I understand fromSanfraniscoJim that he was once told not 2 bring a tramp and a homeless person 2 the meeting`as it was inappropriate and gave a bad impression of the KH.
Have u known something similiar 2 happen at your KH?
`inappropriate studies etc
by badboy 3 Replies latest jw friends
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smack
in 1972 when I were a lad, my dad was talking about the records in the small cong we were in (to serve where the need...) A slurred voice from the back of the hall called out "youse can come 'raound to my place and play ya records, I got a good record player" Seems a gent on his way home from the pub stopped in for a breather and couldn't help joining in. Stunned looks of fear from all in the hall, we had NEVER seen a drunk before. First thyme I ever saw someone asked to leave a hall..........
Steve
(Sober) Tasmanian Overbeer
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Dansk
He He,
One 'brother' brought a male study along who was dressed up in women's clothes! He/she caused a great stir by going in the ladies!!
I laughed me bollocks off - which is more than he/she could do (he had a sex change).
Ian
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I laughed me bollocks off
Oh, is that what's wrong with you?? (couldn't resist a little teasing)
In our congregation, people who were "marginal" (the kind where, when they raise their hand to answer, the whole congregation does a group cringe of embarassment and prays they won't be called on) were definitely given the cold shoulder.
In particular, there was one baptised sister in her 50s or so, who, in addition to being dirt-ass poor and the only one in her family who was a JW, was definitely of the type that 'rode the special bus', as they say, and had that lack of social skills common among those who are intellectually slow. She was a sweet person but she dressed and acted funny and that made "Jehovah's loving people" very uncomfortable. I won't lie, she made me uncomfortable too, but I had the good grace at least to consider that a personal fault and feel bad about it.
I don't know who had studied with her or when she was baptised, but I didn't know she even existed for years, because she lived in the far corner of the territory (over 40 miles one way from the hall) and obviously her family was not going to waste time driving her to the hall even one day a week much less 3 or 4.
Until we got one of those 'brand new' circuit overseers who's going to fix everything. Not only did he go visit her, he encouraged her to come to the meetings, and assigned a young single pioneer brother who was the only one who lived within 12 miles of her, to cart her back and forth. I think he got to count time for his good deed but he was obviously not thrilled. Plus he was dirt poor himself (the kind of poor where you don't heat all the rooms in your house and the water in your toilet freezes - ah the poverty of rural America) and rode his motorcycle to the hall whenever humanly possible to save on gas, which he obviously was not going to be able to do with her in tow.
I don't know whether she sensed that the smiles and welcomes were mostly fake, or whether, at this stage of her life as a JW, that the effort of attending all those meetings so far away was just too much, or, for that matter, whether she had ever really understood everything that being a JW was a day-to-day effort and not just something you answered when people asked your religion, but it couldn't have been more than a couple of weeks before she stopped attending. The congregation mostly breathed a sigh of relief (we were small, individuals didn't get lost in the crowd and you couldn't avoid people if you didn't feel particularly comfortable with them). At least back then they were still mailing the mags and she read them. Perhaps that's all the contact with the religion she wanted.