Housing Wanted: $9001000 3 Young Jehovah's Witnesses

by AudeSapere 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  AudeSapere

  Perusing Craigslist looking for someone to rent out part of my house, I came across the posting cited below.

  Does anyone think that highlighting their JW affiliation in the heading actually helps their cause??

  They also included separate face photos of themselves. White Male. White Female. Black Female.

  $9001000 3 Young Jehovah's Witnesses [(Cities removed by Aude)]

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  Reply to: xxxxxxx@hotmail.com [ Errors when replying to ads? ]
  Date: 2009-02-24, 10:59AM PST

  Three young Jehovah's Witnesses looking for an apartment to rent.
  
  My name is Mxxx, and there's my wife Sxxxx and our friend Sxxxx.
  
  We all are working and make about $200-$300 per check.
  
  We're very considerate and fun to be around.
  
  My wife and I will obviously be sharing a room, so a 2 bedroom is best.
  
  You can email me or call at 805 XXX XXXX
  
  Thanks! :)
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  asilentone

  Is there a way for you to post the pics of those dubs here?
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  shopaholic

  Sounds shady, in more ways than one.
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  AudeSapere

  Silentone - Nope. That would be wrong. But if you really wanted to see, there may be a way to search Craigslist.

  Shopaholic - Shady? Not sure if I agree. Their pics make them look like hip witnesses. Just seems like an odd arrangement. And odder to post on Craigslist. And just plain WEIRD to open with your religious affiliation.

  Of course I won't be responding to them.

  Would anyone really consider contacting them based primarily on their JW status? Wouldn't worldly people think that they would keep preaching at all times?

  Oh well. To each his own, I guess.

  -Aude.
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  shopaholic

  Their pics make them look like hip witnesses. Just seems like an odd arrangement. And odder to post on Craigslist.

  I agree with you now, and yeah, that type of living arrangement is discouraged among the JWs. But why post on Craigslist? When you're budget is tight, usually you just put the word out in your local congo and you can find an overpriced property some JW wants to rent out. They must not be regular pioneers and must not have family in the JWs.

  Supposedly JWs are more honest and decent than your average person. Maybe they think some one will offer them an incredible deal based on that theory.
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  jws

  Supposedly JWs are more honest and decent than your average person. Maybe they think some one will offer them an incredible deal based on that theory.

  That's true. JWs see themselves as more honest and upstanding. And they hear stories about how people trust them because they are JWs. There's the employer who fires everybody but the JW because they're the only honest or only hard-working one. There's the bad guy who spares the witnesses upon finding out they're JWs. And on and on. They think the outside world has this high regard for them.

  If they're so wrapped into it to believe it, they'd think that advertising that fact would help them find a landlord.