The JWs have told them that they raise all of their money through "donations" and that the rest of the money is used for the betterment and enrichment of the rest of humanity. In theory that sounds lovely and I would love to be a part of that cult too but in actuality I know better. It just makes me insane to think that my father who is a very educated man in his own right could fall into this. He used to always talk about education, me going back to get my MBA or going to law school and all of that has completely stopped. Blows my mind to see how they twisted him.
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Can someone help me to understand?
by hiccup ini am very new to this whole "religion" and although i have pulled up some information on jehovah's witnesses, i can't seem to get my arms around it.
the reason i have come here is because my father has been doing bible studies and readings for about 2 years now and over the last 6 months to a year he has been someone very different from who i used to know.
it all started with a near fatal car accident and then with my sister getting involved with drugs and running away with her boyfriend.
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Can someone help me to understand?
by hiccup ini am very new to this whole "religion" and although i have pulled up some information on jehovah's witnesses, i can't seem to get my arms around it.
the reason i have come here is because my father has been doing bible studies and readings for about 2 years now and over the last 6 months to a year he has been someone very different from who i used to know.
it all started with a near fatal car accident and then with my sister getting involved with drugs and running away with her boyfriend.
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Thank you all for your support and for being so helpful. I just cannot imagine this being the life that he has chosen so I am still stunned. I am supposed to go home next month before I leave for Italy so I am hoping to sit down and have a talk with him, I just know I will get angry as soon as he brings up this new life. I feel like a brat for being this way, it isn't as if he has died but it feels that way to me right now.
I really do appreciate all of you and it makes me very hopeful that he can pull himself out of it I just hope I don't do or say anything that might make him take a step back.
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Can someone help me to understand?
by hiccup ini am very new to this whole "religion" and although i have pulled up some information on jehovah's witnesses, i can't seem to get my arms around it.
the reason i have come here is because my father has been doing bible studies and readings for about 2 years now and over the last 6 months to a year he has been someone very different from who i used to know.
it all started with a near fatal car accident and then with my sister getting involved with drugs and running away with her boyfriend.
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I am very new to this whole "religion" and although I have pulled up some information on Jehovah's Witnesses, I can't seem to get my arms around it. The reason I have come here is because my father has been doing bible studies and readings for about 2 years now and over the last 6 months to a year he has been someone very different from who I used to know. It all started with a near fatal car accident and then with my sister getting involved with drugs and running away with her boyfriend. My father has worked his entire life to give my sister and I everything we could want and need and we have both fallen short of his expectations. I have been offered a really great opportunity in Europe but I am willing to forego that if it means that I can help my father pull out of whatever is going on emotionally. He has just told me that he has looked into a cleaning job at a university and work for just enough to give himself and my mother 3 meals a day. You have to understand, he was a self-employed business owner that had absolutely nothing handed to him and managed to buy our family a huge home, brand new cars, sent us to private schools and then me to private university. These last 1.5 to 2 years he has blown through a lot of their money they had saved and really is considering moving clear across the country to Amherst, MA to be a part of a clean-up crew!!!!!. What I am having a hard time understanding is if being a Jehovah's Witness is what has brought him to this idea? Is there anything within the religion that says that being financially successful is wrong or does anyone know what I can do? I am desperate and it breaks my heart to think of him cleaning up after college kids after he has managed to build this life with his own hands.
Thanks for looking and I would appreciate any insight as to whether this JW practice has anything to do with this enormous change in personality and lifestyle.