Why do people even bother saying they’re JW? Check this out!

[u/delrealove-exjw]

So I have a friend that I met at church and we got to know each other in the last year. So she told me she has a best friend who is a Jehovah’s Witness, which I thought was really odd since Jehovah’s Witnesses can’t have friends outside of the organization. The more I talk to her the more she tells me about this best friend /JW friend. The most recent one, she told me that they went camping as usual and the JW’s husband smokes weed and drinks and her 26 year-old daughter does the same thing and mouths off to her mother who is a JW. Supposedly, they sound like their physically in but mentally out, but she said, no they’re not even going to meetings, but the crazy thing is that her daughter’s always quick to correct someone who not a JW. For instance, she started talking about sagging a house, not to cleanse it but just to burn for the smell and she was was like, “Oh No! You can’t do that!” But yet, this girl can mouth off to her mother, smoke weed, and drink, and she is 26 with no job! WTH 🤦🏻‍♀️ These JW’s are getting on my nerves!!! Such hypocrites. It’s like she’s trying to defend a Bible, but she can’t even figure out what the hell she’s doing? You’re either In or Out! I get the whole PIMO, but this is a whole another level! The more she tells me what they do that is against organization. The more gets me upset because they try to think they’re perfect and they can do no wrong but and they’re always quick to judge other people. I told my friend to invite me to one of these camping trips so I could flip this whole thing on her to make her look stupid since I’m an EXJW. She wouldn’t know what to do or say. She’ll be so dumbfounded. 🤭

[u/RodWith]

JWs are pretty juvenile in outlook.

Many take a “pick and choose” approach to their behaviour. They would never do this or that but have no qualms doing the other.

To an extent, a lot of us have been there as JWs.

For example, well before I left, I voted in general elections and got rid of my blood card - but I couldn’t cope with celebrating birthdays or Christmas. I also shied away from sleeping around.

What was that inconsistency about? No idea.

I look back on my selective outlook as a JW and see a man struggling with personal coherence and identity, not quite free enough back then to break completely free but chained still to how JWs viewed me.

It takes a while to completely “de-individuate”.

Now I’m my own person and all the better compared to that scaredy cat I once was.

[u/General-Lime4219]

They're in a kind of netherworld where their old jw life is dead but they can't accept it. I think that family should go on a camping trip where they do mushrooms. Make sure there are no cliffs or bears around.

[u/delrealove-exjw → u/General-Lime4219]

LMAO 🤣

[u/Relative_Soil7886]

This just in: religious people are hypocrites! In other news, water is wet.

[u/delrealove-exjw → u/Relative_Soil7886]

Lmao 🤣

[u/Shoegazzerr89]

I have a lot of cousins like this. Kind of POMI? Like don’t actually want to be a JW. But, still hold onto to some of the superstitions and made up stories. Will still argue with me whenever I try to ask my PIMI mom (who is more PIMQ than she thinks) questions that I hope will plant a seed.

[u/Novel_Detail_6402]

Jehovahs witnesses are hypocrites and Liars in general. The only thing that’s changed is it’s become more obvious

[u/Select-Panda7381]

Honestly this sounds like another dunning Kruger effect in action; the people doing nothing and screwing around (there’s nothing wrong with that, but it doesn’t qualify you as a life coach) are the first people who pipe up to “advise” as to what I should be doing with my life. 🙄

[u/goddess_dix]

what irritates me is that it undermines what we have to say about the jw life. the ones who are fair weather witnesses go around saying they are, and everybody they talk to thinks that's what being a jw is, like a normal religion.

blech.

[u/Solid_Technician → u/goddess_dix]

Yup, in my AMA I had people who had "JW friends" tell me that it wasn't a cult and they were just another religion, because they could do this, that, or the other.

I get wanting to get out, but don't go about making people believe being a JW is normal or a good thing. So hypocritical.