How Do People Like Sir 82 & Others Who Are Active JWs Do It ???

by minimus 93 Replies latest jw friends

  • OUTLAW
    OUTLAW

    NVL..

    According to you..Your Jewish..

    You also claim to be a Jehovah`s Witness..

    You sit through meetings..You go out in the FS..You have a RV..You snowboard with younger JW`s..

    And..

    Your Jewish..A Jewish Jehovah`s Witness????????????????????????

    - sit through the meetings? I miss as many as I can and when I do go, I mentally laugh at what I hearing or check out the hotties and let my imagination run wild or play poker on my blackberry.

    - Go out in service? About once every two months when I go I make sure to get in the groups that is doing return visits or visiting the older ones on the congregation that are house-bound. They ALL have cats and I am allergic, so I guess I'll have to sit here in car again, darn it, and send text messages to my friends or play poker on my blackberry. An alternative strategry is to have a 12:30 tee time (this works best with another brother). I have a single RV that is a demented old man that is 45 mins away on the other side of county, so we do my RV first, take break, drive back to town and then I gotta go meet brother so and so....see ya guys (yet amazingly I get 8 hours every single month, enough to avoid the hounders but not enough to qualify for anything). I live where you can golf 9 months out of the year, so that one works well. In the winter months I just take a bunch of the younger ones snowboarding on saturdays. Amazingly, I am often too sore to make it to meetings on Sunday...

    - I never answer at the meetings because "I just don't feel like my answers are are good as anyone elses and sometimes I don't know if I am phrasing it right so I don't want to stumble anyone and it just feels like cheating to repeat it back from the watchtower"

    - avoid talking about myself? Generic non-answers and then show a "genuine" interest in what is going on with the other person for two minutes and then i need to run off to talk to another brother real quick before he leaves....

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  • Soldier77
    Soldier77

    Since I just started my fade, I'm not sure at what stage or how long each stage will take to get through. I am in the first stage very likely and setting up and executing the fade so I'm a little more active than I want to be atm. As in, I attend fairly consistently, of course, I've been a pretty visible person up until January so I'm still working the questions from the congo about where I've been, how come I'm not doing sound/literature/landscaping/etc anymore. So I'm having to slow it down step by step.

    I will say that I'm with Open Mind as far as compartmentalization. It's a necessary skill to be using in this situation.

  • notverylikely
    notverylikely

    According to you..Your Jewish..

    You also claim to be a Jehovah`s Witness..

    You sit through meetings..You go out in the FS..You have a RV..You snowboard with younger JW`s..

    And..

    Your Jewish..A Jewish Jehovah`s Witness????????????????????????

    Awwww....did the adults wake with our talking? I'm so sorry, we'll keep it quiet for your naptime. I know the adults were using big words you didn't understand but once day when you grown and learn some things you'll get to have adult conversations with your friends. I know that conversations and big words are hard, so you'll have to work extra hard to keep up, but I know you can do it. Now go finish your nap, sweety and then you can have some milk and a piece of fruit when you wake up and then you go outside and play with your dolls.

  • cyberjesus
    cyberjesus
    I don't beleive in Jesus or God

    Actually disbelief is not a reason to get Dfd only sins, and not believing is not a sin.

  • snowbird
    snowbird
    NVL, you, sir, are a hot mess!
    Sylvia

    I retract that statement forthwith!

    You must cease and desist with your puerile insults to my dear friend, Outlaw!

    He's one of the finest, most upstanding members of this here board - a true Mensch.

    I advise you to try to get to know him.

    Sylvia

  • cantleave
    cantleave

    Good question - I can't bear to go anymore.

  • Jadeen
    Jadeen

    I also don't know how people can stand to go to meetings.

    My parents have been hounding us to go to the weekend assembly

    Yeah... we made plans to visit some friends that live a couple of hundred miles away- Sorry!

  • Lozhasleft
    Lozhasleft

    They used to remind us that the chairs were at all the meetings but that didnt mean they were faithful....it makes me wonder how many others are sitting there feeling like our friends on here????

    Loz x

  • OUTLAW
    OUTLAW

    NVL..

    Your claiming to be both Jewish and an active JW..

    LOL!!..

    That is Absolutely Absurd..

    Do you have any clue at all,why that would`nt work in Watchtower World?..

    ..................... ...OUTLAW

  • Bonnie_Clyde
    Bonnie_Clyde

    I haven't been to a meeting (other than the Memorial) in the last 4 years. Before that, when I was taking my father to the meetings, I would take a Spanish Bible with me and look up all scriptures with the goal of learning at least ten new Spanish words every meeting. That way I could look attentive while I was doing something constructive. It still wan't easy, but I was trying to keep him happy. Didn't matter, the rest of the family informed him of my "doubts" and I won't go into the rest.

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