no disrespect

by eriknugent 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  eriknugent

  No disrespect intended, I am not a jehovahs witness as i'm sure you will come to see. I just have a few questions and comment.

  Why don't you celebrate, there are somethings that are rather pointless to celebrate like martain luther kings birthday his birthday is not inportant to anyone who is still living. Celebrating does not mean that you are idolizing someone or something. You are not put that thing or person over god you are just showing your respect to that person or thing for a moment.

  The samething with voting and politics you should vote it what makes this coutry what it is. Not everything in this country is bad there are many good things about this country. For instants since this about religion, we have freedom of religion. With out that you and myself would probably have been jailed and/or hung a long time ago. by voting you could support the person who has similar beliefs and ideas. Now theres politics you should get involved if you think that all politicians are courupt than you should become one and give people a good, decent honest person to support.

  And just like the celebration thing this does not have to be about putting people above god. One last thing I have seen many things that put all of the responsability of "bad" or "evil" things on the devil and "good" thing on god if that were the case then wouldn't god ultimatly be responsable for the creation of both good and bad. The devil did not creat himself god did and i'm not sure you would probably know more about this than I would but if god gave him free will like he did with humans, than with the creation of free will god would have had to creat both good and evil. This would actually set up everyone up for failure.

  I know i said thatwas going to be the last thing sorry I have one more. If there is already a set number of people going to heaven where is my insentive to do good? As I said before I do not mean any type of disrespect I'm just trying to get a better understanding of what you believe and why. My step-mother is a jehovahs witness and sometimes it makes it hard to understand her. So I thought I would see if I could get anouther persons view. Thank you

  (edited to make it more readable..............I didn't change the text) Mulan
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  Stefanie

  there are somethings that are rather pointless to celebrate like martain luther kings birthday his birthday is not inportant to anyone who is still living.

  Welcome to the forum.
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  logansrun

  I think you will find that the vast majority of people on this site are former Jehovah's Witnesses. They also primarily speak and read English.

  B
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  jgnat

  eriknugent, you will not find many active JW's here. Open discussion boards on the internet are also frowned on by the society.

  My step-mother is a jehovahs witness and sometimes it makes it hard to understand her. So I thought I would see if I could get another persons view.

  I agree that it is very confusing to figure out what a Jehovah's Witness is or isn't allowed to do. Even more confusing, individual Jehovah's Witnesses may or may not follow the restrictions exactly, or even change their minds from year to year. For example, I am pretty sure your stepmother would accept a gift from you. But she would never give you a gift on any day she considers "pagan". A simple rule of thumb is, if it is fun or involves family, it is probably forbidden. Are you still at home, or are you moved out?
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  Brummie

  there are somethings that are rather pointless to celebrate like martain luther kings birthday his birthday is not inportant to anyone who is still living.

  inportant
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  cyber-sista

  Welcome, ericn.

  Yes, the majority of people on this site are former JWs and many of us come her for support because we feel that the religion has caused a lot of damage in our lives and in the lives of others. Your questions are all valid and logical and a real JW (as I once was) would have an answer to each one of them (though not particularly valid or logical). They would use the bible to defend their arguments, though some of the scriptures used would not make a lot of sense. The religion itself has many rules and regulations all used to control its members lives to one degree or another. You sound like a nice person and it is kind of you to be respectful of your mother-in-law. The best thing for you to do is just to let her be. She is living in her own world and will not be easily shaken from it and if you try to reason with her she will not listen to you --no matter what information you have about her religion (even documented proof)-- or she will view you as wicked because she will think you are trying to shake her from her faith. There are many reasons people join up with this religion. Either they are born into it or they have a need that has not been fulfilled in their lives so they are more easy for this Organization to manipulate in one way or another. It's rather a sad state of affairs. I no longer engage JWs in any sort of religious discussions, as I find it to be fruitless and frustrating.

  The best to you,

  cybs
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  xjw_b12

  No disrespect intended, I am not a jehovahs witness

  Neither are the majority of us here. You raise some good points though. Points most of us have considered at one time or another.

  Welcome to the board, and use us to help your step mother.

  xjw_b12