I did the dunking one year. Wow!!! I felt at the time it was a huge privelege. I had one toe come out of the water, had to do em again. Yep the watchers were watching. I guess John the Baptist had to be that carefull too!
The next year I was trying to get back into the same detail, but couldn't. Hard clique to crack, but wouldnt you know it, the TV news people were there. They used the footage gathered for a story on Pedo's and the dubz and they guy in the clique who had "my" spot was absolutley full front face on the TV story!!!
Was I sure glad that I didnt get that gig!
When I got baptized, I had an attack on nerves. I was 14 years old, my mother thought it best I get dunked, so I went through all the questions. At the assembly on the day I was soooooooo sick, I didn't get much of the talk, I was in the toilet chucking my guts up. I was looking for our PO to tell him I was backing out, but couldn't find him. So in I went. I must've known something all those years ago!
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Silly baptism stories?
by exwitless ina thread on baptism made me think about this.
i remember at a circuit assembly there were about 15 people getting baptized.
there were 2 "dunkers" in the pool.
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Scanning the Obituaries for lost loved ones
by jeanniebeanz inam i the only person here who scans the obits in their 'home town' paper for the names of lost family because you know you would not be notified of their passing?
afterall, god forbid that you show up at their funeral and ruin it with your apostate presence.. just wondering....
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The dubs in our area are not big on obituaries. Maybe the immediate family place them in the newspaper, but the rest of the cong avoid it like the plague. Too tight fisted?
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the lenths jws go to to avoid you
by winnie inwent to the chemist the other day parked near my brother in laws car in car park.he saw me and turned away.my wife went into chemist had to wait 10 minutes all the time my elder brother in law sat in car.we moved closer to supermarket as soon as we had moved i watch him go into chemist he was waiting for us to leave so he could go in.. i then went into supermarket i watched him do a whole lap of the car park walking so he wouldn,t have to walk past my car with wife and kids in.
he thought the coast was clear didn,t know i was in there so i ambushed him in an isle smiled said hello he smiled said hello then the jw shunning part of his brain kicked in head down walk straight and frown.. saw my mother in car latter and she covered her face .
i think they feel uncomportable.
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Hi Winnie,
I take it your not DA/DFDed? Sounds typical of what we experience too. My own brother accused us of not treating JW's well. Huh!! I must've missed that one. I pointed out to him that where we see them we always say hello, so who knows where he gets his info. Perhaps that is what he means. We go up to them and talk to them and they are "uncomfortable" with it and so we are mistreating them by not "respecting" them enough to NOT talk to them. When it comes to family in your experience, I wouldn't be able to control myself, I would have to be in their face!
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Funny story about a funeral
by dawg inmy uncle died last month (father's side), so i mustered up the courage to attend the funeral; he was never baptised and i was never disfellowshipped so folks still talk to me thinking i'm da not realizing i'm a full flegged apostate-this has since changed as i've decided to come forward since then.
so the elder gets up and gives the funeral sermon complete with many of the bible myths talking snake and all... sounds like a damn bad acid trip.
so after the graveside service one of my old friends i haven't seen in 17 years comes up and says "did you learn anything by todays sermon'?
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Well said Dawg.
We had a funeral here, when we were still "in". The lady had died and she was like a mother/grandmother to everyonein the cong. BUT she had a daughter who was DFed.
There was this over officious elder who had just moved in and the co was present too. Did they keep tags on the whole "servant" body to ensure that no on went near the daughter or the refreshments served later where she would be present!
What a most "unchristian" affair that was. A time when a bit of compassion could/should have been afforded to someone who needed it. At the time I was still an elder, I did manage a hand shake and tell her I was sorry for her loss. She didnt want to let go of my hand. I felt low that day. A definite turning point.
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Update: Elders on the move....
by drew sagan inwell everybody, i think a little update is in order here with what is going on in my world.
much has happened, and it appears that much more is going to happen quite quickly.
for those of you that don't know, the poster amber rose is my wife.
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I wish you both all the best. Is joining the YMCA a bit like joining the UN to use the library? You only want to use the gym or swimming pool?
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GOVERNING BODY member Carey Barber dies.
by yesidid inand that's all i know.. he was 101 and appointed as a governing body member in 1977.. .
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/97874/1.ashx.
yesidid.
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So, I am losing track of them all. The "original" governing body [non-biblical term] must be all gone? Are there any more REAL old men on it? or is Ted Jaracz the oldest one now?
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What i miss from being a dub
by KW13 inthese are the things i remember always looking forward to as a dub and when they happened it was great.. last day of convention/assemblyend of the meetingend of the ministrywhen an event was interrupted thus endingif i had a responsibility to escape the mind-numbing boredomif a visiting speaker failed to make it for the sunday meeting and it only included the watchtowerwhen the sunday watchtower was just question & answer cos of the c.o visit, pity he then wasted all that saved time.no ministry after sunday meeting cos of some reasonwhen i faked illness or even death to get out of meetings/ministry etc
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KW13....when a visiting speaker failed to turn up........
Yes this was great...except when the wt conductor then thought he had licence to then take as much time as he wanted, like we all paid for two hours and thats what we are gonna get!!!
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Yeah....its the story in a nut shell.
Two great spirit beings, pissed off at each other and instead of going at aech other, they make the weak little humans the main players. What is with that?
Why cant the head off into outer space and deal with each other?
I prefer to think that "joe" is a kid who got called for dinner and left his pc running with "the sims" running. Now he has to do his chores and go to bed. Who knows if he will get back into the study and see what his sims are doing? -
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"You'll never even get to finish school in this System of Things....."
by WingCommander inthis statement was often echeod to me during my formative years.
i remember my very first day of elementary school (stateside) at the age of 4. my parents were flustered because they couldn't believe they actually had to start their only child into public school to begin with; after all, the end was right around the corner!
this was 1984, the year the first apple mac was introduced, 80's music was loud and in your face, the delorean was cool, and miami vice was just in production.
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Ditto to it all......aaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh
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rantings on jw fellowship board
by gspradling ined-->some thrilling experiences that just goes to show jehovah knows:
does jehovah know what is going on, and does he help?
1. the bomb planted in the kingdom hall in australia, where one brother was killed, was meant to kill everyone, and would have; but the bomb rolled backwards so the force or the blast was away from the friends, rather than aimed at them
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The dozer driver was probably a witness with "hall" on the brain, as one is when fully immersed in it. Did the job and then found out he went to the wrong place. At great cost to his employer. Wonder if they considered paying for it anyway?...if indeed as has been pointed out it happened at all?