I gotta hand it to Jehovah's Witnesses who stick it through. It doesn't sound like a religion that endears oneself well with outsiders. Besides all of the door knocking, end times failures, and such.. Little things as well. One of the neighborhood kids I grew up with was JW, and I remember talking to his mom on Easter.. I had given her some confetti eggs to crack on someone's head, and she gave them back to me, saying she didn't celebrate. And then she went on explaining she didn't celebrate anything..Christmas, Birthdays, you name it. That's hardcore conviction. As serious as I am, I don't mind crushing a confetti egg on someone's head.
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08-20-2010, 10:33 AM #751
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08-20-2010, 10:38 AM #752SnifflesGuest
Christians who don't celebrate the birth and resurrection of Christ?
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08-20-2010, 10:46 AM #753
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Well, the thing is, it's not just conviction that keeps you there. The non celebration of the holidays is intended to keep you seperated from everyone else. If you have less connections, especially family connections, which is what the holidays are about, there's less to keep you from leaving the JW's.
Also there is a sort of self rightousness that 'rewards' you for being a JW. You know you are right and everyone else is wrong, and not only that, it's your God appointed job to show them. Some people are genuinely humble about their 'mission', but a lot of people consider themselves as elite.
I'm not saying there aren't 'good' JWs, I'm just saying that it is a unhealthy religion. My sister ended up being shunned by everyone she knew and her family because she got a divorce. She was being abused by her husband, but the JWs say that divorce is wrong under any circumstances.
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08-20-2010, 10:49 AM #754
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08-20-2010, 10:52 AM #755
^^Thank you for explaining, Qlippoth. JW is a religion I don't know a lot about and it's very enlightening to hear your POV.
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08-20-2010, 11:02 AM #756SnifflesGuest
Yes I'm aware of this stance, it goes back to the Puritains. How true it really is is actually debatable, and certainly as a Catholic I don't buy it at all. Celebrations and festivels are part of human nature, and they occur in the Bible. So I don't see an impoverished form of the faith as rather admirable to be honest.
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08-20-2010, 11:08 AM #757
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Oh, no problem.
Luckily, it's something that's (almost) way behind me.
There's a lot of points of view on this. But, I have no dog in this fight. If you'd like I can send a JW over to your house, I'm sure they'd love to discuss it with you.
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08-20-2010, 09:19 PM #758
I had an overzealous JW who kept coming to my house, when I stopped answering the door he got my name AND MY DAUGHTER'S from one of my neighbors (don't know which one, if I did they'd get an earful) and tried to convince my husband one Saturday morning to tell him when would be a good time to catch me at home. The hubster told him to leave and not come back because he was making me uncomfortable, but he was back the following Monday morning at which point I called the Kingdom Hall and the police. He didn't return.
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08-20-2010, 09:35 PM #759
^Wow.. That kind of reminds of that Hitchhiker skit in Creepshow 2.
I usually give off a vibe that repels JW's before even knocking. Not sure why.I might notice them.. and then peek out, but they always skip my place.
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08-21-2010, 12:29 AM #760
If a JW came knocking on my door and harassed me, I'd put on my black shirt with a giant red pentagram on it and see what would happen.
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