List of Things We Were NOT Allowed To Do as JW's

by Sea Breeze 52 Replies latest jw friends

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  LongHairGal

  SEA BREEZE:

  This is all enough to make me puke and I’m sorry for all you born-ins! If this isn’t enough to make anybody neurotic I don’t know what is.

  As far as I was concerned, I made enough concessions at the time to be in that stupid religion. I was leading a moral life and was not engaging in any bad habits or addictions.

  Even when I was IN, I didn’t care if they didn’t like me because I had a full-time job. Certainly, I never troubled my head about any except the most basic things on your list. The rest would be enough to keep many ex-Witnesses in therapy for a long time, in my opinion! They have my condolences.
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  Sea Breeze

  Thank you LHG,

  The world in general is largely unaware what it is like growing up JW. It is an insane mad-house of a religion. They are banned in at least 41 countries, so not everyone has forgotten about us.
  
  Thanks to EVERYONE for continuing to get the word out!
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  road to nowhere

  List is too extensive. I am allowed a gun but got admonished for looking at a pistol. But my old hunt partner elder haf a .357 snubby. Some things depend on country, state, local elders.
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  wozza

  @ Smiddy

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  11. Cannot be a Police Officer

  There were two police officers in the congs,I attended ."

  When I started studying again 1980 in Adelaide South Australia there was a single brother who was a police officer and sometimes he was brought by my study conductor to sit in on my study. I posed the question to him as to how he could be a JW and yet carry a gun , he said at the time they kept their guns in the glove compartment of the police car when on duty. So I further pressed him that if his police partner was being threatened would he use his gun to protect him/her? He had to admit he would and was very awkward about it. I became a JW still and used to remind him of that conversation, he struggled with that and eventually years later asked to get a transfer to be a court officer and that seemed to appease his conscience ,the elders left him alone but I saw the hypocrisy and he knew it.

  He also knew that during the Vietnam war I was in the Royal Australian Navy and left as a concietious objector before I had ever heard of JW's ,this still bothers me how I was so dumb to become a JW.
  
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  Rattigan350

  I could do #2, 3, 4,60 and many more.
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  Rattigan350

  About being a police officer. Why can't JWs carry guns? Nothing wrong with shooting bad people.
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  wozza

  Rattigan

  In the past here it was seen as like serving in the military but with a little grayness ,since they did not carry.

  These days the police carry guns all the time so I am not sure whether there are still JW police officers.

  It's interesting to note that the society used this particular brothers knowlege and involvement to assist them in the "Security" department at assemblies!
  
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  Rattigan350

  I think all of you are nuts

  
  

  "13. No dating Christians or anyone not a JW"

  Of course JWs can date Christians. They are the ones in the congregation.

  And they are allowed to date Non-JWs.

  They can do many things on your lists.

  They can be armed security guards. Just because in the past there was a superstition about it does not mean that thinking people hold to everyone's superstition. I would not be a security guard because it is a boring job. But if I were one, I would be like Macguyver and choose not to use guns, not because of a religion but because I feel that guns are for cowards.
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  Sea Breeze

  Of course JWs can date Christians. They are the ones in the congregation.

  Rattigan,

  JW's are NOT Christians. Mt. 26: 27-28 specifically states that the New Covenant (Jesus' Blood Covenant) is "for the forgiveness of sisn". This is why people are Christian, it is what being a Christian means - getting rid your sin debt through Jesus. But, virtually all of JW's reject this and certainly all preach a different message than the apostles.
  
  The ministry of reconciliation through the blood covenant is what the Apostles preached. The two tier salvation that the WT offers was totally unknown to the Apostles.

  Galatians 1: 8-9 says that if anyone preaches a different gospel than what the apostles preach are CURSED.

  If JW's are Christian, then... the term becomes meaningless.
  
  There is no such thing as new light .... when the apostles died, doctrine was fixed until the Lord's return. It cannot be changed without beig cursed by God.

  JW's are definitely cursed by God. Bad, bad fruit.
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  smiddy3

  wozza,

  One of the police officers was and older man and he was in the administration office while the much younger guy was a motor cycle cop.