mine was when my mom signed me up to sit at a table at our local university.
we had to sit there and talk to students as they passed by our table.
a few people came up to start a conversation and i didn't even know what they were talking about.
An elder asked me to go on a return visit....I sat through the entire discussion and the guy said to me, 'don't you recognize me?' After looking at him for almost a 1/2 hour, I had no clue who the guy was.
He told me, 'my name is C____ we use to date each other.' My face turned bright red and I could feel myself getting hot! I wanted to stand up and walk right out the front door. The elder saw that I was embarrased....but he kept on talking.
Dee
here is this week's service meeting schedule:.
song 148.
local announcements.
'Then they will know" ..that was my mothers favorite song. When my mother was dying in the hospital, I sang that song to her. It is funny, after all those years of being out, I could still remember that song.
Dee
blessings defined:
auspiciousness, favor, smiles of fortune, good fortune, blessings, godsend, crowning mercy, goodness and mercy, good.
no doubt we've heard statements like,
You know come to think of it...I remember saying those dumb statements to people. "Jehovah will bless you if you go out in service, be whole souled in the organization....etc."
If there is such a thing as blessings...I've actually had more blessings since I left than when I was a JW!
Dee
when you finally came to the jw meeting that you knew was your last one, what were your thoughts, feelings or actions?
.
my last was the summer convent of 1986. i stood there until everyone left and then i took a picture with my new camera of the empty stadium, the wish being that the wts would collapse and never fill up again stadiums with people.
Hello greendawn,
My last was the summer convent of 1986. I stood there until everyone left and then I took a picture with my new camera of the empty stadium, the wish being that the WTS would collapse and never fill up again stadiums with people.
I think that your wish will come true someday!
Dee
i was reading my local paper this morning and there was a letter to the editor.
the writer had recently lost a child and the child's obituary was recently printed in our paper.
the writer said she received a letter with a "jehovah witness tract" called "what help for dead loved ones?
I remeber when the WTS suggested to write letters and one way was the obituary's. When they suggested this...I thought to myself, NO WAY would I ever write someone a letter or send a tract by looking through the obituarys.' But, I do know of sisters who had bragged about doing this....just to get a few hours of service. Just had to make those hours when you were pioneering!
Dee
Yeap I love being around people. I love being at parties, talking to neighbors, having my family come visit or talking on the phone.
The only people that I don't like to be around are 'negative people'. When I am around people who start talking negative or have nothing nice to say about others....I find excuses to leave! (Negative people drain me emotionally)
Dee
went to an assembly this past saturday.
reason why i went cause my mother in law was baptized so the rest of us non believers went for moral support.
it was in the "famous stanley theater" in nj that i heard so much about growing up, my mother was so happy even thou i went, watched baptizm, ate with my inlaws, and was out like a bolt of lightning lol.
JE1234 - The assembly was in New Jersey...isn't it early for the assembly? How many days do they make them now? (excuse me but I have been out for 10 yrs)
Man, I remember the assemblies....and sitting and sitting and sitting and sitting...lol
Dee
that obituary post reminded me of those awful weekday mornings knocking on entire neighborhoods of not-at-homes.
i remember one particular neighborhood in florida where it was one big trailer park of "snowbirds" who would move back up north for the summer.
however, being the thorough jws that we were, we would knock on every single door, leaving magazines, etc, even if the awnings were down and it was obvious no one would be livng there for months.
My husband (who was never a JW) said that when the JW's would come to their door...they would hide and laugh at them.
My mother-in-law told me that she left them in one time and they wouldn't leave and they kept on talking and talking. She said that was the last time that she ever opened up the door for JW's.
Just think....all those Not a Homes were probably hiding and laughing....lol
Dee
when you were a jw can you remember things you should've not liked but did?
i was listening to some dowloads tonight and heard "happy birthday" by stevie wonder, i remember going to a big family party when i was a kid, and my uncle who had some dj decks put this one on for me as it was my birthday (none of my dads side of the family were jw) i loved it.......good memories still of this song.. i remember getting easter eggs too, and thinking however pagan they were, they tasted bloody delicious.
better than "ordinary" chocolate bars.
I have to admit that I was involved in dowsing or waterwitching. (I wasn't aware that it was wrong and I honestly didn't understand how the rods moved) At a very early age, I could find water by using rods. Before long, word spread that I could find water and I could tell you how much water was at a certain location. (I could feel the strength when the rods would move and that would determine how much water I found)
People called me who had difficulty finding water in their area and I would usually do this without anyone around. Until one day a sister asked me to come over to her house to find water. I thought that she wasn't home and apparently she was. Maybe it scared her when she saw me doing this??? or what she saw that day at her house. The rods moved so hard they were bouncing off of me. They felt like they were going to come out of my hands.
The elders came to me and asked me to stop because this was 'work of the demons'. Not long after that an article came out in the Watchtower about dowsing.
Still dowsing haa Dee
i wasnt the most academic of children although i had some capability but i could read quite well by the time i was 4 years old at least for my age; i have always read as a child and still read now as an adult both professionally (research) and for pleasure.
i have always been able to write too...and pretty much advanced as well as my peers did in school...perhaps i am lucky, i certainly feel like i am when illiteracy amongst adults and children is rife at present...however.. i remember when i was 16 the wts in the uk were pushing through a scheme teaching those who were not as able to read and write...and an elder in the hall made a point of coming to me and suggesting that i should actually attend the training!!
!....i explained that i could read and write well enough and didnt need to be taught basic literacy... he said that i might learn something new and should respect jehovahs order of things and show appreciation...i did decline his kind offer rather abruptly....but wtf??
When my exhusband left me for a younger women in the congr. he had admitted to me and the elders that he commited adultery 4 times in our marriage. Since he was a MS in the congr. they removed him from his position and put him on public reproof.
I asked one of the elders on the judical commitee, 'why wasn't he disfellowshipped?' The elder told me 'Dee, you need to except the decision made from heaven, through the body of elders.' huh? The decision from Heaven? What, does God talk to the elders?
I can gladly tell you brothers and sisters, that he is now serving faithfully as an Elder in Pennsylvania. The only thing that he has been known to do lately, is drink to much and was caught poaching deer by the authorities. lol
Dee
