my father married a jw who already had two kids. my step-brother and step-sister were both younger than me and somewhat lackadaisical about their religion. they were always reluctant to go to kingdom hall and had to be dragged to meetings. then the day came that my step-sister matured and was all of a sudden the most holy person in the world. i asked her why she was so uppity and she told me it was because she was going on a trip to NY to Bethel or wherever. i asked her why she got to go and she said that she wanted to help the wbts out. i told her that a 13-year-old couldn't do much and her response was that "all jw's are equally responsible for ensuring that their religion held strong." what next, a four year working at the wbts? they're kids, let them be kids while they still can! and for pete's sake, if they want ot go to the beach instead of going door-to-door, let them witness at the beach. my 9-year-old step-brother went door-to-door in a suit for 5 hours on a hot august day. i say- "send them to the beach and let the grown-ups be the adults"
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Why dont JW's have a youth group?
by In_between_days insomething that has been alarming to my jw family is the amount of teens ("young ones") that have bailed out of the organisation, never to return.. they use the excuse, as would most jw's that "satan is getting them - he knows young ones are vulnerable.".
if you want my opinion, young people are getting far more educated - they are becoming far more broad minded than they were say 10 or 20 years ago.
because of the slow yet sturdy slackening of the "no college" rule, many more young jw's are attending university or college than ever before, and with further education comes more knowledge, more interaction with reasonable and intelligent conversations with educated people and most importantly -use of the internet ("satans latest tool, as put by a jw i talked to recently).
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