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  The Weirdest thing that has ever happened to you...

  by zeroday in

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  in the early 60's my family would pack up the chevy belair stationwagon and travel east from california to georgia to visit relatives.

  2 adults and 4 children.

  we never stopped at motels and would stop at a small town at a local park and have lunch.

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  When I was about 18 a group of us young witness teens took a hiking trip to Death Valley. We stopped to get water at a gas station for our canteens, and if any of you have ever been to DV you know how it got it's name. It hit 124 degrees that day and the water came out of the faucet HOT!

  So as we're filling our canteens out in the middle of the most god-forsaken place you ever seen, this beat-up old truck pulls in and the back of the truck is FILLED with ice and cold drinks, and the old guy driving the truck gets out and says, "hep yerselves boys!" We didn't care how much it cost...we filled everything we had with ice and drinks.

  Then the guy leaves. We all thought that one of us paid him, but as we got talking later, nobody gave him anything!

  I've never figured that one out!
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  Schwinng!

  by SixofNine in

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  man busted for having sex with his bicycle.

  <snip> .

  a man has been charged with having sex with his bike.

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  Well the story said the cycle was bi!!!
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  I've been studying with JW's for a few months..

  by MichaelM in

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  i've been studying with the jw's for a few months and i've attended a few meetings but things are feeling somewhat strange...i don't quite get the jist of things but i feel that i'm learning more of what the watchtower teachers and less of what the bible actually says.. i never open my bible.. i'm always reading the watchtower pamphlets.

  i really like the people i've met in the congregation and the guy thats been doing the studies with me has been an awesome friend.. .

  but i'm just having some issues.. i mean.. they translated their own bible to suit their own doctrines it seems.

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  Welcome back Michael!

  I was born into the witnesses and spent over 40 years as one.

  A few years back I decided I wanted to leave, quietly. When I tried, my parents refused to ever talk to me again (along with the rest of my family), my wife of 23 years left me because I wasn't going to meeting anymore, and since my ex-wife is still a witness she now can't have anything to do with our 2 children who are grown now and have left the witnesses also. My parents have great-grandchildren that they have never met. All this because I didn't want to be a witness anymore.

  All this has happened because this is what the witnesses teach and it's why people say they destroy families. It's not a religion, it's a cult.

  Sorry to have to lay that story on you man, but believe me, they are not what they seem....Peace.
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  BETHELITES - Whatever Became of?

  by Black Man in

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  i often times wonder what happened to certain bethelites that i ran around with during my 1990s tenure there.

  while there are still a few left there, the greater majority of them aren't there for various reasons (marriage, disillusionment, left the borg, etc).

  a couple of cats i wonder about - there was one brother who i believe was from kansas, who got his fingers cut off in a printing press.

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  Minimus~

  Don't know Bruce by name, maybe if I saw him....

  One of the weird things about bethel is that you can sit for YEARS in the same chair, in the same dining room, looking at the same people at the next table over and not have a clue who they are, but you've seen them every day for years!

  If Norman Brekke is still alive he must be close to 90 now, both he and Gilbert Cyriacs were a couple of old stinkie-inkies I worked with (in the Inkroom).
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  BETHELITES - Whatever Became of?

  by Black Man in

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  i often times wonder what happened to certain bethelites that i ran around with during my 1990s tenure there.

  while there are still a few left there, the greater majority of them aren't there for various reasons (marriage, disillusionment, left the borg, etc).

  a couple of cats i wonder about - there was one brother who i believe was from kansas, who got his fingers cut off in a printing press.

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  Brooklyn 76'-79' here.....

  Hey Wunce-wuz, I remember Larry Mainers! We left Brooklyn and pioneered together for a while. He got df'd for 'boinking' a young pioneer gal after he got married, then got reinstated and now lives in Georgia.

  Also remember Joel Reed...I heard he came out of the closet back in the mid 80's, but I can't confirm.

  Anybody remember Peter Coconis, Norman Brekke, Gilbert Cyriacs, Dave Ashley, Richard Chambers, Mike Ersland?
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  Have You Ever Met A "Celebrity" or Actually See One Face To Face?

  by minimus in

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  while i was in new york i walked by two men and one looked like the comedian jackie mason whom i adore.

  i looked at him and said, "i just wanted to say how much i enjoy your shows.

  i've seen you perform a number of times".

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  I met Michael Jackson @ bethel back in 76'-or 77'....also George Benson @ bethel. The most famous person I ever met was the emperor of Japan, Herohito.

  When I was a tour guide at Mammoth Onyx Cave in Kentucky back in 75', he and his family came into the park with about 50 Secret Service guys...I gave them all a private tour of the cave and Herohito gave me a $5 tip when the tour was over!
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  The back-room club...

  by gymbob in

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  i recently got a e-mail from a 1/2-in-the-truth witness youth who referred to the "back-room" club...anybody ever heard of this before?

  is this a new witness youth expression?.

  she's 15, and i think she was referring to being asked by the elders to come back in the back room at the hall after the meeting for counsel.

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  Good point Lisa....

  I remember when the elders wanted to talk to my daughter in the back room about a party she attended, I was right there with her. I should have just told them to mind their own business.
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  Did You Know or Know Of "Straight" JWs???

  by Ragnarökkr in

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  while you were in the truth did you meet or know of any straight jw's.

  i once met this brother who was married, that in itself was a dead give away, occassionally he would turn up in a brown suit smelling of very cheap aftershave (secret christmas pressie i bet)that was another clue.

  anyway one day i found out this straight brother beat his wifde and kids, and regularly.

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  You sound like a gossipy old woman (no offense to old women).....:)
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  Did You Know or Know Of "Gay" or Bisexual JWs???

  by minimus in

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  recently, a former witness expressed his opinion to me that he knew more than a few witnesses that were gay.personally, i know of a bisexual ex-elder who was unhappily married for a few years.

  now he's "out", pardon the pun, of the organization.

  i know of a newly appointed ms who is married to a sister but most people suspect he is gay.

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  Gretchen~

  I'm not gay, and I don't want to be gay. Do you know why? Because I like having sex with my wife! That doesn't mean I have anything against gays, or anyone who wants to be in a same-sex relationship.... I'm just NOT GAY.

  I'm sorry that the world in general (and the WTB&TS) don't share the same views. They judge homosexuality as wrong, and that is wrong in itself. But just because people talk about gays ("Did you know of any "Gay" or Bisexual JWs???", the title of the thread, remember?) doesn't mean we have a problem with it.

  You can lighten up too.
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  The back-room club...

  by gymbob in

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  i recently got a e-mail from a 1/2-in-the-truth witness youth who referred to the "back-room" club...anybody ever heard of this before?

  is this a new witness youth expression?.

  she's 15, and i think she was referring to being asked by the elders to come back in the back room at the hall after the meeting for counsel.

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  gymbob

  I recently got a e-mail from a 1/2-in-the-truth witness youth who referred to the "back-room" club...anybody ever heard of this before? Is this a new witness youth expression?

  She's 15, and I think she was referring to being asked by the elders to come back in the back room at the hall after the meeting for counsel.