Posts by limbogirl

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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

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

jw
friends

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?

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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

She herself dressed as Cruella

Arwen,

the even weirder thing about this is a jw "sister" dressing up as Cruella De Vil for a kid's theme party. Did she not understand the meaning of the name? actually good for her trying to do something fun for the young ones...but she might want to rethink dressing up as the Disney equivalent of Satan. she'll be before a jc before you can say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

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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

Gently Feral -- I don't think I would have felt comfortable in that hearse no matter what color it was painted!

ok, here's another whacky story about the same family...they arrive at the kh one night for the meeting and one of their daughters, about 11 yrs old, is dressed in a large man's white t-shirt with a belt cinched around the waist. This family was weird in general but this was pushing the boundaries of weirdness. I asked her about her outfit and she said she wasn't feeling good...pretty sick...and on the drive to the kh she had thrown up all over herself. Her parents, being good righteous dubs, pulled over to the side of the road -- found one of the dad's shirts in the back and created this makeshift outfit for her to wear to the kh. because, god forbid you miss a meeting for such a little thing like having stomach flu and barfing all over yourself. poor kid had to sit through the whole meeting in that goofy ensemble.

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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

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??

Feel free to share some of your own whacky witness weirdness...here goes...

A family with 5 kids in my cong needed a big vehicle to replace their old beat up station wagon (this was before the onslaught of SUVs and mini-vans). They decided to buy a used hearse -- looked like something Herman Munster would have driven. The mom calls and asks if my brother and I want to go to the local swimming pool with all her kids. Of course we did but had no idea that they would be pulling up to our house in a big hearse. My mom had to practically force us to get in. They had bolted a few seats in the back around the sunken part where the coffin rests but there weren't enough seats for all of us. So my brother and I sat in this hearse in our little swim suits with our legs dangling down in the part that held the coffin clutching our towels and trying hard not to flip out. We arrive at the pool...she pulls the hearse right up in front and as we all pile out every man, woman and child in that pool stopped and just gawked. Believe it or not it was more humiliating than calling on a schoolmate out in field service. This family thought this was a perfectly normal, practical means of transportation.

good times. anyone else?

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Who has or has not been invited to the memorial?

by misspeaches in

jw
friends

well the memorial is tmrw night and time is running out to give out invitations.

(au time that is...) .

last night my mother asked me if i've heard from any of my old jw friends.

limbogirl

No invite for me from super-dub mom or elder step-dad. Maybe because I recently told them that I wouldn't name them as guardians for my son in the event of something happening to me because I don't want him raised a witness.

Sometimes I wonder if they're just going through the motions and possibly are on to the whole sham. They used to invite me and try and bring up WTS topics for my benefit but once I clearly and unemotionally told them I was no longer interested -- didn't believe the BS -- and basically blamed the jw thing for my crappy childhood they completely backed down.

I think they get enough rejection from the public at large and probably just don't have the energy to deal with my big fat RSVP of NO.

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When you were an active JW would you have had this sticker on your car?

by ObservingTexan in

jw
friends

i saw a car today that had a bumper sticker that said "i ".

considering what is taught by the wts about jesus would you have ever put a bumper sticker on your car with this message?.

ot........

limbogirl

Hi Estee-

I'm sure they counted the entire drive back and forth to the convention as "time"....actually, they probably counted four or five entire days as these conventions were usually far from home and I'm sure that our car sitting in a motel parking lot plastered in mags brought people into da troof in droves. Gawd, my childhood was such an embarrassment .

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Going to Memorial Service for the first time.....what should we expect?

by whyizit in

jw
friends

we spent 6 months "studying" with a jw couple.

they claimed the wts had all the answers, but they actually couldn't answer any of our questions.

(we are devoted born-again bible-believing christians.).

limbogirl

did anyone else find it strange when the attendants handling the emblems passed the emblem to the speaker and then back to each other? for some reason this little exercise made me want to laugh. it was so awkward and weird.

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Has this happened to you?? Unfair compensation practices

by littlerockguy in

i interviewed and hired someone this week to fill a position in my department.

then i am going to have to fill two more positions in my dept.

i emailed hr and told them to process the paperwork.

limbogirl

littlerockguy: the unfortunate thing about working at a company for a number of years is that over time the job market tends to rise in terms of pay which allows people to negotiate more money as a new hire but rarely do companies adjust tenured workers salaries based on current market. once you accept your offer and begin employment you then usually receive annual increases which right now on average are around 3 to 4%. Also, if the type of work you do is not significantly different than the work of the other member's of your team your management is probably less likely to provide you a substantial differential in pay. You might want to think about looking for a new job and negotiating a higher salary.