Aunt Connie has had her show on the last few nights. She certainly is entertaining, but I would not take her too seriously. It must be some bored teenagers thinking they are playing with darth vader.
JakeM2012
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Stop Putting Apostate Stickers On My Literature! They "Cost Lots of Money!"
by AuntConnie in"true story" the circuit overseer came to our kingdom hall and read us the riot act (local needs style) "magazines of this quality are not free, they cost money and we are not generating enough donations to defray the cost of the magazines(or running the top of the line printing presses) i get my ass out of bed to place literature in the laundray cleaning, coin opperated shops and some asshole puts his apostate stickers on our magazines.
do you know how hard it is to get up at 6:00 am and how expensive those magazines are costing the organization to print?
please stop defiling our literature, i dont post hateful stickers on your website so please leave my magazines alone.
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Publishers Need A Background Check Before Moving To My Kingdom Hall.
by AuntConnie in.
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background check first.. .
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JakeM2012
"I can think of one very recent example in our hall where a sister openly and publicly did not invite some kids of a single parent family to join in with an event she organised because the parent is not 100% regular at all the meetings."
Yes, i grew up with this; it is interesting that witnesses try to emotionally hurt the little ones and can justify it because they are keeping the congregation clean, at the same time talk about the love of the brotherhood.
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Publishers Need A Background Check Before Moving To My Kingdom Hall.
by AuntConnie in.
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background check first.. .
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JakeM2012
Smiddy,
It's nice to see someone appreciate a sense of humor at this early or late hour. LoL
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Publishers Need A Background Check Before Moving To My Kingdom Hall.
by AuntConnie in.
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JakeM2012
Yes, a wonderful performance, haven't we heard enough from Auntie Connie... How about just ignoring her, that will make her rant even more.
Actually, Aunt Connie sounds just like my sister-in-law married to the PO; never liked her.
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Publishers Need A Background Check Before Moving To My Kingdom Hall.
by AuntConnie in.
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JakeM2012
I wish there was an Aunt Connie in every hall; if so the Aunt Connie group would be more powerful than any apostate or their websites. Aunt Connie just needs some encouragement, but don't give her a gun, please.
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Publishers Need A Background Check Before Moving To My Kingdom Hall.
by AuntConnie in.
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background check first.. .
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JakeM2012
AuntConnie,
I have never heard it illustrated this way, but you are spot on with the 5 flushes. The clicks in the hall will see to it that the Kingdom Hall party is by invitation only. And if you don't think they have power, you'd better think twice, because they can make your life miserable. I've been in the click, and also have been internally shunned. Once your off the party boat and swim to shore, you meet others that have experienced the same hatred.
As far as the background check mentioned, I have heard of an elder that ran a background check on a brother that moved in and found an old DUI. His life was living hell after that.
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Jehovah's Witness elder clears his conscious
by BlindersOff1 inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be2ltdktyhe.
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JakeM2012
I will have to agree that our personal experience with jw's regarding education will vary depending on our particular time and place. My father sold a profitable business in 1968 because he had enough money to last through 1975.
My older siblings were destined to pioneer for at least 2 years after high school and until they married or go to bethel for four years. Even in our city and circuit there were differing congregational opinions depending upon the elders. I know in some congregations that there was more of an influence to get kids out and preaching as early as possible, like 16. My wife's family was like that and she is younger than I, but she did finish high school, but pioneered until she married me and then some bethel. (Gran has also preached to my daughter that she only needs the minimum and to shortly get into pioneering)
Personally, I also finished high school. I took college prepatory courses as my parents did not question me about what courses I was taking. I planned on studying structural engineering and fully disclosed this to Dad in 1979. He enlisted my brother, his son, also the PO to basically hammer me on this. Dad also copied about 30 pages of Wt and Awakes on education, as some have been mentioned these articles here. Basically, the jest of the articles were this system doesn't have 4 years left in it.
Dad hammered also until I told him I appreciated their concern but didn't see any scriptural reason not to continue in my goal to become a Professional Engineer. He then told me that I would have to leave home if I were to go to college. This devestated me, as I would be on the streets.
Believe me, I still regret caving to their bullying. My father apologized before his passing, but my older brother and I haven't talked in over 7 years.
Perhaps some of our friends in Europe could expand on this, as I understand that higher education over there is anything over a 4 year college. They also don't frown on beards as bad as here in the U.S.
Peace
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jw.org video
by turtleturtle inhas anyone watched this?
dude!
this new jw.org site makes me feel like jws are mormons!
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JakeM2012
Unbelievable video.
1st observation from past experience: In Houston Texas after a storm a few years ago, I think Rita?, the worldwide brotherhood stepped in to fix 200-300 homes of brothers. They went through at least 3 committee's because of infighting, and the brothers and sisters continued to work on the clean up for several years. (Well the brothers stood back with a clipboard and the sisters did all the work).
Can you imagine waiting on Jehovah's celestial chariot for several years to fix your house? Especially, after you signed the paperwork to give them all the insurance money. It was years after the storm and the "friends" were still going down to work around Houston.
2nd observation: Where is the organization when you personally run into problems that don't involve removing sheetrock and insulation? In my case...family member's death and subsequent grief, business going down the tube, etc??? Well, I'll tell you where their at--They're gone...
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JW's in a sports bar
by pontoon inso i'm 2000+ miles from home on a mission for work.
out to lunch with three other guys from the company, in a sports bar on a sunday about 3:00-4:00 pm.
crowded, not a roudy place, nice.
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JakeM2012
CNN is reporting of drive up windows of WORLDY people paying "forward" for OVER 3 + hours, which is hundreds of people, in a bad economy. And yet this thread is about the tight wad witnesses. In my younger years, I enjoyed dinner with the window washer/night floor polishing/ free loading/ no tipping stingy grinches. I learned quickly.
I remember one guy that was notorious for only ordering water saying he wasn't hungry; then as people finished eating, all of the sudden he became hungry and would consume the remains of their meals including the remains of beer. Since this brother only had water he didn't pay anything, even though the payment to the waitress came up short. Like I said, I learned quickly, after that I would rather invite a nice woman or couple out to dinner and pay all the tab including tip than be run over by these tight wads.
In the eighties there were progressive resturants that would have dance floors separate from the resturant with a club appeal. These seemed to the the target of the elders, not just a sports bar.
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[ZomBie]st-Tower Special Issue: The Faithful and Discreet GRAVE...
by sd-7 in"thus, it is evident that those who passed away from the generation of 1914..... never passed away.
and so, brothers, we have proven that god's prophetic word is true...".
anyone want to contribute?
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JakeM2012
It's the Weekend at Bernie's generation. LOL