by Check_Your_Premises 54 Replies latest jw experiences
when I'd first started going out I was convinced that I was engaging in "jehovahs" service, but as time wore on it dawned on me more and more that this was a complete waste of time and nothing more than "busy work" madated by the brooklyn goons to get their "brand name" in peoples hands at my expense. My willingness turned into loathing soon after.
One of my BIL point blank told me that but for the requirement to go door to door, he wouldn't mind being a witness.
LOL @ Mouthy!!
I hated FS, but I was always so in awe of you guys that loved it and knew your stuff. I was a kid and I hated bible study, so I wasn't as well versed as some (although now I'd probably be shocked at what I could spout!) I felt very inferior, and then eventually lost all interest in trying.
I enjoyed it until I had to go to a door, lol.
I enjoyed going to studies but didn't care to just go out and "place" literature.
I enjoyed service until I was about 12 years old. I was/am a sensitive sort, and I would always be paying attention to the others in the car group. When a person really HATED service, but was pretending to enjoy it, there I was, the kid in the back seat, acting normal but feeling the weight of repressed emotions. Service terrified me. I was OK at the doors, but I was constantly putting myself in the shoes of the householder. Return visits were what I loathed the most. I was always pressured to return to people, even though I felt that they didn't WANT me to return... And when I went to other people's return visits, most of the time I would see this poor nice person, in agony but too polite to tell us to go away...and then on the way back to the car I'd listen to my partner ooze about how *wonderful* their call was. Service did do one good thing, though: I can have a full out panic attack, and unless you are an extremely perceptive person, you can't even tell. Yay. What skill.
I enjoyed it for a while until I began realising that the JWs were a deceitful sect and all my enthusiasm evaporated, what was the point of bringing ppl into a totalitarian unloving environment with ever shifting doctrines?
It depended on who you would grouped up with. Sometimes it would be nice. Most of the time I go with BOOORRING old ladies. It was horrible. Especially with your legs freezing because your skirt and stockings, and it was hard to walk in stiledos.(Just kidding)
with BOOORRING old ladies.
BOOHOO!!!!I was one of them
I HATED it. Fortunately I hardly ever went ;)
Well, let's see:
I had to go out, dragged by parents.
Hated it.
Dogs & their bites, somebody mentioned those; yep, i got bitten once
Hated it.
Police: did anybody mention those? I got stopped 3 times, taken to the station twice, twice with the CO.
Hated it.
An eLDER's daughter pulled down her panties and masturbated in the car once; this didn't make up for the rest.
Hated it.
Placed lots of magazines & books and had 5 studies while pIONEERING.
Hated it. Though as somebody mentioned, studies weren't as bad as the rest.
Occasionally ran into kids from school. How do you spell embarrassment?
Did I mention that I hated it?
Mustang
I pioneered when I was 19 and I remember an elder wanting to interview me for a part about pioneering and I refused over and over. I just could not say that I enjoyed the experience. I was badgered into it and it was a lonely painful experience for me.
He just couldnt believe my attitude---shocking!
I felt like "Hey I am a good and truthful person. I tried it ----and I didnt like it. So what? How is that going to change the timing of the 'marriage of the lamb' or whatever?"
