Bungi Bill,
So happy to hear from you and that all is well! Thank you for dropping by and letting us all know.
LoisLane
hi, everybody - i am just briefly calling by.. to those of you in new zealand, i have recently "crossed the ditch", as local vernacular has it!.
this move has been entirely employment driven, and i am working for a power distribution company in the eastern bay of plenty region.. bill.
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Bungi Bill,
So happy to hear from you and that all is well! Thank you for dropping by and letting us all know.
LoisLane
my writing a book about my strange life as a jw.
i need some help.. does anyone remember when they used to get these charts out at the service meetings which had all the hours, "back calls" and bible studies on it?
what did they call that?.
NewBoy/OldBoy,
Are you going to have a section dealing with the announced from the platform, disfellowshipping's?
Wow. Memories. In our area, in the 1950's and early 1960's there were so many announced. At that time, any disfellowshipping, not just from your KHall, but from the surrounding area, was publicly announced. The congo over from us, had so many DF, that it traumitized me. This was the KHall that across the street from it, had a topless bar. It was usually for adultery.
my writing a book about my strange life as a jw.
i need some help.. does anyone remember when they used to get these charts out at the service meetings which had all the hours, "back calls" and bible studies on it?
what did they call that?.
NewBoy/OldBoy,
Second paragraph, of course. That got pulled out on Thursday night, once a month, during the serve-us recruitment meetings. The Society, needed to know how each congo was doing, in regards to how they were doing with that's months goals in recruiting. Did we measure up? Congo average. National average. If not, why not?
Question: Are you putting in your book about the handed out Test Sheets given to everyone enrolled (and who showed up that night), to test their knowledge of how much they had paid attention to the WT brain washing at the "Theocratic Ministry School"? After 20, 30, or was it 40 minutes of silence, we diligently, all handed our filled in test sheet back in to be graded by the school overseer in charge. The following week, he would hand back the graded sheets. At my KHall there were always the same sisters that scored between 95-100%. They were considered the most spiritual sisters in the congo. Yes, they were great WT recruiters for the JW religion. Through those 1950's and 1960's year time frame, two of those highly spiritual sisters slept around, (not with each other that I know of) and neither one was ever even spoken to by the servants/elders (ummm... wonder who they were sleeping with?), another one hated sex, so her Jdud husband got DF for doing the horizontal cha cha cha, on his wife's Bible study student, another one, actually there were two of them, their house was filthy, but they were at each meeting, with their hand up being called on. Another one was divorced and sex starved. Went on one date with a handsome man who was studying, and yep, they rented a room and she was DF. He did get baptized, she got reinstated, they did get married and had a very happy and successful marriage. One of these highly spiritual sisters with all the right answers on her test sheet, had given birth as an unwed mother, to her only child, at age 15. She has hated and abused her good Jdub daughter, all of her life. This good daughter is retiring soon and moving to be by her mom and help her step father, an elder, who is ill. After over half a century, what do I think of these spiritual sisters that scored so highly on their tests? One was really nice. (One of the above was sleeping with her husband). She is alive and still recruiting for WT.
how in the world did they justify this torture?
imagine the children forced to sit in the summer heat at yankee stadium for 12 hours a day.
for 8 days.
There was a group from our Hall in LA who went on the Eupopean JW Convention Tour in 1955. There it was announced about the 1958 Yankee Stadium & Polo Grounds International Convention to be held, so we had 3 years to get ready. That was the buzz word everyone talked about when together. Are you going? Are you going? Almost everyone from our hall went. Some went by car, others went by train. Other's such as ourselves, flew TWA. Before we left, we needed clothes. We had a children's clothier in our city. What fun it was to pick out so many different dresses at one time and then there were play outfits to pick from too.
After arrival at NYC, when we went to our hotel, at the front desk, my dad took out a pile of fresh, hundred dollar bills to put into the hotel's safe. Each morning he took one and put it in his billfold.
My parents had been to New York City together in 1953, so knew some of the ropes. They told us before we went on the subway to not worry about the pushing and shoving, that if we were parted, to get off at the next station and we would be fine.
One day, after lunch at Yankee Stadium, we climbed up to the very top of the stadium (not the roof, lol, just where the very top farthest away seats were) to see the view. Vertigo. lol We didn't go everyday to the stadium and sit in the sun. There was lots of sight seeing to do. All the usual places. I loved the Staten Island Ferry and going out to the Statue of Liberty. My parents had arranged before hand to meet our best JW friends at the base of the Statue. We were so happy to see them.
I was just a little 9 year old. We were supposed to pay attention. The talks went on and on. American Jdub clapping. lol Somebody (not us! lol) would start and everyone had to clap also. Didn't want to look like you disagreed, did you? lol The Gilead Graduation was a huge deal to see.
The last day, Sunday, the grand finale of the 8 spiritual feast days, barf, my dad and I stood and walked around the Polo Grounds outside. We were zombified. lol Could not listen to those loud speakers telling us about the coming Big A, didn't want to hear anymore recruitment experiences, or how soon we could be petting our own zoo full of animals (no one has ever mentioned who is the designated poop scooper and cleaner upper or who has taken specialized zoo care) (We all know now, it is all fantasy thinking anyway).
We had a wonderful trip.
LoisLane
i am sorry that on my first post i am asking for help and advice but i am at my wits end.
i have been brought up a witness all my life and it is all i know.
i am an ex-elder and pioneer and i don't know anybody outside of the congregation.. i have been unhappy for so long and wanted to leave.
Geeze people... You Dear Hearts.
In his SECOND post, he is asking for money.
In his fifth post, he is telling us that he had a position at the KHall.
Do you not remember the latest title for the guy at the podium on Sunday's? Holding a WT study?
S&L himself says just last year he was the "WatchtowerConductor". WRONG! He has said an old title, not the latest one. He is a PHONY.
This guy is trolling for your hard earned cash. He is a rip off artist.
He doesn't even know to toss out in his spiel, the correct terminology.
LL
i did not realize that they were symptoms that something was wrong with my cat -but i did notice that my cat was breathing a little differently for a period of about a few days.
i also noticed prior and after to that, that on occasion, my cat would cry at the litter box, but that was a very seldom event.. anyway, about a week ago i noticed the symptom that my very loved cat was breathing heavy.
so i called a taxi and i was going to rush him to emergency room for cats.
I am so sorry for your loss, Fisherman. (Hugs of understanding and comfort)
Two years ago today, I lost my pretty Juliette to ear cancer. Even though a lot of money was spent on treatment, 6 months later, it came back with a vengeance.
Sending caring thoughts your way.
LoisLane
as we all know, armageddon was just around the corner in 1974. at the district conventions that year, it was announced that there would be two special meetings during the month of september; one would be for interested people (e.g., bible studies, family members, inactive, etc.
), and the other would be for baptized publishers.
these were to be held in place of the service meetings for the two weeks, iirc.
@Pete Zahut. Your last paragraph. Congratultions on your soon to be new status as the best Grandpa in the whole world. (Isn't that what all grandchildren think?)
Then your sentence where the shoe drops. All of us that lived through those horrid years, for what? So those WT psychopaths could brag about their little 25cent "Truth" book, being a big seller AND look at all of their religion's increase of newly converted innocent WT zombies. I was a little kid in the 1950's raised in fear. That is how WT controls innocent people who do not know how to do the forbidden research.
The WT is responsible for ruining millions of human beings lives. All for their own egos and benefit.
PS I am glad your Dad was smart enough not to convert and was able to swing things so you all could live like a normal family again.
Did your mom ever say she was sorry for what she made her husband do and her children have to adjust to?
I think I am well in my recovery from all things JDub, until I see something like the title and OP. In 1974, the kids I went through high school with were enjoying the benefits of "higher education" working in jobs they loved, marrying who they desired and buying houses and filling them with love and children. Planning vacations and putting money away for retirement. JDubs in 1974, well, we know that is a completely different story.
LoisLane
it seems the producers of jw broadcasting read my earlier post here at jwd.org about the swedish chef.. because they introduces the swedish chef in their program now.
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the broadcasting is surprising me more and more every month, a must see (if you can).. compare:.
hahahahaha
Yes, now I have seen everything.
What bat sh*t loon thought THAT up? lol
Possibly, because it's a WT cooking show, he left off his gold ring(s) and wristwatch. Somebody could have told him he could have left them on. It's not like he was making squisy raw meat balls. lol
His 2 waiters, His Teaching Helpers, just think, if they were all Mormons they would all be wearing the extra special protective underwear, dreaming of the time they get their own planet.
This is all too Watchtarded weird.
besides almost getting mugged a couple of times.
his folks had a fit and told him he had to go back and "do his time".........and do the "right thing"...........he told me he had just left max larson’s office, max had just told him “what a disappointment he was, to his family and to the organization!
“do you ever think about james olson?
Jim Olson. I am so sorry this happened to him.
I wish there was a hell for the Max Larson's of this world. Jim's parents didn't help either when he went home and they told him more or less to man-up, and go back. Go back to cleaning toilets in North Korea? Poor guy.
If the parents were so proud to have their son 'chosen' to work in 'God's House', how did they feel and what did they tell their friends and family that their Beth-hell-lite son committed suicide, rather than spend one more day in hell on earth?
LoisLane
PS I don't mind cleaning my own toilet, but come on. Cleaning toilets day after week, after month, for free? Who does that?