JW's discourage people with a lesser spirituality

JH

What if a person would be happy to go to just 1 JW meeting a week?

What if a person found pleasure going out in the field service only once a month?

Not everyone is super zealous like many JW's.

What happens in the JW Org. is that either you give 100% of what "they" expect or your not welcomed.

How many little modest JW's who were happy to serve Jehovah at their own speed and capacity, have been disfellowshipped or brushed away because they didn't meet the Watchtower's un reasonable expectations.

So, instead of bringing all kinds of people to God, they discourage many who don't have the spirtual need to go all out 100%

BlackSwan of Memphis

JH I think you make a really good point.

My husband has often said that it's all or nothing with them.Sadly I think what you described is one of the major causes of depression in the Organization.

Many people who just don't have the energy needed to do what the WTS asks them to do get depressed because they feel like they are failing God.

BSoM

serendipity

Hi JH, I always felt inadequate as a JW, even when I was an aux. pioneer, preparing for all meetings, attending all meetings, etc. It's never enough.

JH

A person's spiritual need can be compared to a person's physical needs.

Would you stuff down 3 big macs down the throat of a small skinny person who gets filled up with only half a big mac.

Some people need lots of food and some need much less to stay healthy.

The JW's always compared food with spirituality. They always said, would you go without eating? So you can't go without spirituality neither to be healthy.

But, just like food, spirituality comes in all kinds of formats. You take what you need, not more.

But the Watchtower is shoving down the throats way more than many JW's need, causing spiritual indigestion.

If they would stop asking for a written report at the end of each month, stop counting the attendance twice a meeting to see if someone left half way, if they wouldn't frown someone who decided half way through the meeting that they had enough and wanted to leave.....and so on....then forums like these wouldn't be as popular, and they wouldn't have as much to fear from them.

The Watchtwoer has created it's own opposition, by chasing away those who couldn't follow an unreasonable pace.

LovesDubs

JH their motto is...MISERY LOVES COMPANY "If I HAVE to f-ing do this every month SO DO YOU!!!"

I remember a talk about those who spend "all their time in bible studies and dont go out in service, leaving the door to door work for OTHERS."

I thought Oh cripes "QUIT YOUR WHINING" already!

JH

Many people who just don't have the energy needed to do what the WTS asks them to do get depressed because they feel like they are failing God.

I knew many who had to take tons of vitamins in order to follow the Watchtower pace. Serving the Watchtower drained many.

I had a circuit breaker so to speak......I knew when to slow down in order to recuperate and do other activites that were pleasing, rather than get depressed.

JH

What if a person would be happy to go to just 1 JW meeting a week?

Gee, I'm quoting myself.....

Like I said in the quote above, I found it hard and unreasonable to go to so many meetings. I would have had enough of one meeting a week.

Although I still thought it was the truth, I became inactive for many years, and kind of got revenge for all those meetings I thought were too many.

So I went to the hall for a year, and skipped 2 complete years. I did that on and off for many years. That was my way of evening it out to 1 meeting a week.....

shar212

All of the watchtowers indirect forced zealousness, has forced many witnesses into a state of making their good works known to man for men (watchtower)favor. Matthew 6:1 says "Take good care not to practice your righteousness in front of men in order to be observed by them; otherwise you will have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens."

smellsgood

"So, instead of bringing all kinds of people to God, they discourage many who don't have the spirtual need to go all out 100%"
smellsgood: I don't think it has anything to do with "spirituality" personally. Its about other things altogether. I would venture to say many who do a WATCHTOWER 100% have that religion for their god.
Its about domination, repition, totalitarianism.
One thing I think is,,they really haven't ever brought ANYONE to God...just to a sad twisted "system"
The spirit of the watchtower is a very ugly one. You can see that from the effect it has on people during their time, and if they leave, after.
They have a very odd way of talking about it, actually, I've noticed that alot. They treat it as something like a portfolio, or a resume.
They also brilliantly tie in their pressure points directly to a "greater" spirituality:
field service, study, pioneering, meetings, are you feeling the end coming? etc.
Evidenced as I have seen by labeling one "weak" spiritually if one does not have a certain quota of hours a month or whatever.
This is also a good point why the WT is not Christian. Their works driven "spirituality"

smellsgood

Sirona

One thing that JWs and ExJWs need to get their head around is that :

Spirituality is nothing to do with attending so many meetings a week, or doing so many hours in field service.

Spirituality is not measured by the amount of these things you do. There are individuals who are elders / circuit overseers / pioneers, who have no concept of true sprirituality. Unfortunately, in JW speak, someone who does all the required things is talked about as "spiritual". What a joke!

Sirona

JW's discourage people with a lesser spirituality

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