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  The experience that changed my life

  by hijosdelawatch in

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  i have been lurking for a long time here and i think i'm prepared to speak about this experience openly.. .

  i was born in a jw family and i grew up as the average jehovah's witness does.

  even being very young, i helped with the territories and other work in the congregation.

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  Why don't they adapt to other cultures? (an American religion?)

  by hijosdelawatch in

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  2. friends

  i guess the majority of you haven't noticed that being an american, canadian, british, australia... (being involved in the anglosaxon culture) but there are situations in other cultures that make jws seem a bit bizarre.. since the watchtower is quite rigid and bureaucratic, it's reluctant to adapt to different cultures.

  so sometimes even the brothers feel very uncomfortable adopting all this "watchtower culture" and even not knowing what to do in some situations.. for example, here in spain women keep their maiden names.

  but for some reason, it's the watchtower culture to adopt a particular system.

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  In a funeral... or when the JWs want to show they're different

  by hijosdelawatch in

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  a couple of days ago i went to the funeral of an old age brother in his 80s.. well, that was the typical jw funeral although his daughter and the rest of his family are not witnesses.

  as you know the brothers don't wear black clothes nor they show lot of sadness as a "prove" they believe in resurrection.. the problem this time is some of them went too far.

  two sisters had red clothing and at the entrance a group of brothers were literally laughing.

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  a new one

  by hijosdelawatch in

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  i'm still inside because of family, friends... all my life is there.

  i used to have doubts (one year ago) but now i only have certainties about the org.

  another reason for staying, at least for now, is i'm living at home with my jw mother and she allowed me to go to college.. i seem to everyone in the congregation a normal witness but when i sit down in the meetings i do know 99% what i listen to is just the same failed prophecies and doctrines repeated always in the same way.. i'm now being "persuaded" to accept my appointed as a ms. though i'm not doing nothing special to get it, i'm serving in a foreign language territory simply because i couldn't hold on with the pressure of my family and elders from my congregation.

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