My mom, "Steve, there's just a little time left". (Pre-1975)
"Even the apostles we wrong sometimes."
Stupid defense used by JW's when trying to protect the Watchtower Society's image concerning "little" things like false predictions and past policies such as the ban on organ transplants."Iggy dolls are demonized!"
Silly little troll like dolls that became a fad back in the sixties."If you have a cross in your house, that's like an open invitation to demons!"
We had a JW lady who lived next door that upon realizing that the face of the gas controls on her stove had two crossing lines that looked a little like a cross, she scratched them out. I'm not making this shit up, man! Whata dumbass."Steve, you just need to sit down with a brother and start to study again." I once made the natural mistake of sharing some stressful events in my life with my JW mom. I was no longer a JW at the time and I guess this was her opportunity to plug the Watchtower Society. I never confided in her again after that. This is one area of my life that I feel like was stolen from me. I haven't had the benefit of a mother's advice due to the nonsensical headset created for her by the WBTS.
"There won't be any need for doctors in the new system, so there's no need to go to school to become one." What was told to my JW friend's older brother (Pre-1975) who wanted to become a doctor. His parents could afford the tuition but the elders told them that this wouldn't please Jehovah and the boy needed to put that time in service instead going and wasting his time at school. I overheard this whole conversation at the Hall one day, and the boy just sat there and cried. Today he would have been in practice for a quarter of a century. So much for dreams. Stupid bastards (elders).
"I went to the store today and all these people around me were dead." A comment made by mom to me, after coming home from the grocery store one day. Meaning, that they were all to be dead shortly, due to 1975.
There's more but this all I can think of now.