Posts by limbogirl

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In your family, how many of the grown up children are still in?

by els in

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i am the youngest of 6 children (the only on that is out)and between us we have 12 kids.

the last i knew only one was still attending meetings.

two others were never baptized and see my parents once in a great while.

limbogirl

there are 6 of us altogether between mom and step-dad....NONE of us are in. All but one baptized.

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Whacky Witness Weirdness

by limbogirl in

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ok, i'm sure all of us have met some incredibly bizarre jws over the years --- i have met some that could have been characters in a movie...just unbelievably weird.

i've shared some of my stories with a good friend (non jw) and she swears i'm making this stuff up.

how in the heck could i make these people up??

limbogirl

Hi Kaethra,

took me a few minutes to get your post...my eyes kept reading Corner but Looking-Glass actually wrote Coroner. Now that's whacky!!

Looking-Glass: really? you sent the poor kid to the coroner? wow.

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Whacky Witness Weirdness

by limbogirl in

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ok, i'm sure all of us have met some incredibly bizarre jws over the years --- i have met some that could have been characters in a movie...just unbelievably weird.

i've shared some of my stories with a good friend (non jw) and she swears i'm making this stuff up.

how in the heck could i make these people up??

welcome aboard...I, like, you lurked for some time and found that the more I read the more I identified with the stories and experiences which also brought back memories I hadn't thought of for years.

I find that posting and sharing stories is very therapeutic!!

LimboGirl

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Strange but TRUE

by KW13 in

ha ha i was laughing just now, had a strange memory.. when stepdad was away and/or when mum was playing the male role of jw head of household she used to cover her head.

anything...a hat, a scarf, tea towel (no lie!!)..

this was i think from the reasoning book or something, but yeh...covering her head out of respect for jehovah.

limbogirl

looking_glass:

that truly is sad. I wonder how he reconciles that experience with going to school and having to obey the authority of his presumably female teacher (who doesn't wear a napkin or book on her head when talking to him). Seriously, if I had shown up for service only to be led by a 9 yr old I would have left a lot sooner...completely ridiculous. 9 years old?? still such a baby.

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Strange but TRUE

by KW13 in

ha ha i was laughing just now, had a strange memory.. when stepdad was away and/or when mum was playing the male role of jw head of household she used to cover her head.

anything...a hat, a scarf, tea towel (no lie!!)..

this was i think from the reasoning book or something, but yeh...covering her head out of respect for jehovah.

limbogirl

There was a kid in my old hall that got baptized at 9 and he would go out in service and lead the group.

Oh my GAWD!!!!!! Probably wearing Scooby Doo underpants and carrying a Power Rangers bookbag. "stop the car, sisters...I've got to go pee-pee!"

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Strange but TRUE

by KW13 in

ha ha i was laughing just now, had a strange memory.. when stepdad was away and/or when mum was playing the male role of jw head of household she used to cover her head.

anything...a hat, a scarf, tea towel (no lie!!)..

this was i think from the reasoning book or something, but yeh...covering her head out of respect for jehovah.

limbogirl

I remember sister pioneer leading us second class females in prayer before service with either her text book on her head or a napkin she scrounged out of her purse. hadn't thought about that in years!! thanks for the laugh!

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Whacky Witness Weirdness

by limbogirl in

jw
friends

ok, i'm sure all of us have met some incredibly bizarre jws over the years --- i have met some that could have been characters in a movie...just unbelievably weird.

i've shared some of my stories with a good friend (non jw) and she swears i'm making this stuff up.

how in the heck could i make these people up??

limbogirl

Virgochik -- hard to say...it could have been totally innocent, just a sweet old man but it does make you wonder...

Reminded me of a similar experience. As a little girl in the 70's there was an elder at our hall who adored me. Our family was close to him and his wife (they had no kids) and we spent quite a bit of time at their house. He did wood working as a hobby and was always making me little trinkets. I remember once he gave me a pin to wear that was a butterfly. He also sent me a card through the mail and on the inside he wrote, 'butterflies are free'. He also gave me a few Ziggy cards. When I was about ten my family moved from that kh -- at about the same time he was publicly reproved and removed as an elder. My dad was an elder at that time. In the past year I found out from dad (now an apostate) that the reason for the reproof and removal was because of...yep, allegations of child molesting.

I wonder now what his intentions really were? Sad because I had fond memories of him all these years and now I don't really know....

Strangely, my parents didn't have a negative reaction to his attentions toward me as a child.

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Whacky Witness Weirdness

by limbogirl in

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friends

ok, i'm sure all of us have met some incredibly bizarre jws over the years --- i have met some that could have been characters in a movie...just unbelievably weird.

i've shared some of my stories with a good friend (non jw) and she swears i'm making this stuff up.

how in the heck could i make these people up??

limbogirl

Hi Anewme....glad you're enjoying the stories. Are you sure you don't have any to share?? Even about yourself??

Lilycurly fessed up to wearing costumes to the meeting! Btw, Lilycurly -- a moulin rouge corset?? really? and no one said anything??

Maybe I just had the privilege of knowing all the truly whacky witnesses. no wonder my non-jw friend thinks that I'm making this up. But I swear, I'm not. Here's another one for your reading pleasure.

Single sister with two kids and single brother with three kids go to my kh. They're both pretty weird as it is but then they decide to marry thereby combining all of their collective weirdness. The dad of the blended family was a real nutjob...control freak and way over zealous. Gave me the creeps. Here are three examples of whacky witness weirdness displayed by these two. I

One: I'm at their house one day visiting with one of the kids close to my age. Here come mom and dad from the bedroom -- dressed but with wet hair like they just got out of the shower. The two of them are going on about how marriage is a privilege from jehovah which allows them to shower together and do other fun things together..wink wink. All I could do not to completely puke.

Number two: the dad decided that the new blended family needs to get to know one another better and what better way to do it then for the entire family to gather in the living room in only their underwear. That should break down all barriers and make them all close. The older kids (12 to 14) were really appalled but had to go along with it. (I have to say this particular bit of weirdness really crossed a boundary and I think one of the kids complained and the parents were counseled.)

Third: dad invited my brother over to hang out with his young son's -- he told my mom that he was taking them for pizza and bowling. My poor brother comes home complaining that when he got to the house the dad told the boys that instead of pizza and bowling they had to do all kinds of chores including steam cleaning all of the carpeting in the house. If there was time after then he would buy pizza...guess what? there wasn't time for pizza.

I think about people like this and I'm so disturbed by the fact that if you're a jw then your automatically "good association" until proven otherwise -- no questions asked. I can't even imagine allowing my young son around half of the weirdos I knew and associated with when growing up.

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Whacky Witness Weirdness

by limbogirl in

jw
friends

ok, i'm sure all of us have met some incredibly bizarre jws over the years --- i have met some that could have been characters in a movie...just unbelievably weird.

i've shared some of my stories with a good friend (non jw) and she swears i'm making this stuff up.

how in the heck could i make these people up??

limbogirl

greater-freedom:

now that is some Whacky Witness Weirdness!! and quite disgusting, I might add.

I was always surprised at the number of witnesses I knew that had just plain ol' WRONG hygiene habits. For example, when I was a teenager I spent the night at a young pioneer's house. The next morning was the Sunday meeting -- pioneer friend takes a bath then comes out of the bathroom and announces to me that she has left the bath water in the tub for me to bathe in. Huh?? I thought I would shower, I said. Nope...we don't waste water in this house...you can use my bathwater. I skipped bathing...went to the kh and then straight home to shower. Never spent the night at her house again and was so disgusted by her and her family that I just let the friendship fade.

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Anyone else have "Family Day"?

by tall penguin in

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many of the jw's i grew up with had "family day", a kind of pseudo-christmas, where each family member would draw another's name and buy a gift for that person.

they'd then have a special day where they'd exchange gifts and have a meal together.

my family started doing this when i was in my mid 20's.

limbogirl

I knew a family that celebrated the parents wedding anniversary like Christmas. On the anniversary they would all exchange gifts -- i think they also called it family day. I don't see how this is different from celebrating a birthday. Isn't a birthday simply the anniversary of one's birth?