Dour faces

by AK - Jeff 7 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  AK - Jeff

  I took today off work due to a family reunion. At around 0845 I found myself in the local MickeyDee's for a coffee. While sitting there almost ready to go, in walks a tall, very unhappy looking man, followed by his son [I assume] of about 12. The man was dressed like Jw's sans the jacket - the boy in a full suit.

  What struck me was the absolute look of unhappiness on both faces. Neither spoke to anyone - in fact they looked like they were afraid of being contaminated if they spoke or even looked at anyone. They went to the counter and shortly reappeared with a couple of drinks. Still they looked absolutely sad - I mean they looked like they were headed to a funeral.

  They headed out to their car - which was a mini van. I knew instinctively they must be Jw's. I was ready to leave. I decided to mosey on down toward the KH which was on my home anyway. I drove by and there they were headed inside - still the dour look on their faces that I had seen at the MD's.

  I never realized how sad these people really are. How very sad. They are trapped and don't even know how trapped and sad they are. I imagine this was the 'visiting speaker' - I cannot imagine how anything this very sad looking man could have imparted that was positive to his audience.

  Jeff
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  stillin

  sad, too, is the fact that the boy is being groomed , and is probably already considered, "exemplary" in the congregation. How I despise that word!
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  Will Power

  Yes stillin, but the boy is also probably in the 75-80% that end up leaving, so better days ahead!

  wp
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  hybridous

  Are you sure they don't know how trapped they are? Maybe what you see on their faces is the result of a slow, relentless realization.

  I sure as hell felt trapped at 10 and 11 years old. I knew I was in prison. Question was: did I want to sign on for life?
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  OnTheWayOut

  They were getting all their sad-face look out of the way so they could be all fake smiles once they get into the parking lot and into the Hall.

  Hey, the boy probably got out of field circus to take a ride and sit through Dad's talk. It was a fair trade once he got a Mickey Dee stop and most likely a meal after the talk.
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  chickpea

  relentless is an apt description
  of membership in the JW cult

  i seldom see an "off-duty" JW
  smiling in public, but notice that
  for my own part, free of the
  gloom and doom hamster wheel
  of b0rg requirements and demands,
  i often have a genuine smile...
  in public i have had the great
  pleasure of watching the faces
  of passing people break into a
  smile simply because they saw
  someone exhibiting genuine joy

  twice in recent memory i have
  had brushes with JWs in public
  venues, me pactically grinning
  and them doing that sort of
  "double take" when they realize
  they know me.... to those faces
  the smile seems not to spread

  i will conjecture they are
  unsettled to see i actually
  am thriving outside the b0rg,
  or they are simply unhappy
  with their own circumstances....

  i return to them the pity they
  reserve for what they deem
  the walking dead....
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  WTWizard

  I have seen plenty of lack of zeal among the witlesses. When I made it to field circus at 9:00 AM, I would be there about 10 minutes early (and hope no one would show up). Typically, I would find a van full of people waiting to get into the house, which was open--and they would stay in the van until 9:00 or a couple of minutes later. Usually, that would be the group until about ten minutes later, when people straggled in. And there was one pio-sneer couple that would come in usually 15-20 minutes late, with a great big cup of coffee, and "I don't really want to be out this morning" attitude. They would take a good 15 more minutes to organize the groups (when I conducted, I was almost never successful at getting the group out by 9:15, as the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger wanted).

  And it wasn't just morning sluggishness. I have seen them get into the car, drive to a territory, work 5 or 10 doors, and then get "cold" and warm up. How they hated to get back out into the territory when they "warmed" back up--and I would often let the heat out of the car so it would take longer. This went on throughout the whole day--if this really was a joyful mission, I would expect people to be excited to get out and work as long as possible without having the hounder-hounder or a Kingdumb Misery insert hounding people to do so.
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  BurnTheShips

  Dour faces

  You will see plenty of those on the last day of a District Convention.

  BTS