What great recollections. Those folks praying publicly -- that's always been one of my pet peeves, but I subdued it and participated when I had my family out at a restaurant. I could never rationalize that with Jesus' words, "...when you pray, go into a closet...".
That's actually commonplace around here with the fundies as we live in the Bible belt part of the U.S., Arkansas.
Fats
Ever embarrassed by a JW?
by Fatfreek 14 Replies latest jw friends
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Fatfreek
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Fatfreek
Dr. Jekyll, yours takes the cake -- so far. How could they live that experience down?
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Fatfreek
I'll have to tell one on myself (and my ex-wife). Yes, we were the guilty ones this time but it wasn't anything we said.
We were freshly married and attending a circuit assy in Des Moines. Those were the days when we rented this private room for some $2 per night from this elderly man in a nicely-kept home.
After the evening sessions we'd returned and retired into the bed and all was quiet -- for a few moments.
Well, we were newlyweds weren't we and we then proceeded to act like newlyweds! But the slats beneath the box springs of the bed let go with such a crash onto that upstairs hardwood floor! We were so embarrased as we reassembled the slats and the box and the mattress.
When we saw the gent the next day he never let on that he heard a thing.
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Finally-Free
My greatest embarrassment is that I was a JW and that I joined them as an adult. My only consolation is that in those days, without the internet, information about the watchtower cult was not as readily available.
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bikerchic
Oh yeah I've been embarrassed by some of the actions of a few JW's in public places. Too many to list and it's not nice to make fun of the mentally handicapped who find themselves trying to get love and acceptance from a cult.
More to the point, I've embarrassed myself by being a JW and taking hardline actions of the cult of my youth.