Wow, after they read that letter, they won't be knocking on your door anymore. Good luck on your journey, which has taken a different turn today.
Update on my disassociation
by Dustin 55 Replies latest jw friends
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pleaseer2001
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JAVA
I consider you to be a false religion that bases their hopes around the teachings of men. I despise how your religion tears families apart, and destroys lives all for the sake of the Governing Body?s own insecurities.
Wow Dustin -- Why didn't you tell them what you really think ? Well done my friend; you've taken the high road.
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DevonMcBride
Welcome to the beginning of the rest of your life.
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AuntieJane
Dustin, I have tears in my eyes. Good for you, and best wishes to a New, Happy Life!
Here's a toast, to you and your wife,
AuntieJane
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Dogpatch
Good for you Dustin!
Now read Armageddon Okies!
http://www.freeminds.org/buss/okies.htm
Randy
#7 Letter from Home
Don't Mess with the TRUTH
Dear Randy,
Boy, I'm out of breath. This has been a rough week. We been chopin firewood for next winter. The throwout bearing on the Dodge is out again. Granny did it pickin up bales...rides the clutch too much. We had LeRoy home to ride with her to keep her awake. We don't want anything like last time to happen again. Me and Maw took the John Deere to town for parts 'n groceries and Maw had an appointment at the beauty shop she didn't dare to miss. Too bad Bubba took the umbrella off when he mowed under the trees....that would have come in real handy on the way home. That's the first time I ever saw the creek that high.
Man, did I get a surprise in town! Right in the babyfood isle in the Econo mart on the end with the crackers and the paperback books there's uncle Dub pushing the busted wheel cart. I tried to pretend that I don't notice him but I know he saw me. He still looks pretty mad about what I said to him about him not wanting to study with me and Bubba. He told Granny that was the worst thing he ever heard. Well, too bad for him....he had his chance. We do have the truth and he should know that. He sure was fun to go fishing with though....all those stories.... and that boat. Remember the time he burned the creosote post in the campfire at Klondile mill on opening day? I laughed for three days after that every time I thought about it. Well if we keep shunning him like the Society says he will see how wrong he was and come begging to us to take him back. Heard he and the Wester brothers caught their limit three days in a row last week. We gotta be gettin to him....this happy smile he always wares until he sees us must be a fake.
Maw's cookin shrimp and peas for supper again. Bubba went to town last week and when he got home he told us that he's gonna go on a diet. Seems like Farmers Supply can't get overalls any bigger and the ones they have don't fit very good with the side buttons done up. Bubba says that with both the straps hooked, the rear kind of digs in his crack. That probably accounts for his short attention span lately. We just heard that there is a new family moving in the congregation from over by Sugar Creek. It'll be good for little Mike to have somebody to play with that he's not related to. That stupid banker was out again Thursday buggin us about that dumb mortgage of his and he knows that we can't do secular work now as much with the truth and the meetings. I've told and told him but he keeps sending those dumb things in the mail and keeps coming over. The Society was really right about that persecution.
I've got to go now, brother Newly Ben Haad's pickin me up for the meeting early so we can work those not-at-homes that keep piling up from the early start mornings. We are out of magazines again so we just invite people to the meetings. The Hall's easy to give directions to since we started using sister Rank's chicken coop for the summer while we wait for the loan to come through from the Society for the new one. We kind of made up a cute slogan for the door to door work "get the scoop in the coop." It's a lot quieter than the old one too.
Love from all, write when you can.
Gary B.
PS: We finally got LeRoy to tell us where he got that nice extension cord from that was in with his stuff from when he visited you last month......your deep freeze.
#11 Letter from Home
Hope We Don't Have Cars in the New System
Dear Randy,
This will be just a quick note. I've got to run Bubba over to the junk yard over by Monett to pick up a couple new fenders and some doors for the Lincoln. We had a pot-luck supper over at brother Newly Ben Haad's trailer Monday night and I took some of my elderberry wine. Well, Bubba's not seeing too good when he comes home about midnight and when he comes to Jenkin's Creek dog leg bridge he sees two so he says he shuts one eye and heads for the middle one....takes the front left fender and both doors off. If that wasn't bad enough he stayed after the book study Tuesday to help Newly finish up leftovers and when he gets to the bridge commin' home he sees two again so he says that he's not gonna make the same mistake twice so he closes the other eye and takes off the right front fender and both right doors. He says that service really bothers him this morning when people slam their doors. This persecution is really getting bad.
I been workin' on a book-shelf fer all our new books we got when we got in the truth. I got it all done except for the shelf. Maw says that we should line em all up kind of by color so they go together...blue, green, yellow, yellow, purple, brown, and tan. Me and little Mike decided to paint the barn so we got the paint at the railroad using Theochronic warfare and we decided to rig a sprayer up using the John Deere and an old hose. Little Mike took out a sparkplug and cross-threaded a 3/8th nipple in there and wired that hose to it. Then he set a tee in the hose and run a spur line over to the paint vat and when he fired up that poppin Johnny we had paint balls the size of oranges sailin' 30 feet in the air. We got a fair amount on the barn before we ran out. Things was happening so fast that we didn't notice the circuit servant, Jup Setter and his wife Missey, drive up in their big ol' Buick dyna-flo. It's one of them slip juice drive clutch jobs with the fake holes in the hood. He's had this tick ever since when they was on the Huntsville to Brashears run back in May an lightening struck the tree where he was relievin' himself. She's nice though. Ran away once....up in the brambles. Coon hunters found her and brought her back down and she's been kind of prone to quiet spells after that....giggles to herself more than usual too. He says that we got the fastest growin' congregation in these parts but then practically all the sisters was pregnant after his first visit so I suppose that accounts for a lot of it but still we is always glad to get good news from the Society.
That Jup Setter and his wife Missey, they's stayin' with us for the week while he works with the congregation. He says that we get in the most hours of any of the congregations that he is assigned to. He said that he'd like to work with Bubba tomorrow. That'll be good for Bubba cause Monday's the big trash day since he don't make his run on Sundays. Sis told ol Jup to dig out his old clothes....he just stared at her. Maw blew a spit bubble when she said bye just now. Sis' new boyfriend Ben, son of widow Loyal's by her forth husband Hazz-Ben, was here for supper last night. He goes before the draft board again next Thursday. He's hopin' they'll sentence him back to Springfield. He said the two terms he did there was the best of all of em. These last times is sure hard to deal with all right.
Love from all, don't forget to write.
Clem
PS: LeRoy almost got in trouble for dirty pictures in the bus depot toilet, he would have except he signed your name.
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Effervescent
Wow... that was very well put Dustin.
Reading it I was reminded of Bill Pulmans speech in "Independence Day"
And today I hope you celebrate your Independence
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Dustin
Celebrate I will
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NewLight2
Good Letter, Dustin!!
Don't you wish that you could be "a fly on the wall" when each elder reads that letter??
Don't you wish that you could *read* each elder's thoughts as they read it??
That is one of the best DA Letters that I have read!
NewLight2