I'll start off: my JW sis in law was "reported" by one of her fellow JWs one year for "having a Christmas tree." It turned out she'd decorated a ficus tree with white lights to be trendy, not for a Christmas tree. big Elders meeting about it, though. I didn't see any decorated ficus trees in her house after that.
2007-12-14 03:06:00 · 7 answers · asked by PediC 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
these sound like campfire stories. lol
2007-12-14 15:27:11 · update #1
I have three;
When I was a teenager, in the 60's our Elders decided Bell Bottom pants were not theocratic. They went so far as to measure all the brothers pants when we came into the hall. Seriously, someone would be at the door with a measuring tape. I don't know what sense that made as you could tell by looking. Anyway, of course, I went out of my way to wear bell bottoms. My father was an Elder, and i could tell he didn't approve of the Bell Bottom thing, but he didn't take a stand either.
It was hoot. I was 16 or 17. Also, these guys had a brother sit in the front row of the hall with a blanket and when a sister got up to give a talk (sister usually sit for talks, to those non JW's) upon a signal from the head Elder indicating her skirt was too short, he would get up and put the blanket over her lap. I personally saw that done 8 or 10 times. It was a riot!
2nd Elder story. When I was 17, an Elders wife would meet a neighbor lady at our house one afternoon a week for a bible study. My family were all working or in school. One day I came home and the sister was sitting at the dining table alone. The lady had not shown up. One thing led to another and we had a "friendship" for about two months. I was 17 she was 32 and hot!! Anyway, guilt got the best of her and she "confessed" so there was a big meeting with three elders, her and her husband and me and my parents. My dad was an Elder. When the meeting began, my mother and the Elders wife were crying and all the guys were yelling at me until I pointed out that I was 17 and jail bait and she had seduced me (not true) and she was guilty of statutory rape.
The room got quiet, the elders stood in the corner for a few minutes, after which they told me and my parents we could go.
I never heard another word about it. Yes, I was baptised.
3rd Elder story (I've got a million of them) There was this real old Elder who was convinced that this one sister was fooling around. He actually began to follow her at night. One night he followed her to an apartment complex and observed that her car was parked there all night. He didn't stay there all night, bit he would come back periodically to check.
At the next meeting he got my Father and another elder together and yanked this girl into the library and confronted her. It seems she was visiting her cousin and her car broke down in the parking lot.
She began to yell at the top of her lungs, stormed out of the library into the Kindom Hall and screamed out the whole story to the entire congregation. It was, no doubt one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed. My dad said later that when the old elder had asked him to meet in the library, he had no idea what it was about. Elder Secret Squirell.
I have a hundred stories like this. Don't get me started!!
2007-12-14 05:05:21 · answer #1 · answered by isnrblogdotcalm 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I had just moved into my apartment and my mom had noticed a strange smell coming from my laundry. I didn't know what it was and didn't feel like thinking about it until I decided to do a load of laundry. Well I put the laundry in and when I went to put it in the dryer everything appeared to be fine until I saw that I left something else in there. I thought it was a piece of my laundry but when I picked up the mangled wet mass of bones and fur I realized it was a dead animal. I freaked out and almost threw up. I started calling people to help me, only to get a hold of a friend who was with her new boyfriend. I thought, YES a boy to help me! They came over and confirmed that it was in fact a dead bat....what that heck. We were all freaking out and by this time it's 11pm and I have to be at work at 9. Long story short it remained in my washer overnight after efforts with some yellow rubber gloves my mom had bought me that I never thought I would use. When I called to put in a service request in the morning all they could do in the office was laugh at me....it is funny I agree but disgusting and at least they didn't wash they're clothes with it. I love living next to woods, but I guess I get the good with the bad.
2016-05-23 22:38:25 · answer #2 · answered by delphine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pedi...you ask the most interesting and funny questions.
OK...My friend was so hassled by the Elders, that she finally went out and committed the fornication that they were falsely accusing her of committing...Not funny, but true.
OK here is a funny story: while listening to a talk one Sunday the Elder was admonishing the sisters about the evils of slits in skirts...He likened them to arrows, and commented on what they could be pointing at....My brother and I were in hysterics because we were wondering what this Brothers tie was pointing at....
OK OK OK..here is one what is the sillest thing that you have seen a sister cover her head with in order to pray out loud before a study or service.....I saw a sister cover her head with a very large book once, but usually it was a watchtower...this always made me snicker...even though I had occasion to do it myself too.
2007-12-14 15:02:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ooo, I have one. At my old hall, there was an elder who was a real "truth nazi". He got up on the stage and said that any woman who went out in service without pantyhose on (even in the summer) was being immodest. He tried very hard to get a good friend of mine removed from the pioneer list because she didn't want to wear pantyhose during the summertime. Eventually her and her husband switched halls because he was making things so difficult for them.
2007-12-14 03:31:57 · answer #4 · answered by Nea 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I never considered myself to be a JW (I studied with them some, mainly because my husband at the time strongly suggested it) but while I was studying with them a long time ago I was scared to celebrate Christmas at all for fear of being "punished" or something. Also, there was a big family in the Hall and the girls would oftentimes wear shirts that you could see their colored bras through. No one said anything to them about that to my knowledge, but my Bible study partner called and chastised me about a skirt I wore that was supposedly too short - keep in mind it was knee length and I wore it to my office job that day!
Screw a bunch of that!
2007-12-14 03:19:19 · answer #5 · answered by Kiwi 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
My brother in law was reported to the elders because he bought a 4 wheeler! He had to meet with them and they told him he was not viewing his life as sacred because he could be killed on it. He told them he could die in a car accident too but all of the elders had a car. They ended up letting it drop.
2007-12-14 03:41:02 · answer #6 · answered by Elphaba 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yikes! Fasinating! I didn't even know they had an "Interior Morality Gestapo." Can you post more if the ex-JWs don't show up? In my neighborhood, I'm surrounded by them!
2007-12-14 03:11:21 · answer #7 · answered by Laptop Jesus 3.9 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋