Just found you! So I kind of left at 20- but I _really_ left after I got married at 25. My husband and I grew up as JW but he rebelled alot sooner, LOL!😊 My boredom was the meetings, (actually everything) but esp the smaller Tuesday night book study at peoples' homes. This was the late 60's and I would sit there and trace the letters on each page of my _Babylon_ or _Truth,_ etc...books. It prepared me well for highschool and college. People told me I had the most perfect penmanship😅. It's because I printed like a typewriter, after all that practice!😂
Everything 😂😂😂 from the songs to the talks… before each meeting esp during the week when I can’t come home after work and unwind for the evening. I had to quickly get dressed for yet another meeting… not being myself. I always said these people do not know me, I had to hold back so much of myself because of the judgement….it was all fake…I wasn’t raised a JW, I grew up Catholic and after church I would be happy relieved sort of speak… after the JW meeting my ex husband and I would would reflect on the ‘talk the brother gave and how you can’t wait to the new system yada yada yada….It felt heavy and riddled with anxiety….🧜🏼♀️
I stopped going when they ruled that people had to have the RNA vaccine. I have studied for over 35 year's on and off . Its changing the blood I was never bored . But they changed so much over the year's. I started when FW Franz was President.
This was what woke me up. They were using coercive language to manipulate JWs to take this jab. I was shocked that the teaching was that we couldn’t trust the world which Satan was ruling and then all of a sudden the gb were trusting the world governments and promoting the jab. So now we trust Satan and the worldly governments to keep us “safe” and also effectively we obliged by the rules and stopped preaching and attending meetings. I would of thought it would be the opposite since the message would be more urgent and we would need to trust in god more over the world. Anyway I was out.
I was made to get rid of all my music! My BEATLES LP’s (because demons could work thru them)-geez, then I was REALLY BORED! (back in the 70’s)...hey isn’t it something that they made you study Revelation with dragons and monsters and harlots but they wouldn’t let you read the Apocrypha which had witches and dragons and birds and etc! ... OMG! You have made me laugh so hard about all this! Thank you! I’ve never laughed so hard! -. In that Ministry School night I remember a cute teenager reading some quote out of the magazine and I was sitting behind him. He mispronounced “ewe”(pronounced “you” which was some kind of mountain deer or goat or something) Well he was so serious until he came to that word then he said “e-wee”, and I lost control. I laughed so much I couldn’t stop and had to leave. It’s hard to explain but at such a serious meeting it was just a comic relief moment: so innocent, cute, hilarious...yes, I got in trouble. Boring! The Conventions were boring because we had our babies with us. We were all out in the open sun, the kids were screaming and squirming, the Bible plays were boring and badly acted, the people stank because of sun-kissed perspiration odors, hours upon hours of boredom. I REALLY liked your program! This was fun and truly comical! ❤
Oh my, that is so true. I have just walked away from relationships, really great jobs- almost like I shut off temporarily when an outside crisis occurs that has nothing to do with the situation or individuals. My husband self- terminated, much for the same reason. I'm just glad that our son never went through the cult raising him.🙏🏼
I see complete boredom in the JW’s I’ve known. I’m not nor ever have been a JW. You can have parties and drink but cannot celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ? While I’ll acknowledge his birthday was not December 25 there are many dates that are off. It’s impossible to know for sure the date. His birth was celebrated and he received a gift. I bet they even had some kind of ancient cake. Lol. None of this makes sense while I see some very good people not living and achieving their true potential. It is true the Bible can be very boring.
Mate. I want a non prophet t shirt…. 😂 everything you have said about taking away the social aspect makes being a witness boring as hell!!! I hated the Monday night watchtower study… I was asleep through it! 😂😂
Of course, Numbers is boring. Chronicles 1 and 2 are boring, because they aren't well written. Samuel and Kings, which tell similar stories, are exciting, because they're well written. But if you're still reading the Bible as JWs do, just dogging your way through it, with no curiosity about the history it comes from or the variations among the writers, and perhaps no appreciation for the ways in which different peoples write history and poetry, yes, the whole thing will be THE BIBLE, one book, and it will bore you.. It's not an accident, however, that the Bible is the biggest influence in the West on shaping the literary methods and ideas of important authors.
I’m of the opinion that the story around the book: its history, influence, etc. are fascinating but the book itself isn’t that good, at least by my own standards which are completely insignificant haha.
You realize, of course, that it isn't "a book." It's 66 books by a great variety of authors. I think you won't find anyone who's conversant with world literature who doesn't think that Isaiah, for example, is a masterpiece of poetry. I could list many other books included in the Bible, but you see the point. i'm not talking about reading it in Fred Franz's translation, of course. And if people don't understand that except for short passages Isaiah is entirely poetry, and don't know that Hebrew poetry is written acc. to different principles than Western European poetry, the pleasure of Isaiah will not exist. They won't know what to look for, just as people who don't know about painting can look at a Raphael and just not get it, or people who don't know what to listen for in jazz will just think it's noise.
Ecclesiastes is filled with relatable woes of life. Like each passage of human development you think ah ha! Now I’ll be happy because I’ve achieved or bought this or that but you end up miserable again. The Book of Job disgusts me. One big game between Jehovah and Satan who were supposed to be enemies anyway? Nahhh. All those boils, in days of medicinal herbs and supposed keeping very clean by Law, no one could figure out how to help the man because god was playing torture games? Nahhh.
Jehovahs Witnesses Don’t Believe in enjoying your Life they believe that you shouldn’t have Fun or Enjoy Life because it’s considered Sinful you cannot have the Best of both worlds
Jehovah bored me. The KH unskilled brother’s dull speeches were boring. (No, JWs do NOT dance)! Those magazine study hours in the KH was so boring. Door-to-door was terrifying. All the scriptures in OT were boring. The women and their demon talk was boring. Having no Xmas was boring as well as no TG, no B’days, no anything. No lights and Xmas decorations, no outside friends was boring. Not getting together with non JW family was boring. Always having to avoid “worldly” books was boring. Walking through a mall and not being able to look at Santa Claus and reindeer was boring. Not being able to be a Dancer as a profession or anything extremely educated or creative was boring. Paradise was boring. Theocratic Ministry Warfare was boring. The endless Bible talk was boring.
It was fun we were the double lifers it’s just that the crunching guilt kills you make you want to you know. Suck that no one understands you and your shit
Great video and 100% accurate on all points!!!!!!
Just found you! So I kind of left at 20- but I _really_ left after I got married at 25.
My husband and I grew up as JW but he rebelled alot sooner, LOL!😊
My boredom was the meetings, (actually everything) but esp the smaller Tuesday night book study at peoples' homes.
This was the late 60's and I would sit there and trace the letters on each page of my _Babylon_ or _Truth,_ etc...books.
It prepared me well for highschool and college. People told me I had the most perfect penmanship😅. It's because I printed like a typewriter, after all that practice!😂
Everything 😂😂😂 from the songs to the talks… before each meeting esp during the week when I can’t come home after work and unwind for the evening. I had to quickly get dressed for yet another meeting… not being myself. I always said these people do not know me, I had to hold back so much of myself because of the judgement….it was all fake…I wasn’t raised a JW, I grew up Catholic and after church I would be happy relieved sort of speak… after the JW meeting my ex husband and I would would reflect on the ‘talk the brother gave and how you can’t wait to the new system yada yada yada….It felt heavy and riddled with anxiety….🧜🏼♀️
You are absolutely right
I stopped going when they ruled that people had to have the RNA vaccine. I have studied for over 35 year's on and off . Its changing the blood
I was never bored . But they changed so much over the year's. I started when FW Franz was President.
I’m not JW but would never have taken it.
This was what woke me up. They were using coercive language to manipulate JWs to take this jab. I was shocked that the teaching was that we couldn’t trust the world which Satan was ruling and then all of a sudden the gb were trusting the world governments and promoting the jab. So now we trust Satan and the worldly governments to keep us “safe” and also effectively we obliged by the rules and stopped preaching and attending meetings. I would of thought it would be the opposite since the message would be more urgent and we would need to trust in god more over the world. Anyway I was out.
I didn't experience boredom until 2016. The meetings were not boring but the interactions before and after were anxiety inducing.
I was made to get rid of all my music! My BEATLES LP’s (because demons could work thru them)-geez, then I was REALLY BORED! (back in the 70’s)...hey isn’t it something that they made you study Revelation with dragons and monsters and harlots but they wouldn’t let you read the Apocrypha which had witches and dragons and birds and etc! ... OMG! You have made me laugh so hard about all this! Thank you! I’ve never laughed so hard! -. In that Ministry School night I remember a cute teenager reading some quote out of the magazine and I was sitting behind him. He mispronounced “ewe”(pronounced “you” which was some kind of mountain deer or goat or something) Well he was so serious until he came to that word then he said “e-wee”, and I lost control. I laughed so much I couldn’t stop and had to leave. It’s hard to explain but at such a serious meeting it was just a comic relief moment: so innocent, cute, hilarious...yes, I got in trouble. Boring! The Conventions were boring because we had our babies with us. We were all out in the open sun, the kids were screaming and squirming, the Bible plays were boring and badly acted, the people stank because of sun-kissed perspiration odors, hours upon hours of boredom. I REALLY liked your program! This was fun and truly comical! ❤
You can't come through all those years of boredom torture without developing some kind of dissociative disorder that plays havoc with your life.
Oh my, that is so true.
I have just walked away from relationships, really great jobs- almost like I shut off temporarily when an outside crisis occurs that has nothing to do with the situation or individuals.
My husband self- terminated, much for the same reason.
I'm just glad that our son never went through the cult raising him.🙏🏼
Great video! So true!! Where did you get your T-shirt from?!!!
Thanks! The T-shirt is from:
www.nonprophet.media/
First time viewer. Love your energy.
OMG! You made me choke as I swallowed coffee when you said: “I’m sorry, the Bible is boring...” omg
Omg, I love your t-shirt!
Don’t apologise for having an opinion on a boring, badly written old book full of violence and fairy stories 😅
Former Elder so happy when meetings were canceled
I used to like getting a cold because it gave me a break.
Its why they drink so much alcohol.
After I stopped attending meetings I barely touched alcohol.
I see complete boredom in the JW’s I’ve known. I’m not nor ever have been a JW. You can have parties and drink but cannot celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ? While I’ll acknowledge his birthday was not December 25 there are many dates that are off. It’s impossible to know for sure the date. His birth was celebrated and he received a gift. I bet they even had some kind of ancient cake. Lol. None of this makes sense while I see some very good people not living and achieving their true potential. It is true the Bible can be very boring.
100% accurate! I am also an XJW and we have the same exact experiences lol
Mate. I want a non prophet t shirt…. 😂 everything you have said about taking away the social aspect makes being a witness boring as hell!!! I hated the Monday night watchtower study… I was asleep through it! 😂😂
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Of course, Numbers is boring. Chronicles 1 and 2 are boring, because they aren't well written. Samuel and Kings, which tell similar stories, are exciting, because they're well written. But if you're still reading the Bible as JWs do, just dogging your way through it, with no curiosity about the history it comes from or the variations among the writers, and perhaps no appreciation for the ways in which different peoples write history and poetry, yes, the whole thing will be THE BIBLE, one book, and it will bore you.. It's not an accident, however, that the Bible is the biggest influence in the West on shaping the literary methods and ideas of important authors.
I’m of the opinion that the story around the book: its history, influence, etc. are fascinating but the book itself isn’t that good, at least by my own standards which are completely insignificant haha.
You realize, of course, that it isn't "a book." It's 66 books by a great variety of authors. I think you won't find anyone who's conversant with world literature who doesn't think that Isaiah, for example, is a masterpiece of poetry. I could list many other books included in the Bible, but you see the point. i'm not talking about reading it in Fred Franz's translation, of course. And if people don't understand that except for short passages Isaiah is entirely poetry, and don't know that Hebrew poetry is written acc. to different principles than Western European poetry, the pleasure of Isaiah will not exist. They won't know what to look for, just as people who don't know about painting can look at a Raphael and just not get it, or people who don't know what to listen for in jazz will just think it's noise.
I do realize, of course, that there are 66 books by different authors
Ecclesiastes is filled with relatable woes of life. Like each passage of human development you think ah ha! Now I’ll be happy because I’ve achieved or bought this or that but you end up miserable again. The Book of Job disgusts me. One big game between Jehovah and Satan who were supposed to be enemies anyway? Nahhh. All those boils, in days of medicinal herbs and supposed keeping very clean by Law, no one could figure out how to help the man because god was playing torture games? Nahhh.
Jehovahs Witnesses Don’t Believe in enjoying your Life they believe that you shouldn’t have Fun or Enjoy Life because it’s considered Sinful you cannot have the Best of both worlds
So, so boring!
Jehovah bored me. The KH unskilled brother’s dull speeches were boring. (No, JWs do NOT dance)! Those magazine study hours in the KH was so boring. Door-to-door was terrifying. All the scriptures in OT were boring. The women and their demon talk was boring. Having no Xmas was boring as well as no TG, no B’days, no anything. No lights and Xmas decorations, no outside friends was boring. Not getting together with non JW family was boring. Always having to avoid “worldly” books was boring. Walking through a mall and not being able to look at Santa Claus and reindeer was boring. Not being able to be a Dancer as a profession or anything extremely educated or creative was boring. Paradise was boring. Theocratic Ministry Warfare was boring. The endless Bible talk was boring.
True lol
The Bible is very boring and pointless, nothing holds together
It was fun we were the double lifers it’s just that the crunching guilt kills you make you want to you know. Suck that no one understands you and your shit