not too long ago, i posted a topic where i pointed out that there are about 1 million xjws alive right now.
that number only represented the disfellowshipped ones... didn't account for those who had become publishers and left or anyone else who got hurt by that group by proxy.
so, why are there so few of them online?
i know this has been discussed over the years on this forum, but i just had to post this again!.
it seems that the popular fad amongst the "spiritual" ones in the local circuits is to home school their children instead of sending them to school.. now to clarify, we are in a very nice area of semi rural australia .
one with very community minded, and strong family values.
That sounds really good and I'm sure the parents put a lot of effort into it but there's already such places where kids can go to do all those things.
They're called schools.
The social side effects of going to school are as important as the academic goals. Tell me which home schooled teenager learned to undo a bra strap with one hand? Got into a playground fight? Dropped water bombs on a teacher's head from the third floor? Turned a teacher's reliant robin over in the car park (only the uk ones will get that)? Got absolutely mortal on smuggled vodka during a chemistry lesson and had to be collected by very irate parents? Looking longingly at a girl you've fancied for 3 weeks and now know a love like no one ever has before you?
These are all rites of passage and to deny a child those experiences is a shame.
not too long ago, i posted a topic where i pointed out that there are about 1 million xjws alive right now.
that number only represented the disfellowshipped ones... didn't account for those who had become publishers and left or anyone else who got hurt by that group by proxy.
so, why are there so few of them online?
I bet the 750k daily hits also includes bots.
i know this has been discussed over the years on this forum, but i just had to post this again!.
it seems that the popular fad amongst the "spiritual" ones in the local circuits is to home school their children instead of sending them to school.. now to clarify, we are in a very nice area of semi rural australia .
one with very community minded, and strong family values.
When one the GB heads of the JWS says that pursing higher education is like playing Russian Roulette with a gun to your head, people listen and you know he's got to be right .
Some parents may even think about their once JW relative who sought out a higher level of education in secular college and they dropped out of the JW cult.
I know - having an education can be a dangerous thing. Especially as by the time you've worked once round the Ministry School scorecard (Repetition for emphasis anyone?) that's easily the equivalent to a university degree!
one voice can be stronger than a thousand voices.
your mind is independent now.
with its own unique identity.
i know this has been discussed over the years on this forum, but i just had to post this again!.
it seems that the popular fad amongst the "spiritual" ones in the local circuits is to home school their children instead of sending them to school.. now to clarify, we are in a very nice area of semi rural australia .
one with very community minded, and strong family values.
So on my soapbox, I want to be clear. Homeschooling IMO, done by parents who value education, IS superior to a traditional classroom 5 days a week.
From a purely academic point of view perhaps, but school teaches so much more than that. There's all the intangibles; how to behave in a group, how to socialise, how to play team games, how to react to authority, how to smoke behind the bike sheds. The list goes on.
I would have hated to be stuck at home day in day out learning off the same people, espeically if they happened to be my parents. That would be more than a bit weird. . And as much as you wish it, it's impractical for parents to know every subject to a high school standard. That's why schools have different teachers for different subject.
i have a certain customer, whom we will call sally.
i know sally only by face and only through work.
i am a truck driver on a local dedicated route, and i often deliver to her work.
Just make sure you get her a christmas card :D
I always sneak a little bit of tinsel into my Mother's house at xmas and hang it somewhere she'll find it later. Gives me a perverse pleasure and she does see the funny side.
not too long ago, i posted a topic where i pointed out that there are about 1 million xjws alive right now.
that number only represented the disfellowshipped ones... didn't account for those who had become publishers and left or anyone else who got hurt by that group by proxy.
so, why are there so few of them online?
JW organization loses significantly more Witnesses to apathy than to apostasy.
That, in a nutshell.
not too long ago, i posted a topic where i pointed out that there are about 1 million xjws alive right now.
that number only represented the disfellowshipped ones... didn't account for those who had become publishers and left or anyone else who got hurt by that group by proxy.
so, why are there so few of them online?
Thinking of the harm all of these people have suffered (and they suffered plenty),
I appreciate that there's those that did suffer harm, but I would say a large number, perhaps even the majority (including myself) don't view themselves as having suffered any harm. They simply don't believe it any more, either as they matured in adults or as they came to see things differently.
jehovah's witnesses cannot do a lot of things.
i remember pioneers having to quit their jobs because they could not work in a convenience store and sell cigarettes.
i know of a young man who was offered a scholarship to any college or university if he wanted to go to because of his football abilities.
....I wouldn'the have met my future wife who worked there at the time.
At least something good came of my path out of the cult.
Similar to me. And that's one of the reasons I can never be overly annoyed about my childhood as a witness.
