So, You've Been Known To Proposition Complete Strangers For Sects

by SixofNine 35 Replies latest jw friends

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  belbab

  Gumby, You feel guilty, before, during and after and definititely are reminded of it if a dog comes round and starts smelling your crotch.

  Also, are sitting at a district assembly and feel you will never be able accomplish all the instructions about field service, and you feel that you have been rejected by Big Jah.

  You feel that you are not praying enough, not paying attention to meetings, not loving enough, not giving enough, not producing enough in field service, cheating on your time too much.

  Oh shit, I can't go on. Take me away Jeho, I want to be the first to go at the Big A.

  belbab, the worthless one.
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  bisous

  Someone asks you about your time in the service and you

  • tell them about your best return visit
  • swear those reports you turned in were absolutely true
  • run and grab a book bag
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  upside/down

  • You're on depression meds
  • You don't get the "good" cable channels.
  • You don't have a REAL job.
  • The WT & AW are your "college education"
  • You "thank" J for your food stamps.
  • You don't "go down" he he...
  • You use terms like "headquarters, "mother", society, new system, worldly, sheep & goats (what Freud would say?), the "great trib", CO, DO,MS, "study" Etc.
  • Feel GUILTY all the time!
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  Low-Key Lysmith

  .....you're at a get-together and you pass on perfectly good wine and bread.
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  Tigerman

  . . .as an elder, after making such an extraordinary impression on one partner in a fragile marriage, which then fails, and then ' fixing up ' that partner with a 'brother' or 'sister' so as to create a marriage ' in the truth '.
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  wasasister

  If you've even given an old lady a ride in your car just so you can sit in the "elderly" seating area at the Convention.

  If you've ever pretended to be pregnant just so you could go to the front of the bathroom line at a Convention.

  If your floor-cleaning business fails to pay the bills and you have to move in with your parents who are living with their parents...for exactly the same reason.

  If you've ever looked around at a meeting for field service and picked out the "fun" people to work with. (or, when realized there are no "fun" people out that day, you make up an imaginary "study" you have to go on alone, that "study" being a waitress at Denny's)
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  Low-Key Lysmith

  if you have ever eaten a "Muff'n'egg" and bought it with food tickets
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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  ...you have the tendency to refer to books by color instead of by title.
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  LuckyNun

  oh, god! I miss those Muff'n Eggs!
  
  let me add one...
  
  
  you've sat in the Gold Cup room of a racetrack or the balcony section of a music venue, having never actually seen a horse race or a rock concert.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  someone you've just met mentions their hometown and you say, "Oh! We used to go up there for Circuit Assemblies/District Conventions!" and they give you a worried or blank look.
  
  
  maybe I should amend mine to, "you know you were a bad teenage JW if..."
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  SixofNine

  I once worked at an assembly alongside a rather sardonic brother, spooning muff-n-egg mixture onto muff'ns of the english variety. He just about caused me to lose it when he said quietly, "now I know what they do with the old people". It makes me smile thinking of it now, cuz I feel pretty sure that anyone with a sense of humor such as his, just has to be out of the cult.