Posts by MissFit

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My JW friend turned down the "privilege" of working the literature table at the park. Why?

by MissFit in

i have written before about my jw friend that plays hookie with me on sundays.

we skip the meeting and go straight to lunch and margaritas.

she converted later in life and has been a jw for over 25 years.. she is in her late 70's and has had heart problems.

MissFit

Safe at home: She hasn't been to meetings because of her health. Her first loyalty is to Jehovah. She keeps in touch with her JW friends, they drop off her magazines and record the meetings for her.

Going out in"service" is her way of serving Jehovah. She does not blame Jehovah for imperfect people's actions.

She is the sweetest person I know. She always has something kind to say to complete strangers. She refuses to shun the df brother who is married to her niece.

He helps her alot and she always appreciates it. She told me only Jehovah should judge.

She serves Jehovah first before the Org. She will just let Jehovah sort things out.

I will not take away her comfort. She has relied on the thought of Jehovah and the hope of paradise to get her through some very hard times.

She has Faith that god can read her heart and so she doesn't care what others think.

She will do what she feels is right.

I think there are alot of people her age that have the same philosophy.

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My JW friend turned down the "privilege" of working the literature table at the park. Why?

by MissFit in

i have written before about my jw friend that plays hookie with me on sundays.

we skip the meeting and go straight to lunch and margaritas.

she converted later in life and has been a jw for over 25 years.. she is in her late 70's and has had heart problems.

MissFit

Sparrow: you are so right. My friend also mentioned that someone told her that"they" were wanting "the friends" to get I Pads so they could go to JW.org.

She said "what about those with a limited income"? (Smile and nod, Smile and nod)

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My JW friend turned down the "privilege" of working the literature table at the park. Why?

by MissFit in

i have written before about my jw friend that plays hookie with me on sundays.

we skip the meeting and go straight to lunch and margaritas.

she converted later in life and has been a jw for over 25 years.. she is in her late 70's and has had heart problems.

MissFit

I have written before about my JW friend that plays hookie with me on Sundays. We skip the meeting and go straight to lunch and margaritas.

She converted later in life and has been a JW for over 25 years.

She is in her late 70's and has had heart problems. She hasn't gone to meetings for over a year because the meetings cause her blood pressure to rise and she is hard of hearing and gets stressed when she cant hear what is going on.

She is still active " in service," and keeps in touch with " the friends".

So we were having lunch when she mentioned that her "Elder " friend called her to see if she would like to sit at the literature table at the park.

She looked at me and said: " I'm supposed to just SIT there and WAIT for someone to COME to ME." She shakes her head in disgust." REALLY Missy HOW MANY people do you think will STOP." She pauses for a minute and then exclaims,

"No thanks, I DON'T work that way. I just placed 51 magazines with my calls and magazine route. I just got a new "call" the other day. So tell me how I would do better SITTING at the PARK? " She shakes her head again and declares:

" I'm just going to tell him that I am doing just fine and am not interested" she said.

All I did was just smile and nod, smile and nod.

Sometimes there just isn't anything left to add.

I love her to death. She tells me that her faith in Jehovah is what gets her through and that she trust HIM to read her heart. She doesn't agree with alot of what the Brothers are doing and she hates how nosey and unlovingly "the friends" can be.

She makes up her own mind and if it doesn't make sense she won't do it.

Our lunches rock!

Have any of you had a similar conversation about the magazine table?

Missy

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Fresh Newcomer

by Yondaime in

hi guys, my name is yondaime,.

my will to remain in this relgious sect is fading, i'm about to be a freshman(just turned 18) in college.

, i have seen so many terrible things happen to good people in this cult and i'm sick of it!

MissFit

Welcome. Have you started classes ? How is it going ?

Miss.Fit

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Update on: "I had a funny feeling"

by noontide in

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i dont know if anyone remembers this post, but i thought i would update you nonetheless.. .

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/279666/1/i-had-a-funny-feeling-he-was-a-witness-and-now-i-need-help .

quick recap: i was consulting at a firm where the hr director turned out to be a jehovahs witness.

MissFit

Thanks for the update. I was wondering how things went.

4 th of July debacle? Do tell. Sounds like you still have some stories to tell.

Maybe some of the things you told him will bear fruit some day.

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A new member

by LP97 in

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friends

i'm a 17 year old from scotland.

can i just say this site is absolutely brilliant.

finally found people with open minds and free thought that doesn't just consist of "well the wt told me this so it must be right".. my story is that i'm just like any other child of a jw...brought up into a life of indoctrination where "the world's" thinking is automatically wrong.. that is until i was 14 - a light turned on in my head.

MissFit

Welcome. You have plenty of time. Enjoy your options and make sure you let your parents know how much their support means to you.

Be gentle with them. They will be feeling like failures because they couldn't keep you in. They will mourn you because they want to picture you in paradise with them.

Hopefully if you show them respect they will respect your decisions and not view it as an attack on them and their values.

Take care.

Miss.Fit

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Really weird sentence

by Moses Joe in

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friends

i've been absent from meetings recently because i'm having serious life challenges that make me really not want to have to deal with all of the people and the sitting.

i had made an attempt to, "simplify my life" that rather than being blessed was meant with unemployment.

lol.. anyway, i finally got tired of all the phone calls checking up on me and sent a message to someone explaining that i just wanted to be left alone (an elder).

MissFit

Data dog Something has to give. You cant go on like this. Misery is just oozing from every key stroke. Can coming out and being true to yourself be more miserable and painful than what you are going through?

Your family only has a shadow of a man. Dont all of you deserve more?

Moses Joe: I dont think you owe anyone an explanation. This is between you and Jehovah. Just tell him that you have faith that Jehovah knows your heart.

Quote him that scripiture that says Jehovah is greater than our hearts.

Miss.Fit

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

MissFit

Sunny: You don't need to apologize for making sincere posts of what you believed at the time. I've been right behind you on a similar journey.

I know what you mean about trying to post an answer and then deleting the whole post.

We were discovering critical thinking. I know I used to parrot what I was taught on the subject. I had to stop and really think if I really believed it or was this an automatic response?

I think that was one of Cofty's objectives. To get people past that automatic response and really think about the implications and issues of that response .

These threads are little time capsules, or snapshots. They allow us to go back and measure and assess our journey and growth.

Your fellow traveler, Miss.Fit

Cofty:Thank you Cofty for this thread.

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Time again for........ Congregation roll call

by Jourles in

it's been a while since this topic has been brought up.

use it as a chance to see if there is someone you might know from years past.

1973-1976 --- lakeside, ca??

MissFit

Welcome fromderbyshire. Start another thread and introduce yourself. We would love to meet you.

Miss.Fit

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No Common Sense (About Convention)

by EmptyInside in

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well,the guilt trip worked in getting them to the international convention,even though,for some,it put their health at great risk.. i'm glad that an elderly relative showed some common sense and realized she couldn't make the convention.

but,people still treated her oddly about not going.. one of her friends,who had a stroke in the past,thought about not attending,only to get screamed at by her so-called friends.

she did go,but it was hard on her.

MissFit

My mother is in her 80's. She lives far away from me about 1 hour away from Seattle.

She couldn't get anyone to take her. The elders told her they didnt want the responsibility in case she got sick. They were going to arrange to show the c.ds of the convention to a group of ones that could not go.

So apparently some elders had some common sense or were at least afraid of being liable if something happened.

Miss.Fit who did NOT travel all that way to take her mother to the DC.