Posts by RoosterMcDooster

i think with every year their are more and more newbies that identify with this site , would you like to say " hi ", if you have joined in the last 12 months ?.

does anybody have a graph of the numbers of newbies who have joined in say the last 5 years ?.

i think that would be interesting.

What does your user name mean????

by karter in

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friends

anything ???.

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karter ...i race go-karts.

After A Day In Field Service, Did You Get Euphoric Or A Spiritual High?

by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

i know this might sound silly but field service did provide a strange type of good feelings after i was done.

i called this the "halo-effect" because i felt so "righteous, obedient and good" for taking the weirdos or "the friends" in my station wagon.

vans and station wagon owners in the congregations often get used hard, pile up seven whacks and your off!

RoosterMcDooster

No, just really, really, really tired.

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WHAT ARE YOUR MOST VIVID, ODD, or FUNNY Memories of Conventions and Assemblies of Jehovah's Witnesses?

by Balaamsass in

share with us memories of the bizarre, funny, strange, what you hated, what you miss...we all have them.

(question..why the big to do between terms- convention and assembly .

Chaserious - Ha! By automatic default they must have been b.s. A regular jw would NEVER do such a thing. Although a pioneer would. I was in f.s. with a pioneer one late afternoon. It was just me and him. We finished some apts. and he backed his caddy right into a car behind us. He gave a sideways look at me, put it back in drive and drove out of there like a bat-out-of-hell!

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WHAT ARE YOUR MOST VIVID, ODD, or FUNNY Memories of Conventions and Assemblies of Jehovah's Witnesses?

by Balaamsass in

share with us memories of the bizarre, funny, strange, what you hated, what you miss...we all have them.

(question..why the big to do between terms- convention and assembly .

RoosterMcDooster

The parking attendants always cracked me up how they would always wave the batons wildly around making a show of it.

After a long day at the convention we were exiting the parking lot, driving down the long row of cars when a jw fam got into a big van and backed out in front of us and bumpered the parked car behind it pretty hard. They didn't stop to check for damage just kept on going!

I have a vivid memory of a conversation I had with a pioneer/ ms that moved away and I hadn't seen him in a while. When we saw each other at the dc he came over and we had the long-time-no-see conversation, and then he stared talking about me being in the drama. I didn't know what he was talking about. He would say somthing about it and I would reply, what, no I'm not in the drama tomorrow. And he would go on about me kidding around and say something else about it. We went around and around for a minute or so and finally he said he knew I was in the drama because of my beard. Sorry bro those drama beards are fake. His eyes crinkled up, and he got a funny look on his face and he asked do you still have your privileges. Nope. We chatted for a few moments then did the see-you-later thing. That was the last I ever saw him.

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Circuit Assemblies - Do they make money? Convince Chas

by Chaserious in

i have seen a number of posts here stating that the wts turns a profit off cas (and das for that matter) as if it is an established fact.

i tried searching for prior threads on this, in case maybe there is evidence i'm not aware of (such as inside sources), but the search function is not too advanced so i didn't find anything.

in any event, about 4 years ago when i used to attend them it seemed that the expenses they would announce for a 2-day ca would be around $10k, and for a 1-day it would be $5k.

RoosterMcDooster

Plus your missing 30 mins of lunchtime!

Sh%t, i just missed half of judge judy.

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Circuit Assemblies - Do they make money? Convince Chas

by Chaserious in

i have seen a number of posts here stating that the wts turns a profit off cas (and das for that matter) as if it is an established fact.

i tried searching for prior threads on this, in case maybe there is evidence i'm not aware of (such as inside sources), but the search function is not too advanced so i didn't find anything.

in any event, about 4 years ago when i used to attend them it seemed that the expenses they would announce for a 2-day ca would be around $10k, and for a 1-day it would be $5k.

RoosterMcDooster

In the US the business meeting usually goes like this:

There is an elder who is assigned to handle assembly accounts. He vaguely reads off the expenditures. The co's receipts are included. A donation to the wt is added. I'm not sure where this number comes from but it isn't from discussion with the elders present. Lets say apx $1000. This is added as an expense weather donations are in a deficit at the time or not. Elders can ask questions, but whenever that happens he will be politely responded to but usually there is that sense that he's getting the evil-eye, sort of marked for observation. Although there is a call for all-in-favor elders are pretty much suposed to agree. Sometimes there are other matters discused with the elders. For example, one time it was suggested that cable tv be installed in the co's apt and paid for by the circuit. So, yes the wt definitley profits, because there is almost always a donation included in the expenses unless there are some extenuating circumstances.

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Went to a rock concert where we used to go to the D.C.s.

by RoosterMcDooster in

we are not far from the facilities that they use for the d.c.s, but this was the first time we went there since a d.c. my wife asked me if it made me feel weird to be going to a rock concert here.

it didn't bother me a bit, but i did notice something i thought was interesting.

when we used to go to the d.c.s there was so much hype about how much "better" we were than the other users of the facility.

RoosterMcDooster

BluesBrother, that is one of the several exaggerations I am un-learning. It's not easy, and I wonder what other after-effects are still lingering within me. Anyway it was a good show, and my wife REALLY enjoyed it. And when she is happy, I am happy!