GOSSIP -- when they gossip about you they leave everyone else alone !!! THE ONE THAT sticks out in my mind was when I was found to be forward / agreeeeeesive and oversexed and I was still virginal (14 yrs old) Brother committee person who took it upon himself to talk to me in private at his private place of residence send Betty his wife out of the room--the cute part was 2 weeks later while walking home from school I had to walk past their apartment -- I was not seen by Betty in her hot short shorts escorting a neighbor out of their apartment (MY TEACHER FROM SCHOOL) DON her hubby poo was not due home for another 30 minutes--speaking of who was being forward--agressive and damn well oversexed and conduct unbecoming a christian--I say Don needed to tend to his wife first NOT me---I laugh every time I think of it now,,LINDA not oversexed at all but Betty L. wow you should have seen the babe a real theocratic knock out !!!
What was the most slanderous gossip spread about y
by In_between_days 20 Replies latest jw friends
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gsx1138
About 15 minutes after I hugged my regular pioneer Goddess girlfriend I had a MS come up to me while I was working behind the counter and pull me to the side saying that some were concerned about my "conduct". My first response, "Who are they?" He didn't want to tell me just that I should watch out because some of them may go to the elders. By this time I was insta pissed. And I actually swore loud enough for the whole noisy congregation to shut up. I said,"Well you go gather their asses up now! Because I'd be happy to go to the elders. While we're there they can explain why they can't mind their own damn business." Needless to say it was never brought up again.
Dear Lord, please save me from your followers.
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Mulan
When my husband was working in Japan for two months, I met in the "back room" with two of the elders, to get some advice on the emotional problems my teenage son was having. The gossip spread that I was "going out" on my husband, and confessing to the elders. I had attended very few meetings while he was gone, and never answered anymore. We were in the process of quitting, at the time.
Later after we had successfully faded out, the rumor started that my husband had started his own religion. That one was the worst!! They also said he was calling EVERYBODY to tell them about it. He never called anyone, and certainly didn't start a religion.
Marilyn (aka Mulan)
"No one can take advantage of you, without your permission." Ann Landers -
MikeMusto
I hate it when anyone, witness or non, questions my sexuality.
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ConnieLynn
One time after the meeting, I was asked into the backroom. Someone had said I had attended the recent U2 concert and since I was a pioneer, I was supposed to be setting an example for other young people in the hall. I hadn't been to the concert, but did have thier latest album, who knows where the rumor started....I wish I HAD gone to the concert.
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Englishman
Connie,
Most JW's believe that U2 is a German submarine.
Englishman.
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LucidSky
I'm with you, refiners. Prisca was kissed and unchaperoned??? My image of purity is shattered to pieces.
I was 19 and dating a "worldly" girl named Sandy at the time. Sandy's sister was studying with a brother in our congregation and that's how we basically met. When this brother's dad found out we were dating, he called up my dad and told him a real whopper: He said that when they were having dinner with Sandy and her sister, that Sandy said she only dated for the sex.
Now this was the first time she was having dinner with her sister's boyfriend's parents -- wouldn't that be a great way to leave a lasting impression on them??? I was pissed -- I was a fairly good boy back then and I knew it wasn't true. I talked to her and others about it. I did the "brotherly" thing however and forgave him and dropped it completely. But it caused a bigger rift between my parents and I when I had to defend her to them.
That and other ugly experiences with this family turned her off to the religion and we eventually drifted apart and it broke my heart. At least one of us had brains back then.
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Simon
Thanks for reminding me about the "I am a servant of the most high God Jehovah!" Englishman - that really does make me laugh.
I don't know what they have said about us since we left but they were keen to let everyone know I was 'the anti-christ' while I was still there (from the platform).
Wouldn't it be good to rig the sound system so that it plays "Ride of the Valkyries" or that "Sanctus Dominus" chant whenever you walk into the hall??
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SYN
Well, Simon, you run THE Apostate site on the Web, so I'm dead sure a few 'choice' words have been concocted in YOUR favour by our beloved brothers and sisters. I've even seen Dubs referring to this place as the "Soddom and Gomorrah" of websites! Cool! You're famous! Sheesh! We have an Anti celebrity in our midst!
Dubs don't have much else to do, so gossip is probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to most Dubs anyway. Poor things.
I had some pretty bad ones. During my Disassociation meeting with the Elders, they mentioned that certain people knew about the "things I'd been doing behind their backs". God knows what those things were (I was a "pure" Dub, oh you better believe it, even though I was lusty I was very socially inept, so there was nothing even approaching this sort of thing for me!), but apparently they were very bad. The Elders brought them out in front of my parents as a sort of trump card, their ace in the hole, and I just laughed and said that people should mind their own business, right after I told them I didn't believe in God, Satan, Jesus or the Bible.
That was a tough meeting.
"If men were like their personal ads, they wouldn't need personal ads."
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Bendrr
What makes dub gossip so bad is that they don't even need an actual accusation. Dubs are the masters of making something out of nothing at all.
I remember one time a couple of years before I left. An elder nicknamed "the enforcer" had decided to "target" me. It culminated in an elders meeting with my dad in which he was subjected to almost 2 hours of nothing at all concrete, just innuendo.
1. I stopped by the post office during service to get the mail.
(yeah, a whopping 2 or 3 minutes)
2. I had commented that I was well-liked by schoolmates.
(said while lamenting the fact that I was excluded from all the
activities of local dub youths, trying to shame them)
3. I had a pair of camo pants from Army surplus.
(I was in lawn care with my dad, they were perfect for the job)
4. I had a secret collection of music tapes.
(My parents knew every tape I had. I just didn't keep them in
the car so there would be nothing said in field service)
5. I was the only youth in the congregation who was "different".
(No shit Sherlock! When you're not associated with - THANKS TO
THE ENFORCER - you end up not fitting in. DUH!)
It all boiled down to his opinion that I was "different". Therefore I was "up to something". That statement made its rounds even to other congregations. Damage control took a long time and was never 100% successful.You know, I'll take "worldly" gossip any day. True "worldly" friends are infinitely more likely to stand by you.
Mike.
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