by Honesty 6 Replies latest jw friends
Are JW's as reasonable as the Watchtower Society makes them out to be in its literature?
The reason I ask is because one of my clients was shocked when he found out I had once been a JW.
His response was, "I used to work with several JW's and they were the most unreasonable people I have ever known."
As a JW I would have been quick to defend the resonabilty... perhaps even the objectivity of the typical witness.
But what do you expect?
That sort of self-righteous crap was offered up in wretched excess.
I distinctly remember at assemblies that the speaker would mention the many superior attributes of witnesses to the crowd of simpletons, sitting there, starving for any sort of ego stroking after hours of suffering through the convention.
The techniques used were actually pretty ingenious, if not insidious..... (not original though).
Lots of motivational speakers have used this technique....
Tony Robbins
Van Andel (amway)
Dale Carnegie
Zig Ziglar
Hitler
What else was so "up-lifting" about the assemblies? Hearing that the facility management loved JW's because we were so neat and orderly?
Did this guy work with JWs in an office environment? If he did; then the holidays would have been an issue. There were probably many small tasks involving the holidays that this guy felt they should have helped out with. For example: signing Christmas cards, helping put up holiday decorations, attending office Christmas parties, donating money to a Christmas toy drive; etc, etc.
Many people can't understand why JWs refuse to "help out" with seemingly minor and insignificant holiday related tasks. They don't understand why this is a "compromise" in the JWs faith. They think that JWs are being irrational, and unreasonable. I'll bet this is why he felt the way he did.
Many would consider not celebrating birthdays in the workplace to be unreasonable (yes it was embarrassing).
What else was so "up-lifting" about the assemblies? Hearing that the facility management loved JW's because we were so neat and orderly?
Ha yes I remember that old chestnut. I must've been such a saddo because I can remember that making me feel good.
Of course jws are unreasonable. They don't think they're right, they know they're right. This arrogance of belief is what pisses people off and their unwillingness to compromise to accomodate other's beliefs.
Did this guy work with JWs in an office environment? If he did; then the holidays would have been an issue. There were probably many small tasks involving the holidays that this guy felt they should have helped out with. For example: signing Christmas cards, helping put up holiday decorations, attending office Christmas parties, donating money to a Christmas toy drive; etc, etc.
Many people can't understand why JWs refuse to "help out" with seemingly minor and insignificant holiday related tasks. They don't understand why this is a "compromise" in the JWs faith. They think that JWs are being irrational, and unreasonable. I'll bet this is why he felt the way he did. Arthur
No. They worked in an aluminum smelting plant. He said the JW gave him a lot of problems because he is a Christian and the JW ridiculed his faith in Jesus every chance he got. I knew there was something different about this man and his wife when they bceame clients over 10 years ago. Nice, friendly, never have heard them say anything negative until he learned that I was once a JW and he never would have guessed. The only negative thing I have ever heard him say about anyone was when he said the JW gave him a lot of problems about his faith and the JW was unreasonable. I didn't ask him to explain what he meant by unreasonable just figure because the man worships Jesus the JW went ballistic. I had a good JW friend who used to get really mad when she met anyone in Field Service who worships Jesus.
