Thinking of visiting a Kingdom Hall after 20 years in disguise

by not bitter 23 Replies latest jw friends

  • Island Man
    Island Man

    This would take a little research on your part, but here is something you can try:

    Find out all you can about another religion that has similar shunning policies, light getting brighter propaganda, and/or authoritarian, 'believe in us to be saved' leadership as the JWs.

    When you go to the Hall, you can pretend that you are former member(s) of that other JW-like religion and you're going around to various churches searching for the truth. When you get into a conversation with JWs at the hall, tell them why you left your former religion using sound logic. Tell them about how controlling that former JW-like religion was, being sure, of course, to describe harmful aspects of the former religion that very closely mirrors JW practice and policy (all the while pretending you are completely oblivious to the JW worldview)!

    Give them your sound reasoning as to how you discovered those practices to be unbiblical and cruel; how you realized that your former religion was discouraging you from listening to what former members had to say because they didn't want you to see through their lies and hypocrisies. Without ever being directly critical of JWs, and without coming off as being satirical or sarcastic, logically and honest-heartedly expose the errors of your former religion in such a way as to make it impossible for the JWs not to see their own organization's behavior and policies being mirrored in your former false religion. What would be super-golden, is if the Watchtower study material is of such a nature that it affords you an opportunity to share, in a brief comment, one example of the JW-mirroring, hypocrisy of your former religion and how you were able to logically refute it with scripture. That would be a TTATT WMD! (Or should that be TTATT WMA - TTATT Weapon of Mass Awakening) That ought to really get them thinking.

  • rubadubdub
    rubadubdub

    Don't go this Sunday. Saturday, October 5 is the Annual Meeting. They are doing the WT then. You can't get in without a ticket either. Trust me it's not even the same religion anymore-- so much "new light". Still mind numbingly boring though.

  • Faithful Witness
    Faithful Witness

    Personally, I wouldn't worry about anyone approaching you. Arrive late and leave at the end. My husband and I visited TWO separate Kingdom Halls during September. Instead of the intrusive "welcome" we expected, we were eyed with what seemed more like suspicion. We were dressed well, and we even had our books. The atmosphere is eerie and somber now... At least in the two Michigan halls we visited.

  • warehouse
    warehouse
    Without ever being directly critical of JWs, and without coming off as being satirical or sarcastic, logically and honest-heartedly expose the errors of your former religion in such a way as to make it impossible for the JWs not to see their own organization's behavior and policies being mirrored in your former false religion. What would be super-golden, is if the Watchtower study material is of such a nature that it affords you an opportunity to share, in a brief comment, one example of the JW-mirroring, hypocrisy of your former religion and how you were able to logically refute it with scripture. That would be a TTATT WMD! That ought to really get them thinking.

    lol, such an epic idea. You should find some way of recording everything for us

    mfw i hear the comment

  • Hortensia
    Hortensia

    I think I'd rather stab myself in the eyes than go to a meeting.

  • snare&racket
    snare&racket

    Tell them you are a visiting bro, get a friend to come with a camcorder....then after the meeting ask to talk to the elders in the back, tell them you are on the 'undercover boss' tv program and that you are a new member of the gov body Checking out your biatches...... This is when to put the giant banana suit on....

    Tell them their service was sh1t and that they are all fired..... Slap any gobby ones in the face to set an example. Then hand out free bananas to the 'good ones'..

    if they look confused, tell them this is a new 'top down' managment stratergy i.e. it is all new light..

    Tell them that they now know the name jehovah is a mashup of ywhw and the vowels from adonai (lord) and so now we are all to be known as ....

    'Bananas Witnesses' then high 5 them all and leave....

  • slimboyfat
    slimboyfat

    Twenty years is a long time to wear a disguise for sure.

  • not bitter
    not bitter

    Ha ha! I meant I would go to the hall in disguise. Bad grammar on my part

  • LongHairGal
    LongHairGal

    not bitter:

    What I am sure you meant and what others are poking fun at is: that you are thinking of visiting a Kingdom Hall in disguise after 20 years of being out.

    If you do, be prepared for a shock because things are not the same. After a while, that old nauseated feeling of anxiety will come over you with some other bad emotions you forgot and then you will head for the door...never to return.

  • not bitter
    not bitter

    Why are things not the same? I know some of their teachings have changed but surely the people and the structure of the meetings are the same.

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