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  My JW friend turned down the "privilege" of working the literature table at the park. Why?

  by MissFit in

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  i have written before about my jw friend that plays hookie with me on sundays.

  we skip the meeting and go straight to lunch and margaritas.

  she converted later in life and has been a jw for over 25 years.. she is in her late 70's and has had heart problems.

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  Legacy :My friend wasn't born in. She had life experience. I think that's why she gets so irritated. Some things seem like it should be common sense.

  Even simple common courtesy seems to be missing.
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  My JW friend turned down the "privilege" of working the literature table at the park. Why?

  by MissFit in

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  2. experiences

  i have written before about my jw friend that plays hookie with me on sundays.

  we skip the meeting and go straight to lunch and margaritas.

  she converted later in life and has been a jw for over 25 years.. she is in her late 70's and has had heart problems.

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  Bucketshopbill: I agree with your reasons. When I went I would come home feeling so inadequate. One time at the meeting I ended up in the bathroom in tears. I remember a sister approaching me and looking at me sympatheticly .

  She pats my hand and asks: "did the meeting backfire on you? It happens to me sometimes"

  I have never forgotten that phrase. I experienced many more instances but a least I knew what to call them.

  My friend would start getting chest pains. She told me being around a lot of people and having to deal with their questions stressed her out.

  She was discouraged by the lack of love.
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  My JW friend turned down the "privilege" of working the literature table at the park. Why?

  by MissFit in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have written before about my jw friend that plays hookie with me on sundays.

  we skip the meeting and go straight to lunch and margaritas.

  she converted later in life and has been a jw for over 25 years.. she is in her late 70's and has had heart problems.

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  MissFit

  Perry? I dont understand. Why does she need a savior if Jehovah can read her heart?
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  My JW friend turned down the "privilege" of working the literature table at the park. Why?

  by MissFit in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have written before about my jw friend that plays hookie with me on sundays.

  we skip the meeting and go straight to lunch and margaritas.

  she converted later in life and has been a jw for over 25 years.. she is in her late 70's and has had heart problems.

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  Safe at home: She hasn't been to meetings because of her health. Her first loyalty is to Jehovah. She keeps in touch with her JW friends, they drop off her magazines and record the meetings for her.

  Going out in"service" is her way of serving Jehovah. She does not blame Jehovah for imperfect people's actions.

  She is the sweetest person I know. She always has something kind to say to complete strangers. She refuses to shun the df brother who is married to her niece.

  He helps her alot and she always appreciates it. She told me only Jehovah should judge.

  She serves Jehovah first before the Org. She will just let Jehovah sort things out.

  I will not take away her comfort. She has relied on the thought of Jehovah and the hope of paradise to get her through some very hard times.

  She has Faith that god can read her heart and so she doesn't care what others think.

  She will do what she feels is right.

  I think there are alot of people her age that have the same philosophy.
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  My JW friend turned down the "privilege" of working the literature table at the park. Why?

  by MissFit in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have written before about my jw friend that plays hookie with me on sundays.

  we skip the meeting and go straight to lunch and margaritas.

  she converted later in life and has been a jw for over 25 years.. she is in her late 70's and has had heart problems.

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  Sparrow: you are so right. My friend also mentioned that someone told her that"they" were wanting "the friends" to get I Pads so they could go to JW.org.

  She said "what about those with a limited income"? (Smile and nod, Smile and nod)
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  My JW friend turned down the "privilege" of working the literature table at the park. Why?

  by MissFit in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have written before about my jw friend that plays hookie with me on sundays.

  we skip the meeting and go straight to lunch and margaritas.

  she converted later in life and has been a jw for over 25 years.. she is in her late 70's and has had heart problems.

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  MissFit

  I have written before about my JW friend that plays hookie with me on Sundays. We skip the meeting and go straight to lunch and margaritas.

  She converted later in life and has been a JW for over 25 years.

  She is in her late 70's and has had heart problems. She hasn't gone to meetings for over a year because the meetings cause her blood pressure to rise and she is hard of hearing and gets stressed when she cant hear what is going on.

  She is still active " in service," and keeps in touch with " the friends".

  So we were having lunch when she mentioned that her "Elder " friend called her to see if she would like to sit at the literature table at the park.

  She looked at me and said: " I'm supposed to just SIT there and WAIT for someone to COME to ME." She shakes her head in disgust." REALLY Missy HOW MANY people do you think will STOP." She pauses for a minute and then exclaims,

  "No thanks, I DON'T work that way. I just placed 51 magazines with my calls and magazine route. I just got a new "call" the other day. So tell me how I would do better SITTING at the PARK? " She shakes her head again and declares:

  " I'm just going to tell him that I am doing just fine and am not interested" she said.

  All I did was just smile and nod, smile and nod.

  Sometimes there just isn't anything left to add.

  I love her to death. She tells me that her faith in Jehovah is what gets her through and that she trust HIM to read her heart. She doesn't agree with alot of what the Brothers are doing and she hates how nosey and unlovingly "the friends" can be.

  She makes up her own mind and if it doesn't make sense she won't do it.

  Our lunches rock!

  Have any of you had a similar conversation about the magazine table?

  Missy
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  Fresh Newcomer

  by Yondaime in

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  hi guys, my name is yondaime,.

  my will to remain in this relgious sect is fading, i'm about to be a freshman(just turned 18) in college.

  , i have seen so many terrible things happen to good people in this cult and i'm sick of it!

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  Welcome. Have you started classes ? How is it going ?

  Miss.Fit
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  Update on: "I had a funny feeling"

  by noontide in

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  i dont know if anyone remembers this post, but i thought i would update you nonetheless.. .

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/279666/1/i-had-a-funny-feeling-he-was-a-witness-and-now-i-need-help .

  quick recap: i was consulting at a firm where the hr director turned out to be a jehovahs witness.

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  Thanks for the update. I was wondering how things went.

  4 th of July debacle? Do tell. Sounds like you still have some stories to tell.

  Maybe some of the things you told him will bear fruit some day.
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  A new member

  by LP97 in

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  i'm a 17 year old from scotland.

  can i just say this site is absolutely brilliant.

  finally found people with open minds and free thought that doesn't just consist of "well the wt told me this so it must be right".. my story is that i'm just like any other child of a jw...brought up into a life of indoctrination where "the world's" thinking is automatically wrong.. that is until i was 14 - a light turned on in my head.

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  Welcome. You have plenty of time. Enjoy your options and make sure you let your parents know how much their support means to you.

  Be gentle with them. They will be feeling like failures because they couldn't keep you in. They will mourn you because they want to picture you in paradise with them.

  Hopefully if you show them respect they will respect your decisions and not view it as an attack on them and their values.

  Take care.

  Miss.Fit
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  Really weird sentence

  by Moses Joe in

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  i've been absent from meetings recently because i'm having serious life challenges that make me really not want to have to deal with all of the people and the sitting.

  i had made an attempt to, "simplify my life" that rather than being blessed was meant with unemployment.

  lol.. anyway, i finally got tired of all the phone calls checking up on me and sent a message to someone explaining that i just wanted to be left alone (an elder).

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  Data dog Something has to give. You cant go on like this. Misery is just oozing from every key stroke. Can coming out and being true to yourself be more miserable and painful than what you are going through?

  Your family only has a shadow of a man. Dont all of you deserve more?

  Moses Joe: I dont think you owe anyone an explanation. This is between you and Jehovah. Just tell him that you have faith that Jehovah knows your heart.

  Quote him that scripiture that says Jehovah is greater than our hearts.

  Miss.Fit