Posts by ambersun

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February 26, 2017 TO ALL BODIES OF ELDERS Re: Witnessing in Public Places

by wifibandit in

february 26, 2017 to all bodies of elders re: witnessing in public places.

and.

february 25, 2017 to all congregations re: magnetic boards and posters for public witnessing.

ambersun

This is very worrying. All my JW family are constantly showing pics of themselves standing by the carts in all sorts of locations, from train stations to public parks, always where there are loads of people.

The weather in the UK is very blustery at the moment and if trees can be uprooted and injure people then so can carts! Not to mention people rushing about not looking where they are going. I will try to tactfully alert my family to the dangers of being unprotected but I won't hold my breath .

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February 26, 2017 TO ALL BODIES OF ELDERS Re: Witnessing in Public Places

by wifibandit in

february 26, 2017 to all bodies of elders re: witnessing in public places.

and.

february 25, 2017 to all congregations re: magnetic boards and posters for public witnessing.

ambersun

I am curious to know how this would affect the "individual publisher" if an accident were to happen and a pedestrian was injured due to tripping over the cart or something similar. Has anything like this ever happened? Would they be left to deal with the situation entirely on their own?

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I Saw 2 JWs Doing Nothing With Their Cart Today

by minimus in

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friends

my girlfriend and i were walking along a seaside boulevard and lo and behold!

2 jws were standing by the pathway.

they made eye contact and said hello.

ambersun

Hmmmm, I use every opportunity I can to remind my JW relatives how cushy life is for them these days.

Back in the 1960s pioneers spent 100 hours every month, in ALL weathers, knocking on peoples' doors the old fashioned way, carrying heavy book bags full of watchtower literature, and were expected to have bible studies, and report a respectable number of literature placements and return visits every month.

Even the rank and file publishers had to do a minimum of 10 hours a month traipsing round the streets placing a respectable amount of Watchtower literature which actually involved making an effort to engage people in conversatioin at every door we visited.

They don't know they're born these days sitting by their little carts playing with their phones. JWs have never had life so cushy .

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Best statement a householder made to get you to leave them alone.

by Esse quam videri in

knocked on a door on a saturday morning.

a window opened on the floor above me.

a grizzled old man stuck his head out and said, " we're all heathens here!

ambersun

how absolutely ridiculous of me to go to the door, during a snowstorm, with my five year old son and have that happen😨

Ahh but don't forget the angels were protecting us all. At least that was what we were told to believe.

As a teenage pioneer working alone for much of the time, I lost count of the dangers I faced. Men opening doors completely naked, total weirdos inviting me in for a "chat", an alcoholic couple inviting me in to a room full of booze and asking me to drink with them. The list goes on.....

Yet my parents believed I was perfectly safe from harm as I was doing Jehovah's work.

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When you were an active WT door knocker... How did you knock?

by LoisLane looking for Superman in

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on the door frame, on the door, door knocker, bell.. loud, very loud, regular, soft... gentle... or just pretended and never knocked at all?

we just had a city worker come a knocking on our front door and my responce after she left was, she should go down to the local kingdom haul and give lessons.

her knock was so loud, she could raise the dead.

ambersun

I am curious about what has happened to your old bold CO.

He sure was a wierd and wonderful personality, a definite "one off". Some of the elders in the congregation used to dread his visits as he was horrible to them, but strangely enough was very kind and supportive of us lowly sisters. He used to call me "honey" . This all happened between 40 and 50 years ago, but apparently he and his wife are still alive and kicking but now are just regular members in a congregation somewhere in the South of England I believe. He must be very old by now!

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Assembly Dramas:They were so bad.... but.... you waited for them to break away from the monotony!

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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you do remember the four day assemblies... sitting outdoors being fried in the sweltering heat,getting heat stroke in the middle of july in an outdoor baseball stadium.sitting outdoors from 9:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. was so much fun while you wore a suit,long sleeve shirt and a tie while your brain fried.

mom's who had children to take care of,lug strollers,feed all the kids,take them for bathroom breaks and try to not faint from the heat.. the sound and audio was always breaking and barely audible from the wind,airplanes flying over and (if you attended the cicero,illinois circuit )you would smell horse manure from the horse stables next door.. you know that you are a jehovah's witness.... when the only excitement waiting for the drama... where brothers and sisters dress up in ancient cloths,fake beards,fake rocks and fake soldier uniforms and wave their hands incessantly to pretend that they are acting out a drama.the excitement was unbearable!.

ambersun

I was in one of those dramas back in the 1960s. The sound was all pre recorded for us to mime to, and being English, I thought it was really cool walking out on stage miming to the dulcet tones of that American sister's gorgeous voice. I have never sounded so good before or since lol.

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When you were an active WT door knocker... How did you knock?

by LoisLane looking for Superman in

jw
friends

on the door frame, on the door, door knocker, bell.. loud, very loud, regular, soft... gentle... or just pretended and never knocked at all?

we just had a city worker come a knocking on our front door and my responce after she left was, she should go down to the local kingdom haul and give lessons.

her knock was so loud, she could raise the dead.

ambersun

This CO turned to me and said,"what's more important, sleep or Jehovahs word.He banged on the door like the police.

Ooh that brings back some seriously cringe worthy memories from my pioneer days! I can remember working with a CO who would bang hard on every door, and if he knew they were in, he wouldn't give up. He would look for another means of access, even getting into their back yards while they were sunbathing !! One poor woman was dozing on a lounger wearing nothing but a skimpy bikini and woke up to find two bible punching wierdos standing over her. She was absolutely terrified! The fact he was trespassing didn't bother him in the slightest, as "Jehovah's word" was far more important.How we didn't end up in a police cell is a mystery!!

Personally, I was always mindful of night workers and sleeping babies, so always knocked quietly and never more than once.

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New "Become Jehovah's Friend" Video - The Ransom

by pale.emperor in

: https://www.jw.org/en/publications/videos/#mediaitems/allvideos/pub-pk_e_26_video.

sickening propaganda for our young ones.

they've laid off on the "armageddon will be here soon" angle and now it's all about "hope".

ambersun

There is certainly no talk about never growing old in this system of things, Elsa will no longer be around to remind them how wrong they were.

How true. Judging by the age of Elsa, she would probably have been in her 40s during the early 1970s when we were all being told as a total certainty that Armageddon was imminent and that "millions now living will never die". The buzz in the air and the feeling of expectation was almost electric at all the conventions during that era.

Now, poor Elsa is dying of old age and probably (secretly) feeling very disappointed and disillusioned. I know this is probably true as I have seen it first hand in elderly witnesses who are still trying to remain faithful but secretly bewildered that the promise of eternal youth in a paradise earth has not come true.

Meanwhile, a distressed Sophia is just being told to "hope" Elsa will be resurrected.

What a sad little video

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How to respond when JW's invite you to the memorial

by krismalone in

the yearly rejection of the blood of christ aka jw memorial is coming soon.. jw's will be engaging in an invitation campaign.

elders are instructed to personally visit inactive ones or faders.

some sarcastic ideas of how to respond to the memorial invitation that will scare or piss off the cult members:.

ambersun

Just say "No, thanks" while eating crackers and washing it down with wine

Ha ha, love it!

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Making life and death/life altering decisions based on commands from someone you're not sure exists

by jambon1 in

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friends

straight from the off, i will say that i'm 100% atheist.

i have no faith.

however, it occurred to me while thinking back over my involvement with the jw religion and especially when i take into account personal and family situations where people have made life altering choices due to being jw's, just how crazy it really is.

ambersun

...but the governing body of JW's DOES exist!!!

I think this says it all really.

Jehovah / Governing Body........Governing Body / Jehovah.......reality / make believe........make believe / reality.......

When you are brain washed, how can you possibly know what reality is?