if anyone had to guess, what do you think the average age of the community actually is?.
are more millennials actually waking up or is it pretty even amongst previous generations as well?
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I'm a millennial, same as magotan. I've wondered this same question myself. I've always assumed that most people here were born before the 90s.
One thing I have noted in the ex-jw community is that most content is aimed at older generations or is done by older ones. Not so many things done by younger people or in the typical YouTube style for videos. I'm not complaining since these videos are helpful many, it's just something I've noticed.
a korean man named lee jin-gyr fell in love with a life sized pillow called a " darkimakura" .
the pillow has the image of a cartoon character named fate testarossa on it from an animated cartoon mahon shaojo.
the 28 year old man takes the pillow with him everywhere and they eventually married.. this is part of a growing subculture of men in japan who engage in relationships with pillows that have cartoon characters on them.
speaking with inlaws i another congregation today who said exactly what is being said in our own hall.
the trolly work is long and boring and no one even notices they are there anymore but walk right on by.
jehovah really is speeding up the work lol.
I've done the trolleys twice now and it's quite boring. At least wiyh regular service you're always walking around. During our group meeting before Saturday morning preaching, the elder assigned some people to the trolley. One more person was needed but no one really wanted to volunteer to do the cart.
Under my experience, there have been some people who have gone up to the carts but it's only one or two at most. Sometimes no one comes up. My mother got a number of people but only because she went up to talk to them, although the rules are you aren't suppose to talk to anyone and just stand there. One time, to entertain myself and a kid that was with me, we played "I spy".
speaking with inlaws i another congregation today who said exactly what is being said in our own hall.
the trolly work is long and boring and no one even notices they are there anymore but walk right on by.
jehovah really is speeding up the work lol.
I've done the trolleys twice now and it's quite boring. At least wiyh regular service you're always walking around. During our group meeting before Saturday morning preaching, the elder assigned some people to the trolley. One more person was needed but no one really wanted to volunteer to do the cart.
Under my experience, there have been some people who have gone up to the carts but it's only one or two at most. Sometimes no one comes up. My mother got a number of people but only because she went up to talk to them, although the rules are you aren't suppose to talk to anyone and just stand there. One time, to entertain myself and a kid that was with me, we played "I spy".
there were other people who either killed themselves or tried to kill themselves while they were at "the house of god.
one person who did kill himself was richard wheelock, press room overseer ......he jumped out of a window at the watchtower farm one day.
it seemed, he was never quite the same after his wife "willy" died.
Thank you for sharing your stories. They were great to read and I always looked forward to reading the next one.
What I am wondering is if 1975 had any impact or mention of inside bethel or was this more on the congregation level?
besides almost getting mugged a couple of times.
his folks had a fit and told him he had to go back and "do his time".........and do the "right thing"...........he told me he had just left max larson’s office, max had just told him “what a disappointment he was, to his family and to the organization!
“do you ever think about james olson?
we are nearing the end of the journey.......so this next two chapters will be called "odds and ends" or things i didn't put in the right chapters..........because i thought of them after those chapters were written..... .
bethel joke.
three guys are sitting around, each drinking a large glass of beer.........a publisher, a pioneer and a bethelite.......just then, a fly lands in all three of their glasses of beer........the publisher....pushes the glass away and says....."i can't drink this now"...........the pioneer looks over, and picks the fly out of the beer and keeps on drinking............the bethelite.........picks up the fly by its wings and holds its head over the glass and says "spit it out......spit it out!
is there a way i can successfully live a double life?
don't get me wrong, i'm not trying to get engaged in activities that are condemnable according to the *bible* (not the *wt*) standards.
i figured that the only way i can get the brothers and sisters to leave me along is by pretending that i am an unemployed drop out.
this is what is happening in a spanish congregation in our area.
this happened 3 weeks ago.
this brother conducted the school and after the school was over, another elder gave the announcement: "( name of the person) is not longer a jehovah's witness".
so went to the meeting last night.
i had not been to one since before the holiday break (3 weeks ago).
besides, it was our first meeting in the new format.
