(August 20, 2013 at 9:56 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I had a JW friend growing up, and every time we celebrated someone's birthday at school he had to leave and went to his grandmother's house nearby. I pretty much always felt sorry for him because it looked like being a JW was no fun, and after reading the 141 rules it would appear that the JW leadership is really afraid of, well, everything out there which isn't strictly supporting the JW faith. I mean, no reading "worldly" books? Can't have a best friend who isn't a JW? Come on.
Of course, I don't fee very sorry for my JW friend these days because I had to unfriend him on facebook. EVERY SINGLE POST he made was some religious crap or bible quote, and I got tired of seeing that every day. It's not like we're close or anything anyway.
quite stupid to alienate yourself from the entire rest of the race save one group. Cannot imagine any of them are very happy inside there private place in the mind. My guess is they are all unhappy at some level waiting for god to come and give it to them.
Happiness if fought for loved for ran for sought after and greedily hung on to. How can one live a life in which 141 basic rules strip all of that from you and make you well frankly make you into a nine year old adult with an overbearing parent...
I didn't have that many rules at 5.
