Can You See How Idiotic The JW Religion Now Is?

by minimus 24 Replies latest jw friends

  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    Other things that can get you in trouble:

    Having children that are not baptized "in time". They are pushing them at age 6. If they are baptized and use their school vacation time to do anything but pious-sneer, it is trouble for the parents. If children are in school and not baptized (perhaps they are too young), you are supposed to drag them in field circus during their whole school vacation in lieu of fun.

    Your children going to college. You are supposed to do all you can to cut them off. Pull out their financing, hound them to do field circus all the time so they can flunk out, whatever it takes to get them out of college. If the hounders don't think you are doing all you can to remove them from college, no "privileges(??)".

    Dating--and it doesn't have to be an unbeliever. Suppose Brother Hounder thinks Jehovah would be better off if you forget marriage and went to Nigeria instead. They will come up with some flimsy excuse (the mate is too new in the cancer, not doing enough, and so on). Someone else will get the partner out from under your feet, and you will be told simply that they are disobeying Jehovah. And even if it is approved, you need an accounting each time you are together, and it has to be chaperoned.

    Getting nice things. All it takes is for one hounder, or one pious-sneer, to complain about those new LED light bulbs you just installed, or that shiny new coat rack you got to replace the shabby wooden one that just broke, and you are going to start losing "privileges(??)" for "materialism". Many have lost "privileges(??)" just for getting the wrong car--too nice, someone calls it materialism. Never mind that your spending money on nice material things now will save you problems later--it's about the hounders.

    And, in addition to all this, all it takes is for one hounder to invent his own rules. You could, for instance, be required to wear a certain color of suit or have the hounders go through your whole premises. You refuse, since no one else is being asked to do this. Next thing, they bring you in for a judicial committee, not just loss of "privileges(??)". You were told to submit to a rule, you didn't. That is "brazen conduct", and any hounder can arbitrarily and at will abuse this. Even that ounce of silver you stashed away since 1977 isn't safe--nor is that collection of silver dimes you hoarded back in 1964. They don't want you having it, they will expect you to get rid of it and donate the proceeds to the Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund in the name of "Trust in Jehovah". Refuse, and they will get you for "brazen conduct".

  • Scott77
    Scott77

    It could be that your 80 yrs old mom either declined to sign off her will to Watchtower's name or did not have real estate worth of Society's attention.

    Scott77

  • minimus
    minimus

    Blue, my mom will not out rightly address it but she knows.

  • Woody22
  • shepherd
    shepherd

    My son would not let me attend his wedding reception, and for the wedding I was to sit at the back, not with the family, and leave just before the ceremony did (so I decided not to go). However, he and his new bride had no problem meeting me the next day to receive their wedding gifts.

    They sat and drank with me - but they would not eat anything because they took the scripture literally that says eating with an unbeliever is wrong (I had disassociated myself). Apparently drinking with me was acceptable, though. I think that is idiotic.

    Anyway, in the end they lost out, because apart from some gifts I also had an envelope of cash to give them, but their attitude pursuaded me to keep it in my pocket.

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