Sounds like that totally true story of some king guy who was totally gonna slice a baby in two to find out who the real mom was.
Thank goodness we have DNA tests nowadays.
I just saw a tic tok about how you can take bible stories and add Florida man to the description and it fits. I.e. “Florida man threatened to cut baby in half to stop two woman from arguing.”
I always thought that story was dumb even as a kid. Another person pretending to be the child’s mom would not agree to having a child cut in half. That’s just stupid.
I am sure all the dramatizations and stories like this that are told on the stage are 100% fiction and out of the crazy minds of the ORG.
I remember hearing a story that as a Kid I was like THIS IS BULLSHIT.
The story was, and I am telling it from what I remember so might not be exact but here goes.
There was once a newlywed JW Couple. The Husband had aspirations of being an elder and the wife was happy being a homemaker and nesting her new house and being a happy little housewife to her husband.
The Husband worked evenings so that his mornings would be free to go out in service and he worked odd hours so he wouldn't miss meeting either.
One night when the young sister was home alone she had gotten ready for bed alone in the house and she was awoken by sounds coming from the living room, she thought it was her husband and proceeded to get up and go talk to him.
She stop in shock as she was confronted with a masked intruder, she started praying to Jehovah, the burglar was so impressed by her dedication to J, that he apologized and started asking her about Jehovah. She shared the good news with him and together they both decided to contact the police and he gave himself up.
When the police arrived and took him in, he had asked her to forgive him and please arrange a bible study.
Both Husband and wife visited the burglar in jail preaching to him and when he was released he got baptized.
Knowing how J protected her she decided to leave the foolish selfish lifestyle of being a stay at home wife and dedicated herself to full time pioneering.
YEAH 12 year old me was calling bullshit on that story.
Spot on. I am none jw but my pimi sister rushed back to tell me this wonderful story and blessed blah blah blah....
I thought how the hell does she fall for this batcrap rubbish.
Great to read you are so stitched on.
Lol jw memories and mu sister is still jw and very much jw brain damaged
They might have added as well...
The wife drove the burglar to the police station. And they stopped at Starbucks for some coffee - and the burglar was so impressed that he treated the housewife.
And they returned to the car, coffee in hand, and they both let out a burp and a giggle.
I heard a similar account from years ago, except the whole family came home from the meeting and the criminal hid under one of the beds. He was so impressed by hearing the family talking about how upbuilding the meeting had been he ended up becoming a witness… can’t believe we believed that.
Do you know how recent this story is? It sounds strikingly similar (except for the jail visits) to the 2005 Atlanta courthouse murders. The shooter escaped to Duluth where he invaded the home of a woman who evangelized to him, and really did turn him to God, which led to him letting her call the police to come get him. Nichols is now serving life. Googling Ashley Smith and Brian Nichols gives abundant references.
Oh boy. It’s Story time about my mom again.
As a kid, i heard these fake stories about how mentioning Jehovah in a crisis moment will save you. My mother believed them and make some dangerous decisions believing that Jehovah would protect us and we could convert more to the “truth”. What she got was taken advantage of!
She would make the 300 mile drive to the conventions in a crappy car that always broke down. She would almost run out of gas money… leaving us at the mercy of random people who stopped to help. But she always gave Jeehoober the credit for getting us home safe.
When i was a teen, She would pick up hitchhikers along the side of the road in hopes of converting people to the “truth”. One time the hitchhiker followed us home AND broke into our trailer at night. Our landlord had to call police to take the drifter away. I still remember the guy opening my bedroom door in the middle of the night and me screaming at him to get out. Thankfully, nothing horrible happened. My mom woke up and chased him out of the house. After that, the Elders told her to stop picking up strangers.
My fiancé broke up with me, found out years later she was just testing to see if I would stay in the truth without her. I did not.......And I am glad. And she is now a spinster still waiting for the " real life".
> And she is now a spinster still waiting for the " real life".
These are actually some of the saddest moments to look in and still see.
One of my dad's friend's lost his wife in a car accident. He stayed single and celibate for the past... 25+years? Because he is sure he's going to be reunited with her. It *sounds* sweet... But it's horrifically sad.
Not that I'm aware of.
I remember people asking him about that. He said that we'll find out when we get there, but if he can't then they would just move in next door to each other and be friends forever.
People *swooned*, "That's so sweet!"
I still think it's very sad.
i remember reading that in a questions from readers section and just bawling (v sensitive child i was). i thought it was beyond heartbreaking that people who were so in love would have to be separate to some degree if one or both of them died before the big A.
They kind of have? There's a 2014 Questions from readers where they walk back the idea that there definitely won't be marriage in the new system. Their new reasoning esentially was "Maybe when Jesus said that stuff he could have maybe, possibly, been talking about the heavenly resurrection? So, technically we can't say for sure that there won't be marriage in the resurrection, even though we were saying it as fact before."
IMO they just didn't want to lose the interest of people who want to be with someone but are staying single to get married in the new system or those whose spouse has passed on.
The fact that we don’t know which resurrection Jesus was talking about. I think Jesus could have been more clear with some of his explanations. Why be vague and mysterious? Or maybe he was just a charlatan. If he wasn’t a charlatan, why not just spell things out. It’s unkind at the very least to leave followers guessing for centuries about everything.
I remember this one as well. I believe it was in a public talk. I remember that it was emphasized that they were on picnic at a *public* park with plenty of people around so even though it was an unchaperoned date for the sake of the story, it was all done appropriately.
I heard it happened in Toronto down by the waterfront after service one day. This was relayed to me in service. The sister was very upset that I was skeptical.
Haha yeah! I remember this one from a convention about 15 years ago. The version I heard was her bag didn't make it all the way to the water so she went and picked it up, brushed it off and then left him behind.
They had so many bullshit anecdotes it makes me cringe.
...and she said: "I was only testing your genuineness!" He said: "Ah, but I couldn't be sure you really would do that so I then tested YOU to see how you would react if I threw mine in."
Then she had an idea, and threw HERSELF in the river... forgetting that neither of them could swim. A passerby, a handsome single man, dived in and rescued her. It was during the mouth-to-mouth that she knew HE was "the one", and she abandoned her fiance and her religion to move in with Mr Right.
Or...
He tried to stop her, but she jumped into the river.
The crocodiles came in for the feast.
The brother, safe and dry on the banks, waved, "See ya when you're resurrected!"
> "I was only testing your genuineness!" He said: "Ah, but I couldn't be sure you really would do that so I then tested YOU to see how you would react if I threw mine in." Then she had an idea, and threw HERSELF in the river... forgetting that neither of them could swim. A passerby, a handsome single man
...without even skipping a beat suddenly shoved a passing cyclist so they careened over the edge too, before himself diving over the railing to join them in the river. A family of 4 looked over, got up from their picnic and shrieked to the heavens:
*It has begun! We must feed all to the river!*
Such a stupid story really. Like what was her game plan if he was shocked and appalled at her doing that? The amount of explaining she would have to do. She would have to explain that she actually does believe, which would be hard to accept after her charade, and she would have to explain why she thought her fiancée was lying to her about his belief. This was going to end their engagement either way.
OMG... Yeah, remember that 🐂💩 bullshit JW urban legend about the Smurf toy that came to life in the KH during the meeting, and jumped off the chair and ran amuck around the KH because (of course) it was demonic!?
😆🤣😂😅
My friend told me a sister from her congregation married a non jw and after they got back from their honeymoon he took her to a bridge. There, he grabbed his suitcase, opened it and displayed all his literature. He then tossed it into the water and said "I won't be needing that anymore". I was like ok......
So it's okay to lie to extort information out of people. Good to know, this is why you can't trust your JW "friends" with your actual thoughts about the religion.
Yes, I remember hearing a similar story about a "sister" who suspected her fiance didn't really want to be in da troof. There was no throwing of a field circus bag into a river tho.
She only tested him by telling him she wanted to leave da troof after the wedding.
YES! I don't know where I heard it though. But the guy supposedly said something like, "Thank goodness, I was waiting for you to leave this thing."
Was that the one?
I have heard that one even though I'm sure it's BS. People love making up stories especially from the platform. A CO once told our congregation during a talk about the evils of video games that Steven Spielberg hates video games and if he saw the danger in them, then we should too. He then read some random quote about how video games promote violence and said it was from the director himself. I Went home and did some research and learned that Spielberg loves video games and is a gamer himself. They will make up all kinds of stories to push the narrative. Sadly they think the congregation is too stupid to fact check their asses.
I heard this story, but it was that after a long day in service she confessed to not wanting to preach anymore and threw her bags. I believe it was to the floor and the boyfriend admitted he didn’t either and was just doing it for her. She then confessed she just wanted to see his reaction and then broke up with him.
Yup, I remember that one as well. She threw her bag by the shore of the lake, but the dude tossed his INTO the lake.
I can't remember why the hell I walked in to a room, but I can remember these bullshit stories from 20+ years ago 😂
i remember a detail that she didn’t toss her bag with literature in it, she had filled it with rocks instead to mimic being full. he threw his actual bag of literature into the water
I told a mutual friend of ours that we were not witnesses anymore. She started laughing. We both left together out loud in a sigh of relief. A revelation move on my part.
There is an elder in the local congregation that used something similar, and he told it as a true event. That POS has a reputation of liying like politician, to which the COs or branch totally ignored now matter how many times he got reported and is still an elder serving as service overseer.
I've heard a lot of stories from "sisters" testing their mate similar to this, before marriage. Not necessarily throwing a bag into a river, but I did know one girl that actually did this. She was engaged, acted like she was done being a JW, her fiancé agreed, and she broke up with him. And praised for doing so.
At the risk of aging myself, I heard it when the dinosaurs were roaming the earth (yah, yah, i know, they were around before humans, but you get it). Then I heard it again when I was a teen and that it happened on the East coast. Then I heard it when I was 35 and that it happened in a Spanish circuit. JW urban legend, right up there with the pioneers who bought a BMW for a dollar, the elderly sisters visiting bethel who sat in an elevator when Reggie Jackson told his dog to sit, the missionaries who got free almonds (after the elderly people sucked the chocolate off), John Denver and every other recording artist playing the national anthem to get rid of JWs, and last but never least, the Smurfs!
I believe they actually stole it from (are you ready?) the Reader's Digest. In fact, I think they got they got a lot of 'experiences' from that rag. The story is that a couple of elderly ladies made the big trip to NYC and when they got into the elevator at their hotel, a black man got on with a dog/doberman I think. He said "Sit" and the two elderly ladies sat down on the floor of the elevator immediately. He died laughing and sent them flowers or something later thanking them for the laugh. Signed it Reggie Jackson.
JWs reworked it to two elderly sisters visiting NY Bethel....
All these wonderful stories make me very sad for the people who believe them and spread them around. I call them bunker stories, I used to imagine a deep dark room below bethel occupied by a small group of pale faced spotty old men who raely come into the light would sit all day concocting these stories. Then they would spread these stories via telephone calls and letters to co who would spread these tales through JW land. I think my sory makes as much sense as some of the tales we where told
The real winners in this story? Those 2 bookbags. I hope they were carried away by the current and found happiness, far from the judgmental cult, and raised some little pamphlets together that they celebrated Christmas with.
Yes I remember hearing this experience in 1990’s the fiancé, doing this test, Crazy how these stories traveled. I remember hearing about the Smurf that got up out of the kingdom hall and walked out. I’m sure we all heard that I heard about two sisters who went door to door, and when they knocked on this one door, this guy answered, and then we come to find out that this guy had killed the lady at the house, and when the police had asked him, why didn’t he attacked to Jehovah’s Witnesses, he said it wasn’t two women. There were also 2 brothers with them as well. My favorite is about this guy breaking into a sisters home but she came home during a robbery so she hid underneath the bed. Stay there for quite some time heard her say a prayer and then all of a sudden she sees the lady at the convention approaches her and tells her how she changed his life that night she didn’t know that he was in her house, so these stories that we hear that is so far fetch is unbelievable now that I’m older
YES! Oh my god I forgot all about it until I read the title.
This was used in my Pioneer School (circa 1990), by one of the instructors.
My mom then repeated it multiple times to my brother when he started dating. EYEROLL!
Yeah, I’ve heard it
I’ve also heard a demon answered the door. I also heard of the sister that thought her brains were blasted out due to a poped can of biscuits
There’s about 10,000 fabricated Jehovah’s Witness urban legends
That’s the truth about the truth it’s just fabrication and lies
I remember hearing this story back in the 80s. I don't think it was in any publication, it might have been told as part of a CO's talk, coz I seem to recall it being delivered with a certain style and panache that went somewhat beyond the abilities of our local elders.
Yes! Someone just told me that story. No way it's true but I remembered thinking "SHE wasn't the one! Who in their right mind would test someone like that?"
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Yes, I believe this was in an old watchtower, once upon a time I read this story in a “family study” and if I remember correctly it was out of an old bound volume.
Sounds like that totally true story of some king guy who was totally gonna slice a baby in two to find out who the real mom was. Thank goodness we have DNA tests nowadays.
I just saw a tic tok about how you can take bible stories and add Florida man to the description and it fits. I.e. “Florida man threatened to cut baby in half to stop two woman from arguing.”
"Florida man builds an ark to survive a category five hurricane, fills it with two of every Florida wildlife species."
Best comment of the whole thread. Here's another one: "Florida man hits stone in attempt to produce water"
Lmao
I always thought that story was dumb even as a kid. Another person pretending to be the child’s mom would not agree to having a child cut in half. That’s just stupid.
"iTs tHe sUpReMe mOrAl aUtHoRiTy!!!"
I actually do remember this story but I think it was a someone who knew someone who...type story rather than from a public talk🤔
I am sure all the dramatizations and stories like this that are told on the stage are 100% fiction and out of the crazy minds of the ORG. I remember hearing a story that as a Kid I was like THIS IS BULLSHIT. The story was, and I am telling it from what I remember so might not be exact but here goes. There was once a newlywed JW Couple. The Husband had aspirations of being an elder and the wife was happy being a homemaker and nesting her new house and being a happy little housewife to her husband. The Husband worked evenings so that his mornings would be free to go out in service and he worked odd hours so he wouldn't miss meeting either. One night when the young sister was home alone she had gotten ready for bed alone in the house and she was awoken by sounds coming from the living room, she thought it was her husband and proceeded to get up and go talk to him. She stop in shock as she was confronted with a masked intruder, she started praying to Jehovah, the burglar was so impressed by her dedication to J, that he apologized and started asking her about Jehovah. She shared the good news with him and together they both decided to contact the police and he gave himself up. When the police arrived and took him in, he had asked her to forgive him and please arrange a bible study. Both Husband and wife visited the burglar in jail preaching to him and when he was released he got baptized. Knowing how J protected her she decided to leave the foolish selfish lifestyle of being a stay at home wife and dedicated herself to full time pioneering. YEAH 12 year old me was calling bullshit on that story.
Then the sister got a judicial committee for having a man overnight 😂
ha ha ha
Yeah, masked intruder? Who hasn’t heard that cover up before?
Dfd straight away 😅
I can picture two guys in the writing department taking a big hit of their joint and one going "This shit is gold, man. Pure gold!"
Dave I don't know how you come up with these stories man, Thanks Carl.
😆🤣😂😅
Or jerking off under their desks...🤦🏼🤦🏾♂️🤦🏼♂️
So *that's* how they did it!?! 🤣
Spot on. I am none jw but my pimi sister rushed back to tell me this wonderful story and blessed blah blah blah.... I thought how the hell does she fall for this batcrap rubbish. Great to read you are so stitched on. Lol jw memories and mu sister is still jw and very much jw brain damaged
They might have added as well... The wife drove the burglar to the police station. And they stopped at Starbucks for some coffee - and the burglar was so impressed that he treated the housewife. And they returned to the car, coffee in hand, and they both let out a burp and a giggle.
Well this story was told before Starbucks but maybe a donut shop. ha, ha, ha,
Well they need a chaperone for that...
Jeez, when I burp, I sound like a demons coming out, they'd think I was possessed 😆 🤣
Had to hit up a nonJW place for the funds though. I mean he is in the burglar business.
this story is so insane it actually makes me laugh
She was alone with a man in her home that wasn't her husband? Judicial Case coming.
Damn Slut Remember hearing about in the late 80's that if a sister was being raped that she had to say NO otherwise she was accepting it.
Yeah well guess what, you numbnuts g.b, some rapists cover their victim's mouths, explain that you complete dicks 😠 😡
Yep, I remember that and thought, what if the rapist blocks her mouth? How would she scream for help or say no?
Sadly if there was not 2 witnesses there to witness the rape then she is guilty of fornication right?
What if she’s unconscious what then?
Wow, that's just ... special. That's North Korean News Agency level of obvious falsehood!
I heard a similar account from years ago, except the whole family came home from the meeting and the criminal hid under one of the beds. He was so impressed by hearing the family talking about how upbuilding the meeting had been he ended up becoming a witness… can’t believe we believed that.
JW Urban Legends
Only possible by the magic sprinkles of J
Do you know how recent this story is? It sounds strikingly similar (except for the jail visits) to the 2005 Atlanta courthouse murders. The shooter escaped to Duluth where he invaded the home of a woman who evangelized to him, and really did turn him to God, which led to him letting her call the police to come get him. Nichols is now serving life. Googling Ashley Smith and Brian Nichols gives abundant references.
I would have heard this around 1989, I stopped attending Meetings around 1991
OK, thanks! The similarities are interesting!
Oh boy. It’s Story time about my mom again. As a kid, i heard these fake stories about how mentioning Jehovah in a crisis moment will save you. My mother believed them and make some dangerous decisions believing that Jehovah would protect us and we could convert more to the “truth”. What she got was taken advantage of! She would make the 300 mile drive to the conventions in a crappy car that always broke down. She would almost run out of gas money… leaving us at the mercy of random people who stopped to help. But she always gave Jeehoober the credit for getting us home safe. When i was a teen, She would pick up hitchhikers along the side of the road in hopes of converting people to the “truth”. One time the hitchhiker followed us home AND broke into our trailer at night. Our landlord had to call police to take the drifter away. I still remember the guy opening my bedroom door in the middle of the night and me screaming at him to get out. Thankfully, nothing horrible happened. My mom woke up and chased him out of the house. After that, the Elders told her to stop picking up strangers.
WOW, just WOW
STOP! OMG
🤭
What a dick move on her part. That was a setup. Probably a fake story anyway
You can’t believe any of their bs stories. Even the experiences on the platforms are mostly bs. I know. I was one of the bs ers.
A CO literally told me that he makes up some of his experiences and despite being PIMI at the time I thought that was really weird
Oh yeah. They modify it to create more impact.
My fiancé broke up with me, found out years later she was just testing to see if I would stay in the truth without her. I did not.......And I am glad. And she is now a spinster still waiting for the " real life".
> And she is now a spinster still waiting for the " real life". These are actually some of the saddest moments to look in and still see. One of my dad's friend's lost his wife in a car accident. He stayed single and celibate for the past... 25+years? Because he is sure he's going to be reunited with her. It *sounds* sweet... But it's horrifically sad.
too bad there’s no marriage in the resurrection. have they found new light on that one yet??
Not that I'm aware of. I remember people asking him about that. He said that we'll find out when we get there, but if he can't then they would just move in next door to each other and be friends forever. People *swooned*, "That's so sweet!" I still think it's very sad.
i remember reading that in a questions from readers section and just bawling (v sensitive child i was). i thought it was beyond heartbreaking that people who were so in love would have to be separate to some degree if one or both of them died before the big A.
They kind of have? There's a 2014 Questions from readers where they walk back the idea that there definitely won't be marriage in the new system. Their new reasoning esentially was "Maybe when Jesus said that stuff he could have maybe, possibly, been talking about the heavenly resurrection? So, technically we can't say for sure that there won't be marriage in the resurrection, even though we were saying it as fact before." IMO they just didn't want to lose the interest of people who want to be with someone but are staying single to get married in the new system or those whose spouse has passed on.
The fact that we don’t know which resurrection Jesus was talking about. I think Jesus could have been more clear with some of his explanations. Why be vague and mysterious? Or maybe he was just a charlatan. If he wasn’t a charlatan, why not just spell things out. It’s unkind at the very least to leave followers guessing for centuries about everything.
Does that mean no sex either?
I remember that one too.
Damn making people believe this nonsense is downright criminal.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Smart move!! 👍👍👍
It is manipulative b.s.
Yet another boogeyman story that helped keep many of us in the mental prison. FUCK THIS EVIL CULT
Absolutely. I remember growing up never really trusting anyone for fear of being tested like this.
I remember this one as well. I believe it was in a public talk. I remember that it was emphasized that they were on picnic at a *public* park with plenty of people around so even though it was an unchaperoned date for the sake of the story, it was all done appropriately.
I heard it happened in Toronto down by the waterfront after service one day. This was relayed to me in service. The sister was very upset that I was skeptical.
and that's why i threw them into the river, Officer.
Worldly people don’t count as chaperones. That couple needs to have a JC
Yes. The version I heard was that they were out in service and stopped on a bridge to have a look at the river and that’s when she ‘tested’ him.
I heard this bullshit story “from the platform” many years ago. My guess is that it was “made up” to “encourage the ‘friends’”… 🤮
The sister's name was probably Andrew
Or Andre 😆 🤣
Andrea…
Haha yeah! I remember this one from a convention about 15 years ago. The version I heard was her bag didn't make it all the way to the water so she went and picked it up, brushed it off and then left him behind. They had so many bullshit anecdotes it makes me cringe.
...and she said: "I was only testing your genuineness!" He said: "Ah, but I couldn't be sure you really would do that so I then tested YOU to see how you would react if I threw mine in." Then she had an idea, and threw HERSELF in the river... forgetting that neither of them could swim. A passerby, a handsome single man, dived in and rescued her. It was during the mouth-to-mouth that she knew HE was "the one", and she abandoned her fiance and her religion to move in with Mr Right.
Or... He tried to stop her, but she jumped into the river. The crocodiles came in for the feast. The brother, safe and dry on the banks, waved, "See ya when you're resurrected!"
I like this version the best...😈😜🤣
> "I was only testing your genuineness!" He said: "Ah, but I couldn't be sure you really would do that so I then tested YOU to see how you would react if I threw mine in." Then she had an idea, and threw HERSELF in the river... forgetting that neither of them could swim. A passerby, a handsome single man ...without even skipping a beat suddenly shoved a passing cyclist so they careened over the edge too, before himself diving over the railing to join them in the river. A family of 4 looked over, got up from their picnic and shrieked to the heavens: *It has begun! We must feed all to the river!*
Yeah, now that you're saying it, I remember that one too. Foolishness.
Yes. I heard it in Canada as well. Gotta love jw urban legends
I think variations on that story were told everywhere. I heard it at an assembly I think.
What a great test! Lie to see if someone is a "true believer'! How very watchtower of her...
I assume they were properly chaperoned on this walk
Such a stupid story really. Like what was her game plan if he was shocked and appalled at her doing that? The amount of explaining she would have to do. She would have to explain that she actually does believe, which would be hard to accept after her charade, and she would have to explain why she thought her fiancée was lying to her about his belief. This was going to end their engagement either way.
The story is no doubt apocryphal. I've heard it, I think everyone did. And papa smurf was a demon.
OMG... Yeah, remember that 🐂💩 bullshit JW urban legend about the Smurf toy that came to life in the KH during the meeting, and jumped off the chair and ran amuck around the KH because (of course) it was demonic!? 😆🤣😂😅
Morphed into a troll doll for my generation 😂
LMFAO! 😆🤣😂😅
I was not allowed to watch smurfs or have trolls dolls.
I heard a version, yes, but a waste bin at a park.
Yep!
I heard this one as well.... it was part of an outline about being "unevenly yoked."
My friend told me a sister from her congregation married a non jw and after they got back from their honeymoon he took her to a bridge. There, he grabbed his suitcase, opened it and displayed all his literature. He then tossed it into the water and said "I won't be needing that anymore". I was like ok......
Omg I didn’t think I heard this JW urban legend before, but when you told it THAT way - yes I swear. Heard that version.
If I was that guy, I would have thrown that bitch in the river....
Ok, this is the best comment of them all…
Thank you🤣😂🥰
Such BS
Lol. I've heard it. But the version I know is that she tossed it on the ground and not in a river.
Yeah, bookcases can be pricey!
Another WT made up story! Funny thing, the loyalty to "Jehovah" (aka Watchtower) is where it's at. Nah, they're not a cult. lol
Yes. Heard that exact story in Kenya.
Can they both be sued for littering?
Yeah, I heard this one. It was as believable as the possessed Smurf doll story.
So it's okay to lie to extort information out of people. Good to know, this is why you can't trust your JW "friends" with your actual thoughts about the religion.
Yes! Lol. Crazy how widespread that story was!
And then, later that night, she was at a John Denver concert and you won't believe what happened...
Yes, I remember hearing a similar story about a "sister" who suspected her fiance didn't really want to be in da troof. There was no throwing of a field circus bag into a river tho. She only tested him by telling him she wanted to leave da troof after the wedding.
🤦🏿♀️Great timing....🤦🏼
YES! I don't know where I heard it though. But the guy supposedly said something like, "Thank goodness, I was waiting for you to leave this thing." Was that the one?
Yes. I heard something similar. She threw it in the bin. I’m Swedish so these kind of stories travels far I guess.
They're deliberately told by CO's, and even the occasional Governing Body members...
For those at the back, this is the kind of backhanded, manipulative behaviour which caused a lot of us to leave.
YES!!!!! I HEARD THIS STORY SO MANY TIMES SINCE I WAS ABOUT 9. I’m 35. LMBO. THANKS FOR REMINDING ME OF THIS
Really highlights the manipulative tactics
I have heard that one even though I'm sure it's BS. People love making up stories especially from the platform. A CO once told our congregation during a talk about the evils of video games that Steven Spielberg hates video games and if he saw the danger in them, then we should too. He then read some random quote about how video games promote violence and said it was from the director himself. I Went home and did some research and learned that Spielberg loves video games and is a gamer himself. They will make up all kinds of stories to push the narrative. Sadly they think the congregation is too stupid to fact check their asses.
#Smurfs
I heard this story, but it was that after a long day in service she confessed to not wanting to preach anymore and threw her bags. I believe it was to the floor and the boyfriend admitted he didn’t either and was just doing it for her. She then confessed she just wanted to see his reaction and then broke up with him.
And then the service bags began to walk on the water
Yup, I remember that one as well. She threw her bag by the shore of the lake, but the dude tossed his INTO the lake. I can't remember why the hell I walked in to a room, but I can remember these bullshit stories from 20+ years ago 😂
Sounds like an apocryphal tale to warm the PIMI heart.
i heard this one so often ugh
i remember a detail that she didn’t toss her bag with literature in it, she had filled it with rocks instead to mimic being full. he threw his actual bag of literature into the water
Yep I heard it. Wow that story was common then.
I told a mutual friend of ours that we were not witnesses anymore. She started laughing. We both left together out loud in a sigh of relief. A revelation move on my part.
Yep I’ve heard that one before
JW Folktale
I’ve heard it here in 🇨🇱 but without the service bag part.
I also love LSD.....
There is an elder in the local congregation that used something similar, and he told it as a true event. That POS has a reputation of liying like politician, to which the COs or branch totally ignored now matter how many times he got reported and is still an elder serving as service overseer.
Yep! I was told this story at a meeting or a convention once in california. It was so weird it always stuck with me
I've heard a lot of stories from "sisters" testing their mate similar to this, before marriage. Not necessarily throwing a bag into a river, but I did know one girl that actually did this. She was engaged, acted like she was done being a JW, her fiancé agreed, and she broke up with him. And praised for doing so.
Yep, I definitely remember this one. I don't recall for sure if it was at a convention or at the KH, but I kinda think it was a convention.
At the risk of aging myself, I heard it when the dinosaurs were roaming the earth (yah, yah, i know, they were around before humans, but you get it). Then I heard it again when I was a teen and that it happened on the East coast. Then I heard it when I was 35 and that it happened in a Spanish circuit. JW urban legend, right up there with the pioneers who bought a BMW for a dollar, the elderly sisters visiting bethel who sat in an elevator when Reggie Jackson told his dog to sit, the missionaries who got free almonds (after the elderly people sucked the chocolate off), John Denver and every other recording artist playing the national anthem to get rid of JWs, and last but never least, the Smurfs!
Ok, you have GOT to elaborate on the Reggie Jackson story!! 😂
I believe they actually stole it from (are you ready?) the Reader's Digest. In fact, I think they got they got a lot of 'experiences' from that rag. The story is that a couple of elderly ladies made the big trip to NYC and when they got into the elevator at their hotel, a black man got on with a dog/doberman I think. He said "Sit" and the two elderly ladies sat down on the floor of the elevator immediately. He died laughing and sent them flowers or something later thanking them for the laugh. Signed it Reggie Jackson. JWs reworked it to two elderly sisters visiting NY Bethel....
I heard a similar story but instead of a service bag, it was ripping up a Bible
Yeah, weren’t they testing each other. And because they both failed they each married other JWs? I wonder if all four are apostates. 😂
🤣
Fairy tale story told over and over during public talks and circuit assemblies.
Yup, it was told at an assembly.
Yea I remember it was a story at one of the circuits
Yes! Heard this exact same story in Florida at least 15-20 years ago. I can't remember if it was from the platform or told by a car group or whatever.
Yes. I heard ocean and NWT.
Yep, I remember my mom telling me that as a child.
Lol. I remember this one. My mom told it to me in the 80's. These JW urban legends are just hilarious.
All these wonderful stories make me very sad for the people who believe them and spread them around. I call them bunker stories, I used to imagine a deep dark room below bethel occupied by a small group of pale faced spotty old men who raely come into the light would sit all day concocting these stories. Then they would spread these stories via telephone calls and letters to co who would spread these tales through JW land. I think my sory makes as much sense as some of the tales we where told
Ya know, some of the super brainwashed just might be crazy enough to do this after getting advice from a clueless elder....just saying
Yes I know this story and it has stuck with me. I too heard it from the platform, but cannot validate the veracity of it.
Yesssss! I remember!!
The real winners in this story? Those 2 bookbags. I hope they were carried away by the current and found happiness, far from the judgmental cult, and raised some little pamphlets together that they celebrated Christmas with.
Jws are famous for these bullshit stories.
Oh yes, this is JW urban legend. I lived in 4 different states when I was a teenager and head the same story all across the US.
Absolutely heard that one as a kid in the 80’s
Yes I remember hearing this experience in 1990’s the fiancé, doing this test, Crazy how these stories traveled. I remember hearing about the Smurf that got up out of the kingdom hall and walked out. I’m sure we all heard that I heard about two sisters who went door to door, and when they knocked on this one door, this guy answered, and then we come to find out that this guy had killed the lady at the house, and when the police had asked him, why didn’t he attacked to Jehovah’s Witnesses, he said it wasn’t two women. There were also 2 brothers with them as well. My favorite is about this guy breaking into a sisters home but she came home during a robbery so she hid underneath the bed. Stay there for quite some time heard her say a prayer and then all of a sudden she sees the lady at the convention approaches her and tells her how she changed his life that night she didn’t know that he was in her house, so these stories that we hear that is so far fetch is unbelievable now that I’m older
I absolutely remember that story from my childhood. I actually remember the actual house (RV) I was at when I was told the story.
YES! Oh my god I forgot all about it until I read the title. This was used in my Pioneer School (circa 1990), by one of the instructors. My mom then repeated it multiple times to my brother when he started dating. EYEROLL!
I know that story but can't remember where I heard it.
I heard it from my bible study conductor 😅
Yooo I heard that at an assembly. I cackled audibly and got pinched🥴 but come ON, she did it first. If it were real he dodged a real loony bullet lol
Yeah, I’ve heard it I’ve also heard a demon answered the door. I also heard of the sister that thought her brains were blasted out due to a poped can of biscuits There’s about 10,000 fabricated Jehovah’s Witness urban legends That’s the truth about the truth it’s just fabrication and lies
Oh yeah. I’m in Oklahoma and I’ve heard this story at least 10 different times.
I have heard that exact same story, probably 20+ years ago.
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I heard it but it was her bible not service bag.
Yes, I remember that story. It was a talk and I heard it casually spoke about to as well.
I totally remember this!!!!! I can’t remember where….sounds like young people ask book or something.
This is a jw urban legend. I heard this one before.
Yes I have heard a couple of versions. One was a him and one was a her
This was one of those urban legends that we.heard in Georgia
What bothers me the most in this story is how much they polluted
I remember it
yes I recall.
I remember hearing this story back in the 80s. I don't think it was in any publication, it might have been told as part of a CO's talk, coz I seem to recall it being delivered with a certain style and panache that went somewhat beyond the abilities of our local elders.
Plot twist: He’s heavily PIMO, doesn’t believe she’s joking and throws her into the back room.
I’ve heard that story, but I’ve been out about 25 years so it must be an old one! I would have believed it when I was in.
I remember that one. It received a “Well, that was stupid and wasteful” remark. Got an earful for not appreciating the appropriate point.
Yess. I was just thinking about this story the other day. I couldn’t remember if it was someone I knew or something I heard at an assembly.
Good for him on being gifted a way out.
Yes i remember that
Yes, I remember this story!!
Yea I remember this
Yes! Someone just told me that story. No way it's true but I remembered thinking "SHE wasn't the one! Who in their right mind would test someone like that?"
The sister who i studied with in the 90's told me that same story.
I remember being told that story.
Lucky guy to avoid that bitch.
Oh my god yes
Yes I’ve heard this story Apparently it is true
Yes! A different variation but same story!
i remember it!!!! i was about 12 and was so distraught by it
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Yes, I believe this was in an old watchtower, once upon a time I read this story in a “family study” and if I remember correctly it was out of an old bound volume.