The Ways In Which a Witness Can Rebel

by metatron 29 Replies latest jw friends

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  Confession

  I remember the mindset I was in when disfellowshipped. At the time, I still believed it was The Truth, and I was confident I'd be reinstated in no time, attending virtually all meetings. But I do remember thinking...

  "Okay, sure, I'll go through this shunning thing. I'll continue to bring my daughter to meetings and sit respectfully. BUT...if I'm not good enough to talk to, then I'm not good enough to make contributions either."

  And this I would not do for ten months, until I was reinstated. But by then I knew it was baloney anyway, so I didn't resume contributing then either.
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  choosing life

  Rebel 18,

  You are really funny. Love your sense of humor.

  Sisters-Wear pants to the meetings, Go to the bathroom and stay and talk for most of the meeting. Make comments that can be taken more than one way and then act surprised and offended if someone asks you about them.

  Take a book and place it inside a large version of the Bible and read away.

  Sit in the back rows they save for families with little ones.

  Tell everyone you are hard of hearing and then listen to music on the apparatus that amplifies for you.
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  Stephanus

  9) Wear a turban to meetings, or any other not-forbidden-but-still-unconventional attire.

  A paisley suit?
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  Dragonlady76

  the more they try to crackdown on young people, the more open rebellion they'll get.

  That's exactly what I did.

  We live in an information age, the society cannot continue to hide their "dirty laundry" any longer, so the more they bring the hammer down, the more people will become suspicious and rebel.
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  Stephanus

  I like the "go into business" suggestion. Not only will it take up your time, it may offer more ways to rebel.

  If you design fashion or jewellery, make sure you regularly wear the gaudiest and loudest examples of your craft.

  If you customise cars, make sure the vehicle you pick everyone up in for field service is the most pimped up, tricked out ride they'll ever live to see in this lifetime.

  If you open a restaurant, use Watchtower terminology liberally as part of your promotions, eg. "The Great Crowd Pleaser" or "The Other Sheep Lamb Kebab".

  If you're a farmer, regularly pepper your conversations with words like "stud", "bitch" and "insemination".
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  saywhat29

  Leave it to sw29 to bring in the nasty, but take your rebellion by the hand!

  And you know exactly what I mean too . And just when you are at your peak shout out that this is your (insert name of member... maybe you call it Stan or Shelley) and that no Watchtower or Awake can tell you what to do with it!

  I swear i felt my most rebellious giving comments and moving about the kingdum hall without any guilt of my self-love. Sometimes i'd do it just before a meeting just to shake off the edge. I mean I def. wasn't feeling the love of the congregation so...

  again, I took matters in my own hands. And so should you.
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  erandir

  again, I took matters in my own hands. And so should you.
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  nvrgnbk

  Sometimes i'd do it just before a meeting just to shake off the edge

  That's nothing. I once did it at the meeting. LOL!
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  mrsjones5

  *shave head

  *grow a beard

  *buy a harley, ride in the kingdom hall parking lot on sunday morning, don't forget to wear your riding leathers

  *tatoo your knuckles
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  erandir

  Ok, that's the second time a motorcycle is mentioned. I have to provide this anecdote.

  We recently went to a friends house and attended their Sunday meeting with them (first one for me in a long time). Their son is big into motorcycles and drove his to the hall in his suit and tie. He looked comical dressed up like that with the helmet. But, he's a MS and no one said a thing about it...that's the relatively liberal congregation I had mentioned before in a previous post. If only they were all that way.