Ex-hubby and I (both JWs at the time) smoked a pack of Swisher Sweet Cherry Cigars on our honeymoon! Ha! We felt so naughty!
What was the most rebellious thing you did while you were a devout jw?
by DuvanMuvan 54 Replies latest jw friends
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Tiktaalik
Read a lot of science books.
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sparrowdown
Wore fish-net stockings.
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galaxie
Coaxed my parents into lending me money for a small moped, knowing full well I was off to buy a b.s.a motorbike.
Put on my studded leather jacket and wrode off into the distance singing be bop a lula.
Haven't looked back since Yee Haa !!!
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Magwitch
Went on vacation during the CO visit. My husband and I were both pioneers and he was an elder. Many in the hall gasped at that one. Such brazen behavior!
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exwhyzee
My wife and I grew up as JW's and missed out on everything. Although we continued with it well into adulthood, we both suspected that much of the restrictions we lived under were completely unnecessary. We allowed our boys to join the local youth basketball league when they were in elementary school and later the Jounior and Senior high school swim team and wrestling team. They enjoyed it immensely and benefited socially from it. Even though we had to sort of keep it on the down low and got the stink eye from different ones who knew, we ever regretted it or doubted ourselves. None of the elders dared to give us any grief about it.
Evil Monsters that we were, we also used to do something special for them on thier "birth date" even if it was only to bring them home a chocolate eclair and a little gift and give them a rundown of the events the night they were born. We allowed them to go to the Highschool Prom and our youngest Son was the Homecoming King in his Senior year.
We were jilted out of our childhoods in many ways and even though we're now free of the Watchtower's stranglehold on our personal relationship with God, we do have regrets about not having gotten out sooner but at least we can feel good that our boys didn't have their youths totally spoiled by it all.
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NewYork44M
I went to a strip joint as an elder. But to justify my action, I was on my way out.
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kaik
I would think to this in the 1980's. I got my hair accidentally bleached, and my friend eventually bleached my entire hair to white. We went to city for fun that weekend and I and my friends did not like it as it looked, so they dyed my hair to bright green.. I got shaved it on Sunday so through the two day weekend I went from punk to skinhead. We were laughing on it for weeks. Wish I had some pics of it from that time.
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humbled
I was not rebellious. But I did try to do something that I learned was not done--ever---because I was asked by a family friend to participate in a panel discussion as the U.S. prepared to make war with Iraq. He knew I was a JW and he had a group of representatives from various area churches who were to explain their faith's traditions for peace. It was the very subject that had enticed me into a home bible study(and subsequent baptism.)
I had no idea how rebellious was. Because I lived in an isolated rural situation --no running water and 5 children still at home with their father at that time absent--I could have no IDEA until the panel's organizer called me with some exasperation and concern that he had been receiving emails and messages that I could not possibly be a JW in good standing--certainly a person unfit/unqualified for representing the Society!
Later I found that it was the sharp eyes on this website that busted me out.
I learned that though I was to know the Truth and teach the Truth--that no women and only special permits let you say anything about the Truth except in a very narrow setting.
It was a shit-storm-feeding-frenzy on the board here. And I never knew it til I was "out" and started putting 2+2 together.
The old s**t-storm thread is on archive here titled: New JW Interfaith Meeting
It still makes me sick to remember it. My old avatar then was "not a captive" at the time I figured out all the back room drama.
Maeve
It's a cult!
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In my neck of the woods, Thanksgiving is a JW holiday too! Every young JW went to Six Flags on this holy day, and it was the cool thing to do as a teen. My last Thanksgiving as a JW I was tired of having to skip Six Flags Thanksgiving Day because our CO came, so I said to hell with it, made my mom let me go to Six Flags with my new little JW clique (a boy I had a crush on, his cousin, my best friend, and my best friend's secret boyfriend) and then without her permission or knowledge my friends and I all went to the annual Six Flags after-party hosted by "bad JWs." I remember on our way to the party from Six Flags we drove my mom's house to redo our makeup and hair and waited around the corner for her to drive off to the meeting. Then we all went inside, BROUGHT BOYS INTO THE HOUSE UNSUPERVISED, and put on some semi-slutty clothes.
The year before, that party had lead to many JWs being disfellowshipped. Anyway, we were all teenagers and were paranoid as crap in case any bad adult JWs happened to be at that party and might rat us out. We all went home at like 10:30 pm because were were too scared, and I think everyone prayed for forgiveness really desparately that night.
Other than that, the next most rebellious thing was what led me to leave the borg a few months ago. 1 Corinthians 15:33 was so right. I started semi-dating a great Jewish kid during my one year of community college. He lived about a mile away from my house, so when I took the bus home from the CC I'd go visit him for an hour or two, before my mom go too suspicious that I wasn't home yet. I still thought the organization was real, but starting to realize it may not be for me because everyone was too dense and passive. My Jewish boyfriend was super smart and interesting, and I couldn't resist seeing him, even though I had panic attacks/ guilt attacks all the time because I knew Jehovah would "make the truth come to the surface at the right time." A couple months into it we finally consummated our relationship. During moments when paranoia and guilt weren't washing over me, I would sometimes mentally giggle about how everyone in the congregation thought I was SUCH a great example but I was living my own life. One time I was playing the householder and I remember sitting up there delivering my lines perfectly while feeling proud of myself for having experienced sex while my partner was a 25 year old virgin.
Disclaimer: Though I was indeed leading a double life, I didn't mean to be a hypocrite at all (I hated those kinds of JWs!)... I really needed the intellectual stimulation from my boyfriend, and the whole time the relationship was going on I was figuring out what I wanted to do with my relationship with Jehovah.... until I read Franz's book and realized that day I would have to leave forever. And here I am now. Happy as a clam.