Any here really enjoy going out in service?

by freedom96 25 Replies latest jw friends

  • freedom96
    freedom96

    I hated it with a passion!

    Who enjoyed it??

    I can possibly imagine someone who's home life was miserable, and it was an excuse to get out of the house. Other than that, there are so many things I would rather do. A root canal, for example.

  • unique1
    unique1

    I only enjoyed it if I was in a car group with all my friends. We always had a lot of fun together, it didn't really matter what we were doing. But if I got stuck with others, I was miserable.

  • shamus
    shamus

    Good lord no!

  • RAYZORBLADE
    RAYZORBLADE

    As much as I tried to be 'OK' about it, I really and truly hated it.

    It took everything in my power to get out there. Oh how I loved the Not At Homes.

  • Angharad
    Angharad
    Oh how I loved the Not At Homes

    Also the reaching up and pretending to push the door bell and hoping no one saw you through the window

    I hated it too

  • czarofmischief
    czarofmischief

    Sometimes - especially towards the end, because I was starting to use the Bible to help and comfort people rather than judge and condemn. I found myself evading the Society's responses to questions like, "Who will die at Armageddon?" and instead answered with "Jehovah's concern is not killing people, it is saving them..." which is still kind of stuffy, but I think a compromise with my desire to actually assist people rather than knock on their door and damn them...

    So yeah, as long as I was actually spritually assisting people and not passing Awakes out like candy in a bizarre reversed Halloween ritual... "Knock Knock! You're Damned! Like my tie? Have a Watchtower!"

    CZAR

  • jws
    jws

    There may have been the rare time that I enjoyed the cargroup I was in. But overall, I hated it, hated it, hated it! I tried to force myself to be a good JW at one point and even put in the 60 hours/month that an aux pioneer would. I kept this up for 7 months and felt the satisfaction of being a good JW, but never did enjoy it. Not going out in service is probably the one thing I enjoy the most about not being a JW.

  • Brummie
    Brummie

    I enjoyed it so much so that out of pioneering hours I would do up to 30 hrs alone on the service most months...durrrr.

    To rub salt into the wounds I continued knocking doors after I left the WT, went back on bible studies mag routes RV's ...yada

    I'm wondering now if I enjoyed it so much or whether I was just conditioned by the system.

    Brummie

  • integ
    integ

    I almost got in a fight with a homeless man in service. He said "You guys are'nt welcome in this neighborhood" I said ... "Either are you... jackass " I must have been having a tough day at the doors. Nobody was accepting my invitation to join me in a paradisaic new world. What the hell was their problem?

    Integ.

  • Brummie
    Brummie
    What the hell was their problem?

    they were goats integ

    Brummie

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