My preaching effort at the DC

by jwfacts 8 Replies latest jw experiences

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  jwfacts

  My wife decided to go to the DC for the Sunday. Anyway she needed a lift home so I had to go and pick her up at the end. I managed to park right outside one of the exits. I had to wait half an hour, so I sat on a chair waiting whilst people filed past me, and then wandered around for a while. I had a tshirt with 'pornstar' on it so it should have been easy to identify me as not a believer.

  Several of my friends walked past, too scared to come up and talk, but smiling and discreetly waving. Some glared. Several other people that I only slightly know must not have known I am d/f so called out hi as they walked past.

  One brother (who I hardly can remember) came up to me all overjoyed, asking "weren't you in Bethel?" By this time I had a jacket covering my tshirt. I spent a few minutes chewing the fat with him. Eventually I told him that I am not a JW anymore.

  Him: that's sad

  Me; Oh no, it is great. Actually I run one of those websites that the DC said you are not allowed to look at

  Him: Um

  Me: You should do the research, It's amazing what you will learn.

  Him: Um, well each to their own. Bye.
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  candidlynuts

  oooooo after sitting inside being told what not to do he was faced with you happily telling him what TO do.. poor guy is all confused i'm sure.
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  Purza

  Him: that's sad

  Me; Oh no, it is great. Actually I run one of those websites that the DC said you are not allowed to look at

  I love it. I am sure the look on his face was priceless!

  Purza
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  jwfacts

  I actually felt sad for the guy. He is a complete nerd, and I thought afterwards that without the WTS he could end up a nothing. At the hall he gets up, gives his talks, gets praised for being a Servant, probably has a few sisters thinking "what a catch, elder material."

  But then I thought, a person deserves to know both sides of the story in order to make an informed decision as to how they lead their life. It is unfair for anyone to be manipulated to leading a life based on lies. I know many JWs that find out it is not the truth, but go along for family and friends, making up their own internalised truth, and disregarding comments about the end about to come etc.
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  fullofdoubtnow

  I feel sad for all of them who are still captives of the org. I don't miss being a jw at all, but I do miss some of the friends that I left behind, except that they're not really friends now, of course. I just wish that they would pluck up the courage to do the research that I did and find out what the org they're a part of is really like, but I doubt many of them will.
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  Arthur

  It would have been funny if you walked around out side with one of those old "sandwich signs" that read:

  "Religion is a Snare and a Racket" just like the JWs used to do outside of the churches.
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  jwfacts

  
  Hi Arthur,

  I thought exactly the same. I told my wife i was going to drive around with a big speaker on my car blasting out "religion is a snare and a racket". She thought i was an idiot, so I said that is what the JWs used to do not too many years ago.
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  Justice-One

  "Religion is a Snare and a Racket" just like the JWs used to do outside of the churches.

  Now that is a great title for a flyer made by the Pooper-Poster!
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  collegegirl21

  Yeah, I guess at our DC, they CO said that people put flyers on our car (I can only imagine what they said) and the brothers were cleaning them off of our cars while we were in the convention.