..Jehovah`s Witness`s.. Lack of real Appreciation for Life

OUTLAW

Jehovah`s Witness`s have a lack of real appreciation for life..No birthdays..No Christmas..No need for education..No need for charity..Little interaction with the outside world..Shun family and friends..Allow friends and family to suffer because of ever changing rules and policies of the WBT$..Very little love for anything outside the WBT$..Jehovah`s Witness`s believe they will live forever..Does believing they will live forever make them less appreciative of the life they are wasting?...OUTLAW

Dune

It all comes down to their belief that all of this means something. Like they'll get a second chance so they can forfeit living a joyful life now. I just feel sorry for them now, a part of me hopes they never learn that they did it for nothing (unless they are leaving the religion of course).

Butters

I agree with most of what you say except that birthdays, christmas and education having anything to do with appreciation of life. I am happy without any of those things. Pink Floyd has taught me well.

becca1

My mom is 82. She was baptized in 1953. She was a very beautiful woman(still is). I have a theory that her subconcious reason for becoming a witness was because she trully believed she would not grow old and die. Today, she looks in the mirror and says yuck (even though she always gets compliments when she goes out). When asked "how are you", she says "good enough" in a sad tone (even though she has not had as much as a cold in the past 3 years). She spends the day napping off and on. She won't take antidepressants because she says she is not depressed.

She lives in a state of constant gloom that I attribute to dissillutionment with having grown old in this system (she would never admit this). She did not get what she signed up for and she has not idea how to be happy and old at the same time..I remind her constantly, that she is beautiful and healthy for a woman her age,she looks at me like I'm nuts.

I am making it my life's goal to embrace each day and each precious person in my life. To not take anything for granted. To have dreams that are attainable and then do the work to achieve them. To encourage my children to live up to their potential and to accept the opportunities life offers. I have probably lived over half of my life now, but I am determined not to let my witness upbringing sour my life.

OUTLAW

Butters.. I use Christmas and Birthdays as an example for family celebration,there isn`t really much family celebration in the JW`s..If you don`t have a decent education it`s unlikely your going to get a decent paying job.It`s very difficult to raise a family with little money.That will affect the lives of your loved ones..One more thing not appreciated by JW`S...OUTLAW

GoingGoingGone

Does believing they will live forever make them less appreciative of the life they are wasting?

I absolutely believe it does. All the time they spend at meetings and in service (where most of them don't want to be) doesn't matter, because they will have forever to do the things they want.

It's a shame to go through life, experiencing wonderful things that you don't appreciate because you aren't in Paradise yet.

One of my favorite sayings lately: "Life is not a dress rehearsal."

I plan to enjoy every minute I can.

GGG

Finally-Free

Jehovah`s Witness`s have a lack of real appreciation for life..No birthdays..No Christmas..No need for education..

They even feel "privileged" that they have given these things up in exchange for doctrines that have the shelf life of a tomato.

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Butters

I think you guys misunderstood me. I celebrate about 20 birthdays a year, and 40 Christmas celebrations per year at work. Err. maybe the other way around. But the point is that it is not what the WT set in our minds that counts. It's what we each personally think with our own FREE MINDS. I don't let a sock dictate which foot it goes on either. Love ya OUTLAW! I was actually agreeing with you in any light...

OnTheWayOut

The life they are wasting- The most hard-core believe that giving it to Jehovah in pioneer service is not a waste.

But your point is made that they think "there will be time to enjoy in everlasting life, so a life of constant sacrifice
and near poverty is worth it."

I feel for the ones who are miserable but try to convince themselves that they are happy, serving God.
You have those pioneer sisters who can't find a good brother to marry, but so want to have one.
They love children, would love to have 2 or 3, but tell themselves they can have hundreds in paradise.
They spend 30 to 35 hours a week at work, not enough for good benefits, but enough to share a small apartment with
another sister. They preach 70 hours a month, using up one small 4-door car after another in the territory.
They perpetuate their lonliness because the sacrifices they make prevent them from joining the local elders families
everytime they take the visiting speaker or CO out to a restaurant for dinner. Therefore, they just sit at home with
their can of tuna and rice, reading the latest WT and yearbook.

How sad. They tell themselves that they are happy.

solo

How sad. They tell themselves that they are happy.

or they tell themselves that they will be happy in paradise - they must be thinking that it will all be worth it.

I believe my father has wasted the best part of his life (40 years) with this religion and I resent the fact that he loves the religion more than he loves me and my brother. I imagine that we would be much closer if it had not been for this religion and that he would be the sort of devoted, loyal, committed father.

jws are living a wasteful life, they are putting things on hold because armageddon is just around the corner and there is no point living for today when they have a paradise to look forward to. What mugs, if only they knew they are wasting their lives.

I think about the young jws back in the 70s who were encouraged to pioneer and not worry about getting an education, career, pension, savings, property - what sort of situation are they in now? No provision for their retirement, no way of earning a living apart from menial jobs, no family, in rented accomodaiton and living a frugal life and still waiting for the promised armageddon, poor sods what suckers they have been and what a pointless crap life they have lived when you imagine what these people could have got out of life.

..Jehovah`s Witness`s.. Lack of real Appreciation for Life

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