Aren't Jehovah's Witnesses just living in a ''Comfort Zone''? (page 2)

tinker

I just read a newspaper artical about a local church inviting Chernobyl Russian children to come here for medical treatment and respite from the radiation contaminated homes. They pay of travel, give the children clothing, healthy food and donate vision, dental and medical exams. These children live without running water, washing machines, or even toilets and hot showers. The visits open the childrens eyes to a different way of life, to freedoms that Americans take for granted. The hosts who take in the youths accept them into their families and look on them as a 'gift'

This is what I call 'stepping out of your comfort zone'

Going door to door, telling people to study the Bible, go to meetings and figure out how you are going to change your bad ways without any education or help from us, how hard is that?

greendawn

They are to a certain extend by having unrealistic expectations such as gaining immortality soon by obeying their leaders. Any belief in the false promises of the FDS is a comfort zone.

steve2

Why single out the witnesses by questioning whether they are just living in a"comfort zone"? I'd say people who belong to any organized religion can end up making a speciality out of living in a comfort zone.

Then there are another group of people who think that their pain and misery proves they must have the truth - and they find a kind of weird "comfort" in their pain and misery.

Jehovah's witnesses have not cornered the market on either living in a comfort zone or living in pain and misery.

Quandry

For over thirty years, I did not worry about retirement, or an education, as it was not needed. So of course as a Witness my husband and I had (and still have) low paying jobs-but why worry-soooooooooon this system will be over. Just go to the hall, go in service, study, over and over again. Don't think, just do.

All of a sudden, low and behold, I "woke up" and realized that my husband and I are in our fifties, the new system is not here yet, and we have no money to retire on. Not just that, I have no idea how to invest if I did have money.

Add to that, after many, many years of faithful service, hall cleaning, giving talks, etc., if you find yourself sick with no money coming in, they may not even ask how you are but will think you are spiritually weak because you are not as regular at the meetings anymore.

This happened to my husband He became ill, had to have lots of medical tests, couldn't carry out all his elder duties as regularly. After a few months of this, they removed him as WT study conductor, saying he "didn't handle his illness correctly."

This hit my husband, one of the kind of elders who cared about others, like a blow. How do you "handle an illness?" Just be sick on the nights when there are no meetings?

This woke us up out of our "comfort zone" rather quickly.

slmdf

I believe we all create our own reality. JWs' reality is that if they "endure to the end" they will reap a huge reward - that is their focus and it doesn't matter what anyone says or does... they are determined not to give out. The "paradise" they long for is the future reality they they've created for themselves. Odd thing is... they'll get it; maybe not exactly in the way they think.

So, are JW's in a comfort zone? My ex used to say when I asked her if she really believed everything the Watchtower teaches, "Where else would we go?" reminicent of Simon Peter asking Jesus, "Lord, whom shall we go away to?" In that sense, JW's are in their comfort zone. They have found a menu of beliefs that they can live with and accept. Unfortunately, what they don't know is the peace and joy that comes from thinking on your own; making your own decisions; creating your OWN reality, instead of living the reality created by the Governing Body.

I think we ALL are searching for a zone which we find comfortable. But, most (including JW's) are sincere in trying to live their comfort to the best of their ability, and to contribute the best they can to society in general. However, JW's choose to not know what they don't know... and they choose not to know the comfort outside the Watchtower. There is so much more to life.

KW13

I'd rather be on the outside looking in, than on the inside looking out - not just preference but being a witness is harder than you realise till you leave.

emptywords

There are some very honest good people that are faithful to Jehovah and that is basically it, many do all these things like, meetings, witnessing, studies and so on because they really love Jehovah and believe it is the truth, some are institutionalised and others are just living a double life whatever.

The big test will seperate those that are in it for themselves or the WTBTS or those that truly love Jehovah and will be faithful regardless, just because the org or the GB appear to be currupt, it doesn't make all Jehovahs people that way, nor does it make the entire org that way. If people really know their bible they will see that very difference as even Jesus said about the wicked slave and faithful slave residing together until the master comes and throws the wicked slave out, many in the org because of the erroneous teachings of the WTS think that has already happened, but those that have studied the bible know that is yet to happen, those faithful to Jehovah are waiting.

Weather that is living in a comfort zone for some yest for some no and for others they dont really care.

SirNose586

"Comfort zone"--what an appropriate description. Today one of the comments at the bookstudy was, essentially, "Well, Da Troof is so simple and comforting, it must be true. The world has complicated theories of why things are and how to live, and we know that's from Satan, so that's why Da Troof is better."

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ESTEE

Outnfree wrote:

I felt anything but comforted at the Kingdom Hall. As the years went by I felt more and more guilty for not doing "enough," for not having children who wanted to pioneer or go to Bethel, for not being a perfect wife while trying to be an obediant Christian. I would come home from Conventions and assemblies depressed

Me too---anything but comforted. I wanted to grow --- and I found that the jws just wanted me to stay in their box. Guess I wanted more than "living in a box." As long as someone is content to stay under the jw "thumb" they might be comfortable. But I wanted more for my life. It's like my soul needed more. As I began to stretch and grow I became more and more un-comfortable as a jw until the discomfort got so bad I had no choice but to get me outta there!I am grateful for the dis-comfort, because it got me out of dub-land.

SirNose wrote:

"Well, Da Troof is so simple and comforting, it must be true. The world has complicated theories of why things are and how to live, and we know that's from Satan, so that's why Da Troof is better."

The world has complicated theories??? I'd say the jws have the most complicated theories of anyone.

Ever try to explain to someone about the 144,000?

Ever try to explain to someone about 607 BCE?

for starters!

ESTEE

SirNose586

The world has complicated theories??? I'd say the jws have the most complicated theories of anyone.
Ever try to explain to someone about the 144,000?
Ever try to explain to someone about 607 BCE?
for starters!
ESTEE

Well said, Estee! They have a hard time explaining or understanding their own pretzel-shaped doctrines. But remember, it's all so simple at the end of the day: "Believe the Slave and you'll be okay, even if you don't get it."

Aren't Jehovah's Witnesses just living in a ''Comfort Zone''?

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