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MinisterAmos

They will put a lot of effort into making you feel you belong there.

Is that why the baptized Dubz wear special badges at the convention and the "outsiders" do not?

I found they introduce a lot of lip service to claim that they like to treat folks equally but it's really nothing but a bunch of hooey. They are extremely divisive and have seperated the world into two and a half groups; "in", "out" and "studying".

If you are a study, then you will be tolerated but only because the Watchtower has provided specific instructions that they must do so. If you are not "in" you are beneath the contempt of the "Super-Dubz" who dictate the rules in the congo. They will honor you with a crocodile sneer from time to time but love as a functional human might recognize it? Not a chance.

I feel obligated to share the story (once again) of the annointed PO whose wife is dying. He is a "Super-Dub" and takes Organization advice and regulations to the extreme. His four daughters all DF'ed for various reasons (none of them is a "bad" person, they just don't swallow the Dub lies) and so they are "dead" to him. Rather than letting them attend to their Mom as she dies painfully from cancer, he will not let them visit her because men (even school janitors) are the "head" of their familyand his decision is final even regarding the relationship between a Mother and her children. The local sisters attend to the Mom, clean the house, cook the food, wash the clothes, bathe the Mom, etc. etc.

Whatever "love" you feel amongst them it is false and can be withdrawn as the whims of the Org. dictate. If a couple can "dis-own" their four children for what are really nothing more than faith-based concepts guess how important YOU are? I use the badges as an example that they DO NOT consider you their "equal".

Please don't go

Dismembered

I think I will be pretty bored and feel out of place. It is a 3 day assembly this summer and the JW said they were to invite everyone (interested).

That's for sure

Any advice?

Don't go. You'd do better staying home and watching the grass grow.

Dismembered

Kero-kero

I-follow-the-narrow-path

Kero-kero

I-follow-the-narrow-path

Let me do that again with out posting a blank message.... D'OH!

I never really enjoyed the Conventions or assemblies...and that was when I was a JW and being faithful to the WTS and Jehovah.

I would suggest you do not go.

katiekitten

If you go to a convention there will be definite pressure for you to start showing more pogress. You will be pressured to attend the meetings regularly, then field service, then baptism.

Be VERY VERY VERY careful about this. Its EASY to slip in but almost IMPOSSIBLE to get out. Do some cult research first.

My advice is dont go, unless you are serious about your intentions to continue.

merfi

Which one is it? Rochester MN or Lincoln NE? Cuz I can tell you about each one... the number that's there, the hot/cold of the building, where Starbucks is in the skyways in Rochester...

In general, it's three days of hard seats made even more uncomfortable by having to wear spiffy clothes. Talks that eventually become very monotone to the point of turning into a buzz that makes your eyes close.... about that time, clapping jolts you out of a dream. :)

Personally, I never liked them, even when I was 'in' and really TRIED to like them. I felt very confined -- physically and mentally. I would go away feeling like I wasn't "doing enough". This is, I'm sure, SUPPOSED to be what you feel so that your zeal is renewed and you want to DO MORE in Jah's service. However, I always felt that much smaller and worthless, and eventually saw thru it and quit playing the game.

Being 17, you'll be scouted out by the young brothers... not a bad thing, I guess, but the thought of marrying a JW and therefore being submissive, weaker and controlled, never being allowed to speak my TRUE mind.. well... no thanks.

In short, Conventions are a three-day brainwashing event where 3-7,000 gather in a sports arena-cum-commune locale. It's summer, it's the midwest, it's hot and humid and by Sunday, everyone is pretty tired and cranky and just wants to go home already.

greendawn

It's not just a case of going to assemblies the JWs want to convert people to their religion and upon closer scrutiny it is not a religion but a cultic organisation with some very strange ideas, eg most JWs though they call themselves at times Christians do not believe that they are part of the new testament and that they have the anointing of the spirit.

I-follow-the-narrow-path

Scouted by other brothers? I don't look that good, I would love having a relationship though:)

katiekitten

Scouted by other brothers? I don't look that good, I would love having a relationship though:)

Please hunny, however much you want a relationship, you are in a very dodgy position if you are going to look for a relationship within the JW's. For starters, you can hold hands then you have to get married. You will be chaperoned nearly everywhere. You will not be allowed to get married until you are baptised (I had to postpone my wedding with my fiance who had been brought up a JW< because he was not baptised. He had to get baptised first then we were allowed to get married). DONT for GODS SAKE get into a relationship with JW. Your sex life will be monitored - you are not allowed to have anal or oral sex, you are not allowed to masturbate. How do they know? Well you feel so guilty that one of you ends up going and confessing to the elders (Jehovah sees everything). Then the body of elders have a meeting and discuss your unnatural practises - even though you are married. I think you seriously need to find out what you are getting into before you make any kind of steps toward showing interest.

Dr Jekyll

uh huh, no relationships for you. You're still a worldly person, not even an approved associate. You wont be able to date a brother until you are baptised at least. If you get to friendly with a brother an elder will have a quiet word with him and tell him to drop you.

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