Speaking of PLN...

by detective 6 Replies latest jw friends

  • detective
    detective

    An experience from pure language network:

    JWs are different!!

    One interesting point made by the District Overseer's talk is that we do not pick our friends, Jehovah does.

    You all in this group are such nice picks from Jehovah!

    One interesting experience was of a young sister at school who was at a lunch table with ones talking about dating.

    The others were saying "I don't kiss till
    the second date...".

    So she told them her views on dating.

    Another girl she did not know, who was
    sitting with them said "oh your views are just like mine".

    The first girl then asked "of what religion are you?"

    The girl she did not know said she was one of Jehovah's Witnesses.

    "I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses too".

    They both got up and hugged like long lost friends.

    A girl sitting at the table was really
    impressed.

    She got up and went down the hall choose a person at random and asked what religion they were.

    The girl said Catholic, "Me too!" she said and with outstretched arms went to hug her.

    This other girl said "whoa, back off what do you think you are doing?"

    The girl walked off wondering why Catholics were different than Jehovah's Witnesses.

    The reason?

    Jehovah picks our friends.

  • peaceloveharmony
    peaceloveharmony

    ohmygod, sorry but that is just so stupid.

    so jehovah picks molestors and rapists and wife beaters as our friends??? interesting

    i'd rather pick my own friends thank you very much. i seem to have much better luck at picking good friends.

  • peaceloveharmony
    peaceloveharmony

    just to add a bit more. one thing that always bugged me about jws the thought some witnesses have that just because you are a jehovah's witness you are automatically a better person than a worldly person. it never made sense to me, not when i was 7 or 17.

  • detective
    detective

    Grrr, I really shouldn't be exposing myself to such wickedness but I am!

    I would have loved to explain that "Jehovah picks our friends" line to my pal. Seems Jehovah picked some worldly types for him, so he hadn't any reason to be ashamed of his worldly buds after all! Oh well.

    But, since my skin is crawling anyway...

    another PLN nugget from a thread entitled replies to mormonism and islam:

    "Karen brought up a scripture that makes it clear there is no need for any holy book beyond the Bible. 2 Tim 3:16. Any others? Since both Mormonism and Islam claim a book or prophet was necessary beyond the Bible, I am putting both in the same thread."

    Can they NOT see the problem with dismissing additional books (or a prophet)? Are they really that lacking in insight that they can tell a mormon that the bible is all they need as they attempt to hand them a magazine? Ugh!

  • 2SYN
    2SYN

    Hehe, the Bible, the only book that recommends itself as the only book! LOL

    "Until they become conscious, they will never rebel. Until they rebel, they will never become conscious." - George Orwell

  • ThiChi
    ThiChi

    “Institutional friendships” have that effect. However, stray from the dogma, and you are treated the like dirt in a blink of an eye....

  • William Penwell
    William Penwell

    My son picked up on this fact pretty fast. He would say the Jdub teens his age were worse than the average "worldly" teens. I was raised in the troof myself and that was always my experiance. So if these are the freinds that Jehoba picks for us, I would rather take the chance and select my own freinds.

    Will

    "I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's."
    Mark Twain

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