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Half painted house!!

by breeze in

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under the strange and unusual....the brothers in my dad's congregation painted half of his house last fall/september and never came back to finish it?.

i guess i will have to go and finish it.

my dad is 83 and i suppose they think they helped him.

looking_glass

I hope they did not get paid for the job!

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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??

Hey Kaethra - yeah, he was a hitter and even then I figured that hitting him would not do anything other then giving him the impression it was okay to hit back. This kid was huge for his and he was strong. He use to go around punching sisters in the stomach and his parents would laugh "oh look Johnny is so funny". No one was allowed to touch the kid because as we all said he was the High Priest's son.

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Who has or has not been invited to the memorial?

by misspeaches in

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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.

looking_glass

GOOD FOR YOU Neverin. I hope he realized what you were referring to and it made his conscious kick him in the rear over it.

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Spirituality vs. Religion - what's the difference?

by truth_about_the_truth in

here is an excerpt from a book called "fresh wisdom-breakthrough to enlightenment" that really hits the point:

the con of religion

we have never met a christian who has given up everything and followed christ.

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If you want an interesting read - check out The End of Faith, Religion Terror and the Further of Reason by Sam Harris

As I do not believe in quoting off from memory what I have retained from something because I could spin the tale however I want. It is an interesting view point and gives people of all religion food for thought.

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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.

looking_glass

Limbogirl - no, I would have preferred that to the whole - he is beyond his 9 years. Blah, blah, blah. I felt sorry for the kid because he never had a childhood.

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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.

looking_glass

I know a lot of female JWs that don't mind the not having to give a talk until your are assigned one. It is a lot easier. The problem is when you, as a chick, have the bad manners to question something a bro has said. There was a kid in my old hall that got baptized at 9 and he would go out in service and lead the group. I think it was the most fun I ever had watching this kid be lead to the lions' den. What group of idiots thinks a 9 year can give directions on where to go, he could not figure out the map, let alone figure out how to oraganize a group of rowdy chicks. That is the one thing I can say being in the JW faith as a kid, I laughed a lot! Because it was like idiots on parade. How can you not have fun.

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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??

looking_glass

Limbogirl - I think you and I may know some of the same peeps. The death mobile, been there done that. In my cae, the son eventually got the car and was given a ticket one day for doing doughnuts in an empty parking lot after it had snowed alot. The ticket - excessive wheel rotation.

The whole come over for pizza and a swim party - oh, not until the house is clean. Sorry kids, house is still not clean, so you cannot go keep up the mopping though because it looks great.

My favorite. The loons that use to be my best friend's mom and step dad, would leave their horrid little boy 3 years old who still drank a bottle with us (their daughter and me) and go out to dinner. Guess what was in the house for the 13 year olds to eat. NOTHING. I remember eating dry cerel and complaining to my mom. After a little while my mom got pissed and when they called for me to come over to "play" she said no.

How about the couple that had a 4 year old son who I was watching who would try and sneak out of the house to play in the street (by sticking up his middle finger to cars as they went by - yeah this kid was a really naughty). When I finally stuck him in a coroner and sat right next to him so he could not make a break for it, the parents arrived home and I KID YOU NOT THIS IS WHAT THE FATHER SAID TO ME - you have no right disciplining my son, also you may want to remember that he will get baptized at some point and then he will head the congregation and what are you going to do then. I laughed and laughed to the point that the dad would not pay me. I got home and told my mom what happened. Then the dad had the gaul to call my mom to complain and my mother said - "shove it up your arse. I was waiting for the day for my daughter to wise up to you fools and she finally did. Now I am going to take her out and buy her what she would have bought herself with the babysitting money she thought she was going to get tonight." Later the bro complained to the elders that my mom swore at him he thought (the whole arse thing) and when they asked her she told them that she wanted them to talk to him about not paying me for my services first and then they could address the other issue. Sure enough they went back to him and guess what he paid me. But he hated us from that point on. And do you think his son is now a publisher, MS, PO, anything. No, the kid left a long time ago and never looked back. What is funny is I am friends with the kid now, but I still cannot stand his father.

How about when JWs use to leave mags as tips at restaurants. That was so embarassing!

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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.

looking_glass

Well they needed a head covering, and unless some one was willing to put their dress over their head to cover it, the best thing was to open a book and cover their head. We thought it was a great idea, solved the prob. Actually, it did not solve the prob. It caused more probs. like most solutions in the org.

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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.

looking_glass

Hey the sisters in old hall were "talked to" because they did not have a head covering during the service arrangement in the a.m. and they put a book on their head. Of course, someone felt that was inappropriate and ran and told. After that we just did not meet in the morning for the "service arrangement" we would call and say "hey I will meet you here or there" because it became such a hassle. Yup, us second class citizens - heaven forbide women have a voice and use it!

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JW's and "Nick names"

by JH in

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i knew a brother who had a nick name, and when he became a witness, he didn't want to be called by his nickname anymore....he was brother x from now on.

or just use his real name.. imagine going to your hall, and calling someone by his nickname instead.. i'm sure the eldrers would want to talk to you at the end of the meeting.

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Everybody in our hall had nicknames, at least w/ my friends and family and I -

Bro. Stump the dummy, because he would always ask the most obscure questions so he could prove to be smarter then everyone else

The Box - this kid's head was shapped like a box and he was as dumb as a box of rocks

Tweedel Dee and Tweedel Dum - adult twins who were HUGE and they dressed alike. I know it is mean, but it is funny, my father use to say they went to their tent maker to get their new threads.

Shrimp - the boys came up with that name because there was a girl that they said "was all you can eat" I know disgusting but I grew up with boys, what can I say, they were gross

JJ and Dyno Mite - twins that looked just like JJ Walker from Good times

Bro. Raisnettes - the brother who use to have balls but they shrunk over time in the truth

Eeor - The really over the top brother that thinks everyone is after him

Dragon Lady - the sister who breathes fire all the time

Tanya - (after patty hearst) The sister who barfs back everything the WTBTS says without blinking or moving her lips

Yikes - this list can go on and on. That was how we were able to get away with talking about people, we just spoke in code.

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