did you have one or two brother with way too long prayers in your congregation?
when i was a child we had a brother who would go on and on after the watchtower study for at least five minutes.
many elderly sisters just sat down and a lot were complaining after the long desired amen..
did anyone else hear the story about a thing at the UK headquarters--in the 60's. if my memory is right--it was told to me by Bevan Vigo ( are you reading this Bev ?) ;
meal time--everyone is ready to start--up gets the bro who was assigned to say " grace ". on and on he went--with his eyes closed. when he finally said amen--he opened his eyes--and saw everyone else had finished their meal.
did you have one or two brother with way too long prayers in your congregation?
when i was a child we had a brother who would go on and on after the watchtower study for at least five minutes.
many elderly sisters just sat down and a lot were complaining after the long desired amen..
the funniest thing i saw was...
not a prayer--but a short talk in the ministry school thing.
one particular afro-caribbean bro was very fond of over-running any talks he was given.
so--this particular evening--at the end of his 5 minutes--the bell sounded--but he carried on regardless, so--2 bell rings--still he carried on. at this point 2 bros got up on the stage--either side of him--took an arm each and frog marched him off the stage ( this had been pre arranged of course---but the bro and the audience weren't in on it )
yet--he still carried on with his delivery ! the audience were in stitches.
fortunately--the bro took it in good part. in fact--he was a truly lovely guy.
all this was 50 years ago.
this is the first time i have posted on here in many years..... i seldom visit now although this forum was instrumental to me in gaining my sanity in the early 2000's and recovering from the watchtower religion.. by chance tonight i was on youtube and caught a jw.org video which out of curiosity prompted me to look at the official website and amongst other things i looked up the music section.. why that i hear you ask?
music is my passion and nothing reminds me more or evokes more memories than the kingdom songs i grew up listening to.. i am 49 years old and my mother was baptised in 1974. i grew up in the era of pink songbooks and green bibles.
of the theology of fred franz and types and anti-types.
Yep..thats the only song i remember
some hot news:.
last weekend was a convention in frankfurt, germany and 11 other locations.
all were connected to the international convention in berlin.. in sum about 94.000 attended.
it looks like the areas of empty seats is deliberate--maybe to segregate different nationalities attending, just in case a war breaks out again.
the world is getting worse, for example children are getting more cheeky!.
proof positive!
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jehovahs long term solution to all the worlds problems. kill everybody ! i like his thinking.
my pimi wife listens to a lot of the meetings on the phone with the speaker on.
when i am watching tv i hear the meetings in the background.
i just cringe with how a witless can't give a comment without having said jehovah at least two times.
Sour Grapes...who pays the phone bill ?
some people are very suspicious of the police.
some folks value policemen and women.
i’ve had experience with some.
Here in the UK we have some of the finest police men money can buy.
hi guys.
i was an active member of this forum many years ago and it played an integral part of my awakening and making peace with my decision to leave.
it’s been a while since i posted here.
this shunning business is now the watchtower cult's main control method. i simply cant believe many dubs still believe armageddon will happen any time soon--so they will die sooner or later. hence that is no real and immediate threat. but losing family / friends is.
now that i'm out if i ever do find someone and settle down and start a family, my parents wont be a part of it.
my dad wont walk me down the isle if i get married, if i have kids they wont know their grandparents.
oh and by the way i had my freaking tubes tied so as not to have kids in this system.
in my case my jw parents never shunned me. my dad said he couldnt find a scriptural precedence for it. they came to my second wedding--to a woman who was never a jw. we were all close. all 3 are now dead.
i know @hiddenpimo is going to laugh at me for this because we had several in our old congregation, but what is with all the window washing businesses owned/managed by jws???
they are everywhere!
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in the UK they are called window cleaners. i was one for a few months. i was a 16 year old pioneer..and found out another dub in a different kh needed help with his cleaning round. i earned a weeks wages in 2 days.
but the year wore on--the weather got too cold and that did it for me.
now i pay a guy to clean my windows. £12 for the job--takes him about 20 minutes.
