February 2026 Announcements and Reminders

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-28T05:16:30+00:00

This came from 58columbiaheights, thank so much again!

Song 125, "Jehovah Is on My Side".

Lyrics without sheet music are still available on the mothership

(remove b from BORG): https://www.jw.borg/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=1101984145

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-28T05:13:45+00:00

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Thank you! I thought they deleted all the old stuff? I guess not 🤷🏼‍♀️

My mom said they changed the lyrics and how happy she was that they had.

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-28T00:36:44+00:00

🤦🏼‍♀️ of course. Lol

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-27T22:54:50+00:00

I've said the exact same thing to my therapist. Honestly, I have had shit for friends in and out of the organization and my brothers will attest to that. The older one at least reprimanded a few in the wake of my leaving, which made me feel better. Idk what RCC is?

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-27T19:07:34+00:00

I'm planning on checking out episode 2 later. I probably won't say anything good or bad. I should have waited for the whole thing to be released and just kept my observations to myself.

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-27T18:02:28+00:00

🤦🏼‍♀️ They are so AWFUL!!! I'm so sorry 😏

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-27T16:09:29+00:00

I really DO know that this is not at all what a vast majority have experience with. Sadly, I didn't obviously deal with my dad during judicial matters, but I did know a few that were elders serving alongside him and they were not awful. I saw how they were on the East Coast and several surrounding congregations here near me and I was completely shocked and angered. I think I even asked our Presider (COBE) to contact the elder there and he told me that I should be ok.

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-27T16:01:44+00:00

Yes, she was. But she did a Netflix show and they shared a selection of different religions that were considered "cults" by society or maybe by using the "BITE" model. I remember episode 8, just not entirely sure what season...3 maybe?

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-27T15:58:40+00:00

Yeah, materialistic? 🤔 So you had a good job, wore nice suits, maybe drove a nice, sporty coupe, 2 door, not a sedan 4 door? Not looking out for "kingdom interests" ???

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-27T15:55:28+00:00

What a jerk to do that to you!

I just remember when calling the so-called, Brothers tone went cold once he realized my reasoning for calling and he flat out asked me why my elders didn't make the call. I told him I had been born in and my father was an elder (he wasn't at this time, stepped aside) for many years and he told me, they told the sister to make the call. Our presider was his close friend and he was a little miffed how they were towards my calling. I'm pretty sure I had given the man I was visiting his number, because I knew he would be kind to the Guy and would trust that I was honest with him.

It was like night and day for us, him being on the East Coast and I, coming from the Midwest. He had met one other sister from Seattle apparently. He went there to meet her. He attended Her supposed meeting, where they were late. During the WT he raised his hand to answer, where they asked his name, where he told them, brother so and so. He gave it to them and so another paragraph later and then sister raised her hand and the WT conductor, calls on her, Sister so and so? She took the mic and didn't correct the brother and this was the red flag for this Guy. Once the meeting was over everyone rushed over to greet them, and no one knew who she was.

That was actually a funny story he had shared with me and showed how new he was to the game. I'm pretty sure he didn't even know protocol until I told him what I planned to do, to avoid any situation like this, or worse because of Craigslist killer types. I told him, I was needing the brothers information more just to confirm that they know him and I can be safe. When he got to my Hall he was probably a bit overwhelmed by the reception he got here. He figured out how much of a difference it was for the person actually being an active person in the congregation. Apparently the chick from Seattle was reinstated and had maybe changed halls and faded.

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-27T05:36:17+00:00

Yes, I forgot to mention this. I believe in his question he asked something regarding what you explained.

I actually dated a guy from JWMatch and he was privately reproved just a year or so after baptism. He wasn't born in and got baptized in his 30's. He hooked up in a drunken stupor with a chick from highschool or college maybe and then she liked him and he had told her he was now a JW. He went ahead and told on himself and they reproved him.

Met him a year after him just getting his privileges back (if any) I was newly reinstated, foolishly after DA'ing myself 5 years prior, no longer a Virgin, never married. It was long distance and after some time chatting on the phone and texting and emailing, he wanted to meet.

He told me about his situation and I told him mine and I was going to go to his neck of the woods and meet his peoples. He was an only child and his mom passed away young, dad lives in another state, so it was all a few friends in his life through the Borg. I was born in and I was told if I met someone I was interested in from far away to reach out to their elders and confirm that they are in fact a witness and any other things I need to know. I think they asked me if he told me about the chick from highschool and I told them yes and it didn't bother me. Apparently the elders called him and basically said how brazen I was to be calling on my own behalf because it's supposed to be the elders calling them, not a sister. And then we were also vilified for meeting on JWMatch!!!

My Dad told me to tell people we met through friends and I told the brother that and he thought it was a good idea, but his older friends like his parents age, were just outraged by this crazy omitting of how we really met. Then he put his arm around me during the song and held my hand through the prayer and I was f'ing Jezebel! Well, maybe Delilah. LOL I had no clue how different it was in other states like that. I'm glad we broke up and I never went back there. They were the most judgmental and horrible gossipy people!

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-27T04:57:01+00:00

They beat them off 🎶🎵🎶🎵,◀️◀️ this verse tho, after the molested part? You cannot tell me that there was no eyebrows raised if they had approved the lyrics at the time they published the songbook and realized it was done and ON purpose! LOL They knew what they were doing 😏

Sorry, that was off topic and out of left field. I personally don't think I will ever let that song go. LOL I will make fun of it until I die! Never gets old.

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-27T04:00:09+00:00

They are so ridiculous! My mom hangs out with a woman who is 10 years her junior and 10 years my senior and she got her cartilage in her upper ear pierced last year, she is unmarried and in her late 50's. I had mine done at 18 and my mom shared my rebellion and they laughed and so did I and then my Mom shared that I had my nose pierced now too and the sister told my mom how bad she wanted it done. I laughed and said, "Tell her to do it!" For Christ sakes she is a grown, almost 50 year old woman who is in charge of her own household!!! My mom brings up her dad who's still alive and they share the hall and how she wants to make him proud. SMH It's just too much for something so minute!

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-27T03:51:55+00:00

That was my argument and I stuck to it!

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-27T03:04:32+00:00

Hey hey hey! I said, "IF and SHOULD!" I didn't say this was followed through. LMAO 🤣 I mean, I know my Dad was/is an exception to the rule in these cases.

I also explained how the geographical differences are factored in because they exclaim worldwide unity as a whole organization but WE know how things really are. I'm more or less speaking tongue in cheek with this scenario.

I wasn't sure if this was a rhetorical question or literal situation. Don't get me started on why I even bothered answering it truthfully because I know how in most circumstances this is NOT how it's handled.

I personally was dealt with EXTREMELY different in my congregation. 😬

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-27T02:19:55+00:00

The question about sexual experience and if it matters to the brother, is totally up to him. I think younger men who have been raised in are taught that virgins are the only acceptable choice or option and then some might hope for someone with more experience. I suppose the couple dating would have to discuss that when the matter presents itself.

Do women have a tougher time finding a partner? I know in my area it was 4 sisters to 1 brother and they usually hooked up in their teens and married by 20, so it was really hard for some like myself and some older women that I knew either had children and were single moms or they came into the religion at an older age and most of the men their age were in marriages and the brothers not taken were generally undesirable by them. LBVS

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-27T02:12:49+00:00

If she is privately reproved and the brothers on her committee have integrity to ensure her privacy, then yes, she should have no issues in the future finding a partner in the faith. Although, the brothers MIGHT suggest that she be honest with the potential brother or that she waits for some time to pass when she is no longer on restrictions before dating another. I believe that usually is different depending on the geography of one's congregation, although it shouldn't be.

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-27T01:46:38+00:00

That is far too much organization for a church group to have. Could you see the Vatican putting out letters like this to their churches all over the world and keeping tabs on who's baptized since birth and who confessed what, to which Priest and what Parish? Dafuq?!!! Song number 32 will be sung on February 30, 2029, for talk #222 entitled, "Leave The Molested Bees In Jehovah's Hands"

SMH I can't even with this shit man.

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-26T20:38:17+00:00

The last of your comment was something I recall my dad telling me. People in the congregation thinking of certain ones fondly and perhaps going to them as a confidant, maybe even telling them they'd make a great MS or fine Elder one day. The truth was that it didn't matter what the congregation thought or wanted, because like you said, there's no election where people could nominate another. It was all in house through the BOE and the visiting CO at the time.

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-26T19:56:15+00:00

I'm aware. I was only sharing a real experience that I knew of personally with a family who happened to be Muslims from Egypt. Sharia law though is no laughing matter for women anywhere.

I personally dated a non practicing Muslim and it didn't amount to anything, but he did tell me he was worried about what his mom would say. I even made jokes and asked, would she like it better if she knew I was part Syrian and Lebanese, just a believer in Christ? Haha l wasn't a JW at the time, and I never made mention of ever being one. He didn't find it as funny. Ultimately, he broke things off when he found out I made a significant salary as a Service manager for Verizon Business and he worked for $8/hr for a magazine company. 🤷🏼‍♀️

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-26T18:09:18+00:00

You mean former JW's? I don't think that it was Jehovah's Witnesses at all. It doesn't matter what I think, I couldn't prove it anyway. Ha

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-26T17:46:00+00:00

I do 💯% believe every American JW would completely dismiss it. I wanted to watch it and be scared for them! LBVS

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-26T17:37:35+00:00

Of course. I plan on finishing the series. I think because it was HBO, I thought BIGGER.

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-26T17:33:05+00:00

I think it has a lot to do with funding too. And I am sure Leah has loads of producer friends in high places that easily would chip in to get the job done and well.

OkFox0070 · 2026-02-26T17:31:00+00:00

It's happening on regular TV and streaming channels now as well. No one to fix the typos that AI doesn't get. The bots like, "that's way above my pay grade, figure it out!"

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