A JWs thought on volunteering (page 2)

Preston

Actually, I use to volunteer at a nursing home when I was a kid (I still do occasionally) and nobody at our hall protested. I guess my expierence was atypical, but there were no complaints.

Blondie and Logan both brought out some valid points. I was always volunteering for something while a Dub in and out of the WTS. Even now I do volunteer work in the local community and for my local Mensa chapter. I took a class to be a poll inspector at the upcoming primaries. Found out they actually pay you to do that...does that still count as volunteering, it's about 25% of what I earn working my regular job?

What to meet cool people? Volunteer! Maverick

kls

With all your answers that jws do volunteer ,that makes me feel even worse , at least before i could blame his unkind remark on something else ,but to know that is his own feelings.Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

shamus

Hey! I am a JW and I occasionally do volunteer work, so it is unfair to lump all JWs together as to attitude

Now that is a good person! Fairmind, you're one in tens of thousands. If anyone hasn't said it already, THANKS!

Now, KLS, if a dub was to volunteer, they would have to keep it very quiet. Seriously, there is nothing written about it that I'm aware of, but it is so heavily frowned upon, it's laughable. IN fact, it is nothing more than shocking to actually see ONE jw say that they volunteer! Because, I tell you, in all my time in the borg, it was non-existent. You should be out in field service, knocking on doors of terriroty that gets covered every 6 months as it is rather than help someone in need.

kls

Ok you guys are confusing me ( which is easy to do ) so is it just him or is it the jws thinking?

shamus

I don't know what you mean, KLS.

JW's do not at all endorse 'volunteering', PERIOD. One bizarro lady in our 'congregation' got convicted of some type of domestic violence thing (her husband was a pagan, like all of us). Her punishment? 100 hours of community service. How did she do her 100 hours of community service???? HOW????

By being a Jehoba Witness, going door to door. Apperantly, that was 'community service'. She even had the audasity (sp) to 'auxillary pioneer'!!! The elders didn't approve it. She did her 100 hours of community service, and went back to auxillary pioneering.

kls

LOL Shamus, now that's community service.

shamus

To this day, that story, that bizarre sister, still makes my head shake. There were many more... one man who was 45 lived with his parents.... they were not witnesses. He told us out in service that he couldn't watch Star Trek anymore, because Deanna Troy excited him.

One strange fellow was an out of work proof reader. He was about 35. He made a comment one time at a meeting that he found mastrubation could be controlled by sleeping on his side. AT A MEETING. Then he went up to a 'sister' after the meeting and said "I wish that you'wouldn't wear that dress... it excites me..."

One very kind sister made a comment about the 'young people ask!' book, and how the chapters on mastrubation have really helped they're family.

There are far too many cooks to continue writing on this thread. I swear on my mothers life that these stories are not stretching the truth by one bit.

HappyDad

Being a JW for over 30 years, I heard over and over............."having plenty to do in the work of the Lord". There were even a few articles in the mags about............"Should You Volunteer"?

The bottom line was that the preaching work should be all encompassing in our lives. Any time spent in other types of volunteering was all for "nought"! Geesh............what a bunch of crap we were fed!

Even while a JW I did a bit of "worldly" volunteer work in a few different ways. Probably the best work I did was as a volunteer fireman............and this when I was an elder. I kept it quiet from most of my fellow dubs. I wonder if I would have been chastised for spending valuable time putting out a fire in a fellow JW's home or a Kingdom Hall?

HappyDad

Room 215

It isn't simply a matter of JWs individually deciding that volunteerism is a waste of time; it's systemic because insularity, narrow-mindedness and intolerance are integral to a wordview that they're the only genuine Christians and the rest of mankind (99.99 percent of the world's population) is about to be incinerated, down the the last infant. The few charitably-minded JWs who buck this pressure must be prepared to be spoken of dismissively, if not looked down upon, by most of their peers.

``Why paint the front of the boat when there's a huge hole in the stern?" was the rhetorical question asked by a Circuit Overseer to an audience of dubbies in rapt attention.

A JWs thought on volunteering

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