I do miss Billy the ex-Bethelite
You need to marry a ministerial Servant!
by John Aquila 35 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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liam
Yea, that's not even a thing anymore.
The brothers can wear beards
The sisters can wear pants
No one has to count time anymore
You can talk to a disfellowhip person to encourage him
You can date and marry anyone you want including a Non-jw
And anyone can repent at the last minute of the Great Tribulation and be saved.
Oh my; How the New Light has changed things.
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HappyDad
Oh yes! Ministerial Servants and Elders are the pillars of Jehovah's earthy organization.
Let's rattle my 77 year old brain a little to bring back inside the borg memories. rattle rattle rattle.
Among the MS's and Elders I personally knew, there was a successful suicide, and two attempted suicides.
Two MS's who's wives divorced them for physical abuse. One was only married for two months (his first wife divorced him. Hmmm, wonder why?) when his second wife left and divorced him. Hah....she wound up getting alimony.
A married Elder in my congregation disappeared for over a year. It was later known that he was living with another woman and was also a crack addict. All of a sudden, he reappeared and stepped right back into the role of Elder. Go figure! It seems that the PO at the time knew everything.
About 6 months before all of this went down, I had resigned as an Elder, so I wasn't in the loop anymore, but a fellow Elder kept me informed as much as he could to the shenanigans going on. The attitude of this PO was a very big part of the reason I resigned. The other elders to my knowledge were also kept in the dark. Sometime after said Elder returned from his "hiatus", he was seen making a "purchase" on a street corner by a fellow member of the congregation. When this eyewitness reported the incident to the PO, they were told to say nothing more about it. Guess what? Nothing was done. Eventually, this crack addict and his wife moved 1200 miles away to Florida. Let's forward about 20 years later. In 2014, this guy was killed in a car wreck when he crashed into a concrete pole on the Interstate. Interesting!
I wound up leaving this congregation. My new congregation would be paradise compared to the previous one I spent over 25 years in. Yeah right!
Yes, Elders and MS's, and don't forget the Pioneers, folks, They make wonderful husbands too. LMFAO. About six months into this new atmosphere, the wife of this Pioneer couple came to a meeting with the worst black eye I had ever seen on a man or woman. She wanted the entire congregation to see what a wonderful Christian her Pioneer husband was. He had been physically abusing her for their entire marriage, but this time she got the courage to let everyone know about it. They divorced.
At about this same time, my new congregation was one of two that met in the KH. The PO of the second congregation was a "fantastic" brother and a public speaker who would keep your attention throughout his entire talk. This "fantastic" Elder PO had a girlfriend on the side. Seems his wife found out and went to the Elders. Another one bites the dust!
Oh yes, young sisters, find a Ministerial Servant with a shit job, no ambition, and no sense of decency or loyalty, and marry him. What could possibly be better in Jehovah Organization?
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NotFormer
"Oh yes, young sisters, find a Ministerial Servant with a shit job, no ambition, and no sense of decency or loyalty, and marry him. What could possibly be better in Jehovah Organization?"
WT, keeping the standards high, ever since the Rutherford era. 🙄
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Doctor Who
@HappyDad, I am adding to the "hiatus" elder story. My dad saw him while he was working early one morning making a 'purchase' on a street corner. When my mom approached the CO about it, she was told, "If you tell anyone again about this you will be DF for slander and hearsay."
Another pioneer sister married a 'fine' MS brother who she found out later was convicted of child abuse. The body knew of this but didn't warn the sister. Later when she talked to the body about this they scolded her telling her she should have gotten to know the brother better before marrying him. When this 'fine' brother found out she went to the elders, he beat the crap out of her and threw her out of the house. This and many other things happened under that PO.
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LongHairGal
HAPPY DAD & DOCTOR WHO:
What horror stories.
It was typical of people in the Witness religion to not warn an unsuspecting sister that the brother she intends to marry has something VERY wrong with him. This could be pertaining to a criminal nature, a disease or some other ‘quirk’ that exposes him as worthless!
These useless people will gossip about every other damn thing under the sun, but yet will keep quiet about something as serious as this!.. I would have wanted to know these things if I were seeing someone! ..Looking back, it’s just as well I never got involved with anybody there!