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My daughter's wedding dilemma

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

my daughter will be getting married this coming august.

she and her future husband are not jehovah's witnesses.

they will have a non-religious wedding ceremony.

If the bride is emotionally attached to various family members who are witnesses and feel they cannot attend a reception with a disfellowshipped person there, then some creative compromise is in order.

Could the family come and stay a while - lets say an hour and then leave? Then the cousin and his guest could come and enjoy the dancing and cutting of the cake etc...

My disfellowshipped cousin was not invited to his sister's wedding reception dinner( she and her husband are witnesses ) but came around 10:00 p.m. when dinner was over and stayed until reception was over. But in Jehovah's Witness land and different Kingdom Halls all over the world things change from moment to moment.

I would like to ask any former Elders if this would be a good idea?

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My daughter's wedding dilemma

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

my daughter will be getting married this coming august.

she and her future husband are not jehovah's witnesses.

they will have a non-religious wedding ceremony.

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The Searcher said :

Would your Witness relatives walk out of a restaurant and abandon their meal if a D/F'd person walked in? YES

My cousin was told by the Elders that it would be best if he would not attend the luncheon that was prepared after his own mother was buried. I was standing right next to him when they asked him to leave. His own grandfather told him that if he didn't leave many of the Witnesses would leave. So, he left with his girlfriend and went home. I was so upset that I went out to eat somewhere else instead of staying. I invited my cousin to come but he refused.

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My daughter's wedding dilemma

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

my daughter will be getting married this coming august.

she and her future husband are not jehovah's witnesses.

they will have a non-religious wedding ceremony.

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Wanderlust

There were two Elders in my congregation who were made to resign because they didn't walk out of a wedding dinner that was attended by a couple of disfellowshipped members. They stayed the whole night and avoided the disfellowshipped members.

They were made to resign as Elders since they were '' eating '' in the same room and should of known better.

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My daughter's wedding dilemma

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

my daughter will be getting married this coming august.

she and her future husband are not jehovah's witnesses.

they will have a non-religious wedding ceremony.

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Designer Stubble

Does my family need to know that my disfellowshipped cousin will be attending the wedding reception? Do we not tell the family and have all of them leave once they see him sitting at a table?

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My daughter's wedding dilemma

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

my daughter will be getting married this coming august.

she and her future husband are not jehovah's witnesses.

they will have a non-religious wedding ceremony.

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My daughter will be getting married this coming August. She and her future husband are not Jehovah's Witnesses. They will have a non-religious wedding ceremony. Then,there will be dinner at a banquet hall.

She is making a list of wedding invites. My cousin (who has been disfellowshipped for over 10 years ) will be invited. He has not been invited to any family gatherings since being disfellowshipped. At his mother's funeral, he couldn't sit in the front seats with his family.He was made to stand on the side by the front row. Many Witnesses didn't even approach him to offer their condolences. After the burial, he was told by the Elders that it would be best if he not attend the luncheon.

My daughter and her future husband are great friends with my disfellowshipped cousin and his girlfriend. Now comes the dilemma!

My family has 2 Elders and over 20 Jehovah's Witnesses that would not attend the banquet hall dinner if they found out my disfellowshipped cousin was invited. It's not fair that my daughter has to exclude him from attending the wedding dinner. If she invites him and doesn't tell the family, they will walk out of the banquet hall as soon as they see him. If my family is not told, they will take it out on me since I would know who's coming to the banquet hall dinner.

What would be a good solution?

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Oh go on---ASK ME ANYTHING!

by Terry in

jw
friends

any question .

.. any topic .

.what's the risk?.

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TERRY

If you and the rest of us were so convinced that the WTBTS had the '' truth ", why are you so sure now it isn't? Which conviction was stronger ? The part that thought you had the '' truth'' or the thought that it was '' false and a lie? ''

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Didn't you just hate sharing a KH??

by quellycatface in

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friends

i like to get stuff done in the morning and do my own thing later.. i really hated the afternoon meeting.

you had no time to do sod all.

not even eat a decent lunch with a glass of wine!!.

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We shared our KH with 3 other congregations. Each congregation would switch times every January 1st. The Sunday meetings would start at 9:30 a.m. , 12:00 p.m. , 3:00 p.m. , and the last at 5:30 p.m.

The 9:30 a.m. meeting was the easiest to attend as you would be home by 11:30 a.m. You would have all day to do anything you pleased.

The 12:00 p.m. meeting let you sleep in and still have some time in late afternoons and evenings.

The 3:00 p.m. meeting wouldn't let you do much in the afternoon and if you were lucky you might be home by 6:00 p.m. Then it would be too late to go anywhere.

The 5:30 p.m. meeting was the worst. You had the mornings and afternoons to yourself. But you needed to eat dinner, shower and get dressed by 4:30 p.m. and leave at 5:00 p.m. Then the meeting started at 5:30 p.m. and would end at 7:30 p.m. By the time you made it home, it would be 8:30 p.m. Then you would just stay at home since it was too late to go anywhere.

The 5:30 p.m. meeting was the end for me. The WTBTS doesn't care about what your needs and plans are for your family time or your day off from work.

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District Assemblies, Were they a Financial Burden to you? They Cost $1200 to $2000 in some lands!

by RottenRiley in

why does the watchtower place a harsh burden on it's low-paid and low-skilled army of witnesses?

the district conventions don't really add much value, you have witnesses making minimum wage with both husband and wife working while the elite witnesses can afford to burn a ton of cash making the poor witnesses feel worse about themselves.

i remember, some of the really poor witnesses would bring their own "cooker" to the motel to make "top ramen" and mac&cheese" while the company men had the elites take them out for "surf and turf" and other great feasts, the poor witnesses get the shaft was they are told how lucky they are to financially struggle to afford to pay for their hotels.. .

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My parents and the rest of the my family were too cheap to stay in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the 1970's. It was held at the baseball stadium of the Brewers, Milwaukee County Stadium. The 4 day convention was held ( in hot and blazing heat ) in the middle July (sitting in the stands with no shade and wearing a suit and tie )

Since my family and the local brothers and sisters didn't want to pay for hotel and food, they convinced enough brothers and sisters to hire a bus company to shuttle us from Northern Illinois to Milwaukee each and every day. We each paid around $120.00 per person for the 4 days of transportation.

We would drive to our local Kingdom Hall at 7:00 a.m. and load up the shuttle bus and drive to Milwaukee ( which was a 1 1/2 hour drive ). We would arrive at 8:30 a.m. The convention would start at 9:30 a.m. and end at 4: 30 p.m. We would load up the bus at 5:30 p.m. and drive back to Illinois arriving at 7:30 p.m. We would then drive home and eat dinner around 8:00 p.m and sleep. We would repeat the same from THURSDAY- SUNDAY.

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Possible Dub pickup line

by soutx in

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hey babe, how about you and me doing a -.

generation overlap

RULES & REGULATIONS

Dear Sister Weaker Vessel,

It behooves us that you submit to my loving provisions. We can meet at my place so we can have an upbuilding experience. We can submit to each other so we don't take our eyes off the prize. I know that we are in the bloom of our youth with fleshly desires but with prayer, we can draw close to Jehovah. If you can meet me this Saturday night, we can study the book, '' REVELATION, IT'S GRAND CLIMAX IS AT HAND'' and hope this would be a happifying experience.

LOVE

BROTHER ( I STILL LIVE WITH MY PARENTS ) JONES

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Saturday's cemetery chapel service

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

my aunt passed away last week.

she was a widow and left an only son who never married.

my cousin took care of my aunt with help from friends, family and neighbors for close to two years.. the funeral was last saturday with a catholic church service in the morning and a cemetery chapel service before burial.

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My aunt passed away last week. She was a widow and left an only son who never married. My cousin took care of my aunt with help from friends, family and neighbors for close to two years.

The funeral was last Saturday with a Catholic Church service in the morning and a cemetery chapel service before burial. My bother ( who is an Elder ) and his wife both walked in the cemetery chapel with my wife and I. We all stood close to the casket while the priest gave a 10 minute talk.

My cousin ( who's mourning his mom and is not feeling well ) turned around and called my ( Elder) brother and I to stand next to him. I walk to the front and hold my cousin's arm. My brother refused to stand in the front with my cousin. He just stood near the rear of the chapel with his wife.

I know we were all told that as Jehovah's Witnesses you should not to attend any church services. That's Fine! But this was a new one.

Why can't you just respect the service by listening even if you don't agree? What harm would it been to stand in the front? That was so disrespectful!