Young 'Hovahs Out in Field Service.....

TR

They just seem to not exist. In my daily travels, in fact I rarely see ANY 'hovahs out in service, let alone young ones. I've seen one young 'hovah out in service in the last 5 years. She is a teller at my bank, and a hottie, too! The rest are the older ones, especially women.

In my mobile service related job, I drive the residential neighborhoods everyday. I just don't see 'hovahs anymore. Years ago, I saw them quite often. There's GOT to be a slowing down in my area, especially with the youth.

More young 'hovahs going to college? Taking up extra-corricular school activities? More entertainment and sports? In other words, more LIFE? Probably so. MAINSTREAM, HERE WE COME!

TR

COMF

I lived in a house in the quiet Dallas suburb neighborhood of Farmers Branch for a year and never got so much as an invitation stuck in the door. Now I'm in a house in Glenn Heights, another quiet suburb of Dallas, and since I moved in seven months ago I haven't had so much as an invitation stuck in the door. Where are the Big D Dubs?

Where have all the Jay-Dubs gone
Long time passing
Where have all the Jay-Dubs gone
Long time ago
Where have all the Jay-Dubs gone
Gone to get lives, every one
Looks like they finally learned
Looks like they fiiiiiiiiiii-nuh-lee learned

blondie

Where are all the J-Dubs? Deliberately calling when they know you are not home.

More and more women are working nowadays in the Borg (to the dismay of the WTS) so:

Housewives make us less that 20% of the women in the Borg fewer women are available to go out during the weekdays.

More and more J-Dubs meet on the obligatory Saturday morning and team up in groups of four or more and either make return visits or schedule their bible studies then (COs used to tell regular pioneers and elders that this was a no-no but door-to-door was to be done).

I live outside the territory and did not have any J-Dubs call for over 2 years. They called when we weren't home and left an old magazine (2 years old) under our mat because they couldn't leave it in the door (it was soggy by the time we found it).

J-Dubs know that whether they spend 1 hour or 70 hours, whether they never make a return visit or conduct a bible study, they are assured everlasting life as long as they attend all the meetings and are not inactive.

Blondie

Gopher

TR,

Have you checked the coffee shops and the fast-food joints on Saturday morning? You'll probably find some j-dub families there between 10:30 and 11. After all, the 'hovah kids gotta have SOME incentive to go out in the field ~~misery~~ ministry, and the promise of french fries or donuts is good enough for most j-dub kids (at least till they get older).

jimbob

I've only been out of the org since August, but up until that time, I can tell you that it was probably years since I actually went door to door. Everytime I went in a car group, everyone either wanted to do RV's or a few scattered not- at-homes. (Which was just fine by me, I always hated service anyway) I believe the pioneers went door to door during the week, but of course, nobody is ever home during the week, so that's why nobody ever sees them, except for maybe the UPS guy or the postal workers. Even the elders and servants hardly ever went door to door, always RV's. I firmly believe that most, if not all, witnesses hate service........they only do it cause they have to or are told to. I knew so many miserable pioneers that hate service and only talk about "getting in their time". What a life, huh????? I'm so glad I'm out!!!!!!!!!

TR

Well well well. 'hovahs having to get a real life. Who'd a thunk it?

Ah yes, the coffee shops. Do a few return visits, hit the lunch place, another return visit, and voila! Done for the day! YAY!

You'd think the C.O. would get on their asses for not THOROUGHLY covering the territiry. Well, what's a 'hovah to do?

TR

Reborn2002

Come to think of it, I have not seen a group of teenage Dubs going door-to-door in at least a year or two.

Everytime I have encountered Dubs in public, it has been lazy old farts sitting at a retail chain with a table of magazines to peddle. For details on that experience visit my thread:

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=37864&site=3

or old Dubs doing early morning witnessing by the train station and things like that. Door-to-door? I have not seen that in a very long time.

Oh whatever happened to the young generation of Dubs in the US? The answer? It is slowly becoming nonexistent. With the information readily available on the Internet (which kids are being taught to use in grammar school now, and out of curiousity almost all Dub kids will type in Jehovah at SOME point, I know I did and boy was I surprised at what I found ) and the desire to do things other children get to do (sports, activities, etc) and the ability to sense the hypocrisy and doublespeak of the adults (kids are VERY perceptive and have an uncanny ability to sniff out lies and double standards), and the granting of permission to now attend college (education will provide self-esteem and promote independent thinking along with the wealth of knowledge to disprove WT doctrine) and the glaring examples of Venus and Serena Williams and other Dub celebrities (if they can do it and are Dubs.. why can't I? any parent knows how teenagers are qualified lawyers in the ability to debate and argue)....

Yes oh yes.. the WT is falling on hard times... for in the very country which houses their international headquarters.. the next generation of Dubs to replace the geriatric GB and the prophesying remnant who lived through 75' etc... the ones who would carry the mantle onward into the Information Age.. quite simply.. are NOT there.

Case in point. When I was a Dub, we had over 15 teenagers within my age bracket who attended the same congregation. We all grew up Dubs together. How many of those 15 remain Dubs?

ZERO.

I noticed the same trend in other congregations before I left as well. Other congregations in my circuit which had a group of Dub kids.. only a sporadic few remained Dubs into adulthood. They were either DF for some stupid reason (The WT fails to realize in their own stupidity and rigidity of rules they are thinning their own ranks of those who may actually believe their horsesh1t), did not believe WT stuff anymore and walked away, were DA'ed, or any variety of reasons.

I love seeing the WT struggle.

Your days are numbered boys. As metatron has said many times before, you will either get more fanatical and crazy, or you will go mainstream. It appears you have chosen the fanatical and crazy route, and in doing so you have only damned yourselves. It will only take a select few of your members to do something absolutely INSANE in the name of God for you to be under the spotlight just like Muslims are in the wake of 9/11.

It is only a matter of time.

Edited by - Reborn2002 on 7 December 2002 13:34:44

TR

It's an almost hilarious situation. The 'hovahs used to brag about being so visible to the public in their door-to-door activities. Most people havn't a clue as to who 'hovahs are or what they believe.

WTS, you're shirking your duties, and your reputation is suffering. LOL! I wonder why.

TR

OUTLAW

Hey TR,I`ve only seen two since I moved up here.They were two elderly people doing the street corner.Nobody paid any attention to them,as they stood there freezing their ass`s off,wasting what little time left they had on this earth,There will be no reward of any kind,for the fools who have given their lives to a goofy publishing company,the WBTS...OUTLAW

KAYTEE

Perhaps they are going for higher education, nothing against window cleaners but perhaps they want something more out of life.

There was so many who put off this vocation who probably regret it now, I could never go with this argument as Jesus had a higher education when he was trained as a carpenter.

KT

Young 'Hovahs Out in Field Service.....

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