My dad would MAKE me go to hall builds. I would work hard and only get a lunch for it, the whole time I would be thinking about how I'm not getting paid. Except I got to meet a bunch of nice (fake) people.
The Worse Mandatory JW Activity You Hated The Most
by Yizuman 28 Replies latest jw friends
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boyzone
Hated having to do the kid's bible study. They hated it, I hated, we all hated it, yet I was guilted into doing it cos if you don't they might not learn the "truth", die at armagedon and it'll be all your fault.
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Tired of the Hypocrisy
It was unbearable not going down on my gorgeous wife. Ignoring her big booty was tough too...
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Quirky1
Feild Circus & Home Bible Study
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Kudra
Family Bible Study.
Every time we did it, it ended in someone in tears or yelling and fighting.
Why!?!
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Homerovah the Almighty
Buying and selling their literature, commercialism and Christianity should never be entwined with one another,
particularly when the words written in the literature were convoluted bullshit.
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suchafool
Field service for sure. Hated going to some strangers house and talking. And taking my kid with me and having her be some perfect kid at the door. She is very active and to get her to not touch the pets, flowers whatever was there to distract her was a horrible thing. This one time she put her bible on her head and walking with it there and it fell, the sis that was with us, was so shocked, she said "I just hate that, it is so disrepectful", meaning my kid was offending God by doing that. How stupid.
And then I hated the watchtower study, so long and boring. It was like sitting in school and you couldn't wait until it was over.
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Magwitch
Socializing for 41 years with people that I could never relate to nor had anything in common with - most of them sadly born without a personality with no hope of ever being able to figure out how to develop one.
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pmljohn
So I just signed up to this site - I just have to say this before answering the question. Whenever I read postings, be it on gossip sites, political discussions, or religion, I do not understand those people who use ridiculous terminology to describe what they dislike so much. "Field Circus," "Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund," "Littertrash," etc. I see the same thing when discussing politics, people using disparaging terms for Obama, Republicans, Liberals, Right Wing, you name it. The first thing that comes to my mind is the maturity of the people who cannot get over their dislike enough to use real words. It really discounts the seriousness of your complaints. It undermines the poster, because people read that crap and start to question whether or not it was the religion or the person. Did the religion fail the person, or did the person just have a really poor attitude, a lack of maturity, an unwillingness to try? Now alot of us know the real answers, because we were once part of all of this. But for those still in, reading this, or those just looking from the outside, it does not help the cause of real truth much, to read these immature postings.
With that said, I was raised JW, elder father, MS myself at one point. I led a double life pretty much the entire time. I hated the way I felt, and it impacted me well thru my 20's and 30's. The activities I hated most was going to unassigned territories. We lived in NY, and every summer we would load up the trailer and head off to Kentucky, W.Virginia, Wyoming, etc, to go from shack to shack, preaching to the poorest, saddest people in the world. We would drive up streams for roads, 4 wheeling it to get to some trash infested, multi angry dog barking, hovel full of kids with dirty clothes and faces. And then, we would preach. I was offered snakes to handle, had guns pointed at me, got big by dogs and insects, all to preach to these poor people. They did not really care about what the future opportunities were, since they had nothing in the present. And here we were, in our 4 wheel drive Suburban, with our clean, well tailored clothes, carrying leather briefcases and shiny, clean books. This was one activity, of many, that bothered me the most, and I hated the most.
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iknowall558
I suppose it is kind of mandatory, - Hall Cleaning ! Always had the toilets to clean...ladies and gents. Every time. Disgusting !