did you ever wonder why the watchtower fusses over such silly and minute rules?
things like smoking, dress, music, dance, movies, language, what company you keep, what and how you celebrate?
let's consider a few factors.
Good point LW,would we be evil? I always felt uncomfortable wanting to be a good little dub felt like all were acting and putting on a show one of those nagging things that left me with bitter heart for the overseers.Uhm one of the beginings to the end of jw life for me.
bem
did you ever wonder why the watchtower fusses over such silly and minute rules?
things like smoking, dress, music, dance, movies, language, what company you keep, what and how you celebrate?
let's consider a few factors.
LW: I want to comment not so much on the buisness part of this thread as to the things you mentioned about, Being sharper to impress the C.overseer.Only a person on our situation would acknowledge the way everyone acts when it's CO visit time I started noticing that about three years before I left the congo I was in originally. Only best and polished speakers were chosen etc. The first CO. was very sincere and hard working as far as I could possibly know.Then the new one with miss hi-and-mighty wife in tow came in and allienated pioneers and others on down the line.A woman I was really close to at the time who had been baptized twenty + years said she had never been so hurt by an *overzealoussmartassCO * my words not hers. Things I know about this CO.He got an appartment built at the largest congo in the district,so his wife would not have to go to every visit with him, Fair enough maybe,Made a point to stay with only one family when at local visit.Would request that whoever feed him take them out to eat since his wife was used to certain foods and found it hard to eat some of the cooking they had been served so that way she could select her own items....Things I heard,That they were really wealthy,perhaps explains champaign taste.
The fact that dress hems were so closely watched wouldn't of bothered me so much if meant all hems and not just let go for a select few.
Also something that just blew me away for ignorance (and I have mentioned this before I hope not in a thread I Apologise if I have) I remember elderbetterthanallofyou shook hands with I believe W. Henschel.And after words saying he would never be able to wash that hand again. not just in a kidding way but he was all giddy and gushing over it. I was embarrassed by his actions and words.he was treating him and acting the way people do over celebrities, so what I thought was a no no.The none of us are better than any one else idea guess was said but not lived.
Bems often confused and blown away by ignorance
so i'm sitting here having coffee and i hear a very distinguishable sound out on my deck.
i looked out and this is what i saw.
i know they are around but i've never seen one come so close to the house before!
XW your tc. ready at all times thats so great!
one of the comments i have heard many times is what good manners i display.
i open doors, allow others to cut in line ahead of me, say please, thank you and may i all the time, stand for a lady and many other simple little and often goofy actions that seem to have been lost on the current generation.
in fact the thing that attracted my present girlfriend was her observation of my good manners.
As to good maners congragulations to all you men that still open doors for ladies,and remember there are still a few of us around that admire and appreciate the act of you being gentelmen!
I have to agree with others, curse words get picked up to quickly by kids...Although awful to do...I had to laugh when my 4 year old grand-daughter told her Uncle the other day he had pissed her off...she's starting school this fall and we are careful about what we say, We see a lot of visits to the office in her future she's been around adults all her life and the kids she's around cuss on a regular basis.
so i'm sitting here having coffee and i hear a very distinguishable sound out on my deck.
i looked out and this is what i saw.
i know they are around but i've never seen one come so close to the house before!
Thanks XW, I've kept up with the pictures today just haven't had a chance to post,Thanks so much for sharing, I love it when those of you that have cameras share things with us that you love!
4JWY: I'm so sorry to hear about your chicken
Sunspot:That was such a sweet story about the camera I remember my older brother had a camera you looked into the top and captured what you wanted then snapped the picture. And film lay around for yeras before anyone got them developed and then you were years older or the film ruined and the memories were lost.I enjoy your posts thanks.
BEMsMOM
do you ever get used to bumping into witnesses that you know.. i still go out in with the thought of it tin the back of my mind.
i hate the death stares i get.
i feel like walking uo to them and saying "i'm not the devil or a murderer, just no longer a witness".
I am really starting to have too much fun watching the Jws squirm when I cross paths with them, thats kind of a funny way to put it,since I feel like the black cat that crossed in front of them any more...To be avoided...I used to feel ashamed,but not anymore.
Just remember, you don't have to shun them, but they DO have to shun YOU. There is a lot of potential fun in that simple fact.
Elsewhere:an excellent way to look at the shunning.Great advice!
Welcome to all the new ones.
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as much as i dreaded going to all the meetings there were things that i did enjoy.. 1. no special parking spaces for the elders, etc.. 2. no collections plate going around the room.
3. no one person giving the talk every single week (can you imagine the same speaker 3 to 4 times a week, every day?
I enjoyed listening to my son all through the years, with a youthful exuberance, BELT out the songs with no care to the fact that he sang totally off key -I think that's the only thing I ever liked.
4JWY,That is too funny, When we moved here ditto...The end.
so...even before i left my parents arranged with the mother of my kids to fly her up and back and didn't tell me.
i am about to blow my stack and am not very happy after getting off the phone.
gadget was nice enough to let me use the phone to call them and let them know i loved them and missed them.
Valis, Parents can try us to the limit...Hope your visit with your children is an enjoyable one.
BEM
hi all posters!!
this is my first post on the forum so i just would like to drop a hi and introduce myself!
i'm an xjw doing the fade (like so many are doing nowadays).
Welcome to the board,Neo.
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i have seen so many stories here that invoke guilt and shame on innocents, what one important momyumental thing would you have changed if you had it to do over?.
mine would be not getting baptized.
Awwwwwww ((((Glitter)))) don't pick on yourself too hard...
