religious club caters to witnesses comment.
beacon newspaper (subscription), fl - 15 minutes ago.
club members provide any student who is interested in becoming a jehovah's witness with home bible studies, free of charge.
The club recruits members through tabling, which is set up in the Wolfe University Center at various times during the week. Students can pick up information on the religion and the club as well as talk to club members.
LOL go to class count the time. nice.
whats the weirdest food/stuff you've ever eaten/tried?
i ate some chocolate covered ants!
not too bad!
chicken feet at a dimsum place.
did you typically "fudge" your report??
i did.
Before the fade within half n hour accurate. Though when i sold the Asleep and Wathdumb mags pioneered full-time i totally fudged the numbers. Then started the fade reporting the national average more or less and slowly decreased the numbers until i stopped reporting the bs hours.
it was about 5pm yesterday, i noticed 2 men in suits walking around my block, at first i thought they were only there to visit one house, but then they started going door to door, they were holding a magazine after the first house so then i knew, they were dubs, i grabbed my shot gun, holy water, and crucifix, and changed into my jehovah's witness protection program t-shirt.
too bad i had to leave home before they got around to my place, but i won tickets to disney's halloween treat, so i didn't get to confront them.
but what is up with door to door work so late?
I remember during daylight savings time we'd meet at 6pm and do return visits and door to door until it got dark out.
i remember a brother telling me many years ago, that he could have bought a beautiful fur coat to his wife, but he didn't want others in the congregation to be jealous.
that was the mentality back then.
no one wanted to be a stumbling stone.. gee, today you see acuras and expensive cars all around the kingdom hall parking lot.
In the late 90s, I bought a used Pontiac Grand Am. The BOE said I was materialistic. Yet within a year of that one of those frauds elders bought a Lexus. Some how he wasn't materialistic.
in my congo all the elders and ministerial servants were real estate agents.
is that odd?
or have anyone else noticed that?
I remember visiting a hall where just a brother was a lawyer. Probably came into the org after the fact, but who knows. I did know one brother who was a realtor. He did a home deal for someone in the kh and blabbed the detail to everyone. Elders were a department mgr at a utility, a high level engineer, barber, upholstry worker and another engineer.
everyone always talks about the elders and people in the congregation coming around to see why you aren't at meetings...but i've never experienced this.
i've been away from the meetings for months, and not one single elder has called me.
my friends occasionally call me but never bring up my lackluster attendance.
i faded out in the late 90s starting with the bookstudy. never got a call or a unannounced visit from the bs conductor or the elders not even when i was at the kh asking what was up. i think it depends on the boe and the bs conductor.
i have been associated with jw's since birth.
i raised my kids in the religion....thinking it was the only way.
recently, my daughter (who was baptized at 15 she is 24 now and has since stopped attending meetings, has been in a relationsip with a man and now has a newborn baby) was invited to a witness wedding and subsequently uninvited b/c she could possibly stumble the jw's who would be attending,since she has had a baby with a non witness and is not married.. .
ugh this just reinforces why i let myself fade from the Witchtower. the saying goes blood is thicker than water. i guess that's unless youre a jdub. reminds me of a wedding..asked to be in my good friends wedding several years ago back when i actually into the scene. he was marrying a non-jw and were having the ceremony in a non-denominational church. i backed out from the wedding since it was in a non-jw church/hall/however you want to put it. i missed the wedding and didn't speak to him for about a year. thankfully we got back in contact after that year. i faded fast during that year...wish i had seen the light sooner and supported the friend instead of the jw rhetoric. i regret it every time we see each other. so stupid the indoctrination.
anyways...personally i thnk it is rude to invite/disinvite people to a wedding. my sisters both are jdubs and married in the KH. my dad, a non-jw, walked both down the aisle with nothing being said to either of them. i think it's the elders going amuck. screw the wedding, support family. no gifts. it's just rude to do what they did. maybe they will get the blinders lifted and see how stupid they are being. as someone once said, "you can either have a brother or not. it's your choice". apply as appropriate. but i am surprised she hasn't been df'd. guess you really do need to attend mind altering meetings for that to happen.
thought this could get interesting discussing experiences.
i for one was trying to reach out for ministerial servant again in the early 90's , had been one before, and was assigned to carry the microphones one meeting.
had an elder call me in the back room and say , " brother flipper, i noticed looking down towards your shoes that you are wearing white socks today.
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones who hasn't been preached to about my clothes. But I did many years ago got roped into a part at a cc and was reminded only white shirts were allowed. An uncle had a part and his hair went over the the collar a tad and was told no part unless he got it cut. I'm just wondering who would have covered it if my grandmother didn't have scissors to trim it with her. sheeesh, talk about anal.
wasnt tempted myself during the acutal ceremonies; however: the sister whose husband used to supply the wine for the memorial in the 70's; well her son's would be round the back of the khell after the memorial supping it!!!
they were only about 12/13!!!.
always wanted a sipp myself after the annual ordeal but was scared mum and dad would find out.. shell.
Wanted to take a swig....5 Grandma has made the bread for her congo for the last 30 years...so I usually end up with some of that. Bleh.
