old brother in the first congregation I attended. I didn't know him well, but he seemed like a kindly soul. After I moved away, one of my (rebellious) JW friends wrote me a letter during the WT study and referred to the anointed gentleman, explaining that he was making his "Cedar Point comment," so the study was just about over. When he died, my mom (not a JW at the time) went to his funeral. She told me that our CO (a very sweet man who died at a young age) began the funeral service by saying, "On [date] a new spirit son was born in heaven, and the attendants at [his nursing home] sand that [his name] had died."
In my next congregation, there was another sweet, elderly anointed brother living in the Veterans' Home. My husband and I always gave him a ride to the meetings. I didn't notice anything strange about him except one time when he told us that the veterans' home was playing kingdom melodies through their Muzak system.
There was another slightly elderly brother who was on a health food kick.
There was one sister from a foreign country who was middle-aged. I didn't know her very well, but she seemed nice and normal. Once my daughter, at about age 5, asked how she was going to get to heaven. I don't remember how we answered that question.
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Mum
This topic reminds me of something else from my distant past as an East Tennessee hillbilly. In that part of the country, the specialness came from "being called to preach." Men would have an out-of-the-ordinary experience of some kind and interpret that as having been "called."
My dad told us a story of his youth when he and some of his friends knew a neighbor would be visiting the graveyard. The boys took a tree limb and draped a white sheet over it. They hid, and one or two of them manipulated the sheet and made ghostly sounds. The neighbor man got so scared that he ran home and fainted. His wife said, "My Lord, it looks like Ollie's been called to preach!
My grandfather (a very religious man himself when I knew him, but with a sordid past as a moonshiner) was deriding this worldview one time. He lay on the floor, closed his eyes, and said, "I told the congregation I seen [sic] a bull with one horn, and I knowed [sic] I'd been called to preach."
I'll have to share some of my grandmother's stories of funny things people said in church some time.
The people of whom I speak were uneducated and knew almost nothing of the world outside their mountain enclave.
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rip van winkle
I only recall one and he was/is a Bethelite. Very soft spoken and suffered with severe depression. A really nice man with an equally lovely wife.
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blondie
I'm old though mouthy has me beat. I moved around alot and met older pre-1935 anointed, male and female, and some post-1935 the early days, and those since 1980 (a source of juicy gossip). Anointed jws are not especially righteous, the ones that proposed to be proved they were no holier than I was. (a tie maybe)
I do remember one of the post 1980's anointed. He had always been kind and loving and showed respect to everyone, male, female, young, old, elder, non-elder, etc. Some in his generation purported to be anointed, he was pressured by some to declare his status based on his age and apparent holiness. He never got sucked into that. But eventually he felt he was pushing away God's call because of this. He quietly started partaking and it was all over the circuit the next day. The power of jw gossip! His wife was sad because she had hoped they would survive Armageddon and be married forever on earth. Now even if she survived that was not an option.
I have known quite a few from the Bible Students between 1920 and 1935 that were anointed and heard the stories about congregations in their areas, usually small under 25. No holiness stories there either, just flawed humans like the rest of us. I was in high school before jws reached 1,000,000 members worldwide. Most jws were waiting eagerly for the end in 1975 (not my family though). My contemporaries were rushing to get married because the rumor was there would be no marriage on earth even for GT survivors. There were 2 to 3 weddings from 1973 to 1975. Less than 25% survive today. There were more male regular pioneers and brothers were eagerly trying to qualify for Bethel and avoid the draft. Nothing like that today. Even a few of my contemporaries quit HS and regular pioneered only not to see the end come and have to go back and get their GED so they could get a job.
I have met and socialized with a few of the GB pre-1935. Some were eccentric but convinced...if anyone was being fooled they were first in line to swallow the "happy horses**t." Those "called" since 1935 seem to be more the asskissing type, politicians. The ones that weren't got kicked under the bus and made fun of behind their backs. No all the GB enjoy being sucked up to. I remember having one couple turn down a big do for them to take me and 2 other younger jws out for dinner. Daggers later from the sisters who organized it and tried to trap them into attending. I remember another couple wanted to go door to door in the area, different from their normal territory. No one wanted to go with them, just me and a single mother with teenagers. Nice sunny day, they alternated with us, went out for 2 hours, I learned a lot of how to relate to people. Are all GB and spouses like that, probably not, but it had been 2 years since an elder took time to go d2d with a simple, female pioneer.
Nowadays, there are none left from Russell's day and if so have lost their grasp on today. Rutherford's day, just about the same. But they weren't always 98 with one foot on a banana peel. Those were different days, fewer members, people were more likely to be converts than children of jws and had a good knowledge of the bible as many non-jws had back then. My family did not think they had to believe every belief that the WTS put forth, but they did not spread it around. They felt that God came first, then Jesus, then the board of directors (the equivalent of the GB back then). One family member said they were no different then the rest, putting their shoes on one at a time.
I knew one of the post-1980 sisters and she was always reminding us that she would see God, a privilege we would never have, that she would judge angels. She did step out of line when she said she had better knowledge of spiritual things that we poor non-anointed sisters. I brought in a QFR that addressed that directly saying she was wrong to think that...silence from her as she read. So I knew some annoying ones, but they would have been pains in the rear, anointed or not.
Blondie the Old and sometimes the Bold
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mind blown
I had one that was a friend. Her name was Lena Mckay in her late 70's/80's. She was an interesting character only in mode of dress. She would wear cute Little Red Riding Hood bonnets she made, along with her country farm dresses and was very dedicated along with being as sharp as a tack.
I had befriended her at the hall and very surprised not many took an interest in spending quality time with her, so I'd go over and we'd make peach or cherry cobler or we'd go out in service. She also had a little veggie garden she tended. As I recall the only time we'd really talk about spiritual things was in service or if I had a question, otherwise, while baking or doing other things she was focused on her chore at hand. I recall her telling me how people would tell her she was brain washed and she'd say....."Yes, my mind has been washed clean".....I asked her how she knew she was of the anointed and she said her hope was different. In spending time with her she really didn't seem any different from any other JW or had any indepth knowledge other then being a very sweet sweet, independent, person. She's since passed.
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brainmelt
Very interesting thread. I never met any annointed and didn't know of any, never attended a memorial with any partakers so the whole annointed thing was a bit of a mystery to me, something I could never really understand even when I still believed it all.