Were You Ever Sent into Affluent Neighborhoods?

by cameo-d 13 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  DanTheMan

  What made you feel that way? Were you intimidated in some way? Can you define it?

  Probably a lot of factors went into it. Here I was, just a 20-something nobody who had hastily and naively converted to JWism and was never totally on board with it after the first year or so, with little education, wearing a cheap suit, and barely making enough to afford a one bedroom apartment furnished with hand-me-down furniture, peddling religious publications that I was frankly embarrassed of to people that had done all the right things in life - got college degrees, got married, had kids, had full lives. The awareness of just what an incredible loser I was crushed down on me hardest when I was out in field circus, and all the more so when working in Big Winner territory.
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  chicken little

  Pioneered in Stanmore, Harrow in UK. Very high income area, many jewish people, Roger Moore had a house there at one time. Was invited in by a jewish lady who would not let me say who I was (I did try!). When she sat down in her chair and asked what I wanted I explained I was a Jw. She stood up and showed me to the door and said Goodbye. Very embarassing (I was 19 and green).

  One educated wealthy woman was very insulting to my west indian sister friend, told us they had been teaching the bible while my friends relatives were still swinging in the trees! Harrow was a very uptight place including the congregation.
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  blondie

  Yes, the ones most likely to have the maid answer the door if you could get past the guard at the gate or past the private gate. We were always told to "dress up" when we went......time to drag out the diamonds and the furs and the armani suits. Sometimes certain jws were quietly weeded out of the group.

  Blondie

  ps I went to school with many of these people's children. I was as graciously greeted as I was by non-wealthy people. It varied. They weren't any more bigoted than others and many were quite humble about their money. I doubt that the average 19 year old jw was equipped to handle any question from a non-jw.
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  stillajwexelder

  oh absolutely