Jack in "Will and Grace" has the crasiest eyes.
He's never set foot in a Witchtower Hell.
HB
Is it just me, or do j-dubs have "crazy eyes"?
by Check_Your_Premises 49 Replies latest jw friends
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FlyingHighNow
Jack in "Will and Grace" has the crasiest eyes.
He's never set foot in a Witchtower Hell.
HB
I love Jack, he's adorable.
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shera
Yep,JW's sure get that blank,empty look..they even walk the same.lol
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HappyDad
Yep, j-dubs have crazy eyes.
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talesin
I would say some of them have the 1,000 yard stare,,, this expression comes from Vietnam vets, and is indicative of severe trauma. There are usually dark circles, and a grey look about the face in these folks. I sometimes still have it, and can usually tell how I'm feeling inside by looking in the mirror.
The others have what I consider to be a glazed look in their eyes, robotic and non-thinking. 'Doll-like' is a really good way to put it, flyin' ,,, like a Stepford Wife, all bright and shiny, as in, 'the lights are bright, but nobody's home'.
A pasted-on mask .. the look of all religious zealots, be they JW, RC, Baptist, Mormon, Islamic, or any other denomination.
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shera
Happy dad....is that pic for real! That is freaking weird looking! lol
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HappyDad
Shera,
I was wondering the same thing myself. A buddy of mine sent it to me just today and I thought it fit this topic perfectly.
If it is real, that person has a lot of extra skin from the eyebrow to the cheekbone. Yechhhhhh!
HappyDad
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Rod P
Well, I was a JW in the 1960's and I don't recall it being like that. I ran around with quite a few JW's as friends, and to me they seemed pretty natural and spontaneous, despite the intolerances encountered in field service.
However, now you guys have me wondering about something. With all the failed dates, the generation change, the increasing apostasies, the chastisements and threats for independent thinking, the stringent requirements placed on behavior, the pedophile cases, the deaths over blood, the monitoring by the elders- Is all this having a cumulative effect. Could all this be having a very chilling effect on individuals, for fear they may be singled out or noticed, and fearing they are in danger by the elders. Are the Witnesses even spying on one another, even being too willing to "tell on so and so" to the elders? Women may be more fearful than the men because of their position of subjection.
This "vacant stare" reminds me of the kind of advice most parents give their children, especially their daughters. We tell them not to make eye contact with strangers on the street, as that may be construed as a come on, and there are weirdos out there who may act impulsively on such a signal. Hence do not look into a stranger's eyes. I see most women on the street who keep there eyes looking down at the sidewalk, which I think is part of this strategy. So could it be, if the women at the Kingodm Hall just looked indifferently, straight ahead, they could not be accused of eyeing someone, or behaving inappropriately- a kind of self-protection mechanism.
I don't know if this is the case by and large, but I have my suspicions, given all the negative publicity I see the JW's have been getting these past few years. Also, here in Canada, our national television network visited the Watchtower Headquarters near Toronto, Ontario over the child abuse problem, and they really and truly looked like they were bunkered down behind some very high iron fences. I thought the JW personnel behind those fences displayed a kind of seige mentality. It was a pitiful sight, as far as I was concerned!
Rod P.
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potleg
I remember giving talks and lookng out over a sea of faces, transfixed with the permanant gaze of vacant, hollow minds switched off to reality.
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evita
I agree with flyinghigh. The dubs I have recently been in contact with ( especially lifers) do have that doll like, sad expression. Very hard to maintain eye contact and I think I had that look for a long time also.
LOL at comment re: the runaway bride. When I first saw her picture, I said to my husband, "She's CRAZY!
Eva