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Just found this DVD in my house recently after i'd dispose them off sometimes ago. One of my sign language things

...ASL cong don't use books, rather, we were told to get portable DVD players or download the JW sign lang app into our mobile phones. We were expected to use these on field service. But a good number of us couldn't afford those gadgets. How could we when we're all strugling financially? For that we were constantly condemned for not following theocratic directions. The fact is,most of us were either apprentice or 2ndary school students. It was difficult with all the expenses & financial burdens imposed on our young shoulders. Watchtower,upon all their wealth, never gave us any financial support. It's Jehovah's service & we had to do it. The other congregations using the same kingdom hall were always looking for one or two things to blame us for. It's so sad that some JW pretend to be happy & satisfied, hiding emotional toture & frustrations under the guise of the only God's organization on earth. Just as someone on this forum said, they like to put on "fake smiles"...MORE STORIES LOADING

DEAFS SEARCH
ASL congregations are told not to preach to hearing people.We had to roam around searching 4 deafs to preach to. This made us travel long distances to look for them. We had to enter houses & ask people if they've known any deaf persons around,the person will then look at u with doubts & suspicions, thinking u had evil intentions against the deafs. Or maybe u are ritualists looking for deafs to use for sacrifices. Even when we'd state our intentions & purpose clearly to the people,they,knowing the hypocrisy of the JW people still responded negatively. Some threw insults & abuses at us. Some denied that they'd known any deaf person even if there's one around. Deaf search was (& is still) a tough work. Sometimes the effort yielded good result & we found some deafs...

FOR VERIFICATION
I'll like to clear some doubts about the authenticity of this story by mentioning some real names & locations.
As of 2014, there were only two ASL cong in Akwa Ibom State. One was in Uyo & the other one (ESA ATAN CONG) was in Ikot Ekpene. I was a member of Esa Atan cong & we used the Kingdom Hall at Atan rd. Our circuit was ASL-02, consisting of all ASL Cong in South South Nigeria. Our circuit Overseer (2014) was surnamed bro Mboho,he's very tall & sometimes bend down to sign. He was later succeeded by bro Amadike Ifeanyi as the new CO in 2015. Bro Ifeanyi is dark in complexion & tall. These two CO, i must admit,were friendly to us in the congregation & not rude like some of them that i knew. I knw very little abt their personal lives & families. Anyone can seek to verify those facts to knw if this story is a fiction or not.

DEAFS CONGREGATION
ASL cong was a new field of experience. Meetings were conducted with signs & no voice was heard. Back in those days there were no tv sets in every Kingdom hall as it is now. Only sign lang congregations used tv & video cameras,just as it is now in JW conventions. It required extra efforts by the brothers to run a single meeting succesfully & the ASL congregation is far too expensive than regular speaking cong. It didn't take long 4 me to master the art of signing & did it fluently. I got used to the congregation & soon became popular and an object of gossip for others. There were many young people in the cong as older people didn't like the idea of stressing themselves with sign language. We were refered to as "children congregation"...

...being the spiritually minded young brother who never toyed with my spiritual goals, i kept busy in the ministry & disregarded all the abuses & hatred.Infact, a sister once approched & told me that i should stop singing as if i'm the only one who can sing kingdom songs.She said i'll soon face the wrath of the elders if i didn't stop that nonsense.She said my singing habit was a "sin" & that brothers & sisters didn't like it. I knew Jehovah will set things right in his own due time. I soon found a match to my burning zeal, it was the other congregation who used the same kingdom hall with us,the American Sign Language (ASL) congregation. I started attending ASL classes. It seemed i was finding a new water to quench my thirst 4 doing more in Jehovah's service. I joined the ASL congregation without delay. Since we didn't use voice in ASL cong, i'd escape the singing "sin". My zeal was renewed & i was happy to be doing all i could 4 Jehovah...

...my new congregation didn't help matters at all. In less than one month i had haters who never greeted or talk to me,but went around gossiping in my back that i'm over-righteous. Even the elders were wolves,none care abt the fact that i was just a young pioneer of 17yrs coming to live alone in town,not knowing anybody & having no friends, neither did they care that i was undergoing abuses at work place by my JW boss & coleagues. All that concerned them was to bring my publisher record card. But how was that my responsibility? I had given them my village cong address & contact, it was their responsibility to request & get the card & not mine. I just didn't understand why everyone was looking 4 something to blame me for. My village cong elders withheld my card for months & refused to send it. But how was that my fault? The hatred was too much for my young mind to bear, but that was Jehovah's only organization & i had to stay.

MORE CHALLENGES TO MY BELIEF
I believed the JW organization to be the most holy,truthful & loving organization on earth. Just because things didn't go well in my village congregation didn't mean it's like that everywhere. I lived in Ikot Ekpene city for 2yrs & saw the different colours of brothers & sisters in several congregations. At 1st it started with my boss. What shocked me was why he didn't respect the JW organization at all,yet he believed it's the only true religion on earth. I was repeatedly punished for spending more time in "kingdom activities" instead of work.Sometimes i was beaten,insulted or ridiculed for my choices. But why did it has to be my own brothers with whom we share the same faith always opposing me? The workshop became a miserable place for me because of the constant abuses. Once again, i was an outsider in the midst of my christian brothers...

DPA CARD
There's what JW call Durable Power of Attorney (DPA) for blood. This is also like a form where every baptized JW has to fill, stating that they'll receive no blood transfusion in case of emergency where they are unconcious or unable to speak. We were told to fill it & carry it along all the time. I never went anywhere without my DPA card. A lot of JW don't take this serious & filling the card could be difficult as most of them don't understand all the trashes in there. Congregations spent minutes educating members on how to fill this card, but it's still confusing. Their no blood transfusion doctrine doesn't really make sense. While they say they don't eat or receive blood in any form, you'll still see them taking blood tonic,syrups,pills etc. If you accept blood transfusion,Jehv will not raise u back to life in the grand ressurection,so they say...

Steep:
Go and do research. Taze rusell was buried by a pyramid, however after an uproar watch tower removed it.
Have you checked the top view of watch tower head quarter? Did you not see the all seeing eye and the pyramid?
How about the ring governing body wore?
Tazr rusell was a free Mason.

i can't dispute anything said about JW, they are capable of being anything.

I don't intend to please anyone while telling this story, neither do i force anybody to believe what i say. If anyone feels that my story isn't true, let that person kindly leave. I shall not pick up any argument with anyone here over the doctrines & practices of JW. Take it or leave it, it's my story & i say it just as it happened.

VOW OF POVERTY
JW org teaches it's members to abhor worldly riches. Not just that,some members who are in what they call "Order of fulltime something something..." are required to take a vow (vow of obedience & poverty) to remain poor. I didn't officially make that vow (but was on my way to), but inside my hrt i had determine not to be rich. The 1st time i heard abt such a vow i was so eager to be qualified 4 it. When i look back at it now it stinks. How can a sane human make a pledge to be poor? But such is the power of brainwashing. All special pioneers,traveling overseers,bethelites,international servants,missionaries & their likes have all taken that oath.The vow is written in a form that one has to fill & sign, it contains a lot of senseless pledges (or it make sense to them) but maybe they don't live up to it, a lot of them still lie to the organization & make money out of their service...

AFTER PIONEER SCHOOL
I made up my mind never to pursue worldly things. Just as i was taught, i wanted to use all my time, energy & resources to serve Jehv & his organization. After pioneer school, i had to decide my next step. But then, i knew i will have to need some material things to suport myself as a fulltime minister. I chose to use 2yrs to undergo training on sewing. Since i needed to remain active on Kingdom activity,my boss had to be a JW who undstnds my position & service in the organization. I finally met one & all arrangements were made for me to start my training the following year. Everyone who later came to hear that i chose to be a tailor instead of going to school abhored the idea. What a waste of intelligence! My parents were blamed for such a decision. But, really, it was entirely my decision & not my parent's. To me, Jehovah was pleased with my choice & i think i was happy. More miseries were awaiting me...

Danisaint112:
What I have come to understand in this life is, not all women will get married. Some will definitely end up unmarried.

And this is a fact. One of the numerous reason is that the population of women is almost 1 billion above that of men.

in that case men should marry 5-10 wives each

triplechoice:
I never told you I want to join JW.. So why you're bothered, if as you say, your intention is not to discourage people from joining.



Not everyone who is following your story is doing so because they want become a JW.

The things you have shared as made it possible to understand the group better and this is good.

When you saw me arguing with Janosky concerning the 70 hours minimum preaching time, why didn't you come in then to make me understand it wasn't for everybody.

You were silemt all through, and not for once coming to clear the air that I misunderstood you In thinking that pioneeringi was for everyone.

Now that another JW has corrected that wrong impression for me ,you have jumped out to tell me what now?

sorry i didn't mean bad. I read every single post in this thread & i dnt respond if i don't feel it's necessary. Maybe u dnt undstnd why i mentioned u but don't take that offensive. The message might be useful to anyone.

@ triplechoice
i'm not telling anybody not to be a JW. If u realy want to knw the truth & u feel that they (JW) have it, u can join them. They'll welcome u. As our people say: "experience is the best teacher".

Evolutionlove:
Congregation of Evening Newspapers & Leftovers. Most Humans are programmed to learn the hardest way. This Is Just a Tip of an Ice-berg. The World Powers are emasculating Men and strategically and systematically destroying the Female Gender's heritage without the Female Gender knowing. They thought they were being liberated lol. It's all a game and facade. See the truth Is the way things Is going now, Many women/men will acquire so much material success but they won't be able to experience "True Happiness" It's Just what It Is. And mind you, this development will Hit the Female Gender the most because they are the ones always craving for marriage. Wetin consign me with marriage..

hi

Mikedel80:
Don't mind them as if they're holier. If I were there I will pay for that drink for him since it is his birthday.

how do u knw that it's his birthday? Have u seen his birth certificate? Thieves can make up any kind of excuse when they're caught. The guy has been stealing frm supermarkets eversince, because them don catch am e don become im birthday. Mtheeeew...birth day him Tinubu ass. Make dem beat am again.

Lionnation:
it's not this type of thief, this is a petty thief, not a robber

"if the landowner is slow to catch a thief", they say, "the thief will call the landowner a thief". Some people in this forum are even advising the the thief guy to go ahead & sue the supermarket owner for exposing him. Drink na food? Abi u wan tell me say na hunger make him go steal wine? Abi birthday na by force? I knw say the guy dey make up the birthday story as excuse, him face no look like person wey dem born for October. Na people wey born 4 February dey like thief. Make them bit am twice!

Lionnation:
This is all shades if wrong, while strip him, why not hand him over to police, because of ordinary wine you are stripping and beating somebody

I used to speak like this b4, but now i no dey pity thief. Make dem bit am hand strong. If u pity a thief and let him go free, he'll surely turn around and attack u.

Flood isn't a new thing in Bayelsa State. The Bayelsans are used to it. So let's focus on 2023 election.

MaxInDHouse:
Now you know "by their FRUITS" {Matthew 7:16} they want to question faithful people but they aren't faithful at all.
So what exactly does light has to do with darkness? 2Corinthians 6:14
God's word says "iron sharpens iron" {Proverbs 27:17} so it's when two faithful individuals meet that they can deliberate on which one is threading the path to life. But when one person isn't ready to say anything about his own faith but questioning yours try to remember the first Bible character with that attitude {Genesis 3:1} all what Eve needed to ask this stranger is "which side are you?"

i don't knw ur definition of faithful. Maybe that's where to start frm & i can tell u that no jw is faithful

cornelboy:
Bro/sis no dé mention my name for your post again.

ok. Your request will be honoured & remember not to be the 1st to do otherwise

Steep:
My church do not use occultic cross and pyramid.
However below was the grace Russell was buried.
The head quarter of jehovah witness organizationisation with the all seeing g designs.
Jehovah witnesses governing body with masonic hand shake.

before i woudn't believe this,but now i know that JW org. Could be anything.Those guys can be just anything. They can do & undo. One must better be careful

cornelboy:
Lol. What's your religion bro/sis?

who/what made it mandatory that one must have a religion,when and why?

ZONE OVERSEER
I was a serious student who didn't joke with my studies. I prepared in advance for every part of the lesson & could answer questions correctly most times. When instructor A looked into my textbook & saw that i prepared & make notes i was commended & other student like to follow me around when i wanted to rehearse study sections so they can "tap current". I gained popularity ammong the students. I was nicknamed Zone Overseer. Zone overseer is likely the highest rank in the traveling overseer order. They frm New York go around visiting branch officess in various countries assigned to them (Zone). To earned such a title as a nickname in my school days was remarkable. I enjoyed the attention & the popularity I had. Even fellow students who were elders & MS took off their caps for me. O-boy!

SECRET TEXBOOKS
We were told never to allow non pioneers and those who havn't yet attend pioneer school see the textbook. That's ridiculous because there's nothing mysterious in the book at all. They are just questions & references to other JW publications. The "elders textbook" that they tend to hide from non elders is almost the same thing because i opened my father's copy once & glanced at few of the trashes in there (maybe it make sense to them). Those textbooks are so boring to read. But there's no real mystery in it. Maybe they hide it because of those illiterete instructions on how to handle judicial matters & reproves,disfellowshiping,shunning,intruding in other people's personal lives & asking silly questions that never concern them. Whatever the case, Jehovah can't protect the secrets of his one & only organization because there are pdf copies online for every Dick & Tom to see their "dirty nyash". What a shame! MAY JEHOVAH HELP THEM...

...Back in our lodge there were a lot of gossips. Student gossiping about who's behaving badly,who misbehaved in class that day,how their congregation elders aren't competent. There were many topics to gossip about. Sometimes, student aired out their mind about the bro Tony's manners. As u knw,nobody spoke to him face to face or complained abt him in his presence until we got back to our lodge. Such is the power & authority that JW Overseers enjoy,the sheeple always fear them. I used to revere circuit overseers with such awe, but i later lost that reverence for them when I turned back frm their org. I once lose my temper with one of them back then,though i didn't resort to insult,i told him face to face that they're hypocrites & i'm walking away frm their fucking organization,he was so uncomfortable to hear that & i enjoyed the effect of my speech on him...

CLASSES
There's nothing so special about those classes other than the usual JW pattern of question & answer. The instructors took turns to ask questions frm the textbook & we answered. Classes lasted for abt 6 hours a day. For all the ten days it was talking talking talking & explaining confusing doctrines,some demonstrations,field service, & some insults from brother Tony. Bro Tony always complaining of how some brothers have turned Jehovah's organization into something else.
"this is not how it's supose to be... Are u guys joking with Jehovah?...there's no more love". Bro Tony openly said b4 us that he's tired of being a circuit overseer, that he wanted to resign. I was shocked to hear that because that's a great privilege & i was desiring it,but this brother was tired of it. Maybe there's something wrong up there that I didn't knw abt...

MaxInDHouse:
For the OP to specifically mention a group out of all his SuperStory and tag my name {Luke 16:24} surely he knows what he wants but there is no droplets of water for the faithless {Luke 16:25} if any of you is thirsty spiritually let them go and listen to Moses and the prophets which is what is written in the Bible {Luke 16:29} if you have no regards for God's word surely there's nothing to say to any of you {Luke 16:31} we know you're on the other side! Luke 16:26

So hold onto what you think you know, we will hold onto our own too! Revelations 22:11-12

all i asked of u was to explain what idolatry is & tell us what u r doing with S & C images.no long talk. I hope u understand me now.

cornelboy:
Sakaniel 4:19.

now u are betraying ur comrades. I know that u are just a follower but it's better u open ur eyes b4 it's too late

MaxInDHouse:
Because you failed to present a better performing group than those worshiping them instead you people are killing one another in the face of politics and racism.
So whatever i choose to worship is non of your business if you can't present a better performing group of worshipers!

for the first time in ur life u speak the truth. If only u guys would allow others to worship whatever they like & stop condemning them,i wouldn't have any problem with u. So u now agree that ur worship is non-biblical? Wow! That's an improvement. Its the good works of Nairalanders that produce this positive result in u. Now as 4 the better performing group,how many times do u want me to present them? World Health Organization is one- they've done far more than JW. Infact, Aliko dangote himself alone has done more charitable works than ur JW body as a whole, u get it? Now don't come here asking 4 a better performing bla bla bla, u guys havn't done anything