as a jw, did anyone ever ask you the following.... "if you discovered that jehovah's witnesses weren't really teaching the truth, would you leave them?".
here again, it's a toughie for most of them.
if they say "no" they appear a mind-numbed fool.
No one ever asked me that question.
First, you would have to be in the presence of someone who might ask you a question like that, and dubs never are. Dubs only hang out with dubs. Second, if/when dubs are around other people they do not discuss religion with anyone who might challenge their beliefs and "weaken their faith".
i realize that it's entirely possible that i'm seeing things from my own perspective only but i've noticed a increasingly powerful voice speaking for religious thoughts in world politics.
are we seeing a return to a victorian age?
am i just paranoid?
I think it is an American phenomenon ... one that will hopefully end very soon!
never been in one, but know they are not all exactly alike.
are any pictures hanging in them at all, of jesus, god, etc?.
are there kids' bible story pictures or anything?
Ummm ... I remember some pretty pictures of some flowers on the wall! I also remember one Kingdom Hall had a painting that was a representation of Paradise?.
The society's calendar hanging on the bulletin board had pictures of bible scenes on them. I'm sure the kids learned a lot from those!
And Sunday School??? Are you kidding??? You are expected to behave as an adult and suffer through the same two hours of horse shit that everyone else has to endure! And be still. And don't talk. And don't draw beards on the pictures in the magazines!
i came across this picture some time ago and i just think it's funny!
lol!
i wonder what in the world he sees in there?
You guys are thinking along the same lines as me! LOL!
I thought he was probably thinking .... That is ONE HOT SISTER knocking on that door!
Either that or he's straining to have a good poop!
i came across this picture some time ago and i just think it's funny!
lol!
i wonder what in the world he sees in there?
I came across this picture some time ago and I just think it's funny! LOL! I wonder what in the world he sees in there?
i was discussing with my mother (still a jw in good standing) and we were laughing about how in every watchtower, when they show "good christian witnesses" at someone's home or doing family activities, they always wear khakis, without fail.
and whenever they show "worldly" people, they are wearing jeans.
have y'all noticed this?
He actually tried to explain the difference between wearing your cap backwards for work and wearing it backwards for style. For work = okay. For style = not okay.That seems somewhat cultish
Ya think????
I wonder how many other religions would devote such time to a discussion on how to wear a hat!
if you are an atheist, what are your thoughts on the afterlife?
mortality?
we are what we are until we die, then are no more?
<-------- Agrees with SoN.
howdy all.... .
i have a 6 yo son who is in the first grade.
he was born 10 weeks preemie, was an only child up until about 6 months ago and spends a lot of time with adults - especially me...his goofy but loving dad.
First of all, I am not a parent, but I am a teacher. It is hard to say without actually knowing your kid, but I will say that it seems a lot of times labels are put on kids too quickly when they are simply just being a kid.
I would definitely listen to what they have to say about what they are seeing in your son at school, but I would think twice before letting them label him as anything, unless it (1) interfers with his learning or (2) interfers with the learning of others. If it doesn't, then they cannot say anything other maybe he's a little odd!
I have worked with a lot of kids, and I can tell you that some kids are just *weird*! They are still normal kids though when it comes to most things. Honestly, this may blow your head up even bigger about your son, but a lot of the behaviors you described (being glued to things he is interested in, obsessed with certain topics, adult talk, etc.) are indicative of gifted kids, and some gifted kids can be a little "strange"! (But in a good way!)
*this is a bit of a riff off of bluegrass tom's post in the bible research forumn .
in my old hall we had three interracial couples.
in fact i didn't even realise that they were interracial until i was about 12. .
I think it is part of the JW culture now to be accepting of interracial couples.
My sister and brother-in-law are an interracial couple. They wed 15 years ago when we were living in the South! It was the talk of the town, so to speak, but it was still pretty much accepted. I think they must have been the first interracial marriage that JWs down there had ever seen! We had people come to the wedding that we had never even seen before, and there were three people who videotaped it ... and none of us ever received a copy!!!!!!!!!
i was wondering if anybody feels like i do that if i hadn't been raised a jw i would never have embraced the religion.
i know it's easier to say in hindsight after i know the truth about the org but honestly i don't think i would have given them the time of day.
i'm not a religious person or even a spiritual person and being a jw always caused a conflict in my mind.
Do you think if you had been raised as a worldly ? person you would have been attracted to the JW's or any religion when you grew up?
This is a hard question to answer because we will never know what kind of persons we would have become if we had not grown up in the organization. I know that is true for me.
I would like to think I definitely would not be attracted to the Witnesses because I always examine things closely before I buy in. (I am assuming I would still have this quality had I not been raised a JW.)
I am also fairly certain that I would be interested in some type of religion or God, although I do not know what that would be. I feel like I have been so poisoned against religion in general that I have no use for any of it now.
