When I was 16 I was asked to play piano for a friend's wedding at the KH. I borrowed a beautiful floral floor length dress from my sister. It was pastel colors, nothing bright, not something that would bring me a lot of attention. The neckline was a round scoop, rather low, but didn't show any cleavage, even tho I am rather well endowed. Some sister left me a note telling me that my attire was inappropriate, too revealing, etc., etc, etc. She didn't have the nerve to sign her name. I was a little surprised that my clothing was not appropriate - my father, Brother Perfect Elder, did not voice any objections to my choice of clothing. Hmmmmm....
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Would You Wear This... Approved WTBTS Attire
by misspeaches inmy mum used to always tell me i should model myself on the clothes that we see people wearing in the wtbts propoganda.
have you seen the clothes those people wear?
errrk i mean there wasn't a bit of fashion about them.
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Being a JW mother, I really don't understand how these women do it.
by Dragonlady76 inwhile reading through some threads, i sometimes wonder what my life would have been like if i had stayed a jw and had kids.
i now have a 23 month old son, that's very active, i can not begin to imagine what torture it would be for both of us to attend meetings or go out in field service.
i would be expected to keep him still the whole time without toys, snacks, books or any sort of distraction at all, except maybe the my book of bible stories.
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mrs rocky2
We let our girls have notepads and pencils and of course, My Book of Bible Stories. We didn't care if they drew pictures or if they wrote stories, as long as they were quiet. They did really well, although they grew up being perfectionists! They have been very hard on themselves through school, including college. Both are Dean's list at their universities. We credit this to the pressure we had to teach them to behave as perfect as possible (this could be an entire topic along). When they were tiny we did some spanking through their double layer cloth diapers - made a lot of noise, probably scared them more than it hurt them physically - we are not proud of this. By the time they were 3-years old they were sitting still through most of those boring meetings. We looked forward to their wiggles and giggles at conventions tho. Gave us an excuse to get up and get our circulation going again! In retrospect, the only reason we looked forward to convention/assemblies was to see people from other congregations we hadn't seen since the last convention/assembly. The afternoon sessions were always a challenge for even the adults. We would get so sleepy! Poor little ones! they should have been tucked into their little beds for a nap and wake to milk and cookies and a trip to the park.
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No Clapping at Wild Statements at DC????!!!!
by hamsterbait ini just read a post that said the audience was not obediently clapping at the convention when the speakers made wild statements (presumably with the rising nazi voice).
did anyone else notice this.. will others look out for it at their dc and tell us?.
i'm not going.. bwaaaaahhhhhhh.
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mrs rocky2
Blondie, I believe that JWs don't clap after a speaker is announced because of the idea being promoted that the speaker is only a vessel of instruction and no special attention should be given to him. Once upon a time, way back when, the assembly and convention programs listed the names of the speakers and their home congregation. There were two reasons given to me why this was done: 1) naming the speakers was giving too much attention to the individual brothers (might go to their heads and swell their egos) 2) cost savings - the WTS could print a generic program with titles/time of the talk and use the same program for many convention sites. This switch was around the same time that united pure worship was being emphasized - wherever you go around the world, all the JWs were being taught the same thing, singing the same songs for the same WT studies, same talks given at all the conventions, no room for personalization or creativity. All of this information is not from official sources, just the song and dance given to me by brothers I knew working at the elite circuit/district level. Their mouths preached anti-self importance, but their behaviour reeked self-absorbed egotistically piety.
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Torture at DC
by zack ina thought worth mentioning about the venue i attended was the lack of sufficient sanitary facilties.
attendance on sunday was almost 10k.
of these, half were males.
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mrs rocky2
I think the worst was on the last day of convention. We often had to travel 6 hours from the convention city to our home. We would wait until the final song and prayer and head to the restrooms with our little girls only to find that the restrooms had been closed by the cleaning department and could not be used. We circled the entire stadium and found no restrooms. Mind you, this was not just a one-time occurrence. This happened year after year. The last convention we attended, we left before the final song and prayer so that we could get the family road ready for the trip home. BTW, Rocky was an attendant and I volunteered in Accounting - there were no special restroom privileges afforded to us. If I was on duty in the Accounting Dept., I could use the restroom there, but my family was not allowed in that special area. We tried to have a good attitude and remind ourselves that the brothers in Zimbabwe were probably meeting in the wilderness, lucky to have an apple box to sit upon!
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Our Friend, Outnfree, Needs Our Help!
by Robdar inas most of you are aware, our friend, brenda, aka outnfree, has been diagnosed with breast cancer and is undergoing chemo.
i asked her if she would mind if we did a weekly prayer vigil and she said that she would appreciate it.
she thinks that thursdays would be good since that is when she goes to the doctor to receive the chemo.
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(((Brenda)))
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What did you do over the weekend?
by ButtLight ini was bad!
we went to our cabin friday night till sunday.
i went through 3 cases of buttlight!
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mrs rocky2
We had our Independence Day party yesterday (double meaning - independence for us from all things WT) - hope everyone has a great day! It's wonderful to be free!
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Help - shunning stories needed
by Mr Rocky inmy letter to the editor to the davenport times just came out on june 30, 2005. the spokane spokesman review is interested in doing a story about shunning as a result of reading my letter.
the religion reporter wants to start working on it wednesday.
does anybody want to tell their story of odd things they have been shunned for by jw's.
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Kwin, I am so sorry about you and your sister. Rocky and I have the only grandchildren, both of whom have not chosen the JW path of life. And I find it interesting that the elders are leaving you alone. Rocky and I have spent the last 7 or so years trying to quietly fade, so as not to cause problems with their shunning policy, but the local elders couldn't leave us alone. We are hoping publicity about shunning will help folks like you and your sister. There should be full disclosure to people before they join a religious organization. Currently, people who study with JWs are not told of the policy on matters such as disfellowshipping and disassociation. I believe much heartache would be avoided if there is full disclosure. Shunning is something that should have been left in the Dark Ages.
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I think its sad
by Alexander ini wouldn't be here wasn't it for a link on google on the moscow ban that led me here.
i am shocked by the hatred many of you display in your posts.
some claim that we break up marriages, yet some of the happiest couples i know are faithfull brothers and sisters.
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mrs rocky2
Since when does the shunning policy promote good communication between husband and wife? You talk of 'divided' households, but apply that term only to husband/wife combos where one mate has never been a witness. If good loving relationships are promoted in 'divided' household, than why did my mother tell my daughter not to talk to her dad anymore, now that he is DF'd? and what about when they make the announcement that I am DF'd? is she not supposed to talk to either of us? and by implication, since I am not yet DF'd and my husband is, I am not supposed to talk to him either? how does that promote a happy family life?
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Help - shunning stories needed
by Mr Rocky inmy letter to the editor to the davenport times just came out on june 30, 2005. the spokane spokesman review is interested in doing a story about shunning as a result of reading my letter.
the religion reporter wants to start working on it wednesday.
does anybody want to tell their story of odd things they have been shunned for by jw's.
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mrs rocky2
It broke my heart when our youngest daughter called to tell us her grandmother told her she shouldn't talk to her father now that he is DF'd. Since we went public with our story we have received so many calls of support from our community. The concept of shunning is so unnatural to everyone except for JWs and a few other extreme religious groups.