Were There ANY Advantages To Being a Jehovah's Witness? (page 4)

Dismembered

Re: Were There ANY Advantages To Being a Jehovah's Witness?

Yeah, you get to know everthing there is to know. How advantageous

Dismembered

gumby

I feel if we were true blue dubs.......we couldn't help but learn many positive good things. All who say contrary to this are still too pissed to admit it

Minimus.....I'll bet had you never been a dub.....you could still be a salesman. Many have qualities they would have had anyways..........and many have learned these qualities through the witnesses. My wife is shy......and all the training , door to door work, Theocratic school instuction, will never change that...........but it has helped some. Others have overcome much bigger things by witness training.

Another point,

People have stated in their posts that being a witness kept them from getting into trouble. If the witnesses had penalties for sin as do other churches, would you have gotten in MORE trouble than you did? If so.....was it then FEAR that kept you in line........fear of being disfellowshipped? Is that good or bad?....I suppose it could be good in many ways, but it's a catch 22 in others.

Gumby

patio34

Hi Gumby,

You said:

People have stated in their posts that being a witness kept them from getting into trouble. If the witnesses had penalties for sin as do other churches, would you have gotten in MORE trouble than you did? If so.....was it then FEAR that kept you in line........fear of being disfellowshipped? Is that good or bad?....I suppose it could be good in many ways, but it's a catch 22 in others

We've noticed the opposite effect in many in our city.

In my family, we've often discussed why there's a large proportion of JWs my kids' ages that are now convicted felons. We figured out it's something upwards of 25% of the local JW teenagers.

Our theory is that the kids who DO want to leave the JWs have already missed out on the school supports (sports, clubs, academic pursuits), hadn't planned on college, haven't made good friends (except JWs who shun them when they leave) from elementary school on thru high school. So, when they're old enough to leave JWs (16 or so), the only kids who befriend them are the rougher ones who are in to trouble. We think this is a greatly overlooked social cause of delinquency among JWs.

Pat

gumby

Our theory is that the kids who DO want to leave the JWs have already missed out on the school supports (sports, clubs, academic pursuits), hadn't planned on college, haven't made good friends (except JWs who shun them when they leave) from elementary school on thru high school. So, when they're old enough to leave JWs (16 or so)

My point was based on a ..."true blue dub".

Hi pat....I understand where you are coming from also. Kids under a restraint such as a dublife you explained, ........often go wilder had they never been raised a dub. They try and catch up for lost time.

Gumby

minimus

My business abilities, were helped by my lack of fear that I recieved knocking on stranger's doors from babyhood. I think most of my abilities are natural but due to my "life" as a JW, I nurtured whatever abilites I had.

Athanasius

It does help one to become a better public speaker.

PurpleV

I can answer the entire Bible column in Jeapordy!

minimus

PURPLE V.....Now that's a money maker!

undercover

They taught me that religion is a "snare and a racket".

Seriously. I loved that quote as a young person. Even as a JW, I never considered myself a really "religious" person. I was raised as a JW and I tried to follow it as best I could, but I wasn't going to kill myself doing it either. Learning as a JW how hypocritical other religions were was one of the few things that kept me believing that the Witnesses were right. When I learned about their deceit and hypocrisy, I knew that all religion was a crock. If the religion that I grew up with was a "racket" and I already recognized the hypocrisy of the other religions, where did that leave me? Free. Free from the oppression of religious leaders looking for power or money, free from superstitions based on a theory of teaching based on an ancient book and free to be myself and no longer feel inferior because I wasn't living up to a set of standards that I one time thought were from God.

John Lennon had the right idea. Imagine a world without religion.

minimus

You don't need to worry about having too many friends, you don't have to think about working overtime, you don't have to go to college, you don't go and see "R" rated movies, you don't have any spare time to do silly things......

Were There ANY Advantages To Being a Jehovah's Witness?

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