i was thinking about some interracial jw couples that chose each other because they do not have alot of choices like finding someone in their own race in the religion, i have been seeing alot more jw interracial couples lately.
have you noticed them in your area?
don't get me wrong.
Yes I do notice JW interracial couples in my area, but I'm not that surprised b/c...
1. foreign language groups and congregations are growing
2. small dating pool - as long as the WTBS pushes the "Marry only in the Lord" scripture, JW's can only date/marry other JW's...which leaves them less than 8 million people on this planet.
my 34 year old daughter may be moving in with me for awile when i move to arizona.
we get along great but we haven't lived together in 14 years.
in these tough money times we feel two could live cheaper than one......i'm looking forward to the move.. three years ago i had my 28 year old son move back in with me for six months.
My brothers and i are between 21-25 and we still live with our parents in the same house. At the same time, we're all still in college. We're also Asian, so it's traditional that the kids don't move out until they get married and can afford their own place.
for me it was rather painful.
it was like pressing your nose against the candy store window, knowing that you can look, but you cannot partake.
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And at the end I never got to attend my graduation because we were at a stoopid district convention.
Aww...cobaltcupcake, you're not the only person who didn't get to go to their high school graduation.
My family and i couldn't go to mine b/c the weather was too humid and hot.
for me it was rather painful.
it was like pressing your nose against the candy store window, knowing that you can look, but you cannot partake.
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So so... it was awkward as hell to explain these wacky WT beliefs to my teachers and classmates.
Suprisingly no body gave me a hard time about being a JW.
Instead I was giving myself a hard time by restricting myself from joining clubs, making close friends, going to proms & dances, reading "magic" books and watching R-rated movies in school.
It really sucked when I didn't have enough time for those school work and preparing for the meetings.
So I ended up sleeping 3 or 4 hours a night.
By the end of senior year, i graduated at the top 20% of my class w/ a 3.8 GPA and i got baptized.
Years later, I still wonder how did i manage all that w/o jumping off a bridge.
tl;dr: high school years as a jw were awkward and time/energy consuming
for me, i think it's that the witnesses teach they are god's spokesman.
they represent his "faithful & discreet slave"....and that they alone are expounders of the only truth and that if you disagree with anything they teach, you are considered worse than vomit.. it's unbelievable because these people are wrong so many times, it cannot be excused!.
as a witness, you must accept every viewpoint and if you (and your family) do not accept it all, hook, line and sinker, you are "apostates"!!!.
Not allowed to make outside friends and limiting contact with unbelieving relatives.
I was rarely invited to hang out with other witnesses (mainly because i was considered "bad association" ), so i spent most of my time alone.
Now at 23, I'm starting to turn into one of those forever alone hermits.
my elder buddy and i would frequent strip clubs when we wanted to.. a few friends knew i enjoyed clubbing and music concerts and i seldom ever spoke of my private social life to others.. i know many jws, including elders, that drank excessively but that wasn't considered too big a deal..
Having worldly friends, watching mandatory R-rated movies for college classes, and playing video games containing violence and magic.
i'm a big science nerd and i remember when we were going over the creator book, that the big bang doesn't necessarily prove there is no god.. i said this comment during book study and the conductor's jaw dropped.
everyone was pretty uncomfortable and it didn't help that he ct me off as i was explaining the red shift and mom wasn't too happy about all that.
i had to do a lot of bible research and write some nonsense about how the big bang was not reality or some sort...ugh.. .
I got counseled by vegetarian JWs.
i'm a big science nerd and i remember when we were going over the creator book, that the big bang doesn't necessarily prove there is no god.. i said this comment during book study and the conductor's jaw dropped.
everyone was pretty uncomfortable and it didn't help that he ct me off as i was explaining the red shift and mom wasn't too happy about all that.
i had to do a lot of bible research and write some nonsense about how the big bang was not reality or some sort...ugh.. .
- wearing "gothic" jewelry out in service (which was 2 plain black bracelets)
- wearing dark clothes most of the time
- painting my nails dark red (i was unaware of the meaning at that time)
- painting my toenails purple
- wearing make up as a teenager
- eating a cheesesteak
- playing video games
- underlining my wt with a purple inked pen
- going to the bathroom during a meeting and field service
- not witnessing to every 'unbeliever' i know
i remember when i was young reading through the "young people ask" book.
i remember thinking, several times, that if i followed all the advice, i'd not have any friends at all.. here's a funny look at the dating advice they give: http://www.jehovahswitnessblog.com/funnies/jehovahs-witness-dating-advice/.
king agag.
I remember one of my brother's non-witness friend tried to ask me out. The conversation sort of went like this...
Brother's Friend: Do you want to go out some time?
Me: Sorry I can't date anyone who isn't a Jehovah's Witness.
Brother's Friend: What if I became a Jehovah's Witness?
Me: Then we would have to bring a chaperone.
Brother's Friend: Would I have to pay for the chaperone as well?
Me: I don't know...maybe
Brother's Friend: Your religion is expensive and who actually brings a chaperone on a date?
7 years later: My brother's friend got married this year to a nice lady. Now I agree with him that having a chaperone on a date does seem lame...especially if the couple were adults.
life is so short and being a witness is such a waste of valuable time.. now, i do not feel rushed or compelled to be at a meeting or out in field service.
much less stress!.
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