Posts by Elgiard

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Funny experiences while a JW

by donny in

do any of you have any funny experiences while you were part of the jw machine?

back around 1986 i was the ministerial servant in charge of running the sound board in the kingdom hall for our congregation.

we were the last ones to meet in the hall on weekdays (friday) and the first ones to meet on sunday.

Elgiard

That's amazing. All I ever did was spank a cat in front of the entire congregation during the service meeting after the school.

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WHY we can not afford health care in the US...

by zeroday in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bljxmjzxgni

Elgiard

We already have a good model of what healthcare will be like once the federal government seizes control of it in the VA hospitals. I can hardly wait.

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FW: Very Encouraging !!!?

by moomanchu in

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daddy loves you.

he was just waiting for her to give up the .

Elgiard

No way that girl is going to grow up without an eating disorder or some other issue. If dad is lucky she'll only dye her hair black and huff paint thinner in her room.

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I got shunned at Wal-Mart

by loosie in

this is actually hilarious to me.

i am not df'd or da'd.

i just haven't gone for 3 years.. this woman (sister) works at my daughters school.

Elgiard

I was preemptively reverse shunned at a store once...
I saw a guy I hadn't seen for several years, so I walked up to him to say hello. As I approached, he looked at me with a blank, lifeless stare, and in a really sad tone said, "Sorry, I cannot talk to you, I'm disfellowshipped."
It was very awkward.

That's amazingly funny.

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Being told what to say in Convention interviews

by passwordprotected in

has anyone else heard tell of interviewees in convention parts being told what to say?

the way i've heard it is you're contacted to be interviewed in a convention talk because you've had a great experience in some form or other and they need you to boast about it.

so, you meet with the brother handling the assignment and you go through your experience with him (boast about it).

When I was in high school I was interviewed for a part in a circuit assembly. I was supposed to say how rotten things were in school, etc. So I was talking about the little snots at my school and everything was fine, until we had to rehearse for the DO. He told us to try to make things more "Hard Copy" (His words. This was sort of the forerunner to the Maury Povich show at the time). I was like WTF, I go to a tiny country school. The vo-ag students track cow crap into the hall and it's a big deal. What do you want me to say? I ended up making up some story about how one of my teachers wanted to kill me for being a JW or something.

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Looking for recent thread about "No personal study groups."

by Confession in

at least one contributor posted about this.

i believe he/she related how the part on the service meeting was covered, but if you know the specific quotes that would be great.

Elgiard

I would not be shocked to see personal study become disallowed. It could be replaced by a simple daily reading, and an additional book study each week. It would be touted as the "kindly yoke" and a lightening of the load, and would give more time for field service, but the fact is that personal study is by necessity "personal", ie [i]individual[/i], which is anathema to their goals. Their time would still be completely consumed by "theocratic things". The daily reading could even be broken up into segments to be read at certain times during the day. But there would be little unsupervised study, and also fewer publications to print, so more money for "the organization".

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The Occult

by mahler in

in the hall i used to attend i found alot of people had 'demon' stories, did you know anyone like this or have any run-ins yourself?

i personally think they were zealot delusions.

nevermind i just did a search a found a whole bunch of stories.

Elgiard

I was in for years and never once heard about demonic tupperware. Can anyone expound on this?

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What is your favorite thing about not being a JW anymore?

by megaflower in

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i would have to say the nagging feeling that iam not good enough (in thier eyes) does not bother me anymore

Elgiard

There are so very many things, but probably my favorite is not having to rush home from work and get ready for a meeting on Thursday night, then sit there exhausted listening to some self-important ahole preach at me. I especially love not showing up and having 15 minutes to prepare a part for the TMS because someone else didn't want to do it and ditched that night.

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A crazy dream I had a while back.

by Elgiard in

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it's weird because i haven't had anything to do with the jws for years now, but i still dream about going to the kh very occasionally.

the last time i dreamed about going there, there was apparently going to be a special meeting where some hugely important news was going to be announced, and my mom begged me to come with her, until i finally caved.

this is weird in itself, because she hasn't had anything to do with the jws for years either, although i think it's possible she could relapse.. anyway, we're at the meeting, and this biker guy comes into the auditorium and starts heckling the speaker.

Elgiard

It's weird because I haven't had anything to do with the JWs for years now, but I still dream about going to the KH very occasionally. The last time I dreamed about going there, there was apparently going to be a special meeting where some hugely important news was going to be announced, and my mom begged me to come with her, until I finally caved. This is weird in itself, because she hasn't had anything to do with the JWs for years either, although I think it's possible she could relapse.

Anyway, we're at the meeting, and this biker guy comes into the auditorium and starts heckling the speaker. Some brothers take him outside, and I'm compelled to go with them to watch the spectacle. I remember being outside for a while, because it was refreshing not bring in the meeting for a while, but eventually I went back inside and it was utter chaos. People were strangling themselves with shoelaces and belts. There were a couple sisters hanging themsleves with electrical cords in the coat closet. Mothers were helping children strangle themselves. It was seriously the most screwed up thing I had ever seen. Walking around in shocked disbelief, I gathered that while I was outside, the elder had read a letter from the GB saying that the End was very near, possibly tomorrow, and that the New Light had shown them that only way to ensure their survival of the Tribulation was to show faith and end their lives now.

So I make my way through the horrid scene, trying to find mom. Two elders had her down behind the literature counter. They had sedated her and were helping her survive the Tribulation too. So I did what I had to do and kicked their faces in, then I threw mom over my shoulder and ran to the car. As I roared out of the driveway they were actually shooting at the car, trying to save us.

At that point I woke up. You know the kind of nitemares where you wake up, and it's like you've just come up out of the water, because you've been too scared to even breath for a while? Well, this was like that. The scariest dreams are the ones that could actually come true, and I think this one really could. Not that my position ever needed any steadying, but after that there's no way I could ever have anything to do with those people again. It was the kind of experience that changes you forever.

I hadn't told anybody about it, because I don't know anyone who would "get it". Has anyone else had a dream like this?

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Kids Still Get Whacked @ Armageddon. Current Light. (With Pix!)

by Open mind in

if you've clicked around on other sites, you can find the troubling picture i grew up with from the old orange paradise lost book.

a big old armageddon earthquake that is swallowing up people, churches, a bicycle, a dog!

) and of course, a little girl in a dress that is indelibly planted in my memory chips.

Elgiard

The picture in the Revelation book is creepy because it's so much more subliminal than the one in the Paradise Lost book. In the old book, there's a big hole in the ground, and the kids are falling in. It's there, you can see it, you're supposed to see it. In the new picture, the Four Amigos make this sweeping contour, starting with the vatican scholar guy (He's based on a real guy, I can't remember his name) because he's the largest, your eyes are led from right to left, until you get to the general's shoulder, which is pointing right at this little girl. Then a curious thing happens. The painting is designed to draw your eyes right to this little girl, then when they get there, the colors are all muted, so they sort of skip right over her and up to the brightly colored grapes just above her. You're meant to see her for just a moment, then not pay her any [i]conscious[/i] thought anymore. This is not an accident.