by sandy 44 Replies latest jw experiences
I hated CO visits especially on Saturday.
9:30 AM Field service
1200p Prepare for new things learned meeting and bookstudy
400p New things learned and book study
800p Prepare for Watchtower Study
1130p Wish I was a Pakistini kid living in a garbage dump eeking out a living looking for usable third world garbage!
We had one CO who would open up his trunk and show his stuff.............stuff he had for sale cuz he got a better camera, better this or that now,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, John Casino was his name. Like I wanted to buy something he got for free!!!!!! What crass.
Did you ever notice during those elders meetings with the C.O whenever the C.O made a funny ( even though it wasn't ) every elder would suddenly come up with this huge belly laugh. Gimme a friggin break. It is called ass licking
Well...........I sure would like to spend a few minutes with a CO now.................they think they have so much bible knowledge over everyone else. But the truth is......they are lost - there are so many scriptures they have never seen. I can even prove to them that the holy spirit is a person using their own NWT.
Hmmmm - perhaps the CO will visit me next time? I doubt it!
I remember one vist with what we called the 'designer' CO DCO). All the 'A' list would fawn and invite to dinner the CO & his wife. He had a private income and drove nissan supra, I think it was, one of those japanese super car thingy's. Any way, I was talking to some elder and DCO came up and, as always, you are relgated to the background whilst they have their conversation. For some reason this elder suggested that DCO work with me and I will always remember that he visibly backed off with what looked like horror at the thought. I didn't want to work with this dork anyway so the feeling was mutual. At the territory the DCO dropped off his minions and sped away like a bat out of hell, much to my relief. His wife had a wierd name, something like Dody - some may know him from the South /south east of England - hays bridge and all that.
I always hated the CO visits. I think it shows just how truly fake everyone really is. Suddenly everyone makes everymeeting and goes out in service several times a week. It makes me sick how fake everyone is.
And when the overseer visits, you can expect the worst weather possible.
And if you find the weather too lousy and don't go out in the service, some old lady in the congregation will be out in the service making you look very bad.
There was one CO who was great and didn't take the BS and called a spade a spade. He was an older little man and I can remember his first name was Bill. When I was a regular pioneer I got to spend a whole morning with him and we had a nice conversation until he asked my how I was finding pioneering without a partner in the troof.
I automatically said things are fine. He looked at me and said "no I want to know how things really are, do you get enough support, how you are treated and so on". I was terribly ill with back problems at the time and was struggling like a marter (Sp?). So I laid it on to him, no holds bard. I explained to him about the daily trouble of just getting out to field service and meetings as at that stage I didnt drive. I explained that I never saw an elder unless it was to reprove me for something that someone had said I did. I related an experience about gossip that got me in deep doggie doo doo and how the elders did not even ask me for my side of the story and how I wasnt even out of fs the day the incident was supposeed to happen. About an hour later he was very quiet and had listened patiently to me.
He had an extra special meeting with them all and I found out why later on. This was what I was told so I cant authenticate the content. Too cut a long story short, the elders got their bums soundly spanked as all the pioneers related similar experiences, lack of support and encouragement and so on. Although none got reproved etc they were told to shape up or ship out. He expecially related my personal experiences to them and all of them admited they never took the time to speak to me and find out what is happening because I always appeared happy and never missed a meeting or field service. They assumed I was happy and content and had no idea that I was going through hell at home and was in constant agony with my back, feeling so sick most of the time I could not eat and went home to bed just so I could walk the next day or get to the meeting.
I stopped regular pioneering not long after and finally got help for my back and ended up in surgery! However I was impresses by the CO. He didnt last very long because he actually made the elders do their jobs, even after he had left. During his talks he would admonish the brothers for token service and was not fooled by the show that was put on every CO visit. He also only accepted invitations from brothers whose records showed they were regular in fs and meetings and so on. However he visisted the spritiually weak. He was probably the best witness the organisation ever had!
Hey why are you surprised about the hyprocacy that exists on every level in the org?
People were encouraged to take the week off work if possible so they could enjoy the grand privilege of working with the Circuit Overseer and his wife in field service.
Yeah, "working with the Circuit Overseer and his wife"...I could never figure that out. Even in our little ol' hall, if half the congregation would show up to "work with the CO"...so what? How many people would actually fit in his (or his wife's) car group?? 3?? 4 if you were really pushing it?? So, assuming that the CO and his wife split up in different car groups, at the most only 6 or 8 people would get to work with them on any given day. What percentage of a congregation, even if everybody showed up one or more days, got to actually be in a car group with them (whoopie)...of that number, how many took a door with him or her? How many actually got to hear them give a presentation?
I always thought it was a big fat ripoff, like most things connected with being a JW...Make a big effort to get out in service and get put with the same old group you always go with..or worse...show up for service and have the CO announce that he and the elders are "going on calls" and nobody gets to work with them. That's dishonest - give people the impression they're actually going to be going door-to-door with the CO and he's off calling on the inactive or whoever. If they're going to do that, they should let the congregation know so they don't show up hoping they get to ride in the CO's car and hear pearls of theocratic wisdom fall from his lips...
Anyone guilty of getting the special CIRCUIT OVERSEER WEEK HAIRCUT?
