bttt for all the new people. I can't believe it's been seven years since I posted this! Reading through it again is a trip down memory lane - so many great people on here who don't post anymore.
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JWs at My Door - and the Answer to a Prayer
by hemp lover inthis happened almost three years ago, but since i always enjoy reading about other people's jw encounters, i thought i'd finally share one of my own.. i lived in an apartment for four years following my disfellowshipping and no one had ever come to my door, not even so much as a shepherding visit.
(yeah, right.
) i had lurked on this board for a while, but was put off by the anger and negativity of some people and so i didn't stay long.
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Awkward, but kinda funny encounter with JWs today
by hemp lover ini live in a majority-minority neighborhood, so i get the double witness whammy of my street being worked by both spanish- and english-speaking congregations.
jws come to my door about four times a year, but i stopped answering years ago.
what's interesting is that about two years ago, they stopped knocking on my door or ringing the doorbell.
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Billy: " Okay, you have to remember that it's not really lying if I don't tell them I'm a dunked JW and was a bethelite for 10+ years. They should understand theocratic warfare that I don't tell them information that they're not entitled to."
neverscreamagain: " One thing that is crucial is to not put them in the shut-down mode. That is why to ones that do not know me personally, I never identify myself as having been a JW."
I agree. That's usually my m.o. as well. It's been so long since I answered the door when they come and I was a little rusty today. Hence, the nerves again, I suppose.
This is reminding me of an "experience" I had years ago and posted about. It was much more interesting than this one ;-) I'm going to look for it and bump the thread for y'all to read.
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Awkward, but kinda funny encounter with JWs today
by hemp lover ini live in a majority-minority neighborhood, so i get the double witness whammy of my street being worked by both spanish- and english-speaking congregations.
jws come to my door about four times a year, but i stopped answering years ago.
what's interesting is that about two years ago, they stopped knocking on my door or ringing the doorbell.
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@ Outlaw.
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Awkward, but kinda funny encounter with JWs today
by hemp lover ini live in a majority-minority neighborhood, so i get the double witness whammy of my street being worked by both spanish- and english-speaking congregations.
jws come to my door about four times a year, but i stopped answering years ago.
what's interesting is that about two years ago, they stopped knocking on my door or ringing the doorbell.
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I live in a majority-minority neighborhood, so I get the double Witness whammy of my street being worked by both Spanish- and English-speaking congregations. JWs come to my door about four times a year, but I stopped answering years ago. What's interesting is that about two years ago, they stopped knocking on my door or ringing the doorbell. The only way I'd know they had been there was when I'd find a tract in the door or when my dogs would bark.
Today my dogs warned me someone was coming, so I peeked out and saw them climbing the steps and then hid in the dining room and watched them out the window. It was a young man and woman, both in their early 20s, just hanging out on my porch and chatting quietly to each other. I waited about two minutes and they didn't seem in too big of a hurry (lol) to leave, so I opened the door and took them by surprise.
Me: (smiling face and voice) "Hey, how's it goin'?"
JW male: (shocked face, not happy to see me) "Oh, um, uh, we're looking for people who speak Spanish."
I thought that was kind of strange - no introduction, no Hi, how are you today?, just an odd way to start a conversation.
Me: (laughing) "How come you didn't knock or ring the bell then?"
JW: (launches into a long explanation of how he knocked softly, because sometimes people are sleeping [it was 11 a.m.] and then started talking about how sometimes people don't like it when you ring the doorbell, etc.)
Me: "It's cool - I'm just teasing you! I was raised a Jehovah's Witness and I never rang the doorbells or knocked on the doors either. I just pretended to."
JW: (doesn't bat an eye at my big reveal, just goes back into the same explanation of how he actually DID knock, it was just a light knock, on and on)
Me: (still smiling) "It's okay! I had to do this for years and years, too, and I totally understand if you don't want someone to come to the door. That's how I used to feel anyway."
JW: "Okay, well, um we're from the Spanish congregation and we're just looking for people who speak Spanish."
I tell them that while most of the families on the street are Hispanic, they also speak English and then direct them to the few houses I think might speak only Spanish. We exchange names and he tells me I have beautiful dogs and they leave.
That was it. No attempt to engage me on the fact that I was obviously a lapsed JW, no questions whatsoever about it. The young woman just smiled back at me and nodded the whole time, didn't say a word except goodbye. It's very striking to me how much has changed just over the past few years. If I encountered someone I didn't know at the door and they told me they used to be a JW, I'd at the very least ask them what congregation they went to or invite them to a meeting, offer a Bible study, something.
Here's the thing I hate. Even though I've been out since 1998 and don't really think about the religion anymore (for the most part), I get so damn nervous and shaky when I talk to them at my door. I always hide it pretty well, but my hands were literally shaking when they left and I don't understand why.
I'm also now doing the hindsight thing where I wish I had invited them to sit on the porch and shoot the shit for a while to help them get in some easy field service time.
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You might think that I am a pervert this time, I do not care.
by Iamallcool inhttp://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/michelle-jenneke-australian-hurdler-dancing-sensation-042218109--oly.html.
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What a great video - thanks for posting. I will now be watching the whatever meter women's hurdles in the Olympics. Go, happy Australian girl! (forgot her name already ;-)
FHN
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Batman Shooting
by turtleturtle inhttp://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/20/several-reportedly-dead-injured-after-shooting-at-colorado-movie-theater/.
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Glander: " Obama has already turned it into a campaign op. with a totally pointless appearance."
What are you talking about? Both candidates already had events scheduled and they both changed their previously prepared remarks to offer condolences. Appropriate all the way around on this horribly sad day.
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In the mood for sharing pictures...
by coffee_black insharin' the love.... here is my son, dave with bailey 4 and zoey (almost 2) at a drive in movie... and then bailey and zoey and then bailey.
proud grandma here...... coffee .
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You have a beautiful family. David is your grandson who did the long walk through several states to raise money for charity, isn't he? That will look good on an application to Harvard.
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Rumors-that circulated about you ( when you left.)
by Pitchess Co-Gen init seems they can't even let you get disfellowshipped in peace !
i've been out for three years now, and i heard that i'm a whack job, i'm gay ( i'm married with a son ), that i lied on a judicial committee, and these rumors were started by my ex-fiance and her meddling congregation.
when i heard about these things i called my p.o or c.o.t.b.e ( mind you i'm disfellowshipped when i called ) .
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@Quentin: I didn't know you were from Garland. I bet we know some of the same people. I'd like to hear your exit story if you're ever in the mood to share.
To the OP: I never heard rumors after I was DFed, but I did hear some when I got engaged to my first and only ex-husband. Specifically, that I wouldn't be able to have a wedding in a Kingdom Hall (not true - Richardson, TX, KH ftw) and that I was getting married because I was pregnant (elephantine gestation as I didn't give birth to my one and only till four years after aforementioned KH wedding). Oddly enough, both of those rumors were started in the cong I grew up in (Illinois) and not anywhere near where I lived (Texas [Go, Rangers!]).
Idiots.
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Trust me ...I'm a doctor ;-)
by Kudra inas of this morning, i *am* a doctor!.
dr kudra, phd!.
la de da!.
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This is awesome news! You've always been one of my favorite smart people on this board and I'm so proud of you.
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Why I truly come in!
by justmom inhello everyone.... i would honestly like to share why i come to this site when i am able to.. i too, like many here spent my whole life inside the wt along with my husband who was born in.
(i was 6) we have raised three wonderful sons now 27, 23, 21 who the youngest was almost 7 when we left and we were disfellowshipped.
(for so-called apostacy of course)and since then all of us partake of the christ by eating and drinking the manna and his blood.
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@justmom: Well done you for escaping the JWs with your family intact. I'd love to hear more about your experiences in the restaurant business sometime, if you feel like sharing.
To your OP: Where did you come up with the name Jaheshua?