Were You A Liberal, Moderate or Conservative JW?

by minimus 31 Replies latest jw friends

  • luna2
    luna2

    This is kind of hard. LOL I stunk at meeting attendance and field service, but I would try not to miss more than two or three meetings a month and I'd try hard to at least get average hours in the FS. I also wasn't particularly regular with conducting our family study, and personal study mostly consisted of reading the material and looking up a few scriptures. Weak. I felt like I should be doing better in all these areas, but I didn't have the energy for it.

    As for my personal convictions and attitude, I was moderate to conservative and took every little suggestion made by the FDS to heart. I quit the YMCA, I stopped going to school, I started cleaning houses, I made every DA, CA and special Ass. day. I stopped looking at men in anything but a sisterly or platonic-friend sort of way. For a long time I wouldn't go to or even rent R-rated movies. I eventually stopped reading romance novels and mysteries (murder for entertainment and all that rot), although I never gave up my sci-fi books. When we started off, my boys were still playing soccer, but by the time I was baptized we'd pulled out of that. I was a bit weaker with some holidays..we'd show up at relatives houses for dinner, but would leave before presents. We also always went to Thanksgiving dinner...but never missed the Thursday meeting, so my parents adapted by eating early in the day.

    I was not a good shunner as it broke my heart to ignore people, but at the same time I didn't want to go against Jah, so I'd hide a lot so as not to have to confront DF'd ones. I also wasn't into running to the elders with things confided in me, so I guess I was a liberal on the "keeping God's organization clean" thing.

    So. What was I? I guess I was a weak moderate.

  • thom
    thom

    I was quite liberal. I never had the feeling that I was displeasing God when I did things that JW's look down on, just displeasing brothers, so I didn't care too much about it as I didn't really feel they had any business intruding into my personal life (which they loved to do).

  • GetBusyLiving
    GetBusyLiving

    Liberal, but I tried to be conservative in stints.. I hated the hypocracy stuff. I was liberal in the sense that I wanted the truth no matter what it was and didn't get it in the Dubs. I really did try to "make the truth my own" a bunch of times as a kid, but kept dropping it again and again because I realized it was all bullshit.

    GBL

  • prophecor
    prophecor

    Liberal as two left shoes

  • blondie
    blondie

    Liberal

  • kls
    kls

    Very Liberal. I am the same now as i was then

  • BrendaCloutier
    BrendaCloutier

    moderate-conservative ... until I saw the blatant hypocrisy at a diff cong and the DO supported THEM. Then I copped a case of the fukkits and fuk-u's and became very .... drunk.

  • GetBusyLiving
    GetBusyLiving

    :Then I copped a case of the fukkits and fuk-u's and became very .... drunk.

    I did that for a short time too during my transition out of the borg into normalcy (Cog Dis). So nice to be over all that stuff now.. holy crap.

    GBL

  • minimus
    minimus

    It's funny how many Witnesses took the conservative stance for everyone but themselves.

  • vitty
    vitty

    Moderate, I let my kids watch Buffy and the x-filesĀ“but I was regular at meeting and FS

    I swore occasionally, never gambled, we hardly ever had a family study but we were all on the school

    I never answered the WT but frequently did in the book study.

    I tried never to judge ppl but often did !!!

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