At one assembly I was at, there were tennis courts adjacent to the stadium the that you could see from your seats and still look as if you were looking at the stage and were paying attention. The players were only a speck in the distance but watching the matches broke up the monotony of being at the assembly. A couple of the players decided they'd create a little drama of their own by playing a set naked just to shake things up for the religious nuts at the stadium. It was hilarious to hear the murmuring of the crowd rise to a crescendo and to see all the righteous JW's with binoculars straining to get a better look.
Pete Zahut
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Assembly Dramas:They were so bad.... but.... you waited for them to break away from the monotony!
by RULES & REGULATIONS in.
you do remember the four day assemblies... sitting outdoors being fried in the sweltering heat,getting heat stroke in the middle of july in an outdoor baseball stadium.sitting outdoors from 9:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. was so much fun while you wore a suit,long sleeve shirt and a tie while your brain fried.
mom's who had children to take care of,lug strollers,feed all the kids,take them for bathroom breaks and try to not faint from the heat.. the sound and audio was always breaking and barely audible from the wind,airplanes flying over and (if you attended the cicero,illinois circuit )you would smell horse manure from the horse stables next door.. you know that you are a jehovah's witness.... when the only excitement waiting for the drama... where brothers and sisters dress up in ancient cloths,fake beards,fake rocks and fake soldier uniforms and wave their hands incessantly to pretend that they are acting out a drama.the excitement was unbearable!.
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JW.ORG Now requires personal address
by AverageJoe1 inlogging on to the user area access today, there appeared a message saying that they now require a postal and physical home address to attach to your profile, with a note saying that the branch may change the details as they see fit.
this raises several questions in my mind:.
why would they need to have your physical address on file?.
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Pete Zahut
Perhaps there was a problem with people logging on and pretending to be interested in a free home bible study and JW's were being sent to a fake address ??
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Was There ANYTHING Positive That You Experienced Because of Being a JW?
by minimus inwas there anything positive about your jehovah's witness experience?.
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Pete Zahut
Children from abusive homes can often find something positive to look back upon but that doesn't negate the fact that although they had a roof over their heads, were fed and sent to school, they were still abused.
I attribute my good health and still youthful appearance to the clean lifestyle I lived and also due to the fact that I never got to do anything because I spent decades preparing for meetings assemblies and service, attending meetings, assemblies and service, coming home from meetings, assemblies and service and trying to recruit others to attend meetings, assembly and to eventually go in service.
Ships are safer when they're tied up in the harbor but that's not what ships were built for.
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The Timing of Telling My Parents My College Plans.
by WeatherLover ini know that at some point i have to tell my parents that i'm planning to go to college.
i basically have two options:.
1. tell them early.
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Pete Zahut
It's a crazy thing that your going to college would be considered bad news.
Is the college you plan on attending nearby so you could live at home if your parents are favorable or would you have to move away anyway?
Are you certain you'd be kicked out if you went to college?
Why can't you attend college and not mention ending the JW thing just yet. Let them get used to the idea of college and then gradually fade away sometime in the future.
Perhaps you could sit them down and have the following conversation:
You: Dad...Mom, play along with me here but can you give me 3 examples of things that no parent ever wants to hear about their kid?
Your Parents: No parent wants to hear their child is sick, or they've been in an accident or they are in trouble with the law.
You: What about if they heard their child had been accepted into college?
Parents: Well...no, that wouldn't exactly be bad news....why are you asking us this?
You: Well it occurred to me that even though parents all over the world are overjoyed when their kids go on to higher education, it might come as bad news to you, if I were to tell you I got accepted into a college.
Then take the conversation from there, hopefully you'll have put things into perspective for them.
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Hit by a car evacuating due to oroville dam. Ever been hit?
by Wasanelder Once inwent back to get info from driver who tapped our car in line of cars exiting the area.
after getting her info, she waited till i walked back to our car and punched the gas, hitting me.
then drove off.
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Pete Zahut
Not that your injuries weren't bad but I'm glad it wasn't worse. If you didn't get the woman's license number or there were no witnesses, perhaps there was a nearby business that had a security cam going. It's a slim chance but I know someone who was able to provide evidence of a crash that way. My guess she didn't have insurance and was making a run for it.
Hope they're able to get you patched up good as new....until then we'll have to excuse any typos you make while posting here. LOL !
GET WELL SOON !!
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I need some advice please
by JaMu ini am a non-jw girl dating a jw man for almost 5 years now since end of high school.
most of the relationship has been long distance.
when we started dating, we wanted a serious long term relationship that would end in marriage one day.
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Pete Zahut
Just a few random thoughts:
- Whenever I had a girlfriend, I couldn't wait to see her... wanted to be with her at all times or at least as much as possible.
- Can't imagine having serious feelings for a woman and not being "intimate" for 5 years.
- Do you suspect you may be the "girl on the side" to him and that he has others as well?
- Have you asked him what "unevenly yolked" means to a JW? If not, ask him to
explain the term and where you fit into the picture and what this will
mean for your relationship, long term.
- How trustworthy is he if he can spend 5 years hiding the fact that he is breaking one of the major "JW tenants" (see above)
- Not sure why you refer to yourself as a "Girl" and to him as a"Man" is the use of those phrases telling as to your age differences and or equality in this relationship? If so I see more red flags.
Anyway, there are lots of variables to this story that I don't know but it sounds like your instincts are on high alert over this and as far as I can tell, they should be. It seems like you deserve better treatment than what you've been getting. I'm glad you came here to ask your questions....you deserve to be someone's number one....rather than strung along in the shadows by a guy who's in the grips of a weird religion.
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Funny event at the Memorial celebration
by DaPriest infor this award, i would like to nominate something that happened in berlin south english, again.we all have seen people that try to disrupt the memorial celebration, and this is not amusing at all.
its quite sad.
what is amusing is when the disruption occurs from within.an incident occurred once, when a brother was passing the bread around.
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Pete Zahut
Someone brought their bible study to one Memorial at or Hall. He was a frail trembling elderly man who was very hard of hearing. There were 5 of 6 chairs between he and the closest person to him so when it came time for him to pass the wine, he got up and teetered down the aisle holding the wine glass in his shaking hands, sloshing it all over the place. As he handed the glass off to the next person he shouted (as deaf folks often do without realizing it) "WELL HERE YA' GO...IF THERE'S ANYTHING LEFT OF IT, THAT IS !"
There was much snickering to be heard throughout the hall.
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Cart Witnessing On Their Wedding Day
by pale.emperor inthis photo is doing the rounds on jw inspirational on instagram.
although the brothers and sisters think this is "oh so amazing" and "so cool" it's actually very sad and quite shocking.
what, people cant even enjoy their wedding day without the cult invading their special day.
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Pete Zahut
I'm guessing they were having their photos taken in the park just adjacent to where this cart was and some uber JW (probably the brides Mother) though it would be cute to get a shot by the literature cart to show all her friends.
The Bride looks as if she's only putting up with it to avoid making a scene and he looks like a bit of a schlub who's hoping the whole thing is over before one of his mates from work sees him.
I remember being at a wedding one Saturday where the Presiding Overseer ran after the bride and groom and flagged them down as they were driving away to leave for their honeymoon. A bunch of us were standing nearby and heard him tell them that there was going to be a really good talk Sunday and he thought it would be a good idea for them to attend. The bride hooted with laughter rolled up her window in his face and the pair of them drove off.
It was classic !
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Homeless guy begs with the Watchtower
by ShirleyW inafter that crazy story about the bride and groom going out in service in their wedding attire, that reminded me of a scene yesterday in one of the subway stations, a disheveled homeless guy had one hand out begging for some money, "does anyone have some spare change to help me " he kept saying, in his other hand was a copy of the magazine.
so what must've happened was some dub passed him by and instead of giving him a quarter gave him a copy of the latest publication.
although some of the beggars use their money for alcoholic beverage anyway instead of food i'm sure that magazine will be put to good use when he feels the need to take a squat somewhere and needs some paper.
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Pete Zahut
They actually feel that it is better to give this man bible literature so he becomes a JW, shaves, get's new clothes and suddenly his life is on the right track. To be honest I do not see this as bad. I think it is better to teach this man how to live so he can benefit himself. But at the same time the JW would never help a poor man out. Their money is for the WTBTS only!
I would agree that in some cases, any form of structure to live by (even the JW's) is a step in the right direction to get someone back on the right track. In the case of the individual I was commenting on, it was pretty clear that his issues were more problematic than what a bath, a shave and a watchtower article could resolve. He was obviously in need of medication and long term mental care from highly trained professionals whom by the way, the good folks at the Watchtower, view as being part of Satan's WICKED organization.
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Homeless guy begs with the Watchtower
by ShirleyW inafter that crazy story about the bride and groom going out in service in their wedding attire, that reminded me of a scene yesterday in one of the subway stations, a disheveled homeless guy had one hand out begging for some money, "does anyone have some spare change to help me " he kept saying, in his other hand was a copy of the magazine.
so what must've happened was some dub passed him by and instead of giving him a quarter gave him a copy of the latest publication.
although some of the beggars use their money for alcoholic beverage anyway instead of food i'm sure that magazine will be put to good use when he feels the need to take a squat somewhere and needs some paper.
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Pete Zahut
My Son told me that yesterday in downtown Seattle, he heard someone maniacally shouting what he immediately recognized as "JW" terms. He looked around only to see an insane homeless man sitting on the sidewalk reading out loud from a Watchtower. He figured he got it off of one of the literature carts from a JW who was anxious to shoo him away.
" IN VIEW OF THE FOREGOING, IT WOULD BEHOVE ALL THINKING PERSONS TO TAKE HEED OF THE WARNINGS SET FORTH IN THE SCRIPTURES TO RETURN TO JEHOVAH BEFORE THE GREAT DAY OF GOD THE ALMIGHTY ARRIVES UPON THEM AS A THEIF IN THE NIGHT !!! "