Posts by ShirleyW

how often we heard this trotted out from the platform.. recently though, i have heard many examples of still-in jws sharing their observations about things that don't seem quite right with the current activities, direction and culture of the organization.

ShirleyW

speaking of one drop of poison in a glass of water, tonight on Dateline the Jim Jones story is going to be featured, which is where I believe we here get the "drink the kool-aid" saying from, which of course the majority of the blindly following Dubs would probably drink up and quench their thirst without a giving a thought about "a drop of poison" being mixed in with the drink

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JWs Outlawed in Russia

by minimus in

jw
friends

they are banned!.

ShirleyW

Since Trump is Putin's girlfriend, any chance that will ever happen in U.S. ??

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Returning from a crash . . .

by compound complex in

greetings, friends:.

my trusty and very old dell died a few days ago; a friend's gift of a toshiba has gotten me here.

fortunately, it uses windows 7 like my old pc.

ShirleyW

Windows 7 and it runs perfectly?

My old laptop can still be used, but it's ten years old and has Vista, if it stops running I don't think I could get it repaired, these new computers don't use VIsta anymore or W7. When I turn it on now I have to set the date, it always goes back to 2005 or 6 for some reason.

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Circuit Assembly Experiences

by Tallon in

many years ago, in the congregation i attended at the time, there was a brother who had endured bad health over many years.

as result he underwent a number of operations - a couple being life saving operations.

at one or two circuit assemblies he was interviewed on the platform where he related how he endured ill health.. for me, i felt very uncomfortable listening to his experience and, i actually felt embarrassed for him because i have never been one to speak of any health issues i had, let alone publicise it from the platform.

ShirleyW

Jookbeard, your two posts here have me dying laughing, especially the one about the old sister getting baptized in her wheelchair all wrapped in plastic. She was probably senile and out of her mind, which is da troof seemed so attractive to her.

The other "old bag" as you say that had blocks put under chair, what were they for?

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Re: the woman parking attendants and real life

by carla in

with much amusement i read the thread on women parking lot attendants and it got me to thinking about life at home for the average jw.. i believe i am correct in thinking that anything to do with jw-ism requires a penis, except all the leg work (fs & pioneers).

meaning the mic's, talks, etc... but yet the same guy who thinks his wife (or any other woman) is not bright enough to run the sound system for example doesn't mind his wife hauling hay, digging in the yard, managing the checkbook and other various physical jobs as well as jobs that do in fact require a brain larger than that of a gnat?.

let's say a guy is a bit technologically challenged but he can manage the sound system at the kh ok. i imagine he feels proud that he is getting to do this great privilege?

ShirleyW

I'm well aware of how the Sister are treated in the congregation, but in the early 1960's we had a sister conduct the "area study" as it was called back then, or the book study, the mtg in certain ones homes usually on a Tuesday night to study one of the publications.

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Anyone ever know gays in the hall that are lying to them selfs or others?

by blownaway in

i know of three situations i saw myself.

the first one was when i lived in arcadia.

all the people i use names on are dead and gone so no probs.

ShirleyW

We had an elder brother who was on the DL (you couldn't really tell he was gay) but back during the days when AIDS was really rampant, his wife got pregnant with twins, ever since the day they were born they were sickly, they both made to the one year mark, but they died about six months apart. About two years later the wife died. Since some of the wife's family wasn't a JW and new the real deal,we found out they all died of AIDS, and her husband was the one who was the last to die.

So, so many brothers I remember that you could definitely tell they were gay Some of them eventually married, I just wonder what their status is now regarding the JWs and their marriage.

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Anyone ever know gays in the hall that are lying to them selfs or others?

by blownaway in

i know of three situations i saw myself.

the first one was when i lived in arcadia.

all the people i use names on are dead and gone so no probs.

ShirleyW

I've mentioned the story several times here explaining why I use the name ShirleyW, here, because of so much hypocrisy in da troof. That's the name of one of the sisters in the KH I grew up with who had a "roommate" practically all of their adult lives. They started attending the KH I was in when I was around 9 or 10 years old, they were together until SW's roommate passed away about four or five years ago They were both pioneers when they first moved in together, but then they moved to NY from FL and opened a piano teaching business. I don't know why they were never DF'd. All you had to do was look at the two of them and tell they were a couple, whether their relationship was consummated or not, (there are married folks out there that have never consummated their relationship for whatever reason.)

There were also discussions about them and someone of course always said "well Jehovah will clean up his organization in due time."

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The urban legends we heard as JWs!

by stuckinarut2 in

how often have we heard some sort of sensationalist urban legend as jws?.

here is an example i was told as a kid:.

the experience of a sister who knocked on a door and was greeted by a big fierce looking man- intimidating and mean.

ShirleyW

A sister from our hall back in the late 60's went to help where the need was great. Don't know how many other roommates she had but, one mtg night they only had a little bit of money left, so should they buy gas to go to the meeting or by some food, needless to say, they went to the mtg. But when they got back home there was a basket of food and groceries waiting for them!! Oh what a lovely story of how Jah provides for his people !!

My mother used to love to tell that story, but I remember either on this site or another one I read the same story a while back, could've been pertaining to the same group of sisters, but somehow knowing how these crazy stories get around I doubt it.