now that the grand boasting sessions are well under way, now is a good time to discuss what they are restricting on supplies there.
the "one towel" rule is quite famous by now.
however, i have heard scattered reports that they are rationing things like toilet paper as well.
I remember having to go to the service counter at assemblies to ask for women's products because they were afraid women would steal them from the stalls. They would give you one maxipad in a small bag that said "Sanitary Napkin" on it -- yes, written in black right on it -- and then you'd have to walk across the lobby to the bathroom while carrying it.
So that was a lot of fun as a teenager.
just got word that the costa rican branch is being closed and the buildings sold.
ive read some things here but cant remember why.. why?.
I've also heard the eastern Caribbean is getting taken over by another Bethel, but no word yet on which one. I'm guessing U.S. for now, since it would need to be an English-speaking one.
i mention this in a diff thread for a reason of a question i asked, but feel it's important for all to see and know.
1950 and prior, we have the watchtower library.
so save your cd's, that's authentic evidence for the future.
Jerry Bergman wrote a fascinating account of Watchtower and Watchtower-related books in academic libraries. Many cases of vandalism have been reported....
That's why you don't put those books on open stacks. With closed collections, you have to a) demonstrate to the chief archivist through a formal application why you require access (usually restricted to Master's/PhD candidates only) and b) be supervised in your use of them. This is also why a central collection is important. Having books scattered all over the country, especially through open-stack arrangements, is just asking for trouble and ensuring that we lose more and more each year.
It looks like he's trying to expand the holdings at Princeton. That's a good thing, but unfortunately, there are no active JW scholars at Princeton to my knowledge. It would be great to have a separate collection at a university with an established faculty on the subject, which is what I'm working on. The more collections, the better!
i mention this in a diff thread for a reason of a question i asked, but feel it's important for all to see and know.
1950 and prior, we have the watchtower library.
so save your cd's, that's authentic evidence for the future.
I'm relieved to see posts like this.
I'm in the process of securing a grant to start the first major university collection of WTBTS material, to be used by researchers in order to both a) understand the WTBTS and b) understand NRMs in general and how they grow/thrive. This will give us a centralized location for these texts in order to make sure they survive, without doctoring by the JWs. (Something to think about: Everyone trusts the CD-ROMs, but should we really be doing that?)
Burning books or taking them to the landfill might give you catharsis, but I think it would feel even better to box them up and ship them off to be made public so that everyone else can see once and for all what was said. To me, that would be the ultimate revenge, not burning away all the evidence.
(And if anyone ever wants to get rid of books, let me know. Hopefully, I'll have a website up soon to start collecting book donations. Just waiting on approval from my institution.)
ok...i need to vent.
i just finished writing a letter to my leasing office in regards to my own cousin.
she is a jw of course, and has lately been less than courteous with us because we are d'ad and i have honestly had enough!
Having worked in a professional office as both a letter-writer and letter-reader dealing with similar issues, I have to say that Scully's letter (with the proposed revision above) is the way to go. As general advice for everyone, never send a letter like this without dates and other concrete details. That's how you make your case best.
It will be interesting to see if your cousin brings up the religious issue when speaking with her supervisor. If she does, I have to think she'll be in some serious hot water.
I admit that I have some of the same concerns others raised about the issue of going to her home (above and beyond what's required of her), but that could actually backfire against her in the sense that, as mean as she was to you, she was actually giving preferential treatment to you as a customer by taking them to her home and meeting with you after hours. The professional thing she should have done would have been to find a way to get them to you during business hours, even if it involved sticking them in the mail for you. I imagine that will be something her manager notices immediately as problematic. You never, ever have clients go to someone's personal home for a business matter, even if it's in the complex. Too many liabilities there.
In any case, best wishes with this!
greetings, fellow posters, happy couples, resigned singles:.
i know many of you are happily partnered, irrespective of wt rules and regulations on "appropriate" matches.. if you have had a so-called unscriptural divorce and are or were known as a jw, have you dated, lived with another person - a "significant other" - or remarried?.
if you can answer "yes" to any of the above, what were the consequences for you amongst jw family and friends?.
This is my mother's story, not mine, but:
She divorced without grounds in the mid-'80s. The elders said nothing; her assumption was always that they figured she was better off not being married to a non-believer any longer. About two years later, she remarried. Their objection was that she married another non-believer, but she didn't lose privileges.
At the same time, I personally know people who got DFed -- really -- for marrying non-believers. This was in the '90s, when we seemed to have a really intense crackdown in our area on marrying outsiders. (The '8os were more lenient, for whatever reason.) I am continually told that marrying a non-believer is not a DF-able offense, but at least in my congregation and a few surrounding ones, it was treated that way. We all know renegade elders sometimes go off and do their own thing, so that's all I chalk it up to.
there are several persistent misconceptions that have been repeated almost to the point where they've become common knowledge in xjw circles.
i don't know how this happens or why, but if you're going to discuss doctrine with a jw, i think it is important to understand what they believe, when they believed it and why.. i hope nobody thinks i'm being a pain in the neck for pointing these out because that's not my intent.
all the jw's i know will reject your entire line of thought if you commit even one tiny technical error regardless of whether this affects your conclusion or not.. with that in mind, here are three:.
Wow, this is fantastic. Thank you for taking the time to work on this.
it'll start in a couple of minutes... or at least in this half hour... he announced the story that was discussed here last week.... coffee .
Rerun is about to start here on the East Coast...I'll be watching.
The Cong. where he wants to go can just hook him up via telephone.
They've phased out the dial-in option at my old Hall because people were using it as an "excuse" to not go. (Well, yeah, no kidding!) You can't even use it now if you're sick or homebound.
has anyone here ever been affiliated with this congregation?
i have..
I was never a member, but I used to attend meetings a few times a year due to family in town. I was in the same circuit, a few towns away.
i'm sure topics like this have already come up but they tend to get hilarious with the absolute absurdity that goes on in the kh.
i was once counseled for not shaving after two days.
i was also counseled by a sister for eating lucky charms cereal.
He wanted to get his rocks off. I have had a family member who was asked questions VERY inappropriate questions during a JC. I swear some get off on other's activites and go off into perv fantasy land.
I was assaulted by someone outside the congregation when I was 12. My mother told the elders and they decided to come have a "counseling" session with me, alone, in my bedroom. They demanded graphic details of everything that happened. There was absolutely no reason for them to do that. Combined with the previous incident I cited, I'm pretty sure I'm justified in thinking they were absolutely horrific creatures who got off on tormenting young girls. I only feel fortunate that I wasn't assaulted by one of them, especially since a friend of mine in the congregation had to endure that. Lowlifes.
