Posts by Jadeen

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Has a local needs talk been given about you?

by Jadeen in

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this was briefly mentioned in one of miseryloveselders threads, but i had the honor of a local needs talk pointed at me.

shortly before i got married to my "worldly" husband there was a talk about "marrying only in the lord", "do not become unevenly yoked", blah blah blah.. i wasn't shocked that it was given, i was actually waiting to hear about it.

i was more surprised that they waited until about a month before our wedding day to give it.

Jadeen

This was briefly mentioned in one of miseryloveselders threads, but I had the honor of a local needs talk pointed at me. Shortly before I got married to my "worldly" husband there was a talk about "marrying only in the Lord", "do not become unevenly yoked", blah blah blah.

I wasn't shocked that it was given, I was actually waiting to hear about it. I was more surprised that they waited until about a month before our wedding day to give it. Then the gossip and slander really started. I heard about this second hand, since the elders never talked to me personally.

Anyone else have a local needs directed at you? Were you actually there to hear it in person or did you hear about it later?

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Confessions of a Wayward Pioneer

by Giordano in

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frank was concerned that they might be dumping them in the woods or something so he wanted me to check it out.. i had a hard time convincing h and h to let me join them in service, finally i dropped a few hints that i was a pretty laid back brother who didn't always follow wtbts policy......... which wasn't far from the truth.

this guy was hard core.

Jadeen

Thanks for sharing your story! Wheel-chair John cracked me up.

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Favorite Demon Stories

by Cold Steel in

one of the most fascinating aspects of the jw religion is the profound fear of demons (evil spirits) it engenders in its members.

i just wondered whether it's something that is used by the leadership as a means of control, or whether it's simply a concept that grew legs and took off on its own?

first, i believe in evil spirits.

Jadeen

I remember a couple that claimed to have a poltergeist living in their former apartment. They would come home and find their fridge in the living room, among other things. I don't put too much stock in that story- they were really strange people that should have been on medication.

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Need advice on going back to college

by mamalove in

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i need some kind of advisor, are there professionals who can steer one the right way on these kinds of things?

or do i need to do the legwork and call a bunch of schools to see what is best?

i have no problem doing it and have already got started, but i am very confused on the best path to take here.. my background is that i went to a business school in the later 90's.

Jadeen

You can also ask to CLEP some classes. I did that for a couple of mine and I think it was only $90 per test.

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Regarding (un)conditional love from "Pearls before Swine"

by pirata in

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don't know about you, but i thought this comic was pretty profound.

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does anyone else draw a connection to the watchtower society and/or jw family/friends?.

Jadeen

Ha, I love Pearls! It's my favorite comic since Calvin and Hobbes finished. I wish jw's would make same connection.

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Is there a such thing as a perfect weekend when you're a Jehovah's Witness?

by miseryloveselders in

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i'm venting a little bit, just a smidgen anyway.

i might not remember this thread tommorrow, as i just popped the ambien, and i'm waiting for it kick in so i can hit the sack.

i wanted to post this before my brain goes haywire.

Jadeen

The only good weekends I had as a JW was when we went camping. Ahhh, sitting round a campfire, eating junk food, going swimming, no service or meeting... until my dad started getting holier-than-thou and made us do a quick WT study.

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Woman I work with just asked me, "if you fall in love and get married, do you have to marry a JW?"

by miseryloveselders in

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you wanna talk about a section in the office floor becoming as quiet as a vacant building in the middle of nowhere.

so she put her hand on her chin and said in more words or less, "if you fall in love, and get married, do you have to marry a jw?

i couldn't imagine people looking at me poorly because i didn't marry a jw!

Jadeen

Hell no, I wasn't there! By that time, I had gotten meeting attendance down to maybe once every 6 months. Keep in mind that I had never been baptised, so I was already looked down on as being weak. All of my used-to-be friends were already married, so they couldn't hang out with me any more. Then I had been dating a worldly guy, so I was a bad influence. I thought, "why should I go when people won't talk to me?" No elders had tried to pull me aside for a shepherding call- actually no elders had talked to me at all.

If I had been there... I would like to say that I would have walked out, but probably not. My face would have been beet red and I would have done the walk of shame out the door as soon as meeting was over.

They gave the talk about two weeks before the wedding. I first heard about it when a good friend informed me that, "Xxx and Xxxxx said that they aren't coming to your wedding, because they think it would set a bad example for their son." These two people were very close friends of my family- we went camping with them, dinner at each others houses at least once a week, they came to my graduation ceremony. And they wouldn't say this to my face.

First I was shocked and then very, very angry. It pretty much destroyed the friendship that my family had with them. Some other people in the congregation took that talk to mean that it was open season to gossip and slander me- I heard some nasty second hand stuff.

But overall, I wasn't too surprised about that local needs being given. I was kind of surprised that they didn't give it sooner. It was the actions of people after the talk that pissed me off.

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Woman I work with just asked me, "if you fall in love and get married, do you have to marry a JW?"

by miseryloveselders in

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you wanna talk about a section in the office floor becoming as quiet as a vacant building in the middle of nowhere.

so she put her hand on her chin and said in more words or less, "if you fall in love, and get married, do you have to marry a jw?

i couldn't imagine people looking at me poorly because i didn't marry a jw!

Jadeen

When I got engaged to my honey (not a witness), one of the guys that I worked with was asking me some similar questions. Where we would have the ceremony, who would attend, etc. When I told him that most witnesses would not go to a ceremony at my honey's church, he shook his head and made a comment about how loving someone who is different should not be punished.

I had told him about how some witnesses were not talking to me because I got engaged to a "worldly", there was local needs talks about "marrying in the Lord", yada, yada. Some fine anti-witnessing that day.

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Does your Cat want to sit on your Lap while you are on the Toilet .....?

by flipper in

i don't know what it is ...... but it's becoming disconcerting.

he's going to just have to sit outside the door and wait.

i know it will be dissappointing to him , as he purrs like crazy while gathering in the experience.

Jadeen

One of our cats will rub against the legs of whoever is sitting on the pot. It's become a joke, "Come on [kitty], I need help peeing (or pooing).

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TSA encounter at SAN

by Yizuman in

[these events took place roughly between 5:30 and 6:30 am, november 13th in terminal 2 of the san diego international airport.

i'm writing this approximately 2 1/2 hours after the events transpired, and they are correct to the best of my recollection.

having left the area, he stated, i would be subject to a civil suit and a $10,000 fine.

Jadeen

Wow, the amount of misinformation this person has is astounding! First, he's worried about the radiation that he'll receive from the scanners, but traveling by air exposes people to a lot more background radiation than a simple x-ray. Heck, most radiation exposure that people get comes from their own houses in the form of radon.

Second, he's worried about the so-called "vivid" images that are taken? Is that a joke? You can see the outline of a person and if they're carrying anything under their clothes, but you can't see detailed images of their genitals.

Then the idiot says, "if you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested." Good job on being confrontational. And considering that he had the foresight to video all of this, it sounds like he was planning on causing problems.

Too bad this dumbass didn't do a little more research. I also wonder how long his little stunt delayed that flight. Way to be a douchebag!