Posts by PrincessCynic

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Special A$$embly Day Notes

by PrincessCynic in

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i wasted my sunday yesterday attending the special a$$embly day.

i thought some of you might like to see some of the notes i took to keep myself amused/awake.. we had a guest speaker from the local old people's home bethel.

he seemed slightly senile.

Mr Freeze, no she definitely wasn't passing on subliminal messages, she was trying to make herself believe that she had researched the religion well enough to be totally convinced of it. But she only used Watchtowers to do it I know because I've been on an assembly platform and said the same thing. Also I know her and she isn't actually very smart at all, she just said something smart by accident

Ding, I was pretty much born in, now in my 20s. I've never been your typical easily led naive JW, would never not do something just because someone told me not to, which is why I'm here without the guilt. I guess I've always been a bit of a rebel . I'm not shocked by anything I read on here or JW.facts etc but I am finding it interesting.

There's quite a bit to my story but I can't say yet. I'm still very much in physically but not mentally and that's the way it's going to be for a while at least. I have my reasons. But I'm so much happier just having let go of all the guilt and pressure I put on myself to be a perfect JW, and that's enough for me for now. I hope people here don't judge me for that. Just see me as your resident spy

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Do JW's Have A Tribulation Plan

by Pig in

it is likely that at some time or other there will be a major shtf scenario.. my parents always talked of all going to the kingdom hall and waiting it out while god destroyed the evil people.. but bethal doesnt actually have food stocks and medical stocks, does it?

they dont have a plan to distribute essential supplies to groups of jw's residing on watchtower owned land, do they?.

if there is a ww3 and the watchtower says "ok this is it, this is the big a" then what?.

PrincessCynic

There is no plan as far as I'm aware. Each JW has their own version of what will happen.

IF all their prophecies came true (which they won't) flocking to the KH would be an immensely stupid idea. The worldlings are hunting down Jws, where's the first place they're going to look?

I know witlesses that have cans of baked beans buried in their garden Although they're probably out of date by now.

Most worry that their worst nightmares are going to come true and their fingernails will be pulled out and they will be lined up and shot if they don't renounce Jehovah (too many stories about concentration camps.) They like to mentally prepare themselves for this now.

There have definitely been hints in WTs about the GB sending out specific instructions that JWs must obey for survival in the event of the Great Trib breaking out. I suspect this is just another fear tactic to make them not miss meetings and get used to obeying now. I doubt they have the faintest idea. In reality they would only care about their own skin.

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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.

PrincessCynic

Book study conductor elder on being asked awkward questions by someone's bible study during the study : "Just don't think about it."

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Weezer's new album cover - a WT picture?!?

by weezer1 in

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i'm a long-time lurker (and hopefully successful fader) who finally took the jump and registered on jwd.

thank you all for the great information over the years!.

as you can tell by my username, i'm a big weezer fan.

PrincessCynic

Weezer artwork is now wallpaper on my laptop Genius.

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Comparing time spent door to door preaching versus time spent door to door window cleaning

by ThomasCovenant in

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i got to thinking this yesterday.

in the past i have done a fair bit of window cleaning like many a jw.

one motto that we (fellow jw window cleaners) used to say was ''time is money''.. occasionally, to help with pricing and efficiency we used to count and record how long each house would take.

PrincessCynic

SO true! And if you then deducted all the time they spent gossiping to their magazine routes, asking after their other half, kids, grandmother, second cousin, dog etc you'd be left with very little.

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For Newbies: EXCELLENT Judicial meeting with LOTS of info!!

by Lady Liberty in

thought i would bump to the top this excellent tape recording of a judicial meeting.

you will find the person "on trial" has bneen a elder himself.

once he realised things were not adding up he ended up disassociating himself along with his wife.

PrincessCynic

Thanks for posting this link, I just finished listening to it. I actually thought that the elders handled it very well and treated them with a lot of respect but were so obviously out of their depth, I was kind of embarrassed for them

I was amazed at how much the couple had discovered about the org without the use of the Internet. I have told my JW husband about the Malawi/Mexico thing and the letter the branch was sent from the society. He was really skeptical about how apostates got hold of a letter sent from the society to a foreign branch, he wondered if it might have been forged. I told him it was probably sent to all congregations and read out; now I know it was courtesy of Ray Franz.

Thanks again, it was really interesting. Might have a look at what else is on that site now :)

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Acceptable and unacceptable dress for visiting Bethel

by smiddy in

i just came across this on another thread with pictures/photos ,is this for real ?

i couldnt beleive my eyes or ears?.

the control that this organization has over it`s members... is ..is ... well it`s a cult !!

PrincessCynic

Ziddina, that is so true.

I've had householders say to me that we must be paid very well to do the door-to-door work as we could afford to dress so well. Yeah right !

I've also heard members of the public ask, in all seriousness, if there's a funeral taking place in the area because of the way witnesses are dressed on FS !

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What is the most embarassing moment you've had while still a JW?

by african GB Member in

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i remember having to preach to my girlfriend/classmate while i was still at school.

i was with one of the elders and it was my 'house' to preach.. wished i could vanish from the surface of the earth..

PrincessCynic

I might have farted in the bookstudy too as a kid. During a quiet moment too No one looked at me or said anything but they must have heard.

There were a few in field service. The worst was this time when the elders directed us to knock at the back doors of houses in a street as they were closer to where we were and saved us walking all the way round the front . I felt uncomfortable and tried to protest but I was working with my mother and she told me, pretty much, to shut up and do as I was told. We knocked at this one door and got no answer, then I realised that it's resident, a wrinkly old lady, was sunbathing topless in a sun lounger in the garden! Fortunately she was napping and hadn't seen us so I tried to slink away so she'd never know we'd walked into her garden and seen her. But then my mum spotted her and convinced that it was a man(!!) started yelling to get her attention. I was hissing "mom, leave it, let's just go" but she ignored me and carried on shouting "Excuse me.... we're JWs". The poor woman woke up, bemused, then clearly extremely embarrassed as she remembered she was half naked. My mom started to try to preach to her, still thinking it was a man (her eyesight isn't too good) until the woman told us to clear off. I wished the ground could swallow me up

There was another time in FS when I approached a woman gardening, she had her back to me and I thought it was a man (maybe I have poor eyesight too) and I said "Good morning Sir". She turned around and glared at me and I just continued with my presentation like nothing had happened

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Acceptable and unacceptable dress for visiting Bethel

by smiddy in

i just came across this on another thread with pictures/photos ,is this for real ?

i couldnt beleive my eyes or ears?.

the control that this organization has over it`s members... is ..is ... well it`s a cult !!

PrincessCynic

I have been counselled about my clothes so many times that I've just given up. Now when I go I wear what I want with a big long coat over that I don't take off. There's someone in my hall who must have been extremely offended by my boobs because the elders who spoke to me were always really awkward like they didn't want to say anything but there's 'been a complaint'. I would love to know who the 'complainer' is. It could be any one of the many sexually repressed individuals.

Also, after a few unsuccessful shopping trips I have discovered that the clothes that the org wants sisters to wear don't actually exist. They haven't been sold in normal shops for decades. If I find anything 'appropriate', I'm dressed like I'm in my 40s (I'm actually 20something). It's impossible to look fashionable, but I guess that's the idea. I'm not spending any more $ on meeting clothes, I'll save my money thanks very much.

I'm considering going to a meeting with just my underwear under my big coat It does get rather warm No one would know but me and I'd feel very rebellious. In a good way

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Acceptable and unacceptable dress for visiting Bethel

by smiddy in

i just came across this on another thread with pictures/photos ,is this for real ?

i couldnt beleive my eyes or ears?.

the control that this organization has over it`s members... is ..is ... well it`s a cult !!

PrincessCynic

This thread has just brought back memories of a really AWKWARD conversation I had with a bible study (in her 60s). I had to try to explain to her and her daughter (in her 20s, not studying, but we were trying to get her interested) that they had to wear modest skirts or dresses to tour a printing factory . The worst thing was, the daughter worked in a local printing factory herself, so we must have seemed a total bunch of nutcases to her. Then I had to explain that despite the fact that we were going on New Years Day, all the 'Bethelites' would be working as they weren't allowed to celebrate New Years. Then they asked if they were getting paid double time anyway....

Ziddina I would LOVE to get a bunch of people to show up at Bethel like that