Thanks for FINALLY admitting the real truth guys!!!! I have always felt that to be the case about sisters and modesty. When I was newly married at 21 and pretty dern hot a young jackass elder felt I dressed immodestly and voiced his concern to the WHOLE body of elders. Let me say, if I was immodest I would certainly have no problem admitting it but I was not. I was a good little modest JW wife. So they take my hubby back to the little room and tell him they had a problem with the way I dressed!!!! I couldn't believe and neither could he!!! I know it was because that stupid elder wanted some of me and couldn't have it! So dere!!!! I had to hold hubby back from going and beating the sh*t out of him! Now I wish I hadn't!!!!
meangirl
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Wired! Lingerie shopping find single Sister from my Cong on wall poster WTF!
by Witness 007 inthis was afew years ago, i was shopping with my sister who needed some stuff so i went in too...looked at the picture on the wall of a 19 year old young pretty blonde in sexy lingerie...hmmm i said "looks alittle like sarah from my cong.....i had the "hots' for sarah anyhow.
the more i look, the more i realized it is sarah....wtf!
i asked the owner is that picture local....umm...is that sarah?
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Reaching Out
by lancelink indid any of you guys ever try to "spiritually advance" by really making an effort in reaching out,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.
only to be overlooked while some other brother who was honestly just a brown-noser or genuine hypocrite gets appointed.
without hardly any effort on his part?.
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meangirl
My husband was a "professional" ministerial servant for 17 years!!!!! We pioneered together, he gave a zillion talks, etc. but he was just not part of the "good ole boys club" in other words didn't kiss ass so they just kept on coming up with reasons why he couldn't be an elder.....weird.....
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...People who "Pretend to be Jehovah`s Witness`s"...
by OUTLAW injwn is thought provoking!..
this board is a very interesting place to be.....if you are a jw.....were a jw.....are thinking of becoming a jw.....like jw`s.....hate jw`s.....or..like pretending to be a jw..lol!!.
"pretending to be a jw",will be the subject for this thread... we have aready met people on this board,who have no problem pretending to be jehovah`s witness`s and support the wbt$......but..have no interest in following the wbt$..or.. doing any of the hard work it takes to be a jehovah`s witness... i have met people like this,in real life... have you ever met people in "real life" that:.
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meangirl
I understand your question. I know exactly what your talking about. I have an interesting perspective on this as I was not raised a JW but it was forced upon me when I was 13 (lucky me). Of course my mom took it very seriously and we were forced to be perfect little witnesses. We followed what the society said to a "T". I was forced to quit school activites, couldn't go to dances, had to stop hanging out with "wordly friends" but the more I became friends with other witnesses I saw they were doing things that had just been forcefully ripped away from me. They hung out with worldy people, were involved in school, heck I had one girl who said "let's go to the class Christmas party" and we did!!! She was "raised" in the truth and at the KH gave comments, was active out in service yet here I was with her in school at a Christmas party????? Also over the years, I saw that for the majority of people it was just a social thing. They knew for them to still be "socially acceptable" they had to "play the game" and so they did token service, showed up for some meetings, and they were still "good association" yet they clearly were living a double life. This was hard for me because being a witness was something I took very seriously (not any more!!!) and I just didn't get the whole be one way in front of people at the hall and then do your own thing when it really comes down to it. It truly boggled my mind but now that I am at the point I am in my life I see why people are like this. As someone mentioned they are almost forced to be that way.
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Bitchy women at work..."hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!" Why girls?
by Witness 007 inso at work we had an middle eastern family get alittle upset due to a long wait, i think their culture tends to raise their voice a bit, their child was sick and they were worried, waiting for medicine.
while calming them down, one of the staff ladies is jumping in from behind under-cutting my calming speech with her interference....i asked her to back off.. well the women i work with did not like me "reasoning" with them witness style, oh no!
they wanted me to throw the mum, dad, child, mother in-law, out on their ass.
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meangirl
Sometimes when I read these comments I wonder why some of you even left the organization.....if you men truly despise women and have no respect for us and want to completely stereotype and generalize us why don't you go back to the patriarchial organization known as the "witnesses" and you can give talks using illustrations us women folk will understand like "now when you sisters go to make a dress" or "when you sisters go to bake a cake". You could make sly little remarks during the bookstudy on family life about "how women are good at remembering things like sending thank you cards and anniversary cards but men are equipped to handle the heavy things".......Seriously, what is with the stereotyping........We are ALL individuals and deserve to be treated with fairness before any generalizations are made.......To reinforce the point, if you substitute the word "women" in your statements with "mexicans" or "black people" it would be so obviously prejudice but somehow when somebody lumps all women into the same category and generalizes it's okay? Think about it, how often from the platform did you hear a brother say "women are more emotional than men" well what if he had said "mexicans are more emotional than white people".......would that go well? Or one time I remember reading a qoute from the society where it was something to the effect "women are comfortable with submitting and like to be told what to do" and instead of that what if they had written "black people are comfortable with submitting and in general like to be told what to do"........You see how absurd it is to generalize and stereotype races yet sexual discrimation is the last frontier.....come on people think about it!
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Finding Men in the Territory
by WTWizard injust when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse, along comes the august 2009 kingdumb misery.
therein, "meet the challenge of witnessing to men" comes along.
they are whining that there are too many women and not enough men (i wonder if they are hearing about "sisters" not finding mates within the cancer, or just because they need men to run the show because they do not want women running it).. they continue with a couple of stock examples of reaching men.
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So I guess women don't work nowadays.......I just LOVE how they perpetruate the stereotypes
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Weird stuff individuals believe
by bluecanary inthis thread doesn't just have to be about jws.
it's about the weird stuff that isn't taught by the religion, but an individual believes it.
my examples:.
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meangirl
I know somebody who didn't let her daughter watch The Little Mermaid cause it showed too much cleavage..... Also while out in service one day I was talking to this little girl about 6 and we were talking about movies we had just watched. She asked "Have you seen Jumanji?" and I was like "yeah, it was a really cool movie, we really liked it" and she said "WE BURNED IT!!!!!" AWKWARD!!!!
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Most Detested WT Publication
by Nosferatu inwhat is the wt publication you hated the most (i mean besides all of them?).
mine was that faggy pink "listening to the great teacher" book.
my mother tried to teach both me and the neighbor's worldly kid lessons from that book, and you know how embarrasing it is for a boy to be put straight by a pink book?.
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meangirl
Definitely the old family life book that was printed in the 60's.....it was soooo demeaning to women. I just remember being 13 and sitting there disgusted when the book said something to the effect "a woman should keep her appereance up as it is hard to feel affection for somebody who is not attractive" and that she should strive to carry on conversation as "if Adam just would've wanted companionship he could've had a dog" or something like that......DISGUSTING!!!!
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My issues with women ...
by The Berean ini have always viewed women as more clever, manipulative, and intelligent than me.
no, i never walked around voicing my bias ... yet, over time, i must confess i have been afraid of the opposite sex.
it has only been in recent times that i have begun to fairly evaluate each individual by their conduct and not their gender.. why do i bring this matter up on this particular site?
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I think what you need to remember it is YOUR perspective and everybody has their own perspective. I myself am an incest survivor (thanks bro) and a product of an unstable home in which my father was an alcoholic who abused my mother physically and verbally when he was drunk and heck when he was not drunk. I in turn cannot say "all men are evil raging alcoholics who abuse their wives and all brothers are child molestors." I have to realize we are all individuals and to give everybody a chance. The point is NOT to stereotype. Are there some trust issues, yes definitely. However, your post struck a nerve with me because this organization is sooooo oppressive of women it is pathetic. It is definitely not a female dominated religion by any means as basically women have no rights and are viewed as second class citizens. Have you ever thought of how humiliating it is to "give a talk" and have to pretend having a conversation with another female so you would not be teaching????? How about having to put a scarf or some other head covering on because there is no brother present or having some 9 year old boy try to take care of the group for service and he has no idea what he is doing and yet we females are definitely qualified and we cannot. How about if you have a problem with the body of elders you have to have your husband go and voice your concerns as you will not be labeled a "JEZEBEL." It is like you don't even exist. I didn't mean to come off as harsh but there are many people out there (like myself) who have undergone great injustices and yet we still remember to give everybody a fair chance.......
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My issues with women ...
by The Berean ini have always viewed women as more clever, manipulative, and intelligent than me.
no, i never walked around voicing my bias ... yet, over time, i must confess i have been afraid of the opposite sex.
it has only been in recent times that i have begun to fairly evaluate each individual by their conduct and not their gender.. why do i bring this matter up on this particular site?
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meangirl
Wow, it is so amazing to me that when a man has a bad experience with his "mommy" growing up he in turns grows up and in some way hates all women. If you crunched the numbers you would see that far many more women are victimized by fathers, uncles, brothers, boyfriends, etc. than comparing that with men who are victimized by mothers, aunts, sisters, girlfriends, etc. What is interesting is that these female victims grow up and typically take their frustration out on themselves. However, men who experience the same abuses grow up to be serial killers, serial rapists, molesters, murderers, etc. Oh and I am surprised you left the organization since if you read their articles from the 70's and 80's they go as far as to say "women were to blame for rape because they used boys as sexual objects when they were little".......sounds to me like you need to go back to the organization because there you can take out all of your hatred and disdain for females by opressing them into "submission". You could constantly remind them they are to be "silent" and you could monitor what they wear and counsel them when they are "immodest"......Please do us all a favor and go back.....THANK YOU!
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"Negotiating a Reasonable Bride Price" - anyone seen this article??
by ziddina ini was looking for articles on mennonites on the official wtbts website when this article caught my eye:.
negotiating a reasonable bride-price.
today, as in bible times, some cultures require that a bride-price be paid before a man can marry a woman.
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meangirl
I bought my husband's wedding band myself....so dere!!!