Thank you, Oompa.
As A Witness, What Were Your Aspirations?
by minimus 31 Replies latest jw friends
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JH
My aspirations were, "don't ask what I can do for the congregation, but ask what the congregation can do for me".
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WTWizard
What I was hoping was to get married (they shot that down in a big hurry) and maintain a nice, steady service average in the 20s per month (they kept hounding me to pioneer, even insinuating that it was "Pioneer...or DIE!"). If being a hounder was in the cards, I would find myself meeting the necessary requirements without too much trouble; if not, I would not. And no, I did not want to go to Beth Hell, even though I was hounded about it until I turned 35.
Now, I hope to do the most damage in exposing the Watchtower Society that I can. My aspirations now are to become Emperor Class by my first anniversary and become a Supreme One within three years.
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bluebell
I didn't have any aspiriations! i'd already been told i wasn't elders wife material! good job i left hey?
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minimus
What's "elder's wife material''?
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XBEHERE
I wanted to be a CO. Life took over and both wife and I stopped pioneering after I was appointed an elder because we were tired of it. So that dream was gone... oh well
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bbdodger
I was going to be in the art department at Bethel.
Ha! That's what I wanted to do... do illustrations for publications. What a thankless job. There are some very talented people working at WTBTS.
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bbdodger
underneath all of that my aspiration was to die. Since death covered our sins, and I was a Jehovah's witness and did 'everything' I was supposed to do that I would probably be resurrected in the new system and not have to suffer anymore inside of myself.
Sad, but too true. I was always told that once you died, you would blink, and instantly wake up in paradise . That seemed like a good plan. Better than having to go through all the crap involved in being a JW, and better than having to go through Armageddon.
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minimus
When I was a 20 year buck, I thought I could be "groomed" to be a CO. But DO seemed even better!
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greendawn
I never came to that point because first I tried the JWs and found that they were not what they claimed to be and therefore never progressed to the next stage of setting long term objectives as a JW.
In a way my first move was to test them out and I found them to be false apostles. For a year I was a very obedient and active dub but they never responded with any emotional solidarity.