Main reason JWs are JWs

by Batman89 40 Replies latest social relationships

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  sarahsmile

  Sorry I am stuck on the serving part! What like going door to door is serving!

  No reason and it was mandatory and forced. I never thought ever anything the JWs did was serving God but socializing.

  I doubt any JW kid or young adult actually thinks about armeggedon or everlasting life. It is all bull. Paradise earth is just part of a doctrine.

  What you call serving is a verbal contract with the JWs.

  Serving that is a good one! joke. I doubt God would ever think of anything a JW does is serving him! or any church.

  One must be really delusional if they think sitting in any church is part of serving God.
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  bigmac

  i was in it because i liked to wear a suit----and have a thing about fake leather briefcases
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  Vidiot

  Mum - "I started feeling that there must be a reason why this wealthy evangelist felt so threatened by the little rag-tag groups of JW's in existence at that time. In my 15-year-old brain, I concluded that the JW's must be right and were being 'persecuted' by the mighty, wealthy churches of Christendom."

  If only those old-school preachers had realized just how much of a favor they were doing the WTS when they ranted about JWs...
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  L3G

  Is there just one "main reason," or is reality more complex than that? Right on, BluesBrothers!
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  Batman89

  Is there just one "main reason," or is reality more complex than that? Right on, BluesBrothers!

  When it really comes down to it humans are only movited by two things: (1)Love(desire) or (2)Fear
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  Batman89

  *motivated
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  KateWild

  Batman for me it was niether A or B, it was the love bombing and the sense of community and the lack of it was why I left. I bought into the scripture at John 13.34,35 where it talks about love and how that the love will help us recognise Jesus' true disciples.

  I think everyone is a JW for their own unique reasons, some may be similar but faith is something personal.

  Kate xx
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  Julia Orwell

  Mostly a, but like any believer there was a little bit of b thrown in. But as 95% a, because I really wanted to do the right thing. It put me in a perfect position to be exploited by those scum. Then I found I was living lies and being horribly oppressed by them so I knew the right thing was to leave.
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  cha ching

  Me? I liked justice.... I did not like the 'evil' that men did to each other, I saw no way of escaping it, I wanted things to be 'set straight,' and only God could do that.

  My mom 'studied' when I was 4, and she didn't want her children to 'grow old.'

  I love people, and the idea that there was no 'prejudice' among JW's, that I could go anywhere in the world and be invited in by a JW seemed to fit the "you will know you are my disciples by the love among themselves." Anything that didn't 'fit', that I observed, God could work out in 'the new order.'

  I also liked the idea that people who died in the past, people who were poor, had no help, were victims of war, orphans, etc. could be resurrected to have a better life.
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  Finallyfree12

  I asked my mother who is a devout JW if there wasn't any promise of everlasting life would ppl still be JW's?

  She said yes, because its the right thing to do...................... really?