"Never mind Pete" they assured me "You'll have all the time in the world to ride off road bikes in the New System"
(sure I will...sure I will )
Pete Zahut
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I feel great today!
by Dubby infor years i denied myself the thing i loved to do the most to be a good jw.
i love to ride off-road motorcycles.
so, i am going to indulge myself and get a new dirt bike.. i love to see god's creation from the vantage point of a motorcycle on a mountain top.
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How to survive an assembly
by BlackWolf inhey i was just wondering if you guys had any ideas on how to keep my brain occupied while i'm at an assembly tommorow.
maybe besides tallying the number of times they say jehovah and jesus or counting how many people are wearing red.
i want to keep myself from going insane or having some kind of panic attack lol.
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Pete Zahut
Counting was how I survived. I used to count things such as the holes in the acoustic tiles on the ceiling .
A girl in our Hall used to hide a transistor radio in her coat and run a earphone behind her long hair and listen to music during the meeting. It was hilarious when she finally got caught. Her trashy, fake leopard skin wearing, leather skirt clad Mother suddenly stopped filing her nails, smacked her daughter in the back of the head and yanked the earphone out of her ear. It was classic LOL !
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Not to worry....curious minds want to know....Diogenesister 15 hours ago
Pete, this is soooo super nosey of me, I won't ask details, but how?? I mean may I just ask if his ex's were d/f'd or is that being too disloyal...oh heck just tell me to bog off...sheesh I'm such a middle aged saddo 😜His first JW wife was 18 when they got married. He was 21 and he knew right away that it was a mistake but he was stuck. (she was nice but kind of flakey) By the time she was 23, she was realizing she hadn't even lived yet and was already married and had a child. My brother used to encourage and play up this dissatisfaction. She was very pretty but insecure even though she got a lot of attention from guys. My brother used to make sure she noticed this attention and took her places where it would happen (clubs, beach, gym, modeling jobs). He encouraged her to get breast augmentation and to wear revealing clothing. Eventually it had the desired effect and he was free but in my mind, he was the one to blame. I think given enough time she'd have been ok with the right example and encouragement. She was DF'd and never returned. She left town and headed for the modeling/entertainment industry and has been there since.
JW Wife #2 was a dark haired version of wife #1. She was 18 and he was in his early 30's by this time. I refused to be in the wedding because I knew it was a mistake. She was an Elders daughter and wanted out of the house and anyone who knew her realized this was the case. Sure enough the same thing happened. A short time into the marriage, he wanted out and went about it the same way he did with marriage # 1. Soon wife #2 ran off with someone from their gym. She was disfellowshipped, and appeared to be the guilty party. My brother was delighted. He came out of it smelling like a rose and resumed his carefree bachelor life roaming from assembly to assembly and was an active partaker of all to be had in the JW party/social circuit. He knew all the right people and the right JW things to say.
JW Wife # 3 was 22 and he was in his mid 40's by this time. She's pretty, very nice, needed a Green Card and a Daddy with a few bucks so it's worked out pretty well. She is very pampered and spoiled so we're not sure how it will go once she has to deal with his old age but so far, so good. She is only a few months older than his daughter and she is jealous of the attention he gives her. Fingers crossed on that but in the meantime, we have to put up with his annoying fake JW proclamations on facebook. Other than that....he's a Prince of a guy !
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Pete Zahut
To have a URL the image would have had to be posted on an image hosting site.
#1. If the image you want to post is on your own computer just click the Photo icon above .
Then Click on the
button in the box that pops up and find the image on your computer.
#2. If the image you want to post doesn't have a URL already, just download it onto your computer or take a screen shot of it and follow the same steps as shown in #1. above.
(To take a screen shot press the Command~Shift~4 keys simultaneously. Use the cross hairs that pop up, to highlight the image you want.)
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Pete Zahut
Pete, just when I thought your bro was a cool JW by his not shunning you, he goes and posts something like this. Ewww!
This is what I've mentioned before in my posts about him. He makes these really "out there" super JW sounding posts and yet he cuts corners, blurs lines and fudges the rules every chance he gets. All his JW friends think he is so theocratic yet he doesn't really "get" any of it, on a deep level. He's been married 3 times to different JW women. (The women get younger every time) his current wife is 6 mos older than his daughter. He's never been so much as taken in the back room and has managed to get out of his disastrous marriages scott free. He managed to B.S his way out of them without getting disfellowshipped.
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Here's a post from my older Brothers facebook page (gag)
TODAY'S ANNUAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT WAS EPIC !!
After dining the same way every week for years, and drinking my milk shake 1st. I' am about to really be encouraged how to take in spiritual food on Wed. nights; meat 1st, chewing each piece slowly and really digesting it well. Instead of the same few eating correctly each week, we all will have the utensils and format to finally get to that tasty 100% Grade A Meat in the 1st bite. -
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One could ask your JW friend:
- So what brought all this up?
- What prompted this unsolicited declaration?
- When a person is happy, they usually think nothing of it, they are busy enjoying their life and don't stop and make proclamations about it.
- How often as a JW have you individually or as a group, jumped in the air while holding pieces of literature?
- Isn't that a bit cultish?
- Wouldn't it be more realistic to show a photo of people sitting in rows of chairs staring blankly into the middle distance?
- Who are you trying to convince that you're happy and not in a cult...yourself possibly?
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Stock Up! The End Is Near!
by LevelThePlayingField inabout four paragraphs down in the article... source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/stock-up-the-end-is-near-or-so-say-mormons/.
cults quite commonly use made-up prophecy to bolster their membership.
for example, beginning around 1918, the watchtower bible and tract society today commonly known as jehovahs witnesses began teaching that the old testament saintsabraham, isaac, jacob and king david, etc.would all be returning from the dead in 1925!
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expensive mansion in San Diego where those guys were all to live (prior to traveling to Jerusalem, where they would oversee the establishment of the new world).
You just can't make this stuff up!
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Oh the humanities...my wicked neighbor!
by username ini have been given a piece of birthday cake as it was his birthday yesterday!
will i be a human hot dog now?.....
this just got me thinking of all the stupidities of the watchtower teachings, someone very kindly offers you something as innocent as a slice of chocolate cake but we were supposed to turn it down because that peace of chocolate cake now had horns poking out the top of the chocolate frosting.
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Pete Zahut
JW's ( and other religions ) have reduced God to this angry old man in the sky waiting for us to do something bad so he can shake his fist in the air in rage or be crestfallen in utter disappointment at our weaknesses or failings or who is watching with rapt attention, our trivial comings and goings. (think of the sad Jehovah routine in the Caleb and Sophia videos)
Those old notions from childhood that were intended to mold us to a certain way of thinking, tend to linger long after the desired effect took place and beyond the point where a person should have normally be able to shake them off.
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Who Are Your Past Circuit Overseers? It's a small world..
by mentallyfree31 inwho were your past circuit overseers?
i'm sure a lot of us actually know mutual people, as the co's relocate all over the country.. here's a few from the southeast us: (let me know if you recognize any names and post yours too please...).
ellwood johnson (new york/philadelphia area for several years also).
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Pete Zahut
Bradford & Village Idiot, I remember a DO named George Cook. I think he could speak modern Greek; might have been from Greece, but didn't have an accent or anything that would make that obvious.
We had a George Cook as CO and his wife was named Joan. Very pompous and loved being the star of the show as did his wife.
He was the one who after the meeting, scolded my Mom and some of the older Sisters who had arranged a 50's party for us teens. We rarely ever got to do anything but this time we dressed up in 1950's clothes ( greasers, cheerleaders, Bobby soxers, Lettermen) and we did 50's dances. I kid you not, He actually said that instead of emulating the world, we should have dressed as the Pioneers and Missionaries of the day and listened to Kingdom Melodies of that era. He claimed that the dances weren't fitting for young ministers of Jehovah and said such activities would distract us young ones from the urgency of the times. We couldn't believe it !
This guy used to wear brightly colored 3 piece suits during his visits and his wife (Joan) used to wear Women's Fedora style hats with big Pheasant feathers that would practically be in the faces of the people sitting behind her during the meeting. She had long red fingernails which were a distraction to the householders at the door as she turned the pages of the Bible or the Literature. She also had a rather big caboose and was often squeezed into suits with straight skirts that she'd long since grown out of. My Mother (bless her) mentioned this to "Brother"Cook after he finished berating she and the other sisters about the 50's party.
My Mother was tall blonde and very elegant. She had a European accent. ( think of a blond Audry Hepburn) She was very articulate, quick witted and clever. Although she was respectful, she'd easily put any brother in his place if he took the headship thing too far with her which happened from time to time because my Dad was not a JW and the brothers viewed her as a single woman or widow.
In this instance, she said to Brother Cook "If it's distractions and what's befitting of a minister you're worried about, I suggest you take a look at your wife's tight skirts, large feathered hats and blood red fingernails and ask yourself If she portrays herself as a Minister or even the wife of a Minister when she's at the doors. For that matter, what must people around here think when you show up to their modest homes wearing a nearly pink suit. (it was salmon colored actually but some would call it pink). His face was priceless...he had nothing to say because it was all true and he was totally out of line and he knew it.
We all just walked away rolling our eyes thinking what an ass he was and cheering inside for what my Mom said.
This incident and many others like it, is why it was particularly galling for me to see the videos of the line dancing and Motown dance lessons taking place in the Halls last year during the International Assemblies.
