top of my list has to be hypocrisy.
it runs right through, from elders downwards.
the literature and the gb are bad enough, but the bit that touches ordinary people, householders, students and ordinary rank and file is the false goodness that they put on like a raincoat.
Yes hypocrisy is definitely up there. Disfellowshipping is the worst practice they have and they don't seem to have
any problem with the policy. They do it "out of love". Oh and depending on who you are you can get DF'd or just
get left alone. Depends on how much money you have!
for me its the district conventions.
not bragging in anyway, but i was born-into a family of 'higher ups' im talking co's and zo's..... and there is a room that they set up in the conventions/stadiums called the "chairmans office".
i always have access to these rooms, because im usually with one of my higher up family members who give talks and all that other crap.. anyways, while everyone in the convention is sitting in the sun, eating a slimy, soggy bolognia sandwich, the chairmans office is air conditioned, has a variety of chilled beverages, 'coke, pepsi, diet coke, gatorade, dasani water bottles,' not to mention the 'danishes, sandwich triangles, cookies, cakes, muffins, fresh coffee, and for lunch, pizza, salads, pastas, and lasagna'.
That women can't wear pants to the meetings. And the fact that women are second class citizens. Oh yeah and the different rules for dirfferent people to be disfellowshipped! Depends on how rich you might be if you don't get DF'd.
i still have jw stuff like bibles and watchtower i have to get rid of.
do you any of you guys and girls here have stuff you to get rid of..
I still have my NWT bible from when I was baptised in 1972 and I have the Aid to Bible Understanding book that was published in the mid '70's. Is there a newer version of the "Aid" book? It would be interesting to compare and see how they have changed it!
so i thought that jws weren't supposed to celebrate "wordly holidays?
" i saw on fb my uber elder cousin and his wife and daughter at a big new year's eve party with many other jw's ringing in the new year!
how do they justify that?
So I thought that JWs weren't supposed to celebrate "wordly holidays?" I saw on FB my uber elder cousin and his wife and daughter at a big New Year's Eve party with many other JW's ringing in the New Year! How do they justify that?
i know this has been discussed before but i think a fresh thread on this will be enjoyable.
I remember Kin and MaryJo Suen very well. Late '70s in the Seattle area. I ended up typing up notes for his talks at the KH and he really took
a liking to me and went so far as to say "Can you be patient?" Implying that eventually he would get rid of Mary Jo and we would be together? WTF?
I was trying to leave the JW's and he actually stalked me to my new apartment in Seattle to offer "encouragement". Of course none of my family believed me and told me I must be mistaken since a DO would never do anything like that. Yeah right! MaryJo was fun however. They liked to drink a lot too.
meet up wth an old friend of my parents.
it was sad, mable in her 80's husband is 91 and falling apart.
off course to start with it was armageddon must be soon.
I have an 81 year old mother that just had hip replacement and is particularly whiney about getting old. She goes around saying "I never thought I would get this old" blah blah blah. She is good health and should be around for awhile but that's what is bothering her I'm sure. she still thinks Armaggedeon is right around the corner and "why would people have children in this system of things?" like it's happening tomorrow.
she's also giving her estate to the WTBTS instead of me since she tells me "well you aren't going to live that long so you don't need the money"
Really? Well if Armaggedeon is right around the corner then why does the WTBTS need it? No reasoning with these people!!
how would you react toward those family members that.
have treated you like you had leprosy.
for years didn,t.
About 4 years ago I got married to my longtime partner after living "in sin" for 10+ years. The light switch was turned on with my mother and now since he's not DF'd or never been a JW I think she likes him more than me! Before that she wouldn't even call him by name it was 'your friend"! Relationships just dont' work that way!
how would you react toward those family members that.
have treated you like you had leprosy.
for years didn,t.
If they did drop the shunning policy I think I would be inclined to shun them instead! (I've been DF'd for 35+ years) what a bunch of phoney people!
How do the R&F get invited to the "Annual Meeting?" Do they invite the rich witnesses only? I do know of someone here in Seattle that got invited but they couldn't go because of health reasons so the son and daughter in law "get" to go. These people were always part of the witness elite and also makes loads of $$$.
this lady is quite new to my workplace and we got chatting and she asked how i met my husband etc ... after i finished telling her of my jw experiances she said i could write a book and i really should !
she said she has a friend who shes known for 30 years and she became a jw about 15 years ago and this friend had recently deleted her off her friends list !
she also said this friend likes to play bingo which she presumed wouldnt be allowed in the religion so had thought it cant be all that strict in that religion !!!!!
My cousin who is "on the fence" regarding the JW's unfriended me because she "didn't like what she saw" on my FB wall. I guess the Watchtower Uncensored page offended her. Boo hoo I say! Her whole family is in the JW's and she rejected the religion growing up but now that she's over 30 she's decided she's "going back" to them. However she's still got lots of non JW's friends but that's oh so much different since I'm DF'd. Not acceptable!
