Questions About Being Worldly

Golf

Did you ever consider yourself a worldy person while being a witness? If you did, what constituted worldliness?

In my days I've done many things that didn't bother my conscious, yet, by todays standards of the org. I would be labeled as a worldly person.

What about you?

Guest77

prophecor

I've always felt as if a worldly witness.

It took too long for me to come in from the world, though I'd been around the truth for quite some time.

Though outward behavior modifications, on the inside, I was still the same person.

The mind seemed to have changed but not the heart.

Golf

Proph, a worldly witness you say? Hmmmmm. I always had problems with this 'labeling' thing. I felt more like an entity, a non-person. Interestingly, Native Americans were considered by the Religious Europeans as such, non-person/s.

I've had plenty of experience of being 'worldly' and I'm very thankful of that.

I've always had this missing link about the Org. Well, that link is no longer missing. "By this all will know you are my diciples, if you have love among yourselves." It's just not there!

The org. has done one hell of job in screwing-up the emotional lives of people, and they call us worldly.

Thanks for your comment.

Guest77

franklin J

No. I was a "goodie, goodie" JW kid. I was the model JW youth; mild mannered; ready to discuss scripture; an example to the other youths in the congregation; always encouraging the younger ones to go out in service and offering to pick them up. Always had parts in the ministry school and at circuit assemblies.... The "example" young regular pioneer....

....and when I started to fade at age 20-21 I did not feel in the least guilty about ANYTHING. I had my first sexual experience at age 22. No guilt. No remorse. No regrets. I couldnt wait to do it again!

BrendaCloutier

Nope. I either was, or I wasn't. I was never a fence sitter, even though it took a couple years to stop attending memorial. I attended more out of respect for my mother-in-law.

Golf

Interesting comments FJ & BC., thanks. I'm surprise others don't throw in their two cents. Was life that boring in the org? Drinking beer with the bro's on Friday or Saturday nights wasn't worldly?

Guest77

Doubtfully Yours

I dislike that expression. It's always mentioned from the platform with such negative overtones!

DY

Golf

DY, I agree with you.

Guest77

frankiespeakin

It's just another way the WT makes the JW feel seperated from other influences and only to trust the WT as God's chief messenger for the dark soon to be destroyed world that has Satan as its God. Black or white,, either/or,,, only 2 organizations Jehovah's or Satan's,,only 2 choices artificially restricted.

checkmate1996

No. But things that constitued wordliness:

- Dances/proms/Square dancing

-rollerskating, sports(organzied sports outside of JW)

-Reading non-JW literature

-Higher education

-Associating with non-JW's other than sharing the truth...

-Of course, sex before marriage or even just holding hands for that matter...

those are a few

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