Did you use your holiday/vacation to have a holiday from the JW's?

highdose

Looking back, one of the reasons i used to love getting away was because it allowed me to have a gulit free holiday from the meetings. I loved arriving somewhere, where no one knew me, my own cong didn't know where i was, if i was attending the meetings or not. i could just go out on a meeting night, do what i wanted have a meal out with a bottle of wine and no one would ever know!

You would think this sheer sense of relief would have rung alarm bells in my head, but to my enteral shame it didn't:(

There was only one time when i found the local cong where i was on holiday. I was immeadly given the meeting times, expected to be there. Then i was given the FS times and expected to be there. The whole JW routine completly took over my time away. If i missed a meeting i would get a call the next day!

I stayed away from the JW's after that while on hols

teel

That's what holiday means, getting away, breaking the routine.

I was a couple of times on a holiday with other JW families, where we did some private meetings. Those were not so bad. But to actually go to the KH or even FS? No way, that's just crazy...

Broken Promises

I remember the “brothers” saying that just because we go on holidays, it doesn’t mean we’re on holiday from “the truth”….

When I was a kid we regularly went to a beach town where there was a local book study, and went to the meetings in the nearby city. On one or two occasions I remember us going out in field service!!

The best holiday I had as a JW was at a resort at the Great Barrier Reef. No JWs, no meetings, no witnessing. On the Sunday I figured the best alternative to going to a meeting was to go on a yacht cruise. In fact, it was more spiritual than sitting in a stuffy hall for 2 hours. And a much better way to spend the day!

finallysomepride

darn right I did, even missed memorials

WTWizard

I have heard that line of crap all the time. You go away on vacation, you find the local Kingdumb Hell. You are then expected to go to all the boasting sessions and out in field circus the whole time, which defeats the whole reason for getting away in the first place. If you have children, and they are always out in field circus, it is going to be the same old routine--they never get to go to Palace Playland while they are out in Old Orchard Beach, because they are always out in field circus and not enjoying anything.

Simon Morley

Totally. As if I am going to give up the chance to see some great places so that I can hear the same stuff, at the same time and recieve the same treatment in FS as I do at home? I knew of one family who always did the quick drive by to the local KH on Saturday so that they could bump into a few JW's and say "Hi". Then at the next meeting after their vacation bring back BS "Love and Greetings from the WhoGivesARatsArse Cong in GuessWhereWeWere"