You are constantly judged by everyone else, especially the elders. If your performance lags on the job, your invitations for dinner and movies suddenly stop. They will “encourage” you if you lag behind the national average, which was about 10 hours a month when I was a member of the religion.īeing a Jehovah’s Witness is like having a second unpaid job that you work on nights and weekends for no pay. The elders, on the other hand, do have access to your performance records. While the slips are not shown to anyone but the elders of the congregation, other Witnesses take note if you haven’t been out preaching with them during the regular times. Jehovah’s Witnesses have to fill out a monthly report that details how much time they’ve spent preaching, how many books and magazines they’ve distributed to people, and how many Bible studies they’ve conducted. When you’re so exhausted you can barely stand up, it becomes absolute torture-both for you and the person you’re trying to recruit into a cult at 9AM on a Saturday. The act of knocking on strangers’ doors to tell them their religion is wrong and that they better change or face God’s wrath is bad enough. I needed the weekends to catch up on my sleep debt, but instead I had to get up at the crack of dawn to go out preaching. ![]() I commuted an hour and a half to work each way and worked long hours. I barely got any sleep when I was a Witness. Having to go door-to-door preaching every Saturday and sometimes Sunday as well You couldn’t show anyone-not even your significant other-your true self for fear of being disciplined by the elders. And for the Jehovah’s Witnesses, a lot of everyday activities such as buying a lottery ticket or stepping into another religion’s church will get you into serious trouble. ![]() During my time as a Jehovah’s Witness, having a conversation with another Witness meant editing out anything that could get me in trouble. Jehovah’s Witnesses are commanded to “report what is bad” in other words, to snitch on their best friend if they tell them they did something like smoke a cigarette or watch an R-rated movie. Never being able to talk honestly with a friend My mommy and daddy are in a cult, so we don’t celebrate any holidays. That looks like so much fun! It’s too bad I have to go sit in the principal’s office while you guys do fun Thanksgiving arts and crafts. No birthdays, Christmas, or any other holidaysĪll the other kids are doing fun Thanksgiving drawings of Turkeys by tracing their hands.
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