well, they came magazine selling door-knocking ingathering and judgeing witnessing today.
but first, a quick background.... my wife and i have a investment property 90 minutes away from our home (a mistake btw; always invest closer to your home!
) and we've been there (here) full time for the past several days doing some renovations.
damselfly: If you did meet someone like me in service, I probably would have tried the old "open bath robe trick" on you. This makes me even more glad that I never called on you!
I love your site by the way! I found it and this board on the same day. Proof there are good people in this world.
Damselfly
in the may 1, 1988 watchtower, on page 22, a witness, matsue ishii, recalls her first encounter with the bible students in 1928: at the back of our house in tojo-cho, osaka, there was a house with a sign: "osaka branch of the international bible students association.
" assuming it to be a christian group, i visited the house.
"do you believe in the second advent of the lord?
Does anyone on the board know of someone who was in the magazines as an example? Or were you yourself?
Damselfly
well, they came magazine selling door-knocking ingathering and judgeing witnessing today.
but first, a quick background.... my wife and i have a investment property 90 minutes away from our home (a mistake btw; always invest closer to your home!
) and we've been there (here) full time for the past several days doing some renovations.
This post makes me very grateful that I never called on anyone like you when I was forced into field service! Keep up the "good work"
Damselfly
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i saw you whining on pele's thread about how you never got a hello so i thought i'd start a welcome thread for you.
so, tell us a little about yourself...
Welcome! You seem like a bit of a smartass That means we should get along just fine
Damselfly
i must say, i never thought that i would see the day when i would find a site about disillusioned (mostly) jehovah's witnesses, but low and behold...one truly exists.
first let me start off by saying thank you to the creators of this site, and i'll have you know that i've been lurking for several days now and i am just finding the time to finally log on.
i've been a member of the borg for over 20 years now, been baptised for about 14 of those years and now i find myself in the most unusual of places.
Welcome Pele! It's always nice to get new people in, hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
Damselfly
This story is from my mom as I was just a baby.
An elder was scheduled to give the Sunday talk. He wasn't feeling so good but decided it was his duty to still deliver his speech. He got to the KH at the last possible moment walked to the platform and began. He talked very briefly before excusing himself and walking to the back, where he went into the washroom. After a few minutes he returned to the platform and proceeding to tell the congregation that he had diarrhea and please excuse him. He could manage about 10 minutes on stage before he would excuse himself, walk to the washroom at the back of the hall, relieve himself, walk back up the stage where the whole performance was repeated again. He gave the whole talk apparently.
I'm glad I was just a baby, if I had been older I would have been smacked for giggling.
Damselfly
seeing as i'm dowloading songs so i can blast them at the neighbour kids, i was thinking, what songs stand the test of time?
what songs do you listen to over and over again and never get tired of.
here's my list.. if you tolerate this - manic street preachers.
Girl ~ Tori Amos
Walk on the Ocean ~ Toad the Wet Sprocket
Damselfly
i have never posted my story on jwd and it was only recently that it occured to me that i should really make more of an effort to; here is the first part....sorry if its longwinded.... .
i was brought up in the borg from the age of 18 months old and as you can understand i have known little else.
previous to being in the truth my mother was an unwanted child and beaten by her mother, sure enough she fell into an abusive relationship with my father which left her with minus zero confidence and on the verge of a nervous breakdown; apparently my mum was considering throwing us both off a railway bridge she was that depressed and to her there was no point in living.
Thanks for sharing part of your story. Does it feel like a relief to get some of that out in the open? I look forward to the next installment.
Damselfly
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this is the one that has a damn stick in it and i can't drive .
it's a 440 magnum 71 challenger.
I love driving a stick! We have an automatic now & I whine all the time that I want to get rid of it. Oh memories of my stick shifting days!
Damselfly
jwd is great for giving us the opportunity to ask questions and get answers to things that you could never ask in a kingdom hall.
what are some questions that are simply taboo amongst the "friends"?
Please tell me that I don't have to explain pearl necklace to certain, more innocent, board members.
Damselfly
