Posts by DwainBowman

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What is the most strange action of a witness while out in field service?

by adjusted knowledge in

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i was paired with this older "brother" when i was a teenager.

he was very very strange.

he was a nice guy but goofy.

DwainBowman

So many great fs stories! I have had many over my 53 years in.

One morning when I was 12. I was walking down the drive way to a house. The woman was working in her flower beds. She saw me coming, and walked over and unchained her large dog, pointed at me and said, sick him. The big dog starts running towards me barking and growling, I quickly looked for some where to go, but nope. I started running at the dog barking and waving my arms like mad. The dog turned and ran behind the house. I straightenedmyself up, and walked over to the stunned woman, and may my presentation, she said, Yea I'll take it. She gave me two dollars for a tooth book, and a set of mags. I thought I was rich!

Dwain

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What is the most bizarre counsel you received as a JW, from a JW?

by Funchback in

there were many addressed to me.

for example, i once had a sister tell me i was gambling because i liked playing skill crane (the machine where you have to try to pick up prizes like stuffed animals) at the arcade.

i then fired back a her: "you saw the r-rated movie 'backdraft.

DwainBowman

Oh did you guys give me a good bunch of laughs!

One CO, would explain the rules of driving to whoever would be driving in service. The driver was not to even be involved in the conversations with others in the group while driving. The driver must keep both hands at the 2 and 10 position all the time while driving. No eating, drinking, looking at a cell phone, or territory card or map! About 10 minutes explaining all of this!

I have many more, but the brain is not working tonight!

Dwain

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What's the craziest thing someone INFORMED on you about?

by Londo111 in

the culture of jws as encouraged by the watchtower is one of informing on one another, reporting to either the elders or ones designated head.

whats the wackiest thing that someone reported on you?

im not talking about a black-and-white watchtower rule that would land you in a judicial committee, but some judgmental nonsense that someone thought they should turn you in about?.

DwainBowman

My X monster, turned me in for being a drunk! I had drank a whole 6 pack over three week's. When i was asked into the back room, and told what she had to say, i started laughing so hard, and they are like saying, this is serious, and you need to take it that way, I laughed that much harder! When i calmed down, and told them, how I had drank a six pack over three weeks, they laughed pretty hard too!!!!!

She turned me in for all kind of nonsense!

Dwain

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sold Kingdom Hall where Ray Franz watched

by TJ Brother in

searching on google maps found that the kingdom hall where ray franz was disfellowshipped and participated in gadsden was sold recently for 7th day christian fellowship .does anyone know about it?

is it a file burning ?

DwainBowman

I spent 6 weeks in that congragation back in 78!

Dwain

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The morning after I KILLED myself...

by Divergent in

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a very thought provoking poem.... .

the morning after i killed myself, i woke up.

i made myself breakfast in bed.

DwainBowman

; Good poem!

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Instructions from the Old Elder's Book

by John Aquila in

last night i was looking over the notes on my old elders book and one of the instructors told us to write this down.

"when you want to get the friends to believe and obey anything, just keep saying it over and over and over and eventually they will believe it and follow whatever they are being told.

when i went back to school, i learned this quote in one of my world history classes..

DwainBowman

I would bet if you went to 6 different eldub schools in the same year, you would find a note here and there that weren't given everywhere else!

I remember many closing DC talks, given by so called GB members, no two DC'S heard the same things! And sometimes, nobody else heard what was said at yours!

Dwain

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Instructions from the Old Elder's Book

by John Aquila in

last night i was looking over the notes on my old elders book and one of the instructors told us to write this down.

"when you want to get the friends to believe and obey anything, just keep saying it over and over and over and eventually they will believe it and follow whatever they are being told.

when i went back to school, i learned this quote in one of my world history classes..

DwainBowman

LAP dance. I know of two cases where divorces were granted, with the service departments blessings in the past ten years!!!!

Dwain

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Can someone who uses Chrome on a smartphone..

by defender of truth in

.. please do me a small favour?.

can you look at this list of my posts and tell me if nearly all of them are cut off on the right?.

i have been posting always using the uc browser, then decided to try chrome on an android phone and found that most of my posts are unreadable!!.

DwainBowman

I am using a Samsung Tab 3 7" Using Chrome it often clips the far right edge of post here!

Dwain

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Today's Special Day Assembly Expenses and the $10,499 Deficit. Silent Majority?

by Tenacious in

today i attended a one-day assembly in my hometown.

i knew when it came time to read the afternoon expenses that it would be an incredibly high and ridiculous amount that was nowhere near the real expenses for that day.

sure enough, after lunch came the announcement.

DwainBowman

By the end of the day, they probably took in $20,000+

Dwain

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The JW Elder Who Started All the Insanity that was bound to eventually start. This Elder Loves Trouble!

by ReligionOfHatred in

in order to understand what is happening you have to start from the beginning of our saga.

about nine years ago a elder with asperger's syndrome found out my family member almost came to blows with our next door neighbor who is so successful, he probably makes $2 million a year net-income with all his businesses and investments.

the co-owner of the property got angry because our neighbor did not like certain breeds of dogs, the fact was he was mauled by the breed elder bucket-head owned and elder bucket-head refused to fix the fence and so his dog would continually show up on my neighbors front door harassing his little dogs and growl.. elder asperger's heard my dad and his friend talking about uncle bucket-head's near blows even though they were whisphering at book study, his ears are good when it comes to seeking out sin and finding ways to bring brothers before the elders.

DwainBowman

I have known some wild card elders, but I think that one winds the Gold Star! I hope things work out right some day!

Dwain