by JH 10 Replies latest jw friends
When you look back to your JW days, what actions did you do, that you would consider fanatic today?
I remember being on my night shift (midnight to eight) and went in the field service at 9AM. I got home from work, washed changed cloths and went straight to the field service meeting, and spent all morning in the service up to noon. Now that was stupid and dangerous. Driving my car in the field service and didn't sleep for 24 hours. I done that just once.
While growing up, we had a schedule taped up in the kitchen that regulated every minute of every day. I
eg, at age 12 Monday would kinda be like this
6:00 get up, get dressed 6:30 breakfast 7:00 half hour bible study 7:30 go to school
3:30 chore 4:00 get ready, go to work 6:00 dinner 7:00 spend one hour preparing for bookstudy
8:00 homework 9:30 bedtime
EVERY MINUTE of my life, regulated to fit the religion - now that's fanaticism
I am truly shocked at myself at how judgemental I was as a JW. Everything and everybody besides the WTBTS was rubbished. Everything revolved around it morning noon and night. a fanatic yes you could easily say that.
It's funny how perspective changes all, lol. What JWs call "theocratic" is now "fanatic." And how fanatic and wasted life it was!
Pat
I may have seemed as fanatic as everybody else, but cheated and cut corners all the time. I like where that eventually got me, though!
ditto what Pat said.
fanatic, fanatic, fanatice.......but we had those First Class Tickets to the New World!....Ha, ha, ha
I was very fanatic, or your could say overly righteous. I would think bad of the "brothers and sisters" when they would small talk about stuff I thought was innapropriate. I remember being out in service and I was with 4 pioneers they were all talking about having sex in the afternoon after service. I was shocked so I told my ex what we talked about in service. Then next week the asshole made a talk about it. I was devestated and made them mad at me. I hated him for that.
I still do..
I was a neo-conservative young dubbie. I actually reported to my elders that a group of teenagers went to go see a Smashing Pumpkins concert. They got in trouble for that.
Oh how times have changed!
b.
Extremely fanatical. If the Watchtower said something, I did it, no questions asked. Just stupid.
No. I have never considered myself a fanatic.
Even though I brought up kids in the truth, they have told me that I was always very easy going with them. I guess this is partly the pendulum swing away from own up bring in the truth - boring family bible studies, etc.
Eventually, I came to the conclusion that there is no place in the truth for left-wing liberals like myself and packed the whole lot in.
eyeslice
