remember apostates holding signs outside the convention?
by in a new york bethel minute 116 Replies latest jw experiences
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mouthy
Great picture....
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Darth Yhwh
I was actually thinking of starting a topic about this very issue this weekend.
In the early 90’s I was leaving a DC in Columbus Ohio. I think that it was the end of the day Sunday and there were scores of people picketing. They were yelling and trying to get the attention of the general rank and file as they left the assembly. There was a literal fence of JW “brothers” holding hands, keeping the picketers back, and prevented me from getting a good look at any of their signs. I remember thinking to my self that the picketers were real whackos. I mean, think about it, I would have done anything to have avoided a boring assembly and here are people that don’t have to be there and yet there they are trying to get some message across. For the first time I realized that these were the people the society were warning about all those years. The actually did exist and the WBTS wasn’t just blowing smoke. They were apostates who would do anything to destroy my relationship with Jehovah.
I remember my mom’s friend with whom we were staying for the duration of the assembly commented on how wonderful it was that Jehovah had made provisions for those “brothers” to protect us from the apostates.
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Forscher
There were some that did that at an assembly I went to in the 70's. they also managed to get into the parking lot and put their literature on some of the windshields before they were run out. We were warned to throw it away.
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Goldminer
I,too,remember the apostates picketing on the bridge at the 1985 convention in Montreal.It was the first time I saw that and I wanted to go up there and have a bible discussion with them to straighten them out.Nobody would let me go...
In 1995,in Sudbury,we had to walk 3 blocks to go see the baptisms.This guy was standing at a street corner telling stuff to the jw's as they walked by.This big brother and myself came along and the guy shut right up till we were long gone.We were proud of ourselves,felt like we had intimidated an apostate.
Goldminer
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Junction-Guy
To DarthYHWH-- I too was at that columbus convention, it was either 1991 or 1992. I didnt really think they were wacko's, I was actually tickled to see them out there. I dont believe they were XJW's as I asked the woman there what church they were with and she said "Church of Christ". Its possible that some of them were Apostates, but I didnt get that vibe when I was there, I just saw them as a bunch of church people picketing our convention. By the way, what part of Ohio you from? I'm originally from Dayton.
Dave
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delilah
Kid-A, he must have been the same guy who frequented the assembly at Copp's Coliseum in Hamilton, because that's where i saw him. hahahaha....He was there every year for a long time. I wonder if he still does that????
Delilah
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mouthy
No D He doesnt
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Insomniac
Hey, does anyone remember this crazy 'postate dude with a big beard in the late '80s in Austin, TX? I don't want to violate his privacy, but his first name was Ron, he sold Amway. He used to hold up signs at assemblies, which is cool I guess; he also used to follow female witnesses around and try to give them these handwritten notes to read. He started hanging around my workplace, and when I wouldn't take the notes, he'd give them to my supervisor to give to me. He scared me, actually, and was the main reason I was so afraid to go to apostate websites for a long time; I was afraid that I'd get all creepy and unhinged like him if I did!
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chrissy
i can recall of only one instance where a guy with a picnic basket full of pamphlets entered the convention center and started passing out antidotal "jesus saves" propaganda.
of course he was scary and demonic and the antichrist, and probably would have turned us to stone if we'd looked him in the eyes directly...thank goodness he had on sunglasses
it's really funny thinking back to moments like that and seeing such feelings of illogical fear for what they were... and never having thought in a million gajillion years that i would be an apostate myself one day. had i known i would have shared my lunch, at least.
men in monkey suites...lol. what a riot.