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  ELDER STUPIDITY

  by badboy in

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  know any cases?

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  So much stupidity, so little time....

  I had my "priviledges" taken away because I let my 2 kids play school sports (Volleyball and Cross-Country running, you know the real BAD ones!) so they gave my so-called privileges to a mentally handicapped guy in the congregation!

  So then when I write Brooklyn about the matter I get a 2 page letter back saying they really don't like school sports, but there's no scriptural reason why I couldn't have my priviledges in the congregation. So when the elders came over to our house asking if I was ready to take my kids off the team and have my priviledges back, I showed them the letter......The damn elders refused to read it! I told them, "It's not from Sports Illustrated you know, this is from The Faithful & Discreet Slave!"

  And THAT was the beginning of my questioning. Other things followed, but the school sports thing showed me just how stupid that religion can be.....

  Oh and the beard thing! A few years ago I grew a beard and had my priviledges removed for that too! And who did they give my assignments to? The only JW guy in the central valley with a beard! He had it for medical reasons.....GYMBB
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  If you will, please share ANY experience you had with TED JARACZ

  by sf in

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  thank you.. skally

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  Ted Jaracz and Al Shrouder were my Bethel entrants school instructor back in 76'. For those of you who don't know, this is a series of classes that were required for new boys at The Big House.

  I don't really remember that much about the classes (hey, it was a long time ago) but I do remember Jaracz being pretty boring and by-the-book.

  The other thing I remember about those classes was Shrouder always calling Jehoover, "The great______". For example, if we were talking about how wonderfully made the human body was he would call Jehoover, "The great Physician", or something stupid like that. "The Great Builder", "The Great Designer", etc. For a few years after that I started to notice this in the magazines and just figured it was an article Shrouder wrote.....Gymbob
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  Quote of the month. . .

  by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit in

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  intelligence is the righteous use of truth.. (from my boss's bag of useless phrases and quotes came this goody--was very meaningful to me).

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  "Always keep a litter basket in your car.......if it gets full, just throw it out the window."

  Sorry, it's 11:26pm and i'm pretty sure i'm drunk! Gymbob
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  Mormon Celestial Sex... A Quantitative Analysis

  by FormerMormon in

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  i posted this on some mormon recovering bb's.

  i'll modify it to make it a little more understandable to jw's.

  this is an example of how the unerring truths of mormon doctrine meet the unerring mathematics.

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  gymbob

  Man, I thought dubs were messed up......

  Do they really talk about this kind of stuff at their meetings??
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  Time again for........ Congregation roll call

  by Jourles in

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  it's been a while since this topic has been brought up.

  use it as a chance to see if there is someone you might know from years past.

  1973-1976 --- lakeside, ca??

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  gymbob

  1960-1974 Long Beach, CA

  1974-1976 Central Kentucky

  1976-1979 Brooklyn Bethel

  1979-1982 Northwestern North Carolina

  1982-1986 Glasgow, Kentucky

  1986-present Visalia, CA

  Pulled my head out of my butt 5 years ago and left the borg cold turkey, and I don't care who knows !! GYMBB
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  I dont understand the hate...

  by JamesWind in

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  i grew up as a jehovah's witness.

  my mother was uneducated and so we moved every 2-4 years as she tried to find stable enough work to support a child so ive attended many kingdom halls and have known many witnesses and many elders.

  i've never gone back to the witness organization and never will.

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  James,

  I hope you're still reading around this place, it has been very helpful to a lot of folks.....

  I personally don't post here much anymore, after spending most of my life as a JW I left the cult 5 years ago with the help of some of the people on this forum and have moved on.

  When I did decided not to be a part of the witness lifestyle anymore (fade away), my wife of 23 years filed for divorce, my parents refused to talk to me, and every lifelong friend I had disowned me. To this day, my parents have 2 great-grandchildren they have never met.

  What I'm trying to say is, I don't think you realize how many people this religion has hurt, and how helpful a place like this can be to someone hurting.

  I don't post here much anymore because I've moved on. I finally pulled my head out of my ass and am getting an education (no thanks to the WT org) and there are a ton of others who have done the same thing as me, so don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining. You don't know what your talking about.
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  Lots of Newbies!!!..Lets take a Poll... How many were JWs 5 years ago?

  by Lady Liberty in

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  dear friends.... "happy saturday""!!!

  and merry christmas to you all!!.

  it is truely amazing how many new ones are coming on the forum!!

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  Next week will be 5 years for me.....and both of my kids left with me!
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  Why Men Cannot Love

  by freydi in

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  so let's say we do everything that's expected.

  what's the payoff?

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  This is all so freakin' funny! Somebody just doesn't get it....
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  Sad day for motorcyclists

  by startingover in

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  evil knievel dead at 69. knievel died in clearwater, florida on november 30, 2007. he had been suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis for many years.

  longtime friend billy rundel reported that knievel had trouble breathing while at his residence in clearwater, but died before the ambulance could reach the hospital.

  "it's been coming for years, but you just don't expect it.

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  How can fishing be the most dangerous sport? Are there really that many rednecks that drank too much beer out in boats and fall overboard?
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  Where are the ex-bethelites?

  by betty boop in

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  hi everyone, its betty .

  i was just wondering if theyre are any bethelites who were in brooklyn in the late 90's-2003?

  i knew a lot of guys there when i was still in the borg.

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  Brooklyn...76 through 79.