What Used To Bother Your Conscience?

minimus

Many JWs were trained to have "sensitive" consciences. Very little ever bothered my conscience. Yet some Witnesses were always disturbed over some other Witness committing an infraction of the lawcode.......So what used to bother you??

lovelylil

I hated the term "worldly" or "worldlings" the Witnesses used (sometimes I used it too in the beginning but it really started to bother me) to use for everyone other than themselves. To me, this term was very judgemental and I could not understand how we could use it and then say things like "only Jehovah can read hearts". Then if that is the case, how can we judge someone as worldly?

A little off the topic:

Also my biggest pet peave: Parents with unbelieving mates who had their young children try to "talk" to them and tell them that they did not want them destroyed so they want them to come to the meetings". This put so much stress on some of the young kids I knew in the hall and I found it utterly offensive and said so. My hubby taught me kids this too but I went behind his back and told them it was not true.

snarf

This ties in with the gossip thread, but it was the gossiping that drove me bonkers. When I was studying, I always heard about the members of the cong. and I also knew pretty much everything the other studies were doing and what their progress was.

Also, the way some of the children were treated. Being spanked by their parents in the other room, but you could here the slaps and the crying...sadened me so much...

lonelysheep

Swearing even though I cursed a lot. I know...hypocrite!

Sex scenes in entertainment.

Clothing that wasn't modest. Example-Showing cleavage. I used to not care and emphasize whenever I felt like it, and still haven't totally regained that "don't care" attitude.

Smokers..lol

The thought of possibly getting drunk while drinking.

Dismembered

Re: What Used To Bother Your Conscience?

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luna2

Sexy movies and books didn't bother me a bit. Violence I had a harder time with, though. It used to bother me that I didn't want to go out in service. It used to bother me that I'd miss meetings or didn't study for meetings.

When I took (for me) the terribly daring step of meeting with some "worldly" ::gasp:: online friends in NYC, I was in a state of terrible guilt/euphoria the whole time. I had a blast, but I can recall lying awake in the middle of the night in the hotel room agonized over what I was doing. I was such a mess. lol

pratt1

Where do I begin....

Heavy drinking

Foul Languge

Missing meetings because you needed to work

Not commenting at the meetings

Trendy clothing

Unsubmissive wives

Movies with questionable scenes - R rated or not

Low field service hours

Hiding a secret sin

Yeah I admit it, I was immature, arrogant and knew nothing about life. I was a piece of work!

anewme

Pratt's list was mine too.

I like my attitude and conscience so much better now.

I do not meddle in other's lives anymore.

I have my own personal list of dos and donts for me only.

unique1

I was terrified of anything that could be demonic. I got chills the first few times I watched Medium after leaving and couldn't sleep because I was afraid I let demons in my house. I knew it was a load, but I just couldn't shake it. I freaked out when my hubby brought home From Dusk to Dawn because it had vampires and vampires were demonic. I couldn't sleep that night either. I felt guilt for even watching part of it.

dido

That there was a paedophile in the cong. and nothing was being done about it!

What Used To Bother Your Conscience?

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