Posts by ShirleyW

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Did anyone else have a JW "sliding doors" moment when they made the wrong call.

by dozy in

reading the thread on mind numbing meetings reminds me of the following event that occurred when i was about 19.. i'd got a full time job away after leaving school and was working about 20 miles away - thursday night meetings necessitated working later , catching a 6.10pm bus after work and walking 10 minutes or so straight to the kh , often arriving just as the meetings were starting or a few minutes late and getting the "evil eye" from some of the jws when i arrived.

my parents ( father was the presiding overseer ) would bring my clothes in the car and i would get changed into my suit in the kh toilets.. it was one of those moments when all the stars seemed to align.

i had had a particularly stressful day at work and was even more tired & hungry than usual on a thursday night.

ShirleyW

dozy - Interesting when you say your dad would lose his position as an elder if his whole family wasn't in da troof, I've heard that happening, but my dad was an elder and I was still living at home when I was over 20. I was never baptized and when I was around your age at the time my dad finally realized that I really wasn't into it and said I didn't have to attend the mtgs anymore, (my mother wasn't too pleased with that, but the wife must obey the hubby)!

The thing is though my dad didn't even get baptized until I was 18 or 19 and for some reason the brothers thought he was good elder material, so he was basically new at the game when he said I didn't have to go to mtgs anymore and he didn't lose being an elder. Just goes to show you that sometimes they come down hard with their BS rules and then sometimes they just breeze right by and nobody gives a damn

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Mind Numbing Meetings

by minimus in

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without a doubt, jw life is boring.

and those meetings!

5 congregation meetings, meetings for field service, elders meetings, judicial meetings, meetings to figure out who was qualified to clean the toilets....🤔.

ShirleyW

Saturday field service, at least 2 times a month. Meeting at 8:30 am, out til 12:00 pm

Incognigo - You were lucky, just TWO times a month? I remember almost every Saturday and Sunday being in FS when I was growing up!

We used to have our mtg on a Friday night for the longest time,even my mother said after it got switched over to Wednesday that she didn't know how she did it on a Friday when all you really want to do is relax since the work week is over.

We also used to have our Sunday mtg at 2pm for the longest time too. Go out in FS come home and then go back out to the mtg and wouldn't get home until around 4:30, you couldn't even pay to take a job now with those broken up hours on a Sunday.

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Cart witnessing

by Phoebe in

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not sure if anyone has posted this before but it's just been put on youtube so i guess it's okay to show you??

if not, please delete it.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdusnlvjm-k.

ShirleyW

Watch the 2 older ladies in the background.

After reading your comment I was looking out for them but didn't see 2 old ladies, what are who are you talking about?

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How was your Hoilday?

by Still Totally ADD in

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ours was great.

for the first time we had christmas with our youngest son and his family.

it was all their first christmas and what a fun and happy time we had.

ShirleyW

Hey ADD - You asked me a question the other day via PM and I answered it, have yet to hear from you.

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JWs celebrating New Year's?

by neat blue dog in

there are a few active jws i know (separate, in different areas) who basically celebrate new years, having a party to watch the ball drop, posting about it on social media, one even saying literally "happy new year" .

but most other jws seem to not want to point out the elephant in the room.

has anybody else seen this, or ever seen it turn judicial?

ShirleyW

The dumbest Dub party I ever heard of was when they gathered at this sister's house on New Year's Eve but left before midnight so it wouldn't be considered a New Year's Party - SMH . . .

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Armageddon has started in Astoria, Queens

by ShirleyW in

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now we know that the con ed plant in astoria, queens had an explosion, but before anyone knew what the heck was going on, so many people were posting on social media their pictures of the "strange blue circle light" that was in the sky this evening,usually st. johns which is near me has a fireworks display after a game, i thought this doesn't look like fireworks, much brighter and no sound, it actually looked like it was 4pm in the afternoon right before the sun leaves the sky.. i live in the jamaica section of queens (just up from trump's foot dr. if you saw that article in nytimes.

com the other day) and haven't lost power but laguardia is dark now, no flights in are out.

just wondering how the old school dubs that saw the lights outside window, thought "finally, the big a is here" !.

ShirleyW

Now we know that the Con Ed plant in Astoria, Queens had an explosion, but before anyone knew what the heck was going on, so many people were posting on social media their pictures of the "strange blue circle light" that was in the sky this evening,usually St. Johns which is near me has a fireworks display after a game, I thought this doesn't look like fireworks, much brighter and no sound, it actually looked like it was 4pm in the afternoon right before the sun leaves the sky.. I live in the Jamaica section of Queens (just up from Trump's foot Dr. if you saw that article in NYTimes. com the other day) and haven't lost power but LaGuardia is dark now, no flights in are out. Just wondering how the old school Dubs that saw the lights outside window, thought "finally, the Big A is here" !

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2018 Service Year Report - Released on jw.org

by Drearyweather in

2018 service year report of jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.

see details of the global preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses from september 2017 to august 2018.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.

average publishers preaching each month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982).

ShirleyW

All large Organizations know how to tweak the numbers to make themselves look good.

I used to work for two accounting firms, back then the major ones fell under the title "The Big 6",

I've worked for E&Y and PWC, they both know how to tweak those numbers and publish many articles saying that they're #1, when neither one of them held that spot. Even the TV companies, ABC, NBC, CBS have a daily war going on about their ratings, especially during the 6:30pm news broadcast. Did you know the anchors have a monitor under their desk while broadcasting live watching the other two networks? Everything is a competition and tweaking those numbers

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Christmas arrogance

by stillin in

one of the witness rebuttals that is used to belittle the christmas holiday is the one where they say that people reduce jesus christ to being just a baby in a manger, whereas the witnesses recognize him as a mighty king, a much more accurate and current way to view jesus.

a baby in a manger is a sweet sight on any day, it's true, but more is going on than meets the eye in the case of jesus.

this particular baby is the first baby to have been born without an earthly father, the immaculate conception.

ShirleyW

That's exactly what my mother used to say around this time of year, why do they keep him as a baby? I guess that's the best thing their pompous, smug minds could think of, forgetting that when she and others before they learned the da troof used to celebrate, so why didn't they say that back then when they were actually enjoying themselves on this holiday?

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Any Good 1975 Stories?

by Think About It in

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despite denial by the wts of any 1975 armageddon predictions zealous jw's did believe it, openly talked about it, and some even sold houses & belongings in anticipation of it.

do you have or know of any good 1975 stories?.

here's mine.........i was a freshman in college and had quit attending the kh back in hs.

ShirleyW

They deny, deny, deny the ever said anything about 1975, btw I graduated high school in 1975, that probably wasn't supposed to happen also.

May 1974 Kingdom Ministry - page 3 How Are you Using your Life? - mentions that some brothers were selling their homes, saying that pioneering is a fine way to spend the short time left

Awake Magazine, May 22, 1969 - says young people will never fulfill a career that this system offers. Where will this system be after four years

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My JW-Related Musical Experiences

by Roger Kirkpatrick in

looking back over my life, the only thing that i can say i truly enjoyed as a jw was meeting and becoming friends with a number of jws who were fine musicians and had experienced various measures of success in what used to be called the "music business.

tommy reynolds, from the vocal group hamilton, joe frank & reynolds ("don't pull your love out on me, baby" and "baby, baby, fallin' in love, i'm fallin' in love again") recruited me to play drums in his dallas circuit assembly orchestra in the 1970s.

in 1977, i became friends with legendary jazz composer/arranger/band leader benny golson, whose life story appeared in the oct. 8, 1980 awake, and who appeared opposite tom hanks in steven spielberg's "the terminal.

ShirleyW

Roger - I don't even know if she's alive now, I know her husband passed ten plus years ago, but back in the day did you know the jazz trumpet player Jimmy Cleveland and his wife Janet? Back in the 40's and 50's she was a singer, Quincy Jones even mentioned her in his biography he wrote a while back. She was a JW but her husband wasn't. She was my piano teacher in the late 60's-early 70's and he was in the band of The Merv Griffin Show at that time. The show moved to LA and they moved to California in the late 70's,