Posts by neverendingjourney

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Any recent wack-a-doodle elder comments in your congo lately?

by sir82 in

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our go-to wack-a-doodle elder moved to a new congregation a few years back.

the position has been vacant since then.. we had an elder move in a few months back.

he appears to be angling for the position of resident wack-a-doodle.. at last night's service meeting, he said (paraphrased): "as a congregation, we've been busier than ever before with our special campaign.

neverendingjourney

There was one goofball elder in particular that sticks out in my mind. I don't exaggerate when I say his IQ was most likely below 80. Soon after he was appointed we were out in service and a pioneer sister handed me a stack of excess magazines since I was running short. He told her she could count them as placements. Even if you place them with a brother or sister, they still count. He wasn't kidding. We were out in service once just over an hour and he told me to put down 3 hours because after all we were regular pioneers. Another time he showed me his elders book and insisted that I read through it on the theory that it would encourage me to reach out for appointment. It made me very uncomfortable.

I've been inactive going on 10 years now. Recently I went to visit my mother and took her to a restaurant. This elder was there and approached our table to chit chat. Turns out he recently moved to a neighboring town to "serve where the need is great." He invited me to join him since they needed capable brothers to serve. I honestly don't think he remembered that I've been MIA for a decade. The guy would say all manner of ridiculous things from the platform, but I've mostly forgotten them. I don't miss having to spend time with that guy.

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Is new light coming again?

by justme67 in

i just turned in my resignation letter to my congregation a few weeks ago.

last week, 2 elders called me to say they received my letter and would like to meet with me to discuss my concerns.

in my letter, i said i had found out about all the child abuse cases that were going on and that i didnt agree with their policy of disfellowshipping.

neverendingjourney

Probably a new tract being released exclusively on jw.org

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HULK HOGAN will he convert to Jehovah's Witnesses?

by Watchtower-Free in

.from jw instagram .

http://instagram.com/jw_witnesses.

caption:" a few sisters were out in the tract campaign in clearwater, florida this morning and placed a tract with wrestling personality hulk hogan.

neverendingjourney

When I was a child, I was not allowed to watch wrestling. It was against my relgion even though my brothers and I would watch it whenever we got the chance and Hulk Hogan was by far my favorite wrestler. Fast forward 25 years and JWs are now posting fanpics of him on their instagram accounts. Odd.

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JW.org to be regarded as fulfillment of the signs of the last days.

by jwfacts in

i struggled as a jw to accept that the good news of the kingdom was ever going to be preached in all the inhabited world by jws, as there were many parts of the world with few to no jws.

there are not enough to cover the 3 billion plus people in asia to allow everyone to get a chance to hear the message.

it also was offensive to me that jehovah would kill those billions that had never had a chance to accept the watchtower message.

neverendingjourney

Dont' the Witnesses claim Matthew 24:14 has already been fulfilled?

Seven or eight years ago I was copied on an email that was making the rounds in the JW world. The Witnesses were all excited because some Bethel speaker at an assembly had said Matthew 24:14 had been fulfillied. I had only been inactive a few year then and I went online to see if I could verify it. That's what first brought me to this website. If I remember correctly, the consensus here was that the Bethel speaker was saying nothing new.

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jw.org madness

by Gorbatchov in

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more and more jw.org special campain pictures made by the r&f flush over the internet.. it's crazy how this jw.org madness becomes a phallus inside the witness world.. observing it from some distance, it is clear: jw.org is the central theme of the current witness beliefs.

every step they make, is for promoting jw.org.

when they speak, they only speak about jw.org.

neverendingjourney

It's weird they're all gaga over a website. I mean, big wup, everyone has a website

It speaks to the boredom of the average JW and the monotony of their lives. The same applies to the ridiculous reactions at the international assemblies. These people are bored and repressed. A reaction to something new or any opportunity to express themselves gets overdone.

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Black cop kills unarmed white male DillonTaylor in Utah

by moomanchu in

golly gee wiz only local media cover for this.. i like the way the media describes it.. mr. taylor wasnt black hes been described as white and hispanic and the .

officer who shot him aug. 11 outside a 7-eleven in south salt lake wasnt white.. race bias ???.

naaaaaah can't be !!!!!.

neverendingjourney

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Do you know your neighbors? Is it just me?

by neverendingjourney in

i'm a single hispanic guy in my mid 30s living by myself in suburban america.

i own a home in the kind of neighborhood where you have to get hoa permission to do just about anything, including chopping down a tree.

i'm a white collar worker and lead a pretty boring life.

neverendingjourney

TD,

You may not remember but we exchanged PMs probably around two years ago. The first home I owned, the one with mostly older neighbors, was in your neck of the woods. I found that the people out there generally liked to be left alone, though, at least more so than the people from my home state.

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Do you know your neighbors? Is it just me?

by neverendingjourney in

i'm a single hispanic guy in my mid 30s living by myself in suburban america.

i own a home in the kind of neighborhood where you have to get hoa permission to do just about anything, including chopping down a tree.

i'm a white collar worker and lead a pretty boring life.

neverendingjourney

Do you think there is some racial animus?

Not really. I wouldn't call it that. It's not like anyone has been outright hostile towards me. I imagine there are a lot of factors at play.

My current neighborhood in squarely in the midst of suburbia and is populated by the type of people seeking an enclave and wanting to get away from the inner city. If there's a burglary 5 miles away everyone is going to hear about it. Neighborhood watch meetings will probably be convened. I don't really live here by choice. My office is in this town and I don't see the point in living in the city and having a reverse commute.

The neighborhood website I mentioned earlier has threads started by neighbors warning of the dangers of hiring "illegals" to mow your lawn. In other words, it wouldn't surprise me if some of these folks make assumptions based on their paranoia and preconceived notions of me based on my race, marital status, age, etc. I 'm certainly not trying to imply that the reaction is simply a product of racism.

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Do you know your neighbors? Is it just me?

by neverendingjourney in

i'm a single hispanic guy in my mid 30s living by myself in suburban america.

i own a home in the kind of neighborhood where you have to get hoa permission to do just about anything, including chopping down a tree.

i'm a white collar worker and lead a pretty boring life.

neverendingjourney

Hi Jamie! I hope you're well. Haven't talked to you in a long time.

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"My Husband is Poisoning Me!" Judicial Committee number 256

by BucketShopBill in

i pulled up the notes from one of the more weird judical committe topics, this is the garbage your elders had to handle!.

the mind games played by one of the elderettes come's to mind, she was speaking to a sister that was suffering from severe anxiety and helped our depressed sister draw the conclusion that "sister depressed's husband is trying to poisoning her!

" off goes this once pretty and smart woman, she went to college and got her license to draw blood because she wanted to test it for arsenic and polonium (around the time that russian guy got off ed by vladimir putin).

neverendingjourney

My dad hit a phase where he'd tell anyone who'd listen that my mother was poisoning him. Thankfully, nobody really takes him seriously anymore as he's paranoid, has no friends and likely suffers from a host of mental illnesses.

I imagine elders hear a lot of weird crap and it must be funny looking back on it. Some of it is sad, though. There was a JW family who called the elders because they had a son who was supposedly under the influence of demons. The kid was hearing voices telling him to kill his mother. The elders prayed with the family and encouraged them to throw away any possessions that might have a tie to spiritism. The kid should have immediately been put under medical care as he was clearly exhibiting symptoms of mental illness, perhaps schizophrenia.

Instead, they sent a welder and a truck driver to attend to a medical emergency.