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  If you can't beat em...

  by Paradiselost in

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  has anyone on the board ever joined a cong as an unknown apostate, gained a reputation, and then tried to show certain members the errors in their ways.  i'm in a sitation that makes the following hypothetical possible.  should i do it...has anyone attemted it?  thoughts?

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  I have moved from the area that my old congregation was in. I do, from time to time get visits from the nearby congregation who are mostly unaware that I am still infact a jw.

  The first time they called, I explained.

  The second time they called I gave them a mouthfull.

  Just about three weeks ago two different ladys came and offered me the mags. (Aren't they supposed to keep records?)

  During the couple of minutes or so that it took one of them to perform her presentation, all kinds of things were racing through my head, one of them was...pretend you're interested and ask them for a bible study...

  Then reason prevailed.

  I would not like to give to them any more of my precious time.........they have wasted enough of it.
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  Anyone into the Office...

  by ballistic in

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  anyone into the office.... .

  it's on in the uk at the mo, tonight.. pure genius.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/.

  that is also my wallpaper.

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  Ha ha ha ballistic.
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  Anyone into the Office...

  by ballistic in

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  anyone into the office.... .

  it's on in the uk at the mo, tonight.. pure genius.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/.

  that is also my wallpaper.

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  And tonights episode was a corker!
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  Disgusting jws

  by bay64me in

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  well for the second time in one week, i happened to bump into another member of my old congregation.

  (wondering what i have done to deserve this?).

  so we chat cautiously at first, then she mentions that an elderly gentleman in the same cong is very frail and needs someone to look after him.

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  Pork chop

  Ok, maby it's not a problem pertinent to jws alone. That is not my point. It's the attitude they have and one track mind and unreasonableness that stinks.
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  Disgusting jws

  by bay64me in

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  well for the second time in one week, i happened to bump into another member of my old congregation.

  (wondering what i have done to deserve this?).

  so we chat cautiously at first, then she mentions that an elderly gentleman in the same cong is very frail and needs someone to look after him.

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  bay64me

  Well for the second time in one week, I happened to bump into another member of my old congregation. (Wondering what I have done to deserve this?)

  So we chat cautiously at first, then she mentions that an elderly gentleman in the same cong is very frail and needs someone to look after him. So I ask "well can't Jane?" (name change to protect identity),Jane by the way is the elderly mans' only daughter who also happens to be the longest serving pioneer ever! "Oh no" was the reply, "they are putting him in a home"

  I was totally outraged at the matter-of-fact way that those words rolled off her tongue. I struggled with all that I had within me to refrain from swearing, but I got so angry. This must have been apparent despite my attempts to contain it, as she asked me what was wrong.

  "What is wrong?" "she is prepared to go around knocking on the doors of empty houses while her father gets PUT IN A HOME?"

  This 'sister' does not work, has no children, husband an elder with half decent job, WHAT IS HER PROBLEM?

  The reply I was given made me sick. "We all have our own lives to get on with you know, anyway the house isn't big enough blah, blah, blah.

  And then I remembered, there was no point in continuing the conversation any longer. I was being spoken to by one of jehovahs witnesses....and they are never wrong.

  I cut the whole thing short, seething inside and feeling disgusted that I am in some way associated with that breed.
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  Anyone into the Office...

  by ballistic in

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  anyone into the office.... .

  it's on in the uk at the mo, tonight.. pure genius.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/.

  that is also my wallpaper.

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  I love it and cringe through it every week.
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  Who's gonna get the new NIRVANA cd?

  by bay64me in

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  released on nov 28th.....i can't wait!

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  Got to agree with you there Zenpunk.
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  met a jw today

  by bay64me in

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  i happened to meet a young 'sister' from my old congregation today whilst out shopping.i think she is about eighteen now.. we exchanged pleasantries and i asked her how everyone was.

  this was a general fish for info on anyone or anything i suppose.

  her response really saddened me.. she told me that all in her immediate family were fine.

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  I would love to read the last post that was made. It is all mashed up. I mean all the lines were written over each other. Is there a prob with my comp or is it something else?
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  Who's gonna get the new NIRVANA cd?

  by bay64me in

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  released on nov 28th.....i can't wait!

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  Released on Nov 28th.....I can't wait!
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  met a jw today

  by bay64me in

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  i happened to meet a young 'sister' from my old congregation today whilst out shopping.i think she is about eighteen now.. we exchanged pleasantries and i asked her how everyone was.

  this was a general fish for info on anyone or anything i suppose.

  her response really saddened me.. she told me that all in her immediate family were fine.

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  bay64me

  I happened to meet a young 'sister' from my old congregation today whilst out shopping.I think she is about eighteen now.

  We exchanged pleasantries and I asked her how everyone was. This was a general fish for info on anyone or anything I suppose. Her response really saddened me.

  She told me that all in her immediate family were fine. She now works part-time as she is auxilliary pioneering as "it keeps her going".This is something that "brings her great joy"

  As we conversed, I noticed her attire. A young pretty girl dressed in full ministry garb including matching scarf and gloves, sensible black outdoor coat which somehow betrayed her youth.

  I could also sense her unease and the way she strictly kept her responses somehow directly pertaining to her ministry or special joy that was hers alone.

  I noticed something also about myself and recalled something that I read recently written by kenpodragon to do with a conversation he had or could not have with his mother.

  There were so many things that perhaps I would have liked to say to her, yet I was unable to. And just as much as she skirted around issues and answered me perfectly.......so did I also.

  I came away feeling sad. Sad for her, sad that the conversation seemed pointless, sad that I felt unable to convey anything of real meaning to her and sad to see her, in her youth, so trapped inside something that she does not understand.

  I also got the feeling that she probably felt quite different. As we parted company, I suspect that she felt quite superior in her wt security and probably thanked jehovah that she was not like me.