it was the summer of '72.
i was 24 but had been the presiding overseer or congregation servant of a small congregation in the county seat of an arkansas county for about 3 years.. my regular pioneer wife of nearly four years was big and pregnant, with our attempts at birth control unsuccessful.. one of my wife's several bible studies was with a young woman named brenda whom my wife had encountered in door to door work.. brenda had two young children she could barely handle and was married to a very countryfied arkie named henry who worked as a chicken catcher, one of the most difficult jobs at the local chicken plant.. brenda eventually revealed that she'd been raised as a jw, but was never baptized, having left home to marry henry at age 14. she spoke of her family in texas, mentioning her mother and two older sisters, all jws she said.. one morning, just before the meeting for field service, we noticed a small car in kingdom hall parking lot.
my wife and i were parked to one side of the hall in our aluminum nashua house trailer.. two young women got out of the car and soon joined us for the meeting for service, identifying themselves as brenda's sisters from texas.. the two girls, ages 17 and 20, were distractingly beautiful, with the eldest decked out like a magnificent southern belle including hat and heels, her high-end clothing accentuating her very obvious curves.. with no one else showing up for field service, it ended up just the four of us in the car group with the two texas girls in the back seat.. starting our time at a not-at-home, the 20 year old asked if she could accompany me to "hear my presentation.
Looking back, there’ve been one or two “worldy” women who expressed an interest in me, but I was too clueless to recognize it for what it was till long after the fact.
(I’ve always had difficulty believing women find me physically attractive, even despite the fact that my wife insists I am. Seriously.)
great photo, doykl.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6277858037596160/je-sus-making-comeback-2024-convention.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5102163622100992/visited-auschwitz-two-days-ago.
re. Ron‘s Santa Herd pic…
It’s actually kinda freaky how well that comes together.
I’m actually imagining Sammy coming across it, sighing wistfully, and thinking “…in another life…”
😏
i think someone else noticed this here recently.
i wondered when i signed on today july 9, 2024, that even the avatars were missing.
does simon know?
This place will never be normal.
Nor should it be.
😏
i was thinking about the male children ( even unbaptized ) being placed ahead of the sisters.
; and i thought the jw were raising a bunch of misogynist.
would these kids not feel more important than their mothers let alone other women.
You know you got problems when both answers are wrong. 😏
i think someone else noticed this here recently.
i wondered when i signed on today july 9, 2024, that even the avatars were missing.
does simon know?
I haven’t been able to post functioning GIFs in years.
great photo, doykl.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6277858037596160/je-sus-making-comeback-2024-convention.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5102163622100992/visited-auschwitz-two-days-ago.
It’s the Bethel hackers!
They’re Topshelfing us!!!
😵💫
i have heard or read, many times by many exjw's, that the org does not remove the blood transfusion ban because it would be crippled by the resulting lawsuits the minute that "new light" was made official.i am not a lawyer, but i would like to know what legal opinion lawyers have on that.on what legal basis would there be a lawsuit?
"i am suing the watchtower because my relative died because of a rule they had but no longer have"?am i missing something?.
Might be some pretty angry nonJWs with dead JW family members, though.
i could be mr. green and, due to mistrust considering the times and what is happening, study with the jws as mr. brown.. get baptized as mr. brown.. become one of their congregation elders as mr. brown.. etc.
etc.. all this since i am not required to provide any signature and/or document to identify myself as mr. brown.. are they complying with human law?
but which law?.
I see it being brought up over on Reddit more and more lately, so the word’s getting around.
i have heard or read, many times by many exjw's, that the org does not remove the blood transfusion ban because it would be crippled by the resulting lawsuits the minute that "new light" was made official.i am not a lawyer, but i would like to know what legal opinion lawyers have on that.on what legal basis would there be a lawsuit?
"i am suing the watchtower because my relative died because of a rule they had but no longer have"?am i missing something?.
markwetherill - “If the blood doctrine was removed, that'd be one less thing for JWs to feel smug and superior about.”
Honestly?
I don’t think there are all that many rank-and-filers who feel particularly smug about it.
i was thinking about the male children ( even unbaptized ) being placed ahead of the sisters.
; and i thought the jw were raising a bunch of misogynist.
would these kids not feel more important than their mothers let alone other women.
DesirousOfChange - “…Apparently, WT HQ has determined that getting these young people (I mean boys) involved in Cong activities will keep them interested in future goals/positions.”
At this point, the only young guys who’d aspire toward positions in a repressive ultraconservative church are so unskilled and socially crippled, they have virtually no other life prospects.
