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Did The Circuit Overseer Ever Do Anything For You On His Visit?
by minimus 50 Replies latest jw friends
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ButtLight
Yes, he came to my house, encouraged me to go to the meeting, and then told the elders to d'f me!
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bem
Mini. The first CO I had contact with was very kind and I believe he was sincere and really wanted to help us and believed in what he was doing......Go ahead several years and CO's, they seemed to get more and more into the people in the congo. that had money,The CO's behaved badly/were hateful to seemed like nearly everyone they spoke with not to mention some really nasty wives along the way. And the last CO I remember now was also the first stumbling block (tm) for me. I need to thank him, except, I'm so glad I don't have to deal with them again.
~Dorothy
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blondie
The CO tends to be the average JW's connection to the branch office. You are expected to go through the elders, then the CO, then the DO. JWs who contact the branch office directly without first going through these 3 levels can be branded troublemakers. There are exceptions, elders can bypass these levels and brothers with money can too.
The COs too get info from "on high" that even the elder bodies don't so everyone is always hoping the CO lets them in on the "secrets." Like the branch office is going to tell the CO when Armageddon is coming! I have found that the rank and file independently suck up to the CO/DO without any encouragement from the CO though many take advantage of it.
One older brother said, "He's just a man like the rest of us and puts his pants on one leg at a time."
Blondie
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JH
Yes, he came to my house, encouraged me to go to the meeting, and then told the elders to d'f me!
They should have seen that you made the first move, and should have given you a chance to get back on the right road.
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blondie
Buttlight, to be df'd for not going to the meetings or for something else?
Blondie
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OldSoul
Yes. I can't elaborate yet, but that would be a definite yes.
OldSoul
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ButtLight
I started a study, and on the third visit, they brought the co, and an elder to question my lifestyle. I am living with my bf. So..........he said they would have to take some kind of action.
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Gopher
There was only one I can think of who seemed to care about people personally. Below are what some other circuit overseers did for me.One circuit overseer and his wife "encouraged" me to resist higher education upon leaving high school. (My father, a JW elder, had a better idea -- I should go to a trade school. His opportunity to do so was taken away, and he didn't want mine taken away. So I learned a profession that I enjoy and still use a quarter-century later.)
Another circuit overseer roared through town and told everyone they had to get haircuts. (Hair slightly over the ear was a no-no for any ministerial servant or elder, you know!) The same one laid a guilt trip on me saying I "ought to really be regular pioneering". I tried and didn't like it.
Another circuit overseer came through and told me that he called the WT headquarters personally to settle this (super-important) issue of whether congregations should have live piano players or use the cassette tapes. He finally found the right person who said that we who played at the halls should be replaced by tapes. Everyone I talked to at the hall hated the tapes (and I wasn't a bad piano player). Leave it to the WTS and their cronies to suck all bits of fun out of congregation life.
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Doubtfully Yours
I just enjoy their well-speaking abilities. Love motivational speakers as a whole!
The last we had in the Spanish congregation was sooooooo boring. I was very vocal about this and people that liked him didn't appreciate me telling them that he was the most boring CO I'd ever encountered in my whole JW life. Some got really frustrated with me on this issue. I just loved being the one to tell the truth about it; many knew it but wouldn't dare say a thing.
DY