I apologize, I got a bit screwed up on who said what, thus I've omitted most names (Gill, Jez, Alone in Oh) from quotes instead of applying the incorrect name to each quote......................
Sorry to bore you, how about a game of golf?--------------------Golf
Hi Golf, noone on this board has ever bored me ! I was being a bit facetious, in actuality it's the JW thing I think we all get to the point of being bored with. I think even the die-hard JWs are gettting bored with BEING JWs. Honestly, the sisters that come to my door (diehards) look SOOO tired, it's almost as if they're old actresses that have said their lines so many times that now they just want to get it done with so they can collect their paycheck .......... AND, I of course listen to the spiel nonchalently because I realize that talking to a witness in person is like talking to a wall.
Actually I am truly fond of MOST of the JWs I know, but I recall as a kid many being ARROGANT and SELF RIGHTEOUS, turning their noses up at anyone who wasn't a JW. NOW, they see that many so called "worldly" people may have experienced the SAME life experiences as them, that all "worldly" people don't have tragic things happen to them because they DESERVE it, that JW-ism did not protect JWs from life, and now it doesn't protect them from growing old. They're growing old right along with the ones they felt superior to. They're now as bored with the JW lingo as we are.......................
"Everyone where I work knows that I am an exjw. I even used to tell them
that I believed it was the truth, but I just didn't want to live that
way".---------------
We go through "deprogramming," don't you think ? I swear, I was away from this goofy religion for YEARS, never was baptized, NEVER was comfortable with it, and STILL somehow thought they were "right." I realize now that someone that "blinded by the light" most likely won't hear with an open mind what's being said. That is why I now refrain from arguing about the WTS's "truth" with JWs..................
"I totally agree with you. We HAVE to do more but it's not that easy.
IF we don't act slowly and rationally they don't listen, meaning relatives
and immeadiately the shutter go up."-----------------------
I totally agree, the shutters don't just "go" up, they're ALWAYS up. I don't talk to my relatives regarding the "truth" anymore. So many on this board and elsewhere have paved the way and made it easy to attempt to reach JWs without discussing the truth with them. Hopefully you'll reach my relatives, I'll reach yours. Well, eventually. I make copies of UN papers and send them to everyone I know to give to JWs that come to the door. I send them out of state and have a friend mail them to halls and JWs. This Memorial I'll put nothing more than the UN's website address on a paper and put it on each car in the K.H. lot. I don't care if it only reaches one witness. If just ONE witness gets curious and looks it up, it's worth it. But I know if enough people do this, sooner or later wondering JWs will receive information that they can glance at in the privacy of their homes without confrontation. Plant the seed, right..................