I do have one very fond book study memory. About 26 years ago a cute 3rd Gen moved into town one block from the book study I conducted....she showed up and I was smitten. She never turned in her time on time, so I had to call her every month...for months. lol The rest is history. :)
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The Book Study Group - Reminiscing
by ukpimo inany fond memories or funny stories relating to the old book study arrangement?.
i remember a time when a new sister turned up with very smart jacket and shirt.
yet she was wearing trousers and when questioned by everyone she said "blimey, i think geoff (her husband) is wearing my skirt!".
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Balaamsass2
ThomasMoore,
lol. I don't remember the sink peeing admonishment. The rooms in the old 124 building didn't have bathrooms.... There were communal bathrooms like a college dorm. I shared the bathroom with GB member Dan Sidlick. (Somehow he felt it was ok to walk a few more feet and just randomly wander in and out of my room. (Strange).
I remember my 2-3rd day at Bethel at breakfast. GB/President Knorr gave a 10-minute announcement that 30+ Bethelites had just been summarily disfellowshipped and evicted for homosexuality after having a "massage party" !#!# WTH!!!???
Soon after I heard about the bestiality issues at the farm!?!?! Evidently, some fellows were using/misusing baby animals.... ugh
Having grown up adjacent to San Francisco I thought I had heard it all....NOPE.
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2024--Become a Circuit Overseer in Your Mid-to-Late 20's!
by Atlantis inbecome a circuit overseer in your mid to late 20's.
you would have had to qualify as an elder previously.
this would mean the male would have had to have been an elder in his early 20's.
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Balaamsass2
Perhaps the older guys with some assets have wised up to the incredible personal liability of being an Elder now in Watchtower land.
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2024--Become a Circuit Overseer in Your Mid-to-Late 20's!
by Atlantis inbecome a circuit overseer in your mid to late 20's.
you would have had to qualify as an elder previously.
this would mean the male would have had to have been an elder in his early 20's.
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Balaamsass2
Joe134.
Per what he told me, or what was rumored at Bethel?? I really will really never know. I am going to go with "Insubordination".
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Balaamsass2
lol!
Imagine listening to this with your first cup of coffee and breakfast!
There was just a lot of creepiness at Bethel. Imagine the thrill of being a "new boy" at Bethel and being able to meet Watchtower guru Fred Franz and ask him bible questions in person any wed evening after dinner!! The one big caveat is...You need to meet in the sauna in the basement....ah..em... I passed. I like to keep my clothes on for meetings..... :)
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Remember the sex talks?
by KerryKing ini remember sitting through public talks where the speaker spent the hour discussing in great detail anal sex, masturbation (of yourself and others), sex during menstruation and so on.
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i was a child, looking back now, i realise that they systematically stripped away our childhood innocence, we knew and heard things no 'worldly' child would have heard.. the child abuse and grooming happened to every single one of us, the feelings of guilt and shame was in all of us even if we didn't actually do anything bad, the mental images caused by these filthy men hung around in our innocent minds till there was no room for that innocence.. it has taken me 44 years to realise that what was done to us, even those of us not physically abused, is a crime.. do they still have talks like that nowadays i wonder?
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Balaamsass2
Tenyears..Thanks for the needed laugh!!!
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2024--Become a Circuit Overseer in Your Mid-to-Late 20's!
by Atlantis inbecome a circuit overseer in your mid to late 20's.
you would have had to qualify as an elder previously.
this would mean the male would have had to have been an elder in his early 20's.
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Balaamsass2
Incredible.
I had a relative who became a CO and Branch Overseer very young in his late 20s after graduating from Gilead.
He was removed in his mid-30s.
It warped his personality. He became an overbearing ass, which he remained until the day of his death.
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Reddit thread re Oct 2024 WT with picture of window washer - Theme knocking people who Planned
by LongHairGal inthis thread currently has over 300 comments.. it shows a picture of an older man washing a window looking wistfully… then it talks all about how some may have doubts about not having planned and the situation they are in now that they are older, etc.
it refers to others who did plan and who supposedly have ‘apparent’ financial security.
in my opinion, the whole gist of this article is to make older witnesses feel better who did not pursue a career or plan well for retirement.. it tries to imply that those others who planned only have ‘apparent’ financial security - which is to say they don’t (?).
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Balaamsass2
Standard Watchtower hogwash.
I was googling the disfellowshipped Elders from the Menlo Park Congregation kingdom hall takeover/sale fiasco a few weeks ago. I saw the death notice of one of the Elders who spoke out against the Congregation bank account seizure and hall sale. (If you remember everyone who spoke out was summarily disfellowshiped in absentia about 10 years ago. There are a few threads here about it.)
The brother, Arlen St Clair, a gentle, humble man who worked as a widow washer was broken by Watchtower. (His son was severely injured in Arlen's car when it was forced off the road by an employee of one of the local elders investigating for Watchtower).
The obituary stated former Elder Arlen St Clair, fell to his death from a customer's roof while washing skylights. Arlen died while washing windows in his mid-70s. Lost his life, lost his shot at a "retirement", and lost his religion. The sad and rotten fruitage of Watchtower.
Actually, the bible encourages thrift, saving, knowledge, and hard work.
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Remember the sex talks?
by KerryKing ini remember sitting through public talks where the speaker spent the hour discussing in great detail anal sex, masturbation (of yourself and others), sex during menstruation and so on.
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i was a child, looking back now, i realise that they systematically stripped away our childhood innocence, we knew and heard things no 'worldly' child would have heard.. the child abuse and grooming happened to every single one of us, the feelings of guilt and shame was in all of us even if we didn't actually do anything bad, the mental images caused by these filthy men hung around in our innocent minds till there was no room for that innocence.. it has taken me 44 years to realise that what was done to us, even those of us not physically abused, is a crime.. do they still have talks like that nowadays i wonder?
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Balaamsass2
Who can forget the "youth book" and "Young People Ask" book and articles?
YIKES!!!!
I remember the council not to eat spicy foods! (they would make you horney). lol I heard a lot of JWs joke about eating Mexican food.
While at Bethel in the 70s Knorr and others would drone on about masturbation and other "issues" while I was half asleep trying to drink some coffee and eat breakfast. gag.
In my 50 years of daily working "in the world" I never heard so much conversation centered on sex as I did attending meetings.
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New instructions on not using sisters to manage KH computer ?
by fifth.column insince covid in france, especially in the countryside with lack of brothers, it was quite common that some sisters were using the computer at the back of the kingdom hall to manage zoom session.. i heard a rumor that new instructions, maybe a july letter, stated that this was reserved for male only, even unbaptised publishers, but no sister if there is at least a male available.
that would be a steps back and disappointment for these sisters.
last week i heard at my mom’s house how they were happy that this service was available for them, a proof that the org was moving forward.
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Balaamsass2
My mother, her sisters, and my Mother in law, frequently brought up Rutherford's famous quote "Women are nothing but a hank of hair and bag of bones". That quote was followed by some comment that "the brothers" were women haters, misogynistic, male chauvinists, etc....yet they never fully woke up or left the cult before they died...... Strange.