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It's that time once again for yours truly to try to channel minimus and ask a pertinent question sure to spark a lot of interest and debate amongst the ex-JW community.
The question: Do you still pray?
As a JW whenever I was in a "worldly" situation where someone offered up prayer, whether it was for food, safety of a race car driver or to lead our troops to victory, I stood quietly but without bowing my head or closing my eyes. Of course at all JW related events I always held prayer in the utmost respect and always bowed my head and closed my eyes.
Recently, however, I found myself in a situation where it was mostly JWs and a prayer was conducted. I could not let myself do it. I could not join in. I stood quietly but kept my head up, eyes opened and glanced around at the crowd. I did listen, but only to verify that most public prayers from JWs are still as lame as ever.
Since I never joined in prayer outside of the JW experience before and now that I can't join in JW prayer, I never pray or join in when public prayer is conducted. It's funny to see people suddenly become so religioius and pious so as to bow their head, remove their cap, but not really believe in it. I figure if I don't believe in it, why bother putting on a show?
Thoughts?