Is There Anything About The Witnesses That You Like? (page 2)

AudeSapere

The shoes. I had so many, many really cute shoes. Mostly 4-inch heals.

-Aude.

RagingBull

YES, they make me feel like a genius. LOL

XBEHERE

They are like any other population of people, some very nice and some complete total assholes.

Band on the Run

I don't like Witnesses. There were some exceptions.

The only way I feel the Witnesses affected me in a positive way is their stance on First Amendment rights. I was very conscious of being a religious minority. There were a lot fewer Witnesses when I was young. Bethel was small. My family members went to prison or suffered unfairly b/c of prejudice. A lot of it may have been brought on by Rutherford's beligerence but the threat from the right was real. My mom being expelled from school at 14 affected me. I always felt this burden that I had to do well in school to make it up to her.

They were repeatedly before the Supreme Court and, after a while, the law changed. When I was a teen and in college, I saw the triumph of the law and how America could right itself. American law was positive. I could finish school. Only I had to fight my father to do so. Government or father-someone was restraining me. My profs saw all the years there was no right when the First Amendment was clear. My admiration for the ACLU stemmed from those cases.

As I studied these cases more closely, though, I realized my profs were correct. Right wingers prevailed in too many spheres. Also, I am certain my interest in politics stems from the same source. Maybe it would be cool to be a clown in Central Park.

The WT has rarely been on the side of what I considered "good" since then. I cannot forget how I had to fight to finish high school. Sometimes I don't know how those line of cases benefited the Witnesses b/c they are so antieducation.

There is not a single good thing other than my profession. Would I consider my profession good if I had another life?

Samuel Thorsen

They're non smokers. I can like that.

straightshooter

There were a few who were really loving and would go out of their way to help one in need.

Decided

I liked going to the conventions because I visited so many cities I would have never seen when I was young. NYC, Florida, St. Louis, California. My parents wouldn't have had the money if they didn't save enoug to go because of the JW religion. I liked the teenage girles I met too.

I liked my JW family on my Dad's side, there was none on my mother's family that were JW's but they were nice relatives.

Ken P.

cultBgone

Somehow the harsh judgemental attitudes, shunning, immoral sexual and financial mistreatment of the members just kinda wiped all that nostalgia off the slate for me.

steve2

Yes. I remain unalterably partial to good looking, cleancut, tall, well-built men dressed in tailored suits with crisp white shirt and well-matched tie and black leather nicely buffed shoes.

I estimate that, among the 8 or so million professed JW door-knockers there must be at least a handful of JW males who generously meet those features (I realize there are truckloads of JW males who don't come within a country mile of meeting those features. But if you do, and you're reading this, please Mr JW, please, please knock on my door. Under certain circumstances, I can be impressively obliging.

Is There Anything About The Witnesses That You Like?