Posts by lancelink

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I can't imagine doing THAT in my wildest dreams.....

by AK - Jeff in

putting on a three piece suit to spend a 90 degree summer day knocking on doors and trespassing!dragging an entire family, including babies and young children to three or four day meetings in an outdoor stadium, living in a seedy motel room for the week.getting home from work and spending the next six hours cramming for a 'theocratic review', getting the entire family ready to go, gulping down dinner, and speeding off to the hall, and then finally getting home around 11 pm, hurrying off to bed so that everyone could get up for work and school in the morning!going to school to explain to the teachers why little johnny can't color pictures of santa, salute the flag of his country, eat birthday cake with all the other 5 year olds, bow his head when prayer is offered, or exchange valentines with all the cute 5 year old girls in class.

and then explaining with grace why he is not immersed in a cult!well, on and on!

these things were typical of my witness life - now i cannot imagine ever doing such silly things, and especially thinking that somehow they would bring pleasure to my god!.

lancelink

Cominski park, in Chicago Illinois was MY nightmare.

First, getting two young kids ready early in the morning every day,

second, fighting bumper to bumper traffic going into the city.

Third, finding a seat in the "nosebleed" section, with two young kids, meeting bags, food for lunch, and several bottles of juice/water to help the boys make it thru the day. And getting the frown look from the attendants and other loyal JW's in the section because we were LATE.

fourth, Broiling under the sun, with a tie on !

And then the ride home, horrible traffic, and stopping along the way to get some dinner, we were sooo sunburnt that eating made us sick.

One of my boys threw up in the meeting bag on the way home, and guess what I did?

Went home, cleaned all the books, and bag and got it ready for the next "wonderfully spiritual assembly day"

What possesed my wife and I to do this, now I don't know.

My kids absolutly hate anything to do with the JW's now, and they have no qualms in bringing up the nighmare episodes like the one i just wrote about !

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This is my old KH...

by Tatiana in

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kingdom hall struck by vandals again story tools email storyrecommend storyprintable versiondiscuss .

/story tools article contentpublished on 6/26/2009.

the following reports were collected from georgetown police and county deputies:.

lancelink

I wonder how many people will now use the "mold" excuse and not attend the meetings.

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A Dating Site For Jehovah's Witnesses?!

by Blue Grass in

i discovered a site called www.jwmatch.com which have pictures of individuals claiming to be jws looking for others jws to date.

based on the watchtower's anti internet stance and meeting people online, i doubt this website is real.

has anyone else seen this site?

lancelink

Oh my God !

Just for fun I ent.ered my old hall Crystal Lake Illinois and there is a 20-something girl that has a VERY weird life.

When I attended a long time ago, she was an only child who was spoiled beyond belief.

She also had every imaginable ailment that she could think of.

Well, right after I left she ran away from her family, became homeless in downtown chicago, got pregnant and her parents found her on the street

downtown.

They credited finding her to "jehovahs help", they also posted flyers in the CL trainstation stating that the girl was "disillusioned" and needed help.

She did need help but the JW's were not the ones to give it to her.

Anyway she was df'ed, married the teenage homeless guy, they moved in with her parents, and had the baby.

Now it looks like the guy bailed on her, left the kid with her also.

And now the kicker,,,

her profile states that she is healthy and mentally balanced.

From what I know, she is probably one of the most dysfunctional women ever !

Its uncomfortable to see what a wholesome / honest appearance she is trying to pass off. All those years as a JW must really have made an impression on her !

And her crazy parents,, they are no doubt filled with pride because she choose the truth over everything else.

Since her account has been frozen, they must be watching her every move, way to go when trying to raise a responsible adult.

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Anyone Going to Church Yet?

by prophecor in

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i've started attending church, recently.

it feels great to be able to worship with vigor and feeling.

still have the occasional trappings of having been a witness and guilt about goung to satan's house.

lancelink

yes,

our local Catholic church is open all Saturday night for prayer.

I go almost every week and just sit there and think about where Iam, what I have given up, and what I have lost.

It may not sound very spiritual or uplifting, but it really affects me and makes me feel a peace that I never felt at the KH.

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Witnesses Who Were Hypocrites!

by minimus in

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some jws truly believe and live their faith.

but many witnesses lived double lives or spoke one way in front of the congregation but privately, they were just the opposite.. i knew an elder and his wife who owned a liquor/convenience store.

they sold tobacco and lottery tickets but claimed that the real owner of the business was the wife's "worldly" father, which was hogwash.. were there any real hypocrites that you knew about?.

lancelink

wes sterne and jeff renfrow from the crystal lake illinois hall,

there is not enough room on this site to write about the actions of these two people

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The League of Apostate Pioneers

by Megachusen in

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recently it's come to my attention that the other teens in my congragation are being pressured by their parents to pioneer.

the main problem is that, like me, they're all "apostates".

because of this amusing turn of events, i'm thinking about starting my own apostate pioneering group with them.

lancelink

I forgot to mention that when he threw up this night, he told me that he was laying on his back, so he could have drowned in his own puke.

Dad saw this and ignored it, his position was more important than his son's health.

I heard this story from two of the brothers who talked about it for months afterward as if it was a badge of honor,, sick.

They would also buy and sell pot in their garage, but that is another long story for another time.

And they were quite vocal about how bad they were, yet if daddy or another member of the hall approached them, they were grown up

WT, JW angels.

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The League of Apostate Pioneers

by Megachusen in

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recently it's come to my attention that the other teens in my congragation are being pressured by their parents to pioneer.

the main problem is that, like me, they're all "apostates".

because of this amusing turn of events, i'm thinking about starting my own apostate pioneering group with them.

lancelink

Maybe you and your little friends sit around by yourselves and bitch about having to go to meetings and service, but if you're "actively speaking against WT teachings" outside your circle of "apostate" friends, it'll be like daniel-p said...you won't be doing it for long

AMEN !

It sounds like they are speaking out of both sides of their mouths,

The WT is bad and so are we heh, heh, heh !!

Suddenly an elder appears and they are ramrod straight / loyal to the core witnesses .

I'm very well familiar with this mindset because there was a group of people at my hall back in the 70's (including myself)

who thought the same way.

"Mess up once and your heads will roll, unless one of your parents is someone of importance in the hall", I seem to remember that "Elder daddy"

would bend over backwards to protect his position no matter what.

A true story::: In 1978 this so called friend and PO's son was drinking at age 19 quite a bit. he came home one night after work(he was a mechanic at a local gas station) very sloshed. As he walked into the house PO dad and pioneer mom were having a dinner party with several couples from the hall. He walked in went to his room, shut the door, and threw up . The whole group outside just ignored it and later when everyone had left PO dad went into the room and smacked his kid around telling him to quit drinking.

No help, no "kind and gentle words" just a get yourself straightened out before someone says something" attitude. He kept on drinking ALOT after that and daddy just kept on covering up for him!

He is now divoriced and out of the religion, and his other two brothers are equally if not more messed up with their lives.

Thanks Randy, Kevin, and Tim, from Crystal lake Illinois you all planted a seed in my conscience regarding the JW religion that did not start growing until 25 years later !

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I'm considering going to this air show.

by John Doe in

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http://www.quadcityairshow.com/2009/index.html.

.

anyone else?.

lancelink

I'm going to this one,

www.airventure.org/planning/advance.html

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Did people DONATE for the literature when you went out in service?

by BonaFide in

i think i got a donation maybe once or twice here in the states.

most of the friends don't ask for a donation.

in south america, more people donated, but i think it's because it was phrased differently, we used to say, "you can give whatever you want for this magazine.