It never happened to me, but it did happen to a JW friend of mine. She was close friends with this RP who is mentally unstable and known for her ruthless behavior. They would go on some return visits and conduct bible studies together. My associate found this one study who expressed enthusiasm about her bible studies. The RP went with her on a couple of them and decided to return on this said study on her own and would conduct studies without my friend's knowledge. Eventually, the RP took the study away from my friend and pretty much told her that her status as a RP outranked her ability to keep the study. Pathetic. I never understood nor cared about the whole status thing that goes on in a congregation.
Girlie
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did any body have calls and studies pinched off them
by RosePetal inover the years my hubby and i would auxilliary pionneer and start studies and develope calls that would take magazines regularly and invite us in.
as hubby wasn't a ministerial servant at the time elders ministerial servants and reg pioneers felt they were more worthy to have the studies and calls and would find a way to take them from us.
one ministerial servant told our study who started attending meetings that he should be taking their study and succeeded in taking it over..
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How Much are Your Conditional Friends Worth?
by leavingwt inupon learning that wt was not "god's organization", i was devastated.
for two decades i had spent valuable time building friendships, mostly with jws.
during my stay at bethel, i made many fine friends, some of them very close.
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I hear you LWT.
For myself, I abandoned a great majority of my friends within the borg. I saw it as making their work easy for them since they weren't real friends anyway.
However, there is one that I keep in contact with for right now, although our friendship is starting to fade. It is a heavy price to pay, but for my mental and emotional freedom, I am willing to make such payment.
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Girlie
I am with a volunteer organization in my neck of the woods and the work varies. 2 weeks ago, I assisted in feeding homeless women. This Sat. I am suppose to assist with a Shamrock Fest through this same organization, but will decline due to personal business and a date.
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Finally Erased them OUT of my phone!
by babygirl30 init's been about going on 2yrs that i've been df'd and not even 1yr that i stopped going to the khall at all...but...i'm proud to say that as of last night i was going through my phone and decided that i needed to just cut out all those people that didn't matter anymore!
you know, the old jw 'friends' (use that term loosely) whose numbers i've held onto all this time and don't need anymore.
i mean, never going to bother with these people again.
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I'm not even out yet and have already managed to erase the many of them out of my life.
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Did you read the literature?
by WuzLovesDubs ininitially i suppose i did.
i know i over studied the articles for the wt study because i thought my enthusiasm as a study would make me more accepted.
but after awhile i didnt read the awakes at all except for a cursory glance because i was giving them to people.
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Sometimes, if I thought it was of interest or felt it was applicable to my situation. Most of the time, I didn't bother.
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How do you handle JW encounters?
by Girlie inso this past saturday, i stopped over at my parents' home to take care of some business.
as my brother dropped me off in front of the house, lo and behold, the witnesses from my previous congregation were parked right in front of my parents' home.
damn..... they were in a car group working a frequent rv who lives next door to my folks.
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LOL @ troubled mind. Good for you!!! It is very sad that they actually do believe that a person can't experience any real joy and happiness on this planet. They always assume that once a person leaves the faith, they fall into the snares of the Devil and get involved in all kinds of immoral activity or are empty and on the verge of suicide. Total BS!
Chris, another pm!
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How do you handle JW encounters?
by Girlie inso this past saturday, i stopped over at my parents' home to take care of some business.
as my brother dropped me off in front of the house, lo and behold, the witnesses from my previous congregation were parked right in front of my parents' home.
damn..... they were in a car group working a frequent rv who lives next door to my folks.
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Christopher, you have a pm.
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How do you handle JW encounters?
by Girlie inso this past saturday, i stopped over at my parents' home to take care of some business.
as my brother dropped me off in front of the house, lo and behold, the witnesses from my previous congregation were parked right in front of my parents' home.
damn..... they were in a car group working a frequent rv who lives next door to my folks.
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LOL @ SD.
If only it were that simple. lol
P.S. - PM me!
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How do you handle JW encounters?
by Girlie inso this past saturday, i stopped over at my parents' home to take care of some business.
as my brother dropped me off in front of the house, lo and behold, the witnesses from my previous congregation were parked right in front of my parents' home.
damn..... they were in a car group working a frequent rv who lives next door to my folks.
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Girlie
LOL @ Keyser and Sacolton.
Again, thank you all for your comments. I'll continue to read up as much as possible here and eventually get the suggested books to read that will help me be more informed and confident in where I stand should another encounter like this occur again.
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How do you handle JW encounters?
by Girlie inso this past saturday, i stopped over at my parents' home to take care of some business.
as my brother dropped me off in front of the house, lo and behold, the witnesses from my previous congregation were parked right in front of my parents' home.
damn..... they were in a car group working a frequent rv who lives next door to my folks.
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Girlie
Same here. Thank you all for your comments. I greatly appreciate it.