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  Most Embarrasing Witness Moment from Childhood

  by Perfection Seeker in

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  anyone on here have a "most embarrasing witness moment" from childhood?

  mine is from 7th grade- that was 20 years ago- but i still cringe when i think of it.

  almost too hard to write down- but maybe it will be therapeutic & part of the healing process?

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  razorMind

  Okay...hold the truck up.....

  What's the deal with TAMPONS not being allowed?!? Was this a congregational thing or did your mom forbid them?
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  Local news article lists jw beliefs

  by DB in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  an article appearing in a local newspaper featured the building of a local kingdom hall.

  next to the article, a seperate column liste some beliefs of jehovah's witnesses, after stating briefly who they are and how they originated.. the article then listed their beliefs as follows:.

  only jehovah's witnesses can be saved.

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  razorMind

  I read a newspaper article on the same subject that came out this past Saturday.....

  Is it against any law to mention the name of the paper, at least to verify if I read the same one? This is a sincere question because I truly don't know.
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  Where did you look at, at the conventions?

  by fulano in

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  not at the platform.. i always looked around if there were any nice coloured sisters (and i was married and an elder)...

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  razorMind

  My sister, me, and several of our JW cousins, friends and acquaintances all decided to sit together at the Hampton Coliseum (Hampton, VA, USA). There must have been almost 20 of us in all, taking up an entire row.

  Anyway, we all conked out and went to sleep--all of us missing the ENTIRE second half of the program. We could be seen from miles away; a whole row of teenagers knocked out asleep. Many "brothers" and "sisters" commented on it later.

  Dark, cool, with a deep dull voice droning on in the background.....I could get some good sleep at a convention. Especially with a pillow (supposedly for one's "back") and a blanket (supposedly for the "chill").....

  I also liked to look up at the various ramps and ladders on the ceilings, and marvel at how any human could be brave enough to venture out on them.
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  JW's and drinking

  by DanTheMan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is it just me, or is alchohol consumption at parties and vacations virtually an unwrittten rule of jw-culture?.

  when i was in, i did not drink, and i still don't.

  i often felt almost ostracized for this by my jw associates.

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  razorMind

  I overheard a couple of my co-workers talking about somebody when one of them said--and I quote--"He drinks like a Jehovah's Witness."

  One also mentioned a pair of brothers who were book-study conductors, and would show up to conduct the book studies stone-falling-over drunk.
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  What's Your Pet Peeve?

  by DB in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  of course, the wts is pretty much a pet peeve of almost everyone here.

  but besides that, what's your pet peeve?

  i'm in a playful mood today, so here's mine, with some tongue-in-cheekiness, of course: .

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  razorMind

  A few of mine.....

  1) People who wait until you have headphones on AND deep into a book, before they decide that they MUST conversate with you.

  2) People who think they are the SHIT; that they are " SO special" or have "special circumstances" that necessitate their sashaying to the front of the pharmacy line to get their Rx filled in front of everyone else. "**I**need this filled (grandly tosses Rx on the counter)...put a rush on it because *I* have things to do". Back of the line, fool!!!

  3) Anyone who expresses undue, exaggerated shock that I am knowledgeable of subjects that "Black people aren't supposed to know anything about." I know you may be surprised, but let's not have a coronary, mmm'kay?

  In full agreement with the traffic and grocery store peeves! I have many more but the above 3 have been bothering me lately.
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  Top Five Ways To Annoy WTS at Assembles

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i suppose you could annoy the watchtower simply by.

  doing the opposite of everything those dreary kingdom.

  ministries tell you every year - like let your kids.

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  Line up at the baptismal pool, towel in hand, with the other candidates...but wear a thong. Try to make sure you're viewed (from behind!) by as many onlookers as possible.
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  Email from a JW and our correspondence

  by mpatrick in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i received this original email from [email protected] in regards to post i had made on the jw discussion forum on www.beliefnet.org .

  hello mpatrick , ya know alot of the things that you quote i question are still in the truth , i am sorry if i affend you.

  im 26 from new jersey and where are the true witnesses .

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  Not everyone who leaves the JW's goes off the deep end and becomes self-destructive...

  Thanks SO much for bringing up this point. Most of the disfellowshipped JWs in my home congregation DID go off the deep end and deteriorate...except my sister. After a somewhat rocky time, she has a well-paying job, a kid, happily married to a good husband. She has nice clothes, house, car, etc. She tells me that JW's act shocked and even irritated when they see her, out enjoying her life with her family.

  Just my 2 cents...
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  appearing before elders for "sexual miscon...

  by razorMind in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  did anyone have to undergo this?

  especially as a teen.

  i have 2 cousins (different states, different congs) who got caught fornicatin' and had to appear before the elders.

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  Did anyone have to undergo this? Especially as a teen. I have 2 cousins (different states, different congs) who got caught fornicatin' and had to appear before the elders. Both incidences occurred almost 20 yrs ago. They both said the elders asked them questions like these:

  1) were you naked
  2) was he naked
  3) were you on top, bottom--what position were you in?
  4) did you have an orgasm
  5) did he have an orgasm
  6) did he orgasm inside you
  7) what did you say while having sex
  8) did you enjoy the sex...

  ...etc. etc. etc...basically asking for excruciating, UNNECESSARY details. Pretty sick IMO. Is this routine? Just wondering if anyone else had to put up with this BULLSHIT.
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  sunday meetings

  by Realist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the awful sunday meetings are people supposed to answer the questions from the wt by just reading the stupid paragraph again or would the elders prefer to hear a real comment?

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  razorMind

  ...compound the sin by not shutting the hell up and getting on with it once they did go over-time.

  Oh, how I wished for a rifle on those occasions!

  One time the KH air-conditioning conked out on a sweltering Ministry School night. And this ASSHOLE "brother" droned on into the night (WAY past ending time, btw) until an elder was forced to step up and get him to end his part. To this day we think the tyrant did it on purpose because he knew we were past ready to leave (and about to faint from the heat).

  Full of bad memories tonight...
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  sunday meetings

  by Realist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the awful sunday meetings are people supposed to answer the questions from the wt by just reading the stupid paragraph again or would the elders prefer to hear a real comment?

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  razorMind

  I always hated the showoff sister who'd insert a "personal" tidbt into her comments, i.e., "I'm so eager to partake of Jehovah's rich fruitage that I start reading my WT en route from the mailbox" or some such SHIT.

  Then we had another sister whose every comment, in my entire living memory, would be completely off the WT study topic. And I HATED when the "young ones" would laboriously breathe out a one-word comment into the oft-too-loudly-amplified microphone.

  Sunday meetings...UTTER BULLSHIT.

  I did the same thing with rewording the paragraphs. You all are right...SAD SAD SAD.

  Isn't it?