Posts by exwhyzee

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Wake up CALL! It's time to shake off the JW's attitude/personality!

by StephanieH in

this weekend i found myself again working on my day off, not because i had to i just didn't want to sit at home alone.

when i told my mom on our daily phone call that i was working again over the weekend she told me that she was worried because over the past few months i have been "over working" myself.. when i got home i sat in my apartment alone, tired, and depressed.

i phoned my mother once more and we talked for a long while, and cried together.

exwhyzee

StephanieH, It takes time not to feel guilty for being happy or enjoying ones days as best they can now instead of postponing it until perfection arrives.

I remember people feeling guilty for not feeling guilty enough. Toward the end of my JW career, I began to realize that attending meetings was like going to a funeral 3 times a week. Even at JW get togethers you couldn't get away from it. Someone would have to pray and mention our need for forgiveness, Jesus sacrafice and mention either our desperate need for the new system or strength and endurance to make it through this wicked one. You were never allowed to live in the moment and just enjoy it without being reminded of your own mortality....even at a picnic. Even when we used to go on group camping trips, a Watchtower study reminding us of the nearness of the worlds destruction, was a required activity. It's no wonder so many JW's deal with anxiety. Mine all but dissapeared overnight once I stopped going.

It does take time to develop a lifestyle that fills in the void left after discontinuing something that took up so much time and was the center of your life for a long period. Working unnecessary overtime can prolong the development of needed strengths by avoiding having to deal with the feelings/fears one used to mask by attending meetings.

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Funniest Thing to happen during a meeting?

by truthseeker1969 in

i am sure all of us have laughed at something that happened at the kingdom hall or assembly.. the first one i can think of is a brother giving a talk on voting and saying " why is it that men sit iin pubs and discuss how bad the economy is and the cost of everything and yet when the 'erection" (election) comes up they never do anything about it.. my brother in his best beavis n butthead voioce said " huh huh he said erection".

we sat for the next 45 mins trying hard not to laugh.. of course, i got the look from the elders and the talk about not laughing.. .

exwhyzee

One time a elementary school aged kid was sitting in front of me during the Sunday talk. He asked his Mom to let him get up and go to the bathroom. (typical kid ploy to break up the monotony)After an unusually long time back there, his mother went storming back to see what was taking him so long. The next thing I knew, the snotty wet crying kid was being dragged down the aisle by his collar and was flung into the seat in front of me. Apparently while he was in the bathroom he'd found a pair of scissors in the cabinet under the sink and had given himself a haircut. He had very dark hair and white skin. There were white gouges all over his head where the chunks of hair were missing. (even my Mom was snickering over this one)

My Mom used to play the Piano for the meetings. We had arrived just as the meeting was about to start so she went straight up to the front, sat down at the piano and started taking her coat off. Suddenly she realized that in her haste to get ready, she'd forgotten to put on her dress and only had a slip on under her coat. She managed to play it off OK but we never let her live it down.

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Funniest Thing to happen during a meeting?

by truthseeker1969 in

i am sure all of us have laughed at something that happened at the kingdom hall or assembly.. the first one i can think of is a brother giving a talk on voting and saying " why is it that men sit iin pubs and discuss how bad the economy is and the cost of everything and yet when the 'erection" (election) comes up they never do anything about it.. my brother in his best beavis n butthead voioce said " huh huh he said erection".

we sat for the next 45 mins trying hard not to laugh.. of course, i got the look from the elders and the talk about not laughing.. .

exwhyzee

From up in the stands my son saw a friend sitting in the seats down on the floor snoozing during the assembly session. He knew his phone was in his shirt pocket and set on vibrate, so he texted him " WAKE UP !!! " It was hilarious to see him jerk back to conciousness and scramble to get the phone shut off. Later when the coast was clear he read the text message and looked up into the stands and gave us the stink eye.

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Why are men not allowed to do the bible study parts at the service meeting?

by garbonzo in

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friends

i know why they do it, because the women would complain, but it's not logical, the men need to be trained on how to conduct a bible study with a student, also.

if it doesn't matter, why are the sisters doing it?

just to give them something to do?

exwhyzee

Other than during the Bible Study parts in the service meeting, I can only think of one other activity that Women must do from a seated position that men are able to do while standing up.

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Every study article is an exercise in the BITE method

by Mickey mouse in

10-20 years ago you would get a mix of different types of wt study articles.

they generally fell into one of a number of categories: prophecy, bible characters, facets of the fruitages of the holy spirit, aspects of jehovah's personality, creation, the new system etc.. now it goes like this:.

obey the faithful slave, stay of the internet, do more, obey the faithful slave, stay of the internet, do more.....rinse and repeat.. it's no wonder the dubs have all become brain dead.

exwhyzee

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Sting / Police - Your Favorite Songs ? You-tubes Welcome !

by flipper in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vaqx1y1cce.

exwhyzee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27gTrPPAyk

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Music-related jw urban myths

by rebel8 in

i was researching a few....whew...did they ever bother to *think for themselves* or did they just believe every demon-related rumor they heard?

(rhetorical question).

stevie nicks was a witch.

exwhyzee

Here's another harmless little ditty that when played backwards one could clearly hear them repeating over and over, the fruitages of the spirit...love, joy, peace, long suffering.... and other such upbuilding talk. Against this song...there was no law.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8

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Music-related jw urban myths

by rebel8 in

i was researching a few....whew...did they ever bother to *think for themselves* or did they just believe every demon-related rumor they heard?

(rhetorical question).

stevie nicks was a witch.

exwhyzee

"Crystal Blue Persuasion" by Tommy James and the Shondrels was popular when the blue covered "TRUTH BOOK" was released at the summer DC....which was the "Summer of Love" for the rest of the world. Everyone said Tommy James was studying when he wrote the hit song about the TRUTH BOOK so all the Witness Kids got to play it with impunity. My Dad had a mint condition 1962 19 window VW bus and we camped out of it during the 8 day assembly that summer. With all our gear on the rack and flower power stickers on the bumpers, the hippies honked and waved at us thinking we were one of them. Years later when I was 17 I got baptized at the International Assembly in Vancouver Canada. Glen Campell was supposed to have been getting baptized as well and people were running around looking for him so they could get him to sign their Kingdom song book. They made an announcement about how this was improper of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M0r1iSeiHU

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Damn you Kingdom Melodies! Damn you to hell...

by unshackled in

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i haven't been anywhere near a jw meeting or convention in at least 8 or 9 years.

but this afternoon, i'm doing some weed trimming and suddenly realized i had this lyric playing in my head...over and over.... .

"ours is the god of true prophecy,.

exwhyzee

We want to be free from all selfishness.

We want to be fighters for this Reich

Named Germany, our home.

We will never forget that we are German.

These words can still bring a tear to the eye of an old timer when he recalls how he once sang them with great earnestness along with his comerades in the Hitler Youth

Music has long been used to rouse people to a cause and stir them into action. It reaches places that mere words can't and has is always utalized by dictators, political leaders and religious groups to sway the listeners reasoning skills from a place of logic to one of emotion. I still get a Kindom melody or two stuck in my head...but I also still sing "My Baloney has a first name....It's O .S. C. A. R... My baloney has a second name, it's M .A. Y. E. R"

This was intentionally planned by the advertizing folks on Madison Ave. to get millions to buy their brand...and it worked, but that doesn't mean they are the best out there...it only means I fell for it.

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If Men Could Menstruate

by mrsjones5 in

if men could menstruateby gloria steinem.

a white minority of the world has spent centuries conning us into thinking that a white skin makes people superior - even though the only thing it really does is make the more subject to ultraviolet rays and to wrinkles.

male human beings have built whole cultures around the idea that penis envy is "natural" to women - though having such an unprotected organ might be said to make men vulnerable, and the power to give birth makes womb envy at least as logical.in short, the characteristics of the powerful, whatever they may be, are thought to be better than the characteristics of the powerless - and logic has nothing to do with it.what would happen, for instance, if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate and women could not?the answer is clear - menstruation would become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event:men would brag about how long and how much.boys would mark the onset of menses, that longed-for proof of manhood, with religious ritual and stag parties.congress would fund a national institute of dysmenorrhea to help stamp out monthly discomforts.sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free.

exwhyzee

Don't you think that this whole menstruation business was a major design flaw anyway ? Seems like there could have been a better way to go about all that.

And another thing that never made sense is why our mouths are located way up on our faces. If we'd have been made with our mouths, down on our stomachs, we could just sit up to the table and shove the all the food in. Nobody would choke to death or drip food on themselves. Or when we bursh our teeth all we'd have to do is stand up to the sink and brush away...no muss no fuss.

Somebody just wasn't thinkin when they designed us. LOL !

(then again....you'd have to unbutton your shirt to eat and kissing would be kinda strange....maybe I better rethink this whole thing.....never mind )