Embarrassed

by WildTurkey 41 Replies latest jw friends

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  safe4kids

  Oh geez, you guys are bringing back some awful memories!! I grew up a dub kid, a poor dub kid, a poor dub kid whose father wasn't a witness...can anyone say "solitary life"?? I was always embarrassed at how I had to dress and the car we drove out in service....ewwwww, thanks for reminding me!!!

  But on the topic of our kids, etc...when my son was about 5, he wanted a bowl cut, so that's what we did and he looked absolutely adorable! *Snicker* My mother was horrified when we walked into the Kingdom Hall, said she couldn't believe that I let him get such a 'worldly' haircut. I told her it was what he wanted and that we all liked it very much, and she again was aghast that I would let a 5 year old make such a decision. LMAO! Ahhhh, the good old days...may they never come again!

  Dana
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  minimus

  Embarrassing things: not being able to say BLESS YOU, not toasting,not celebrating holidays but trying to explain eating turkey on thanksgiving is o.k.,not being able to go to a prom because of the possible bad things that could occur, not going to a church funeral,not saying MERRY CHRISTMAS only saying thankyou in response, being able to stand for the flag salute but having to remain seated for the national anthem,not being seen around people not considered good enough,trying to explain why blood transfusions are not permitted but blood fractions are,trying to explain why we can't give blood but that we can use other people's transfusion fractions,having to run away from a sister who has a real problem because another qualified brother is not available,having to counsel people on things you don't even believe in.....I can go on and on!!!
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  Francois

  What I remember is my little girl waking up every morning with me sitting on the side of her bed. She'd give me a big, big hug and say - every morning - "Is it the New World yet?" And then I hate myself for ever having had her at even one meeting.

  We were out by the time she was six. And now she's a beautiful thirty and preggers with my first grandchild. LIttle bugger will never go to a KH and will never ask, "Is it the new world yet?"

  Thank god.

  Francois
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  Cowboy

  The life of a dub kid is Hell! Only dub kids will truely know what i mean..OUTLAW

  you can say that again...I was the only male witness kid that attended public

  school in the town i grew up in. Being singled out in front of an entire school

  over and over is far to much for a child to understand. If i have kids someday,

  i would never want them to have to go through what i did.

  ring

  I could say so much more,but this pretty well sums it up.

  Cowboy
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  raven101

  Solution:

  Obviously the world is too contaminated for witnesses to associate in it at all, like for instance the bulletin board thing. Think about it . . . every word must have some vile origin or previous connotation.

  I think they need to make up their own language.

  Ever see that South Park where they went to the alien planet and everyone there was blissfully uncompetetive and one?

  Every noun in their language was one word, frack or something . . . so they couldn't segregate or make any differentiation.

  Every city was frack, every person, plant, and animal . . . all frack.

  Yeah, I think considering their philosophy, that is the only logical solution for the witnesses.

  Only the word would not be frack.

  What would it be I wonder?

  pondering,

  Raven101
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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  whoa... that's one episode i hadn't seen. but it sounds perfect for them. they spend their whole lives doing two things: trying not to offend anyone, or not be offended by everyone and everything. how can they live that way? no wonder they're all mad... but you couldn't use the word "frack" though. they would probably think it sounds too dirty.
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  DakotaRed

  We were out by the time she was six. And now she's a beautiful thirty and preggers with my first grandchild.

  Francios, my oldest daughter turns 30 this November and has given me two wonderful grandsons. Congratualtions on being a grandpa soon. I hope you enjoy it half as much s I am.

  I wasn't raised a JW, just poor southern white trash. But, I didn't have to suffer half the embarrassment the rest of you have. Neither of my daughters ever took to "da troof" when I encouraged them. Thank God, or whatever you believe in. Although only affiliated with them for about 10 years, including study, active and inactive time, I rue the day I opened my door to them. On the positive side, If I hadn't, I wouldn't have met the wonderful people I have met here.

  You're all great! (especially one)

  Lew W
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  ring

  lol raven, i seen that south park, i think the word was 'mogwaur'

  i do like your solution though, the jws should at least consider it
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  Xander

  So here is the hell of it....we didnt fit in at school because of being dubs....
  We didnt fit in at the kingdom hall because of our apparent poverty. Funny, Dad made plenty of money *never understood that
  Yep mom made quite sure my bro and I didnt get laid LMAO. The girls at the hall didnt have anything to do with me until I was a senior in high school.

  {checks profile pic}

  No, you don't LOOK like my brother...

  You SURE you aren't my bro?

  Raven:

  That was 'Starvin Marvin in Space'. The highlight of the show had to be the Christian Broadcasting station trying to do fundraising for their starship that was chasing Starvin Marvin's ship: (EDIT: Ah, the whole CBC dialog was funny:)

  	[CBC television studios. The CBC logo, a pair of angel wings topped by a halo, and CBC printed in front of them, fills the screen. Next comes "Christian Broadcasting Channel"]
  Pat:	["TO PLEDGE CALL: 1-800-555-2717"] You know, Susan, theh uhthere are so many great missionaries doing work, out there in in inin parts of Africa, and and uh we're trying to get Bibles to people all over the world. And what we need, is the help of everyone out there so that we can continue these, these projects. Now, listen to this, Susan. [a picture of Hollis with two Ethiopians appears over his right shoulder] Wha-one of our missionaries in North Africa has made an amazing discovery. U-u-uh a new planet, in the in the galaxy Alpha Seti VI, that has intelligent life on it.
  Susan:	Amazing.
  Pat:	Yeah. We're not sure what these hyper-intelligent beings look like, but one thing is for sure: they've never heard of Jesus Christ.
  Susan:	What can we do at the 600 Club to help those poor aliens?
  Pat:	Well, what we need, Susan, is we need money to build an interstallar cruiser. [a diagram of said cruiser appears over his shoulder: the XT-9000] Now, this space ship will be able to travel through a wormhole and deliver the message and guh-glory of Jesus Christ to those godless aliens. S-send your money now. Amen.

  ~~ Later (Hollis is the CBC chip captain) ~~

  	[The Missionaary 600, still pursuing the Marklar ship]
  Hollis:	The ship seems to be made out of a super-strong alloy. These lasers aren't powerful enough.
  	[The 600 Club, Pat Robertson reporting]
  Pat:	Everyone, the the Word of God is going around the world and and all your help is so greatly appreciated. Eh-oo What we need now is an argon crystal laser. [the 900txl] Eh you see, an argon crystal laser can pierce thick space holes in a way that other lasers just can't. Send your money now. Uuh-I th-thank you.

  ~~ Even Later ~~

  Hollis:	Holy crap, they have photon torpedoes.
  	[The 600 Club, Pat Robertson reporting]
  Pat:	Uhnow, our deflector shields are useless against phorton torpedoes, and we really need your support on this one, folks. Here at the 600 Club we need your money to spread the Word of Jesus, and build more advanced deflector shields for our galactic cruiser. Call now, and we'll give you this free pin. [a CBC logo pin]
  	[Space. The Missionaary 600 and the Marklar ship now do battle. Marvin fires at the Missionaary 600 twice more.]

  ~~ Finally ~~

  	[The 600 Club, Pat Robertson reporting]
  Pat:	Uh, now, now, stay with me on this one, folks. Uh, Sally Struthers has a Tiberian junker [pictured in a window], which is uh the favorite ship of the Hutts, and she has trapped oureh, our our new CBC ship in a uh [struggling] poe-sitronic tractor beam. [a stage hand holds up this cue card] POSITRONIC TRACTOR BEAM SO WE'RE GONNA NEED AN IONIC TRACTOR DISRUPTOR Uh, so we're gonna need an ionic tractor disruptor. Now now, not a regular ionic di- tractor disruptor, but a negative ionic tractor disruptor to uh, help spread the Word of Jesus. [to Susan, softly] I don't have a fucking idea up here.
  	[Space. The junker is busy pulling the Missionary 600 in. The Marklar ship is free to leave]

  The word was Marklar: "Marklar, these Marklars want to change your Marklar" (Stan telling the leader of the planet ('Marklar') that the Christiants ('Marklars') want to change their religion ('Marklar').

  Edited by - Xander on 14 July 2002 17:11:47
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  Xander

  Oops, sorry, the actual end dialog for that show:

  KYLE (speaking in Marklar's language): ...I think I can explain this whole thing. Marklar, these marklars want to change your marklar. They don't want this marklar or any of these marklars to live here, because it's bad for their marklar. They use marklar to try and force marklars to believe their marklar. If you let them stay here, they will build marklars and marklars. They will take all your marklars and replace them with marklar. So, they must come here, to Marklar. Please, let these marklars stay where they can grow and prosper, without any marklars, marklars, or marklars!
  MARKLAR: Young marklar, your marklars are wise and true.

  (Sorry, love that show).

  In any case, YES, I can relate to this thread.

  I agree 1000% - growing up JW is a very special kind of hell, and I can't think what could possibly have decayed in a human mind to the point where a parent wishes this life on a child and then doesn't understand when they leave it.

  It just boggles me. Such complete brainwashing is a horrific thing to see first hand.