Hilarious rumours!!!

by gerbils 31 Replies latest jw friends

  • OldSoul
    OldSoul

    Lessee, where to begin...

    That I had converted to Latter Day Saints...
    That I was gay...
    That I was smoking...
    That I had gotten a girl pregnant in a nearby town...
    That I was a government agent spying on the Witnesses (personal fav)...
    That my girlfriend was reproved because of things she and I did together (ran the gamut)...
    That I was an apostate (presumably bound and determined to steal sleeping children from their cribs)...

    Odd thing about it is I was never reproved, never DF'd, never DA'd. Go figure.

  • Quotes
    Quotes

    Let's see....

    ... that I am a big, BIG apostate (whoops, that one may be true: http://quotes.watchtower.ca/)

    ... that I married an Exotic Dancer (whoops, that one may be true too)

    ~Quotes, of the "not hiding" class

  • pudd
    pudd

    Many years ago when I was pioneering and single, a young man who was studying and regularly attending all the meetings took a romantic interest in me. Being the ?good girl? that I was I told him I thought he should first concentrate on his relationship with Jehovah but maybe after he was baptised if he was still interested we could see what happened.

    Well time past and I found myself involved with a ?worldly? guy and clinically depressed. I ultimately chose to ?temporarily? (10 years so far and counting lol!) come of pioneering and agreed to a short stay in the psychiatric ward.

    Well the rumour mill started and it turns out what really happened was that I had found out that the guy who was studying was now planning to get married to some other sister (not in the KH) and I was so devastated that I had tried to kill myself!!!

    Needless to say I had kept my real boyfriend very quiet, but I was horrified to realize that people would think such a thing. My friend who told me what they were all saying kept braking sown in fits of giggles as she was telling me!

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    I was a victim of the rumor mill...having had whispered accusations that blew an innocent crush I had way out into ugly proportions. One of the teenage sisters, at the daily text at school, even tried to preach a "shame on you" "holier than thou" counsel to me, on the basis of these rumors...and at first I was confused about what she was talking about, not knowing what ppl were saying. Well, silly me, I confided the problem to an elder who told me not to worry, the situation would be taken care of. I should have known....next Thursday during the service meeting he gave a talk on the dangers of "gossip" and he went on to describe a "hypothetical situation" which of course, everyone in the cong who had heard the rumor knew exactly who he was talking about, and I saw all these little eyes looking right at me and the "object of my affection". Very embarrassing. Silver lining: the "holier than thou" sister apologized to me next day at school.

  • GermanXJW
    GermanXJW

    After I stopped going to the meeting (and my wife still went) a JW sister asked her about our separating. She thought we were close to divorce. This took my wife (and me) by surprise but at least the JW asked her and did not just spread the rumour further.

    I would like to know what was going on what I do not even know about. A lot here seem to have rumours about being gay - but maybe this is an American thing.

  • Gill
    Gill

    Now you're making me worried here!

    We stopped attending three years ago, and for the first few months there was pretty constant harrassment from elders etc.. then it all suddenly stopped and people started crossing the street if they saw us and ignoring us.

    Well, what ever it was I hope it was something 'juicy'.

  • bull01lay
    bull01lay

    Not heard any rumours about me since I've left.... but as a teenager I apparently broke my dad's nose because he turned the TV channel over, and attacked my mom because she was trying to stop me hitting him !!!

    I got a public reproof for it too, and all my congregational priveleges(?) stopped for a while !!

    Bull!

  • xjw_b12
    xjw_b12

    I was investing my money in RRSPs rather than supporting the world-wide preaching work

    On Halloween we had our driveway lined with a dozen jack-o-lanterns

    At Christmas we had our house lit up like Chevy Chase's in Christmas vacation.

    We had thrown out all or society literature.

    we were apostates....

  • gumby
    gumby

    There was this rumor that I used to like to only take the elders out in service in rural territories....then I hypnotize them, undress them, and take nasty pictures of them and I would sell them to underground asian porn corporations and that's how I made my money. They almost DFed me

    Actually, I just made this whole thing up cuz I couldn't think of anything to add to this thread and I was just tryin to fit in.

    *wishes he had a rumor story too*

    Gumby

  • pennycandy
    pennycandy

    Elsewhere,

    The rumors I heard when you DA'd were that you went atheist, that you had become extremely obnoxious, and were a raving apostate.

    Oh, wait, aren't rumors supposed to be untrue?

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