How to Make Real Friends

by moomanchu 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  moomanchu

  from Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site

  We All Need Friends“A friend is someone you can talk to freely about anything, someone you can call any time of the day.” —Yaël, France

  Loyal Friends Through Thick and Thin:

  Once we have made a friend, we should never take his or her friendship for granted.
  When separated by time and distance, friends think about each other, pray for each other. Even if they can get together only rarely, they can quickly catch up on each other’s lives. Especially in times of difficulty or need, it is vital to be there for our friends.
  For the most part, we must not withdraw when friends have problems.
  That may be when they need us most. “A true companion is loving all the time, and is a brother that is born for when there is distress.” (Proverbs 17:17)
  And when true friends have misunderstandings, they are quick to make amends and forgive each other.
  Real friends do not abandon their friends just because the road gets bumpy.

  As dr. evil would say "RRRRiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight"
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  Heaven

  “A friend is someone you can talk to freely about anything, someone you can call any time of the day.” —Yaël, France

  This definition shows that a JW can never be your friend as you can never speak freely about anything to them. There are unpleasant consequences if you do.
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  White Dove

  There are two things I noticed:

  1. Please, do talk about anything and everything, including all your doubts about the org., so we can bust you through your "friend."

  2. Oh no, no one will have doubts or speak of them, so it's not necessary to put "doubts" in the list of approved things to talk about with your friend.
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  nancy drew

  Most people have a few close friends that they choose as friends because they enjoy each others company talk openly with trust laugh together are there for each other no matter what. The organization paints an unrealistic picture of friendship they say that if you are a jw you have hundreds, thousands of close friends thats not possible you can't maintain that kind of connection so it fails by its very nature. sometimes when we exit the org we feel alone its artifical we can really only expect a few that will be close and they are out there we need to look for those few and develop them The org has affected our outlook we need to take a fresh realistic look at life and friendship.
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  White Dove

  That article was talking about JW only friendships. What would happen to those friendships if one or the other fornicates or has doubts and tells the friend? What would Friend do? Why, go tattle to the elders, of course! That is, if s/he is worth any of her/his weight in bookbags.

  You can only have JW friendships.

  You must tell your friend that you will tell on her/him if s/he doesn't tell the elders first of their sin.

  Thus, it is written.

  Can't trust those kinds of friends.