Riley,,, even when I was a full blown PIMO that was one thing I never ever could stoop so low to do.
That I thought would be so very disrespectful.!!
Sacred Days
by Riley 16 Replies latest jw experiences
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Anony Mous
So JW are fleeing the draft in Ukraine, becoming deserters. How nice of them not to go to prison, drawing attention to the human rights abuses and instead claiming refugee status in rich nations, I’m sure those elders are taking them in with open arms to give them tasks as the org, like Ukraine, is also running out of males.
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Beth Sarim
If you haven't,, please read Raymond Franz' " Crisis of Conscience". Chapter " Double Standards.".
This should create some critical thinking skills on JWs and drafts/ military action.
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LongHairGal
NOT FORMER:
You said it and it cannot be stressed enough that the Witness religion is a “contrarian group that has issues with mainstream churches and government”.
They differ for the sake of being different, IMHO. They use excuses of ‘pagan’ when most other things in society are pagan.
In my case, I was raised Roman Catholic and in the beginning the JWs tried to isolate me from my non-JW friends and family.. I had my lightbulb moment one Thanksgiving weekend in the later years when I was all alone looking at four walls.. No JWs to be seen or heard (probably celebrating in secret). Meanwhile I was all alone like some fool. Even though this was one weekend in the year, it was indicative of how I was treated.. These Witnesses didn’t give a sh#t about me and I was already soft-shunned like Typhoid Mary over my full-time job.. So, what the hell was I doing?
So, I thought to myself that I could be having a great meal with my family who really cared about me... Instead, I was left feeling like I was fighting somebody’s private war like some nut in the mountains. I took stock of a lot of things… From that moment forward I privately marginalized the JW religion in my mind because I knew I had to get out of there.. I started to send out Holiday greeting cards to estranged family members.
Then the 1995 Generation teaching happened and it was truly over. I reconnected with my family (that those idiots tried to separate me from) before it was too late and I celebrate the Holidays even more appreciative than when I was a child.
Merry Christmas everyone!🎄
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Beth Sarim
LHG
I'll smash your like button !!!
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Riley
I do understand they don’t help anybody but their own and they’re real dicks about it but the whole Ukraine war surely there must be all kinds of Jehovah witness refugees that need their help. The way they don’t address this issue. It’s so absolutely bizarre.
Has anybody heard anything? I’m not really up on what’s what’s really going on in the hall. -
Phizzy
When I was in my mid-teens I went D to D on Christmas day, I always worked alone, as I never gave a traditional J.W "presentation" and fellow J.W's would know I was a rebel.
It was amazing how many of the guys who answered the door thought it was funny to offer me a drink, I guess they thought I would refuse, not 15 year old me ! I accepted every one, and ended the morning decidedly squiffy, but was good at hiding that by then.
When in my late 20's, I decided it was rude to call on Christmas Day, or similar days, so never went out then. In my 40's I got disgusted by the number of J.W's who turned out for F.S when the C.O visited, most were hardly seen any other time, so I never went out on C.O visits. I was never questioned about that, despite being a M.S.
But yea, insensitive, rude and ignorant to call on certain days, I sense too the Public are now pissed off that they call at any time !