Posts by snakeface

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Having the Circuit Oversear over for dinner...was it like a royal visit for you??

by Witness 007 in

i rang a sister who i haven't spoken to for years who said "she couldn't talk since she was cooking for the c.o and his wife who have special dietary needs......was this like a royal visits at your cong and whats with the "we can't eat flour, or yeast" or blah blah blah!

!.

snakeface

There was on particular CO I really liked, so on his next visit I had them over for dinner. Used the good china, crystal stemware, did a home-cooked, 5 course gourmet meal from scratch. Rolls from scratch, salad dressing from scratch, cheesecake from scratch....went all out. It was really nice. Served champagne too. A few weeks later I got appointed MS.

Later we got a new CO who was grumpy. He and his wife had a long list of things they supposedly could not eat. Ordinary things like corn. I took them to an All -You-Can-Eat place and they went crazy eating all the desserts especially chocolate cake. I quickly went to the store next door and bought chocolate for them. That's all they ate were about 6 or 7 desserts each and the whole package of chocolate that I sneaked into the restaurant. The CO told me he found it amusing that when a congregation knows he's coming they clean the place and all the elders and MS get haircuts and everyone is on their best behavior till he leaves.

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"Field Service Groups" are more important now than ever before?

by easyreader1970 in

the scare bells are ringing again in the congregations.

this past week, the field service group leader/commander/overlord/whatever made a pretty lengthy announcement that, going forward, the field service groups are going to be of the utmost importance as we wind down towards the end here.

while no indication on when this end might actually be, it was hinted that we might not always have access to the congregation proper and that the few families that are part of the fsg would have to become close knit that they might depend on one another when things get ugly.. i haven't read everything that has passed through the wbts' sphincter lately, but did i miss something?

snakeface

Yeah they used to say that about the book study groups, that we all might have to share a house together if others lose their homes/jobs due to persecution.

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Why I stopped the Bookstudy - Field Service from my home

by Witness 007 in

snakeface

I had a book study in my home in the mid-1990's. My living room was very large; we had about 22 or 23 in attendance and plenty of room for at least 12 or 15 cars. We would clean the house and set up the chairs the night before.

People would show up 40 or 45 minutes early. I was usually in the shower at that time. (One time an elderly sister arrived even earlier than that. I didn't even know she was in the house, and I came out of the shower naked and started walking to my bedroom to get dressed. Normally I would lock the door until I was dressed and ready for people to start walking in but I guess this time I had forgotten. ) Instead of pulling their cars in to allow others to pull in behind them, the early ones would park so that no one else could get in. Latecomers would park blocking neighbors' driveways; we'd often have neighbors coming and ringing the doorbell during the study asking people to move their cars. I would always turn off the ringers on all the phones so we wouldn't be interrupted. Some people started bringing their newly-interested Bible students with all their kids. We'd keep discovering that items were missing from the house, and things would get broken. Things like faucets, light switches, and doorknobs. The conductor always wanted the heat and air conditioning at extreme temperatures, resulting in higher electric bills. After the meeting, if it wasn't goodie night (which lasted till after 11PM) the conductor wanted everyone to stay and rehearse field service presentations or demonstrations for the upcoming service meeting.

The group also met at my house for Saturday field service. After field service they all wanted to come inside again, to use the bathroom and the phone. Eventually I told the elders it had become burdensome and was taking time away from my personal study and family study. So the group was moved elsewhere "temporarily".

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ipods and iphones at the meetings

by Aussie Oz in

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friends

while showing my daughter where to find the official jw website and jwfacts as well as my personal file on jws,.

she remarked while looking at the download page of watchtower and awake!

at jworg.

snakeface

Last year during the CO visit I noticed that the CO's wife had an iPad or something, and she was looking up each scripture on it. She even used it to pull up scriptures fro her comments.

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Overheard JW Phone Conversation

by new light in

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friends

i was sitting down to lunch yesterday when i heard the man at the table behind me say into his phone "yeah, it's going to be hard since they want us to pioneer in april.".

of course, i was all ears at this point.

next thing i could pick up over the din of a crowded restaurant was "he has to go to the meetings for a year before he can come back.

snakeface

Good observation, Palimpsest. I remember as a single brother, I was expected to do more in the congregation - more hours in service and so on. Meanwhile, a married brother did not have to do his laundry, shopping, cooking, cleaning, or anything else except work the same number of hours I did. He at least had a stay-at-home wife who would do these things for him.

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Overheard JW Phone Conversation

by new light in

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friends

i was sitting down to lunch yesterday when i heard the man at the table behind me say into his phone "yeah, it's going to be hard since they want us to pioneer in april.".

of course, i was all ears at this point.

next thing i could pick up over the din of a crowded restaurant was "he has to go to the meetings for a year before he can come back.

snakeface

Interesting that he said, "...they want us to pioneer in April..." rather than, "...I would like to pioneer in April..."

49

Was I threatened by a student?

by laverite in

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friends

well, the new semester has just started.

as some of you know, i'm a college professor.

i was in my large lecture course yesterday (a couple hundred students).

snakeface

laverete, I would take it seriously. If you don't know his identity, why not ask him his name? Perhaps ask the class some questions, audience participation style. As you call on each one, ask them their names. Then if he takes the bait and raises his hand, call on him and ask his name.

Also, maybe you can discreetly get a photo of him with your cell phone.

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I was walking my dog and JWs told me about some good news!

by moshe in

well, it was a nice morning to take my dog for a walk and about a mile from my home i met a car load of jws working the condos.

two brothers hit on me before they went back to their car.

apparently they hadn't been able to talk to anyone this morning -10:30am, so they were eager to find a stooge who would listen to them.. i immediately decided i wouldn't talk about their doctrine, so i jumped on the flood of noah after they got the intros out of the way.

snakeface

I was walking my dog when some sisters came along. One set her bookbag down on the sidewalk while she offered literature. My dog lifted his leg and peed. The pee went inside the bag.

20

Your favorite meeting ever.

by 2tone in

id like everyone to share there most memorable meeting attendance they had.

for whatever reason.

id like to thank everyone for there comments who read my introduction post.

snakeface

One Sunday, when I had given the public talk, a visiting sister came up to me after the meeting and said, "I want you to f*** me."

A few months later I gave the "special talk" and kept looking in the audience.....

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Holiday field circus: From both sides of the door

by WTWizard in

here is what it is like to those on the inside of the door:.

the children got up about an hour earlier than normal.

obviously, they are anxious to start opening up the presents under the tree (and most children are not going to want to sleep in on christmas morning).

snakeface

I would never go in service on holidays because I knew the people would be busy celebrating, and even have family members visiting, so it would be rude of me to interrupt them.

Telemarketers don't call on holidays, so why would we go out in field service on those days?

I am not a sports fan but I had enough sense not to go in service during the Super Bowl.