Posts by Jaidubdub

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Do you think "Blondie" is addicted to reading Watchtowers and Awakes?

by booker-t in

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i remember when i was a "devout" jws i could not wait to get the new watchtowers and awakes from the wednesday nite theocratic ministry school.

i would actually salivate thinking of the new information jehovah had in the magazines for us.

i was "franatical" and i would go home still in my three piece suit and devour the magazines that very nite.

Jaidubdub

I just recent learnt TTATT & I'm still trying to get my head around what the Borg has done to me, my family & my life. Blondie's posts have helped me immensely. Thank you Blondie, I think your awesome

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A scary day in FS today

by InChristAlone in

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today, the jw who normally comes and his son visited my house.

we were talking on the doorstep for about ten or fifteen minutes when the son began to to faint.

i saw it coming, but i couldn't reach him before he fell backwards, hitting his head on the brick landscaping border.

Jaidubdub

That happened to me once. the householder was nice enough to give me a cool drink while I sat in the shade for a minute. While I was recovering, the jw continued to try & shove the magazines at the householder & had no concern for my well being. After we left the house, this jw just continued on as if nothing happened. When I saw mum (who was working with someone else), I told her what happened & the jw I was working with told mum I was young and strong, if she could do it, so could I & that I should be fine to carry on preaching - I was about 12 at the time. Luckily my mum took me straight home...

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Friend gets "scriptural divorce" over wifes transgressions before they got married...

by sosoconfused in

so i have a friend in a congregation in new jersey who recently called me to tell me that he got a divorce.

nothing surprising there at first but it is the fact of when it happened.

his wife began pioneering april 1, and after about three weeks she came to him and told him that about 4 years she had engaged in loose conduct (fondling the penis and the guy kissing her breasts) during a time that she was inactive.

Jaidubdub

If this s a new rule, I can see a lot of married jw's being allowed to get a scriptural divorce... That will solve the huge problem amoung many of my jw friends who are stuck in unhappy marriages coz they married too young for all the wrong reasons...

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Former COs that Become Inactive

by Bob_NC in

some long years ago a circuit overseer told me that the area he was from had several former cos that had "left the road" as they call it and were just sitting on their laurels.

he said that they don't pioneer and some were irregular publishers.

a different co made a remark to the effect of "you think that servants or pioneers live a restricted life, cos are under the supervision of the service dept.

Jaidubdub

Thanks Max... Joe was still a JW when he left WA. I know he was in Bethel for a very short time as we caught up with him when we visited Bethel for lunch in Sydney. My friend I was holidaying with know both Joe & Jean really well. Was the first time I met him.

I also remember Carl as a substitute CO in WA. He served at our Congo once... My relatives knew him really well. I kept clear of him...

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Former COs that Become Inactive

by Bob_NC in

some long years ago a circuit overseer told me that the area he was from had several former cos that had "left the road" as they call it and were just sitting on their laurels.

he said that they don't pioneer and some were irregular publishers.

a different co made a remark to the effect of "you think that servants or pioneers live a restricted life, cos are under the supervision of the service dept.

Jaidubdub

I remember Joe Sleighman... I think his wife's name was Jean... Is he inactive now?

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Invites, Parking and the DC - a true laughable story

by wizzstick in

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friends

i'm in a major uk city, and we're assigned to an out of city location for our district convention.. to set the scene this site is off a busy motorway (freeway).

it's a football (soccer) stadium.

there is nothing around aside from one petrol (gas) station which also has a tiny supermarket in it.

Jaidubdub

We've never had any issues with not being allowed in without a badge. I stopped wearing them about 8 years ago when one of those badge holders snagged my brand new expensive outfit...

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