I don't think that there is any organized sort of spy network, but I do think that many elders have such a god complex that they take it on themselves to spy and to get into business that is not theirs to get into. Just before my mom was disfellowshipped for apostasy, no one would talk to us, we were shunned, but she made me go out in field service with her everyday. No one would meet for service with us or give us territory, but she was convinced that she was being unjustly and unrighteously persucuted, so we went out anyway by ourselves in made up territory. We had elders follow us everyday. Sometimes when we got home we would have up to 15 messages from elders on the machine. They did not try to keep it a secret, they were trying to intimidate us. I was a teenager so I was plenty intimidated, but my mom, bull headed as she is wouldn't stop.
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Were You Ever a Member of the Secret Police?
by Swan ina lot of experiences have been written about elders spying on people, tailing them in cars, etc.
i think this may have once happened to me, but am not sure if my intuition was correct or if my mind was just playing tricks.
i sometimes have some paranoia as a result of the trauma of being in the jws, so i am not sure what to believe.
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Whats the dumbest reason youve been counseled?
by avishai inmy friend was counseled for having a bad attitude because he wore white socks w/ his suit.
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Where do I start??? Okay I won't bore you, I'll name just a few:
* Wearing to much black and not smiling enough "Jehovahs people are the happiest people on earth, you are not reflecting that quality"
* I was stuck at the kingdom hall with no ride home. An elder gave me a ride home alone. Lord, I never heard the end of that one.
* Raising my hand TO MUCH at meeting, not giving others a chance.
Just a few. I have lots more.
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Colored Shirts?
by Marcos inwhat is the wt policy on shirts for the brothers?
are they supposed to be only white shirts?
my son, no a sort of waning mormon said that he thought it was funny that the witnesses here copy the mormons (white shirts only).
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Our area was really strict about dress codes. My husband newly baptized and very poor was told he couldn't give a talk until he had a real suit. He wore really nice dress pants with a suit jacket but I guess that didn't cut it. My friend was reproved twice for wearing odd suits. He loved the old 70's paisley stuff, green suits and stripped pants. He was denied Ministerial servant because of it. He was a regular pioneer for years regularly put in 120 hours. Thankfully, he's come over to our side! OH, and colored shirts are still a no no in these halls.
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Were You Ashamed To Be Identified As A JW?
by minimus in2 tim.2:15 says," do your utmost to present yourself approved to god, a workman with nothing to be ashamed of,handling the word of the truth aright.
" when you were at work, school or play did you find yourself ashamed to tell anyone that you were a witness?
what if they found out anyway?
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yumbby
Eww, i hate to admit this but I was one of those true blue believers with a stick up my a**. I was devout, rabid and unflexible. I'd tell everyone, lest they try to make me do something unchristian. Maybe thats why I'm such a wild party girl now. I'll do anything, and I mean almost anything now. How do you find balance?? sigh...
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What do you do...?
by Brummie inwhat do you do when you see jw family or jws who were once good friends on the street?
do you look at them and give them the opportunity to snub you?
or do you take the initative to cross the road and look the other way before they do it?
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I work in a restaurant in a fairly small town, so I'm constantly running across witnesses, I'm not officially d'f or dissassociated, but I have a feeling that my sister has let everyone know of my feelings on the matter, I just wait on them like normal and don't encourage to much conversation, act friendly and happy, then go in the kitchen and have a nervous breakdown. I'd never ever let them see me nervous because of them!
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Grave Concerns Over American Drinking Habits.
by Englishman inindeed, good people, and i am the one with the concerns!
as you may or may not know, hl and i are planning on visiting the land of the free next april.
however, i was deeply shocked to see an example of the nations drinking habits in a film shown on bbc 1 last night.
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Yep, we have minimum wage, but servers, (or wait staff) are exempt from law, said to make tips to cover the rest, so the restaurant is only required to pay half of minimum wage. We also have to tip out 3% of net sales to bar, bus and expo. It's a horrible scam. Believe me. We also are exempt from the law that says we get breaks. No breaks or lunch are required by restaurants. My husband who is a cook regulary works 10 hours without a break.
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Do you believe in demons, Ted Jarasz?
by onthego inare you able to sleep at night?
knowing pat garza has gone public saying how you molested her and others when a district overseer in los angeles?
seeing that still another lawsuit was filed the first day of the 2003 new year against the watchtower society you are a governing body member of?
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I have to wonder if they do post lurkers to watch us, how long they stay witnesses. I bet the turn over is pretty high.
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Do you remember the "Marked Ones"
by johnathanseagull in.
do you remember the "marked ones" within your cong, i remember a couple who you could see were trying there damm bloody hardest to be accepted within the congregation, always sat at the back never "invited into the fold" fully and there was always the "hmmmm dont associate with them too much, they are spiritually weak etc etc" i remember feeling so sorry for them but i just had to adhere to jah and his organisational ways.............sheesh !!!
and i was told that was being christian.. j gull.
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Of course I remember, I was one of those marked ones. Wasn't doing anything wrong mind you,, but didn't belong to a family with the mommy and daddy and all that jazz, so I guess they figured I was doing SOMETHING, but truth was, the more they ignored me, the better I got, the more Pious I became till I could pass for a monk (monkess? female???) anyway, it wasn't always for something someone did, just for not being "quite right". Damn hypocritcal bastards.
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A Masturbators Greatest Fear...
by Englishman in..is that his dead relatives are watching him whilst he does it!.
so says a recent poll in the london times supplement anyway .
interestingly, typing this subject matter into google reveals similar results.
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yumbby
Ha ha ha, that is hilarious, and not just because I'm drunk either! I have to say, the LAST person I think of is my relatives!
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Grave Concerns Over American Drinking Habits.
by Englishman inindeed, good people, and i am the one with the concerns!
as you may or may not know, hl and i are planning on visiting the land of the free next april.
however, i was deeply shocked to see an example of the nations drinking habits in a film shown on bbc 1 last night.
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Can you tell by my spelling that I am drinking right now???? southern comfort and coke. yum yum. but I am doing at home, thus saving a poor hapless waitress any needless pain and suffering.