I am going to have to agree with Fokyc.
I mean it is all about indoctrination, veneration and promotion of the company.
Jehovah and Jesus are just display models that lead to the bait and switch to the FDS and Organization.
WHAT IS/WAS BIGGEST TIMEWASTER IN JWS
by badboy 25 Replies latest jw friends
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BluesBrother
Field Ministry, without a doubt...The cumulative amount of time spent in around 40 years of publishing just adds up to a wasted life..Knocking on the doors of people who are largely not at home, If they are there trying to tell them something they do not want to know, and to eventually realise that it is all B .S anyway.....just has to be a colossal waste of time.
And then consider the way that we did it..You get up and go to the Group location at 9.30 am on a Saturday morning. We used to discuss the day text and presentation, spend time sorting out territory , partnering up, so maybe you left by 10.00 . Then you travel to the territory and start your work by 10.30. After an hour or so it was time to take somebody home. You were back home by lunchtime.
A whole morning spent in "Sacred Service" and just a lousy hour to show on your report ! .because you did it the proper way...
Whereas the ones who had "studies" could knock up that time as easy as winks...Doh!
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daniel-p
All those hours I spent staying up late preparing for meeting parts and various talks because I was the only MS in a congregation with 2 or 3 elders. I was glad to give of my time and energy, thinking I was pleasing my God and helping the brothers and sisters.
The thousands of hours spent pioneering, riding around in the back seat of a car, dropping magazines off on people's door steps, doing "drive-bys" on random houses because I didn't want to let on that I didn't have any RVs (one time I was actually bluffed into treating some random house as one of my RVs and going to the door but that's another story), the hours, hours, hours I spent standing on the corner holding magazines in front of myself, warming my hands with a coffee cup in the cold.
The days spent sitting in a hard chair at an assembly or convention (Cow Palace--yay)--my mind going numb from the mindless drivel--same things repeated over and over and over again. The agonizing desperation of nothing in the religion requiring intelectual capacity. Jesus, I can't go on....
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badboy
THANKS FOR EVERYONE'S REPLY
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verystupid77
When we were first married my husband was the only elder and no MS's in the hall. Plus we lived 45 mins for the hall and lived on $200.00 a month which my husband made so with in the first month of marraige I found a job. Hubby felt Jehovah would pick up what ever the $200.00 did not cover. Well you guessed it Jehovah never did so I worked and when I was not out pioneering or working I was either sitting in the car waiting on hubby or sitting in the KH waiting on hubby. We could not afford for me to drive home because of said lack of money which did I metion Jehovah never picked up the slack. So we had no dinners together no time together at all as newly weds. I am still so bitter looking back 21 years all that I gave up and for what a bunch of people who hated me in the hall. Something was wrong with that hall thus no one normal stayed and thus the CO begged and begged my husband to move to where the need was great to the help Jehovah before we were married. By the way did I mention Jehovah never helped us. I was so stupid at the time before we got married I believed Jehovah would help us after all we were putting him first. Now I know Jehovah never wanted that. How stupid was I.
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jws
After 20 some years and countless hours, I gave up being a JW and reject most of it. So it was all pretty much a waste.
But, if I had to count up time, I was only maybe a 10 hour per month publisher, which involved the actual field service time plus dressing up and dressing down when it was over.
Meetings were 5 hours/week (20+ hours/month). Plus dressing up/down 3 times/week. I think meetings were by far the biggest time wasters. The only good parts were seeing friends before/after and the occasional non-preachy slide show.