Friends of the other sex in the JW's

by JH 19 Replies latest jw friends

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  JH

  How is it seen if a single adult brother sits right next to a single adult sister at the kingdom hall? Rumours get going, right?

  One thing I never liked in the JW's was that you just couldn't be good friends with people of the other sex. In my case, it wasn't appropriate to speak to a married sister. It wasn't appropriate to sit right next to a sister, single or not, if there was another place available elsewhere.

  In my car, a sister would always sit in the back, never in the front. Coming back from the field service, It was wrong to get a sister off last, because she would be alone with me in the car. Oh, I must be dangerous. She had to be driven home first, even if that meant doing extra mileage.

  In the fields service, brother with brothers, and sisters with sisters.

  Was this overdone, or were they right all the way?
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  Fe2O3Girl

  Obviously, when you are the happy owner of a "Bible-Trained Concience(TM)", you are incapable of being within 1 yard of any member of the opposite sex without being consumed with lust and Commiting Fornication(TM).
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  bittersweet

  Totally overdone in my opinion. I found this to be a pain myself. When I was in highschool, I had a ton of guy friends ( partly due to the fact that I was the only girl in a boys shop ). Of couse since they were "worldly" I couldn't hang out with them anyway. But one of the boys in my shop was a witness, and I couldn't hang around with him outside of school because it wouldn't look right.I had a couple othr boys in the hall that I was friends with, but we couldn't hang around either, unless we got a huge group together of both male and female. And as adults, god forbid you're friends with a member of the opposite sex, or someone's spouse. One automatically thinks "something" must be going on. I tend to be friends with people I have things in common with, regardless of what sex they are.
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  funkyderek

  It's more of their obsession with sex. Two adults of the opposite sex can't be trusted to be alone together, even if they're of wildly different ages and have known each other for decades. Their baser urges might get the better of them.
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  Redneck

  I always thought that as strange too...This is the way was from where I was to JH..

  One thing I never liked in the JW's was that you just couldn't be good friends with people of the other sex. In my case, it wasn't appropriate to speak to a married sister. It wasn't appropriate to sit right next to a sister, single or not, if there was another place available elsewhere.

  In my car, a sister would always sit in the back, never in the front. Coming back from the field service, It was wrong to get a sister off last, because she would be alone with me in the car. Oh, I must be dangerous. She had to be driven home first, even if that meant doing extra mileage.

  In the fields service, brother with brothers, and sisters with sisters.

  It makes out like all the Brothers were nothing but hormones...so much temptation ...One of my best firends is a female...oh man my dads like a man and woman cannot be in a platonic relationship they have to be sexually involved ....That must be why my wife lets me go out drinking with her and tells me to take her on trips with myself so I want be bored driving...makes ya wonder if sex is all the Gb have on there mind...
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  bittersweet

  hmmmmm..... I was just thinking about that thread likening girls to cows......the bulls are always ready, so the cows can't be left aone with them
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  Redneck

  Hold on....after all this time it wasnt the brothers that were the hornballs it was the cows uhhh sisters that were ???????
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  JH

  Just to be safe, the brothers should have put Male and Female written on the chairs at the KH. It would have looked like this below...And a space between both.

  MMMMMM-FFFFFFFF Row # 7

  MMMMM-FFFFFFF Row # 6

  FFFFFF-MMMM Row # 5

  MMMM-FFFF Row # 4

  FFFF-MMM Row # 3

  MMM-FF Row # 2

  FF-MM Row # 1
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  rocketman

  It's way overdone and shows a lack of trust in their own people.
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  worldlygirl

  It was wrong to get a sister off last,

  Actually, I don't think they wanted you to get a sister off at all .....