by tsunami_rid3r 28 Replies latest jw friends
I would take the money and sit through the meetings. That way you can make comments during the meeting to the effect that you are being paid by your father to be there. You would make the meetings so much more interesting for everyone in attendance. It's really the least you could do.
Why don't JW parents learn from the lesson of the prodigal son? The son who ended up most favored was the one who squandered his half of the inheritance on worldly pursuits.
Excuse me, but.....this has got to be a joke! I mean, I don't put it past a JW parent, but.......gawd........what is the point? Appearances are all JW's care about.
As I was asked: "How to you think you are perceived in the congregation?"
I was then told I was perceived as "shy and timid" which is 100 miles from reality!
Perception is not reality.
Be true to yourself as what else have you?
it's less than 3 months away. take the money. you can be at the meetings, but you don't really have to "be" there, know what I mean?
thanks again guys and girlys
or i can get it thinned about soon, wont have to attend meetings at all, but ill have to pay for my bills. but if i go to a meeting ill get $20.
How about if you keep it long, tell everyone you're not good to associate with (and maybe spiritually weak)? Then your father pays your bills so you can maintain the bad example, you stop going to meetings and he ends up paying you to stay away, while rumors confirm their self-fulfilling prophecies.
Complete abdication does not result in sudden independence; more likely someone that is not sure who they are.
That doesn't sound to me like a good start on life (but then being a Witness is not conducive to learning).
Complete abdication does not result in sudden independence; more likely someone that is not sure who they are.
OK, to clarify: Your father is paying you to be someone you are not. This act cannot suddenly end when you are "independent", as you have been taught by your father and the WTS to fake it, to 'just go along with it'.
You should ask your father for a scissors each time he hands you some money. Tell him it's to cut the strings attached.
Sad thing is, when you live with your parents you have to obey their rules.
What about paying for your own education and doing what you decide???
im afraid to do all of that. i could just move in with a friend and start off from there. but i wont have a vehicle and all ill have is my clothes and computer and tv.
I would agree to go to meetings and see how it goes. Once youve started college, they might give up the fight. Believe me as a mother of a son who didnt want to go, in the end it causes so much upset I gave up.
It would be hard for any parent to stop there kids going to college once they are on a course. Oh and the best thing is to be pleasent to them when you start. Dont give them a reason to think it making you a evil worldly person.
Be happy and helpful round the house, tell how grateful you are for them paying for college,
Win the over!!!!!!!
Dont sulk
ditto take the monry and then when you get an education..and the money that comes with that...do what you want to...donald
