There was once an elder in our congregation, he and his wife were Regular Pioneers, of course. And of course, they cleaned windows for a living.
They lived in the basement of a decades old building, in what amounted to a studio apartment. I think the square footage was about 8. Church mice could've loaned these two money.
Of course, being a young JW and believing most of the malarkey you are told, you tend to look up to these men as spiritual giants, even though most of what they talk about is pure, unadulterated bullshit.
Let me give you an example.
K* and D* always enjoyed their coffee. So much so, that on their Reg. Pio. budget, they brought along two thermos fulls in the car so they wouldn't have to spend 60 cents at McDonalds. This went on for YEARS, as long as I can remember. I regular pioneered too, so I worked with them frequently. Then all of a sudden, the coffee stopped. It became very obvious very quickly that K^ and D* didn't have their coffee.
K* turned into an even bigger butt-munch and his wife was a raging bee-yoch. After a couple of days of this intolerable behavior, K* and D* apologized to the car group for their terrible attitude.It seems the Awake! had featured an article about coffee. (by ASnake! correspondent in El Salvador, LOL). Of course, the article seemed innocuous enough, featuring pictures and nice facts and information about coffee, but never-the-less, got down to the nitty gritty and warned true Christians about the dangers of being addicted to caffeine!!! Oh, the horror!
K* and D* immediately saw in themselves the dangers of being caffeine addicts and decided to go cold-turkey!!!
At the time, it seemed like such a wondrous sacrifice on the part of these two superfine Christians. Truly, they were Spiritual Giants.
In retrospect, I now know they were worshipping a God who wanted them to:
- drive a ten year old clunker
- live in a basement apartment with brick walls (in Upstate New York, where the winters are mind-blowing)
- clean windows for a living, even though K* had a severe, visible case of scoliosis and couldn't even walk or stand straight
- buy their clothing from yard sales or wait for hand-me-downs
- sell his books for upwards of 100 hours a month, even in the frigid NY winters
- spend the rest of their time writing and re-writing talks, 'demonstrations' and working on getting their 'Bible Students' to the meeting
and to add insult to injury,
- now they couldn't even drink a cup of #(*%$ing coffee without having a guilty conscience!
The god of the Watchtower can bite my ass. Truly, K* and D* have gone from Spiritual Giants to Mental Midgets in my mind.
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Lisa
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