Posts by exwhyzee

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New Position - Flashlight holder - Are you qualified?

by Quarterback in

jw
friends

just got the word that we have a third theocratic ministry school.

this will be in a part of the kh that has poor lighting.

i know that many will need the assistance of additional lighting.

exwhyzee

In addition to possessing the same qualities as the ministry school bell ringer, the flashlight holder would be a parking attendant for evening meetings and not have in his possession a "bushel basket" lest his flashlight become hidden under it.

( Did anyone else have a ministry school bell ringer at your hall ? It was "unscriptural" for little girls to do but it was a big deal for us as little boys to be asked to keep track of time in the ministry school and "ding" the bell if someone went over time...which was fun and you always hoped it would happen. I remember a really old sister reaching over and dinging the bell during the closing prayer that was going on and on....everyone though I did it )

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Did your parents HATE the TV show Father Knows Best?

by 3rdgen in

boy, mine did.

leave it to beaver, donna reid, ossie and harriet made them squirm.

any show that depicted kind fathers, happy nurturing mothers, and normal kids getting to do normal kid things made them cranky and me sad.

exwhyzee

Can you imagine Wally and Beaver doing field service?

And they run into Lumpy Rutherford at the door? He'd give them "the business" at school the next day.

Or smarmy Eddie Haskell knocking on a door and saying to the lady of the house . " My that's a stunning housedress you're wearing today Mrs Jones"

Eddie would have been on public reproof most of his teen years for sure.

If Larry Mondello was a Witness he'd say to Miss Landers. " Gee Miss Landers, my Father is on a business trip to Cincinatti but he says I can't come to the class Christmas Party on account of us being true christians and all"

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Did your parents HATE the TV show Father Knows Best?

by 3rdgen in

boy, mine did.

leave it to beaver, donna reid, ossie and harriet made them squirm.

any show that depicted kind fathers, happy nurturing mothers, and normal kids getting to do normal kid things made them cranky and me sad.

exwhyzee

Those shows were much like how the Watchtower portrayed the ideal Witness family. Mother in a dress and always deferring to her husband, Dad had a tie and always knew the solution to every problem, boys had short hair and the girs was in a starched dress at all times. They thought it was laughable that a non Witness family could have such high standards but it was totaly plausable if this type of family was portrayed on an assembly part.

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Is Field Service really a Commandment?

by Quarterback in

jw
friends

heard something strange last week.

a speaker in the congregation said that you must preach.

he stated that this is a commandment.

exwhyzee

Has anyone seen a scripture indicating that the average member of the early christian congregations engaged in the same preaching activity as the apostles did or that they used printed publications to explain Gods Word ?

By printing all these publications, JW's are indicating that reading God's word the Bible isn't a good enough way to know God. It must be broken down by men who think they know what it is saying better than you do. God's holy spirit isn't powerful enough to open your eyes to his message wihtout their aid in the matter.

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Research studies on the mental health of Jehovahs Witnesses

by Doug Mason in

research studies on the mental health of jehovahs witnesses.

http://www.jwstudies.com/scandinavian_medicine_march_8_1946.pdf.

http://www.jwstudies.com/paradise_postponed_jerry_bergman.pdf.

exwhyzee

Marked

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Is shunning scriptural? At all?

by Open mind in

it's obvious that the jw view of shunning goes way beyond anything called for in the bible.

1 cor 5:11-13 says,(nwt) "but now i am writing you to quit mixing in company with anyone called a brother that is a fornicator or a greedy person or an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard or an extortioner, not even eating with such a man.

for what do i have to do with judging those outside?

exwhyzee

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Your most DISTURBING WATCHTOWER Bethel/Branch experience? (No full names please)

by Balaamsass in

ok.. you 70 plus bethelite members.... this is your chance to share stories!

inquiring minds want to know !no full names please..follow t.o.s.

to avoid borg libel lawsuits).. i will start the ball rolling with week one.

exwhyzee

It was a hot New York afternoon and I walked in to my room and saw my new room mate (who I hadn't met yet) laying on his bed in only his boxers. From what I could tell, he was having an erotic dream because his "little Bethelite " was out and having a look around and seemed to like what it was seeing. I quietly backed out of the room and shut the door softly. I waited a minute then knocked loudly and waited a tic so he would have a chance to wake up and put things away.

Another time I was at the Bethel pool. (more like a very large hot tub) I was by myself until Bro. Sydlik came and got in the pool as well. (old guy in a bathing suit ewww) I knew him from sitting at the GB table so we sort of just nodded to eachother and didn't say anyting. (awkward) Then the door to the mens changing room opened and a guy walked out stark naked. He looked completly exhausted as if he was sleep walking. He climbed in the water but as he lowered himself into the water he suddenly realized he didn't have anything on. He quickly went back in the changing room and Bro. Sydlik followed him. I could hear Sydlik giving him a lecture in a raised tone. Sydlik came back but the other guy never returned. I didn't know where to look or what to say (even more awkward)

One evening at dinner time a guy suddenly burst through the double swinging doors into the dining room swinging his arms and bookbag in the air shouting " I'M GOING OUT IN SERVICE IN HARLEM....ANYONE WHO WANTS TO GO WITH ME...COME ON !!" A couple of brothers grabbed him under the arms and dragged him kicking and screaming out of there backwards....he was never seen again. By the time I had been there a few weeks, the Bethel laundry had shrunk all of my clothes and underear. (hot water and industrial dryers) I replaced what I could afford to replace and was determined this wouldn't happen again. I started doing my own laundry in the regular washing machine and dryer they had in the basement. I had my stuff on washing and was sitting there reading and waiting when a middle aged "sister" came in to the laundry room with her basket of clothes and was pissed that the machine was in use. She opened up the washer and just took my soapy wet stuff out an threw it in a laundry cart and put her things in the machine. I protested, but I was a lowly "newboy" so she completly ignored me as if I wasn't there. Being new and young, I didn't know if she was the wife of somebody important and I didn't want to make waves....boy I'd love to have that happen now !

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What initial did make you have doubts about the "truth"? Was it apostasy?

by Joey Jo-Jo in

this question is different from what made you leave.. as for me, i wanted to take one step further, to be more involved in the organization, but i had some very old small doubts, about other religions, so i started my liberal study on religion, i read books from other churchs to reffute them, but in fact created more doubts about the org..

exwhyzee

At a time when our family was very vulnerable, a very close Witness friend who I've known since my teens and is like the big Sister I never had, sent me an email with an attachment of the article about Rutherford's San Diego mansion and how he built it for the returning patriarchs. She thought it was so interesting and wonderfully historic and was sending it to all her contacts. For me it was shocking to think that I had been A Witness all my life and had never heard of this nonsense. If this flake was one of the founding fathers of the religion, and came up with this crazy scheme, what other beliefs did he come up with that were complete nonsense? I began to think that if my Mother (and others) would have been able to actually meet these people in real life, she might have viewed them as lunatics and fanatics and would never have gotten us tangled up in this religion.

The friend who sent me that original email hasn't contacted us in a few years because I'm sure she got the word that we're out of the TRUTH. If she only knew that it was her email that was one of the straws that broke the camel's back.....

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What is the stupidest comment you ever heard at a meeting?

by 3rdgen in

a very reliable friend told me this: the bro was commenting on what was "unacceptable" conduct in the bedroom between married persons.

needless to say, he had everyone's attention.

he went on to say "we must avoid perversions such as oral and annual sex.

exwhyzee

While discussing a WT article on higher education one of our more enlightened (Janitor/ Carpet Cleaner) Elders commented smugly, "A College education can make you smarter, but it can also "SMART" you right out of THE TRUTH ! Many thought this to be quite profound and lots of heads could be seen nodding in approval all over the Hall.

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My story in more detail

by freshstart in

so as i stated in my first post, i was born to witness parents.

from early on, my parents were both quite fanatical about the "truth.

" we couldn't even eat lucky charms cereal because they thought it had satanic connections.

exwhyzee

So sorry to hear of your ordeal....so glad to hear you are in counseling because what you described to us here is something that will take sheer determination to put behind you. You must be a strong person to have endured all that and still have come away from it as well as you have. You are to be congratulated! All the best to you and your little family....keep the little guy away from your brother and the grandparents, never leave him unattended around them. My guess is they are still capable of repeating their previous offenses against you.