what are some strange things that have happened to you in fs?i remember accompying a sister 20 years my senor in the door to door.she started slipping on the ice=i reached out to help her and got 2 handfulls of breast.she proceeded to hold my arm and give me this lustful look with her tongue showing.talk about uncomfortable..
There was a guy in our territory that got a kick out of showing up at the door totally nude to shock or scare the sisters off.
I was with a hard core pioneer sister once and we happened to go to his house (we forgot). He showed up nude and she just pointed at his c*ck and laughed her tail in a comical, exaggerated sort of way off until he got embarrassed and closed the door. Of course, the elders told her she was wrong.
in my day i've attended many meetings with either a complete hangover, or still flyin' from the night before......weed, or alcohol.......anybody got any good stories?
Several times in high school.
I was the “quiet type” so no one suspected. I would hang out with some friends occasionally and try weed and/or booze before coming home from school. I would just shower, do my hair, makeup, eat dinner and get ready for the meeting as usual (usually the school and service meetings). I was not sloppy or excessive so no one noticed anything. I know I wasn’t the only one. I knew of an elder that would come slighted toasted every now and then and a few of the folks in my age group regularly got high before the School and Service Meetings because it was easier on the weekdays than the Sunday meetings.
Also, on our bowling nights (Saturday before the Sunday talks) we would hit the bar at the alley where they didnt check ID, and stay out until 3:00AM (parents were cool with us staying out late because we were with "friends".) The next mornings we always fun - especially when we had to get up for 9:30 meetings.
ok, so the grand boasting sessions are in progress and will be so until september.
for them, that is the big thing that is in front of them.. beyond that, there is the beginning of a new circus year.
that happens in september, and the pioneers are back out in full force.
Not to mention a big waste of gas in those huge “service vehicles”.
those grand boasting sessions have begun, some of them starting with children still in school (and some when they needed to be at school to take final exams).
and yet they insist on people skipping school (and work) to be at all three days of these wastefests.. now, why might there be reason to go?
curiosity is one, and that is the kind of curiosity that often leads to trouble.
The last few years, I could NEVER stay awake through the first session. The DA was either too hot, too cold, too stuffy, etc. Bathroom lines (women’s) were always too long, poor nursing mothers had to nurse in the bathroom (YUCK!) at the CA. Rules, rules, rules.
My mother went last week and bragged about having a good time. (gag!)
i was speaking to my mom on the phone yesterday, and despite my trying to avoid it, we got to talking about wacky jw topics -- again.
actually, it was nearly unavoidable, since she had just returned from her summer convention.
aside: nice way to celebrate your wedding anniversary, mom & dad; at an assembly!
My last meeting was in 2002. I was not DF or DA, I just left.
No calls, no letter – nothing.
it took a while for me - but after some time i began to see most all religion as controlling entities, interested not only in forcing doctrine on adherents, but also, and perhaps primarily, seeking to control believers.
i initially saw this as somewhat benign, but have increasingly seen it as dangerous, even a malignant force in human social-evolution.
i see a far-right fundy church and it virtually screams "jwism" to me.
Yes
Despite my young age, it has taken me years to see it (due to the fact that I was raised around it) Control is everywhere, in all forms. They try to pass themselves off as a “free” religion in the form of “conscious matters” but that isn’t so. Wolves in sheep’s clothing.
i've read where many of you have posted that you "don't want to hurt family members feelings" and that's the reason you don't come clean about how you feel as far as the jw's go.
i was wondering if it ever dawned on you who think like this how you still are being abused mentally by both this religion and your family by worrying about their feelings while they have total disregard for your thoughts and/or feelings?
i've never told a family member how they must think for me to talk to them; never hounded a family member to come to a meeting they have clearly shown they don't want to attend.
I have no reason to blast my mother for this. I am not angry with her. She had a horrible upbringing, came into the cult as a young adult and barely survived a 27 years marriage to a man (not a JW) they “brothers” say she couldn’t divorce. There is not much family here and it will crush her if she knew what I feel. I am thinking of her feelings, not so much mine. This is not all etched in stone – I can change my mind tomorrow and “come clean”, but I don’t need that stress in my life, nor does she need it.
ok... so my husband felt bad that the elders wanted to meet with us and he wasn't responding... so he set it up for saturday at 2 even though everyone said dont meet with them.
oh ya, and everyone said not to meet with them at your house, but again, he didn't want to rock the boat.
it's funny, though he was the first one to leave, he's still afraid and doesn't want to "raise any red flags" he's willing to just say "we're discouraged, can you just leave us alone fora while" feel free to yell at him (robert7).. here's the thing.
Snakes - you NAILED the god cop/bad cop tag teams. That brings back memories. Wow.
one of the more asinine practices of jws is to turn someone's funeral into a borg infomercial.
every single jw relative i've had who has passed away, had an infomercial funeral.
hardly anything was ever said about them as people, except of course in how they served the borg.. "sister x was a very pugnatious woman, even into her late 80's, as i'm sure her family can attest to.
I remember there was a brother in my congregation that worked for UPS that was robbed and murdered on the job. It was a pretty high-profile case in the news and hundreds of people from his job, the community and several media/news organizations came with their cameras, etc to the memorial. Besides the fact that he left a wife and two young kids, nothing else was said about his life during the service. I was embarrassed and ashamed and this was years before I realized the Borg is a scam.
one of the more asinine practices of jws is to turn someone's funeral into a borg infomercial.
every single jw relative i've had who has passed away, had an infomercial funeral.
hardly anything was ever said about them as people, except of course in how they served the borg.. "sister x was a very pugnatious woman, even into her late 80's, as i'm sure her family can attest to.
I remember there was a young brother in my congregation that worked for UPS and was robbed and murdered on the job. It was a pretty high-profile case in the news and hundreds of people from his job, the community and several media/news organizations came with their cameras, etc to the memorial. Besides the fact that he left a wife and two young kids, nothing else was said about his life during the service. I was embarrassed and ashamed and this was years before I realized the Borg is a scam.
