Socializing

by I-follow-the-narrow-path 14 Replies latest jw friends

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  Nosferatu

  When I was going to the KH, I was marked as "bad association" and everyone pretty much ignored me. I'd stand at the back of the KH and nobody would talk to me. The occasional elder would come up and have a rehearsed convo with me:

  Hi Nos!
  Hello.
  How are you?
  Good
  That's good! (walks away)

  Yeah, that makes me feel special and loved.

  I also had problems fitting in with others. I used to get trashed on for my taste in music, and was never invited to any get-togethers. I tried like hell to make friends, but I just kept getting pushed away.

  Then they wonder why I left.

  In 2000 (four years after I left), I attended a JW funeral. I was told by the elder who studied with me, "All your friends are here. If you're not here, you have no friends". What a load of bullshit.
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  Dismembered

  Greetings I-follow-the-narrow-path ,

  kid-A makes a valid point. Look for NORMAL people in your life to associate with. Dubs are anything but normal. This forced mixing & mingling they attempt to heap on EVERYONE there, is more of the phony-balony used to make dubs look so touchy-feely. It stems from the idiotic dub idea that we can all be the same by virtue of "gathering ourselves together......in sweet fellowship....blah blah blah.

  Do yourself a BIG favor and stay away from fools, who try to get you to do things you aren't comfortable with. Hopefully you're not baptized, if not, that'll be next thing they try to force down your throat.

  Dismembered
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  parakeet

  "I feel really lonely not knowing anyone and socializing like everyone else, but I take longer to get to know people any advice?"
  Yes, get to know a highly qualified psychiatrist now.
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  Honesty

  Please pay attention to what Lady Lee said.

  Why do you keep ignoring that small little voice inside your head that keeps telling you to run from the JW's?

  I ignored that voice, too and very nearly lost my soul on account of not paying attention to what it was telling me.

  Your eternal future rests on you paying attention to and responding to that small little voice.
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  greendawn

  That is a problem in many KHs there are no people of the right age, but this means you are lucky because they will not entangle you in their net as easily.
  
  As others told you this is a risky place to be in at your age, and you are more safe keeping your distance from them. Appearences can be deceptive.