i seem to recall when i was in dubland, i couldn't drive my car around in field service because i wasn't baptized.
was there any printed direction on this, or was it just a "said" dub policy?
This brought something to mind I thought I'd long forgot about.
Back when I was a faithful dub out in service the congregation I used to go to had this black CO. Well, when it came time to go out in service, he'd always ask to see the drivers license of whoever was driving his wife around for the day.
At the time, I thought he was just being careful, but, in hindsight, now it seems rather stupid.
i was asked to fill in on our local school board as an elected board member could not finish their turn.
i thought about for a day and decided to do it.
it requires that you are a registered voter, at least in our town, which i am.
Or will they just decide to let me live my life?
Hmmmmrrrrrffffffffffff................
As if that is their decision to make.
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i'm just sitting here doing master tape transfers of my canned peaches stuff, and i decided that i'm one of the anointed.
to prove this to myself, i overindulged in a bag of cool ranch doritos and a bottle of kokanee beer.. see ya in heaven fred franz!
We should start a club: AA (Anointed Apostates). We could carry "Take Blood" cards, have our own conventions, and drink lots of beer, and eat unleavened crackers with salsa.
What ever happened to the Apostate Directorate of North America???
my jw friend called me this morning to complain about the wt study yesterday.
it was all about apostates.
evidently some in that cong.
Very stupid comment at the study but I can't say I'm surprised the conductor didn't correct the person. Why would they defend someone who is inactive?
Just imagine the eyebrows that would've been raised had this poor sister been corrected in front of all in the study group in defense of a no longer submitting to the org uh-"poztate".
Why.....that elder could've "stumbled" that poor sister along with any others in attendance who weren't snoozing hoping for a time when that meeting would be over.
a longtime friend of my daughters, we will call him "c", called my daughter, nancy, yesterday.
he is the 17-year-old son of an elder in my ex-wife?s congregation.
c?s father and mother are highly controlling and abusive to the young man.
These kids need help and all their parents can do is beat them further into that sickening submission, even if it kills them.
That does seem to be the parental JW modis operandi doesn't it.........the beatings and humiliation will continue until you submit to the will of us and the org !!!!!
The few years I considered myself a JW, I saw myself doing the very same thing justifying to myself that this would save them and they would be good little JW drones and in the process stifling my kids individuality and creativity. When I finally came to my senses and stopped submitting to the abusive pattern of JW authority, my wife picked up where I left off and had gotten to the point where she was doing this with our kids until I intervened. If at any time they disagreed with she'd sit him down with some type of WT publication and do a Q and A with them not allowing them to deviate from whatever was in the rags.
I put a stop to that real quick and it's one of the reason's why they want nothing to do with being a JW.
my jw friend called me this morning to complain about the wt study yesterday.
it was all about apostates.
evidently some in that cong.
"There have been elders, pioneers, former Bethelites and others who fell out of the truth. They haven't gone to other religions, and may not be disfellowshipped, but that doesn't mean they aren't apostates. We shouldn't have anything to do with them." "Good comment Sister Stupid" She is so upset and wanted me to talk to my mother about it so she can talk to the elders. I will and she will too. I'm sure she is also upset and wants to set the record straight.
Stupidly classic WT thinking here.........
If you leave the org, den u b uh poztate.
What a classic example of how the WT works....how they validate each others pre-conceived BS and rely on any dissenter to talk to an elder in private so as not to rock the boat publicly. Of course, the elder will probably have a softer stance on the issue in private so as to not have to deal with the matter to any appreciable degree.
what did ya think?
foxnews just ran it.
I saw it today and was hysterical with laughter.
stop hiding behind your anonymity.
there is a fink on this messege board.
a practicing jw who frequents the board in order to report things to people.. well, here is to the person who is my father's "little bird".
.... BTTT.....
i remember my mom and my aunt making us kids open the door to the trick-or-treators and instead of giving them candy, we had to put wt and awake!
magazines (back issues) in their bags.
how embarrassing.. anyone else have the same experience?.
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I guess - in retrospect... it's a non-JWs revenge... sorta like door-to-door in reverse, eh? It gives a JW an opportunity to see what it feels like to dread someone coming to the door and knocking. hahahahaha
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Yes, like Jerry Seinfeld said to the telemarketer: "Well now you know how I feel".
I have a pioneering relative who always uses the phrase "a lot of people were HBH (home but hiding)" whenever she goes out in "service".
I wonder will she consider herself home but hiding this Halloween.
in my moms last letter she stated that me, my sister and her should all just "move on" meaning put our hurts and anger behind us and work towards having better relationships.
however, in the same letter she clarified that disfellowshipping is "discipline" and she intends to continue shunning me.
so i wrote back asking her what "moving on" means for her.
I think maybe you'll get a "but my offenses were only against you, imperfect humans, while your offenses are against Jehovah . . . ."
If that's the case, then, why is it that one must submit tho the harsh judgements of imperfect humans within the JW organization. Why not leave my "offenses against jehovah" between me and him and let him be the final judge as to how he'll discipline. isn't she askiing for the same forgiveness from an imperfect human tht she expects to get from jehovah?
