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we had an elder that was hung up on mens haircuts he had a real thing about how short mens hair should be and even told one bro off for parting his hair down the middle.. even told one bro to shave off his sideburns.. a c.o who was paronoid about sound always telling the bro in charge off.. .

a d.o who orded the attendants to remove crying babys from assemblys on more than a few occations...hans hubler for those that know him..

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Jean skirts were a deffinite no-no according to our (CO).

Any form of facial hair other than a mustache was worldly (elders/CO).

Two people in a "courtship" were not allowed to sit next to each other at the Kingdumb Hall until they were publicly engaged (elders).

Anyone that gets a 2-door car doesn't have their priorities straight and is bad association (elders).

Pokemon is demonized (elder).

Brothers that cut their hair too short are imitating the Catholic tonsure, which is bad (former elder, old+senile now).

Anyone with a goatee is trying to attract homosexual attention to their mouth hole, the same way female African gazelle's have a circular pattern around their bottoms to attract male penile attention (former elder, old+senile now).

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JWs Summed Up in One Sentence! Contribute Please!

by DarioKehl in

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"we can't smoke pot with him... he's disfellowshipped!".

please keep 'em coming!

i wanna see more.

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Don't do anything, don't do anything at all.

Suckle from the sagging old teats of the governing body.

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Barbara Anderson on conference call right now!

by koolaid-man in

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sat oct.1-2011 8pm edt.

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dial 712-432-8710 when asked for pin use 9925. .

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What did Rick Fearon do to lose all his credibility?

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Were YOU a Pushy JW?

by minimus in

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i hated jws that were pushy.

some tried to impose their "bible trained consciences" on everyone.

or the pushy ones would go from house to house and argue with the householder!

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Growing up in NY our hall had an entire dream team of pushers. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone keep trying to talk to a closing door, catching people in the yard and refusing to leave until they retreat inside, etc. For some reason Italian NY JW's seem to be the pushiest lol.

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Why Are So Many Witnesses So Weird?

by minimus in

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i believe that in every hall there are a number of weird jws.. we had some that were (and still are) 65 year old mama's boys.

they never got married, weren't gay, just weird.. we had old brother stevenson that used to yell at everyone if they didn't accept a book!.

we had our share of weird elders that were always looking into world events and saying this proves bible prophecy--when in fact, it had nothing to do with it!.

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I remember we had this one scraggly old sister that did too many drugs in the 70's and literally almost had a stubble mustache and goatee, give a comment stating how in paradise Jehovah is going to put the nitrogen back into the soil to make the earth perfect again.

Another guy that who was already weird got even weirder after being hit by a car walking to the kingdumb hall. He would do the microphones somehow, and frequently during the paragraph reading, not realizing he's holding the mic on his chest near his mouth, start mumbling his thoughts out loud to the congregation until the WT reader would stop reading and the conductor would have to call his first name out from the stage to get his attention.

Also had a kid at my cousin's hall who acted like a choir boy to everyone publicly, but would do pranks for his friends like accidentally clear his throat during a comment and try to say a curse word with his throat-clearing, sort of sneaking it in there, then continue his cherubic comment. He also used to brag about how he'd masturbated in the kingdom hall bathroom. Sadly I too considered doing the latter LOL.

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BORN-INS: If you could go back and Change this.

by hirotaka in

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a question primarily derected to born-ins....doesn't matter if you're still in or out.. if you could go back in time, let's say to the time you were a teenager, before being baptised.. do you regret not telling your jw parents that you just couldn't do the jw thing anymore and that you wanted out?

i think about this often that it may have worked out much better not to get baptized, married to a jw, and have to tow that line for decades, feaful to loose family and friends.. in the end that's what happened to me anyway, five years ago and now i have the life i should have had my whole life.. what are your thoughts and feelings on this?.

cheers.

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I was pressured to get baptized as a 13 year old by some uber-JW family members and by some of the other kids at the hall because I was like the oldest out of the kids that hadn't taken the plunge.

At 15 I was living with my newly reinstated mom at which point I told her that I didn't want to do meetings or service anymore. It became a bit of a warzone at times. Once she even woke up me on a Saturday and told me to get dressed, that an elder was coming to pick me up for service in 20 minutes. I basically did not have a choice. It was either live through hell routinely at home or comply.

There never seemed to be any other possible outcome.

I got into my fair share of trouble and racked up quite the list of reprovals before getting the boot, but I found that the kids who were getting into real world trouble at a younger age all left the JW's years sooner than me.

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Things that made you cringe at "the meetings"

by i_drank_the_wine in

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i always cringed so hard when a "brother" or "sister" would make some overly heartfelt comment about jehovah-something, usually related to a personal experience of theirs, and get all teared up and/or start crying.. once this fringe dude that's been df'd twice now was giving a talk and kept having these long awkward pauses where he looked like he was real stressed out, then he would start up again, stutter, slip up, and repeat the process until he looked down and went "i, i just can't do this" and walked off the stage and left the hall.. it also made my spchincter pucker when a young person would give some super devotional comment on how much they love big j and whatnot, which would make the congregation all smile in their hearts and wag their heads in approval..

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I always cringed so hard when a "brother" or "sister" would make some overly heartfelt comment about Jehovah-something, usually related to a personal experience of theirs, and get all teared up and/or start crying.

Once this fringe dude that's been DF'd twice now was giving a talk and kept having these long awkward pauses where he looked like he was real stressed out, then he would start up again, stutter, slip up, and repeat the process until he looked down and went "I, I just can't do this" and walked off the stage and left the hall.

It also made my spchincter pucker when a young person would give some super devotional comment on how much they love big J and whatnot, which would make the congregation all smile in their hearts and wag their heads in approval.

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Prediction: Expect a change in Study Edition distribution

by baltar447 in

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after all the hoopla over the "mentally diseased" stuff, i'm making a prediction.

i expect that the borg will stop distributing the koolaid wt online, at least to where anyone can download it.

i expect that they will require the jws to create logins and passwords to access the study edition, somehow tying that that back to what congregataion you're in and maybe even an elder approving that you attend.

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leavintwt pretty much hit the nail on the head. I couldn't have come up with a better response if you'd paid me.

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