i remember being a jw lad (about 10 or 11 years old).
i would be at the circuit assembly and, at around 10:45 am, about 8 brothers would get up, walk slowly up the aisle, glancing at each row of their "section", their lips quivering as they silently count each person, trying to maintain focus as nearly each jw makes eye contact them (even though everyone knew what the attendants were doing!
did i want to grow up to be the president of the united states?
Ha! I should have known that something was wrong with that job when they gave a privilege to my father!! He seemed none to pleased with it, but maybe he thought it was his internship to elderdom.
I wonder if the "hall watch" was something that was decided individually or if the halls got some kind of letter from Bethel that said "If your hall gets egged, stick the lackeys out in front of it with a thermos of hot coffee".
You didn't even get a cool nametag for that job
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a little too tipsy right now to elucidate...but i think i've already bored you all to tears on my job situation...so..... i'm doing all the "normal" things.. in what ways have you gotten jobs other than the usual?.
thanks,.
I think in general, you just have to be lucky and catch the HR person on a good day!
However, I once wrote a really unconventional cover letter in which I said that I couldn't take filing papers all day anymore and I really just wanted a chance to be the creative person I knew I could be. I sent it out to a bunch of places... most ignored it... one didn't. I got hired!
It worked out for the best, because the kind of place you want to work at is the kind of place that will respond to a cover letter like that.
Once I drew a cartoon of myself applying for a job by hanging on a bungee cord outside the office window holding a sign that said "Hire Me". The jerk hung the picture up behind his desk (I knew someone that worked there) and then never hired me! So who knows. All these places SAY they want independent creative people, but they really just want business-casual drones that won't make waves.
i remember being a jw lad (about 10 or 11 years old).
i would be at the circuit assembly and, at around 10:45 am, about 8 brothers would get up, walk slowly up the aisle, glancing at each row of their "section", their lips quivering as they silently count each person, trying to maintain focus as nearly each jw makes eye contact them (even though everyone knew what the attendants were doing!
did i want to grow up to be the president of the united states?
There was a weird custom at my hall called "Halloween Duty", after the place was egged for the 49th time, they had brothers on round-the-clock surveillance. You had to be one of the truly lucky ones to be picked to stay up all night long outside a Kingdom Hall in late October. Yup, truly blessed.
i just wanted to introduce myself and share my verbose story.
my name is kyria, i'm 29 years old, originally from the pawtucket/lincoln rhode island congregation in the states.
i found this board yesterday, and am completely blown away by what an amazing place it is.
Um... what's up with that empty post from Talesin? It's says that the editing was requested by a member. Did it have some personal info in it or something?
i just wanted to introduce myself and share my verbose story.
my name is kyria, i'm 29 years old, originally from the pawtucket/lincoln rhode island congregation in the states.
i found this board yesterday, and am completely blown away by what an amazing place it is.
Harold, wow! Yes, I remember you, but it's very fuzzy... I think remember the names "Harold and Gwen" more than I remember the faces. I was able to find at least one part of your story...
My brother Noah is doing well, he actually left the organization before I did, but then, he WAS in college! We don't talk as much as I'd like, but things are less strained than they used to be.
This is very exciting, I'm going to send you an email.
Tonight I am trying to remember the name of that guy that got disfellowshipped and just wouldn't accept it. He used to stand outside of the Kingdom Hall on the corner of Mineral Spring Avenue and watch everyone as they left the Kingdom Hall. My brother and I used to be so afraid of him! I think his name was Ernie.
were you considered a "troublemaker", a "complainer", a "fine" brother or sister?
were you always being called before the elders for one thing or another?
is your reputation the same here as it was in the congregation??
Alot of people NEED to live in fairy tale land. The real world is too unbearable for them.
I tend to agree. I don't know if I'm selling my mother short by not telling her what I think, or if I just know her too well and am protecting her. It brings her the only happiness she has in her life, and it's already done it's damage to my brother and me, so I don't see any reason to bring it up right now. Also, I didn't realize you were actually an ex-elder at first. I thought you were just kidding... :)
i'm just curious to see how this has worked out for people.
has anyone married a christian?
catholic?
The man I married used to be in a cult as well! It was called "The Process" and they did a lot of psychic stuff like remote viewing and mind reading. I think they were a lot bigger in England than in the States (an industrial group called Skinny Puppy has a whole album devoted to them), but he was involved in them in Chicago in the 1970's. They preyed on him when he was a shy and skinny 18 year old.
We actually had a couple of heated arguments over it, I think because I desperately wanted him to admit that the cult had taken advantage of him, but all he would say is that he thought it had been good for him at that time, but it no longer was. I've since lightened up a bit (I was more in my JW "anger" stage at that point), but I don't think he's fully come to terms with the fact that he was taken advantage of by a cult.
when you were studying the bible live forever, knoledge, or any other "study aid", what did you think of your bible study conductor?
was he/she weird?
did you continue to get along with them after you were baptized?
Before I was baptized I studied with a 40-ish ministerial servant who was married in one of those "we're not having kids in this system of things" relationships.
He was "Brother Wacky Sense of Humor", moderately good looking, always the one with the insightful comment and the extra research at the bookstudy. I was 16, smart, and, well, did I mention 16? We used to flirt a little during our study. I'm sure he went home and flogged himself for his unclean thoughts... in one way or another.
were you considered a "troublemaker", a "complainer", a "fine" brother or sister?
were you always being called before the elders for one thing or another?
is your reputation the same here as it was in the congregation??
It's interesting to me to hear of someone older and so established in the congregation stepping down. I mean, I've never talked with my mother about this because she's 65, has had a terrible life, and I couldn't bear to take her fairy tale away.
i just wanted to introduce myself and share my verbose story.
my name is kyria, i'm 29 years old, originally from the pawtucket/lincoln rhode island congregation in the states.
i found this board yesterday, and am completely blown away by what an amazing place it is.
Thank you all. I will let you know when the performances start. I am going to try to get a theater I know of in Davis Square, Somerville. I'll keep you posted.
Nosferatu, don't let the JW thinking get you down, you can be a woman if you want to!
