Hi gain Telecom... I guess your boss ain't lookin' over your shoulder right now, so... you post this...
``once again we see the reasons that so many dubs hate antis...pure
lies and b.s..''
No, telecom, the reason JWs hate antis is because they're among the most intolerant people on earth. An it ain't jsut antis'' they detest: it's everybody that isn't one of them and even that ``other half'' of their own kind who slacken the pace on meeting attendance and field service.
You're quite right about the dangers of bad associations, but there are more constructive ways to deal with it than adopting a monastic lifestyle. Whether it's on the football team, in school, in on the workplace, young JWs are eventually coming to have to come to grips with interacting with people who don't share their views of life and religion.
Your high school football team may well have goten drunk on every return bus trip from an away game; that certain hasn't been true with any of the teams my sons have played on. Sure there were some bad apples and wild types; but generally goal-oriented, sensible, well-brought-up kids with self respect know how to deal wih that, as do the coaches who are put in charge.
Furthermore, the misguided anti-education policies of the WT virtually guarantees that when underqualified young JWs enter the workplace, it's exactly the trouble-making goobers on the football they're likely to have to work alongside.
And my experience is that kids who decline to take part in irrespnsible drinking, wild sex, or other misconduct are as often likely to be respected and held up as role models as they are to be ridiculed.
In my town-- and it's one whose high school football team has won several state championships and been nationally ranked -- would ride any coach out on a rail if he tolerated any of teh behavioir you describe.
As I said, parental involvement and awareness is the key; the JW policy of forbidding every request by your kid to participate in a non-Witness project or activity and hop that he/she quiescently accepts , is the lazy way to keeping kids in line doesn't work -- and the Society's current hemmorhaging of children proves it.
