Posts by RandomUserName3500

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Are you glad you got the Covid Vaccine? Did it help?

by liam in

i didn’t get the covid vaccine, but i admit, i was scared as shit i made the wrong decision because there was so much confusion out there.

practically all my family and most of my friends took the vaccine because everyone was depending on those in charge to speak the truth.

now a lot of them are sick, and they can't figure out why.

RandomUserName3500

I worked in a nursing home before and during covid. We had 10 people die of covid. Before they got covid they were not in great health and a cold, the flu, or a spicy burrito might have done them in.

A couple years before covid we had 6 people pass in the week between Christmas and New years. It was like they just didn't want to see the next year. Its a nursing home. Unfortunately people die there all the time. Not trying to be cold. Our covid deaths weren't out of line with any other year.

Saw a lot of stupidity during covid. Got threatened with termination if i didn't clean shave my face. "CDC says you can't have a mask properly sealed in your face with a beard". You just did my face mask fit test right? I passed the fit test with a mask on my bearded face right? CDC says you can't. But you just fit tested me, you performed the test and did everything you could to try to get me to fail, I saw how differently you performed the fit test on non bearded people, you tried to get mine to fail and it didn't. My mask properly seals with my neatly trimmed beard.

Doesn't matter shave clean or your fired.

Found an online Dr, got a Dr note saying I can't shave and went to HR. Didn't shave. Didn't get fired.

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Thanking Jehovah God for Sports

by Sea Breeze in

serena william's thanks jehovah god for allowing her to participate in sports.

how nice.

my jw parents followed the rules and thought they were doing jehovahs will by denying me participation in sports.

RandomUserName3500

Still trying to understand why my JW parents wouldn't let me do sports in school because of the association with worldly people but allowed, encouraged and helped me participate in Olympics of the Mind. Even had the bad association worldly kids over to the house to do that.

Just shut my little kid mouth and enjoyed what I could do even if it didn't make sense because I knew if I questioned it what would happen.

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2024--Become a Circuit Overseer in Your Mid-to-Late 20's!

by Atlantis in

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become a circuit overseer in your mid to late 20's.

you would have had to qualify as an elder previously.

this would mean the male would have had to have been an elder in his early 20's.

RandomUserName3500

Tight pants told us, if you're not a MS in your early 20's who would want to be around you. Guess they'll have to throw some new light at that.

If your not an MS by your teens, an elder before you can buy beer, and a CO by 25 you might as well be an apostate.

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Greeting a person(who was removed from the congregation) at the Kingdom Hall now becomes a matter of conscience

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the watchtower—study edition | august 2024. help for those who are removed from the congregation.

14 does what we have considered mean that we would completely ignore a person who has been removed from the congregation?

not necessarily.

RandomUserName3500

Stan - I don't for sure. I would hope my family would have said something to me. There was absolutely no contact for months after my last meeting. A couple elders stopped by to invite me to a 'special' talk some Sunday later in the year. I said thanks for stopping by and letting me know. Left it at that. If they df you don't they have to let you know of the process even if you don't go? Nothing hinting from me that I was no longer a jw in word or writing. Nothing in writing from them either.

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Re-activate me?

by punkofnice in

there was a knock at my door and i thought it was my take-away being delivered.. long story short, it was 2 elders calling to see me.

i guess to re-activate me.

once they said who they were i recognised them.

RandomUserName3500

Is this an official thing they're doing now? Going to everyone that has left? Ive moved over an hour away and my phone number has changed but still have family in the same congregation. So I know they can get my contact information. Would they forward it to the local congregation? Every once in a while my family will say Bro _____ asked how you are doing.

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Greeting a person(who was removed from the congregation) at the Kingdom Hall now becomes a matter of conscience

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the watchtower—study edition | august 2024. help for those who are removed from the congregation.

14 does what we have considered mean that we would completely ignore a person who has been removed from the congregation?

not necessarily.

RandomUserName3500

I don't know if this is going to change how they act. Maybe some will.

My last meeting was 9 years ago this 4th of July weekend. Just stopped, cold turkey stopped. No conversation with anyone about why, no fading. One meeting I was there, the next gone. Not DF'd, not disassociated, no 'wrongdoing', no apostate attitudes, just gone.

Over the next couple of years while I still lived in the same small town, I saw a witness occasionally at the grocery store. Every time it was the same thing, eye contact from down the aisle, they would immediately turn around and go the other direction to avoid me.

Walked into a business where a bunch of sisters were sitting together. One of them said OH my he's here and they all got up and immediately left.

If you are not a publisher in good standing or better you should be avoided. Just being in sight of a used to be publisher is enough to be adversely effected by their evil influence unless you are at the KH. Even then the evil used to be publisher must come in at the last minute, sit in the back close to the exit door so they can immediately leave after the closing prayer so they can't spread their evil influence.

So now they can say hi. Nothing else will change in their heads. Ex pubs are the human reincarnation of Satan himself. It's ingrained in the brains. Their Bible trained conscious tells them this.

I can see it already. Say Hi is ok. Say Hi, how are you and you're in the back room getting counseled for excessively communicating.

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Kingdom hall cleaning

by Farmer Jim1 in

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what are your memories of hall cleaning?.

i actually enjoyed it on the whole, my dad as the elder always tried to keep it to under one hour but in my later years in a hard-line congregation it was a chore.

the po's wife had a printed list and we had to complete it all before left (or got disapproving looks if we left after an hour).. as well as vacuuming the whole building the lost said you had to dismantle the vacuum and clean and polish all the internal elements.

RandomUserName3500

An older sister used to think the toilet bowl cleaner was eating away the porcelain in the toilet. I asked her why she thought that. She said would run her hand around the inside of the bowl to feel if she missed anything and the bowl felt rougher the the outside of the toilet

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What's the Worst Advice You Heard of an Elder Giving Someone?

by Sea Breeze in

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i believe an an elder told someone who's daughter (14 yo) became sexually active with a 26 year old in the neighborhood, that maybe they should get married.

so, they did... with parental consent.

he turned out to be a ex-convict who shot his first wife in the face with a shotgun.

RandomUserName3500

joe134cd. Best decision of my life - divorced her.

VERY happily married to a never been a JW for 6 years so far

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What's the Worst Advice You Heard of an Elder Giving Someone?

by Sea Breeze in

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friends

i believe an an elder told someone who's daughter (14 yo) became sexually active with a 26 year old in the neighborhood, that maybe they should get married.

so, they did... with parental consent.

he turned out to be a ex-convict who shot his first wife in the face with a shotgun.

RandomUserName3500

Wife was a violent monster. After an attack I called police. Prosecuting attorney pressed charges and convicted her of domestic violence. Elders told me I should have never involved the police and courts (I had told police I did not want charges pressed. They decided there was enough evidence to do it anyway). I was bringing reproach on Jahs name and the congregation. I should have called them instead (I had multiple times over the years and was fed up with no change). And, the next time she hits me I should turn the other cheek and let her hit that too. I must drop the PPO and let her move back in the house as I was setting her up and would be responsible for it if she cheated on me while we were separated.

Cant make this stuff up.

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GB Update #2, March 2024: Women allowed to wear pants, no ties/coats required if not giving a talk, & now able to greet DF ones in the KH!

by WingCommander in

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you heard me correct, this is not a joke, and it is not april fools day!

the asl portion of the governing body updated #2 (march 2024) has been released a bit early and someone caught it.

summary: .

RandomUserName3500

Hope they aren't going to meet with all the inactive ones every 6 months too. Walked out the KH doors almost 9 years ago and haven't been back. Not DF, just left and they know why. 1 visit from 1 elder driving by while I was mowing. It's been great. They're probably not, I moved over an hour away 6 years ago