Dumb Elders

by minimus 43 Replies latest jw friends

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  minimus

  I remember some elders privately joking that this thing had been “ handled”.
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  MeanMrMustard

  I remember some elders privately joking that this thing had been “ handled”.

  Ha ha. An unfortunate choice of words.
  
  
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  WTWizard

  Masturbating a "serious sin"? I thought it was deemed "a sin", which could lead to losing "exemplary status". But, one cannot be disfellowshipped just for masturbation (except for the universal "brazen conduct" which can get you out for anything). They also think anyone can partake in evil simply by watching movies or listening to music. (Which I listened to plenty of music glorifying drug use, without taking any drugs.)
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  minimus

  Wiz just don’t

  masturbate anymore.
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  Mum

  Back when I was a JW, I married an elder whom I would describe as dull normal. He had a tremendous ego, and he was the theocratic ministry school servant,

  On one occasion, I was assigned a talk on the school. We had to provide the school servant a theme for our talk. I wrote out my theme and gave it to my husband at home.

  Fast forward to the KH and time for me to give my talk. The other sister and I got on the stage and sat at the table, ready to go. My husband went to the podium, turned to me, and asked if he had my theme. I replied, "I gave it to you." The congregation laughed. I gave my talk, and the meeting proceeded. Everybody went home at the end, of course.

  When we got home, I was given a dressing down because the congregation laughed. I tried to get "him" to see that the laughter was normal under the circumstances. "He" would not accept it as normal, and kept on at me. I started crying profoundly, and pleaded my innocence by reminding him that all I had said was, "i gave it to you." "He" slapped me in the face.

  He wasn't about to apologize or acknowledge that I had not harmed him in any way.

  That night, I started planning how I would get away.

  I never cursed at him or did anything but build up his pathetic ego. I partly blame myself for helping to create this monster because of my constant efforts to make him feel special.
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  minimus

  Mum what happened to him??
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  Fadeaway1962

  Mum

  There are no excuses for domestic abuse ,it was all on him .
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  Nathan Natas

  Minimus ejaculated, "That same elder I knew also was the one that wanted to disfellowship a dead man."

  Maybe the dead man had recently been baptized as a Mormon and deserved to be disfellowshipped for not objecting to the baptism.
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  MeanMrMustard

  @Mum,

  That is less a dumb elder, and more of a general asshole. And yet you describe him as “normal”. Sadly, I agree - I would say about 80% of elders I knew would hit their wife and children.
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  minimus

  I never knew an elder that hit his kids but I knew an elder that had incestuous relations with all 8 of his kids and his wife divorced him BUT the elders didn’t believe the story and when he left his congregation the new elders were trying to get him reappointed in their congregation until the Society stepped in.

  Nathan. How the hell are ya??