Spoiled, entitled kids of wealthy JW parents

by sir82 10 Replies latest jw friends

  • sir82
    sir82

    Do you know any? What's your impression?

    Recently in our congregation a new family moved in. Youngest son is a high school senior.

    Dad was speaking glowingly of his post-high school plans.

    Going to college? Trade school? Actually learn something that might enable him to earn more than minimum wage? Nope.

    He's going to pioneer the instant he graduates. And then?

    Dad says "I told him, pioneer for a year, then I'll be happy to send you to the Dominican Republic or Spain or wherever you like for a year, so you can pioneer there".

    We live right on the cusp of a phenomenally wealthy neighborhoods, ringed by poverty. Within our congregatoin's territory there are [literally] multi million dollar McMansions, and $10,000 trailer homes plopped in a 30 X 80 plot of overgrown weeds.

    As you might have surmised, the recent move-ins do not live in the latter.

    It just got me to thinking - in our congegation, and other congregations that share the Kingdom Hall, there are at least a dozen spoiled, entitled late-teens to mid-20's kids who are pioneering exclusively at their parents expense.

    Mommy and Daddy buy them, say, a 2010 RAV4 (2013 Escalade - a bit too flashy, 2006 Kia - too cheap), pay for their gas, insurance, room, board, expenses, etc. So long as li's junior or junioress keep pioneering, the money train keeps rolling.

    Of course, these kids are phenomenally ill-equipped for anything resembling real life, and have the holier than thou attitude you'd expect.

    Anything like that going on in your neck of the woods?

  • metatron
    metatron

    And then there's judicial matters. Simon(y) the elder fixes the C.O.'s car and gives him golf games and takes him out to the best restaurants.

    And when his kids get into trouble with sex and/or weed, do you think they get treated like Sister Welfare's offspring? No way.

    If they get handled with 'extra' mercy, while others are treated harshly, the new C.O. simply says 'that shouldn't have been handled that way'.

    Did I add that Brother Simon(y) also gets away with knowing about child sexual abuse and the Society does zilch?

    Money talks in this organization. You just need to spread it around a little.

    metatron

  • Band on the Run
    Band on the Run

    Wealthy parents. Are we talking about a class with five members only? I once felt envious of the rich kids. Now I don't.

  • LostGeneration
    LostGeneration

    One of the last CAs I attended was about 5 years ago and the CO went on and on and on about how few were pioneering out of high school. I mean you would have thought the world was ending with the way he was going on about it.

    So this makes me wonder if the anti-education message has started to take hold and now the loyalists are strong-arming their teens into this whether they like it or not.

    Are any of these kids going to school as well? Working part time jobs? That was sort of the trend a while back in my area, stay at home and you were allowed to attend community or city college as long as you still went to the meetings with mom and pops.

    And what about sex? The other constant is JWs getting married within a year or two out of school simply so they could have sex. How are these young adults not having sex for a decade after graduation????

  • sir82
    sir82

    Are any of these kids going to school as well? Working part time jobs?

    Oh yeah, forgot to mention that.

    The cool thing is to work part time at the local Starbucks (or equivalent) for 10 or 15 hours a week. This evidently teaches them "responsibility", and gives them money to buy the latest video games and upgrade their cell phones (if they don't like what daddy picked out for them, or need more data than he is willing to pay for).

    School? Forget it. Most will end up as "senior vice presidents" in daddy's business.

    It's only the "spiritually weak" who go to school.

    And what about sex? The other constant is JWs getting married within a year or two out of school simply so they could have sex. How are these young adults not having sex for a decade after graduation????

    Pfffft!

    JW kids are having sex as frequently, or more, than their "worldly" counterparts.

    It's only the stupid ones who get caught, or the hopelessly naive who get a guilty conscience and confess.

  • LostGeneration
    LostGeneration

    Yeah, that's what I thought. But aren't plenty of them getting outed via stupidity or a guilty conscience? Then its off the piosneer list right? Or DFing if they hide it for a long time. And mommy and daddy are embarrassed about the situation as well.

    It doesn't seem sustainable beyond a year or two.

  • sir82
    sir82

    These guys (the ones around here) have it down to a science. They can ride the gravy train for a long time.

  • jgnat
    jgnat

    Tinted windows? Custom sound system?

  • mynameislame
    mynameislame

    I used to hang out with some wealthy JWs in my area.

    They really were different than us regular folks, hard to say exactly how but there were differences. Kind of like the people on the show "Revenge" without the drama. Actualy thinking back it was more like the weatlhy kids from the Veronica Mars show.

    This post makes me wonder what ended up happening to them.

  • BackseatDevil
    BackseatDevil

    <------- The most spoiled and entitled JW I knew.

    <------- I didn't come from a rich home, but all my friends had money,

    <------- which was great because I didn't have to pay for stuff!

    <------- There was nothing good that came of that... LOL. Nothing.

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