Out of all the religions in the world our family chose the Jehovah's Witnesses!

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Around 1970,two Jehovah's Witnesses knocked on my uncle's door and handed him a Watchtower magazine. He read it and started a Bible study with the two Witness brothers joined by his immediate family. My uncle soon called my aunts,uncles,and my mom and dad. Soon we all started a Bible study and within a 5 year period we were all ( 12 family members) baptized. ( This was our first organized religion our whole family ever joined )

I always thought to myself.....''Out of all the religions in the world, we found the ''truth'' without ever having to research any other religion.''

Now,I want to know why out of all the religions in the world we chose the Jehovah's Witnesses. I wish to ''thank'' my uncle who joined this stupid religion and for never doing any research on the Jehovah's Witness religion. ( A religion that is easy to join but hard to leave on your own terms)

MrFreeze

Quite sucky odds... if you ask me.

sabastious

I always thought to myself.....''Out of all the religions in the world, we found the ''truth'' without ever having to research any other religion.''

You can't think this too often or you start to realize what it actually means.

-Sab

miseryloveselders

Every now and then this thought creeps in my head too. Like out of all the religions I could have been born into, it had to be Jehovah's Witnesses. Why couldn't I have been born into something else? Thats life though, there's a million other scenarios that would have been worse. I could have been a harlequin baby(google that if you don't know what it is!!!), or my mother could have been a crackhead, or I could have Lupus, or Sickle Cell Anemia, ADHD with a Digital Cable package, there's a million things I could have experienced. It sucks to be born into a family of devout JWs, but I've had plenty of good experiences in my life. Plenty of good memories. It hasn't been perfect, but nothing is.

unshackled

I've had that thought in my head for a couple years now. Being a born-in JW has crazy odds, the exact OPPOSITE of winning the ultimate lottery.

I figure it was about a 0.001% chance (JW population divided by total earth population). That there is some bad luck.

miseryloveselders: OR you could've been born a Hilton, or one of Bill Gates kids. But yeah, I get your point.

moshe

Sometimes it just doesn't pay to be friendly to smiling strangers-

mrsjones5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GXSHRJYxTQ

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Thank you everyone for your comments! MrsJones......here are the lyrics to the song which i've heard a hundred times but really hits me in the face reading them! "Smiling Faces Sometimes"

Smiling faces sometimes pretend to be your friend
Smiling faces show no traces of the evil that lurks within
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth uh
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
The truth is in the eyes
Cause the eyes don't lie, amen

Remember a smile is just
A frown turned upside down
My friend let me tell you
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth, uh
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof

Beware, beware of the handshake
That hides the snake
I'm telling you beware
Beware of the pat on the back
It just might hold you back
Jealousy (jealousy)
Misery (misery)
Envy I tell you, you can't see behind smiling faces
Smiling faces sometimes they don't tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
(Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes)
(Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes)

I'm telling you beware, beware of the handshake
That hides the snake
Listen to me now, beware
Beware of that pat on the back
It just might hold you back
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
Your enemy won't do you no harm
Cause you'll know where he's coming from
Don't let the handshake and the smile fool ya
Take my advice I'm only try' to school ya

jam

Why the wife and I chose Jehovah's Witnessess.

The 60,s and 70,s were turbulent times, the Viet Nam war,

Dr. King, hippies, LSD and other drugs, the black movement,

segregation, the start of gangs ,Malcom X, the possibility of

A nuclear war. One day A JW ask me what is the most segregated

institution in this country, the churchs ( wasn,t aware of their past).

He invited me to the meeting and I was impress in what I saw.

I thought it was the best life for my kids.