Posts by gymbob

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What state are you from?

by Junction-Guy in

this is for the us crowd, what state do you live in?

or from?----i live in tennessee, but from ohio and kentucky.

gymbob

Southern California, central Kentucky, northwestern North Carolina, Brooklyn New York, and now central California. This is where my kids are, so this is where i'll be!

GYMBB

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'street-witnessing' encounter today

by stapler99 in

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been in this town for over a year but the preaching effort was weak enough that today was the first time that some jw tries to 'witness' to me.

(maybe because i'd never been up on saturday morning lol) one middle-aged man, on his own (twould be funny if he was the only one out that morning).

he offers me the watchtower, and starts coming out with his trite 'real meaning of xmas' lines.

They won't stop at my house either! They were all over my neighborhood this morning, but i'm still well known by most dubs in town.....So what's a good apostate gonna do? I finished putting up the rest of my Christmas lights!

GYMBB

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Getting married next week!

by gymbob in

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friends

yes folks, i'm headed to hawaii this sunday and while we're there, we plan to tie the knot, barefoot on the beach.

for those of you who don't know, my ex-wife left me when i couldn't support the wtb&ts anymore a few years back.

i hate living alone....lisa and i have been together for a year now and she's just like mary poppins..."practically perfect in every way"!

gymbob

Thanks everyone! Life DOES go on after we leave "The Truth".

I hate disappointing my former witness friends when i see them around town

because I don't deal drugs, rob people for $$ to live on, and haven't taken my own life yet. Life is very, very good away from that cult! Hey, instead of going to a assembly, i'm going to use my vacation time from work to go to FREAKIN' HAWAII!!

I have a great woman and a couple great kids who have left the borg with me, and now a couple grandkids who will never have to deal with things like the "flag salute" in class. We have great Thanksgiving days, birthdays, and Xmas too.

I gotta get packin'! (Did I tell you, i'm going to Hawaii?!) GYMBB

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Getting married next week!

by gymbob in

jw
friends

yes folks, i'm headed to hawaii this sunday and while we're there, we plan to tie the knot, barefoot on the beach.

for those of you who don't know, my ex-wife left me when i couldn't support the wtb&ts anymore a few years back.

i hate living alone....lisa and i have been together for a year now and she's just like mary poppins..."practically perfect in every way"!

gymbob

Yes folks, i'm headed to Hawaii this Sunday and while we're there, we plan to tie the knot, barefoot on the beach.

For those of you who don't know, my ex-wife left me when I couldn't support the WTB&TS anymore a few years back. I hate living alone....Lisa and I have been together for a year now and she's just like Mary Poppins..."practically perfect in every way"! And for some unknown reason loves me (I think it's because I LET HER beat me at golf).

She's never been a JW, but thanks to all of you, Lisa has a real good look now at what all of us have gone thru. Peace, GYMBB

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Poor JWs on a RV today........

by Gill in

you talk to people in general about jws and what a crock of shit their beliefs are and you think 'maybe i went on too much!

' 'perhaps they weren't really listening anyway!

' "i wish i hadn't bothered!'.

gymbob

Inthetruth~

Why are you here? do you want to share something with us.... something we don't already know about the witness world? Or maybe something about yourself? I didn't think so....

I'm sorry to break the news to you like this, but, you're in a religious cult, and you live in a fantasy world my friend. GYMBOB

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Beards, when were they banned?

by GramblingMan in

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i know it has been talked about before, but does anyone have information as to when jw started banning beards.

my wife is telling me that it started in the 60/70's because of the hippies, but i know i read somewhere on here that it was much earlier.. .

gymbob

About 10 years ago when I was I was still a dub, I grew a beard.

I was on a camping trip for several days and didn't shave, so when I got back to town I trimmed it up, and then called EVERY elder in the cong. to see what would happen if I showed up at the hall with it, and they all said that there's no reason why I couldn't have a beard, and so it wouldn't be a problem (one elder said it's possible I could be counseled for appearance if I was to give a talk in the school, but I wasn't scheduled any time soon).

The first meeting I attended was a book study (in my own home!) and I was asked to open with prayer and then read the paragraphs...yes, I was in shock!

The next meeting was the Theo school and service meeting on Thursday and I had many in the cong. come up to me and tell me how good it looked....one bro told me it was good to see a brother grow a nice beard who wasn't just coming in, or just leaving the org.

Then comes the Sunday meeting....3 other guys in the hall show up with 2-3 day old beards!

The elders acted quickly. They asked if I would meet with them after the meeting in THE BACK ROOM. I said, "sure, if you want to talk...fine. But i'm not going in the back room to talk...if you want to talk, we can talk out here in the main hall."

They were so mad that I really did MEAN IT when I said that I was really not going to meet with them in the back room!

So we sat down in the main hall after the meeting and they showed me a WT article from the early sixties about how rebelious beards are..... I told them it was out-dated, and if they actually read the 40 year old article they would see that it also says that MUSTACHES are rebelious too!

They asked me to shave it, so I said, "no problem, I don't want to keep it anyway...I just wanted to see what I looked like with a beard." The result? They took my "previledges" away for having a bad attitude. They said I should have known better. And what's really funny is....I couldn't work at the up-coming convention because I had no previleges, and the bro who took my spot in the accounting dept. had a skin disorder and couldn't shave, so he grew a beard!

The bottom line....local elders do whatever they want. GYMBOB

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Has anyone ever met any members of the Governing Body?

by *jeremiah* in

has anyone ever met any members of the governing body?.

when i was 11 my family and i took a trip to new york and visited bethel or whatever.

we took a tour through the, i think it was called the home office or something.

gymbob

Since I did some time in the Big House, I lived and worked with them all back in the 70's.....Dan Sidlik was a arrogant ass who cheated at softball, Freddy lived in his own world, and the funny thing is.....I really did like Ray Franz best! He always seemed to be troubled by something in his head, so I always felt a little sorry for him....I know better now. GYMBOB

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