Posts by razorMind

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Where did you look at, at the conventions?

by fulano in

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not at the platform.. i always looked around if there were any nice coloured sisters (and i was married and an elder)...

razorMind

My sister, me, and several of our JW cousins, friends and acquaintances all decided to sit together at the Hampton Coliseum (Hampton, VA, USA). There must have been almost 20 of us in all, taking up an entire row.

Anyway, we all conked out and went to sleep--all of us missing the ENTIRE second half of the program. We could be seen from miles away; a whole row of teenagers knocked out asleep. Many "brothers" and "sisters" commented on it later.

Dark, cool, with a deep dull voice droning on in the background.....I could get some good sleep at a convention. Especially with a pillow (supposedly for one's "back") and a blanket (supposedly for the "chill").....

I also liked to look up at the various ramps and ladders on the ceilings, and marvel at how any human could be brave enough to venture out on them.

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JW's and drinking

by DanTheMan in

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is it just me, or is alchohol consumption at parties and vacations virtually an unwrittten rule of jw-culture?.

when i was in, i did not drink, and i still don't.

i often felt almost ostracized for this by my jw associates.

razorMind

I overheard a couple of my co-workers talking about somebody when one of them said--and I quote--"He drinks like a Jehovah's Witness."

One also mentioned a pair of brothers who were book-study conductors, and would show up to conduct the book studies stone-falling-over drunk.

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What's Your Pet Peeve?

by DB in

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of course, the wts is pretty much a pet peeve of almost everyone here.

but besides that, what's your pet peeve?

i'm in a playful mood today, so here's mine, with some tongue-in-cheekiness, of course: .

razorMind

A few of mine.....

1) People who wait until you have headphones on AND deep into a book, before they decide that they MUST conversate with you.

2) People who think they are the SHIT; that they are " SO special" or have "special circumstances" that necessitate their sashaying to the front of the pharmacy line to get their Rx filled in front of everyone else. "**I**need this filled (grandly tosses Rx on the counter)...put a rush on it because *I* have things to do". Back of the line, fool!!!

3) Anyone who expresses undue, exaggerated shock that I am knowledgeable of subjects that "Black people aren't supposed to know anything about." I know you may be surprised, but let's not have a coronary, mmm'kay?

In full agreement with the traffic and grocery store peeves! I have many more but the above 3 have been bothering me lately.

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Top Five Ways To Annoy WTS at Assembles

by metatron in

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i suppose you could annoy the watchtower simply by.

doing the opposite of everything those dreary kingdom.

ministries tell you every year - like let your kids.

razorMind

Line up at the baptismal pool, towel in hand, with the other candidates...but wear a thong. Try to make sure you're viewed (from behind!) by as many onlookers as possible.

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Email from a JW and our correspondence

by mpatrick in

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i received this original email from [email protected] in regards to post i had made on the jw discussion forum on www.beliefnet.org .

hello mpatrick , ya know alot of the things that you quote i question are still in the truth , i am sorry if i affend you.

im 26 from new jersey and where are the true witnesses .

razorMind

Not everyone who leaves the JW's goes off the deep end and becomes self-destructive...

Thanks SO much for bringing up this point. Most of the disfellowshipped JWs in my home congregation DID go off the deep end and deteriorate...except my sister. After a somewhat rocky time, she has a well-paying job, a kid, happily married to a good husband. She has nice clothes, house, car, etc. She tells me that JW's act shocked and even irritated when they see her, out enjoying her life with her family.

Just my 2 cents...

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appearing before elders for "sexual miscon...

by razorMind in

did anyone have to undergo this?

especially as a teen.

i have 2 cousins (different states, different congs) who got caught fornicatin' and had to appear before the elders.

razorMind

Did anyone have to undergo this? Especially as a teen. I have 2 cousins (different states, different congs) who got caught fornicatin' and had to appear before the elders. Both incidences occurred almost 20 yrs ago. They both said the elders asked them questions like these:

1) were you naked
2) was he naked
3) were you on top, bottom--what position were you in?
4) did you have an orgasm
5) did he have an orgasm
6) did he orgasm inside you
7) what did you say while having sex
8) did you enjoy the sex...

...etc. etc. etc...basically asking for excruciating, UNNECESSARY details. Pretty sick IMO. Is this routine? Just wondering if anyone else had to put up with this BULLSHIT.

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sunday meetings

by Realist in

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in the awful sunday meetings are people supposed to answer the questions from the wt by just reading the stupid paragraph again or would the elders prefer to hear a real comment?

razorMind

...compound the sin by not shutting the hell up and getting on with it once they did go over-time.

Oh, how I wished for a rifle on those occasions!

One time the KH air-conditioning conked out on a sweltering Ministry School night. And this ASSHOLE "brother" droned on into the night (WAY past ending time, btw) until an elder was forced to step up and get him to end his part. To this day we think the tyrant did it on purpose because he knew we were past ready to leave (and about to faint from the heat).

Full of bad memories tonight...

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sunday meetings

by Realist in

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in the awful sunday meetings are people supposed to answer the questions from the wt by just reading the stupid paragraph again or would the elders prefer to hear a real comment?

razorMind

I always hated the showoff sister who'd insert a "personal" tidbt into her comments, i.e., "I'm so eager to partake of Jehovah's rich fruitage that I start reading my WT en route from the mailbox" or some such SHIT.

Then we had another sister whose every comment, in my entire living memory, would be completely off the WT study topic. And I HATED when the "young ones" would laboriously breathe out a one-word comment into the oft-too-loudly-amplified microphone.

Sunday meetings...UTTER BULLSHIT.

I did the same thing with rewording the paragraphs. You all are right...SAD SAD SAD.

Isn't it?

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Putting the "bug" in someone's ear?

by razorMind in

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i don't post here much, but i hope this makes some sense.... my aunt (my mom's sister) was born & raised a jw, though grandma's always been one of the more "lax" jws.

(more tolerant, much less fanatical than are my mom and dad).

though the "jw way" was very anti-college then, she took advantage of further education, got a great-paying job, and is now quite wealthy.. she is married to an "asshole" type jw--who likes to spy and get others in trouble, gets joy out of shunning df's...that type.

razorMind

I don't post here much, but I hope this makes some sense...

My aunt (my mom's sister) was born & raised a JW, though Grandma's always been one of the more "lax" JWs. (More tolerant, MUCH less fanatical than are my mom and dad). Though the "JW way" was very anti-college then, she took advantage of further education, got a great-paying job, and is now quite wealthy.

She is married to an "asshole" type JW--who likes to spy and get others in trouble, gets joy out of shunning DF's...THAT type. Their marriage is UTTER MISERY. Her husband has defrauded her of money on more than one occasion (TENS of thousands of dollars, forged signatures, that type of thing). They truly loathe each other; no love nor emotion presently in the marriage at all.

She had stopped going to the KH for a long time--even missing the Memorials. She celebrates the holidays with her daughter, on the sneak tip. Now she is trying to start going back, because she is so unhappy.

I am dying to tell her that she is wasting her time. My favorite aunt was always the one who'd present a more tolerant listening-ear, a happy fun-loving side when our JW-kid lives got too hellious. She is extremely smart, funny, witty and a joy to be around. Now everytime we visit, it's like listening to a public talk; not to mention being stuck in the middle of barely-concealed hostility between her and her husband.

I don't know how to broach the subject. I might give her a heart attack if I am too blunt...though as smart as she is, she's got to have some idea of the REAL truth behind "the troof".

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Defacing Watchtower materials

by Ephanyminitas in

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hey, folks.

just curious: did any of you ever deface your magazines?

i had a friend growing up in the congregation and, kids that we were, we'd snap up our new watchtowers and awakes and we'd draw our own captions for the pictures, usually with hilarious results.

razorMind

My sister defaced a couple in the laundromat just last weekend.

She has been DF'd for almost 10 years and we still have some very serious family issues. In a fit of rage, she ripped the Awake! to shreds, and wrote "THE WT IS A CULT" and "SILENTLAMBS.COM" on almost every page of the Watchtower. She then tacked the WT onto the bulletin board.