Posts by Dagney

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Question for active trolley publishers. Are you told not to approach anyone unless they approach you as part of your trolley training?

by KateWild in

if you actively do fs on a trolley i would love you to answer this question.

if you don't but know publishers that do can you ask them please.. are you told not to approach anyone unless they approach you as part of your trolley training?.

thanks kate xx.

Question for active trolley publishers. Are you told not to approach anyone unless they approach you as part of your trolley training?

by KateWild in

if you actively do fs on a trolley i would love you to answer this question.

if you don't but know publishers that do can you ask them please.. are you told not to approach anyone unless they approach you as part of your trolley training?.

thanks kate xx.

Long story short, former JW friends came out to visit a still JW friend and decided (after 13 years) they'd love to see me. I had mixed feelings, but agreed to the visit which was a day touring the LA and Hollywood area. For breakfast we ended up at Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles and right there on the corner was a literature trolley. The two attendees were very engaged in a discussion between themselves on a very crowded corner with people waiting to cross the street in various directions. Odd place IMO. The comments in the car were seemed like they were embrassed about this new form of witnessing.

So, later on a veryt hot and humid Hollywood Blvd, we see another. Right on the corner of Hollywood and Highland...prob the busiest corner of the street. People have to almost trip over them. Seems they fit right in with the Scientologist who also canvass the street passing out pamphlets. I turned to my group and said "your people!" We saw two groups of trolleys pushing the carts up and down Hollywood Blvd.

At the same time there was a group of a dozen, elderly, Christian evangelists (possibly Korean) with signs and singing hymms...and a Michael Jackson impersonator right next to them. I have a 14 second video but I don't know how to post it.

Anyhoo...wow. These trolleys are right there in the middle of it.

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Said from the platform: "You are not surviving Armaggedon if you are spiritually weak"

by Daniel1555 in

today i was at the meeting (i go there about once a month now).

in the service meeting they had a part where they interviewed the secretary of the congregation.. so one question was: "why are the service reports so important?".

our secretary explained that the reports are important, because the elders can see, who is spiritually weak.

Dagney

The comments in this thread are similar to the ones I heard at my last meeting. I had a moment of clarity and never went back.

As a side note, we had a crazy CO come through maybe '72-73, and he said from the platform to look around the KH because only 1/3 of those in attendance were going to survive Armageddon. I was young, looked around and figured I was toast. I stayed in though...for too many years after that.

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Are You Raising An Introvert?

by darth frosty in

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its not easy being an introvert in an extrovert worldespecially when youre a kid.

it is even more difficult if none of the adults in the kids life recognize that the child is an introvert.

this doesnt happen only when the childs parents are extroverts, but also with introverted parents who have never understood their own introverted nature.. .

Dagney

((3rdgen))

Interesting thread darth. I looked at the points and I identified with about half of them. I always say "I'm shy," and never considered the introvert aspect. If i have to be "on," I can do it easily...but if I had my druthers, I can be very happy in a corner with a book for a loooooong time.

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Life in the new system

by moley in

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this always bothered me.. so the dust finally settles and your glad your still alive, so the first thing you do is phone your family and friends to see if their ok. no signal.

ok i'll drive to the kingdom hell to find out what to do.

driving past all the dead bodies you realise your almost out of petrol, stop at the garage cannot get fuel as there is no power.

Dagney

Right. JW paradise is not going to work.

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Surreal experience last night.

by objectivetruth in

recently a jw friend that my wife & i knew 3 years ago added me on facebook, after i accepted the request she invited me to a dinner that her and her husband are holding next month.. i imagined that she was unaware of our apostasy, so i declined the invitation on the basis of not wanting to ruin her dinner after the rest of her guests fled at our presence.. i'm never sure how old friends will react when i tell them that i'm no longer a jw.. usually their response is "..... permanent-silence......".

her response went something like this, " we are all out!

everyone that is coming is out we all look forward to seeing you guys so much" it turns out that there will be 6 people at the dinner all friends of ours from a congregation that we attended a few years back.. they have all left the organization recently.. pretty crazy experience..

Dagney

Wow! What a great discovery! Emjoy!

May that keep happening...

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I wonder how many feel like this

by watson in

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http://www.afropunk.com/video/the-what-s-underneath-project-kelsey-lu-mcjunkins.

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Dagney

Yep. It's evil to not allow people to become who they were meant to be.

Lovely girl...so glad her love for music was greater than her fear of her parents.

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Would You Care If You Were Disfellowshipped?

by minimus in

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just curious.

Dagney

I don't like labels and judgement...JWs are all about classifications.

On the other hand, as has been mentioned here many times...it would give a person freedom, which I am SO ready for. I have some communication right now that I would miss...but I guess I would get over it like everything else.

I think about it all the time.

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JW.Org Blitz

by Theredeemer in

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i've noticed, partilcularly on instagram, a advertising blitz for jw.org by the dubs.

primarily its the younger ones 35 and under vs older ones.

i dont know if its just my friends or everyone but they are obsessed with jw.org.

Dagney

I had two of them knocking on my door yesterday and did not have much of a presentation but just encourage me to check their website.

Easy preaching!!!!

I was wondering about that. I agree. Of course if they made it more difficult fewer would do it. So they have to make these "adjustments" to keep the numbers they have.

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?? Question for those that have successfully faded/are out:

by Darth Fader The Sequel in

question: can any of you that have successfully faded out of the jw world without being df'd or da'd relate to me/us how you were able to maintain at least one or a few of your "still in" friends or family?

(and even if you were df'd or da'd and still maintained some relationships, how did that go?).

obviously, the truly demented, sick and twisted (and highly effective) policies and structure of the wtbt$ to set up a system by which anyone that chooses to no longer believe or participate must be treated as "mentally diseased" and a pariah by their own friends and family is the hands down, numero uno reason why many hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of jw's do not leave.

Dagney

Moving is best.

Friends, well it depends on the friend. There are some whose love and loyalty extend beyond any rules. They are few and far between.