anyone familiar with her work?
i picked up her album from the library just to see how it was.... the cover is all in foriegn language, some african dialect i think... the album title is 'logozo".
seems to be african dance music, but i am not sure.
Jeff,
According to my boyfriend (he knows her) she is one of West Africa's hottest singers -- has an amazing voice, very up tempo -- almost African rock (if there is such a thing). Her album, Oremi is one of her best and the one you refer to is also good -- all of them are great.
Think I'll have to check it out for myself now!
how many of you felt that the jw environment you once lived in was accepting, warm, supporting, nourishing, and wholesome, a place where the emotional world of man could flourish experience a blissful state of well being and attain inner fulfillment?
I never felt this way about the org. I would parrot those words if anyone asked about what it was like but the exact opposite was true. I didn't fit in at school and I didn't fit in at the kh -- it was a miserable lonely existence growing up. And sadly I stayed in it too long because I was worried that giving up that miserable world would be even a worse fate than staying in it. I was so wrong!
i just found this forum and joined today -- i am so happy that you're all out there sharing your stories and experiences.
growing up jw or just being jw is such a unique experience and can only be shared with people who have been there.
a little about me... i grew up jw -- mom pioneered and dad was an elder.
Hi to All! thanks so much for the warm welcome! hope to get to know you all through our exchanges of experiences as jw's and now ex-jw's.
i remember one time i worked on a talk about a week.
looking up points, cross referencing ideas, and then i get up there and i just knew most people were either asleep mentally or not paying any attention.
who could blame them, i set in the front row doing microphones and i could hardly keep my eyes open.
sorry to all of you who prepared so well for your talks --- but i pretty much ignored everything you were saying. i would have doodled or read the bible story book but i would get a spanking for those offenses so i just sat there staring at you but not taking in a word. best talk i ever saw --- my dad, an elder at the time was giving a talk which involved one of those lame skits. my mom went on stage and they demonstrated placing magazines at the door. my four year old brother pranced up on the stage about halfway through and started clowning around (my sister and i did nothing to stop him) my dad stops the skit and says, "friends, excuse me for a moment" and then proceeds to spank my brother with the blue truth book in front of the whole cong. i definitely woke up during that one! my mom and my sister tried to put some drama into one of their talks once...my sister pretended she was upset because the "wordly" kids were making fun of her at school (which was actually the truth most of the time) so she pretended to cry and then my mom was supposed to show her from the bible how terrific being persecuted for your beliefs is but instead they ended up bursting out laughing and laughed all the way through the talk. they probably got a "needs improvement" on that one! :)
i'll start:.
hey brother smith, how about if we go preach the good news tomorrow morning, hey?
pick you up at 9
"sister smith is going where the need is greater."
"sorry, we just ran out of fruit bags" (said many times while volunteering at lunchtime at the district assemblies)
"I did some informal witnessing today"
"I would like to share an experience I had in field service......"
".......we're offering the Watchtower along with its companion the Awake for a contribution of 25 cents to cover the cost of printing"
"does your dog bite?" (said many many times in field service)
I didn't say the following but these were the most dreaded words uttered at the watchtower study by the conductor -- usually said after someone had just given a particularly long-winded answer: "Can someone elaborate on that?"
i grew up jw and like many of you spent countless hours in boring meetings and long assemblies that seemed to go on forever.
as a little kid i developed a talent for sitting at the meeting or assembly and looking as though i were paying attention but honestly i wasn't even in the room.
i perfected this over a number of years and now find that as a non-jw adult it's really a problem.
serendipity: that's terrible -- i guess the silver lining is that it prepared you well for later life. some of my colleagues have a really hard time sitting through lengthy presentations...i have no trouble at all! can sit for hours and look perfectly attentive and engaged -- now if i could just not zone out everytime i'm at one of these things. jez: thanks for the reply -- you sound so happy -- i wish you the best in pursuit of your education.
i grew up jw and like many of you spent countless hours in boring meetings and long assemblies that seemed to go on forever.
as a little kid i developed a talent for sitting at the meeting or assembly and looking as though i were paying attention but honestly i wasn't even in the room.
i perfected this over a number of years and now find that as a non-jw adult it's really a problem.
I grew up JW and like many of you spent countless hours in boring meetings and long assemblies that seemed to go on forever. As a little kid I developed a talent for sitting at the meeting or assembly and looking as though I were paying attention but honestly I wasn't even in the room. I perfected this over a number of years and now find that as a non-JW adult it's really a problem. I work for a large corporation in management and of course attend a ton of meetings, conference calls and the like and it takes every thing I have to stay focused and on topic. Seems that the minute I sit down in a meeting that lasts longer than 30 minutes I'm gone -- checked out -- in another world. It's an automatic response and I feel like it's because of the hours upon hours of my life in which this was a survival technique. Sometimes at the end of a business meeting I have no idea what was even discussed. Anyone else experience this?
i'll start:.
hey brother smith, how about if we go preach the good news tomorrow morning, hey?
pick you up at 9
"mom -- i'm not feeling so good...i think i have a fever...oh no...i have to throw up. i guess i can't go to the meeting. darn! i'm so disappointed...i was really looking forward to the public talk!" (NOT!!!) the above tactic usually backfired though because of course I wasn't sick and after the meeting there was some fun thing I wanted to do but wasn't allowed to because I hadn't gone to the meeting.
has anyone else seen the jdubs at the shopping mall ??
they sit at a table with all of their wares displayed hoping to lure people away from pottery barn and macy's.
i did a double take when i saw this and then had to stand back and observe for about 20 minutes -- what i observed is that no one stops at the table except what appear to be fellow jdubs.
probably one of the weirdest things I've seen was a couple of years ago at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, CA. At the visitor's center there were two JW women just standing there holding up the mags as tourists were coming and going. No one paid them the slightest bit of attention -- it was sad really. Plus, Hearst Castle is in the middle of nowhere so it must have taken them a drive to get over there for their very productive witnessing. what a waste of time but I'm sure they returned to the kh with stories of how many tourists were more interested in the mags than Hearst Castle.
has anyone else seen the jdubs at the shopping mall ??
they sit at a table with all of their wares displayed hoping to lure people away from pottery barn and macy's.
i did a double take when i saw this and then had to stand back and observe for about 20 minutes -- what i observed is that no one stops at the table except what appear to be fellow jdubs.
Has anyone else seen the Jdubs at the shopping mall ?? They sit at a table with all of their wares displayed hoping to lure people away from Pottery Barn and Macy's. I did a double take when I saw this and then had to stand back and observe for about 20 minutes -- what I observed is that NO ONE stops at the table except what appear to be fellow Jdubs.
I wonder if they count this as time? which then leads me to wonder if some of the other creative ways of putting in time are still being practiced? for example:
on Halloween night there were several in my kh that would count the evening as time because they opened the door to trick or treaters and treated them to an old wt or awake.
knew one woman who literally hand wrote hundreds of letters and then mailed them out to random people in the phone book -- she raked in the hours with that scam.
knew someone else who drove around with wt's and awake's plastered to the car windows and counted it as time.
I was always short on time -- if I could manage 3 hours a month it was a miracle -- I usually padded the report to at least 5 hours to ensure that I didn't get the "lecture" from the elders. I wonder if the org has actuaries or statisticians who looked at the annual report of worldwide time put in preaching and then adjust it accordingly for people like me. prob'ly not as that would be far too intelligent.
